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Next Generation Productivity
Computers have a long history of replacing the work of humans. Before mainframes large businesses would have armies of people with punch calculators to do the work that is now in a single spreadsheet (each person performing just a cell of that sheet). Over the past 60 years the primary productivity benefit from computers has…
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The Bots Are Coming
Slack is the fastest growing startup in history, and it is starting to drive a new kind of interface for users to make things happen within their businesses. If you remember way back the only way you could interact with a computer was through a command line. With this interface you form very specific commands…
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Productivity of higher level languages
I recently had an experience where I was given the same programming problem as a handful of other software developers. My advantage was that I was using Python while the other people were forced to write their solution in Java or C. The difference in the amount of time it took to solve the same…
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