• What Lego has learned from building social network for kids – It is amazing to see how a marketing platform to become a thing that every kids that play lego waiting, in that platform, kids around the world show case their ingenuity crafting Lego, i am fond of Lego. The experience that this team had was how they capture what their customer wants by using data, this data led development or mapping the roadmap put their priorities sorted out.

  “We used to focus on one part of data and that would become the truth. Everything would be based on that one fact and it would lead development. That does not work. To be data led, you have to look at small things, like the number of kids that fell out of a flow, or what’s affecting sign-ups,”

• Run the First Edition of Unix (1972) with Docker – i may not yet born that time of the year, even play with it, my oldest memory at my first interaction with computer was IBM XT. my brother who were showed me how the Lotus works, with PC-DOS 2 (or 3 i forgot).

• Entering the Quantum Era—How Firefox got fast again and where it’s going to get faster – I’ve been reviewing the Firefox Quantum earlier, this is a much more fun way to ilustrate the new technologies behind new Firefox.

• New research: Understanding the root cause of account takeover – The paper published here by Google Research Paper, the paper showed the breach from various site, and also how it was sold in black market, motherboard wrote a how to not get hacked guide.

Let’s Talk about sleep

i’ve been talking about sleep deprivation on my dailybite issue #8, how it affect how we live, and society is changing, with all the gadgets, nightlife, always-on, fomo.

Electric lights, television and computer screens, longer commutes, the blurring of the line between work and personal time, and a host of other aspects of modern life have contributed to sleep deprivation, which is defined as less than seven hours a night.
But this has been linked to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity and poor mental health among other health problems. In short, a lack of sleep is killing us.

Other experiment also proving the same thing about the impact of sleep deprivation, mental sluggishness.

The sleep deprived have a higher risk of quite a number of conditions including heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and depression. Lack of sleep also has a deleterious effect on the brain, particularly on memory and cognition.

And this is much more scarier, Sleep debt is carcinogenic, watch the video here.

A healthy sleep, that’s what we need, according that article, women need at least 7.63 hours of sleep, and men 7.76 hours of sleep, so there’s no hack for long we can stay awake without disturbing our sleep behaviour, and no, you cannot take some drugs as a replacement.

• Learn just enough Linux to get things done – I remember learn how to install and operate Linux and Novel at 1999, and that was 18 years ago. been thru quite a lot linux flavour, learn how to use shell, bash is the most used shell interface, and then learn how to configure the network, thin client configuration, and so on. and eventually working as a part time admin at warnet (basically an internet cafe), these skills surely acquired and used a long with my career on the development area.

• How Twitter Secretly Benefits From Bots and Fake Accounts – US election changes so many things, beside Twitter approach is quite disturbing, i still use Twitter sometimes to catch updates from couple account that i follow. but this report happened on almost industries, e-commerce are one of the industry that using this tactic.

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Another friday, have we all reflect on what we have done over the weekdays?

• Veteran CTO (with Multiple Successful Exits) Answers Your Top Startup-Building Questions – Many advice for an inspiring tech managers, the list and experience by Adil Ajmal are gold, how the engineer accept its roles, and how they become a team player. Mesuring projects, performances, so on. and i’m quite intrigued by this:

  I believe that architecting a system is the responsibility of all engineers who have to build and maintain that system and not the exclusive responsibility of a single individual or a team of individuals who just tell others what to do without actually building the system themselves.

• Move Slowly and Fix Things – I do love this approach, do with small thing, fix that small thing, look upon what’s coming, iterate. i tried to keep things small, functional, add some stuff slowly and iterate to be better.

  But now most software is so much more than that. It listens to us. It goes everywhere we go. It tracks everything we do. It has our fingerprints. Our heart rate. Our money. Our location. Our face. It’s the primary way we communicate our thoughts and feelings to our friends and family.
  It’s deeply personal and ingrained into every aspect of our lives. It commands our gaze more and more every day.

• The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked – a comprehensive guide for not getting hacked. but all the tools for security always falls down to how the user treat their data. people tend to share almost everything on the internet, and hoping what they do won’t have consequence

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