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Mean People Fail

November 2014It struck me recently how few of the most successful people I know are mean. There are exceptions, but remarkably few.Meanness isn't rare....

Reverse Engineering a 1979 Camera’s Spec

I bought a 1979 Chinon CM-4 film camera in Tijuana. Film is expensive, so before wasting a roll I decided to learn exactly how...

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PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports

Author: Pablo Galindo , Germán Méndez Bravo , Thomas Wouters , Dino Viehland , Brittany Reynoso , Noah Kim , Tim Stumbaugh Discussions-To: Discourse thread Status: Draft Type: Standards Track Created: 02-Oct-2025 Python-Version: 3.15 Post-History: 03-Oct-2025 Table of Contents This PEP introduces syntax for...

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Break the Fast With Me and Sue Heilbronner in Longmont on 10/2

I’m not aware if there has ever been a book launch associated with a Yom Kippur Break Fast, but we are going to have...

Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In

December 2014American technology companies want the government to make immigration easier because they say they can't find enough programmers in the US. Anti-immigration people say...

VMScape and why Xen dodged it

It’s been less than two weeks since the security team at ETH Zürich published their research...

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Americans Have a Blind Spot When It Comes to Small Business

Most people feel personally and emotionally connected to the small businesses in their communities, but they underestimate how...

Modeling a Wealth Tax

August 2020Some politicians are proposing to introduce wealth taxes in addition to income and capital gains taxes. Let's try modeling the effects of various levels of...

Innovation is managed chaos, with Eric Schmidt

ERIC SCHMIDT: My first office at Google was an 8-by-12 office, just enough room for me and my desk and my little chair....

How Tipping Came to America

When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. It’s the expectation and an essential part of how restaurant workers earn a...

Book: Scaleup Arabia: Journeys & Lessons from Top Founders & Leaders Driving Growth in MENA & Beyond

In addition to writing books, I love supporting books written by friends. Amir Hagazi has published his newest book, Scaleup Arabia: Journeys & Lessons from...

Most Coachella Attendees Buy Tickets with Buy Now, Pay Later

Coachella, the music festival that occurred across two weekends this month, drew crowds of 125,000-plus attendees each day.A...

Early Work

October 2020One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame. And this fear is not...

The Future of Customer Experience Starts with Smarter Listening

Customer experience is only as strong as the feedback that shapes it but fewer customers are speaking up. In this episode, Isabelle Zdatny, Head of...

valine/training-hot-swap: Pytorch script hot swap: Change code without unloading your LLM from VRAM

This is an example of how to hotswap PyTorch training code without unloading your model weights from VRAM. For large LLMs it can take upwards...

3vHabits That Made Me Sharper, Stronger and More Successful

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. There was a time not...

How to Think for Yourself

November 2020There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's...

Your plan B needs a plan B, with Nancy Lublin

NANCY LUBLIN: I went to see Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the theater. Tenth row center, sitting to my left: Donald Trump. Sitting...