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| How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars |
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| A former Azure Core engineer recounts arriving on his first day to find a 122-person org seriously planning to port Windows-based VM management agents - 173 of them, which nobody could fully explain - onto a tiny, low-power ARM chip running Linux. The stack was already failing to scale on server-grade hardware. He frames this organizational disconnect as the opening act of a larger story about how Azure's dysfunction contributed to Microsoft losing trust with the US government and OpenAI, and ultimately vaporizing a trillion dollars in market cap. |
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| Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes ✅ |
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| This post is for developers that have an intuitive knowledge of what database indexes are, but don’t necessarily know how they work internally, what are the tradeoffs associated with indexes, what are the types of indexes provided by postgres and how you can use some of its more advanced options to make them more optimized for your use case. Indexes are special database objects primarily designed to increase the speed of data access, by allowing the database to read less data from the disk. They can also be used to enforce constraints like primary keys, unique keys and exclusion. |
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| What if I stored data in my mouse |
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| The author experimented with storing data in a Logitech mouse's flash memory. Logitech mice communicate through HID++, a protocol that maps device features using stable IDs. Despite efforts to write data to certain registers, only the DPI register could retain data across power cycles. |
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| Bad Analogies: Not Every Money-Burning Company is Amazon |
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| The essay discusses the misconceptions around companies that burn a lot of money, drawing comparisons to Amazon's successful strategy. It delves into examples like Uber and WeWork to highlight the importance of understanding the long-term implications of cash burn. The focus is on the strategies and economics of companies like Anthropic and OpenAI and how they are different in a competitive landscape. |
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| The Beginning of Programming as We’ll Know It |
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| In the wake of AI coding assistants like Claude and Codex, many wonder if the human role of "computer programmer" is ending. Although AI shows promise, human developers are valuable in the current transitional period. Real programmers are uniquely positioned to harness AI's power while augmenting it with human qualities AI lacks. |
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