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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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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth. We may get there with future technologies I'll cover later. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

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Digital Squalor

The Agile Manager

Google contacts? A contract from 2005 between one firm and another is a binding legal document in the context of that relationship. We've spent most of the past 60 years in technology creating tools to automate and digitize tasks and transactions. Historically, Information Technology has focused on the "technology".

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