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

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

In 2013, AWS opened an office in Hong Kong. Today we have local teams in Hong Kong to help customers of all sizes as they move to AWS, including account managers, solutions architects, business developers, partner managers, professional services consultants, technology evangelists, start-up community developers, and more.

AWS 146

AWS Logistics Cloud Social Media 146

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

Recent posts here covering the slow pace of WebKit development and ways the mobile browser market has evolved to disrespect user choice have sparked conversations with friends and colleagues. Also, allowing other web browser engines could put users at risk if developers abandon their apps or fail to address a security flaw quickly.

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

Identity and Data Security for Web Development by Jonathan LeBlanc & Tim Messerschmidt 4 ⁄ 5 Pretty solid introduction to the topic. She doesn’t avoid discussing the difficulties faced in Africa, but she always follows that discussion with some examples of people innovating in incredibly creative ways to overcome these challenges.

Education 40

Education Games Design Entertainment 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

However, we also knew that building a distributed database that has unlimited scale and maintains predictably high performance while providing rich and flexible query capabilities, is one of the hardest problems in database development, and will take a lot of effort and invention from our team of distributed database engineers to solve.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130