DontBeEvil.rip : Search, for Programmers
I’m happy to announce the first agressively alpha release of DontBeEvil.rip, a search engine built for programmers.
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Locating Humans with DNS
Locating Humans with DNS
SaaS Needs a Single Point of Purchase
The unassailable advantage that big cloud providers like AWS and Azure have over the rest of the SaaS industry isn’t their quality or pace of innovation; it’s that they’re a single point of purchase for a variety of services. If there was a single vendor that large corporations could contract with and pay for SaaS, the big cloud providers market share would have hit its peak.
No Free Features
This thread recently hit the top of Hacker news.
Please Stop Linking To Google Colaboratory
I’m seeing more and more machine learning resources linking to Google Colaboratory. Please, for the sake of future learners, don’t do this. If you want to host your examples on Google Colab, save yourself some effort and all of us some heartache, and just go ahead and delete it before Google inevitably does.
You Can Compete With Free When It’s B2B
Retool has announced that it raised $50M from Sequoia only 2 years after launch for what is essentially a front-end builder. While explaining to a non-developer friend how you can build a business selling something that countless web developers can cobble together out of free open source components, I accidentally busted this rhyme:
Google One blocks transnational families
Here’s one for the Unfortunate Error Message hall of fame.
Web by Google (TM)
Looking at Mozilla’s finances, it’s reasonable to conclude that Google is keeping them on life support to keep the anti-trust hounds at bay. Mozilla’s deal with Google will account for at least 70% of their revenues going forward. That’s over $400 million to be the default search provider in 4% of browsers. For 1 year. I’ll bet my next paycheck that Google reupped this rather generous agreement to…
Do Your Estimates Suck?
Do your estimates suck? You know they probably do, even if you can’t prove it. We all know that estimates are just white lies we use to keep management happy. But do you know how far off they really are?
Fix your development process by visualizing problems
Finding ways for developers to effectively raise process and quality issues outside of their immediate team is a huge challenge. Often an issue will only make it into the light when it’s been a problem for days or weeks. And the complications only multiply when you’re dealing with large, distributed teams.