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Choose a Provider, I’m going with HawkHost

After the URL Shortener for this blog, I needed a box to tinker with. Now, there are a gazillion hosting providers out there. And some are awesome, and some suck, but after trying dozens of them, including A2, Bluehost, HostGator, NameCheap and scads more over the years (I have even used AWS, but dang that …

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Crafting Gender-Neutral Job Position Descriptions in the Tech Industry

The Challenge As in many firms, managers work with their talent acquisition team to craft a position description, the firm posts it out “there” and receives a diverse array of applicants. That’s good! Recently though, it seems like the posts in my corner of the world have not been attracting female applicants. I poked around …

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Yet Another Reason to Own Your Blog

The LinkedIn Challenge I maintain a lot of different social media platforms, and each has their own nuances. In today’s adventure, I simply wanted to share a post from Ben Taylor, Dataiku’s Chief AI Strategist. But I wanted to do it a certain way. Here’s what I wanted: I wanted to keep Ben’s comments on …

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What Happened to the Information Superhighway

In the Beginning I am sure there are some folks like me who were around when the typewriter was invented… no wait, I was not around for that. Or was I? Gah, I forget. Anyway, I was here when a company called Apple came out with the IIe, when Microsoft came out with a graphical …

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Udemy Attacks Customers with Malware

Call to Action Udemy’s decision is wrong. I am hoping, after reading this article, you will consider doing any one (or more) of the following: Join me in boycotting Udemy until they: 1) stop using malware, 2) allow customers to play content on their computers using their hardware, and 3) pay punitively for their actions …

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