The Role of Empathy in Organizational Changes
Photo by Jon Tyson on UnsplashIn the spring of 2008, all employees of the company I worked for gathered in the auditorium to hear about the company’s business goals. At the end of this festive event, we were asked to step out into the lobby and find ourselves on a giant
Read moreFinding the imaginary part of an analytic function from the real part
A function f of a complex variable z = x + iy can be factored into real and imaginary parts: where x and y are real numbers, and u and v are real-valued functions of two real values. Suppose you are given u(x, y) and you want to find v(x, y).
Read moreLearning Rust With SHA-3 and Friends
Photo by Jantine Doornbos on UnsplashMy first hobby project for learning Rust was implementing cryptographic hash algorithms [MD5, SHA-2, SHA-3]. The latter, SHA-3, was the most challenging implementation.That was due to a) substantial differences in algorithm design from the more familiar MD5 and SHA predecessors and b) fewer and less intuitive
Read moreDebugging My Life as an Engineering Manager With ADHD
Image generated using Stable DiffusionI was always a software engineer first and never planned (or wanted) to become a manager. Dealing with software seemed much easier than dealing with people. Working on hard technical problems felt natural, but dealing with emotional matters and nuances in communication always bothered me.However, when I
Read moreAs Threads soars, Twitter rival Bluesky adopts a new personalized, algorithmic feed
Bluesky, one of the many would-be Twitter replacements now on the market, is making a notable change to how users discover new content on its network. Previously, the Bluesky app would feature popular posts in a feed it called the “What’s Hot” feed — something that its users aspired to
Read moreAnnouncing the AI Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
After a few years of being background noise, AI has suddenly become ubiquitous. From consumer apps to enterprise tools to medical devices, nearly everything claims to be “powered by AI” these days. But the technology’s unprecedented (and unregulated) rise prompts as many questions as it provides answers. Fortunately, you’re coming
Read moreThe Overflow #188: Recognition for individual contributors
Welcome to ISSUE #188 of The Overflow! This newsletter is by developers, for developers, written and curated by the Stack Overflow team and Cassidy Williams. This week: real talk on hallucinations, the cultural implications of workplace hugs, and a spotlight on digital privacy. From the blog Improving time to first byte:
Read moreHerMD opening new women’s health clinics following $18M extension
Women’s healthcare got another capital infusion today in HerMD, which announced $18 million in additional Series A funding, showing that this area continues to be of interest to investors. My colleague Dominic-Madori Davis reported earlier this year that women’s health companies raised about $1.16 billion in 2022. Though down from
Read moreCyber insurance audit: Painful necessity, or a valuable opportunity?
Ilia Sotnikov Contributor Share on Twitter Ilia Sotnikov is a security strategist and VP of user experience at Netwrix. Not that long ago, few companies even considered purchasing insurance to mitigate their financial exposure from a cyber incident, and for those that did, obtaining a policy was as easy as
Read moreModel 3 owners love their Teslas but increasingly not Elon Musk: survey
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Bloomberg’s latest survey of thousands of Model 3 owners presents a conflicted view of Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk, suggesting that while owners are happy with their cars they’re souring on Musk himself. The survey, which asked 5,000 Model 3
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