A common misconception in discussions about typing speed is that any speed above, say, maybe 80 wpm , isn’t going to hinder anyone when trying toput anything into the computer This particular version
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W hen Angus Deaton arrived in the US four decades ago, he imagined he had something to say about economic inequality and how to tackle it that Americans might want to hear. Instead, the great economic
Years ago, my friend Greg wrote about his progression from one of Stripe's first hires to its CTO . The post resonated with me a lot. It was the first honest perspective I'd seen that shared the 'guts
The Dream Machine is a Stripe Press books that covers early computing, the creation of the internet, and how computers transitioned from being mechanical devices to the ubiquitous machines that we can
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The Shift Personalized A.I. Agents Are Here. Is the World Ready for Them? The age of autonomous A.I. assistants could have huge implications. Sam Altman is the chief executive of OpenAI, which is intr
In recent years, Apache Flink has established itself as the de facto standard for real-time stream processing. Stream processing is a paradigm for system building that treats event streams (sequences
In 2019, a very animated Bill Gates explained to Andrew Ross Sorkin why Microsoft lost mobile: There’s no doubt that the antitrust lawsuit was bad for Microsoft. We would have been more focused on cre
When it comes to distilled spirits, the word blending or rectifying has gotten a bad rap in the U.S. Back in the 1800s before there was a legal definition for whiskey the liquid that was served to thi
It's now been a year since The Muskover (Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter). Many wondered whether Twitter would still be around by now, or a technological or financial wreck. Technologically it's still
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Here’s a very interesting bit of Zig that I came across again this week: @fieldParentPtr . It’s a prism through which you can see a lot of Zig’s character. That’s not what the official docs say, of co
T oday STAT turns 8. In these annual letters, I usually talk proudly about all we have accomplished, from our singular coverage of the Covid pandemic to our years-in-the-making court victory to force
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In shell scripting you sometimes come across comparisons where each value is prefixed with "x". Here are some examples from GitHub: if [ "x${JAVA}" = "x" ]; thenif [ "x${server_ip}" = "xlocalhost" ];
You've probably come across the term “active chair” or “active seating” over the past few years. These seats are billed as a countermeasure to the sitting epidemic— numerous studies have shown that si
Multicore CPUs have to give user programs a way to synchronize between different cores, and ensure a coherent view of memory. A write from one core has to be made visible to others, even though each c
I’m spotting a worrying trend among startup founders who seem to think that running a startup is effectively a get-rich-quick scheme. Apart from that mindset being wrong and naive, I suspect there’s s
Credits Renée DiResta is the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. You’ve probably seen it: a flock of starlings pulsing in the evening sky, swirling this way and that, fein
Avoiding fallback in distributed systems Select your cookie preferences We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improv
We are slowly but steadily approaching the end of 2023. I thought this was a good time to write a brief recap of the major developments in the AI research, industry, and open-source space that happene
The writer and her father in 1981. Photo: Courtesy of the author There were three boys ahead of me in the waiting room at the orthodontist’s. One wore a New Kids shirt, one was blasting Boyz II Men on
What is the most important CPU that Intel ever produced? The Pentium? The chip was no slouch, and was also a brand that was heavily marketed by Intel, putting the firm on a map for many computer illit
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