Lessons from Robert Smith of Vista Equity Partners
Robert Smith is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Vista Equity Partners. A March 2018 Forbes profile described Vista’s performance: “Since the firm’s inception in 2000, Vi…
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What I learned from a Taipei alley — Remains of the Day
I was in Taipei the past few weeks working on a documentary with friends. Because of a busy schedule, it wasn't like my usual travels abroad for fun, it felt more like a work trip. Still, even if I'd been there purely for vacation, I would've wanted to try a different mode of…
Cloudflare Registrar: what happens when you register a domain?
Every website, large or small, started with an idea, rapidly followed by registering a domain. Most registrars offer promotions for your initial domain registration and then quietly hike the price with each renewal.
How to visualize decision tree
Decision trees are the fundamental building block of gradient boosting machines and Random Forests(tm), probably the two most popular machine learning models for structured data. Visualizing decision trees is a tremendous aid when learning how these models work and when…
How Community Can Drive Commerce: A Lesson from China’s Little Redbook
China’s popular social-ecommerce app succeeds in building a mutually beneficial user community and bringing in a smooth shopping experience for users.
Death at Delta Sig: Heiress Wages a Million-Dollar War on Frats
A grieving mother fights for a new investigation into what happened to her son.
Meet the Undercover Crime Unit Battling Miami's Black Market of Birds
Multimillion-dollar sales of songbirds heap pressure on species already in decline. We go inside the covert investigation to capture traffickers.
Introduction to Clock Domain Crossing: Double Flopping
This article will discuss a well-known technique called “double flopping” to transfer a single-bit control signal between two clock domains.
The Loneliest Democrat in America
On the campaign trail in the most Republican congressional district in America.
The Royal Touch
by Ben Freeman (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, October 2018)
geometry puzzles
The geometry puzzles that are lighting up Twitter.
The Missing Parents and the Melting Glacier
What happens when climate changes quickly in a previously frozen place? The ice gives up the bodies—and the secrets—of the past.
Project Repat: $10MM Business Making Quilts From Old T-Shirts
Hello! Who are you and what are you working on?My name is Ross Lohr, and I’m a co-founder of Project Repat. We make it easy and affordable for customers to turn their memorable t-shirts into a one of a kind, custom t-shirt quilt backed with cozy fleece. People buy quilts from…
The First Good Omens Trailer Is Here to Drag You to Hell
Narratively | Substack
Discover extraordinary true stories celebrating the diversity of humanity. Click to read Narratively, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
A long-overlooked brain region may be key to complex thought
The thalamus has traditionally been viewed just as the brain’s sensory relay station. But it may also play an important role in higher-level cognition, MIT’s Michael Halassa explains in a Q&A.
Lost world: An ancient ninth planet that went missing
Clues hidden in today’s orbits hint at the violent origins of the solar system — and a rogue giant kicked out long ago.
Delighting Without Asking
10 Books That Make You Smarter
A list of books that make you smarter, in order to boost your intelligence and general knowledge of the world and the human brain.
Why You Don’t Know the Price Until You Sell
On abnormal markets and how to prevent forced selling.
21 Absolutely Invaluable Kitchen Hacks Few People Know Of
Technical SEO: 15 Critical Areas That Impact Performance
The technical aspects of search engine optimization can seem mysterious, especially for content marketers. But it doesn't have to be that way. The 15
When ratings don’t define success, more TV series hang around
The television industry is in the middle of a powerful shift, allowing longevity for little-seen broadcast shows.
dbt Labs Blog | Learn from the experts | dbt Labs
Learn more about the data analytics industry, dbt Cloud and dbt Core, as well as company news and updates.
A Machine Learning Approach to Shipping Box Design. (arXiv:1809.10210v1 [st
Having the right assortment of shipping boxes in the fulfillment warehouse to pack and ship customer's online orders is an indispensable and integral part of nowadays eCommerce business, as it...
Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing
September brought us a single from indie favorite Kurt Vile's upcoming album, a slinky, slow-burn success from the indomitable Neneh Cherry and a razor-sharp Ray Charles cover.
