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Nearly 500 brands exited smartphone market during 2017-2023
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The age of the grift shift
For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, about how the kinda terminal economic system shapes the technologies it brings forward etc. And there are of course a […]
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Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?
Open source licensing helped ClickHouse grow. Now the project is moving to open core. Should users be concerned?
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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
This year has been extraordinary for Kagi. We had tremendous support from our customers, and we want to start this by taking a moment to say thank you. We really appreciate it. Since we launched Kagi,...
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Cisco Acquires Splunk
Splunk is taking the next step in our journey to realize our vision for the future of security and observability by joining forces with Cisco.
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Ship of Fools
I recently had a 3 week holiday in Florida with my family. My 17 year old son is interested in rocketry and my wife is interested in wildlife. We got to see plenty of both and had a great time. The…
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Generative AI's Act Two
One year ago, we published a hypothesis that generative AI would become a profound platform shift in technology. Then came the firestorm.
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How to evaluate a product roadmap, for engineers
Aka, how do I know if a product leader knows what they're doing? There are thousands of articles, courses, and guides on how to build a roadmap for product managers. Even with all these resources, roadmaps often become a point of contention between product managers and their stakeholders. There
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Headsets Delayed into 2024
Due to capital constraints, we are unable to meet our delivery deadline by EOY 2023 for Simula One preorders, and are pushing our optimistic shipdate to Q2 2024 (with a pessimistic ship date of Q4 2024 ). In this post we discuss our capital situation, mistakes we made, Review Unit testimonials, & investor feedback.
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How unions won a 30% raise for every fast food worker in California
Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. 40 years of declining worker power shattered the American Dream (TM), producing multiple generations whose children fared worse than their parents, cratering faith in institutions and hope for a better future.
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Problems with homemade billing systems
If you're considering building a homemade billing system for your SaaS company, there are a few things you should be aware of. In this article, Qonto's first billing engineer shares four lessons he learned while working on this project.
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iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates
A couple of things I learned and one reasonable guess.
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Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?
In 2017, consulting giant Booz Allen cut a deal with the government to extract junk fees from Americans who want to use Federal lands and waters for hunting or fishing. Will Congress or Biden act?
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Unity's Trap
Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a game designer, writer, and programmer on Gunpoint , Heat Signature , and Tactical Breach Wizards . Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here are the videos I make on YouTube, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.
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Bounties Damage Open Source Projects
This blog post is inspired by this GitHub issue from three days ago: Support WASIX ( see also )
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The Sound Proof Booths of Silence
Welcome back to Between the Lanes, a blog feature where we let members of our development team walk through some of the challenges, bugfixes, and occasional happy accidents we encounter while working on a game as unique as Dota, and an event as unique as The International. The International is an unbelievably huge…
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GPT-4 is not getting worse
GPT-4 may have declined in some areas, but it hasn’t systematically done so. My tests were shit, and never proved much of anything.
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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply
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I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
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Marginalia Search Receives FUTO Grant
I’m happy to announce that the generous people at FUTO have granted the project $15,000 with no strings attached to help the search engine out with some more server power. FUTO is a young Austin, TX-based organization “dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that…
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Willingham sends Fables into the public domain
Here, below, is the press release I sent out today to explain what I did and why.
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The end of tweeted articles
Elon Musk, X and the end of tweeted articles
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The Tyranny of the Marginal User
why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
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Solar
I spent some time (in Fall 2023) reading about solar deployment. Some facts that struck me:
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Against LLM Maximalism
LLMs are not a direct solution to most of the NLP use-cases companies have been working on. They are extremely useful, but if you want to deliver reliable software you can improve over time, you can't just write a prompt and call it a day. Once you're past prototyping and want to deliver the best system you can…
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Why agencies get stuck at $50k MRR
Can we just keep adding more clients until at 150 clients we hit $300k MRR?
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There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other
PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of opening a traditional PayPal account to maint...