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For the last two years I’ve had an O’Reilly subscription . Their offer is quite attractive with unlimited access to books not only by O’Reilly but also Manning and others. The catalog is just enourmous and covers pretty much every technical book around software engineering et al. that I might ever want to read. There…
My son is a college baseball player. One of the singular aspects of having kids is that they open your eyes to facets of humanity that you might not have seen otherwise. I was not a college athlete (and knew little of even baseball until he got the bug at age seven), so I have learned much along the way. You — perhaps…
I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary. Hacker News is slightly younger, but to me the two go hand in hand. As far as I can tell, I actively started reading Hacker News around 2011. I don’t remember how I heard about it. It was probably on Reddit or Digg. Once I found it, I started reading…
The economy will literally double every year afterwards
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You know when people spend 2 years making games and when they release, they don't sell anything, so they stop selling it...
Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good mont...
A few days ago, the smoke alarms in my house went off at 3am, so we got up and took it seriously when we smelled smoke everywhere. But after 20 minutes of searching high and low, we couldn't find a source, so as a precaution, we called 911 to
AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
Half a million layoffs? It's all accounting.
AI tried to take launch results into their own... hands? And it caused some heartbreak.
If you thought the 2008 bank bailout was bad, wait til you see the 2026 AI bailout
Cofounders of Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman discuss the company’s new name, showing how it reflects the company’s.
A new 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 maintains access to low-cost computing amid memory-driven price rises on some other Raspberry Pi products.
Or, the Story of Digital Equipment Corporation
Liquid Lunches And The Serious Case for BNPL Securitization
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Discover how Batch Mode in Gemini API allows developers to submit large jobs, offload processing, and get results in 24 hours, offering simplicity, convenience, and cost-savings.
A case study in elite misinformation.
Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which I am proud to say makes extremely efficient use of monetary resources . Unlike many of our peers, our primary expense is direct payments to contributors for their enhancements to the Zig 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…
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.
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