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Meeting everyone on a new team
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Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team
My quest is to build beautiful things that help change the world, and I’ve been fortunate to spend the last 15 years in Silicon Valley, working with some of the major players shaping all sorts of technology. Today, I’m super excited to join SiFive - the company I believe is best positioned to transform the silicon…
GDC 2020 has been postponed
After close consultation with partners in the game development industry & community around the world, organizers have made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March.
Announcing The Zig Software Foundation
In the United States, people look at you funny if you tell them you are starting a non-profit.
Surface Go 2, Surface Book 3, Surface Headphones 2 and Surface Earbuds
Available for preorder today, new Surface devices and accessories are designed to help you work, learn, connect and play from anywhere The way we work, connect and learn continues to change right in front of us. Our devices have become our window to the world – our office, our school and our social space. To
Buying a single character domain – and 3 character FQDN – for £15
Short domains are useful for security testing. If you only have a limited number of characters, you need to be able to reference code on a remote server in as few characters as possible. A few years ago, I tried to find a Minimum Viable XSS. The conclusion that I (and others) came to is that 20 characters is the bare…
Bitwarden second security audit report
Bitwarden will continue to uphold high cybersecurity standards through annual third-party security audits of the Bitwarden product and service.
Starting a physical product company? You’re gonna need a lawyer
My name is Molson Hart. I’m the CEO of a consumer products company I founded 10 years ago, called Viahart. We design and distribute toys…
How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years
Here's the tell-all behind the scenes story of how Cloakist got to $9.99 MRR after just 7 years
What is expected of a engineering manager?
Husband, software engineer at Nubank , computer scientist, coffee taster, book reader, stand up coder
Apple’s Rejection of Hey from the App Store for Not Using In-App Purchases
I’m not trying to be coy, but what is the iPhone itself? A business device or a consumer product? Using *or* instead of *and* as the conjunction there is clearly laughable.
GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.
Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) today announced it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft Corporation before the European Commission.
Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
NumFOCUS's Code of Conduct Committee's apology to Jeremy Howard
Thought Leaders and Chicken Sexers
From the moment I started paying attention to the tech industry, Paul Graham was there. My first job out of college was in SoMa, around the corner from the Justin.tv offices, and his essays were just floating around in the ether, impossible to ignore. His popularization of Lisp was a small part of why I tried Clojure…
Robinhood and How to Lose Money
Don't be the gravy
What the heck happened with .org?
If you are following the tech news, you might have seen the announcement that ICANN withheld consent for the change of control of the Public Interest Regis
Build versus Buy
A few years ago I was working on a contract negotiation with Splunk, and we kept running into what felt like a pretty unreasonable pricing structure. They wanted some number of millions of dollars for a three year license, which felt like a high price to pay for roughly thirty-two ascii characters in a particular…
Apple Fitness+
Apple today unveiled Fitness+, the first fitness experience built for Apple Watch, arriving later this year.
Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’
I’ve said it before and will adamantly say it again: it is *prima facie* wrong that one of the rules of the App Store is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules of the App Store.
Is Hacker News Bullshit?
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