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Move fast or die: Key startup lessons
Lessons from Facebook, Dropbox, and SPC on the singular importance of speed.
Wiley’s removal of hundreds of titles from ebook collections
Irish Librarians and library-related organisations wish to express our grave dissatisfaction at the sudden withdrawal by Wiley publishers of over one thousand titles from key ebook collections to which many academic libraries subscribe. On 31st of August 2022 Wiley abruptly removed more than 1,300 ebooks, many of…
SSO should be table stakes
Withholding security for money feels a little gray-hat.
Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders
New Lawsuit Argues that Directors Failed to Consider Portfolio Impacts of Corporate Decisions On Monday, October 3, a class action was filed in the ...
DuckDuckGo for Mac
DuckDuckGo for Mac gives you privacy by default. With one download, you get nearly a dozen protections, including built-in private search.
AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
View the press release archives from AMD.
Solving the housing crisis requires fighting monopolies in construction (2020)
U.S. government concerns about great disparities in housing conditions are at least 100 years old. For the first 50 years of this period, U.S. housing crises were widely considered to stem from the failure of the construction industry to adopt new technology -- in particular, factory production methods. The…
SmooshGate (2021)
What can SmooshGate teach us about standards development and the Web Platform? This write-up gives an overview.
Strategy is not X
Strategy is the madness towards the destination, not the destination itself.
MCC (Master Chief Collection) Server Incident Summary
<p>A deep dive into the recent incident that affected matchmaking and the custom games browser in Halo: MCC on April 1.</p>
Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex
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McDonalds Event Driven Architecture
We explore our journey of developing a unified platform enabling real-time, event-driven architectures.
SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies
Comparison confirms that SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment & technologies. Our analysis also uncovered many similarities between the SMIC 7nm and the TSMC 7nm, which are available in our comparison brief.
RStudio Is Becoming Posit
We are very excited to announce that RStudio has a new name, Posit.
Why enterprise software is bloated
People are often baffled why enterprise software is slow, uses lots of memory, and is generally a pain to work with. Before starting mailbox.my, I did work at a large enterprise software company, so I hope to offer some insights with this post. Most of this actually applies to software in general.
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.
AngelList Venture Raises $100M on a $4B Valuation
The round values the company at $4B pre-money.
Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact on developer productivity and happiness
When the GitHub Copilot Technical Preview launched just over one year ago, we wanted to know one thing: Is this tool helping developers? The GitHub Next team conducted research using a combination of surveys and experiments, which led us to expected and unexpected answers.
Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
Today, a change to our Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail for users with status code 530
Interop 2022
Interop 2022 is a cross-browser initiative to find and address the most important interoperability pain points on the web platform.
Rimac Nevera Hits 412kph to Become World’s Fastest Production Electric Car
The Rimac Nevera has set a top speed of 412kph (258mph), making it the fastest electric production car in the world.
Aserto: Developer API for permissions and RBAC
No one should build permissions and RBAC on their own. Aserto's authorization-as-a-service platform is here to make sure of it!