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Hot Labor Summer has continued into fall as workers in industries from retail and carmaking to healthcare and Hollywood have organized and gone on strike. Public support for the U.S. labor movement is close to the highest it’s been in 60 years. And that’s no surprise to people who work in one particular industry: the […]
Doc Searls and Dan Lynch explore long-standing ethical and technical imperatives of the free software and open source movements, and the wild new challenges they face in an age of AI that is still just beginning. Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email […]
#465: Succession Main Theme Dot Mp3 November 22nd, 2023 · 59 minutes Sam Altman is out at OpenAI. Or in? HE’S OUT. HE’S AT MICROSOFT. He’s in again! No wait — then, Binance’s CEO is DEFINITELY admitting to money laundering, so there’s that. We’ve also got your Christmas list covered this Black Friday. Stream this […]
[00:00:05] SY: Welcome to the CodeNewbie Podcast where we talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours. I’m your host, Saron, and today we’re talking about the ins and outs of LinkedIn with Laura Thorson, Program Manager at GitHub. [00:00:19] LT: LinkedIn is your resume, just on display for […]
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In 2019, Justin Harrison’s mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer. But by the time she died, he had figured out how to keep a part of her alive…forever. This week, the strange and provocative story of a man who believes that grief is not inevitable — that we can, in a way, cheat death. If […]
Intro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programming News/Links: Pushing for a lower dev estimate is like negotiating weather with a Meteorologist https://smartguess.is/blog/your-estimate-is-less-than-that/ Announcing python in excel https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439 7 Habits of Highly Effective Software Engineers https://makingsmallercircles.com/articles/7-habits-of-highly-effective-software-engineers/ Raspberry pi 5 begins shipping https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-Shipping Book of the Show Patrick: Harry Potter […]
A few years after Princeton University Press published William B. Helmreich’s well-received The New York Nobody Knows, it started putting out standalone “urban walking guides” to each of the five boroughs. Helmreich, a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City College of New York, famously walked every street in New York City, speaking with just […]
Suppose I’m connecting my home Christmas lights to the Internet. Perhaps I’ll make a mobile app that calls my home control server via an HTTP API: POST /lights/toggle HTTP/1.1 { “subjects”: [“maple_tree”, “roof”] } HTTP/1.1 200 OK { “toggled”: true } It works. I can finally live the dad dream of flashing the lights on […]
Pagan Viking Sea Kings spend the 10th and 11th centuries morphing into Christian monarchs. But with rulers like Harald Bluetooth and Svein Forkbeard it’s debatable whether things will be any less horrific for Scandinavia’s neighbors Source link