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Why I Dislike EC2
EC2 is great if you need per-hour billing and instance provisioning. For everyone else, which is most, it's just really expensive and slow hardware.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,939 posts.
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Losing two jobs in one year
and learn to accept imperfection
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OpenAI Charter
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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Nvidia in the Valley
Nvidia is in the valley in terms of gaming, the data center, and the omniverse; if it makes it to future heights its margins will be well-earned.
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International coalition calls for action against surveillance-based advertising
Groups in Europe and U.S. ask for action to end practices that threaten citizens’ rights.
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Go Modules in 2019
What the Go team is planning for Go modules in 2019.
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The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine
As you may know, on Glade Art we tend to take anti-bot measures very seriously; it is one of our topmost priorities to protect our fellow users from having t...
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Power Failure: The downfall of General Electric
Power Failure by William Cohan chronicles the spectacular collapse of General Electric, once America's most valuable company. From a $600 billion giant to near-bankruptcy, GE's downfall reveals how financialization and imperial CEOs destroyed a 130-year industrial icon.
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Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
Everyone always talks about how much money there is in politics. This is the wrong framing. The right framing is Ansolabehere et al’s: why is there so little money in politics? But Ansolabehe…
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Becoming a Systems Architect
Unknowingly I’ve become what I always wanted, but couldn’t even name it. I have a short story to tell, about how I got here, and where I want to go.
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Whale Watching: Many companies earn a huge portion of sales from a few customers
Leading provider of transaction data analytics that reliably deliver valuable insights into company performance and consumer trends.
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Rust RAII is better than the Haskell bracket pattern
Last week, I wrote a blog post about ResourceT, and mentioned Rust's RAII being better than Haskell's bracket pattern. In this blog post, I demonstrate what this advantage is.
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Open-Source Controller for the IKEA Bekant Standing Desk
Standing desks have become incredibly popular, and for good reason. Sitting for long periods of time can have long-term effects on your health, so if you work at a computer each day, the ability to…
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Databases are the endgame for data-oriented design
For the first SpacetimeDB blog post, I’d like to clear up some confusion that I’ve seen arise in discussions about SpacetimeDB and address some general misperceptions about databases. My sense is tha…
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How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Twilio
Learn how to create a Python program that sends you an SMS text message whenever an event happens, such as university class registration opens.
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What do you mean ‘we need more time’? Project schedule estimation in software
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.
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Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks
There have been several incidents recently where popular packages were successfully attacked. To reduce the risk of installing a compromised version, we are introducing a new setting that delays the installation of newly released dependencies. In most cases, such attacks are discovered quickly...
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Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)
JSON output must become the norm for application pipelining. Until then, jc can help.
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Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released
Sublime Text 2 is available now as a public alpha, for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
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Write More Classes
Furthermore I am of the oppinion that Python developers should write more classes.
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Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill
Hacking the happiness treadmill
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First impressions of Claude Cowork
Plus Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time
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Alert: NPM modules hijacked
<p><strong>EDIT : User @nj48 appears to <a href="https://twitter.com/seldo/status/712673227630313472">have no malicious intentions</a>.</strong></p>
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How I read books: a guide on how to learn
Disclaimer: I’ve spend hours researching this topic and simplifying things for you.It gets a bit nerdy, but if you apply these techniques…
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