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Christopher D. Long

@octonion
10 posts
2024-08-06
I interviewed at Mozilla some years ago, and at the time I had very little experience with tech company culture. The headquarters were wild, more like a rec room than an office. A highlight was meeting some of the Rust developers before it became huge.
2024-08-06 View on X
Fortune

Apple and Mozilla may take a big revenue hit if the Google search ruling is upheld; $510M of Mozilla's $593M in revenue was via its Google deal in 2021 and 2022

“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.”  —  With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta …

I interviewed at Mozilla some years ago, and at the time I had very little experience with tech company culture. The headquarters were wild, more like a rec room than an office. A highlight was meeting some of the Rust developers before it became huge.
2024-08-06 View on X
Bloomberg

US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers

Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …

2022-05-02
It keeps getting dumber, like it's approaching a stupidity singularity. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-02 View on X
Bloomberg

Yuga Labs raises ~$320M by selling 55K virtual land plots in its Otherside metaverse, causing Ethereum blockchain ripple effects and skyrocketing gas fees

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business … Ivan Mehta / TNW : How the BAYC metaverse mint raised Ethereum gas fees to thousands of dollars Emma Roth / The Ver...

2022-01-19
The amount of cheating that goes on in poker, not just online, has always been enormous. How A.I. Conquered Poker https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-01-19 View on X
New York Times

AI tools can generate an optimal poker strategy, balancing bluffing and playing it straight, which some professional players are using to augment their play

Good poker players have always known that they need to maintain a balance between bluffing and playing it straight.  Now they can do so perfectly. Tweets: @marloscmachado , @nytime...

2021-03-07
I was there at the very beginning, and took all of the earliest courses from Udacity, Coursera and edX. The dream was always of free, or extremely cheap, education of the highest caliber. I worry about some of those ideals disappearing. Coursera S-1 IPO - https://www.sec.gov/...
2021-03-07 View on X
CNBC

Online learning provider Coursera files its S-1, reports 2020 net losses widened to $66.8M, up 46% YoY, on revenue growth of $293.5M, up 59% YoY

This is the initial public offering of shares of common stock of Coursera … TechCrunch : A first look at Coursera's S-1 filing Tony Wan / EdSurge : Coursera's IPO Filing Shows Grow...

2020-09-21
There's also octonion's Law, which says that the stack of books you want to read doubles in size every two years. https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How “Huang's Law”, gains in AI chip performance even faster than Moore's Law, moves data processing from the cloud to the edge and may explain Nvidia's Arm deal

The rule that the same dollar buys twice the computing power every 18 months is no longer true, but a new law …Tweets:@pstasiatech,@eghosao,@octonion,@donal888,@paul_vucity,@mims,@...

2020-08-12
Sad news, as Mozilla is going to let go of some really smart people. Mozilla is one of the nicer and more employee-friendly tech companies, too. https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-12 View on X
VICE

Mozilla says it plans to lay off around 250 employees and is closing the company's current operations in Taipei, Taiwan

Joseph Cox / VICE :

2020-07-14
Arm is the future. SoftBank made so many terrible decisions that they may have to sell an asset likely to see significant appreciation over the coming years. https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-14 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: SoftBank is exploring a full/partial sale or public offering of Arm; SoftBank bought Arm for $32B four years ago

Japanese conglomerate bought British tech company four years ago for $32 billion  —  SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 4.23% is exploring alternatives including a full …

2019-12-26
One of the designers of the revolutionary 6502 CPU. Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age - https://www.nytimes.com/...
2019-12-26 View on X
New York Times

Chuck Peddle, a key designer of the cheap MOS 6502 CPU that powered the first big wave of personal computers, like Commodore PET and Apple II, has died at 82

His invention brought digital technology to a new breed of consumer devices and powered early Apple and Commodore computers.

2019-12-25
One of the designers of the revolutionary 6502 CPU. Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age - https://www.nytimes.com/...
2019-12-25 View on X
New York Times

Chuck Peddle, a key designer of the $25 6502 microprocessor that powered the first big wave of personal computers, including the Apple II, has died at 82

His invention brought digital technology to a new breed of consumer devices and powered early Apple and Commodore computers.