At Chobani, Now It’s Not Just the Yogurt That’s Rich
The company surprised its 2,000 full-time workers with shares in the company that could make some of them millionaires.
Automated Testing for League of Legends
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Introducing MIR - The Rust Programming Language Blog
Words from the Rust team
Being A Developer After 40
(This is the talk I have given at App Builders Switzerland on April 25th, 2016. The slides are available on SpeakerDeck …
The American Scientist Magazine Understands Nothing about the Traveling Salesman Problem
I like to think there are some solid foundations to my life. I will be able to do the Monday New York Times crossword and I will not be able to do the Thursday version. My dental hygienist will not...
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Posted on 2016-04-27T05:07:41+0000
Mitsubishi: We've been cheating on fuel tests for 25 years
The embattled automaker admitted Tuesday that it has used improper methods to test fuel efficiency for the past quarter century, the latest revelation in a cheating scandal that has rocked the company.
Hasnain says:
"The Japanese automaker admitted Tuesday that it had falsified fuel efficiency tests for the past quarter century, the latest revelation in a scandal that has rocked the company."
25 years?!
Posted on 2016-04-27T04:48:31+0000
Have Software Developers Given Up?
Note: I’m a software developer. I create bugs. I once switched a production SQL database to Simple recovery mode and Truncated an important table causing a ton of work for my colleagues. The content of this post is aimed as much at me and the company I work for as the companies listed here. I think…
It isn’t just Uber: Carnegie Mellon’s computer science dean on its poaching problem
Andrew Moore was a professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University for a dozen years when Google hired him away in 2006 to lead..
Hasnain says:
"I’m not making light of the issue. How to retain people who are worth tens of millions of dollars to other organizations is causing my few remaining hairs to fall out. But we’re also proud that because of their world-class stature, that they can do the entrepreneurial thing if they want."
Posted on 2016-04-27T04:40:40+0000
Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe
After years of falling revenue, some newspapers have resorted to deception to boost their subscription numbers. These dishonest tactics are sometimes called “dark patterns” – user…
Hasnain says:
"In the short term, these dishonest tricks raise revenue for newspapers that use them. But in the longer term, they do even more damage, by giving the whole industry a reputation for bad business practices. Cable companies can get away with it because of government-granted monopolies; newspapers won’t be able to."
Posted on 2016-04-26T06:46:57+0000
The Epic Rise of America's Greatest Business Tycoon
John D. Rockefeller was the greatest businessman to ever live. Here's how he did it.
Hasnain says:
This is a really interesting short bio.
"It was around this time that Rockefeller learned the power of interest. “The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my servant and not make myself a slave to the money,” he said of this time. As a kid, Rockefeller was known for being particularly serious and rarely smiled."
Posted on 2016-04-26T06:38:36+0000