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How to turn small talk into smart conversationideas.ted.com
Tips from a comedian and a journalist on the art of going from small talk to big ideas. Try these out at the next summer wedding reception. - navytimes.com
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Are Mind-Powered Drones Next?worldcrunch.com
MUNICH — As the pilot sits in the cockpit with his hands in his lap, the airplane's control stick moves all by itself. The plane lands perfectly. Automatic pilot? No, the pilot controls the flight simulator — using... -
Neglected machine learning ideasscottlocklin.wordpress.com
This post is inspired by the "metacademy" suggestions for "leveling up your machine learning." They make some halfway decent suggestions for beginners. The problem is, these suggestions won't give... -
Patient at Mount Sinai Has Ebola-Like Symptoms, Hospital Saysnytimes.com
The man is being kept in isolation in the Manhattan hospital while tests are being done for the virulent viral disease, but also for other illnesses that could cause his symptoms. -
Point of despair: father of net neutrality Tim Wu talks about tech policy’s worst yeartheverge.com
Any way you look at it, Tim Wu is an unlikely candidate for public office. The Columbia law school professor who coined the term "net neutrality" is a public intellectual better known for his... -
Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible?ryandlane.com
Over the past month at Lyft we’ve been working on porting our infrastructure code away from Puppet. We had some difficulty coming to agreement on whether we wanted to use SaltStack (Salt) or Ansibl... -
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Adam Carolla Won’t Let Company Drop Podcast Patent Infringement Case Against Himslate.com
As the fight against patent trolls grinds on, stymied by government inability (or unwillingness) to fix a malfunctioning patent system, anti-troll advocates could take cold comfort this week from a particularly amusing press release. Personal Audio has... -
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Why I moved to CentOS 7..the.mightywomble.com
This all started Friday, I’m an Ubuntu user, it works out of the box, well most of the time it does. However just recently with updates small things just don’t seem to work properly. So I had a chat... -
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CYRKeyboardButton - A drop-in keyboard button that mimics the look, feel, and functionality of the native iOS keyboard buttons -
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQLwozniak.ca
I've come to the conclusion that, for me, ORMs are more detriment than benefit. In short, they can be used to nicely augment working with SQL in a program, but they should not replace it. Some... -
How we nearly doubled driver reliability at Summonaarjav.summon.com
Average reliability rate of all active Summon drivers. It was August 2013 and we had a problem. It had been nearly 6 months since we launched Summon. We had signed up hundreds of drivers in San Fra... - defcon.ws
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What women need today are more models of successful CEOs that are women, says @collinmathilde - The Accelerators - WSJblogs.wsj.com
Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO of Frontapp: I’m the CEO of a tech startup. For the past year, I’ve been managing a growing team, developing a product, raising funds and dealing with the ups and downs on a daily basis. Just usual CEO work, basicall...