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www.microsoft.com 8y ago

Project Malmo

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knuth80.elfbrink.se 8y ago

Donald Knuth’s 80th birthday will be celebrated by two events in Piteå, Sweden

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

Destiny 2 misrepresented XP gains to its players until the devs got caught

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

Radioactive land around Chernobyl to sprout solar investments

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webmasters.googleblog.com 8y ago

A reminder about “event” markup

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medium.com 8y ago

Software Architecture Patterns Layered Architecture

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hacks.mozilla.org 8y ago

Essential WebVR resources

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blog.mozilla.org 8y ago

The dolls have ears

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krebsonsecurity.com 8y ago

Blowing the Whistle on Bad Attribution

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

Amazon to build a network of mobile drone maintenance and delivery platforms

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www.ft.com 9y ago

Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash faces extradition to US

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martinfowler.com 10y ago

Martin fowler refactoring document-load

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www.techinasia.com 11y ago

How the Japanese robot avatar OriHime fights loneliness

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github.com 11y ago

Rails api

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martinfowler.com 11y ago

DataLake by Martin Fowler

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hacks.mozilla.org 11y ago

MetricsGraphics.js – a lightweight graphics library based on D3

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www.mono-project.com 11y ago

Mono .NET Source Code Integration Strategy

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www.techinasia.com 11y ago

Xiaomi clocked RMB 1B in 12 hours

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www.techinasia.com 11y ago

Singles Day sale breaks last year’s record

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cybersecuritymonth.eu 11y ago

European Cyber Security Month

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cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk 11y ago

Launch of 3 New Free Cyber Security Online Training Courses

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cucumber.pro 11y ago

Test out 2.0.0.beta.3 pre-release

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docs.seleniumhq.org 11y ago

Selenium webdriver 2.8.0 out

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www.mono-project.com 11y ago

Mono 3.10.0

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blog.mozilla.org 11y ago

Launching the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows Program

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europa.eu 12y ago

Three and O2 merge cleared

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

RedDotRuby 2014 – Ruby.inspect by Koichi Sasada

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gist.github.com 12y ago

RedDotRubyConf 2014 links and resources

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developer.mozilla.org 12y ago

Firefox 31 for developers

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www.memrise.com 12y ago

Memrise Grow your mind by learning a new language

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The industrial loom didn't make cloth the same as made by hand. All machine made cloth is worst than the best weavers could make. The cloth was just okay, and could be made faster and at scale and then sold. Now you can't buy cloth to the standard it used to be made.

Sorry for your loss. You might find helpful to talk walks in nature. Grief support groups are very useful. Many people also find volunteering helpful, as it involves helping people and being around people (and sometimes animals). Schedule some sort of plan for yourself with times for being social, helping people, art and being outside. Please avoid isolating yourself. Good luck.

I enjoyed all these. All of them are worth a read.

Business / Tech Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is. Managing Expectations: Working with People Who Want More: Working with People Who Want More, Better, Faster, Sooner, Now! Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing. Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-From Global Epidemic to Your Front Door. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Badass: Making Users Awesome. Social Engineering in IT Security: Tools, Tactics, and Techniques. How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody. Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The Global War for Internet Governance. Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking. Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. The Soul of A New Machine. Hot Spots: Why Some Companies Buzz with Energy and Innovation - And Others Don't. A Computer Called LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the World's First Office Computer. Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron. The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing. What's Mine Is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live. Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network. The Undersea Network (Sign, Storage, Transmission). Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly. Zero Bugs and Program Faster. Official Criticism Manual: Perfecting the Art of Giving and Receiving Criticism. Hacking Wireless Access Points: Cracking, Tracking, and Signal Jacking. Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set...Test! Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. The Accidental Project Manager. Building Successful Communities of Practice. Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories. More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen. Security and Usability: Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use. Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. The Well: The Epic History of the First Online Community. Programmers at Work.

Science The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy Darwin's Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Hidden Figures Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe Sightlines An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere Snowball Earth: The Story of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life as We Know it Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: The Meaning of Error in an Age of Certainty Mycophilia Packing for Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In Space No Logo King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry The Ghosts Of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, And Other Ecological Anachronisms Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Growing Up Boeing: The Early Jet Age Through the Eyes of a Test Pilot's Daughter Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 bath Toys Lost at Sea Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

World / Politics / Other Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power The New Jim Crow The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion The irregulars : Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing The Gift of Fear

People like the book 'Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems'. You could take a look at Netflix's info and tools. They break their system themselves to ensure it recovers well. It would help if you indicated which meaning of resilient you use?

I'd recommend reading the PM canon, its useful even if you just want to work better with them. Don't know the canon, find out. What books/podcasts do all the PM's you know own and listen to? You could get the cert (PMBOK). Certs can mean the difference between someone taking a chance on you or not. Ask the PM's/BA's in your company for advice (you can word it as your friend/kid is interested). Another useful thing is to look at job ad's, what are they asking for, do you have those skills? Can you demonstrate them?

Whatever other options you take, also arrange to get a counselor / therapist. Consider it an investment in your mental health. Adjusting to meeting more people is stressful and they will support you through it. You will also improve your personality (no matter where you start with, knowing yourself helps).

The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett. His last work. Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson (I'd recommend this to families with young children) CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems by Lea Verou. I'm not really a front in person so this was an interesting look into CSS3 Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking Georgia Weidman I'm starting next on Rework, as I've heard a lot about it.

I'd amend this to whatever number of hours you need. For some people that's 10 for others 5. Beyond that this is very very true. Tiredness makes everything more stressful and difficult and suppressed creative thought (which good programming needs).

Reconsider 11 years ago

The whole idea that expansion is bad for a lifestyle business is interesting to read about. There are a bunch of 100 year old, family run businesses that very interesting and intelligently ran. I wonder how many pieces of software will be around in 100 years, not many from unicorns I'd expect.