Does the government need 8,000 IT staff?"Despite the government having outsourced the majority of its IT delivery, research by Computer Weekly has revealed that Whitehall still has 8,000 in-house IT staff." Although it's not clear if these are people on the helpdesk, configuring tank systems, or anything else. (dopost employment government ) Coding Horror: Farewell [...]
Why Is It So Hard for New Musical Instruments to Catch On? – Atlantic Mobile"Why has there been such a drought of new instruments—especially in rock and pop, which thrive on novelty?" (music history eigenharp ) InfoQ: Can the Kanban Method Avoid Becoming another Management Fad? (dopost presentation video kanban ) Financing IT versus managing [...]
6 levels of web app interactivity – Michael Mahemoff – Google (applications javascript user_interfaces dopost ) VexFlow – HTML5 Music EngravingImpressive: "VexFlow is an open-source web-based music notation rendering API. It is written completely in JavaScript, and runs right in the browser. VexFlow supports HTML5 Canvas and SVG." (api dopost library music html5 ) Well, [...]
What the beta of Gov.uk means for public services"GDS has a remit to fundamentally change public services to a "digital by default" model and Gov.uk is the first phase of delivering that goal. Simplicity is the key message behind the beta version of the site." (launch dopost interview beta_gov government gds ) Check With Climate [...]
Are There Fundamental Laws of Cooking? | Wired Science | Wired.com"The food pairing hypothesis is the idea that foods that go best together contain similar molecular components. While this sounds elegant, Ahn and his collaborators set out to determine whether or not this is true." (maths dopost science food cooking ) The Thing About GitHow [...]
Racism And Meritocracy | TechCrunch A brilliant piece by Eric Ries on the most likely reasons minorities are really under-represented in Silicon Valley startup incubators: implicit bias. (startups investment psychology racism ) The life of a software engineer Harsh but… fair enough (software_development humour cartoon dopost ) A probability paradox? | Understanding Uncertainty Some possible [...]
Applidium — Cracking SiriWell it's not going to last, but it's clever… "Today, we managed to crack open Siri’s protocol. As a result, we are able to use Siri’s recognition engine from any device. Yes, that means anyone could now write an Android app that uses the real Siri! " (voice_recognition siri hacking dopost ) [...]
The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch"Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that [...]
The Death Of The Spec | TechCrunch"Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they’ve sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win. I’m gonna go one step further in that [...]
Google+ continues battle with fading user interest, data say – latimes.comSome data on Google+ usage. (data google_plus social_media dopost ) Jobs at risk as Guardian News & Media reviews printing costs | Media news | Journalism.co.uk"Guardian News & Media (GNM), the publisher of the Guardian and Observer, has launched a review of its printing operations [...]
