Cloud Wars
Now, Walmart is telling some partners and suppliers that their software services should not run on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The report quoted Bob Muglia, CEO of Snowflake Computing, saying that a Walmart (WMT, +0.93%) partner wanted to use his company’s data warehouse service, but was told it had to run on Microsoft (MSFT, +0.51%) Azure cloud instead of AWS.
Originally shared by mathew murphy
Lyft invents a bus without poor people on it. https://www.lyft.com/shuttle
CSS variables are now supported in all modern browsers.
Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky
“The good news for those betting on AI is that graphics chips have so far managed to defy gravity. At the recent conference of leading graphics chipmaker Nvidia, CEO Jensen Huang displayed a chart showing how his chips’ performance has continued to accelerate exponentially while growth in the performance of general purpose processors, or CPUs, has slowed.”
“Doug Burger, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft’s NExT division that works on commercializing new technology, says a similar gap is opening between conventional and machine-learning software. ‘You’re starting to see a [performance] plateau for general software — it has stopped improving at historical rates — but this AI stuff is still increasing rapidly,’ he says.”
“In the longer term, more radical changes in how computer chips work will be required to keep AI getting more powerful.”
Currently reading the Webpack book.
Seems like the definitive one.
What hath Satoshi wrought?
The great thing about these devices is that they offer absolutely no benefits to the people who buy them. They are the perfect corporate product.
To use a political analogy, they’re a bit like voting for Theresa May.
Originally shared by David Megginson
1987: Stasi & KGB break in to hide listening devices.
2017: Google & Apple make people pay to bug their own homes.
This game made me want to become a programmer.
Via Rodd Clarkson
Originally shared by Luft Hans
Colossal Cave Adventure now available as Free Software and in GitLab.
“This code is a forward-port of the Crowther/Woods Adventure 2.5 from 1995, last version in the main line of Colossal Cave Adventure development written by the original authors. The authors have given permission and encouragement to this release.”
John Hardy Developer 