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The Internet and the Third Estate
Mark Zuckerberg suggested that social media is a “Fifth Estate”; in fact, social media is a means by which the Third Estate — commoners — can seize political power. Here history matters…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,891 posts.
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Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell
Let me tell you about the only time in history a new technology has been adopted by almost everyone virtually…
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Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company
David analyzes the root causes of the Boeing 737 Max crash. Read here.
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Tina is not a CMS
Today, we’re excited to announce TinaCMS : an open-source site editing toolkit for React-based sites (Gatsby and Next.j...
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The $10m Engineering Problem
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Discontinuing Support for NSFW Imgur r/subsections Associated with Reddit
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
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Which Way Do You Run?
The difference between a good CEO and a great one? Trusting your gut and confronting your fears head on.
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Rejected from YC (Again)
We got rejected from YC S19. Read on to learn more about this canon event and how it drove us to create an impromptu plan to get our first paying users.
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Google and Ambient Computing
Google presented a vision of ambient computing that goes beyond the smartphone. The company is well-placed, but faces challenges both in the marketplace and in the mirror.
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The benefits of a more asynchronous workplace
And what you can do to start implementing it, whether you're an individual contributor or a team leader.
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Still Manufacturing Consent: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
Chomsky discusses the origins of the classic work of media criticism (co-authored with Edward Herman) Manufacturing Consent, the role of that book’s “propaganda model” today, Google and Facebook, Donald Trump and Russia, fake news and Syria.
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Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue
The Start of Our Company Hard Lessons Learned Some Solid Advice What's Next for Us? My brother, Justin, was an engineer at Google, and I was a data
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Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
Over my 17 years at Amazon, I have seen that my colleagues on the engineering team are never content to leave good-enough alone. They routinely re-evaluate every internal system to make sure that it is as scalable, efficient, performant, and secure as possible. When they find an avenue for improvement, they will use…
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Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
Last week the laptop I use for macOS development said that there is an XCode update available. I tried to install it but it said that there ...
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SEC blocks the Telegram ICO – what this means, and what happens now
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
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Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
We still have a couple of weeks until the holiday season, but here’s an early gift for you: I’m excited to announce our brand new Original Prusa MINI, a smart and compact 3D printing workhorse with all the bells and whistles...
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Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
An update on the Hearthstone Grandmasters APAC competitive ruling.
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Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
Link to: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1182348757360234497
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GitHub and US Government Developers
At GitHub, we believe in empowering developers around the world. We also believe in basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity. Today, I wanted to share a message I sent to all employees yesterday that is related to this, as it is important that we share our views on immigration policy with the…
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Artifact: What Went Wrong?
Previously: Card Balance and Artifact, Artifact Embraces Card Balance Changes, Review: Artifact Epistemic Status: Looks pretty dead Artifact had every advantage. Artifact should have been great. Ar…
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The China Cultural Clash
The NBA controversy in China highlights a culture clash that both tech companies and the U.S. government need to take to heart. Plus, why Tiktok being Chinese is increasingly a problem.
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Backblaze 7.0 – Version History and Beyond
You now have the ability to keep updated, changed, and even deleted files in your backups forever by extending version history.
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Successful machine learning models: lessons learned at Booking.com
150 successful machine learning models: 6 lessons learned at Booking.com Bernadi et al., KDD’19 Here’s a paper that will reward careful study for many organisations. We’ve previously looked a…
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The Founding of Google Maps (2015)
How four partners took an idea from a whiteboard to the browser