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Oracle’s Cloudy Future
Larry Ellison has declared that Oracle is a cloud company, but their customer offering seems more suited to the world that was.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 882 posts.
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The Trouble with the TPP, Day 5: Rights Holders “Shall” vs. Users “May”
The Trouble with the TPP series concludes the first week with a look at how the TPP treats the interests of rights holders and users completely differently (prior posts include Day 1: US Blocks Balancing Provisions, Day 2: Locking in Digital Locks, Day 3: Copyright Term Extension, Day 4: Copyright Notice and Takedown…
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Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B
My first airline was started out of frustration. As a young record executive, I travelled the world flying by other airlines, but found the experience dreadful. So in 1984 I chartered one second-hand Boeing 747 and offered flights between London and New York. People thought we were mad and bound to fail quickly…
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YC Updates and Additions
Y Combinator now has 5 major groups—YC Fellowship, YC Core, YC Continuity, YC Research, and Hacker News—and we’re putting one person in charge of each group. Paul Buchheit is taking over for me as managing partner of the core YC program. We’re going to continue doing YC Fellowship (!), and Kevin Hale is going to be…
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Vesper, Adieu
If I could do it all over again, here is what I would do differently.
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What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP
In 2015 we migrated Quizlet from our legacy host to a large cloud provider. AWS is the default choice for most companies, but after comparing the options, we went with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a summary of our analysis.
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R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use
Relative market share of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Spark, H2O, and other data science tools
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Steam Sales 2015
The 2015 was the best year for Steam yet.
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Oracle and the fall of Java EE
Recently there has been a lot of ramblings in the interwebz about Oracle removing its funding for Java EE. A long piece by Ars Technica ...
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How to Pick Your Battles on a Software Team
Everyone knows they should pick their battles, but how do you decide when? Here are 3 questions for figuring out when to push back and when to let it be.
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Dash developer's response to Apple's response
Dash provides instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets, code snippets, and cheat sheets. Features MCP support for AI integration with Claude and other AI agents.
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Why did Facebook decide to shut down Parse?
For those working in the “aaS” business, the Parse shutdown was the main topic of conversation this weekend. Many in the developer…
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Listen to Your Customers, They’ll Tell You What to Build
Get the information and resources you need to help your small business succeed! Start your journey to becoming an expert in digital marketing with our marketing blog.
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Why California is so expensive: It’s not just the weather, it’s the regulation
The state of California has some of the most expensive housing in the country. In new research, Kristoffer (Kip) Jackson investigates why homes in the Golden State have come to cost so much. He finds that it's down to how land use is regulated; each new land-use regulation reduces a Californian city's housing supply by
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The Mac Platform Decline
David Owens II: To me, Thursday’s event signaled one thing for me, and maybe I’m completely wrong, but the Mac is officially over. Apple, the MacBook Pro is not a pro-level computer. It’s simply not. Ted Landau: Apple’s desktop Mac lineup is headed for the graveyard. Dead. Done. Over. It has taken me some time to…
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An AWS Region is coming to France
Today we announce our plans to open a new AWS Region with 3 Availability Zones in France! The new region in France will be ready for customers to use in 2017.