I have found that the two biggest causes of having to fire an employee  at an early stage startup are a lack of culture fit , and the inabil...

Google employees have no legal right to protest the company’s choice of clients, the internet giant told a judge weighing the U.S. government’s allegations that its firings of activists violated the National Labor Relations Act.

Chomsky on startup culture and Silicon Valley.

In this article, I'm going to go over the basics building blocks of jq in enough depth that you will be able to understand how jq works.

I remember the sad day that I finally gave up on using Emacs for Java development at work. I had spent hours trying to configure it to properly index all of the files so that I could go to definition easily. My mentor, the old Lisp guy with the insane init.el…

A misconception that I held for a really long time was that systems that use SQL (Structured Query Language) are by definition relational databases, and systems that don’t (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra) are non-relational. It’s easy to understand whether a database…

One of the biggest criticisms that I’ve levelled at the feet of Intel since it started talking about its hybrid processor architecture designs has been the ability to manage threads in an intelligent way. When you have two cores of different performance and…

If you're dead you can't own land - so if someone obtains your death certificate you could lose everything.

China's MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine even bigger than GE's monstrous Haliade-X. The MySE 16.0-242 is a 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall (794-ft) behemoth capable of powering 20,000 homes per unit over a 25-year service life.

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV, TSV, and tabular JSON - johnkerl/miller

It’s been a long time since we announced the Turing Pi V2, but finally, we are ready to reveal all the details of the new cluster board. But first, we want to thank you all for your patience and for every feedback you gave us along the way. We appreciate…

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A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical. - GitHub - roboflow-ai/neuralhash-collisions: A catalog of naturally occurring images whose Apple NeuralHash is identical.

Discover the user offboarding tactics used by Adobe and how to design a great subnoscription cancellation flows without relying on unethical dark patterns.

[Note 2017-12-29: the news.ycombinator.com
discussion of this post is unusually useful. You may want to read it
first.]

[Note 2018-09-01:...