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With the tax deadline looming in the US and the future of the gig economy as the engine of scaling startup workforces under fire, there's an important point to consider: In the gig economy the entire social contract is kaput. Here's why. Everyone who works in
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Hey, it's HighScalability time: Time for a little drone envy. Sea Hunter, 132 foot autonomous surface vessel.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 12,000: base pairs in the largest biological circuit ever built; 3x: places GitHub data is
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Hey, this is no joke, it's HighScalability time: A glorious battle in EVE. Tens of thousands of pilots fighting tens of thousands of pilots in a real time all on a single shard.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon.
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This is one of the most interesting build or buy questions of all time: should Apple build their own cloud? Or should Apple concentrate on what they do best and buy cloud services from the likes of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google? It’s a decision a lot of companies have
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Who's Hiring? * The zanox Group are looking for a Senior Architect. We're looking for someone smart and pragmatic to help our engineering teams build fast, scalable and reliable solutions for our industry leading affiliate marketing platform. The role will involve a healthy mixture of strategic thinking
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Did you know there's a field called computational aesthetics? Neither did I. It's cool though.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 51%: of billion-dollar startups founded by immigrants; 2.8 billion: Twitter metric ingestion service writes per
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This is a guest post by Christophe Limpalair based on an interview (video) he did with Jon Cowie, Staff Operations Engineer and Breaksmith @ Etsy. Etsy has been a fascinating platform to watch, and study, as they transitioned from a new platform to a stable and well-established e-commerce engine. That shift
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Uber faced a challenge. They store a lot of trip data. A trip is represented as a 20K blob of JSON. It doesn't sound like much, but at Uber's growth rate saving several KB per trip across hundreds of millions of trips per year would save
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We come in peace. 5,000 years of battles mapped from Wikipedia. Maybe not.If you like this sort of Stuff then please consider offering your support on Patreon. * 500 petabytes: data stored in Dropbox; 8.5 kB: amount of drum memory in an IBM 650; JavaScript: most popular programming
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If you can’t understand what’s in information then it’s going to be very difficult to organize it. This quote is from Jeff Dean, currently a Wizard, er, Fellow in Google’s Systems Infrastructure Group. It’s taken from his recent talk: Large-Scale Deep Learning for Intelligent Computer
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Who's Hiring? * The zanox Group are looking for a Senior Architect. We're looking for someone smart and pragmatic to help our engineering teams build fast, scalable and reliable solutions for our industry leading affiliate marketing platform. The role will involve a healthy mixture of strategic thinking
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From a talk by @aysylu22 at QCon London on modern computer science applied to distributed systems in practice. "CS research is timeless." Lessons learned are always pertinent. @aysylu22 #qconlondonMarch 8, 2016 There has been a renaissance in the appreciation of computer science papers as a relevant source of