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WannaCry vs. the ER doc: On the front lines of a ransomware outbreak

The Parallax

TEL AVIV—Dr. Tony Bleetman wears several hats, splitting his time as an emergency physician in London and Tel Aviv. He’ll tell you right off the bat that he’s no expert in cybersecurity. But he’s had an experience that few hackers can claim: He was on the front lines of the WannaCry outbreak , where the ransomware directly affected the treatment of hospital patients.

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Firing With Compassion: How Do I Fire Someone and Still Win Well?

Let's Grow Leaders

Managers often have to fire people, but there is a huge difference between managers who do it well and those who make it a terrible, humiliating experience. Firing someone is one of the most difficult things most managers will ever do. Even […]. The post Firing With Compassion: How Do I Fire Someone and Still Win Well? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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10 Tips That Make Complex Leadership Ideas Really Simple

N2Growth Blog

Like many Inc.com columnists, I am a consultant and business author. I’ve written five books over the past 25 years and am proud of all of them. My latest, It’s Good To Be King , has done well probably because it simplified what many make complex: leadership principles. There are over 60 leadership tips presented through the text. Let me share with you my top 10 leadership tips from the book.

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How much does it cost to make a video game?

VironIT

How much does it cost to develop a game project? It was an issue on the minds of many of our customers as well. The process of game development is complicated and the cost depends on many factors, the most important being the complexity of the game. There are casual, AAA level and MMO games. […].

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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OluKai Sells Comfortable Shoes While Promoting the ?Doing Good? Movement

N2Growth Blog

OluKai is a luxury lifestyle brand. The company is committed to building a unique and better class of products that blend quality with modern performance while leaving the planet a little better than they found it. They believe that sustainability and positive living is less about a philosophy and more about making better, deliberate choices every day.

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MFG of South Dakota: Trying To Do Some Good in the World

N2Growth Blog

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. A family-owned business for more than 60 years, the company has 13 operating entities throughout North America and is headquartered in Ashtabula, Ohio.

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The Ultimate Guide to eCommerce Website Design

Toptal

Designing an eCommerce site is not just about building a website to sell products, but designing a pleasant online shopping experience. This comprehensive guide walks us through the best practices.

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4 Ways to Be So Good You Can?t Be Ignored

Women on Business

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An Apology From Me To Google (and to you)

CTOvision

Dear readers, With this post I want to give an apology to Google, and to you, for some recent reporting here at CTOvision. I let my emotion influence things I wrote, and, in something that in hindsight I realize was horribly arrogant on my part, I wrote as if I knew what Google’s motivations were [.].

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Sponsored Post: Datadog, InMemory.Net, Triplebyte, Etleap, Scalyr, MemSQL

High Scalability

Who's Hiring? Triplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here! Fun and Informative Events. Advertise your event here! Cool Products and Services. Datadog is a cloud-scale monitoring platform that combines infrastructure metrics, distributed traces, and logs all in one place.

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Can AI be used for evil? IBM?s AI Debater debates with human champion, Google?s AI can predict death, Nividia uses AI to make super slo-mo movie.

CTOvision

Is Artificial Intelligence A Detriment Or A Benefit To Society? The AI good vs evil debate has been going on since artificial intelligence was first discussed. Everybody has a say about AI's good and bad qualities. Elon Musk has warned of a doomsday-like scenario in near future as shown in the Terminator movie series while [.].

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Censorship and Censorship Resistance

Distributed Agreement

People in the blockchain space often talk about censorship and censorship resistance. It is often claimed that censorship resistance is one of the key properties that decentralized, blockchain systems can provide at a level not possible with previous technologies. But exactly what is censorship resistance? What is censorship exactly?

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Our issue tracker went from ?Good? to ?Great?

Codegiant

At Codegiant , we are on a mission to simplify software development while building tools that focus on a better UI/UX. At the time of writing this article, we have 1252 users and the feedback has been amazing. Most of our users have been acquired through referrals from existing users. I just started using @codegiantio and it's a pretty awesome service.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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CloudNative London 2018

OpenCredo

Join us at CloudNative London this year! CloudNative London will be held on the 26th - 28th of September 2018 at Code Node and we are excited to announce that Will May will also be speaking at the conference on CloudNative Architecture. Continue reading CloudNative London 2018 on opencredo.com.

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Keeping copies of charts from Google Sheets updated automatically

Marcusoft

At my current gig, we are using Google Apps (Docs, Slides, Sheets etc) a lot. I’m getting quite fond of it. My favourite part is the sharing between the apps. I create a nice diagram in Google Sheets and then I can easily copy it to Slides to present easier. In this short post, I wanted to walk you through how I’ve made a very small hack to keep those slides updated automatically.

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Goto Copenhagen 2018

OpenCredo

Join us for Goto Copenhagen 2018, on the 19th to the 23rd of November! Our senior consultant, Fahran Wallace is also presenting her talk, Your Brain on Software Development - a talk for software engineers and architects alike, who are curious about how they make decisions, and how they think! Continue reading Goto Copenhagen 2018 on opencredo.com.

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How GDPR Could Affect Your Business Strategy: A Guide

Strategy Driven

You may have heard recently about the introduction of the GDPR, but perhaps you are wondering how it affects you and your business. GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation, and it is a change in the data protection laws that affect the countries in Europe. All businesses and websites that collect the personal data of outside parties must comply.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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o11ycon: A Conference For The Observability Community

Honeycomb

Hey friends, We recently announced o11ycon , and the response has been terrific! Especially since we haven’t really even told you all what we’re planning. First things first: o11y means observability. (Yes, abbreviations are annoying, but YOU try typing ‘observability’ twenty times a day with character limits. And o11y just sounds so cute!).