infoq: agile agile blah blah
Kent Beck voices the dismay of many who know better:
"I was in South Africa at Agile Africa and somebody came up to me and said, ‘We want to do software development but we just can’t stand all this ceremony and this Agile stuff. We just want to write some programs.’ Tears came into my eyes…How can it be that we’re right back where we were twenty years ago?"
wired.com: the next big tech platform - "mirrorworld"
"mirrorworld": eine detailierte digitale kopie unserer realen welt, in die wir fleissig daten liefern - persoenliche aber insbesondere bilder - und auf der anderen seite 2nd-life artig "herumreisen" koennen.
die "urahnen" dieser dinge sind die (aktuellen) geo-basierten AR game-versuche a la "ingres" oder "pokemon-go" von niantic etc.
arthur c. clarke on communication in the 2nd centrury of the telephone
ein imho. sehr passendes zitat aus dem artikel:
"don't commute - communicate"
theverge: youtube/google activly penalizes non-chrome/webkit browsers
who is up for "browser war 2.0"!?
netscape vs m$ and ie6-hell for web-developer all over again.
but this time google plays the role of "evil" corp. :(
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17611444/how-to-speed-up-youtube-microsoft-edge-safari-firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-classic/
while we blink we loose the web
mit dem wechsel von m$ auf webkit -> ueber 90% der aktuellen browser verwenden dann (google) webkit. zu starke konzentration auf nur eine technologie sind bekanntermassen nie gut fuer ein - technisches - oekosystem :/
freitag.de: neustart - bitte warten
Tech-Humanismus:
Facebook & Co. entdecken auf einmal ihre Menschlichkeit.
Eine Gefahr für die Demokratie bleiben sie trotzdem ...
lecture: capitalism in the age of robotics
siehe auch:
https://www.heise.de/tp/features/No-Capitalism-in-the-Age-of-Robots-4132642.html
view the presentation on youtube
VMS and WNT
the story of M$ Windows NT + its relation to digital/DEC VMS
(maybe some people remember the joke: WNT = VMS +1 :)
medium: on linux desktop usability
Why do desktop environments increasingly degrade the desktop UX that once used to be straightforward and “common sense”? Is there a secret plan to cripple the desktop experience by infecting it with less suitable UX concepts invented for mobile phones?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law
other parts of the series:
- https://medium.com/@probonopd/make-it-simple-linux-desktop-usability-part-2-d34b86fd9b79
- https://medium.com/@probonopd/make-it-simple-linux-desktop-usability-part-3-780f127f5794
- https://medium.com/@probonopd/make-it-simple-linux-desktop-usability-part-4-13be6486b358
- https://medium.com/@probonopd/make-it-simple-linux-desktop-usability-part-5-d810a0d2f368
- https://medium.com/@probonopd/make-it-simple-linux-desktop-usability-part-6-1c03de7c00a9
zdnet: do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
ein schon etwas aelterer artikel - 2008 - der speziell im lichte von meltdown + spektre nichts von seiner damaligen aktualitaet verloren hat.
persoenlich bin ich erst mit linux auf die x86er architektur gewechselt -> es war damals und ist auch noch heute die guenstigste hardwareplatform fuer dieses system... aber ich "haenge" an ihr in keinster weise -> ausser eben aus oekonomischen gruenden.
the register: intel cpu design flaw ...
*uiuiuiuiui* ... schoen, dass AMD grad wieder ein paar gute CPUs am start hat :)
heise security artikel:
https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Massive-Luecke-in-Intel-CPUs-erfordert-umfassende-Patches-3931562.html
standard artikel:
https://derstandard.at/2000071395941/Intel-CPUs-Verheerende-Luecke-Fix-resultiert-in-Performance-Verlust
i just don't want to be a software-developer anymore
a job is "Snow Crashy" ... definition ;)
In the old days, she would have written computer programs for a living. Nowadays, she writes fragments of computer programs. These programs are designed by Marietta and Marietta’s superiors in massive week-long meetings on the top floor. Once they get the design down, they start breaking up the problem into tinier and tinier segments, assigning them to group managers, who break them down even more and feed little bits of work to the individual programmers.
Snow Crash, Neal Stehpehson, written in 1992
opensource.com: cats in FOSS
If you want something done in real life, the usual petitioning process is something like this: Find a person, yowl at them, scratch the sofa, knock things off the shelf, and generally be a nuisance until they stop what they're doing to satisfy your demands.
*miau* :))
Occupy the cloud: distributed computing for the 99%
download the paper from https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04024:
Occupy the cloud: distributed computing for the 99% Jonas et al., SoCC’17