Telegarden (1995)

Telegarden (1995)

The Telegarden: art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. “The Telegarden creates a physical garden as an environment to stage social interaction and community in virtual space. “For its engaging use of the Web, bringing together an international group of strangers to explore and nourish nature in sharing a common garden, the First Prize goes to the Telegarden as a powerful metaphor for virtual communities.”

Source: goldberg.berkeley.edu

Rebuilding our Support Tech architecture

Rebuilding our Support Tech architecture

The below exist in every support interaction, at varying degrees of intensity:
Frequency of response
Accuracy of the identified reason for support
Simplicity of resolution
Information immediately available to provide a resolution
Number of topics present in a single support request
Number of topic changes that happen during resolution of a support request
Necessity of specialty skillsets that require assistance from other internal teams

By combining each of these factors, we can represent nearly every real-world support case. What these seven factors do tell us is that there is huge variability to the ways people may need support, the initial reason and complexity of issues often evolve throughout the support interaction, and imposing an opinionated data model upfront restricts the ability for the system to accurately model a support experience by the time it ends. The opinionated ideology of this new system is that it needs to be able to support multiple support data model paradigms.

Source: eng.lyft.com

Do you have a yawning Perception Gap, or are you in sync with American public?

Do you have a yawning Perception Gap, or are you in sync with American public?

In one of the largest national studies of America’s polarization ever conducted, More in Common’s Hidden Tribes report identified seven political “tribes”:

The Perception Gap study builds on these insights. The political content we see on social media is therefore disproportionately from people with a more distorted understanding of the other side, further adding to the problem. This points to the vicious cycle of polarization: the Americans who are most engaged in political issues and debates spend the most time reading, watching and listening to media that portrays the other side as extreme, further increasing their hostility and distrust and widening their Perception Gap.

Source: perceptiongap.us

From Python to Go to Rust: an opinionated journey

From Python to Go to Rust: an opinionated journey

When looking for a new backend language, I naturally went from Python to the new cool kid: Go. As I did with Go, I tried to go head first, but it was too hard: I needed some new concepts specific to Rust like ownership or lifetimes to understand the code I was seeing on StackOverflow. At the very least, I think that I’ve found in Rust my new favorite language for the backend.

Source: tech.allo-media.net

Vue: We no longer have any plan of deprecating the Object API

Vue: We no longer have any plan of deprecating the Object API

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Source: github.com

I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times

I Shouldn’t Have to Publish This in The New York Times

Ten years ago, I could have published this on my personal website, or shared it on one of the big social media platforms. But that was before the United States government decided to regulate both the social media platforms and blogging sites as if they were newspapers, making them legally responsible for the content they published. And thanks to their armies of lawyers, editors and insurance underwriters, they are able to make the news available without falling afoul of new rules prohibiting certain kinds of speech — including everything from Saudi blasphemy rules to Austria’s ban on calling politicians “fascists” to Thailand’s stringent lèse-majesté rules.

Source: www.nytimes.com

Dunkirk auction result boosts the case for offshore wind energy in France

Dunkirk auction result boosts the case for offshore wind energy in France

WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson said: “Things are starting to look more positive for wind energy in France again with the results from the Dunkirk offshore auction and the latest onshore tender. The Dunkirk results are excellent news for offshore wind in France and are further proof that offshore wind is a competitive and mature energy source. “And it’s good the French Government have now said on the back of the Dunkirk result that they’re going to increase the volumes of new offshore wind in their energy plan – to 1 GW a year.

Source: www.evwind.es

NASA Has Been Hacked

NASA Has Been Hacked

Thornton-Trump’s comments resonate with the conclusion of the audit report which states: “the inability to protect against cyberattacks in general and advanced persistent threats in particular places the Agency’s status as a global leader in space exploration and aeronautics research at risk…”

I have contacted NASA for a comment and will update the story should one be forthcoming. Update June 20 12:05 ET

In response to my request for a comment on this story, Karen Northon from NASA headquarters referred me to the agency’s response in the audit report. In a letter dated June 13 to the assistant inspector general for audits, Renee P. Wynn, NASA chief information officer, and Marcus Watkins, director of the NASA management office, address ten recommendations made in the audit report.

Source: www.forbes.com

Elixir 1.9

Elixir 1.9

Releases have always been part of the Elixir community thanks to Paul Schoenfelder’s work on Distillery (and EXRM before that). The goal of Elixir releases was to double down on the most important concepts provided by Distillery and provide extensions points for the other bits the community may find important. However, since releases provide runtime configuration and Mix is not included in releases, we ported the API to Elixir.

Source: elixir-lang.org

Stage0 – A set of minimal C compiler bootstrap binaries

Stage0 – A set of minimal C compiler bootstrap binaries

label (Architecture specific size/properties) and/or @label1>label2 %label1>label2 displacements may be implemented should the specific architecture require it for human readable hex2 source files (such as ELF headers). The stage2 is dependent on the availability of text source files and at least a functional macro assembler and can be used to build operating systems or other “Bootstrap” functionality that might be required to enable functional binaries; such as programs that set execute bits or generate dwarf stubs. The stage3 is dependent on the availability of text source files and at least a functional M2-Planet level C compiler, FORTH and a Minimal Garbage collecting Lisp and can be used to build more advanced tools that can be used in bootstrapping whole operating systems with modern tool stacks.

Source: github.com