At Fast Company: The Talent Paradox: Despite High Unemployment, Two-Thirds Of Your Employees Are Ready To Bail People often describe certain individuals as “natural-born leaders,” but the truth is that business leaders are made, not born–shaped through the assignments they receive and the experiences they have. That formation can happen by accident or by design. [...]
If you want to get a good idea about the Unity Heads-Up-Display, Jo-Erlend Schinstad has a good description of why he thinks It’s A Great Idea. It is also interesting that the first comment completely ignores his initial point about the media representation of the innovation and instead reinforces it. Up until now, there’s been [...]
It appears that Shuttleworth has noticed a lot of the hate about Unity. He also seems to have a good understanding of why it exists and he has a plan. We’ll resurrect the (boring) old ways of displaying the menu in 12.04, in the app and in the panel. In the past few releases of [...]
Bootstrapping is not a trivial task. A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering is a reminder about the bootstrapping phase of software development for personal computing. Here’s the situation: it’s 1984, and you’re assigned to write the spellchecker for a new MS-DOS word processor. Some users, but not many, will have [...]
It was a long time ago that getting a computer to play chess at a human level was just a far off goal. Things have changed since then. It looks like there has been steady improvement until something changed in about 2004. The paradigm shift at that time in chess engines got David Post at [...]