Roaring Elephant

Episode 245 – Corporate Culture Impact (1)

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That Company Culture is a huge part of why someone chooses to work for a certain company (or not) should come as no surprise to anyone really. However as recent news has demonstrated, there are still many ways to stumble by misjudging the consequences of certain decisions made by company execs.

We’ll be covering this subject over multiple episodes and in this first episode we discuss not only why Basecamp made the news, but also why this news inspired us to do this episode series.

Episode 244 – Holy Tracking Bat-Signal!

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A couple of weeks ago, Signal pulled of a astonishing feat: not only did it do a remarkable job on getting the word out that the big ad companies are tracking you, they actually got Facebook to do most of the talking for them!

Episode 243 – Open Source Safety

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Continuing on last weeks Open Source Roundup, this time we focus on concept of security and safety with Open Source projects.

Episode 242 – Open Source Roundup

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Today’s episode features a roundup of Open source related topics, more specifically about the importance of communities.

Episode 241 – Oracle: 0 – Free API: 1

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After a decade of court battles, Oracle finally lost their case against Google about copying the Java API for use in Android. The fact that Java has not been part of Android since version 7 (Nougat) did not mean Oracle would stop the litigation. O, no… Oracle wanted their 9 billion dollar claim and they were prepared to go to the supreme court for that…