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Competition vs. activation | Seth's Blog
Innovators rarely have a competition problem. The challenge isn’t that your market is buying from an alternative provider–the challenge is that they’re buying from no one. The wor…
Patch Your Dependencies Like a Boss | by Meysam Azad | Medium | Geek Culture
Unit Testing Has Never Been Any Easier, I Promise 🤞
Pluralistic: 24 Apr 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
AWS Principles: Understand Your Single Points of Failure | Demitasse
My favourite quote from Werner Vogels is, “Everything fails, all the time.” One of the AWS design principles is to understand where things fail and prevent a failure from causing your a…
Untenable | Seth's Blog
You can build a city below sea level, and it might work for a while, but sooner or later, the water will win. Trends don’t determine whether we’ll be able to accomplish something tomorr…
Misfill, Sakura Edition — The Pen Addict
Van Dieman’s Apricot on Kokuyo Campus – Inkcredible Colours
Ink Apricot is from Van Dieman’s Harvest series which celebrates the colourful produce grown in Tasmania. The ink is a pale orange that makes me think about pastoral sunsets and babies. I find this…
Beautiful Photos of Sakura Blooming in Japan by Hidenobu Suzuki
Spring is the best season to visit Japan. You will be surprised to see the beauty of its nature. It is full of blooming trees and that for sure is a breathtaking view. I photographed this mesmerizing season of cherry blossoming. It truly looks like a dream. "My photographs are like Japanese paint
Ocean rewilding: England’s largest seagrass restoration project begins - Positive News
Boats laden with seagrass seeds are setting off from the south coast today as part of a four-year project to restore underwater meadows
Tachyum Unveils Prodigy Universal Processor at DIA CIO Virtual Summit
LAS VEGAS, April 20, 2021 -- Tachyum Inc. today announced the upcoming participation in the Defense Intelligence Agency, Chief Information Officer,
What Is the Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence to the Architecture Profession? | Features | Archinect
Artificial intelligence could potentially help us streamline the more rudimentary and tedious aspects of design to free up more time for creative problem solving and response to human needs. It would be unreasonable to say that any AI that we could conceive in our lifetime would be able to...
Making ethanol from corn is the least efficient use of farmland
Corn is the #1 crop grown on US farms. Most of it is used to make gasoline-additive ethanol. Leasing land for solar is a far better option.
Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences | Mind Matters
Computers require complete data to come to a correct conclusion but humans often work very well with incomplete data.
The new M1 iMac highlights everything that's wrong with Apple | ZDNet
There's an e-waste timebomb in our future, and the Apple logo is all over it.
Your Service Provider’s Terms of Service Shouldn’t Overrule Your Fourth Amendment Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Last week, EFF, ACLU, and ACLU of Minnesota filed an amicus brief in State v. Pauli, a case in the Minnesota Supreme Court, where we argue that cloud storage providers’ terms of service (TOS) can’t
Robots are animals, not humans | WIRED UK
Humans have worked alongside animals for centuries. So why are we so obsessed with comparing robots to ourselves?
Overcoming Bias : Explaining Regulation
A theory of how developers seek information - Austin Z. Henley
I can predict what piece of code a developer will look at next with high accuracy.
Writing a Postgres SQL Pretty Printer in Rust: Part 2 - House Absolute(ly) Pointless
It’s been a few weeks since my last post on this project. I was distracted by Go reflection and security issues with Perl IP address modules. But now I can get back to my Postgres SQL pretty printer project1. One of the challenges for this project has been figuring out the best way to test it. I tried a standard unit test approach before giving up and settling on integration testing instead, so in this post I’ll talk about what I tried and what I ended up with.
The next ten years
The demand for Software development experts is still growing all over the world. Some people keep saying we live in a bubble, albeit salaries increased circa 10% Year-over-year during the last five years. Atop, there are two counterintuitive facts. On the one hand, people graduating from Computer Science schools or boot camps are highe...
You might as well timestamp it |> Changelog
In my 15+ years of web development, there are very few things I can say are unequivocally a good idea. It almost always does depend. Storing timestamps instead of booleans, however, is one of those things I can go out on a limb and say it doesn’t really depend all that much. You might as well timestamp it. There are pl...
A Porting Horror Story
➤ RegTech Solutions In A Nutshell: How To Build A Software Solution To Meet Compliance And Regulatory Requirements 👍
In this article, we will dive into the world of RegTech solution to discover how to build a software solution that meets compliance and regulatory requirements. Let’s begin!
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Sunday Firesides: Love Your Enemy | The Art of Manliness
In the aftermath of the Second Punic War, Roman citizens erected several statues — which remained standing for centuries — of Hannibal. Hannibal. The cruel Carthaginian general who started the war, occupied most of southern Italy for a decade and a half, and terrorized Romans for just as long. Typical of an honor-based culture, ancient […]
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