Hacker News
- Was corporate profit growth a bubble inflated by "financial engineering"? https://www.openpolitics.com/2020/03/14/was-corporate-profit-growth-inflated-by-financial-engineering/ 197 comments
- How Canva doubled its engineering growth rate in 6 months https://product.canva.com/doubling-engineering-growth/ 2 comments
- How facebook managed growth from 30 to 200 engineers http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html 2 comments
Lobsters
- Hacks for Professional Growth: Coffee with an Experienced Engineer You Don’t Know https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/growth-hacks-coffee-with-an-engineer/ 6 comments practices
- Leveraging Side Projects for Career Growth in Engineering https://hybridhacker.email/p/leveraging-side-projects-for-career 13 comments programming
- Platform Takes The Pain - The Inside Story of Spotify's Engineering Growth https://corecursive.com/platform-takes-the-pain/ 43 comments programming
- DeFi Could Be The Next Growth Engine For U.S https://cryptocrunchapp.com/news/defi-could-be-the-next-growth-engine-for-us-mark-cuban/ 5 comments cryptocurrency
- China’s Economy Faces Another Hurdle: Darkened Movie Theaters - New data shows Chinese consumers still aren’t spending like they once did, holding back one of the world’s most powerful growth engines. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/business/china-economy-movie-theaters.html 3 comments economy
- Engineered bone marrow cells slow growth of prostate and pancreatic cancer cells https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/jhm-ebm030420.php 4 comments science
- Solar Power is Engine of Spain's Economic Growth https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/pv_solar/solar-power-is-engine-of-spain-s-20190410 17 comments worldnews
- Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40% https://www.igb.illinois.edu/article/scientists-engineer-shortcut-photosynthetic-glitch-boost-crop-growth-40 27 comments technology
- Nationals Park, once doubted as an engine of growth, lived up to its promise. But at what cost? https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/sports/nationals-park-brings-growth-worries-to-southeast-washington/ 21 comments baseball
- China's growth engine stutters as factories slow down https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/31/chinas-growth-engine-stutters-as-factories-slowdown 4 comments worldnews
- IMF sees US fading as growth engine http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/imf-sees-us-fading-as-growth-engine-20170724-gxhf4l.html 16 comments worldnews
- India's hidden growth engine - The Culture Industry https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/6etaas/indias_hidden_growth_engine_the_culture_industry/ 3 comments india
- Europe’s engine of growth splutters into life - Signs of recovery on the Continent have profound implications for Britain http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/business/europes-engine-of-growth-splutters-into-life-lxbmkrmvj 20 comments europe
- China cuts rates again as growth engine stalls http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/10/23/uk-china-economy-policy-idukkcn0sh18t20151023 3 comments economy
- Engineers have invented a device that "listens in" on the chemical messages that tell our cells how to multiply. The tool improves our understanding of how cancerous growth begins, and could identify new targets for cancer medications http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=40559.php 4 comments science
- The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) were long seen as the world’s growth engine. Now they are a burden. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2a6c3d6a-0f62-11e5-897e-00144feabdc0.html?segid=0100320#axzz3ckkSuA7K 7 comments russia
- Engineering Breakthrough Will Allow Cancer Researchers to Create Live Tumors With a 3D Printer "Using a mixture of cervical cancer cells and a hydrogel substance that resembles an ointment balm, Sun can print out a tumor model that can be used for studying their growth and response to treatment." http://drexel.edu/now/news-media/releases/archive/2014/april/3dprintingtumors/ 3 comments science
- China will invest more than 1 trillion yuan ($163 billion) redeveloping shantytowns this year as the government promotes urbanization as an engine of growth http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-16/china-plans-over-163-billion-shantytown-investment-cctv-says.html 9 comments worldnews
- Tech growth is threatened by a shortage of skilled workers. Companies are calling for government to support more STEM education (science, technology, engineering, math). http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=625&doc_id=269673& 8 comments technology
