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Thin Platforms
The Microsoft and Stripe developer keynotes were both examples of the rise of Thin Platforms
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,982 posts.
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How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse
tl;dr: Amazon had a major outage last week, which took down some popular websites. Despite using a lot of Amazon services, SmugMug didn’t go down because we spread across availability zones a…
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Storm's first birthday
Storm was open-sourced exactly one year ago today. It's been an action-packed year for Storm, to s...
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A Day of Communication at GitHub
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Amazon Data Center: 450,000 Estimated EC2 Servers
(Edit 3/16/2012: I am surprised that this post is picked up by a lot of media outlets. Given the strong interest, I want to emphasize what is measured and what is derived. The # of server racks in …
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Reflections on My Decade at Sumo Logic
Debug, simplify and execute.
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The F-35 as a Subscription Service
by Benjamin Cook (into by Tom Cooper)
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Hyperloop Freight is a Joke
As the ongoing attempt to build a Hyperloop tube in California is crashing due to entirely foreseen technical problems, the company trying to raise capital for the project, Hyperloop One, is lookin…
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Apple vs. the "Free Market"
Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet. Apple contributes nothing to their work, but it will get to steal a third of their wages:
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Uber for Everything
San Francisco has 800,000 inhabitants. How many cordless drills are there in this city? Probably orders of magnitude more than we actually need. I bought one six months ago, used it just once. It’s now another object in a box filled with stuff. At the time I must have thought that the most convenient way to hang a…
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Apple and NeXT, 25 Years Ago this week
Remembering the merger of Apple and NeXT and how anxious we …
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Why Web Pages Suck
Everyone complains about web pages that suck, but the reality is that it is advertisers who call the shots. This should, at a minimum, put Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple’s News a…
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Unity's Trap
Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a game designer, writer, and programmer on Gunpoint , Heat Signature , and Tactical Breach Wizards . Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here are the videos I make on YouTube, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.
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Outsourcing Cost Boeing Billions (2019)
On October 29, 2018 Lion Air Flight 610, a 737 MAX 8 flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia, crashed into the sea 13…
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TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants
TerraPower in Mega Deal with Meta for Eight 345 MW Natrium Advanced Nuclear Plants DOE Awards $2.7 Billion for Uranium Enrichment Oklo, Meta Plan 1.2 GW Nuclear Energy Development in Southern Ohio …
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Microsoft's Three Browsers
It’s an interesting time. Microsoft now maintains three different web browsers: Internet Explorer 11Microsoft Edge Legacy (Spartan, v18 and below)Chromium-based Microsoft Edge (v79+) If you&#…
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Nvidia on the Mountaintop
Nvidia has gone from the valley to the mountain-top in less than a year, thanks to ChatGPT and the frenzy it inspired; whether or not there is a cliff depends on developing new kinds of demand that…
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Amazon’s “two-pizza teams”: The ultimate divisional organization (2013)
Amazon’s “two-pizza teams” are well-known; they’ve been written about in Fast Company and the WSJ. But almost everyone misses the point. They aren’t about team size—they’re about autonomy and accountability.
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The Dilbert Black Swan Portfolio: a skeptical/practical guide to investing
If you are a young professional and you’re making your first savings, and wondering what to do with them, this post is for you. Disclaimer: I am not an economist. But that’s probably a good thing. Why? Read on.