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Does Your Business Have a "Regressive Gene"?
Tom is a big fan of geneology, are you familiar with it? If not, it’s the study of ones family history, and ancestors. Chunga’s grandparents were big fans of geneology and created a hightly detailed blueprint of how Chunga became…
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STRIKE! Is A.I. Ruining Video Games?
In his other life, Chunga is a voice actor and is a member of several acting unions. Lately, that means he’s always on strike for one reason or another. Well, its happening again… This time, voice actors are striking against the video game…
SO MANY CYBER-ATTACKS!!
Tom has lost his wallet! This has never happened before! If you find it, will you please let him know? Although his fresh back from his vacation, Tom is feeling anything but relaxed and recharged. In truth, he feels like he came home…
Data Center Drama
For a long time, Tom has wanted to do an episode of The Hacks that’s centered around what he refers to as data center “bloopers”. Chunga isn’t entirely sure what he means by this. Tom has always been amazed by the cathedral like way in which data…
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The Philosophy of Salt
We all know Tom Hatch is the guy who created Salt. Salt is arguably one of the most powerful automation & configuration management platforms ever created. However, most of us don’t really understand what the philosophy behind the product was when…
2D vs. 3D Thinking
In the last episode of The Hacks, Tom Hatch made a reference to a specific type of thought process. He was talking about 2D vs. 3D thinking. Tom first heard about this in the film Star Trek 2 “The Wrath of Kahn”. Ok, sure… It’s easy to laugh at, but…
The Tragedy of Being Normal
Recently, Tom Hatch was invited to the U.S. Army War College for a seminar focused on national security. While he was there, he attended a presentation from an author who was speaking about forming and asking better questions. The core of this speech…
Developers and Unsustainable STRESS!
Developers are under constant pressure. Pressure to innovate, pressure to maintain, pressure to create something bigger and better than their previous offering, and on top of that–pressure to do all of it faster. Unfortunately, for many, that level…
Order From Chaos
Did you know that every operating system is born from the chaos of open source software? Chunga and Tom had a completely different show planned for today until Chunga started complaining about his MacBook Pro. No, there’s nothing wrong with it,…
The Most Pointless Cyber Attack Ever?!?
A few days ago EA Games, one of the world’s most successful video game companies was hacked by a group that stole the source code for a video game called FIFA 21. They also swiped the source code to a popular game engine called Frostbite. Currently,…