- The Hidden STEM Economy; the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields play a direct role in driving economic growth (Brookings Institution) http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/06/10-stem-economy-rothwell 28 comments science
- Africa will be an engine for world growth in the coming decades and Japan has to invest more on the continent, Japan's prime minister has said http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22758464 3 comments worldnews
- Why India Will Displace China as Global Growth Engine - Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-16/why-india-will-displace-china-as-global-growth-engine.html 5 comments india
- President Gul says Turkey can be EU's growth engine http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/20/turkey-gul-idusl5e7mk0ic20111120 8 comments worldnews
- W4 Games raises $8.5 million to support Godot Engine growth https://w4games.com/2022/09/13/w4-games-raises-8-5-million-to-support-godot-engine-growth/ 212 comments gamedev
- Apple's Search Engine Deal With Google Expected to Drive Services Revenue Growth Through 2022 https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/06/aapl-raised-services-revenue-forecast/ 78 comments apple
- France Is Europe’s New Economic Growth Engine https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-06/french-economic-renaissance-gives-europe-new-engine-for-growth 112 comments europe
- Germany: from ‘sick man’ of Europe to engine of growth https://www.ft.com/content/bd4c856e-6de7-11e7-b9c7-15af748b60d0 11 comments europe
- IMF sees Canada leading G7 this year; U.S. fading as growth engine https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/imf-maintains-global-growth-forecasts-china-eurozone-revised-higher/article35779415/ 12 comments worldnews
- U.S. Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers: "IEEE-USA said government estimate is probably accurate" http://www.computerworld.com/article/3017196/it-careers/u-s-predicts-zero-job-growth-for-electronics-engineers.html 1936 comments technology
- BP 'cannot find skilled workers': A shortage of engineering skills in the UK could hamper growth at BP's North Sea operations, an executive has said. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14521890 12 comments worldnews
- Verizon CEO Seidenberg says net neutrality will kill the economic recovery "If a burdensome regime of network neutrality is imposed on all parts of the Internet industry, it will inject an extraordinary amount of bureaucratic oversight into the economy's main growth engine to the future." http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3844906/verizon+ceo+weve+never+provided+dumb+pipes.htm 124 comments technology
- The Biggest Engine of Economic Growth? 8 Ways Taxpayers and the Government Are Necessary to Capitalism: Almost everything the American capitalist system needs is provided by taxpayer dollars and government action. http://www.alternet.org/story/154538/the_biggest_engine_of_economic_growth_8_ways_taxpayers_and_the_government_are_necessary_to_capitalism/?page=entire 3 comments politics
- Genetically engineering a treatment for incurable brain tumors: researchers develop fully off-the-shelf, stem cell-derived, natural killer cells against glioblastoma. A new study in mice showed these immune cells to completely eliminate the growth of the brain tumors. https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2024/Q2/genetically-engineering-a-treatment-for-incurable-brain-tumors.html 34 comments science
- An engineering mom leads effort to save an old-growth Russian forest Yevgenia Chirikova found out a national forest was quietly being sold off. What she did to try to save it may change Russia forever http://www.csmonitor.com/world/making-a-difference/2012/0430/an-engineering-mom-leads-effort-to-save-an-old-growth-russian-forest 19 comments worldnews
- China tries to revive economy but consumer engine sputters. Forecasters expect little to no growth in this year’s total spending on clothing, food and other consumer goods https://apnews.com/a981361007aed7aa427a85af42623e23 3 comments worldnews
- The World’s Largest Renewable Energy Developer Could Go Broke. There is a “substantial risk” that SunEdison may file for bankruptcy, they said in a regulatory filing. This is due to its aggressive growth strategy fueled by excessive debt and financial engineering, analysts say. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sunedison-bankruptcy-threat_us_56fab6e9e4b014d3fe2439dd?section=india&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed 10 comments worldnews
- Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth by 40 percent. Over two years of replicated field studies, they found that engineered plants developed faster, grew taller, and produced about 40 percent more biomass, most of which was found in 50-percent-larger stems. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/crwi-ses122818.php 105 comments science