As a VC at Icon Ventures and a twenty year veteran of productizing and marketing high tech for VMware, Netscape and others, I've always been fascinated by how new technologies emerge and come to market. One of the major artifacts that tries to capture the…

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Although the name 'New England' is now firmly associated with the east coast of America, this is not the first place to be called that. In t...

Techlead, the *"Ex-Google/Facebook Tech Lead, YouTuber (1M subscribers), multi-millionaire app entrepreneur, digital nomad"* is another one you...

Tutorial for tying the “Ian Knot”, the world's fastest shoelace knot.

When we switched to a new search query parser in September 2020, you'd never know that anything had changed. This is an account of the rigorous testing that happened behind the scenes to ensure a seamless transition.

Building resilient services by identifying foreign state mutations and grouping local changes into restartable atomic phases so that every request can be driven to completion.

Nobel Prize Winner Professor Satoshi Omura, whose discovery of ivermectin led to one of history's greatest public health achievements in transforming the health status of large parts of the globe... gets censored for discussing the science supporting ivermectin…

 Java Agents are an interesting capability of the JVM. Agents can either be Static(Load when the java app starts with a special flag) or the...

papad Hard to believe Sanjeev Arora and his coauthors consider it “a basic tool [that should be] taught to all algorithms students together with divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and random sampling.” Christos Papadimitriou calls it “so hard to believe…

Audacity, the well-known open-source audio-editing software, has been called spyware in a report, with privacy policy changes revealing the tool is collecting data on its users and sharing it with other firms, as well as sending the data to Russia.

Product validation frameworks often describe processes without talking about taste. Here's why this is almost always a bad idea.

When people undergo a great trauma or other unsettling event—they have lost a job or a loved one dies, for example—their understanding of themselves or of

The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence



The EU wants to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content - generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The…

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