Our mission here at Readwise is to improve the practice of reading through technology by an order of magnitude. While we have some strong opinions and good ideas (we think) on how to build such a product (indeed, we've already started!), what was less obvious was: How do we fund
When an experimental study states "The group with treatment X had significantly less disease ( p = 1%)", many people interpret this statement as being equivalent to "there is a 99% chance that if I do treatment X it will prevent disease." This essay explains why these statements are not equivalent. For such an…
Here are some tips and tricks I've learned for developing and deploying web applications written for node.js using Docker (2019 edition).
The Evolution Of Webdesign is a collection and imitation of Webdesign Trends from 1991 to 2020.
The Start of Our Company Hard Lessons Learned Some Solid Advice What's Next for Us? My brother, Justin, was an engineer at Google, and I was a data
MIT researchers have created a fiber-based, lightweight, fast-acting artificial muscle that could be useful for robotics and for prosthetics.
Serial Number of First Unix System In preparation for a talk on Seventh Edition Unix this fall, I stumbled upon a service list from DEC fo...
[Note Added: Thanks to some great comments I’ve received, I’m continuing to add clarifying remarks to this post. You’ll find them in green.] It’s been a couple of months si…
By adding two parameters to any Google Search URL, you can replace search results with a Knowledge Graph card of your choice. A malicious user can use this to generate false information or ‘fake news’.
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Diagnostics play a very important role in a programming language experience. It’s vital for developer productivity that the compiler can produce proper guidance in any situation, especially incomplete or invalid code.
It's time for another major release We are proud to present Gitea 1.10.0 to the world. In this release, we've merged 322 pull requests https://github.com/go gitea/gitea/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is:pr+milestone:1.10.0+is:merged . The list includes 97 features and enhancements, and m
Update as of November 18, 2021: The version of PySyft mentioned in this post has been deprecated. Any implementations using this older version of PySyft are…
U2F/FIDO tokens (a.k.a. “Security Keys”) are a solid contender for doing something about the effectiveness of phishing and so I believe they're pretty important. I've written a fairly lengthy introduction to them previously and, as mentioned there, one concerning aspect of their design is that they permit attestation…
Stealing Downloads from Slack Users I’m going to go over an interesting feature abuse that could have been used to steal and even manipulate downloads from Slack users using the Slack desktop app …
Silly, terrible, no-good very-bad jigsaw puzzles. Featuring Voronoi diagrams, KD-trees, and Clojure.
An overview on the basics behind how we quantify product-market fit at Tribe Capital. These are the underpinnings of our underwriting framework.
The execution of a program unfolds over some interval of time. The lifetime of every temporary resource (e.g., variable or object) is the time span between that resource’s “creation” and “destruction”. This lifetime is wholly contained within the typically-longer lifetime of the program.
tl;dr This is a good move for users in the iOS ecosystem, and is primarily designed as an alternative for apps that currently use "Sign in with [Facebook/Twitter/Google]" to avoid leaking sensitive user info. Yes, Apple is entering the ...
7 CSS declarations and a/an (optional) font import is all it takes to change a drab basic website to a minimalistic easy to read piece of beauty.
A big change that I’ve realised during undergrad is that engineering doesn’t feel ‘magical’ anymore.
The death of a young child has always been the most devastating tragedy mothers and fathers could experience. How common was it?
“The world’s been divided into people who can make software, and the people who use software all day, and basically we think that that paradigm is not a good one. It feels kind of broken,” says Lane Shackleton, Head of Product at Coda, where they are building a new kind of document that blurs the line between users…
Some time ago I blogged about some cool terminal plugins I was using in my Linux notebook. Also some awesome retro- emulator terminals j...
Has it outlasted the ability to estimate when? Composite of src1, src2 Ryohei Hisano and Didier Sornette wrote in 2012 a paper titled, “On the distribution of time-to-proof of mathematical co…
Uber represents something new: a company that is different than incumbents because of technology, yet not itself a tech company — just like the Venture Fund is not a VC.
