I’m delighted to announce today that we’ve raised $60M in Series C funding at Materialize! We’ve now raised a little over $100M since inception in our goal to make every business real-time. materialize.com/materialize-ra…

Today we’re updating The Verge’s policy on agreeing to “background” from tech companies. We’re doing this publicly to provide cover for other newsrooms covering tech to do the same. It’s getting a little ridiculous out there. theverge.com/press-room/227…

Women who stand up for themselves get penalized. 51 studies: a woman who negotiates for herself fears—and faces—backlash as selfish & aggressive. If she negotiates for others, suddenly she seems caring. I want to live in a world that celebrates women advocating for themselves.

A startup paper that everyone should know: Investors who find a surprise unicorn almost never find another… but they are viewed as insightful investors & thus forever get better deal flow as the “person who invested first in Uber,” so they keep winning: hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio…

Astrology doesn't hold up to scientific scrutiny: 1. The positions of celestial objects have no bearing on personality 2. There's no clear mechanism to explain why they would 3. So why do people keep believing? Research: it may be due to low intelligence and high narcissism...

Wow, they made a list of the dumbest people at Google cnbc.com/2021/11/23/goo…

Is SQL the best query lang that could ever exist? No. Can SQL be improved? Yes (as it should). Is somebody going to propose a completely new SQL replacement every 5yrs? Yes. Will they succeed in replacing SQL? No.

The problem with unmoderated online spaces is that a few people will always ruin them. Most conflicts between Reddit can be traced to a handful of active users with a history of angry comments. A mere 0.1% of all Reddits generate 38% of attacks on others, and 1% accounts for 74%.

If you remembered all the lyrics to those songs, do yourself a favor. You’re probably overdue for a colonoscopy and EKG.

React 18 is now available on npm! Here’s an overview of what’s new in React 18, and what it means for the future. reactjs.org/blog/2022/03/2…

I think the biggest advantage of a manager who has worn many different hats as an IC Is that they have a gut feel for how hard tasks are And an appreciation for people who make hard things look easy

It’s a compelling idea, but 6% of Twitter users currently generate about 76% of all political content on the platform, and those 6% people are overwhelmingly from the extremes.

Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it’s an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can “git blame” and point to a human and it’s awful. But it’s the testing, the Cl/CD, the A/B testing, the metered

it is (relatively) easy to copy something that you know works. it is extremely hard to do something new, risky, and difficult when you don't know if it will work. individual researchers rightly get a lot of glory for that when they do it! it's the coolest thing in the world.

A major mistake I made in my undergrad is that I focused way too much on mathematical lens of computing - computability, decidability, asymptotic complexity etc. And too little on physical lens - energy/heat of state change, data locality, parallelism, computer architecture. The

People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated

so today I have to say this again use UUIDv7 for primary keys

Everyone saying AI is going to replace people clearly don’t work with great people enough

Every time you get a cancer biopsy, the lab makes a tissue slide that costs about $5. It shows the shape of your cells under a microscope, and every cancer patient already has one on file. There’s a much fancier version of that test called multiplex immunofluorescence (basically