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Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
Small local libraries are now becoming travel destinations
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,889 posts.
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"How much does a website cost?" – a survey of web designers
Hi! My name is Rob, and I find the best website design leads for agencies on the web. Save hours finding great projects to pitch.
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EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition
Update: Monday 14th 2019: We've added contact details and an action for Belgium.Update: Tuesday 15th 2019: We've added contact details and an action for Czechia.Sweden: Take Action Here.Germany: Take Action Here. Luxembourg: Take Action Here.Poland: Take Action Here.Belgium: Take Action Here....
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The Future of Startup Funding
August 2010 Two years ago I wrote about what I called " a huge, unexploited opportunity in startup funding:" the growing disconnect between VCs, whose current business model requires them to invest large amounts, and a large class of startups that need less than they used to. Increasingly, startups want a couple…
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In-App Purchase Rules
Your app must use Apple’s in-app-purchase (IAP) system for all purchases made in the app.
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Designing a SaaS Database for Scale with Postgres
Exploration of different architectures for designing a SaaS database that scales for multi-tenant data models, including one database per tenant, one schema per tenant, and having all tenants share the same tables. The right choice for you depends on whether you’re optimizing for scale or isolation.
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Announcing Wolfram Alpha Pro
Today I’m excited to be able to announce the launch of Wolfram|Alpha Pro —the biggest single step in the development of Wolfram|Alpha since its original introduction.
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What I learned running a SaaS for a year
This time last year, OnlineOrNot was born. Here's what I learned in the first year of running the business.
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Sandwich Bill of Materials
SBOM 1.0: A specification for sandwich supply chain transparency.
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After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell — Avi Press
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A Surprise AWS Bill
The tale of the July 4th surprise $2700 AWS bill. It is more nuanced than you think and might have exposed a bug.
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“Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees
“Layoffs kill people,” says Jeffrey Pfeffer. And they don’t cut costs or improve productivity.
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Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S.
MIT researchers have analyzed the causes of many cost overruns on new nuclear power plants in the U.S., which have soared in the past 50 years. The findings may help designers of new plants build in resilience to prevent such added costs.
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Scrum Sucks
Breaking news: Scrum is bad.
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Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
Earlier this year, we shared an update on our renewed focus for VR and Horizon. We are separating the two platforms so each can grow with greater focus, and the Horizon Worlds platform will become a mobile-only experience. This separation will extend across our ecosystem, including our mobile app. T...
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Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One
Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One, Xbox One, Xbox, Microsoft
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Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public services online
The Estonian government estimates that going digital has saved the state and its citizens, 820 years in time and resources
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FBI Raids Big Corporate Landlord over Nationwide Rent Hikes
I’ll get to the good and bad news of the week, but first I want to note the big story - Donald Trump’s conviction by a jury in New York - and a little story with big implications - the Federal Bureau of Investigation raiding a corporate landlord in cahoots with a nation-wide rent-fixing cartel that affects up to 16…
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The most official water costs $120k a gallon
We all learned in science class that water freezes at 0 °C or 32 °F at atmospheric pressure. But what water, exactly? Even after you distill out all the dissolved salts and minerals to get pure H2O…
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Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead
IBM is buying HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. That's four months after HashiCorp rugpulled their entire development community and ditched open source for the 'Business Source License.' As someone on Hacker News pointed out so eloquently: IBM is like a juicer that takes all the delicious flavor out of a fruit skywhopper…
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Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration
A new type of vaccine that can be stored at warmer temperatures, removing the need for refrigeration, has been developed for mosquito-borne virus Chikungunya in a major advance in vaccine technology. The findings, published in Science Advances today [Wednesday 25 September], reveal exceptionally promising results for…
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NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
NHS England has confirmed that it will investigate whether Palantir violated the terms of its contract to run the Federated Data Platform, after the tech giant covertly launched an influencer campaign which targeted Good Law Project.
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When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software
A case study of rewriting software system from scratch and why it failed.
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What Unsustainable Growth Looks Like: Herbalife, Groupon, and More
Sometimes growth hides the fact that a business is on the verge of failure. Here's how.
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Microsoft confirms Exchange Year 2022 problem
[German]Exchange servers (on-premises) have had woldwide a Year 2022 problem since January 1 (00:00 UTC), because mails are no longer transported due to a “date error”. Meanwhile…