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by smiljo 7y ago
A great article! It's particularly cool to see that despite the author's adoration for Beethoven, he still points out some of his musical weaknesses, like counterpoint (we could also add opera). I would highly recommend "Beet
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Top Facebook executive had an awkward face-off with Amazon CTO over user data(businessinsider.com)
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by smiljo 7y ago
"Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy. I found this one very motivating, covering MIT hacker heroes of old, early game developers, and the Homebrew Computer Club.
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by smiljo 7y ago
The top five most popular articles are well worth reading. I particularly enjoyed "The Google Squeeze" and "AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source". And as he mentions, it really is quite brutal that the
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David Foster Wallace on John McCain (2000)(rollingstone.com)
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Pulitzer vs. Hearst: A Lesson for Content Marketing (2016)(medium.com)
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by smiljo 7y ago
I don't think we can tell for sure before they start releasing numbers for cloud proper. Both Azure and GCP are problematic in that regard (see the acrobatics that Stratechery was going through while trying to deduce GCP numbers). Tha
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by smiljo 7y ago
Seems like Oracle is taking totally contradictory positions in this case and the Google one. > Did Oracle infringe Amazon's copyright here? Ars Technica contacted Oracle to ask them if they had a license to copy Amazon's S3 API
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by smiljo 7y ago
Great observation, with a very minor caveat: when Gates & Allen started out in programming languages, they were an awesome first mover. I highly recommend the "Hard Drive" book which goes into a bit more detail. However, in ev
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by smiljo 7y ago
It's actually a great testament to Microsoft's execution that they were able to catch up (to some extent at least), despite AWS having a seven year head start. Bezos himself called this a business miracle (the seven year head star
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Robert Taylor (Computer Scientist)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by smiljo 7y ago
You and Your Research by Richard Hamming: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html It's rare to have a researcher of that caliber give nitty gritty advice on having the greatest impact in your r
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Perceptrons: The First Neural Networks (2017)(pythonmachinelearning.pro)
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by smiljo 7y ago
A great summary of Kai Bird's book, which is highly recommended! A really interesting thing to note about Oppenheimer, as the author points out, was a somewhat "haphazard" approach both to studying physics, and in his actual
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LinkedIn’s Series B Pitch to Greylock (2013)(reidhoffman.org)
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Why do we need distributed systems?(brooker.co.za)
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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce (1983)(classic.esquire.com)
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Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-Value Store (2007) [pdf](allthingsdistributed.com)
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Consumer spending on mobile games grew 8% to $210M on Christmas(venturebeat.com)
1 points by smiljo 7y ago|0 comments