Science and technology micro-summaries for July 19, 2019
Arguing that coffee vendors serve coffee too hot; A deal between AT&T and IBM for cloud and networking services; In praise of lazy developers; Low tech identity theft; A deal between AT&T and Microsoft
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- Study Finds That Restaurants Serve Coffee Way Too Hot - Research finds that coffee drinkers prefer temperatures from 139-162 (F), but restaurants serve it in a range from 176-194 (F), and argues that restaurants should cool it. However, the article doesn't cite research about consumer purchasing behavior when cooler coffee is served, and it also doesn't account for the cooling time between when the consumer receives the coffee and when they can actually drink it after getting seated at their table or arriving at the destination. Also, as a drinker of black coffee, I have often noticed that people who add cream to their coffee can drink it sooner, because the cream tends to cool it down. This implies that the restaurant needs to overheat it by at least enough to allow for the cooling effect from cream that consumers will add, which is inconvenient for black coffee drinkers, like myself.
- Lazy Developers Are the Best Developers - Zerocracy's Yegor Bugayenko argues for his company's #NoAltruism policy, saying that the company focuses on the task at hand, not on becoming deep experts on the client's needs. He argues that this forces the clients to become experts at the structure and design of their own code, which - in the long term - is better for everyone involved.
- 'My job application was withdrawn by someone pretending to be me' - Low tech identity theft. Person A submits a job application. Person B creates a fake gmail address under Person A's name, and uses it to email the target company and request that the job application be withdrawn. That's all it took. IMO, e-mail providers are at fault for not enabling easy-to-use, interoperable encryption and digital signature software 15 years ago, or more. The technology has been there for decades, it's just not a priority to the people who could do it. h/t Bruce Schneier
- AT&T and IBM have formed an alliance to leverage cloud, communications, and networking technologies - AT&T will provide consulting services for IBM's network infrastructure, and IBM will provide services and expertise for migrating AT&T to the cloud. Analysts suggest that this will be an opportunity to show the value of its recent RedHat acquisition, and it may help them compete in the cloud platform space, where both have failed to gain traction alone.
- STEEM A Microsoft and AT&T $2 billion deal - In addition to the above-mentioned deal between AT&T and IBM, @singhrajat reports that AT&T also announced a $2 billion deal with Microsoft to use their Azure cloud and Office 365 in 5G applications. (@singhrajat will receive 5% of the rewards from this post.)
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