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Firefox Money: Investigating the Finances of Mozilla
Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
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Efficiency trades off against resiliency
What’s the “right” level of CPU utilization for a server? If you look at a monitoring dashboard from a well-designed and well-run service, what CPU utilization should we hope to see, averaged over a day or two? It’s a very general question, and it’s not clear it should have a single answer. That said, for a long time…
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Pixar was never a masterpiece factory
the studio has always played to critics instead of children and manipulated with cheap sentiment
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Better to micromanage than be disengaged
For a long time, I found the micromanager CEO archetype very frustrating to work with. They would often pop out of nowhere, jab holes in the work I had done without understanding the tradeoffs, and then disappear when I wanted to explain my decisions. In those moments, I wished they would trust me based on my track…
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Starting design work in a spreadsheet
In the early phases of a project a spreadsheet can be a more useful design tool than Figma.
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Fireside Chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face
We discuss Hugging Face, Open Source, and AI
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Profits are driving inflation. When will politicians and the BoE admit it?
The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 4%, supposedly to tackle inflation. There is just one problem with this decision. The Bank knows that much of the inflation we are suffering is being driven by rising oil and energy prices, largely resulting from conflict in the Middle East. It also...
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Triplebyte acquired by Karat
Karat acquires Triplebyte's adaptive assessment technology to help companies eliminate resume bias, reduce candidate drop-off, and hire engineers more fairly.
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2023: The Year of AI
Explore the significant AI advancements, impactful partnerships, and legal debates that defined 2023.
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The Military-Industrial Stock Buyback Complex
Why is the US military ceding ground to China? As a new DOD report shows, big defense contractors are middlemen whose main purpose is stock buybacks and dividends.
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Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts
I parse HackerNews (HN) “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” posts from 2013 to time of writing and analyse them to better understand the trends in the data job market with a focus on the fate of data science. Here are my main conclusions:
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Welding and the automation frontier
The big question about Artificial Intelligence, other than whether it will destroy human civilization, is the effect it will have on employment.
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What Do We Owe Our Teams?
Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model. Last week, though, in my product leadership workshop, we had an…
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We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters
Why are people so concerned with hardware power consumption nowadays? Some common answers to this question are that power is critically important for phones, tablets, and laptops and that we can put more silicon on a modern chip than we can effectively use . In 2001 Patrick Gelsinger observed that if scaling continued…
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The Long Shadow of Checks
A lot of more modern financial infrastructure follows the paths blazed by checks, at least in the U.S.
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The OpenAI Keynote
OpenAI’s developer keynote was exciting, both because AI was exciting, and because OpenAI has the potential to be a meaningful consumer tech company.
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OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
The entire team has joined OpenAI.
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Corporate legibility for software engineers
Understand corporate legibility through the lens of a software engineer.
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Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction
Over the last 15 years, we’ve built Stack Overflow into an industry-crucial knowledge base for millions of developers and technologists. During this time we’ve experienced years filled with opportunities and challenges. This year is no different.
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Building a second income stream by writing a book
Spoiler: It’s quite possibly the hardest way to build a passive income stream.
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Why we bootstrap
Venture capital isn’t the necessity it once was for tech startups. We've chosen to bootstrap because it gives us flexibility in the way we build. Here's why.
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That won't scale: Present cost vs. future value
Thanks for reading Code Solo!
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A novel PayPal scam
This morning I received an interesting scam email. It might not be a new scam, but it was the first time I’d seen it.
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Double Standards
Once people had recovered from the shock of seeing both a power button and a real-time clock on a Raspberry Pi, one of the most commented-on features of the new platform was the small, vertical, 16-way FFC (Flat Flexible Cable) connector on the left-hand side of the board, which exposes a single-lane PCI Express…
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Raspberry Pi's Camera Module 3 adds autofocus and new Sony sensor
Raspberry Pi just announced their new Camera Module 3, which comes in four variations (standard and wide angle, normal and NoIR for infrared use), and costs $25 for the standard versions, and $35 for wide angle. That's a step up from the older Camera Module 2, which cost $25 and only came in a 'standard' focal length…
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Yes, it's OK to be mad about crime in San Francisco
Let's not make excuses for Chaos City.
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Intel Launches Intel Core 14th Gen Desktop Processors for Enthusiasts
Latest Intel processors deliver world’s fastest desktop frequencies, the world’s best desktop experience for enthusiasts and unparalleled overclocking for incredible performance.