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The Colorado-based firm plans to eliminate 875 jobs, or about one-quarter of its workforce, by end-2017, so it can better compete against SpaceX and other rivals, including the Jef…

> -This is almost 30 days after the incident What would have been the optimal response time? They fixed the immediate problem as fast as they could and gave a preliminary RCA, then…

I cannot believe how many times I have seen a PROD (or new env X) deployment go bad from configuration issues. At least they separate configuration deployments from code deployment…

There is no question mark on the title of the page itself, so why is there one here? And even if it was a question, it violates Betteridge's law of headlines [0] in that if it was …

Interestingly, it's part of a broader query posed to many journalist and neatly compiled here: http://www.niemanlab.org/collection/predictions-2015/ EVEN better, they follow a sane…

Felix Salmon is no longer at Reuters. The article itself and the link both show as much.

Didn't even pick up on that first time though, but then ran a control+f to see and it is indeed used a lot. However, the story is self-reflective on the author's own past and I per…

Great spot of writing, love it! Finally put to words something I've been trying to phrase myself: "we are not job functions, we are human beings". Plus that whole 'it's OK to not k…

A traveling startup? What a superb idea! It does count as a perfect form of dog-fooding for this startup and I like how neatly the site fits in with telling stories while traveling…

Actually, the Google-provided version restricts you to only 30 days. If you're interested in everywhere you have been, ever (according to Google), then this is quite awesome and yo…

It's fed in by the JSON file that was downloaded in Step 1 from Google when you request an archive of your data. From the site: # Create a dataframe from the json file in the filep…