Daily bread 05/12/2018

• Sharing the World's Knowledge - SkimaTalk

  • cultural fit

• DevOps or Agile: Which do software developers prefer? | ITWeb

  • DevOps or Agile: Which do software developers prefer?
  • Agile is by far the most popular software development methodology
  • high-performing software development teams are more likely to have a DevOps culture.
  • most popular software development methodology was Agile, used by 60% of respondents
  • followed by DevOps (23%)
  • DevOps and Agile were seen as being complementary
  • the goal of DevOps is to change and improve the relationship between the development and IT operations business units by advocating better communication and collaboration between them.
  • high-performing teams were more likely to have a strong DevOps culture
  • better visibility and collaboration
  • Only 65% of developers agreed.
  • 81% agreeing that DevOps saves time in the development process
  • organisations that had adopted DevOps were more likely to deploy on demand.
  • for high-performing teams, the automation of the software development lifecycle was a top priority
  • 41% of remote teams agreed that they had a well-established DevOps culture compared to 34% of in-office teams
  • DevOps was ranked third among the most important technology investments for 2018 (after continuous integration, deployment and delivery; and automation and containers)

• IELTS New Zealand Immigration

  tags: ielts

• You're never too old to become fluent in a foreign language

  tags: english_language_learning

  • You’re never too old to become fluent in a foreign language – and here’s the evidence
  • a slew of recent headlines
  • has recently taken the media by storm.
  • A range of headlines
  • trumpeted the depressing message
  • to become fluent in a foreign language
  • dramatically misrepresented
  • flat-out wrong
  • are interested in
  • you can communicate with relative ease
  • without it being a real strain on either the speaker or the listener
  • despite the fact that
  • Pretty much anyone can become fluent in pretty much any language at pretty much any age.
  • in the long run
  • nativelike, command of the vocabulary of another language
  • such challenging structures as idioms or proverbs.
  • The ‘critical window’
  • The puzzling thing
  • grammatical phenomena

• Richard Dawkins wants to move to New Zealand to get away from Brexit 'madness' | Science | The Guardian

  • Richard Dawkins wants to move to New Zealand to get away from Brexit 'madness'
  • as a refuge from
  • a slightly less dramatic way
  • gone mad
  • has also launched
  • recruitment drives
  • post-Brexit Brits
  • briefly considered

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