How to get developers to document their code
How to get developers to document their code Poorly documented code? Chances are the problem lies not in your programmers, but in your process Finding top-notch developers to join your team is difficult enough. Finding ones who also document their code can seem like a minor miracle. Let's ignore user-facing documentation for now. Manuals, reference guides, and online help are probably still best l
CC Releases New Data FAQs - Creative Commons
by sarah Uncategorized We have done a lot of thinking about data in the past year. As a result, we have recently published a set of detailed FAQs designed to help explain how CC licenses work with data and databases. These FAQs are intended to: (1) alert CC licensors that some uses of their data and databases may not trigger the license conditions, (2) reiterate to licensees that CC licenses do no
The Legend of Apple and Xerox PARC and the Truth About Innovation
Irving Wladawsky-Berger A collection of observations, news and resources on the changing nature of innovation, technology, leadership, and other subjects. Every December for the last few years, NY Times OpEd columnist David Brooks picks the best magazine essays of the year. He describes his choices in two of his columns, with links to the essays in their online version. I generally really like h
Eric Schmidt: Android Is Differentiated, Not Fragmented | TechCrunch
Media & Entertainment Eric Schmidt: Android Is Differentiated, Not Fragmented We’ve spent the better part of yesterday cruising around the Central Hall on a quest to highlight the coolest tech at CES, but Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was on hand at CNET’s Next Big Thing panel to talk about the future of consumer electronics. While doing so, he (perhaps unsurprisingly) made it clear that
Debian passes CentOS as most popular Linux for web servers - The H Open: News and Features
Last year, Debian GNU/Linux and CentOS were the most popular Linux distributions on web servers. According to recent monthly figures from W3Techs, Debian has recently regained the top spot from CentOS and was running on 29.4 per cent of Linux-based web servers (9.6 per cent of all web sites). CentOS had held the lead by a few per cent during most of the last year; Debian moved ahead by a small mar
What is big data? - O'Reilly Radar
What is big data? An introduction to the big data landscape. Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The data is too big, moves too fast, or doesn’t fit the strictures of your database architectures. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it. The hot IT buzzword of 2012, big data has become viable as cost-effectiv
Fab.com: mobile shoppers buy twice as often as web visitors – Old GigaOm
UPDATED: Design store Fab.com, has seen a huge surge in mobile use since launching mobile apps in October, with 30 percent of traffic now coming in via mobile. But more impressive than that is the fact that mobile visitors are twice as likely to buy compared to visitors to Fab’s desktop website. That’s the word from CEO Jason Goldberg, who told me Wednesday that mobile has become a major driver of
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mjg59 | The economic incentive to violate the GPL
My post yesterday on how Google gains financial benefit from vendor GPL violations contained an assertion that some people have questioned - namely, "unscrupulous hardware vendors save money by ignoring their GPL obligations". And, to be fair, as written it's true but not entirely convincing. So instead, let's consider "unscrupulous hardware vendors have economic incentives to ignore their GPL obl
チップを渡すような感覚でコンテンツ製作者を支援！ソーシャルチッピングプラットフォーム「Grow!」が、いよいよ正式リリース！
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secret:秘密保全法制報告書パブリックコメント - Matimulog
秘密保全法制のための有識者会議の報告書がパブリックコメントに付されている。（締切は昨年11月であった） 秘密保護法制が現在以上に必要だという立場に立つとしても（この点についても異論は大いにありうる）、秘密保護は性質上その当否を争いにくいことを十分考慮し、極めて限定的に、恣意的な運用をできるだけ排し、かつ、事前チェックのシステムをビルトインした制度にすべきだ。 この観点で見ると、報告書の想定する制度は、かなり心もとない。 秘密保全法制のもとで保護される秘密は、特別秘密と呼ばれ、国の安全、外交、公共の安全及び秩序の維持の三分野を対象とされる。 このうち国の安全や外交についてもいささかきな臭いものを感じざるを得ないが、というのも西山記者事件を思い起こすと、あれが外交分野における特別秘密に値するものと判断されることは大いにありうるが、それを秘密として隠すことを正当化すべきかどうかには大いに異論があ
Why Google’s new search tools might have Twitter ready to sue
Why Google’s new search tools might have Twitter ready to sue Twitter’s lawyers are taking a long, hard look at Google’s new social search features, and they don’t like what they see. With Google’s new mode of searching, social media results powered by Google+ show up among regularly ranked links and images. However, searching for a Twitter handle with these Google+ results included won’t necessar
Economist's View: Democrats are Not Anti-Market
A recent column (on the claim that Democrat are anti-market, socialists, see here too): Democrats are Not Anti-Market, by Mark Thoma: Republican hopefuls are attempting to portray the coming presidential election as a battle between people who believe in free markets and those who want to turn the U.S. into a socialist state. Michele Bachmann has been quite explicit with this charge, and Mitt Rom
Biometrics in Argentina: Mass Surveillance as a State Policy
A joint campaign with Fundacion Via Libre. The Spanish version of this article is available here. Two years ago, the UK dismantled their national ID scheme and shredded their National Identity Registry in response to great public outcry over the privacy-invasive program. Unfortunately privacy protections have been less rosy elsewhere. In Argentina, the national ID fight was lost some time ago. A l
Who Is Flying Unmanned Aircraft in the U.S.?
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), demanding data on certifications and authorizations the agency has issued for the operation of unmanned aircraft, also known as drones. Drones are designed to carry surveillance equipment – including video cameras, infrared cameras and heat sensors, and radar – that can al
統計学を勉強するときに知っておきたい7つのポイント
マイクロソフト社が技術分野でもっと熱い専攻の一つとして分析/統計をあげている（Microsoft JobsBlog）。同社以外でも統計学は、今後最も有益なスキルの一つだと考えているようだ（NYT - For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics）。しかし、データマイニングの話も一般化しつつあって学習ノウハウなども公開されているが、経験にあわない部分が多い。統計学を初めて勉強するときに知っておいた方が良い7つのポイントをあげてみた。 1. 学習機会やテキストは山のようにあるので利用する 確率・統計の日本語テキストは山のようにあり、大学のコースワークを振り返っても、理文問わずにほとんどの学部で確率・統計はあったはずだ。大学院のコースワークでは英語の文献を好む傾向があるが、上級テキストでも日本語のものも少なくない。また「マンガでわかる統計学」のよ
Google’s new social search: How far can you trust it?
Google’s new social search: How far can you trust it? Google’s new Search plus Your World product, announced yesterday, is making a lot of waves. The new search puts content shared by your friends in the Google+ social network higher up in search results than other content — a move that’s raised antitrust concerns. Google has had a form of social search in its main results for a while, but this i
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