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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital. 10 questions: ‘Existence’ author David Brin on science fiction, science and geeks. Geek of the Week: Melissa Winstanley, UW computer science standout. Geek of the Week Archive. QThru lands $3.5M by Sally James.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an.

Steve Blank

theses, ESL had built receivers so sensitive they seemed like science fiction. Here was a real-world example of the Cold War “ offset strategy.&# Taking concepts that had been only abstract Ph.D For the first time we were able to process analog signals (think radio waves) and manipulate them in the digital domain.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

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We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. And in MMOs, of course, it was a fiction-derived term for parallel servers which has managed to stick (many people refer to parallel VW servers as "shards" now). Did a DB term of art come from UO?