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I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
Within free open source software (and free content more generally), there are two major categories of copyright licenses:
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The cost of cloud
Putting your IT infrastructure into the cloud seems to be the "in" thing. It's been around for a while, of course. And, like most things rel...
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US Export Restrictions, Intel Layoffs, Applied Materials, and TSMC
Headline Blitz: Semiconductor Edition
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Cash Is King: Flows, Balances, and Buffer Days
See how our clients and partners—from small business owners to workforce training leaders—work with JPMorganChase to drive meaningful impact and economic growth where they live and work.
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Zombie VCs
This post uses publicly available data on Crunchbase and has elicited a strong response from the tech community in general. I am making corrections as I re...
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You can’t build a moat with AI (redux)
Using LLMs doesn't make a product special anymore
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How Badly Is Google Books Search Broken, and Why?
I periodically write about Google Books here, so I thought I'd point out something that I've noticed recently that should be concerning to a...
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Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
(BI) Software is dead, apparently
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Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (2012)
Wouldn’t you like to live in a world where your monitoring systems only alerted when things were actually broken? And wouldn’t it be great if, in that world, your alerts would always fi…
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Cucumber maintainer has been laid off
Well, this is new. After ten years building a company around the Cucumber open source project, I suddenly find myself out of a job. I...
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What I’ve learned from sitting next to a pro salesman
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Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing — Tiny Capital and Buffer
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First Sale Under Siege: If You Bought It, You Should Own It
As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. Click here to read other blog posts in this series. The "first sale" doctrine expresses one of...
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Is ClickHouse Moving Away from Open Source?
Open source licensing helped ClickHouse grow. Now the project is moving to open core. Should users be concerned?
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37signals Launches Haystack for Web Designers and Clients To Find Each Other
A few years ago we launched the 37signals Job Board to answer a question we heard all the time: “Do you know where we can find a programmer or a designer? We need to hire one but we don’t know where to find one.” Since then, over 5,700 jobs have been posted, and many positions hav…
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MinIO passes 1B cumulative Docker Pulls
Product updates, company news, and educational content on AI storage, object storage, data lakehouses, and cloud-native infrastructure from MinIO.
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Ship faster by building design systems slower (2023)
Successful design systems can and should move more slowly than the products they support—but a deliberate pace doesn’t have to create bottlenecks. Josh Clark shows how to reconcile the needs and speeds of product versus design system.
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If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire
I see that the chairman of another major private equity fund has graced us with his wisdom on investing. I’ll summarize it for you: