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Why Vivaldi won't follow the current AI trend?
Web browsers are integrating the current AI trend with Large Language Model (LLM) functionality. But there are fundamental issues with it. We address them.
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What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers
The end of 10+ years of 0% interest rates is set to change the tech industry. What do higher rates mean for software engineering jobs, developers, and careers; and how can you prepare for this shift?
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Coming to Grips with Apple's Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement
No matter what the sport, no matter what the letter of the rulebook says, it’s never a good idea to piss off the refs.
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Tailwind CSS marketing and misinformation engine
The origins of Tailwind and how it is framed to solve the proposed issues of CSS
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Southwest Airlines now available on Google Flights
Southwest Airlines famously doesn’t show up when searching online travel agency websites. Historically if you’ve wanted to buy a ticket on Southwest, you’ve had to go directly to Southwest to make the purchase. But desperation and new government regulations appear to be changing all of that.
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Guys what is wrong with ACATS
Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the background. No cats were harmed.
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Let's Stop Asking "Why Do You Want to Work for Us?" In Interviews
Most people want to work for your company for money, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Notes from an Interviewer
These days I find myself interviewing quite a few candidates. Some are good, some aren’t. So it goes. However, there is another group who I feel could be good but just aren’t showing it…
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Brex Layoffs
Today, Brex Founder and co-CEO Pedro Franceschi sent the following note to Brex employees:
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Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)
Mortgages are popularly thought of as loans, but to understand the industry, it's better to model them as complex manufactured products.
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The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits
A behind the scenes look at engineering crits at Figma.
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The People Deliberately Killing Facebook
Enjoy this post? Why not try the podcast version? Please download it, and also all the other episodes. Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now
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Meta.ai Oh My
“Meet Your New Assistant” says the announcement , going on with “Built With Llama 3”. And oh my goodness has it ever got a lot of coverage. So I thought I might as well try it.
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How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys
"Someone left a human liver at the wrong hospital’s cargo bay in 90 degree heat, and no one noticed for an hour and a half."
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The Tech Industry Doesn't Understand Consent – Opt-Out Is Not Consent
Thanks to Samantha Cole at 404 Media, we are now aware that Automattic plans to sell user data from Tumblr and WordPress.com (which is the host for my blog) for “AI” products. In respon…
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
a perfectly miserable son of a gun builds Silicon Valley
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Is the Job Market Dying?
how tech makes hiring worse
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Plausible Community Edition
We’re introducing the “free as in beer”, self-hosted and AGPL-licensed Plausible Community Edition (CE).
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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next
On his 65th birthday, Stephen Wolfram details how his 'now or never' thinking has made the last five years some of his most productive. Read about his projects in tech and science.
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The First Hedge Fund
How A. W. Jones improvised his way to an investment style and structure that has persisted till today.
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Privacy focused platform Skiff is joining Notion, Skiff to be sunset
Our co-founder Akshay talks to Skiff co-founders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg about their startup's vision and journey to Notion.
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A 2024 Plea for Lean Software
This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth, a computing pioneer who passed away January 1st. In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “A Plea for Lean Software”, and in what follows, I try to make the same case nearly 30 years later, updated for today’s computing horrors. The really short version: the…
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FICO and the Credit Bureau Cartel
Mortgage lenders face destruction as a cartel of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax work with FICO to drive them out of business. Regulator and anti-monopolist Rohit Chopra is pushing back.
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Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intel Corporation today reported second-quarter 2024 financial results.
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) on navigating complex systems
Few can measure the impact of a blog post they wrote, in the millions of dollars a year, but Patrick McKenzie has the receipts
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The economics of a Postgres free tier
Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.
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Trading trust
The Brookings Institution did a fascinating survey series over the last five years. I have two takeways from this: The first is that focused and persistent propaganda is able to shift public opinio…
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Jerry Neumann: Resignation Letter
I am no longer investing in new companies.