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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Spotify is eliminating about 17% jobs, its third round of layoffs this year, as the music streaming looks to become “both productive and efficient.” In a note to employees Monday, Spotify founder and chief executive Daniel Ek said right-sizing the workforce is crucial for the company to face the “challenges ahead.” He cited the slow […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Martin Fowler

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Regression bugs are newly appeared bugs in features of the software that have been around for a while. When hunting them, it usually valuable to figure out which change in the software caused them to appear. Looking at that change can give invaluable clues about where the bug is and how to squash it. There isn't a well-known term for this form of investigation, but I call it Diff Debugging.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Legacy automakers have scaled back or set overly modest electric vehicle production targets. They may come to regret that. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The Daily WTF

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Gavin inherited some "very old" C code, originally developed for old Windows systems. The code is loaded with a number of reinvented wheels. For example, they needed to do a case insensitive string comparison. Now, instead of using stricmp , the case insensitive string comparison, they wrote this: int uppercmp ( char *sStr1, char *sStr2 ) { char *sUStr1; char *sUStr2; int iRet; if ( ( sStr1 == NULL ) || ( sStr2 == NULL ) ) return -1 ; __try { sUStr1 = strupr(strdup( sStr1 )); sUStr2 = st

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Today we're focusing on metrics and business environments that apply to most SaaS companies — not the unicorn outliers. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Agile Engine

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Most software modernization projects are about balancing costs and projected business value. Read on for three quick case studies focusing on the modernization of UI, cloud, and data solutions. Table of contents The industry in 2023 and cautious optimism for 2024 Case 1: modernizing legacy UIs Case 2: keeping cloud costs in check Case 3: getting data solutions from legacy to AI-ready 7 stages of a finance software development project Budget-friendly modernization: key takeaways The industry in 2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! We’re back and making up for lost time after taking off for Thanksgiving. Here we go! Webull, Yieldstreet and NomuPay […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In the previous article , you learned about the history of Java threads and how Quarkus helps developers execute traditional blocking applications on top of the virtual thread ( Project Loom ) dead simply using a single @RunOnVirtualThread annotation on both method and class levels. Unfortunately, there’s a long way to go with the virtual threads across all Java ecosystems.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

Indonesia’s construction industry is growing quickly, driven by residential and industrial building, alongside infrastructure development plans by the government. Sourcing skilled labor is still a time-intensive process, however, and often relies on personal networks and lengthy recruitment efforts. The founders of Gravel want to change that by making it easier to find workers and other […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2023

MoveinSync, an Indian startup offering mobility solutions to blue-chip companies for workplace commute, is engaging with investors to raise a growth round, according to people familiar with the deliberations. The 14-year-old startup is engaging with investors to raise about $50–$60 million, part of which is to offer partial exit to some early backers, the people […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

The fund is technically a nonprofit with a debt fund attached. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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