Links for 07-30-2015

• Margaret Hamilton, the Engineer Who Took the Apollo to the Moon — Medium
• 'Overnight, everything I loved was gone': the internet shaming of Lindsey Stone | Technology | The Guardian
• Tim Harford on Twitter: "Behavioural economics, 1892 version http://t.co/UkpjIznBG0" - RT @R_Thaler: Agree! As you know Tim, I always say economics used to be behavioral until about 1950.
• Uber Engineering Blog – Project Mezzanine: The Great Migration
• QCon London 2015–Takeaways from “Scaling Uber’s realtime market platform” | theburningmonk.com
• Untitled (http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/07/30/_1982_sci_fi_summer.html) - The summer of 1982 was a pretty extraordinary one for SF films:
• The Future of Open Source – Allison Randal
• Architecting Containers Part 1: Why Understanding User Space vs. Kernel Space Matters | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog - Understanding the differences between user space and kernel space wrt containers. #redhat
• Maps Mania: The Harvard Historical Sea Chart Collection
• Distance to Nearest Road in the Conterminous United States
• Free Haven's Selected Papers in Anonymity
• Two-Way iBeacon Communication with Swift Programming Language - PubNub
• Jennifer Daniel on Twitter: "British Library put a million pix including maps, illustration, lettering into public domain https://t.co/0DQGJkxPtW http://t.co/BaHAtNetGF" - RT @jenniferdaniel: British Library put a million pix including maps, illustration, lettering into public domain
• Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Photograph: The Story Behind the Famous Shot- page 1 | History | Smithsonian

Podcast: Soft skills for DevOps with Red Hat's Jen Krieger

Jen Krieger is an Agile Coach on Project Atomic at Red Hat. In this podcast, she discusses soft skills, such as communication, that help software teams work better together and reduce unnecessary conflict. She also talks about how software development, especially in open source environments, is increasingly physically distributed and shares some tips for making remote teams work more effectively together.

Show notes:

• Project Atomic
• Referenced John Willis blog post

MP3 audio (17:06)
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Links for 07-20-2015

• Visual history of programming languages
• Backpacking Food for the Soul
• Then & Now: NYC’s Pneumatic Tube Mail Network | Untapped Cities
• Inside the Secret World of Russia's Cold War Mapmakers | WIRED
• Did Bill Buckley Dream Up Uber Before There Even Was an Uber? | TIME - "Buckley’s solution was to allow anyone with a driver’s license and without a criminal record to operate a car as a taxi. He also argued that passengers should have the ability to reserve a taxi by telephone for pickup at a designated time and place."

Links for 07-17-2015

• How a Car Works | Learn all about how cars work
• Particle (formerly Spark) | Prototyping tools for the Internet of Things
• Chip design game at the end of Moore's Law
• DevOps Best Practices: Winning the Culture Wars
• The Reason We Won't Have Autonomous Cars Any Time Soon
• The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle - The New Yorker
• Banks Forgot Who Was Supposed to Own Dell Shares - Bloomberg View
• What’s Next for Containers? User Namespaces | Red Hat Enterprise Linux Blog
• Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The Economic Potential of The Internet of Things
• Vagabonds, Crafty Bauds, and the Loyal Huzza: A History of London at Night : Longreads Blog
• Nine must read container blog posts - Container JournalContainer Journal - RT @ashimmy: first post in our top 9 container blog posts is by @ghaff of @Redhatcloud @ContainerBlog
• Taiwanese Grilled Corn - Tiny Urban Kitchen
• 100 open source Big Data architecture papers for data professionals. | Anil Madan | LinkedIn
• We Have to Go Back: Hope, Disappointment and Re-Watching Lost With My Kids | TIME
• California Gov. Jerry Brown signs new vaccination law, one of nation's toughest - LA Times - I'm somewhat surprised to see that California's vaccination law actually passed
• wbkd/awesome-d3 · GitHub
• Denver BusinessDen Boulder website lands deal with REI - Denver BusinessDen - Outdoor activity websites seem to lack critical mass. Interested to see if this acquisition changes anything
• Containers find a new home with the Linux Foundation | Opensource.com - Good piece on the Open Container Project by @stephenrwalli on @opensourceway
• Lead Bullets - Ben's Blog
• Enterprise DevOps, open source hit Target's bull's-eye - RT @DataCenterTT: @Target shares its Red-Hat-enabled #DevOps conversion @RedHatNews @JeffEinhorn @ipbabble @ghaff #datacenter