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#Facebook should be regulated into the ground re kids. It should be required to at least more aggressively enforce the 13 year old min age and the law should raise that 17-18. https://t.co/lG927dA1f8

— Michael Dominick (@dominucco) December 20, 2017

Rust in 2017: what we achieved – The Rust Programming Language Blog

Rust’s development in 2017 fit into a single overarching theme: increasing productivity, especially for newcomers to Rust. From tooling to libraries to documentation to the core language, we wanted to make it easier to get things done with Rust. That desire led to a roadmap for the year, setting out 8 high-level objectives that would guide the work of the team.

How’d we do? Really, really well.

GitHub’s global policy predictions for 2018 · GitHub

With issues like net neutrality and digital news curation in headlines every day, we’re seeing the effects of the growing role that technology has in our lives more than ever. From how we educate our children about new tools to how we decide to regulate internet service providers, we have a set of vitally important questions in front of us. To answer these questions, we’ll need a meeting of the minds—one that brings together the perspectives of government officials, business owners, developers, and citizens from all over the world. This global discussion is the only way we’ll progress toward appropriate solutions and the right balance in refocusing technology on humans.

Google fights fragmentation: New Android features to be forced on apps in 2018

Recently Google announced it will start setting a minimum API level that new and updated apps will be required to use.

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You Need a Barb | CR 287

chris — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:53:12 +0000

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“These patterns do the dirty work for the developer — they are curated packages of code, one-click GitHub repos, documentation and resources that address some of the most popular areas of development, including AI, Blockchain, Containers and IoT. These patterns will help developers get right to the task at hand, giving them more time to innovate and build,” Angel Diaz, vice president of developer technology and advocacy at IBM, wrote in a post.

1.4.0 — Homebrew

Today I’d like to announce Homebrew 1.4.0. The most significant change since 1.3.0 is that Homebrew filters environment variables.

The Patreon page says they receive $177 per month. That’s too low for a project … | Hacker News

The Patreon page says they receive $177 per month. That’s too low for a project with such a high popularity and usage.

I read somewhere ( and I bet ) it’s used by Google / Facebook / Apple employees.

Challenges of Scaling a Development Team

Process Obsolescence
Communications
Quality Control
What is an Agile process in 2017?
Kanban Board – New Standard of Organizing Work | Kanban Tool
What is a Kanban Board? | LeanKit

iPhone X Impressions

Compromise compromise, compromise…
The Notch and Development Complications

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Selling the FLOSS | CR 281

chris — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:50:58 +0000

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40 Year Old’s At the Pep Rally

What happens to cool tech when it goes uncool?
- All Things MS
- Rails Case
- Basically everything Java
What if it doesn’t?
The complicated case of the Angulars

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10 facts about American workers | Pew Research Center

Project Pick

BoostrapVue

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Summer of GitHub | CR 262

chris — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:38:56 +0000

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Swift creator departs Tesla after just six months

Six months later, he announced on Twitter that he was leaving the car company. “Turns out that Tesla isn’t a good fit for me after all,” he said. Lattner doesn’t have a new job in mind just yet.

Turns out that Tesla isn't a good fit for me after all. I'm interested to hear about interesting roles for a seasoned engineering leader!

— Chris Lattner (@clattner_llvm) June 21, 2017

Stripe refocuses European effort with 6 new markets and expanded payments platform

Stripe serves as the technical and banking infrastructure that allows businesses and individuals to accept online payments. The company has garnered more than $400 million in equity financing from big-name backers since its inception back in 2010, including CapitalG (Google), Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, American Express, and Elon Musk. For many, the company is a prime candidate to go public, but Stripe CEO Patrick Collison stated recently that he has no intentions of pursuing an IPO anytime soon.

Blockchain raises $40 million from Lakestar and Google’s venture arm

European venture capital fund Lakestar and GV, Google’s venture capital arm, both led the round. Nokota Management and Digital Currency Group also took part in the investment, as did Blockchain’s existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mosaic Venture Partners, Prudence Holdings, Virgin, and Sir Richard Branson.

Inside Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence Comeback

“We don’t want one or two companies, which I will not name, to be the only big players in town for AI,” he says

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Disillusioned NixBeards | CR 240

chris — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:15:43 +0000

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Mike’s Big Adventure

Going to Denver to the System 76 Superfan event

A Turn to Linux

Does Dell’s increasing support of Linux signal a wider change in the pro-user / developer market

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