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An update to the Timescale license
Learn how we are building an open-source business in the cloud and why we added the Timescale License. Read the full article on the Tiger Data blog.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 153 posts.
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Banks, QE, and Money-Printing
Published November 2020 Lately, it has become fashionable to debate what is, or is not, “money-printing” by central banks. This debate is natural, due to the extreme policy nature of 2020, with massive fiscal expenditures, huge increases in central bank balance sheets, and changes in central bank inflation targets…
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NPM Is Joining GitHub
We're excited to announce that npm will be joining GitHub.
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A Message to Our Users
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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State of Clojure 2020
Ten years ago, Chas Emerick ran the first State of Clojure survey. In 2010, most users had been using Clojure for just weeks or months, and few were using it as a language for serious work. This year , we see consistent and growing use for work , steady interest in the key value propositions of Clojure, and an…
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Google, the Stupidity Amplifier (2016)
Google, the Stupidity Amplifier by Greg Egan
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Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap
This is part 1 of a series where I’ll look at the future costs of clean energy and mobility technologies.
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Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones
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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
This is a time of change for the internet and for Mozilla. From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy —
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What's SAP?
What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B?
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Nubank acquires Cognitect
We are thrilled to announce that Cognitect is joining the Nubank family of companies. This is the next step in a long relationship, and opens new opportuniti...
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The death of corporate research labs
In American innovation through the ages , Jamie Powell wrote: who hasn’t finished a non-fiction book and thought “Gee, that could have bee...
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An update to storage policies across your Google Account
Over the past decade, Gmail, Google Drive and Google Photos have helped billions of people securely store and manage their emails, documents, photos, videos and more. To…
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Dangerous domain corp.com goes up for sale
As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable…
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat
NEXT POST: Part II of my thoughts on TikTok, on how the app design is informed by its algorithm and vice versa in a virtuous circle.
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Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business
The story of how a couple of failed SaaS ideas and a bunch of ugly Less stylesheets turned into my life's work.
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Why we’re changing to the AGPL license
We’re changing our license as we’ve become aware that there are risks associated with permissive open source licenses that corporations that don’t care about open source are happy to take advantage of.
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YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
This article contains a list of the top 50 YC software startups (sourced from the October 2019 YC Top Companies page). It also contains aggregated statistics for valuations and back-end programming languages used. Values in this article are sourced, but I cannot guarantee their accuracy. Find me on Twitter…
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Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future
In order to welcome even more of your memories and build Google Photos for the future, we are changing our unlimited High quality storage policy.
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Bye, Amazon
May 1 st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.
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Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences
Many of you are likely to have seen the post by Huixiang’s Voice on Medium showing that Huixiang Chen’s laptop contained downloads of most…
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Google: Open Letter to Australians
g.co/Australia-Letter
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India, Jio, and the Four Internets
There are four Internets: China versus the U.S., and the E.U. and India. India’s potential new model rests on Jio.
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Gitlab features that are moving to open source
We're open sourcing rich functionality across Plan, Create, Verify, Package, Release, Configure, and Protect.