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NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program?
Intro Okay developers, time to have a serious talk. As you are probably already aware, this week React, Babel, and a bunch of other high-profile packages on NPM broke. The reason they broke is rather astounding: A simple NPM package called left-pad that was a dependency of their code. left-pad, at the time of writing…
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Google to Reimplement Curl in Libcrurl
Not the entire thing, just "a subset". It's not stated very clearly exactly what that subset is but the easy interface is mentioned in the Chrome bug about this project. What? The Chromium bug states that they will create a library of their own (named libcrurl) that will offer (parts of) the libcurl API and … Continue…
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Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds
Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19 It’s hard to define good SLOs, especially when outcomes aren’t fully under the control of any single party. Th…
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$1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes
As Google grows throughout the Bay Area, we’re making our biggest investment yet to help with the housing crisis.
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Why are we so pessimistic?
Using insights from three recent books, Wolfgang Fengler provides suggestions for creating more balanced and fact-based news.
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We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Apple copied it
Discover the story of launching an app. with $500,000 annual run rate—and then Apple killed it and launched a similar feature
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Slack will never replace email
Hello Mr Butterfield,
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How Nike sold its first shoes
The story of how Phil Knight and Jeff Johnson drove to track meets all over the Pacific Northwest and sold more shoes than you can imagine out of the boots of their car.
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The New Dropbox Sucks
Link to: https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product-tips/new-dropbox
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Software Below the Poverty Line
Open Source Freelancer
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Apollo raises $22M to simplify app development
By turning code into brilliant solutions that improve people’s lives, app developers have the power to positively impact the world. At Apollo, we want to help developers help the world .To do that, we’re tackling the hardest problem in app development: data management.
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The new Dropbox
It’s the Dropbox you know and love, but better, a single workspace to organize content, connect tools, and bring everyone together.
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HK's extradition law: Not just HK people have reason to fear Chinese “justice”
By Jerome A. Cohen It’s not only “Hong Kong people” whose fate is at stake here. Anyone passing through Hong Kong airport could be detained and sent to China (compare the Huawei Vancouver extradition case). Even people who have been extradited by a third jurisdiction to Hong Kong could be subject t
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Out of Stock: How to Survive the LTO-8 Tape Shortage
If you’re currently using LTO for backup or archive, you have a few options for weathering the LTO-8 shortage. Let's take a look at the options.
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Firefox: The Evolution of a Brand
Branding and brand design for Firefox. Brand identity and brand expression. Firefox web browser brand evolution. Masterbrand and product brand system.
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Decision Disagreement Framework
How do you disagree with a decision that is not in the best interest of the company? As a leader, how do you enable your team to disagree in a productive way? Learn how with Matter's Decision Disagreement Framework.
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No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
Practical thoughts from a back-end team leader
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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned
Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. The prevalence of them seemed to be really ramping up as was the impact they were having on those of us that found ourselves in them, myself included. Increasingly, I was writing
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The ice bucket challenge dramatically accelerated the fight against ALS
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Apple Is Listening
They had encountered significant turbulence in the product line over the preceding years, especially Macs. It was a rough time to be a pro Mac user.
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Blender Is Free Software
Blender is Free Software. It is free to use for everyone. Free to use for any purpose, also commercially. Blender is free to share with others, it is free to study Blender's sources and free to make new versions.
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AWS costs every programmer should know
The title for this blog post is a direct reference to Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know. There are several versions of those numbers available now...
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It's time to switch to a four-day working week, say two experts
Working less would have a range of benefits for workers and employers and the world should embrace the four day working week, was the message two experts brought to Davos 2019.
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Adversarial interoperability: reviving an old weapon to slay today's monopolies
Today, Apple is one of the largest, most profitable companies on Earth, but in the early 2000s, the company was fighting for its life. Microsoft's Windows operating system was ascendant, and Microsoft leveraged its dominance to ensure that every Windows user relied on its Microsoft Office suite (...
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