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Adventures in financial and software engineering
This post describes how to implement a DSL for pricing financial contracts in Scala
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Moderation in Infrastructure
Infrastructure companies need a distinct approach to moderation that focuses on neutrality and due process.
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Behind the Scenes with the Dragon Ball Legends GCP Back End
By Samir Hammoudi, Gaming Technical Specialist, Google Cloud Dragon Ball Legends , a new mobile game from Bandai Namco Entertainment (BNE)...
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Cash issuing terminals
In the United States, we are losing our fondness for cash. As in many other countries, cards and other types of electronic payments now dominate everyday commerce. To some, this is a loss. Cash represented a certain freedom from intermediation, a comforting simplicity that you just don't get from Visa. It's funny to…
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SaaS Pricing (2013)
SaaS pricing is a mystery to many developers. Here is how to do it better.
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Heroku April 2022 Incident Review
We have concluded our investigation of incident 2413 and want to provide our customers with a summary of our findings and actions.
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I’m leaving Mozilla
It's been five great years, but now it is time for me to move on and try something else. During these five years I've met and interacted with a large number of awesome people at Mozilla, lots of new friends! I got the chance to work from home and yet work with a global team … Continue reading I’m leaving Mozilla →
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Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet
Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned.
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A Brief Guide to Startup Pivots
Most of the times, startup don't work. At some point it may make sense to either (1) give up on your original product and to sell the company, (2) shut down what you are doing and return money to investors, or (3) to pivot. You can read more on making the decision to give up in a future article. This post focuses on…
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New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation
Bill Banning One-Person Trains Would Lock NY Transit in the Past
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E-Bikes Overtake Buggies for Some Amish (2021)
In some Amish communities these days, e-bikes are beginning to outnumber buggies on the roads. Horse-drawn buggies, long a symbol of the Amish lifestyle, are finding less use as more people in Amish communities adopt electric-powered bicycles. In small Amish towns across America such as Sugarcreek, Ohio, Napponee…
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Why is GPT-3 15.77x more expensive for certain languages?
How large language models process multilingual data differently
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Why do poor school kids have to clean up rich commuters’ pollution?
Item: In the past two years, Portland Public Schools has spent nearly $12.5 million of its scarce funds to clean up the air at Harriet Tubman Middle School. This money will buy an expensive state-of-the-art air filtration system that will make the air inside the school safe for students to breathe. Scientists from…
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Why I don't love Light Rail Transit
Snippets 2, Episode 22
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We Need Viable Search Engine Competition
Why Google's monopoly on search is a growing problem, from conflicts of interest to SEO manipulation, and why we desperately need a real competitor.
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The Death of the Mom and Pop E-Store
Back before I first left the United States in 2012, I’d often use price comparison websites when trying to find parts for computers and system builds...
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Tesla, software and disruption
Car people often look at Tesla the way Nokia looked at the iPhone. “Nice ideas, but we can easily do all of that, and they don’t understand our industry.” Nokia was wrong - but will the car industry look the same? Maybe not.
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Facebook paid $4.5K for disclosure of my user account exploit
Back in 2009 I found a major security exploit on both Facebook and the than popular MySpace which exposed access to a user's personal data. I reported both data leaks to the social networks, and…
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Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure
Anthropic is partnering with Fluidstack to build data centers in Texas and New York, creating roughly 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.
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