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GreenForges digs deep to farm underground

TechCrunch

The moment you go underground, now you become season-agnostic,” said Jamil Madanat, engineering manager at GreenForges. Instead, Labrie is focusing on appealing to the builders of new high-rise hotels or apartment buildings, creating an extra perk of fresh produce for guests or tenants and a new revenue stream. “We

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Four short links: 8 Dec 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

When engineering managers gather in the hotel bar after the conference day ends, this is one of the subjects they will debate endlessly. There simply is no relation between the number of code artifacts a team produces, or the amount of time they spend on them, and the value of their contributions.

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Federal Big Data Community Convenes 6 Feb at Apache Hadoop Forum

CTOvision

Location : The Hotel at Arundel Preserve. Ryan Blue – Product Engineer, Cloudera, Sean Busbey – Solution Architect, Cloudera Government Solutions, Inc., Eric Sammer – Engineering Manager, Cloudera Cloudera. Eric Sammer, Engineering Manager, Cloudera. 7795 Arundel Mills Blvd. Hanover, MD.

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Moving our Capture the Flag online: a guide to remote security training

CircleCI

HOTEL BALLROOM] A cold, windowless conference room at the Horseshoe Resort outside Toronto. After handing out gag magic prizes, lock pick sets, and copies of Violent Python to the winners, everyone decamped to a lounge area for drinks and coffee while one of our engineering managers taught a lock picking class.

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Progressive Web Apps: The Case for PWAs

A List Apart

Addy Osmani, an engineering manager for Google, wrote a case study about Pinterest’s progressive web app , comparing it to both their old mobile website and their native app. For example, Pinterest saw core engagement increase by 60 percent and user-generated ad revenue increase by 44 percent (Fig 2.1). seconds to 4.69 seconds.

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A List Apart

Addy Osmani, an engineering manager for Google, wrote a case study about Pinterest’s progressive web app , comparing it to both their old mobile website and their native app. For example, Pinterest saw core engagement increase by 60 percent and user-generated ad revenue increase by 44 percent (Fig 2.1). seconds to 4.69 seconds.

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Understanding Online Travel Agency Business: Partners, Building Blocks, How to Grow

Altexsoft

Since their appearance in the 90s, they flipped travel distribution, became hotels’ biggest enemies , and changed how people research, plan, and buy their trips. There are OTAs that offer hotel rooms, flights, rental cars, vacation homes, tours, or all of those at the same time. Airline and hotel distribution network.

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