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Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
Today Eclipse Foundation’s president Mike Milinkovic blogged about the final result of the confidential trademark negotiations between Oracle and the Eclipse Foundation. As we remember, Oracl…
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You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs
The “commonly accepted” 30 percent standard for judging housing affordability leaves out transportation and location
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Paying for Open Source Contributions
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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Gitlab's Journey from Azure to GCP
GitLab Staff Engineer Andrew Newdigate shares how we completed our migration to Google Cloud Platform, and how we overcame challenges along the way.
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Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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World of Goo Update, 10 Years Later
Tomorrow Corporation is an independent game developer behind indie games Little Inferno and Human Resource Machine
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The Search for the Extra Pedal (2017)
McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 will race with Mercedes-Benz power in the 2026 F1 season, taking to the track for 24 race weekends with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
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Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix
Psyonix is Joining the Epic Family!
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CallJoy – A cloud-based phone agent for small businesses
Every day, local small businesses receive 400 million calls from consumers. CallJoy’s phone technology helps them answer with intelligence.
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Apple Q2 Results
Apple reported its second quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.
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How pharmaceutical industry financial modelers think about rare diseases
How does industry decide whether curing your disease would be profitable, and how can you convince them it will be?
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Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
We’re excited to welcome the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to GitHub.
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We can break up Big Tech
By Elizabeth Warren
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My Billion Dollar Mistake
At my last company, KISSmetrics, I made a mistake that I truly believe lost me a billion dollar opportunity. It’s not something I’m proud of, and it’s one of the main reasons I’m now obsessed with building products the right way. I wrote the painful details of exactly what happened so you don’t have to make the same…
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Why Good Developers Are Promoted into Unhappiness (2007)
I once thought I had traveled a unique career path. Graduating from college with a degree in computer engineering and electrical engineering I was on fire to be a manager. My dad had worked for the same electrical contractor for 30-something years and I knew everyone from the Chairman of the Board d
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The hidden costs of engineering time in technical interviewing
Whether you’re a recruiter or an engineer, you’ve probably heard of "cost per hire". Here's how to measure it properly.
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Smoke and Mirrors: How Snap and Pinterest Hide User Attrition
Social media companies today are using smoke and mirrors to hide an important key metric. I’m going to pick on Pinterest first because the social media company recently...
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I Sell Onions on the Internet
Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he ... Read more
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Fighting vendor lock-in and designing testable serverless apps
Here is how you can fight vendor lock-in beyond testing on a serverless app, using hexagonal architecture.
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Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
When we came across the Otonomo API documentation we quickly realized it looked oddly familiar. That’s because we wrote it.
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Is everything an MLM
Last week, I linked to a NYT article about the spread of CorePower Yoga: how its business model is contingent upon enrolling thousands in expensive “teacher training” courses, even though there’s already a surfeit of teachers out there.
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The Mueller Report Can’t Be Copyrighted, Is Flagged by Copyright Bots Anyway
Did you know that anything created by federal government employees, under American law, can’t be copyrighted? They go right into the public domain. That means it’s impossible for there to be any copyright infringement on, say, a report by the Special Counsel on the investigation into the President...