Should We Celebrate Acquisitions?

nutcroft.com

One of my favourite companies got acquired. I’m always trying to figure out if I want to be happy when a company gets acquired. It’s usually acquired by a much bigger company. Founders and investors make a lot of money. … Read more

Should we own the free stuff we pay for?

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Last week I received a spam email from ~generic dumb scammer #199209842982~ here it is for your amusement: https://imgur.com/YYqOgYE I’ve blurred the sender because it might have been a hijacked account, and it’s not like it’s hard to get a … Read more

PDEs You Should Know

lucaspauker.com

Blog Wave Equation $$ frac{partial^2 u}{partial t^2} = c^2 frac{partial^2 u}{partial x^2} $$ Simple Harmonic Motion $$ m frac{d^2 x}{d t^2} = -kx $$ Heat Equation $$ frac{partial u}{partial t}=nabla^2 u $$ Laplace/Poisson Equation Poisson: $$ nabla^2 f = h … Read more

Should you use Let’s Encrypt for internal hostnames?

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Julien Savoie has written a brilliant post explaining how you can enable https on your intranet. This is useful for several reasons. It means your employees aren’t constantly fighting browser warnings when trying to submit stuff internally. All your http … Read more

Should Windows Transition to Linux?

lifeintech.com

Microsoft Windows is still the dominant desktop operating system, with over 70% market share. However, the relevance of Windows has shifted dramatically over the past decade, predominantly driven by the growth of web and mobile. In 2001, Microsoft was best … Read more

Web4 Should Run on LaTeX

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The World Wide Web is broken: it is dominated by a handful of websites, nearly everything is financed by ads, bloated tech needlessly slows down surfing, NFTs and blockchain are digital cancer, et cetera. Stop it. Just stop it. How … Read more