Skip to content A talk at Øredev, Malmö, Sweden, 05 Nov 2015 Transcript Slides Video This was a repeat of my talk at Strange Loop 2014. Abstract Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most se

Sluggish economic data from China is fuelling fears that the country’s rebound from its strict Covid-19 lockdown policies is starting to splutter.Official figures published in Beijing showed that the world’s second largest economy expanded by just 0.8 per cent in the second quarter of the year, having grown by 2.2 per cent over the previous three

Since inception, Y Combinator has invested in thousands of startups, and more recently, even hundreds within a single batch. Given the accelerator’s growth, competitive tensions feel nearly inevitable. Still, one has to wonder if there is a fundamental shift afoot. Whereas YC always backed companies that might at some point overlap, the outfit appeared to…

When the PlayStation 3 first launched, one of its most lauded features was its ability to officially run full Linux distributions. This was of course famously and permanently borked by Sony with a software update after a few years, presumably since the console was priced too low to make a profit and Sony didn’t want…