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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Why is it that Google, a company once known for its distinctive “Do no evil” guideline, is now facing the same charges of “surveillance capitalism” as Facebook, a company that never made such claims? That’s exactly what Google, Amazon, and Meta are doing today. They start to collect robber baron rents.

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8 Challenges of mobile app testing and how to solve them?

Testsigma

The special quality about Testsigma is that it provides the tester with 2000+ browsers and every operating system in the market. Consider a scenario where we are using Google Chrome 86 as the latest version. Fifteen days later, Google Chrome was updated to version 87 with an FTP API being deprecated. Mobile Network Issues.

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Meta-learning neural Bloom filters

The Morning Paper

Being an ICLR paper of course, you won’t be surprised to learn that the solution involves neural networks. Instead of learning from scratch, we draw inspiration from the few-shot leaning advances obtained by meta-learning memory-augmented neural networks.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. High Performance Browser Networking. You only have a few seconds to get compelling content onto the screen.

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Fallacy #5: Topology doesn't change

Particular Software

Public102 was nearly overloaded, and at the same time, it needed an OS upgrade because Windows 2000 was nearing the end of extended support. Unfortunately, the network operations had a cruel surprise for us. This maxim applies just as well to servers and networks as it does to the entirety of existence.

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The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

Smashing Magazine

The gotcha here is that, if your mobile experience isn’t optimized for various devices and network conditions, these customers will never appear in your analytics — just because your website or app will be barely usable on their devices, and so they are unlikely to return. Improving Search Engine Visibility.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Modern, asynchronous network APIs that dramatically improve performance in some situations. It's possible that Amazon Luna , NVIDIA GeForce Go , Google Stadia , and Microsoft xCloud could have been built years earlier.

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