Thuan Pham, hired as Uber’s chief technology officer by former CEO Travis Kalanick back in 2013, is leaving the company in three weeks, the ride-share giant revealed today in an SEC filing that came out just as The Information reported that massive layoffs…

For pre-seed startups, precarious times are baseline until they secure their first customer, first hire and first check. But no matter how built-in turbulence might be for a pre-seed founder, we’re entering a period where stresses are amplified and outlooks…

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Cross-platform implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol. - microsoft/msquic

In high school, I had a band director who would rarely say anything to his students which wasn’t related to music, marching or directing us. When he ...

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I was molested and raped as a child. I spent my teens and twenties filled with anger. My therapist once said something like "How did I know ...

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Learning from our errors in data visualisation

When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated back to a monolith. At QCon London, Alexandra Noonan told…

React re-rendering explained and how to optimize React's re-render performance

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Starting about ten years ago, I started hearing about agencies and agency people getting involved in what they were calling product design....

After working through the failure of his iMac’s SSD, Adam Engst shares the lessons he learned with regard to backing up, restoring, and eking out the most life from old hardware. Hint: waiting to upgrade hardware and software can make troubleshooting and…