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By @corhymel [ 8 Min read ] Five years ago, Frank Chen posed a question that has stuck with me every day since. The question was this, “If self-driving cars are 51% safer, are we not morally obligated to adopt them?”. I’ve posed this question a ton of times over the past five years, and usually, a knee-jerk reaction leads to an interesting debate. What makes this question so great is the knife's edge – it’s not 99% safer, it’s not 70% safer, it’s only 51% safer. To put it into context. The National Highway Safety Administration has reported that in 2022, there were an estimated 42,795 traffic fatalities. 50% of 42,795 is 21,398 people, and 51% is 21,825 people. That means if self-driving cars are 51% safer, using them would save 427 people’s lives every year. That is about 1.5 Boeing 777 airplanes full of passengers... |
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By @dm1tryg [ 9 Min read ] Mastering a lot of technologies and knowing how to build complex, high-loaded services turns out to be not enough when you're a developer in a startup or growing project. In my career, I’ve been involved in many growing projects and created two startups from scratch. In this article, I'll share my experiences about what to focus on during development and why perfectionism spoils even the best ideas. For every developer, launching a project alone is a solid challenge. It's very natural to feel that you need to do everything perfectly. It took me a while to realize that the desire for perfectionism is most often the reflection of fear that colleagues will judge me for an extra 'print' or not using a pattern or tool; and here, it goes: the production server will collapse, clients will complain, I will be fired, and the world will come to an end... |
By @TheMarkup [ 3 Min read ] Nearly three years ago we launched Blacklight, an online tool that allows users to enter any website and find out what tracking technologies are present and who gets the visitor data they collect. This month, Blacklight hit a significant milestone: The tool has successfully conducted more than 10 million scans. Seven million of those scans were completed in just this past year. Blacklight was created with one guiding premise: that it would be more powerful to show people, in real time, how they were being tracked online than to merely tell them such tracking was happening. Led by former Markup senior data engineer Surya Mattu, a team of programmers and journalists spent 18 months building Blacklight and released it in conjunction with a Markup story... |
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