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On Becoming a VP of Engineering pt. 2
Join Emily for part 2 of her series on becoming VP of Engineering, where she opens up about the good and bad parts of transitioning to VP.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,910 posts.
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Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)
Bank transfers have exploded as a payment method in India and may become more common in much of the world.
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The Problem with LangChain
LangChain is complicated, so it must be better. Right?
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COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros
Updates on wallpapers, windows, scaling, and text handling from System76’s new desktop environment, COSMIC DE.
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Podman Desktop 1.2 Released: Compose and Kubernetes Support
Podman Desktop 1.2 has been released!
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Gallery of Processor Cache Effects
Most of my readers will understand that cache is a fast but small type of memory that stores recently accessed memory locations. This description is
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On Becoming a VP of Engineering
People rarely talk about how they made it into the role of VP of Engineering. Join Emily as she opens up about the process - good and bad.
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“Pay or Okay” on tech news site heise.de illegal, decides German DPA
The Data Protection Authority of Lower Saxony (LfD) decided that the “Pay or Okay” solution used by heise.de was unlawful
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Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri
Introducing Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri
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Looming demise of the 10x developer – an era of enthusiast programmers is ending
Justin Searls on the looming demise of the 10x developer: Why an era of enthusiast programmers is coming to an end.
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There is no data engineering roadmap
Data Engineering is booming and many are looking for a cheat sheet to get started. Do you really need to learn 200 tools before you get your first job?
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Personal relations as a manager
I was reminded by a discussion with a friend why, as a manager, you should be cautious about the relations you develop with the people in your team.
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The future of AlmaLinux
It’s been a whirlwind few weeks here at AlmaLinux, and I’m elated to be able to finally share this update. The future of AlmaLinux OSIn case you missed it, Red Hat announced they will no longer be providing the means for downstream clones to continue to be 1:1 binary copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Very…
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Patching GCC to build Actually Portable Executables
Gautham's Blog
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The FCC responds to my ATSC 3 encryption complaint – they want to hear from you
The FCC reached out to me and is asking all of you who signed the petition to also file a comment in their docketing system for the ATSC 3 petition. This is very easy to do and will just take a few minutes. So far there are only about a dozen or so complaints filed. … Continue reading The FCC Responds to my ATSC 3…
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Keep work fresh by teaching your successors and investing a bit in long-shots
If you’re doing what you’re told to do, they are paying you too much.
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Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS
Exploring potential privacy vulnerabilities in Apple devices. This article discusses revealing a user's first name without permissions using the mDNS protocol.
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Passkeys will come at a cost
Firstyear's blog
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A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place
Explaining Y Combinator
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Understanding Kafka with Factorio (2019)
While playing Factorio the other day, I was struck by the many similarities with Apache Kafka.
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Faster neural networks straight from JPEG (2018)
Uber AI Labs introduces a method for making neural networks that process images faster and more accurately by leveraging JPEG representations.
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Bard’s latest update: more features, languages and countries
Today we're expanding Bard to new languages and countries, and launching new features to help you get creative and boost your productivity.
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Is Design Dead? (2004)
The rise of agile methods (particularly XP) makes some people wonder if there's any role left for software design. I argue that this change shifts from planned to evolutionary design.
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Commercial interests petition FCC for high power allocation on shortwave
The ad hoc group “Shortwave Modernization Coalition” petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow data communications on multiple bands within the HF 2 – 25 MHz range with up to 20 KW, including in bands immediately adjacent to spectrum allocated to the Amateur Radio Service.
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When Work Didn’t Follow You Home
In a recent article written for Slate, journalist Dan Kois recounts the shock his younger coworkers expressed when they discovered that he had, earlier in ... Read more