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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

In the 2000s we had a showdown of two popular blog publishing platforms — MovableType in 2001 and WordPress in 2003. Nanoc removed the UI and is instead a program you run on the command line. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. Online, and live. Blog aware.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Konstan, and John Riedl, 2001. Targeted mailing campaigns and special gifts (e.g.

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Netflix: A Culture of Learning

The Netflix TechBlog

The secret sauce that turns the raw ingredients of experimentation into supercharged product innovation is culture. We’ve also invested in education programs to up-level company-wide understanding of how we use A/B tests as a framework for product development. our first investments in tooling to support A/B tests came way back in 2001.

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