2071
Bye, Twitter
Today I’m leaving Twitter, because I don’t like making unpaid contributions to a for-profit publisher whose proprietor is an alt-right troll. But also because it’s probably going to break down. Read on for details.
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2072
Startup Restructuring 101
Because your lifeblood, Revenue and Funding, are drying up
2073
Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener
An interview with Keith Blount, the founder, director and lead developer of Literature & Latte.
2074
2075
maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
For as long as I can remember, maps.google.com was the defacto domain for Google Maps. Also for as long as I can remember, I allowed this domain to use the location services of my browser.
2076
2 Years at Twitter
I was a Staff Engineer at Twitter’s Build/Bazel Migration team. After two incredible years, November 17 was my last day (I took the voluntary separation offer and resigned, not that it matters). Twitter has been a special place to work for, for its culture of excellence, diversity, and outpouring of care for all the…
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2078
Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes
A correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous points us to this article in Technology Review , “Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online. Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.” Here’s the story:
2079
The Twitter Advertiser Exodus
A $750,000 a month advertiser has left Twitter. One of hundreds. But in her post she explained the bases for the decision vis-a-vis her advertising investment in a neutral, non-ideological way. Peo…
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2082
Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force.
2083
Strategy 101: An introduction to power
If you’re interested in strategy, this post will be valuable to you. It shares the the tools that I’ve found most valuable so far.
2084
2085
Mystery Blips
A young operations engineer learns a lesson about creative debugging
2086
How to sell tickets fairly
A proposal of how to sell a limited number of tickets to a live concert in a fair way
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2088
Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer
2 weeks of dealing with Google as a developer
2089
Laying myself off from Amazon
Yesterday, I resigned from Amazon. My final day is next week, right before Thanksgiving. I realize the timing of this is quite coincidental— as this week Amazon began layoffs. My team was not affected by these layoffs (as far as I know, apparently the full scope is not yet known at the time of this writing.)
2090
The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
The reason will almost certainly surprise you.
2091
All companies are fucked up
Belts in Karate are ordered from white to black. This is of course a new invention. Originally, new colored belts were not given upon arbitrary levels of attainment, a white belt was given at the beginning of one's training and you just never washed it. Over the years...
2092
What Happened at Alameda Research
Milky Eggs
2093
Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?
Jeffrey Lee Funk and Gary Smith have a list of startups with $3 bllion or more in cumulative losses:
2094
Just how complicated could it be to register a German company?
Have you heard that it is complicated to start a business in Germany?
2095
Sam Bankman-Fried vs. the Match King
The similarities between Ivar Kreuger and Sam Bankman Fried.
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2097
Demystifying financial leverage
Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.
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2099
Shopify Is Illegal in Germany
In einem konkreten Fall hat die Datenschutzbehörde die Nutzung von Shopify, bzw. der verwendeten Dienste für rechtswidrig erklärt.
2100
Why is every layoff 10-15%?
Changing economic markets suggests a shift in how some companies should operate, as well as what risks to assume for 2023