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Three Positive Societal Side Effects from Layoffs Layoffs are never easy. Whether they are done in small or large numbers, they call for a lot of planning and can significantly bring down employee morale. While there can be negative effects at the organizational level, layoffs can potentially have a positive impact at the societal level. |
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Are There Benefits to Multitasking? Multitasking gets a bad rap, but not without reason. When we do it, we take longer to complete tasks, make more mistakes, retain less content, and get stressed. Can there be any benefits to multitasking? Naomi Karten found out there are at least a few. Read on to find out what they are. |
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What Apple’s Swift Means for Developers, Testers, and Businesses Apple surprised people at the Worldwide Developers Conference by introducing Swift, a brand-new programming language for OS X and iOS application development. What will this mean for developers, testers, and businesses who have poured time and resources into developing Objective-C expertise? |
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Mobile Testing: The First Step—or Two On many mobile projects, testing is not practiced well—or sometimes not done at all. Many testers from the desktop world are moving into mobile, and there is much they can take from traditional testing into the mobile space. Here are some ideas to get you thinking about testing mobile devices. |
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Is A/B Testing Fundamentally Unethical? Facebook created a controversy recently by sharing the study results of an experiment it did in the news feed of around 700,000 users. The basis of Facebook's study was to prove whether emotions are contagious on the social network. It was a version of an A/B test—without users knowing about it. |
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Thinking about Going Back to School? Georgia Tech Offers Online MS CS The Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing rolled out the first accredited Online Master of Science in Computer Science program in spring 2014. Offered in cooperation with AT&T and Udacity, students can earn a degree through the massive open online courses (MOOCs) delivery format. |
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The Strange Matter of How We Perceive Time Even though we can’t do much about the passage of time—and it seems like we’ll never have enough of it—it’s intriguing to consider how we experience it. Our perception of time is subjective and influenced by all sorts of things. Keep these facts in mind when managing your time and your workweek. |
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OpenStack Architecture Design Guide—Now Available for Download Organizations wanting to deploy OpenStack-based clouds have struggled with the lack of best practices for the many different use cases. To address the well-known gap in architecture design best practices documentation, the OpenStack Architecture Design Guide is now available for download. |
