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They Have To Be Monsters

Coding Horror

Since I started working on Discourse, I spend a lot of time thinking about how software can encourage and nudge people to be more empathetic online. That's why it's troubling to read articles like this one : My brother’s 32nd birthday is today. It’s an especially emotional day for his family because he’s not alive for it. He died of a heroin overdose last February.

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Embracing Stress To Lead Others Effectively

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”. Peter Marshall. Avoiding stress in professional life is like achieving work-life balance or eliminating risk: it’s not possible.

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The Best Damn Doer Syndrome: Why the Hardest Workers Seldom Get Promoted

Let's Grow Leaders

Are you working too hard? Does everything fall apart when you’re not around? Do you find yourself bailing out your boss, your peers, and your team? If you can answer YES to any of these questions, it’s likely you’re being held back by the “Best Damn Doer” syndrome. Be careful. I know. I’ve felt the guilt of being promoted over people working longer and harder than me.

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Dollar cost averaging

Erik Bernhardsson

(I accidentally published an unfinished draft of this post a few days ago – sorry about that). There’s a lot of sources preaching the benefits of dollar cost averaging , or the practice of investing a fixed amount of money regularly. The alleged benefit is that when the price goes up, well, then your stake is worth more, but if the price goes down, then you get more shares for the same amount of money.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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When Someone Opens the Door, Walk Through It

Change Starts Here

About 14 years ago, there was a pivotal moment that started my journey to being a change practitioner. And I could have easily missed it. At the time, I was the industrial engineering manager for a manufacturing company. No stranger to implementing change, especially process improvements, I was in the middle of a part-time MBA program in Leadership and Change Management.

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Is Your Boss A Gamer? Win Well Anyway.

Let's Grow Leaders

Gamers are manipulators. They spend their days playing dirty politics, working one person against one another in their ceaseless quest for status. In their mind, winning is not related to organization results. Their meetings and efforts at delegation usually have two layers of meaning, with political subtext just below the surface. Gamers attract a motley cast of sycophants, other Gamers, and the disaffected.

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Dollar cost averaging

Erik Bernhardsson

(I accidentally published an unfinished draft of this post a few days ago – sorry about that). There’s a lot of sources preaching the benefits of dollar cost averaging , or the practice of investing a fixed amount of money regularly. The alleged benefit is that when the price goes up, well, then your stake is worth more, but if the price goes down, then you get more shares for the same amount of money.

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Introduction To Concurrent Programming: A Beginner's Guide

Toptal

Concurrency allows programs to deal with a lot of tasks at once. But writing concurrent programs isn't a particularly easy feat. Dealing with constructs such as threads and locks and avoiding issues like race conditions and deadlocks can be quite cumbersome, making concurrent programs difficult to write. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Marko Dve?

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The Best Culture Test May Be A Conversation Away

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If a leader can’t describe the culture, the organization will never achieve it” – Todd Hirneisen. As leaders, we are aware of the importance of culture. Leaders are continually looking for ways to evaluate the culture in their organizations.

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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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Why More Women Are Starting Day-Trading Careers

Women on Business

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RBAC’s Not Against the Wall: Role-based access control creates automation opportunities

CTOvision

Dean Wiech. Identity and access management is taking over the world. Legislative and regulatory norms dictate this. An ever-increasing number of organizations must manage and assign access privileges across their populations in a structured manner. “Role-based access control” or “RBAC” has gradually become a frequently used term. RBAC solutions address these challenges.

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Introduction To BEM Methodology

Toptal

When building smaller websites, the way developers structure their CSS code is usually not a big issue. However, when it comes to larger, more complex projects, code organization becomes crucial. In this article, Toptal Freelance Software Engineer Tomislav Matijevi? introduces us to BEM methodology and explains how this CSS practice can massively improve code maintainability, speed up the development process, and streamline the teamwork of developers by arranging CSS classes into independent mod

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Identity is Everything

Sailpoint

Your organization’s users – or identities – are who “hold the keys to the kingdom.” For your company data to be safe, securing those identities is everything. The post Identity is Everything appeared first on SailPoint.

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Make a Plan for Community Giving: Passion, Plans and Philanthropy

Women on Business

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Big Data is Here and Getting Bigger

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. As a supercomputer maker, Cray has been delivering the massive analytic processing power required by scientists and engineers for the last 40 years. Today, they've harnessed those decades of know-how in their data analytics and data discovery solutions. Urika ® -GD Graph Discovery Appliance. Addresses the most complex problems in advanced analytics — interactive data discovery with graphs.

