What is the difference between a reason and an excuse? I once heard a story of a manager at a big company I worked with who always carried a little book with him with a list of excuses. He had over 200 excuses for not doing your job, not finishing your work or not making it on time. People would meet with him and explain why something hadn’t worked out and give him an excuse....
What is ‘infrastructure as code’ and why do you need it? ‘Infrastructure as code’ is big in DevOps — but what is it? Automating your infrastructure One of the first things you want to look at is how you take your code and make it into an “artifact.” An artifact is any deployable element that is produced by your build process. For example, when you are working with an app built in React, you know that thenpm buildcommand produces abuilddirectory in the root of your project....
‘The ick’, muchdiscussedon TikTok and Instagram lately, is where attraction to a current or potential partner is suddenly flipped to a feeling of disgust. It’s often triggered in an instant, social media users say, by witnessing some kind of turn-off – a bad dance move, a grating laugh, or an off-putting eating style. So what might be behind ‘the ick’? Are you letting ‘the ick’ undermine your chances in love? One possibility is this is aself-defensive mechanism or strategyto protect against relationship failure, fear of commitment, fear of intimacy, orrejection sensitivity....
If you launch astartupin your home country, you might discover it’s a pretty small market. Naturally, you start thinking about expanding into new countries, and if your business isn’t dependent on physical processes — great! — you can launch globally basically from day one. But what to do if your business is a platform of management crowdsourced couriers with vast amounts of transactions and physical processes: couriers move in the physical world using different types of transport, pick up the goods from senders and drop them off to recipients?...
Facebook generates$2bnin revenue, is valued at$50bnand has a global ‘customer’ base of600mpeople. It’s fair to say it’s a pretty big company. And to service a company of this size, you need a lot of people –2,000in Facebook’s case. But what’s life in Facebook like for those that drive the business towards world domination? For a little perspective, here’s a quick peek at another digital behemoth. Much has been written about Google as an employer over the years....
