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23andMe set to go public via a Virgin Group SPAC merger

TechCrunch

Genetics testing and genome research company 23andMe is set to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) VG Acquisition Corp., a vehicle set up by Richard Branson and his company Virgin Group. billion, close to the total cited by an earlier report detailing the talks leading up to this deal. 23andMe raises $82.5

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Missing the point about microservices – it's about testing and deploying independently

Erik Bernhardsson

So basically since 2006 I’ve been continuously working in what people now call a “microservice architecture”. Let’s talk about testing and deploying. There’s of course many ways we can iterate faster, but for today let’s focus on two particular aspects of it: testing and deploying more often. the “gingerbread man strategy” ).

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

I’ve seen many an executive or consultant attempt to identify leaders with interviews, tests, evaluations, etc., Let me be very clear – there is not always a direct correlation between testing well and leading well. Don’t give people tests – give them responsibility. only to fail in miserable fashion.

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

I would have expected more of a decay here, and I’m surprised to see that so much code written back in 2006 is still alive in the code base – interesting! As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE – 635,229 commits as of today. Coding has changed from 2006 to 2016, and modern projects evolve faster.

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8 Traits of Ineffective Leaders | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Effectiveness should be the litmus test for leadership. link] Jay Young This is a good post and addresses many of the worst characteristics of ineffective leadership. For more check out "Are You Ineffective?"

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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? When I run tests, I want to parallelize all of them. Why do I need to SSH into a CI runner to debug some test failure that I can't repro locally? The genesis. I could go on!

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RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa

TechCrunch

In 2006, Alonge was a victim of fake pharmaceuticals and almost died after taking medicine that contained lethal levels of diazepam. The machine learning model reads the sample spectra and send test results indicating the identity and the quality versus the reference. RxAll was founded in 2016 by Adebayo Alonge , Amy Kao and Wei Lui.