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Apple's Shifting Differentiation
Apple is about the integration of hardware and software, but the balance between the two has shifted over time.
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GPT-3
May 2020 Gwern.net newsletter: GPT-3 scaling, implications, deep theory; anime GAN updates, and 1 book review.
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‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ Doesn't Work That Well
Why ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ isn't as great a thinking tool as you might think.
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Evidence-based software engineering: book released
My book, Evidence-based software engineering , is now available; the pdf can be downloaded here , here and here , plus all the code+data . Report any issues here . I’m investigating the possibility of a printed version. Mobile friendly pdf (layout shaky in places).
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Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users
What are the monthly costs of running a webapp on DigitOcean? I dig into the numbers here.
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Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers
Simple Analytics open page shows an updated overview of key financial and customer-focused metrics.
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Never attribute to stupidity what is adequately explained by opportunity cost
People aren't incompetent or lazy, just busy doing other things.
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What Was TON And Why It Is Over
telegra.ph/what-was-ton-and-why-it-is-over-05-122020287 points162 commentsCrypto & Blockchain details
For the last 2,5 years some of our best engineers have been working on a next-generation blockchain platform called TON and a cryptocurrency we were going to name Gram. TON was designed to share the principles of decentralization pioneered by Bitcoin and Ethereum, but to be vastly superior to them in speed and…
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Eight Years at Roblox
I joined Roblox at the end of 2012 as a rendering engineer; I had just spent more than a year working on various titles from FIFA franchise after years of console game development and was becoming a bit tired of the “big game development”. My work on FIFA was as a contractor and I got an offer for a full-time…
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Signs that a business idea will probably fail
After 14 years running my own businesses, I’ve failed a lot. I haven’t kept count thankfully, but I’d say I’ve started at least 50 businesses / ideas and out of those, 3 have worked. And when I say worked I don’t mean staying in business, I mean resulting in either a decent income for me […]
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Why we’re changing to the AGPL license
We’re changing our license as we’ve become aware that there are risks associated with permissive open source licenses that corporations that don’t care about open source are happy to take advantage of.
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Omni Group Layoffs
Omni’s been around for almost 30 years, and I hope it’s around for another 30. It’s one of the great Mac and iOS shops — they will sing songs about Omni, at maximum volume, in the great halls.
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
Apple reported its first quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Tuesday, January 28, 2020.
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Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites
Verizon Media’s search engines promises “unbiased” search results, but serves results clearly favoring the company’s media websites over competitors.
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The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility
Discover SEO strategies, AI search optimization tips, and digital marketing insights from RankScience. Boost your search rankings and grow your business.
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Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes
The reduction of CI/CD minutes aligns with the majority of free user usage
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AWS Ruins Own Attempt at Sabotage
This week’s analysis on multi-cloud being a bad idea is once again pushed back by breaking news. In this case, AWS is suing a former executive, Brian
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Don’t pay for 95% (2016)
Your car sits idle over 95% of the time. Your guest bedroom is occupied one week out of every 52. Your kids use the yard less than 40 minutes a week. Yet we consumers love to envision the maximum usage for a particular item - like a house or a car…
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Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
February 10, 2020 4 minutes read The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of full-time development on the tool NDepend I’d like to elaborate a bit here. Let’s start with the…
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Planning and Managing Layoffs
How you handle a layoff, how you communicate it to the people impacted, and how you manage and lead throughout the process really matters. It takes careful thought and planning, but it may be the most important planning you ever do as a leader.
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The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
Some classic (non-aggregation) monopolization!