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Open Source Technology is Virtually Everywhere.

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Yann LeCun's keynote yesterday at the United Nations for UN Open Source Week: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14/k1…

Open Source for AI and Emerging Technologies - UN Open Source Week 2026 (Part 1)

Open Source for AI and Emerging Technologies (Open Source x AI) assesses the potential of open source as a gateway to establishing a sustainable AI future. Through the examination of topics such as...

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Drupal is (still) trying to build the "Context Control Center" —a central hub for brand voice and governance— not realizing they are essentially building a very sophisticated dashboard for a cockpit that no one is sitting in anymore. #Drupalcon #Starshot
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You had to be there!
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@mrexitsMar 8
LAN party culture was so special. You honestly had to be there The last time the internet felt like a fun cohesive community before it descended into weird and isolationist
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Interesting that Snowflake isn’t part of the new "Data Cloud Alliance" (esp. since they previously filed the same trademark in 2020) techcrunch.com/2022/04/05/go… Accenture#Confluent#Databricks#Dataiku#Deloitte#Elastic#Fivetran#Google#MongoDB#Neo4j#Redis#Starburst
Data Cloud Alliance launched

Data Cloud Alliance launched

Google, Databricks, Fivetran, Redis and others launch the Data Cloud Alliance

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Y Combinator is hiring their first data engineer: ycombinator.com/companies/y-… .@ycombinator
An Open Secret github.com/trimstray/the-boo…
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“plugin-driven” model feels like a polite way of saying “pull requests welcome” lastweekinaws.com/blog/devel… .@QuinnyPig
Developer Portals Are an Anti-Pattern

Developer Portals Are an Anti-Pattern

Developer portals can be used to enforce standardization and to enable multi-cloud use cases. But they also have some serious issues and should be avoided in most cases.

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Stack Overflow just sold for $1.8B archive.is/IYMAm
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Remembering Allan McDonald: The Engineer who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch text.npr.org/974534021
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Tell me what language you program in without telling me what language you program in.
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wired.com/story/open-source-…
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders

The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders

The open source movement runs on the heroic efforts of not enough people doing too much work. They need help.

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Wow, Apple putting the shakedown on @jasonfried ?! While Silicon Valley's moral vacuum is well known, @markhurst fills in a few details on Apple, eBay, and the desolation of tech: news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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@markhurst Really thought this was some thing that would get discussed on HN, and very surprised it didn't!
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What would you do if you had about a Million lines of code to play with? If you answered “I’d write Hello World in React Native, including all dependencies” you’re today’s winner.
React Camp (@React_Camp) profile pictureReact Camp@React_Camp13 May 2020
Look at this dependency graph of #ReactJS: npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/rea… Now watch the dependency graph for #ReactNative load in real time: npm.anvaka.com/#/view/3d/rea… Notice anything?
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Look at this dependency graph of #ReactJS: npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/rea… Now watch the dependency graph for #ReactNative load in real time: npm.anvaka.com/#/view/3d/rea… Notice anything?
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They seriously should get 17 yo @AviSchiffmann to make the new #COVID19 website rather than 1700 engineers at Google: interestingengineering.com/t…
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Actually, Avi should probably just build it, he would almost certainly have it done long before Google’s 1700 engineers ever got started, and the requirements seem straightforward:
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Why tech companies need philosophers—and how I convinced Google to hire them

Why tech companies need philosophers—and how I convinced Google to hire them

I have spent the better half of the last two years trying to convince companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, DeepMind, and OpenAI that they need to hire philosophers.

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Thanos playing Conway's Game of Life vs. The Avengers would be a cool idea for a youth focused hackathon / programming workshop! h/t @lorarjohns tor.com/2018/05/08/thanos-sn…
Heads I Win, Tails YOU DIE: Thanos' Plan is Even Worse Than You Know - Reactor

Heads I Win, Tails YOU DIE: Thanos' Plan is Even Worse Than You Know - Reactor

(Obviously, full spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War ahead.) Thanos is bad with numbers. And justice. There’s a subset of antagonists that I call “probability villains,” who claim Fortuna’s help in...

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Presumably driven by the need to be able to run Docker natively on Windows
Free Software Group (@CFSG) profile pictureFree Software Group@CFSG7 May 2019
Windows 10 will ship with full Linux kernel: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019…
Windows 10 will soon ship with a full, open source, GPLed Linux kernel

Windows 10 will soon ship with a full, open source, GPLed Linux kernel

The new Windows Subsystem for Linux will use a real Linux kernel.

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