Listening to the design pressures
Martin Thompson explores emergent designs and working practices that succeed in areas where the design pressures quickly cull that which does not deliver.
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Michael Schneider, Rachel Law, and Alyx Baldwin on customer service with bots
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: How bots are transforming the way companies interact with their customers.
Four short links: 20 October 2016
Kid Privacy, Chinese Creation, Reality Rocks, and Chaos Monkey 2
What will AI make possible that’s impossible today?
If we let machines put us out of work, it will be because of a failure of imagination and a lack of will to make a better future. (Full text, video, and slides from Tim O'Reilly's talk at the White House Frontiers Conference.)
Four short links: 19 October 2016
WAN-Replicated Data, NoSQL Modeling, Sharing Roadmaps, and Shopping Statistics
Why and how Software Heritage is building the universal software archive
Roberto Di Cosmo reveals the motivations behind the launch of Software Heritage, a project that has archived more than 3 billion unique source code files and 650 million unique commits.
Is software freedom a social justice issue?
Karen Sandler says software freedom underlies our ability to effectively solve social problems, so we need a new way of thinking about it in relation to social justice causes.
Building an open source culture at Europe’s largest fashion platform
Lauri Apple discusses Zalando's open source transformation and how it's shaped the company.
How you got here
Open licenses have served us well for more than two decades, but Cory Doctorow says they need help if we’re going to survive the era in which computers invade our structures and our bodies.
Four short links: 18 October 2016
Awesome Falsehoods, Neural Network Vision, Toy and Family Robots, and Over-Engineered Software
Evolving the JavaScript ecosystem
Kris Borchers discusses the shifts driving JavaScript.
Brilliant pebbles
Mark Shuttleworth says your next million is more likely to come from an afternoon tinkering on your laptop and a tiny PC than beating your neighbor to web scale on the cloud.
Highlights from OSCON in London 2016
Watch highlights covering open source, open data, architecture, the business of open source, and more. From OSCON in London 2016.
Four short links: 17 October 2017
Male Allies, Learning Maps, Machine Learning Biology, and "The Attention Merchants"
Four short links: 14 October 2016
Amazing China, Deep Learning Memory, VR Spaces, and Javascript Song
Jassim Latif on workplace bots
The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: Bots that can respond to groups of users.
Four short links: 13 October 2016
Cake Cutting, Tea Making, Google Interviewing, Automation Puzzling
Four short links: 12 October 2016
Twitter Financially, VR Skeptically, Electronica Originally, and Stack Overflow Competitively