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GitHub's game jam returns next month
Build a game this November in our annual month-long game jam
Building Lyft’s Marketing Automation Platform
Machine learning based marketing automation to improve cost and volume efficiency in an ever-changing marketplace.
Red Hat Announces Broad Expansion to Open Source Patent Promise
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a significant revision of its Patent Promise. That promise, originating in 2002, was based on Red Hat’s intention not to enforce its patents against free and open source software. The new version significantly expands and…
Steps to Building an Engineering Competency Matrix
Learn how to provide your employees and reports with a clear, agreed-upon, and well-defined path for growth within your organization.
Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups
In their natural habitats, social species organize into characteristic groups. Gazelles form herds, wolves form packs, and ants form colonies. Humans, in the…
The Economics of Data Businesses
How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.
Capitalism and Inequality
I was talking to a friend about AOC’s proposal to increase marginal federal rates to 70% to fund investments in fighting climate change. My friend said he was disappointed that she didn’t propose a top federal rate of 83.25% so that the marginal rate in NYC would be 100%. He was joking but his remark […]
Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty
The EU can support the development of homegrown social media platforms to ensure European Union's digital sovereignty and shield it from foreign interference
Bayer CEO: Nexavar cancer drug is for "western patients who can afford it.”
This is a video by Zack Struver about Senator Bernie Sander’s proposal to expand Veterans access to patented medical inventions. The video discusses both the proposal by Senator Sanders to give the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs the authority to… Continue Reading →
Notes on China
Deeply researched interviews
Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology
Nearform is an independent team of engineers, designers and strategists. We build digital capability and software solutions for ambitious enterprises seeking sustained business impact. We love what we do.
AI isn't going to kill the software industry
I feel like half of my social media feed is composed of AI grifters saying software developers are not going to make it. Combine that sentiment with some economic headwinds and it's easy to feel like we're all screwed. I think that's bullshit. The best days of our industry lie ahead.
"If you're over 30, you're a slow old man" – Zuckerberg. He turns 30 tomorrow.
Came across this article: on SFGate the other day, relating the difficulties of older workers finding employment in Silicon Valley. 40 is the new 60 down there. I would usually file this under &#…
How we fought bad ads in 2015
Here are some of the top areas we focused on in our fight against bad ads in 2015.
Engineers should do customer support and success
The best PLG founders, startups, strategies, metrics and community. Every week.
How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?
Six AI assistants pursued an impossible £350 train refund in a simulated world, escalating to government officials, legal clinics and bank chargebacks.
Google responds: Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our an...
Why are there no antitrust claims vs. GitHub Copilot, when there is a precedent?
Microsoft GitHub released CoPilot last year, a tool for generating code and auto-completion, that’s been trained on vast amount of open source code, notably all open source code hosted on Git…
Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing
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DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss
Showcasing Hirundo’s bias unlearning capabilities on DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B, reducing its biases up to 76% compared to original performance.