This summer, Professor Nick Bostrom of Oxford, together with Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute, published a fascinating paper on the area where philosophy meets ethics meets…
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Scala school was started as a series of lectures at Twitter to prepare experienced engineers to be productive Scala programmers….
By now you probably know that Netflix is splitting its business into two parts: its digital streaming business (retains the name Netflix) and its DVD mailing business, which was its original…
Walking around Munich on a recent trip, I was impressed by the throngs of bicyclists whizzing by (move over, Amsterdam!). But what struck me even more was what the cyclists did when they dismounted….
In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. The truck was idling at a pickup point, blocking traffic, with smoke pouring out of its exhaust….
Come by LinkedIn Headquarters on Thursday, September 15 for a public tech talk “Big Data in Real Time: Processing Data Streams at LinkedIn”. Jay Kreps, creator of Kafka and Voldemort,…
Too often, it seems, this attitude is missing from teams, organizations or the community.
It’s missing because people are quick to opt out of the ‘we’ part. “What do you mean, we?” they ask….
By Adrian Otto, System Architect
Rackspace has been a sponsor of the Drizzle project for the past year. Recently we hired a team of five developers (Lee Bieber, Eric Day, Monty Taylor,…
This photo was made by Rob Kroenert on February 18th 2010 in the Yosemite National Park. Every year during the month of February, the Horsetall Falls turn golden around sunset. Amazing.
Oscar Wilde, as famous for his witty quips as for his plays and novels, once said, “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It’s never of any use to…
