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In a 9-0 decision Monday, the Seattle City Council voted to cap the number of UberX, Sidecar and Lyft drivers on our streets — to protect the legitimate interests of taxi companies and the revenue they create for our city.
I got a pull request from "tea.xyz" related individual and unraveled a mess of a disappointing project.
Above is a graph that displays the amount of Form Ds filed, where the entity (read: company/firm) name contains the phrases "fund I", "fund II", "fund III", and "fund IV". The x-axis is not the prettiest, but it is broken down by quarter. You can see that the line for "fund I" sees by far the greatest peak around…
The development team’s capabilities for battling deadlines are fairly restricted, yet they end up committing to them in day-to-day life…
This blog series focuses on the collection of device data by various popular mobile apps. Data is often collected in the name of advertising, error monitoring, fraud detection, and social media integration.
Yesterday word leaked out that Glenn Greenwald would be leaving the Guardian to help create some new thing backed by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. I just got off the phone with Omidyar. So I can report more details about what the new thing is and how it came to be.
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
Zero Trust Networking is security with Internet assumptions; there is tremendous value if we apply the same approach to information.
OK. So here the short form of what happened in the dutch court today. Apple has LOST all claims wrt design and copyright.
Now that we’re increasingly concerned about the dominance of ‘big tech’, Open Source is often mentioned as an alternative, especially since our governments are carrying out a Total Migration to Microsoft. This is the English version of this Dutch piece. In Dutch we say you can’t compare apples and pears, but that’s…
It's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
OpenAI's latest model raises more questions than answers, but no, the AI bubble isn't popping quite yet.
And why Thatcher is partly to blame, but not in the way most people argue.
Why not drop H.264 support from Android and YouTube, too?
You can’t make something conceptually lightweight if it’s carrying 25 years of Windows baggage.
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Building the first iPhone's touchscreen keyboard was a make-it-or-break-it moment for the iPhone. Succeed, and the iPhone was possible. Fail, and the iPhone would've been shelved. This is its story.
YouTube's decision to demonetize podcaster Bret Weinstein raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture
A fun fact about startups, if you've never worked for one, is that employees don't typically get equity in the company.