Business and Investing Lessons from Caddyshack
There are certainly some people who don’t know that Caddyshack is a 1980 comedy movie directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Douglas Kenney and the director Ramis.…
Winner Takes it All: How Markets Favor the Few at the Expense of the Many
Markets tend to favor unequal distributions of market share and profits, with a few leaders emerging in any industry.Winner-take-all markets are hard to disrupt and suppress the entry of new players by locking in market share for leading players.
How to Use Google Analytics: A Complete Guide
Read this guide for an overview of Google Analytics and how you can use all the data to your advantage to boost your SEO and digital marketing.
Encounters: Afternoon Beers With a Former Sex Pistol
John Lydon, the 62-year-old punk legend, was in New York for a new documentary about Public Image Ltd. But first, he wanted to shop and smoke in a bar.
Don’t Fuck Up the Culture
On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in the event it is helpful to entrepreneurs building their cultures. Our next team meeting…
My career as an international blood smuggler
For years, Kathleen McLaughlin smuggled American plasma every time she entered China, home to the world’s largest and deadliest blood debacle. She had no other choice
How to Write Follow Up Emails That Virtually Guarantee a Response (with Tem
Your first message is only the start. Here’s a tested method for following up to get results.
Bracing for the Vanilla Boom
Amidst soaring vanilla prices, some Madagascar farmers spend their cash in sprees. Their spending may not be as illogical as it appears.
Man-Eaters
A quest for tigers in India.
Why a Roth Conversion or Backdoor Roth IRA is a Good Idea Right Now
Doing a Roth conversion -- also known as a "backdoor Roth IRA" -- is perhaps even more appealing in 2018 than ever before. Why? Low 2018 tax rates.
Obtaining an Elliptic Curve certificate from Let's Encrypt
Let's Encrypt does not currently generate Elliptic Curve certificates. Here's how to obtain one.
A 200-year-old guide to color, redesigned for the internet age - Fast Company
Charles Darwin used it, and now so can you.
Tractors in 2040 sure look intense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIArDsmsLp4 I never thought I'd say this, but I actually prefer this tractor concept over my own car... errr... almost any car, for that matter. It's called the Valtra H202 and it'll put your hooptie to shame! Designed as part of the Valtra Design…
Dial-a-Ride
Laughs, heartache and the winding road: life stories aboard a community bus in rural Wales
'I'm getting ripped off': A look inside Ticketmaster's price-hiking bag of
Buying a ticket for Saturday's Bruno Mars concert in Toronto was probably never going to be cheap, but what many of the star's 17,000 fans who scored a seat might not realize is it wasn't just scalpers driving up prices.
These Apology Critics Want to Teach You How to Say Sorry
No more excuses for bad apologies.
There’s now a giant net collecting garbage in space and it’s as cool as it
“This is not sci-fi. We repeat, not sci-fi.”
Surgeons Identify—And Save—A Patient’s Chess-Playing Brain Area
Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that surgeons could avoid them when removing a tumor
How to Start Your Own Ultralearning Project (Part One)
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With a bit of effort, you can learn a new skill in less time than you thought. Here’s the guide for how to go all in.
phiresky/ripgrep-all: rga: ripgrep but also search in PDFs E-Books Office documents zip tar.gz
rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. - phiresky/ripgrep-all
Glass Antenna Turns Windows Into 5G Base Stations
Compact, inconspicuous antennas could increase cell coverage transparently
The Age of Jennifer’s Body
Diablo Cody’s movie has been reclaimed as a cult classic—and its destructive teenaged protagonist deserves reappraisal too.
SVG Coding Examples: Useful Recipes For Writing Vectors By Hand
Myriam Frisano explores the basics of hand-coding SVGs with practical examples to demystify the inner workings of common SVG elements. In this guide, you’ll learn about asking the right questions to solve common positioning problems and how to leverage JavaScript so that, by the…
Can Car-free Living Make You Happier?
The community of Culdesac, Arizona, was designed for pedestrians and cyclists. And residents love it.