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Most of the times, startup don't work. At some point it may make sense to either (1) give up on your original product and to sell the company, (2) shut down what you are doing and return money to investors, or (3) to pivot. You can read more on making the decision to give up in a future article. This post focuses on…
Posted by Samuel Groß, Project ZeroThis post is the second in a series about a remote, interactio...
The technical and organisational decisions behind building a Kubernetes-based platform serving 1500 engineers across Adevinta’s marketplace portfolio.
Last year, Interline began a "startup in residence" at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Now we're pleased to publicly release our first creation: the San Francisco Bay Area's Regional GTFS Feed.
My thoughts on monetizing open source SaaS businesses from my experience at Sentry.
In this post, I explain how I use Notion, GitLab and other software to maintain my personal knowledge base.
Gary Starkweather passed away on Dec 26, 2019 at the age of 81.
James C. Scott's fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Imp rove the Human Condition Have Failed , examines how, across…
Copying data wastes memory, and modifying/mutating data can lead to bugs. Learn how to implement a compromise between the two in Python: hidden mutability.
Incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting array elements could lead to a type confusion. We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw.
Why the problem of "the President and the bomb" isn't about the "crazy President," but something far more pernicious and possible.
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After a sharp uptick in 2018, we estimate that US greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.1% last year based on preliminary energy and economic data. This decline was due almost entirely to a drop in coal consumption.
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We dig into the law, the Constitution, and public policy to give decision-makers in government the data and policy solutions they need enact reforms that ensure our government answers to the people.
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Learn how to secure your API. Best practices for OAuth, REST, DDoS, Attack Mitigation and Design.
Posted by Radu Soricut and Zhenzhong Lan, Research Scientists, Google Research Ever since the advent of BERT a year ago, natural language research...
In some organizations, earnest efforts to be “data-driven” devolve into a culture of false certainty in which the influence of metrics is dictated not by the...
Two of my businesses had record-setting months, and I’m finally building the app I’ve always wanted.
There is often pressure inside Software development for Software developers to code outside of work hours. Whether you are a Python, Ruby, Java, or any other developer... There is absolutely no need to code outside of work if you don't want too. Coding is considered a passion for some, but others they don't think this…
The book Honeybee Democracy, published in 2010, has been sitting on my shelf for many years.
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The Toolsmith Conference was held in Chapel Hill, NC, in October, 2001, to honor Fred Brooks. Dr. Brooks was a student of Howard Aiken at Harvard, joined IBM to work on the Stretch Project, and later served as chief architect of the IBM S/360. He founded the Computer Science Department at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1964 and…
As one of F#'s killer features; type providers have the ability to make rooms full of developers gasp when shown for the first time. Support has recently been added to the FSharp.Data library [https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Data] for .Net Standard 2.0, allowing us to
A while back, I was trying to speed up some code which finds unique items in a collection. For example, transforming "AABBADCAB" => "ABDC" . There are two ways to do this efficiently - one is based on sorting, the other based on hashing. So, which is faster? I couldn't find the answer, so I ran some experiments and…
