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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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Seattle startup Moondream, led by AWS vets, raises $4.5M for vision language model software

GeekWire

He was also the former CTO at Porch and was a senior director of development at Zynga, and spent a decade at Microsoft from 1994 to 2004. .” Allen previously spent seven years at Amazon Web Services, where he helped build AWS IQ, a marketplace for on-demand AWS talent, as well as internal sales products.

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Linux in your car: Red Hat’s milestone collaboration with exida

Network World

Back in 2004, Jonathan Schwartz, then the chief operating officer at Sun Microsystems, suggested that cars could become software platforms in the same way that cell phones were. The safety of vehicles that get us from one place to another on a nearly daily basis has become a serious priority. This isn’t a new idea.

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Software Development's Magic Triangle : spf13.com

SPF13

Software Development's Magic Triangle. In the world of software development, another magic triangle exists. Pushed to 2004, 2005, pushed to late 2006, intended to debut in 2007. Development. development. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. s an old adage â??Fast, Fast, Cheap, Good; Pick Twoâ??.

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Microsoft receives $29B IRS tax notices for decade-old transactions

CIO Business Intelligence

billion, plus penalties and interest for the period between 2004 and 2013. “As The Notices of Proposed Adjustment were received on September 26, related to intercompany pricing or transfer pricing, Microsoft said in a regulatory filing. The IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $28.9

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Great Anecdotes: The CIA and Their Contributions to Modern Technology

CTOvision

Have you ever wondered if the world-class technology developed by the CIA could ever be made available to the public? CIA developed lithium iodine batteries in the 1960s because certain operational missions required long-lasting batteries of various shapes and sizes. The CIA and You: CIA’s Contributions to Modern Technology.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet joins Expedia as new product chief; Avanade names president

GeekWire

Her first stint at Expedia was from 2004 to 2008, when she was a director in product management. Seattle-based biotech startup Talus Bioscience hired Chris Joyce as its new vice president of business development. Joyce previously was director of business development at Absci. Talus raised $11.2