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Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down
I've decided to take the blog down. It's come to my attention some of my former colleagues don't enjoy it as much as I thought they would. N...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,021 posts.
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Deadweight Loss as a Service
The truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene, and unoriginal.
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The Story behind ASINs – Amazon Standard Identification Numbers (2021)
This post explains how Amazon replaced ISBNs with ASINs (Amazon Standard Identification Numbers) for its Catalog Database Key
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How China's “debt traps” work
Raiding the Global South like a piggy bank.
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Gitlab and Google Cloud Partner to Expand AI-Assisted Capabilities
GitLab AI-powered security feature to leverage Google Cloud's foundation models to empower customers to identify and remediate vulnerabilities more efficiently while maintaining privacy standards...
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There is no hard takeoff
Back in 2014, Elon Musk referred to AI as summoning the demon. And it wasn’t hard to see that view. Soon, Go agents would beat top humans learning from self play. By the end of 2017, the same algorithm mastered Chess and Shogi. By 2020, it didn’t even need tons of calls to the simulator, and could play Atari too.
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Uses and abuses of cloud data warehouses
Data Warehouses are great for many things but often misused for operational workloads.
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There have been 562 bank failures since 2000
One way to measure the magnitude of a bank's failure is by the amount of assets the bank held. At the time it failed, SVB's collapse was the second largest American bank failure of all time, and the largest since 2008.
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Be where your business is
This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog. A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale. I was having breakfast…
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When to invest in marketing
"Don't invest in paid marketing" might be one of the most common startup recommendations - but when should you? In this article we'll explore when to invest in marketing and how to avoid losing millions of dollars by setting sequential marketing objectives.
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Why cloud bandwidth is so obscenely expensive and what you can do about that
This article is an excerpt of my new book Cloudflare for Speed and Security where you will learn, among other things, how networking works in order to create fast, secure and scalable applications. If you are not overspending on compute (like many companies do because of "scale") then your biggest
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Linux is Making Apple Great Again
My personal website and blog
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Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out
In many contexts, the individual value from consuming a product or service increases as more people consume it. The more of your peers who join TikTok, for example, the more value you probably see in joining yourself. Building on this logic, it’s possible that products like social media not only offer greater utility…
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Cloudflare is now powering Microsoft Edge Secure Network
This integration will allow Microsoft Edge users who opt in to browse the Internet more privately, without being tracked across websites
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Rewrite, refactor, or reinvent? Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (2019)
<p>A new take on the age-old question: Should you rewrite your application from scratch, or is that “the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make”? Turns out there are more than two options for dealing with a mature codebase.</p>
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Prisma laying off 28% staff
Restructuring Prisma
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Workers with less experience gain the most from generative AI
Less-experienced contact center agents become more productive with assistance from generative artificial intelligence, a new study finds.
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Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)
Read this list unless you want to build a money disappearing system
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France's largest semiconductor company got nationalized in plain sight (2022)
A power struggle was actually China encroaching on France's Largest Company. France decided to nationalize instead.
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Stability AI releases DeepFloyd IF, a powerful text-to-image model
DeepFloyd IF is a state-of-the-art text-to-image model released on a non-commercial, research-permissible license that allows research labs to examine and experiment with advanced text-to-image generation approaches. In line with other Stability AI models, Stability AI intends to release a DeepFloyd
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Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective
When Stock Performer started in 2010, there were a lot of complaints that the stock industry was dying. The rush of the agencies to implement subscription models, triggered mostly by Shutterstock’s success, led to a lot of uncertainty about photographers’ income. After all, customers were able to buy images for mere…
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There are now two types of PayPal dollars, and one is better than the other
PayPal now offers its customers two types of U.S. dollars. In addition to having the option of opening a traditional PayPal account to maint...
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Linode increases price of compute plans and more
Read some of the latest blog posts from Akamai Developers.
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Problems that attract smart people
The roller-coaster that is generative AI keeps chugging on, and for those of us sitting in the audience, it is more than entertaining.
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Radar Maps Platform
Radar Maps Platform is live, a fast, affordable alternative to Google Maps and Mapbox with integrated geofencing.