O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Time is Money.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." Developers can provide feedback from using features and lobby other browsers to adopt (or re-design) them. Mediating layers are therefore built to insulate the OS from malicious sites.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 4 ⁄ 5 How We Got to Now builds off the ideas from Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From and further hammers home the point that good ideas do not come from lightbulb moments but from what Johnson calls the Hummingbird Effect.

Social Media 40

Social Media Education Design Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Pricing Design by Dan Mall 5 ⁄ 5 No one in web design has done more work to help others run a business than Dan Mall. JavaScript for Web Designers by Mat Marquis 5 ⁄ 5 For years I’ve said DOM Scripting , despite its age, remains the golden standard for introducing designers to JavaScript. Past years.

Education 40

Education Games Design Entertainment 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). When designing a new application that will operate in the AWS cloud, first take a look at DynamoDB when selecting a database. Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. Start with DynamoDB.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130