Community Picks·4yWhile most people fight to learn “in-demand” skills, smart people are learning rare skills instead
When Bill Gates wanted to grow Microsoft in the early 1990s, he didn't just study the latest industry news and business books. When Elon Musk thinks about what CEOs need to know, he doesn't put business skills near the top of his list.
Hacker News·4yDeno raises $21M
Deno is JavaScript for the serverless era. The open source Deno runtime shows how clean and productive a modern, batteries-included, programming environment can be. Tens of thousands of users utilize the runtime every week. The Deno software stack was built for more than simply improving local development and system APIs. We also use it to build the most modern, user-friendly, serverless-at-edge system.
TechCrunch·4yGoogle pauses hiring, Netflix loses nearly 1M customers, and Slack increases prices – TechCrunch
Week in Review is our weekly newsletter recapping the top stories to hit TechCrunch in the past seven days. This week's top story was about a new set of documents detailing how the Department of Homeland Security taps third-party data brokers. Tesla sold 75% of its Bitcoin holdings in its most recent earnings report.
Community Picks·4yDeveloper Experience Infrastructure (DXI)
Developer Experience Infrastructure (DXI) is a new emerging infrastructure category sitting on top of API and cloud infrastructure. It enables any company to deliver world-class developer experiences by offloading the intricate details and complexities of developer experience to a new set of infrastructure components and services.
Stream·3yHow To Build a Fintech App in 8 Steps
The type of app you build will impact every aspect of the project, from who leads development to the features and interface users interact with. Personal banking and insurance apps are two of the most expensive, complex, and time-consuming apps to develop. Conduct market research by checking for recent articles from industry publications to keep up with changing trends.
TechCrunch·4yInterpol issues red notice for Terraform founder Do Kwon
Interpol issues red notice for Terraform founder Do Kwon Interpol. Kwon faces charges in South Korea for the wipeout of investors’ money. Terraform Labs’ so-called stablecoin UST and cryptocurrency LUNA dramatically imploded in May.
Hacker News·4yLanguageTool
The European Union and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) support this project by providing funding. They support the development of error detection algorithms in multilingual texts, and thedevelopment of our browser add-ons and website. Supported by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Integration, and Consumer Protection.
Hacker News·4yA pizzeria owner made money buying his own $24 pizzas from DoorDash for $16
The only profitable restaurant delivery business, GrubHub, lost $33.4 million over the last 3 months. If these businesses collapse, as Uber is currently collapsing, I can't imagine that customers won’t go back to how things were before, assuming restaurants et alia survive.
Honeypot·4yThe 102 Best Barcelona Startups in 2022
Barcelona is home to more than 1,900 startups according to data provided by the Government of Catalonia. Health&Medical, eCommerce, Fintech, and Business are attracting the highest number of newcomers in Barcelona. Coverfy Founded in 2016 is an insurtech startup that allows users to manage all their insurance from their mobile devices. Unnax is an open banking provider that offers bank aggregation services, payments and data gathering services.
Web Performance Calendar·3yWeb Performance Calendar
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) is, or actually an LCP breakdown. The article was written by Erwin Hofman, who co-founded RUMvision to provide merchants and agencies with pagespeed insights. Only 0.03% of pages use on their LCP elements because it's relatively new.
Hashnode Web3·3yWhat is Aptos?
Meta, formerly known as Facebook, almost got into the blockchain game in 2019. After Mark Zuckerberg abandoned the project, its developers repurposed what was left and created their own blockchain: Aptos. This article explains what it is, how it works, and why a lot of people are concerned about the way it is structured.
David Heinemeier Hansson·3yHard times make strong companies
The resource curse wrecks havoc on critical thinking, prudent projections, and risk management. When the going is good for so long, many are deluded into thinking it'll carry on forever. This is the nature of the business cycle. It clears the brush of dead wood and puts zombie companies out of their misery.
Pointer·4yOpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal: Investment Research for Everyone, Anywhere.
OpenBB Terminal is an awesome stock and crypto market terminal that has been developed for fun, while I saw my GME shares tanking. The terminal allows an average joe retail trader to leverage state-of-the-art Data Science and Machine Learning technologies.
Community Picks·4yMeta investors reportedly 'got more disgusted' with Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse plans after he doubled down in the company's earnings
Meta shareholders 'got more disgusted' with Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse plans after he doubled down in the company's quarterly earnings report. Investors expressed their anger in meetings with Meta executives over the past week. Zuckerberg said he intents to spend billions more on the metaverse project in the coming year.
Facebook Engineering·4yProgramming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
Meta’s primary supported server-side languages are Hack, C++, Rust, and Python. For performance-sensitive back-end services, we encourage C++ and Rust. For business logic and relatively stateless applications, the Hack ecosystem has the highest level of automation and support at Meta and is the recommended language.
David Heinemeier Hansson·4yThe bubble has popped for unprofitable software companies
Asana lost an incredible $285m in 2021, $210m in 2020, and $118m in 2019. Smartsheet lost over $370m in losses over the last four years. It appears they're down to just $238m in cash, which wouldn't even be enough runway for another year.
