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Where has all the productivity gone?
Why hasn't new technology made us more productive than it has?
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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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What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition
It’s been an unusual internship season.
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Greece
Greece is a remarkable country full of wonderful people, but along dimensions of development and governance, the place is plainly pretty fucked up. It has been fucked up that way for a long time, for decades at least . This has never been secret. Anyone who has visited Athens knows it has far more in common with…
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Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
At Superwall we’re building an SDK to help App Developers increase their revenue by showing the right offer to the right person at the right time. Follow me on twitter for little tips and articles like this one.
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Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet
Learn all about our journey of successfully upgrading our MySQL fleet at Uber from v5.7 to v8.0, enhancing performance and reliability.
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AI's economics don't make sense
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Why we're sticking with Ruby on Rails
GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij makes the case for Ruby on Rails.
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Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities
Evolving Programmable Search Engine Programmable Search Engine helps hundreds of partners – from academic institutions to retail websites – ...
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Visual Studio '11' Announced
UPDATE: We hear you. There’s a lot of excitement about this release and a lot of passion about colors, designs, styles and icons. Know that we are
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I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering
There, I said it.
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You can't trust the internet anymore
I like things that are strange and a bit obscure. It’s a habit of mine, and a lot of this blog is to document things I haven’t heard of before, because I wan...
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EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)
The new law will ensure that batteries are collected, reused and recycled in Europe and will support the shift to a circular economy.
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I got my first $50/mo customer
Sharing everything I learn along the way and blog about my progress daily.
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Microsoft is using illegal bribes in the Middle East and Africa
After paying fines for violations in Hungary and South Africa, Microsoft agreed to stop the practice—but I have evidence that I believe shows they continue to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act elsewhere.By Yasser ElabdI was recruited by Microsoft in 1998, and I helped bring the company’s products throughout…
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The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
The man who invented the interactive fiction genre talks about its past and future.
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Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
macOS Internals Deep Dive Building a Development Kernel Collection Configuring our Mac to boot the Development Kernel Collection Putting our machine to work! When did Apple grace us with this feature? Undoing our work for OS updates Closing Thoughts
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Raspberry Pi 4 PCIe bridge “chip”
After seeing the work done by Thomasz Mloduchowski and Colin Riley with managing to bridge the Raspberry Pi 4's PCI-Express bus to a USB 3.0 port, and then seeing these comments on hack-a-day, I thought I would give it a go too! So, here's a PCIe bridge chip that simply replaces the VL805 USB 3.
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The Rust Compilation Model Calamity
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "The Rust Compilation Model Calamity" here.
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Passkeys: A Loss of User Control?
This blog post doesn't have the answers. I'm trying to learn about passkeys, but I don't claim to be an expert. I do have a lot of questions, especially for Apple, because I'm an Apple user and developer. According to Betteridge's law of headlines , "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the…
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Go is a good fit for agents
Golang might just be the best language for building AI agents.
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Open Philanthropy Project awards a grant of $30M to OpenAI
Coefficient has directed over $7 billion in grants since 2014. Our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us.
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Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop
Laptop makers have long shortchanged AMD-based offerings. Read on to find out how they can avoid common mistakes that limit the potential of their products.
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Banned from buying iPads... for life.
I had planned on reviewing the iPad in my next post, but instead I’ll dedicate this entry to my photo below and an incident that happened today. Review of the iPad coming soon. (UPDATE: now p…
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JEP draft: No longer require super() and this() to appear first in a constructor
In constructors in the Java programming language, allow statements that do not reference the instance being created to appear before an explicit constructor invocation. This is a preview language feature .
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Support for U2F security keys
You can now use U2F-compatible security keys as a second factor for your 1Password account.
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How to make your C codebase Rusty: rewriting keyboard firmware keymap
Recently, my colleague introduced me to QMK 1, an open-source keyboard firmware. Like many non-trivia C projects, macro is heavily used everywhere, especially in keymap files 2. It didn’t bother me much since I have been programming C for many years. But I kept thinking to myself, “what would it look like if I can…