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Operating System Characteristics (Features)

The Crazy Programmer

The operating system is the software that enables an ideal environment for all these application software to work effectively. And without using an operating system, it is not possible to use smartphone devices to computer devices efficiently. What is an Operating System? Operating System Characteristics.

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a16z, NFX back Latitud’s effort to become ‘the operating system for every venture-backed company in LatAm’

TechCrunch

When he sold Brazilian online real estate marketplace VivaReal for $550 million several years ago, he had to pay more than $100 million in capital gains taxes due to incorporation errors made early on. It started by documenting the process to create Latitud. “We Serial entrepreneur Brian Requarth learned his lesson the hard way.

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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

TechCrunch

On the other hand, Appruve, which provides an API that verifies user identity, fraud detection and digital documentation, primarily focuses on new datasets that enable or complement traditional government data such as international passports and national IDs. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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pdflayer API Review – HTML to PDF Conversion API for Developers

The Crazy Programmer

This makes the platform most productive, reliable, and cost-effective for developers to process a large number of documents in a shorter span of time. pdflayer combines several powerful PDF engines based on browsers running stalwart operating systems. What makes pdflayer discernible from other APIs? Robust PDF Engine.

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Runway raises $2M seed, launches its ‘air traffic control’ system for mobile app releases

TechCrunch

Interdisciplinary teams consisting of engineers, product, marketing, design, QA and more all have to keep each other updated on their own part of the app’s release process — something that’s still often done using things like shared documents and spreadsheets.

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20 years working on the same software product

Successful Software

It’s success is due to a lot of hard work, and a certain amount of dumb luck. Qt has had its commercial ups and downs in the last 20 years, but it has grown with me and is now very robust, comprehensive and well documented. The website and user documentation are also substantial pieces of work.

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The End of Programming as We Know It

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Consumer operating systems were also a big part of the story. That job was effectively encapsulated in the operating system. Suddenly, the user interface was made up of human-readable documents, shown in a browser with links that could in turn call programs on remote servers. The web was another end of programming.