I once killed a $125 million deal by being “too honest.” There are many ways to lose deals, lest you think last week’s story was my only painful blunder. This one hinged on a fateful encounter with Jerry Yang and involved Paul Graham (@paulg). Here’s what…

Carmen Mola, a female novelist who won a €1m Spanish literary prize last week, has been revealed as a pseudonym for three men.

Deleting an S3 bucket is harder than you think, and may even cost you money.

Researchers discover that when the mind wanders or goes blank, some parts of the brain behave as they do during sleep.

Self-hosted music streaming server 🎶 with RESTful API and Web interface. Think of it as your very own Spotify! ☁️🎧 - ironsmile/euterpe

The Australian composer has returned to performing after a 10-year break. He writes about fame, failure and his surprise comeback

While much attention has been focused on
high-level software architectural patterns,
what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This
paper examines the most frequently deployed architecture:
the BIG BALL OF…

This post is a horror story about what happens when your code/test noscripts go wrong. It's also a horror story on how not to test your code. Most testing advice hits low hanging fruit advice: Kid, you should write unit tests. Sure, grandpaWe won't be doing…

A proposal for adding a useful pipe operator to JavaScript. - tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator

A contract with a tech giant can put a startup on the map with venture capitalists and the market at large. That’s what happened for Netskope, a cloud-based data security provider. Founded in 2012, the company was able to quickly scale up and secure multiple…

The setup.py interface is an old convention from distutils, one that has bugs that cannot be fixed to bring it into line with modern Python packaging approaches. As a result, all direct...

Function pipelines allow you to analyze data by composing multiple functions in SQL and express complex logic in PostgreSQL in a cleaner way.

The rampant abuse of DMCA law is well known. In the latest, Google deletes over 3,000 articles of WheelsJoint from its search results, including the Tesla...

An MIT study suggests our brains are not optimized to calculate the shortest possible route when navigating on foot. Instead, pedestrians use vector-based navigation, choosing “pointiest” paths that point most directly toward their destination, even if the…