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27 articlesRichard Socher nailed the future of work with AI
Richard Socher identified the skills that matter in the AI era: delegate clearly, specify requirements, build trust. These are learnable skills, not job titles.
From Tool to Team: Managing AI as Distributed Engineering
When you're running multiple AI sessions in parallel, you're not using a tool anymore — you're managing a team. The skills that matter shift accordingly.
Synthesis Project Management
A lightweight project management system for human-AI collaboration. Designed for context preservation across conversation sessions and context compaction …
What is Synthesis Engineering?
Synthesis engineering is a professional discipline for human-AI collaboration on complex work. Not just better prompting — a systematic approach with princ...
The Power of Being Present: Why Working 24/7 Reduces Your Productivity & Innovation
As a longtime CTO and Chief Product Officer, I've seen firsthand the toll that constant work can take on individuals and teams. Many of us in the tech indu...
Digital Diversity Network Cloud Gathering Conference
Hosted at the New York Times Conference center, Rajiv spoke to making diversity a mission to be embraced by everyone from CEO to the mail person at the 2nd...
SHA-3 Hash Generator
http://crypto-js.googlecode.com/svn/tags/3.1.2/build/rollups/sha3.js SHA-3, originally known as Keccak is a cryptographic hash function. Learn more on Wiki...
Proposal for Linking To Users Across Social Networks @username@service
We present here a convention for linking to users across social networks. Social networks have evolved into a category of their own. They are not like most...
Hosting Large-Scale Web Sites: Contract Review Guide for the CTO
Introduction: Why Web Hosting Contracts Matter In today's digital economy, your website isn't just a marketing channel—it's the backbone of your business. ...
Understanding SLA Uptime Percentages: What They Really Mean for Your Business
Introduction: Why SLA Uptime Matters When negotiating hosting contracts for large-scale websites, few metrics are as critical yet as widely misunderstood a...
How to Avoid Duplicate Search Results when using Apple Mail.app with Gmail
I use Gmail's IMAP feature with my Apple Mac OS's built in Mail.app program. Mail.app keeps local copies (on all my personal Macs) of all my email messages...
Checklist for Migration of Web Application from Traditional Hosting to Cloud
In 2010, Cloud Computing is likely to see increasing adoption. Migrating Web applications from one data center to another is a complex project. To assist y...
Save Money On Hosting & CDN By Optimizing Your Architecture & Applications
If you manage technology for a company that has a large Web presence, it is likely that a large percentage of your total technology costs is spent on the W...
Save Your Company Money In Monthly Bills Using Browser Caching
Companies that operate heavily trafficked Web sites can save thousands of dollars every month by maximizing their use of browser-side caching. Large Web si...
Using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) with an EC2 Instance
One of the differences between Amazon EC2 server instances and normal servers is that the server's local disk storage state (i.e. changes to data) on EC2 i...
This Web Site is Now Hosted on Amazon EC2 & S3
This web site, / is now hosted on Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) services. They are part of Am...
Donate to a good cause and get a useful laptop computer
The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-ag...
The Evolution of Web Sites
Over the past 15 years, as the Web has evolved, the web sites have gone through these generations. What's likely to be next in the future of what the Web w...
Web site hosting provider and technologies change
/ now has a new hosting provider: Kattare Internet Services. The web site is now powered by Java and related technologies. My previous I...
Suggestions to Nikon for future DSLR cameras
[amazon-product align="right"]B001ENOZY4[/amazon-product]At present, Canon is dominating the digital SLR-type (DSLR) camera market. We need strong compet...
On content sites requiring user registration
I wish I didn't have to register at and maintain my profile for each web site that I use that requires me to log in. A shared (not necessarily centralized)...
Searching Instead Of Browsing: Organizing Information Using Labels as Meta-Data
Being able to assign labels to content to organize information for searching is superior to placing content in folders for manual browsing. The folder conc...
Preserving URLs of Evergreen Content
Changing the URLs of pages containing narrative content like articles has several disadvantages, especially for a content site: The idea of permanent links...
Craigslist & eBay: Community sites founded by programmers
Great businesses are often started by people without a formal business background but with passion, vision and the ability to execute. Neither Craigslist n...
Other Web Search Engines
Can't find what you are looking for using Google? There are other search engines too. For specific searches, some of these may have their own unique advant...
Ads by Google on some of my pages
I signed up with Google Adsense to put relevant ads on some of my pages, mainly the Humor and India pages. If you'd like your ads to appear on rajiv.com, ple...
Can you hear me now? Good
November 24th was the day I got the freedom to switch my phone service from AT&T Wireless back to Verizon Wireless and this time without changing my number...