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Interesting that being sealed for 5 million years did not yield any life forms more complex than insects. Maybe sun and space are importance factors for intelligence.

Hi This is an itch I've been meaning to scratch for some time. https://glint.statictype.org/ Glint is a simple utility that lets you double-click xlsx and docx files in Finder and …

This article sums it up perfectly. I was interested in building a compiler long before going to college and this was the most accessible body of work. Building a recursive descent …

Thanks for this. We resorted to setting ram thresholds in systemd. Is earlyoom a better solution than that to prevent an erratic process from making an instance unresposnsive?

You can do this with SES on AWS or Mailgun. We use SES for this exact use case. Giving agents programmatic access to an email inbox and programmatically creating inboxes.

The free version doesn’t show ads. Come on.

The problem is, it's not necessarily the job of the person who is tasked with doing it. These are the kind of things that fall between the gaps in smaller companies and there's no …

It’s all relative. Having lived and driven in India for many years, the driving in Sri Lanka is very organized and civil. But I get what you’re saying.

Optimizely also sold to private equity many years ago. Presumably the founderts aren't there any more.

It is interesting that their 'About' page mentions a lot of their work but no mention of Adani - which would have arguably been their biggest.

Do you have a link to the Snowflake whitepaper?

The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz This is probably one of the best Shoe Dog - Phil Knight. A great read about the struggles of how Nike started. But was left unsatisf…

>I perfectly understand the rationale behind the pricing model. The point is that "only large enterprises need or care about SSO" is completely wrong-headed and detrimental to the …

I have found that micro libraries are being replaced by ChatGPT generated functions.

Wasn’t your dad also a specialist in that sense (the technical founder as you put it)? Great writing, btw.

We routinely sell mostly to large enterprises. Yes, its not proportionally more difficult than selling to SMEs. However the problem with enterprise accounts are: 1. They hijack you…

For all this to work you need to control the domain. Is that easier than simply breaking into their systems and owning their servers?

Is there programmable mqtt broker out there? Something that lets you integrate authentication with your auth provider and has built in multi-tenancy?

Or equally likely he's on his way out? If there is doubt about whether a person of his stature belongs on the leadership team or not, it seems to signal that he won't be on the lea…