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The companies building giant AI compute for themselves have started renting it out: SpaceX leased all of Colossus to Anthropic, and Meta says a cloud business is on the table. Appl…

From the article, it seems the information was flowing _from_ the reporter: > The feds allege that Peltz used disposable “burner” phones and encrypted apps to communicate with a jo…

They have a point though, testing patterns are absolutely a real world concern.

I've written a Python for Java programmers book - http://antrix.net/py4java

I've worked in finance technology for eight years now, in various domains. As a broad generalization, if you are latency bound (milliseconds or less) then everything is done in cod…

> And those guys hardly ever ship any code due to how encumbered developers typically are in those places and release maybe once every 6 months to a year perhaps. I've worked in pl…

"Compulsory time off" is actually required by law in some regulated industries such as finance.

On a lighter note, Conference Driven Development: http://devdriven.by/conference/

If I understand correctly, the gitbook toolchain isn't freely available. Nor does gitbook address any of the limitations of Markdown that prompted me to switch to Asciidoc.

I wrote a short book recently [1] and went through a similar process. Started writing using Markdown & Pandoc but soon realized that Markdown isn't a very good fit for longer techn…

Java's pluggable type system can do this. The Checker framework provides a Units checker that can be plugged into the compile stage. See this blog for more info: http://blog.parall…

This looks like a great idea! Some feedback: for a site named 'solr start', I was hoping the first thing I see would be something named 'start here' which explains what solr is, wh…

As a start, I recommend reading "Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests". I am still not a 100% convert but I did get many of the same questions answered. http://www.ama…

I've been working on a fun side project that takes a light-hearted dig at all the _[] driven development_ processes that our field comes up with. Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Tl7…

> and you're capped at $1 per year per user Why would that be the case? There are always other revenue streams to be explored using the same user base.

It was deemed too expensive for Singapore as well, until public outcry against deaths changed things. Some reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_on_the_Mass_Rapid_Transi...

Hi HN Folks. A bit of background on how the site came to be: http://antrix.net/posts/2013/xdd/ I'd appreciate any feedback you have on the site!

Why doesn't Pinboard get any love in any of these icon fonts? If they did, I'd switch from images to fonts for my personal site.

> Lastly, I haven't tried it, but I suspect replacing the Android Launcher would also let you do it. This is the method Facebook used for putting their talking heads in every app. …

I use a neat little utility called Puretext for this. http://stevemiller.net/puretext/