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Datomic Update: Client API, Unlimited Peers, Enterprise Edition, and More
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 7,908 posts.
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Campbell's Law: The dark side of metric fixation
When organizations optimize metrics at the cost of all else, they expose themselves to metric corruption. Ultimately, as the Facebook scandal illustrates, they may fail their users and their business goals.
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The Acid Test Clause (2017)
“A contract is only as good as the people who sign it,” was a saying often quoted by an elderly attorney I worked with for the first fifteen years of my practice and I always nodded in his general direction when he said that and smiled as if agreeing. I liked and respected him, he […]
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Proton: We're giving away over $1M to support a better internet
We raised over $1 million this year to directly support organizations on the front lines of the fight for online privacy and freedom.
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Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers
But a Redfin analysis found that AI data centers have benefits: In northern Virginia, taxes on data center equipment are likely contributing to a surge in education spending.
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Is Tableau Dead?
Is Tableau dead? The future looks mixed.
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iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use
After just 140 charging cycles, which could happen after just 4 months usage, the iPhone is running 28% slower than it does with a new battery.
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Panic Status Board is being discontinued
Status Board was something we’d always wanted. Originally a very nice web page designed to brighten up our office and act as our virtual water-cooler for company stats — as seen in this famous blog post — it evolved into a feature-packed, beautiful iOS app. We made it very easy to make beautiful boards, it worked…
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Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets
This article highlights opportunities and potential risks of the DeFi ecosystem.
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Happy 10k Day
Today, we sold the 10,000th comma 3X, our first product breaking 5 digits in sales.
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Google +1's Correlation with Higher Search Rankings
This year's Search Ranking Factors Study showed a very strong correlation between Google +1s and higher rankings, and there's a compelling reason why. Google+ was built for SEO, and is far better optimized for search than other platforms.
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Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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MakerDAO gets stress tested as ETH price plummets
In the midst of extreme market-wide turmoil, MakerDAO is facing one of its biggest challenges to date. The main form of collateral in the system, Ether, has dropped over 30% in a 24-hour timeframe marking one of the worst days in its short history. This has triggered an unprecedented wave of liquidations as loans…
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