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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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Answering Common Questions About Interpreting Page Speed Reports

Smashing Magazine

You might think of it like racing a car in virtual reality, where the conditions are decided in advance, rather than racing on a live track where conditions may vary. Simulated throttling starts by collecting data on a fast internet connection , then estimates how quickly the page would have loaded on a different connection.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

We must make our software infrastructure more secure against the rise in cyberattacks (such as on power grids, hospitals, and banks), and safer against accidental failures with the increased use of software in life-critical systems (such as autonomous vehicles and autonomous weapons). Consider some reasons.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For July 27th, 2018

High Scalability

millio n: buy the Brady Bunch house; 5.623 trillion : Amazon Sable requests handle on prime day; 91% : Facebook's advertising revenue on mobile; $18 billion : deep learning market by 2024; Quotable Quotes: Ryan Cash : The App Store has changed the world so drastically it’s hard to even imagine sometimes. They'll love you even more.

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