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PlanetScale is now generally available
PlanetScale is now GA.
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Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
Analyze the claims made by Snowflake regarding price/performance compared to Databricks and the counterarguments presented.
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OKRs masquerade as strategy
Desire is not a Strategy
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How I helped build a profitable MVP over a weekend
A couple years ago, a good friend of mine, who was in charge of operations at a food delivery company, got laid off after a merger - they kept the guy from the other side.
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Sorry Safari Team
I sincerely apologize to the Safari team for misrepresenting their compatibility score in our Chrome Dev Summit presentation. Due to a combination of personal circumstances, a reliance on outdated Safari Tech Preview data from wpt.fyi, and the rush leading up to the event, we displayed an incorrect improvement score…
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Sourcehut’s Third Year
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Office 2000 is good to go
The biggest competition for Office 2000 was…Office 97. –Realization at the end of the project
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Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than TVs themselves
In the simplistic account of what many call "surveillance capitalism," the original sin was swapping our attention for free content, summed up in the pithy phrase, "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product."
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Why you can't solve knowledge problems with information tools alone
Knowledge and information are part of a continuum but not the same, and knowledge problems cannot be solved with information tools alone. ...
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Monopoly supplier of critical Pentagon semiconductors shuts down its production
Monopoly Supplier of Critical Pentagon Semiconductors Shuts Down Its Production.
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Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure
Debit cards are a core piece of financial infrastructure and drive much of the innovation happening in fintech.
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Why Zulip will not get on the blockchain bandwagon
This week, Discord teased plans to integrate a crypto asset wallet. After backlash from their user community, Discord clarified that the feature isn’t ready to ship “for now”. With many popular social and chat apps already on the blockchain bandwagon (including Facebook, Telegram, Signal, Twitter and …
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The Costs of Requiring Accounts
Should online communities require people to create accounts before participating? This question has been a source of disagreement among people who start or manage online communities for decades. Re…
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Microsoft and the Metaverse
Defining the Metaverse, and explaining why Microsoft is well-placed for the virtual reality opportunity
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Twitter Blue is now available in the US and NZ
Twitter Blue is now available in the United States and New Zealand across iOS, Android and web. We’re bringing subscribers even more features, more content, and more ways to participate in the convo.
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Google’s New Business Profile: When Search Becomes a Political Tool
Google, in an effort to regain control of the antitrust narrative, has brazenly and deceptively enlisted small businesses to argue the company's case.
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REvil Ransom Arrest, $6M Seizure, and $10M Reward
The U.S. Department of Justice today announced the arrest of Ukrainian man accused of deploying ransomware on behalf of the REvil ransomware gang, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal collective that has extorted hundreds of millions from victim organizations. The DOJ also said it had seized $6.1 million in cryptocurrency…
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It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere
Monetary Policy 3 created a self-reinforcing demand explosion that is getting harder, not easier, for supply to keep up with.
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Your users will do what you make easy
Recently was thinking about Java and reflection and how it actually ended up causing the prolifera…
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Don’t do interviews, do discussions
(5 Min Read) This change guarantees better signals from the interviewing candidates.
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Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future
It's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
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Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices
So I made a mildly controversial tweet. Lots of people enjoyed it, but the LinkedIn-adjacent section of data science Twitter is not happy about it. I want to provide as much context for it as I can…
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American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
A review of "Amtrak, America's Railroad"
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OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.