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RStudio Is Becoming Posit
We are very excited to announce that RStudio has a new name, Posit.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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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.
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The Great Steepening
Record supply to the market along with rising inflation expectations suggest that the yield curve will steepen materially.
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Against All Applications
Imagining better ways of picking people
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The silence of risk management victory
Sometimes risk mitigation works.
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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.
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A few months ago, a complete stranger gave me $10k (2021)
When I worked in magazines, almost twenty years ago, something we always held true was that sales went up twenty per cent when the words…
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Email Is Async
Email is often used as a synchronous (real-time) comms channel when it shouldn't be. Learn why email is async and how to keep it that way.
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The Death of Quanta Magazine
Yesterday Quanta Magazine published an article written by Natalie Wolchover, Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer . I’m shocked and disappointed. I thought Quanta Magazine was the most respectable source of science news, they have published several quality, in-depth articles in difficult topics. But…
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Don't build useless features
One of the most important core product management skills is the ability to triage unsuccessful products and avoid spending unnecessary effort on products that are destined to be losers.
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How rate hikes are affecting the economy
Through Wages, Investment, Employment, Output, and More
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AWS is not a dumb pipe
In 1997, David Isenberg wrote an article called the Rise of the Stupid Network. Isenberg worked at Bell Labs, the R&D lab of AT&T, and was responsible for some significant breakthroughs during the PC and the early int...
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Energy vs. Sovereign Bond Markets
October 9, 2022 Latest Articles: A Look at the Lightning Network Energy: The Area Under the Curve This newsletter issue focuses on recent problems with developed country sovereign bond markets and how energy supply constraints pose an ongoing problem for them. The Sovereign Bond Bubble During much of 2019 and 2020…
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AngelList Venture Raises $100M on a $4B Valuation
The round values the company at $4B pre-money.
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Behind the Scenes: The pots, pans, and people that make millions of meals
Our recipe for feeding includes giant paella pans, combi ovens, and a lot of love!
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The Bitcoin Investment Thesis Is Broken
Informed Tip of the Week: Take a look at our recent series of posts covering Informed’s premise and our business model. We will be adding additional content over the next few weeks. At the beginning of the year, I wrote about most of the obvious bubbles out there and how Continue Reading
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Twitter, when the wall came down
I, like many people, have a complicated relationship with Twitter. As Adam and I regaled in a recent Twitter Space , it started when debugging the Twitter fail whale in the offices of Obvious in 2007, where I became thoroughly unimpressed with their self-important skipper, Jack Dorsey. In part because I thought he was…
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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.
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Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy
Milton Friedman’s interest rate fallacy is one of the most mystifying and counterintuitive facts in modern finance.
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Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots
A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site, and for companies that rely on it to hire and screen prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from…
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Why are maps so hard to make?
Announcing Felt's public launch and $15M Series A. Maps are fun now! Margins is back!
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Things Delta told the SEC about its SkyMiles program
Delta filed its SEC 10-K and buried in the 272 pages are several interesting tidbits about the SkyMiles program.
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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
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Interop 2022
Interop 2022 is a cross-browser initiative to find and address the most important interoperability pain points on the web platform.
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Thin Platforms
The Microsoft and Stripe developer keynotes were both examples of the rise of Thin Platforms
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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.
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Hacking the bureaucracy to get stuff done (2020)
The Dangerous Professional finds the seams between the policies, and slips inside them to Get Stuff Done