How Online Tracking Works With the numerous Facebook snafu’s going around, as well the feeling that new data breaches are being reported daily, privacy is currently top of mind in the tech world. For
It's often said that the internet has democratized education: the sum of human knowledge is only a Google search away! And yet, having access to information is only half of the story; you also need to
Check out this excerpt from Majorie Kelley’s “Divine Right of Capital” (was a recommended read in my last outsourcing talk): When stockholders might try to improve their negotiating position by organi
Joel has a new article entitled “Hitting the High Notes” , which probably deserves a link. I happen to fully agree with Joel, that good programming is about finding that “clever solution,” not just a
For the last couple of weeks, my bedside reading has been this half-biography, half-autobiography on Linus Torvalds. I have to say, however, that the book is like two books mixed into one. Chapters al
Why does Go not need a fancy expensive garbage collector like Java and C#? Published in ITNEXT · 19 min read · May 1, 2021 -- M odern languages such as Go, Julia and Rust don’t need complex garbage co
Convinced from spending hours reading rave reviews , Bob eagerly clicked “Proceed to Checkout” for his gallon of Tuscan Whole Milk and… Whoa! What just happened? In the 220 milliseconds that flew by,
One of the most misquoted sayings in business is “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. This statement (and its variations) is often meant to say that, to improve something, we need a precise
Story highlights James Clough is a British designer and author living in Italy The evolution of sign-making in Italy can be linked to their design history According to Clough, the best Italian signs t
This post is also available in 日本語 , 简体中文 . Handling payments inside your apps is crucial to building a business online. For many developers, the leading choice for handling payments is Stripe . Since
In 2019, a researcher at Facebook conducted an experiment to see whether the platform really has a tendency to send users down a rabbit hole of extreme and conspiratorial content. The employee set up
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