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The Future of Thunderbird
"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?" Let's answer that burning question with some important history.
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Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
Earlier today, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij sent the following note to GitLab team members.
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‘Confirming we are cleared to land?’ Who said what at Austin
Why the Austin airport situation was so dangerous.
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Use GPT-3 incorrectly: reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x
Cosine trains AI models and specialised coding agents for organisations that need frontier capability within secure environments.
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Zoom lays off 15% of employees
Read a message from Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom, to the employees of Zoom.
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Big data is dead
Big data is dead. Long live easy data. | Reading time: 18 min read
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Tech's Elite Hates Labor
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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After Callous Layoffs, Workers Are Done with the Full-Time Work
Amidst 130,000 tech layoffs, 62% of knowledge workers say they don’t feel secure committing to one employer anymore.
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The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
Tech is increasingly divorced from the real economy thanks to the COVID hangover and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
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Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint
Copyright Lately is a copyright blog written, edited and published by Aaron Moss. That's me. I'm a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp (MSK) in Los Angeles. I specialize in copyright law, trademark, and other intellectual property, media and entertainment litigation matters.
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The Market for Lemons
New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?
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Scalability is overrated
Startup founders like to think about scalability—and that’s usually a good thing. But overly focusing on scalability overlooks one of the biggest advantages that startups have over larger companies.
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Protocol Labs is laying off 21% of staff (89 people)
Protocol Labs is an innovation network driving breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward.
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Design your pricing and tools so you can adapt them later
In this blog post I’ll talk about three pricing architecture concepts that I think are really important in modern billing – designing pricing and packaging to be adaptable. I’ll build upon the experience our billing infrastructure team had at Pleo, which has allowed us to expand to new geographies, currencies, and…
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Rewrite, refactor, or reinvent? Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (2019)
<p>A new take on the age-old question: Should you rewrite your application from scratch, or is that “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make”? Turns out there are more than two options for dealing with a mature codebase.</p>
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How is money created?
Most of the money in the economy is created by banks when they provide loans.
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Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
We have been very public about how reliable Samsung SSDs have been in the past, so we wanted to explain why we are now moving part of our line to Sabrent.
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The strategic use of titles to avoid overtime payments
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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The golden era of being an open startup is gone
To me, the golden era of being an open startup is gone. Some founders and early adopters are shutting down their open pages and changing their transparency practices. I don’t think they are doing it just because things change and we need to cope.
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Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
Imagine you had a dog. You got the dog when it was young, trained and raised it. This animal was a part of your family and you gave it little collars and cute little clothes with your family name on it. The dog came to special events and soon thought
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s deep fake company announces $20M investment
LOS ANGELES, CA, December 20, 2022 — Deep Voodoo, the artificial intelligence entertainment startup formed by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, announced today that it has secured a $20 million investment led by Connect Ventures, an investment partnership between leading entertainment and sports agency Cr
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Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
Unlock new experiences with Microsoft Teams Premium for customers looking to make meetings more intelligent, personalized, and protected.
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A novel PayPal scam
This morning I received an interesting scam email. It might not be a new scam, but it was the first time I’d seen it.
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Reflections on My Decade at Sumo Logic
Debug, simplify and execute.
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Netlify acquires Gatsby
Netlify has acquired Gatsby – cloud platform, and creators of web framework Gatsby – advancing composable web architectures with increased flexibility.