An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split
The official blog of the AnyList team.
Facebook open-sources deep-learning modules
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock
With a heavy heart Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock, stalwart proponent of Free Open Source Software, Father, Son, and the 'ian' in Debian. Ian started the Debian project in August of 1993, releasing the first versions of Debian later...
Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
We're announcing a move from doing the majority of our development work internally, to almost exclusively working in public issue trackers on GitLab.com.
How to pick startup ideas
One of the most important things I learned from running a startup is that on a macro scale the innovation market is efficient. If the market conditions allow for a startup to arise, it’s overwhelmingly probable that multiple startups already exist in that market. The converse is also true — if there are no startups in…
TPP banning requirements to transfer or access to source code of software
This is a video by Zack Struver about Senator Bernie Sander’s proposal to expand Veterans access to patented medical inventions. The video discusses both the proposal by Senator Sanders to give the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs the authority to… Continue Reading →
Call me maybe: Aerospike
Previously, on Jepsen, we reviewed Elasticsearch’s progress in addressing data-loss bugs during network partitions. Today, we’ll see Aerospike 3.5.4, an “ACID database”, react violently to a basic partition.
The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation
Start of operation and first plasma in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion research device at IPP Greifswald
YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters
Last week, Google announced that its Youtube service would default to using HTML5 video instead of Flash. Once upon a time, this would have been cause for celebration: after all, Flash is a proprietary technology owned by one company, a frequent source of critical vulnerabilities that expose...
YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin
This is HUGE.
David Horne's 1K Chess on the ZX81 (2001)
An ode to a small work of programming genius.
Machine Learning for Developers
Most developers these days have heard of machine learning, but when trying to find an 'easy' way into this technique, most people find themselves getting scared off by the abstractness of the concept of Machine Learning and terms as regression , unsupervised learning , Probability Density Function and many other…
Homejoy says goodbye
Homeaglow is the easiest way to find a great house cleaner!
Why Software Outsourcing Doesn't Work Anymore
Remote and offshore software outsourcing was a perfect business concept ten years ago. Not anymore. Here is why.
The self-hating web developer
I frequent /r/learnprogramming to help answer both technical and career oriented questions about programming. It's an extremely gratifying use of time.
Jury Duty
There are twelve of us left. The first thing the prosecutor did during voir dire was ask all the men of color whether we trusted cops…
Ember.js 2.0 Released
Ember 2.0 is not a traditional major release. After thirteen point releases in almost two years, we're taking a turn to focus entirely on sweeping out built-up cruft as a...