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“I’d be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullshit I hear today” –Big Sean, The One I felt a little odd writing that title. It’s a little like asking “Why should you give engineers big monitors?” If you have to ask the question, then you probably won’t understand the answer....
NBC drops the ball on distribution
Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.
Taylor Swift, like Dave Chappelle, is leveraging the power of the Internet to take control of their art.
Goodreads is full of trolls, spam, and harassment campaigns. They probably like it that way.
One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim’s funds via Zelle , a “peer-to-peer” (P2P) payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly send cash to friends and family. Naturally, a great deal of phishing schemes that…
Update, 25 March: The Italian, Galician, Asturian, and Catalan Wikipedias have blacked themselves out today to protest the EU Copyright Directive. Other language versions of Wikipedia have chosen to show site banners above their content. Wikipedia’s volunteer editing communities make decisions like this independently…
Some timezone observations on the recently discovered backdoor hidden in an xz tarball.
Employers Who Violate Colorado’s Non-Compete Laws Face Stiff New Penalties, Including Jail
The wonder of the web is that it is not subject to the whims of chaotic corporate management.
Thinking better isn't about learning more; it's about doing a few simple things that really help create unstoppable progress.
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The American Medical Association is not a charitable organization. The American Medical Association is not an educational organization. The American Medical Association is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation, designed from the ground up to enrich its executives and serve its own bureaucratic interests…
Don't give up on reinventing your career and life. Don’t ever feel like it’s too late to have what you want in life. Don’t give in to a feeling of hopelessness. History shows us that talented people are capable of having amazing success for the rest of their lives. Grit matters. I know people who are still pursuing…
There's no way to sugar-coat this: Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) only exists due to a whole bunch of highly illegal activity that has harmed many individuals and organisations alike. That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of
This is a story of how we survived, relocated a team, and scaled our startup under never-ending missile attacks.
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Software is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996. Here’s what we had then, in chronological order: LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, SQL, O…
Learn how AI was used to rewrite JSONata into a faster Go library, reducing costs and improving data processing performance.