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Programming Visually With Node-RED: Wiring Up The Internet Of Things With Ease

Toptal

Node-RED, built on Node.js, is a tool designed for programming visually without having to write any code. It comes equipped with a browser-based flow editor that allows hardware devices and APIs to be connected with each other easily, making it an ideal tool for rapidly developing programs for IoT devices. In this article, Toptal freelance software engineer Jesús Darío Rivera walks us through the process of building a simple program using Node-RED and Netbeast along with a virtual light bulb plu

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What A CIO Needs To Know About Encryption

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to know when to make use of encryption Image Credit: Yuri Samoilov. Due to the importance of information technology, the person with the CIO job has been handed the responsibility of keeping the company’s information assets safe. This involves a number of different things including preventing the wrong people from gaining access to the company’s networks, etc.

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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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Asking the Right Questions

Women on Business

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Arizona State University Adopts Hortonworks Data Platform to Shed Light on the Genetic Links to Cancer

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. Recently announced, Arizona State University (ASU) is using Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP™) to further cancer research. With HDP, ASU researchers have the tools they need to store, process, and query more data at a faster pace, allowing researchers to ask better questions and uncover new links between genetics and cancer. ASU has put an emphasis on innovative approaches to research such as with its Complex Adaptive Systems Initiative (CASI).

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Mindfulness at Work Doesn’t End When You Leave Work

Next Level Blog

This week I wrote a piece over at Fast Company about a “minor work habit” that is leading to burnout for countless workers, from junior team members to executives. What’s the habit? E-mail. Or rather, answering work e-mail after 7 or 8 PM. What I prove in the article is that there’s an extremely high chance that all those e-mails you feel obligated to answer from your boss are completely unnecessary — and I have numbers to prove it.

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Organization Culture is a Reflection

QAspire

You cannot change your reflection in the mirror if you want to change how you look and feel about yourself. YOU have to change and the reflection changes accordingly. And to enable that change, you have to do all the right things based on what you wish to achieve. Trying to change an organization’s culture is much like that too. Culture of an organization is a reflection – a by-product – of what people within the organization do.

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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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Increase Security: Put Open Identity at the Center of IT

Sailpoint

If Confucius were a nerd and still quipping today, we’d hear something like “May you live through an entire infrastructure transition.” But we don’t need Confucius to know that we are deep in the middle of one. What started as an exciting transition to mobile, social and cloud is now trying to mature in all those awkward but important places. Enterprise mobility management technologies are enabling us to support and control the shift to mobile consumer devices.

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Tech News Roundup April 27

CTOvision

Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Apple's results hit tech shares, dollar dips before Fed - Reuters. Theranos' Lab Problems Go Way Deeper Than Its Secret Tech - WIRED. Whitepages spins out caller ID and spam-blocking app into startup Hiya. Sour Apple results hit tech shares, dollar dips before Fed - Reuters.

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How leaders rise above the distractions

Lead on Purpose

How leaders rise above the distractions The corporate world is full of distractions.

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Selling is not a ‘common’ practice.

Strategy Driven

Selling is not a ‘common’ practice. It is NOT easy. There are so many people who believe anyone can sell anything and really believe that if you can ‘schmooze’, drink the ‘booze,’ and work the room, you can sell. That is so far from the truth and anyone who has made a lot of money in sales will be able to give you consistent guidelines as to how they achieved their success.

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Looking Back at 10 Years of Identity Governance

Sailpoint

SailPoint recently celebrated our 10 th anniversary as a company. During that time, I’ve seen a lot of viewpoints and approaches come and go in the IAM market. Our space has evolved and matured over the past 10 years. We as an industry – vendors, partners, and customers – have gained a lot of experience and learned from our mistakes. How far have we come?

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The Need for a Framework for Resilient Cybersecurity

CTOvision

Dan Cybulski. There is little doubt that today our society and enterprises are more connected than ever before. The reality of internet accessible critical infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) has stretched the capabilities of todays cyber defenses. Moreover, the expansion of enterprise architectures to include these enabling technologies has added a new level of complexity for organizations to grapple with while also drastically incr

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Langs Building Supplies ICT Manager heads to.NEXT

Nutanix

An Interview with Matthew Day, ICT & Support Manager at Langs Building Supplies

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