Electronic DesignOpinion

Why Proprietary Operating Systems are Critical in a Safety-Critical Era

Open-source or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) operating systems? In an era of safety-critical embedded systems, the debate ...
InfoQ

Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

Thiago Ghisi explains the structural shifts required as an engineering org scales from 30 to 100+ engineers. He shares how to transition from managing performance to building opinionated leadership ...
ZDNet

Google's new 'Aluminium OS' just leaked - here's what we learned

A leaked bug report gives more info on Google's new OS. Aluminium OS will be the merging of Android and ChromeOS. The new OS should be released sometime this year. Google's plan to merge ChromeOS and ...
The New York Times

Why Are We Still So Afraid of Using the Grumpy Old Period?

Exclamation marks, ellipses and ‘haha’ can’t fix our growing inability to communicate. By Nitsuh Abebe “How Many Exclamation Points Are Too Many in an Email? A Psychologist Weighs In.” A psychologist!