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Taking Up Space

The Daily WTF

April Fool's day is a day where websites lie to you or create complex pranks. We've generally avoided the former, but have done a few of the former, but we also like to just use April Fool's as a chance to change things up. So today, we're going to do something different. We're going to talk about my Day Job. Specifically, we're going to talk about a tool I use in my day job: cFS. cFS is a NASA-designed architecture for designing spaceflight applications.

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Bad Therapy

David Heinemeier Hansson

This book nails it. What it's like to be a parent with school-age children in America right now. So many kids with a diagnosis of one sort or another, so much monitoring of children's every move, so much anxiety over the most trivial things, like the sugar content of a cupcake. Abigail Shrier ties all these threads together into a damning tapestry of well-cited arguments for why much of modern parenting in America is failing the kids it purports to care for so catastrophically.

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Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals

InfoWorld

Recently Redis changed its license , and mountains of misinformation have followed, not to mention a fork driven by trillion-dollar cloud company AWS. Among that misinformation is Steven J. Vaughn-Nicols’ earnest but incorrect declaration that the Redis change “means developers can no longer use Redis’ code.” This is simply not true. For 99.9999999999999% of developers, their rights under the license remain exactly the same as they would under the most permissive of open source licenses.

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Time matters: New innovations from Lacework free up valuable hours for security teams

Lacework

Our new platform capabilities will save crucial time for everyone from CISOs to the security analysts on the frontline.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyer's Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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Megan Jensen represents Perficient at SUGCON Europe 2024

Perficient

SUGCON 2024 is coming! Some of you involved into Sitecore community have come across of Megan Jensen ‘s catchy personal branding – “ MJ Knows Sitecore ” ( and she indeed knows it! ). This year Megan will prove that to the entire community by presenting her topic “ Optimizing for Headless: SEO Tips, Tricks, and Special Considerations for the New Composable World ” at the event’s Marketing track.

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Cypress: a new generation of end-to-end testing

Perficient

What is Cypress Cypress is a modern JavaScript-based end-to-end (e2e) testing framework designed to automate web testing by running tests directly in the browser. Cypress has become a popular tool for web applications due to a number of distinctive advantages such as user-friendly interface, fast test execution, ease of debugging, ease of writing tests, etc.

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Widespread European Farmer Protests, Some Violent, are Another Dispatch from The Ministry for the Future

Ooda Loop

In this, the fifth installment in our "Dispatches from the Ministry for the Future" series, we take the time to do more of a deep dive into the speculative fiction/science fiction novel that inspired this eponymous series of posts - followed by details of the farmer protest that have broken out all over the EU in the last year or so. In the What Next?

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Clear Signage in Public Spaces for Universal Accessibility Series: Enhancing Safety – 2

Perficient

Welcome back to our series on Clear Signage in Public Spaces for Universal Accessibility! In this installment, we’ll delve into how clear signage contributes to enhancing safety in public spaces for individuals of all abilities. Let’s explore why safety is paramount and how clear signage plays a crucial role in promoting it. The Importance of Safety in Public Spaces Safety is a fundamental concern in public spaces, ensuring the well-being and security of all individuals who navigate

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A brave new (generative) world – The future of generative software engineering

Capgemini

A Brave New (Generative) World – The future of generative software engineering Keith Glendon 26 Mar 2024 Facebook Twitter Linkedin Disclaimer : This blog article explores potential futures in software engineering based on current advancements in generative AI. While the content presents a plausible vision, it cannot predict the future. Our purpose is to inspire software engineers, software companies and enterprises who are embracing the next generation of ‘product-centric’ business models driven

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Clear Signage in Public Spaces for Universal Accessibility Series: Promoting Independence – 3

Perficient

Welcome back to our series on Clear Signage in Public Spaces for Universal Accessibility! In this segment, we’ll explore how clear signage promotes independence for individuals of all abilities in public spaces. Let’s delve into why independence is crucial and how clear signage plays a vital role in fostering it. The Importance of Independence in Public Spaces Independence is a fundamental aspect of individual autonomy and empowerment, allowing individuals to navigate public spaces f