The Average Developer’s Guide to Career Success
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Read MoreOvercoming Vim-Phobia: My Journey of Redemption
It's not just about an editor; it’s about folks like you and meImage Courtesy: programmerhumor.ioHee-haw… Here we go. I have been coding for almost a decade now. And, for anyone who spends two-thirds of his day doing so, his toolchain matters. Let’s go for a walk down the memory lane. This
Read MoreFollowing the SBF trial, 3AC arrest and Q3 web3 funding drops
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. The SDNY is becoming a second home for me because the highly anticipated trial for Sam Bankman-Fried has begun. If you need it, we’ve got a refresher for you.
Read MorePayPal faces new antitrust lawsuit claiming it unfairly stifles competition with Stripe, Shopify and more
PayPal has been hit with a class-action lawsuit by consumers represented by law firm Hagens Berman alleging that the fintech giant’s anti-steering rules stifle competition against lower-cost payment platforms such as Stripe and Shopify. Specifically, according to an investigation conducted by the firm’s consumer rights attorneys, PayPal has subjected consumers
Read MoreWant to detect bad actors? Look on the bright side
Even a company the size of Airbnb, it turns out, doesn't have that much data on rule-breaking behavior.
Read MoreUber still dragging its feet on algorithmic transparency, Dutch court finds
Uber has been found to have failed to comply with European Union algorithmic transparency requirements in a legal challenge brought by two drivers whose accounts were terminated by the ride-hailing giant, including with the use of automated account flags. Uber also failed to convince the court to cap daily fines
Read MoreShipping an Admin Interface 10x Faster
Discover a faster, simpler approach to building your admin interface with the help of a modern headless CMSPhoto by Douglas Lopes on UnsplashA couple of weeks ago, I attended a Meetup hosted by Squeed. My old colleague, Joakim Kemeny, was talking about Server-Driven UI (SDUI), which I’ll be sure to link to
Read MoreAs its workers strike over burnout and low wages, Kaiser Permanente strikes a deal to use an AI Copilot from Nabla
Yesterday, 75,000 workers at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente embarked on a three-day strike to protest understaffing, burnout and low wages — setting a record for the biggest healthcare strike to date in U.S. history. But timing is everything in medicine. While Kaiser Permanente works through terms with union reps, another
Read MoreTangent sum
When I was writing my post on lemniscate functions yesterday, a line from the Wikipedia article seemed familiar for reasons I cannot place. Defining a tangent-sum operator as a ⊕ b := tan(arctan a + arctan b) gives cl² z ⊕ sl² z = 1. I feel like I’ve seen
Read MoreEnriched categories
We begin with a couple examples. First, the set of linear transformations from one vector space to another is itself a vector space. Second, the set of continuous linear operators from one Banach space to another is itself a Banach space. Or maybe better, this set can be made into
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