Detritus

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Google’s $350 Billion Haircut – Which Half Is Wasted? – Medium

How much is Google worth? Today, its market cap — the total value of the company — was just over $690 billion. It is the largest media corporation in the world, earning $79 billion on media revenue…

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The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained very clearly | Robert Heaton

The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm teaches your computer how to riff. The algorithm takes in an archetypical input, and produces procedurally-generated outputs that look like it.

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Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @Netflix

Susheel Aroskar talks about Zuul Push, a scalable push notification service that handles millions of "always-on" persistent connections from all the Netflix apps running. He covers the design of the Zuul Push server and reviews the design details of the back-end message routing infrastructure that lets any Netflix microservice push notifications to any connected client.

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Why Are Enterprises So Slow?

tl;dr In this article I want to explain a few things about enterprises and their software, based on my experiences, and also describe what things need to be in place to make change come abo…

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First Law of Data Design: All data that might change in the future should be tagged with a version number.

(via kyle-burton)

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Sheep Logic - Epsilon Theory

These are baby-doll Southdowns, and yes, they’re exactly as cute as they look in this picture. We only have four today on our “farm”, as sheep have a knack for killing themselves in what would almost be comical fashion if it weren’t so sad. We keep them for their so-so wool, which we clean and …

Fascinating read.

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Functional Data Engineering — a modern paradigm for batch data processing

Batch data processing — historically known as ETL — is extremely challenging.

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How digital cameras work

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A Letter to Jamie Dimon – Chain

(And anyone else still struggling to understand cryptocurrencies)

Best explanation of Bitcoin, Ethereum and cryptocurrencies I've yet read

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Great layout of transactions-on-CAS

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Fear and Loathing in Lock-Free Programming

What follows is a whirlwind tour of an area of programming usually only whispered of and seldom explored, perhaps for good reason. Lock…

Lots of great links in here

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Zuckerberg’s Preposterous Defense of Facebook

If everyone is upset with you, as the platform’s chief says, are you really doing something right?

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A clever way of killing groups of processes