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Here’s an idea I tossed out on the latest episode of The Talk Show , while talking with Jim Dalrymple about what Apple might do with the iPad Pro: what if they added a trackpad to the Smart Keyboard?
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My favorite part of keynotes is always the opening. That is the moment when the CEO comes on stage, not to introduce new products or features, but rather to create the frame within which new products
If you have seen recent references to the concept of “ deep work ,” you have author Cal Newport to thank for it. This unassuming Georgetown computer science
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M ost jobs that exist today might disappear within decades. As artificial intelligence outperforms humans in more and more tasks, it will replace humans in more and more jobs. Many new professions are
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Faye Bridge writes on January 26, 2016 Share with your friends With a family of early adopters of household Internet, Malina grew up with technology and the
In preparation for an upper level class that I’m teaching this semester, I spent the summer writing my first app entirely in Swift. (It’s 7 Second Diet , a meal-tracking app that’s not a pain in the t
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Until recently, I had notoriously bad typing habits and preferred using the mouse for most things. I decided to retrain myself lest I be shamed by developers worldwide and get better at using my tools
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Yuval Harari Works Less Than You March 13th, 2017 · 54 comments The Charmed Career of Yuval Harari The 41-year old Israeli historian Yuval Harari has enjoyed a career rise that any academic would envy
sorting.at All high functioning teams must prioritize. Not once a month, not once a week — but rigorously, and ruthlessly . Prioritization means doing the
Since 1972, the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center has conducted a massive biennial survey of American attitudes called the General Social
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Chapter 1 AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB) is a Platform-As-A-Service that allows developers to easily leverage on AWS for application deployment and management. A
The model-view-controller or MVC is software architecture commonly used for creating web applications or software. In other words, it’s a structure for web
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