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Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
When you’re trying to get people to switch from a competitor to your product, you need to understand barriers to entry, and you need to understand them a lot better than you think, or people …
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How is money created?
Most of the money in the economy is created by banks when they provide loans.
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Welcome to LLMflation - LLM inference cost is going down fast ⬇️
For LLM of equivalent performance, the inference cost is decreasing by 10x every year. What cost $60/million tokens in 2021 costs $.06/million tokens today.
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Bionic Office
Well. That took rather longer than expected. We have, finally, moved, into the new Fog Creek office at 535 8th Avenue, officially ten months after I started pounding the pavement looking for a repl…
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Making messaging interoperability with third parties safe for users in Europe
To comply with a new EU law, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which comes into force on March 7th, we’ve made major changes to WhatsApp and Messenger to enable interoperability with third-party messa…
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Productivity vs Wages | Productivity is Soaring, But Wages Aren't Keeping Up
The debate about productivity vs wages has been answered here. A study has found that the growth in compensation is lagging behind the productivity of employees.
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Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program
The management training program we’re starting up here at Fog Creek will take about three years and will be relatively intensive. Among other things, there will be a required reading list con…
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Introducing Buffer's Salary Calculator & New Salary Formula
We’re sharing a new version of Buffer's transparent salary formula, and a web app that anyone can use to find out what you might make on the team at Buffer.
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Most Americans say government has a responsibility to ensure health care coverage
Most Americans (66%) say the federal government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.
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Steve Blank If I Told You I’d Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret History of Silicon Valley”
About a month ago I had one of the strangest phones call of my life. “Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote…
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Even God Couldn't Beat Dollar-Cost Averaging
A market timing strategy rarely outperforms dollar cost averaging even when that strategy knows exactly when to buy.
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The Last Psychiatrist: Luxury Branding The Future Leaders Of The World
This is a brilliant campaign, for technical and artistic reasons. What is the brand that it conveys? Heirloom quality .
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High-income Americans pay most income taxes, but enough to be ‘fair’?
By design, wealthier Americans pay most of the nation’s total individual income taxes.
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Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC: Applications for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of Palestine
Today I am filing applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in the State of Palestine. Image ICC Prosecutor Khan on application for arrest warrants in the situation in the State of Palestine Watch Download Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim…
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Basecamp's new etiquette regarding societal politics at work
Jason announced a raft of changes we've made to Basecamp earlier today. By far the most controversial is a new etiquette around societal politics at work, and the stances we'll take as a company. So to expand on that, here's a segment from what I wrote internally on that topic, as part of the announcement to employees…
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NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program?
Intro Okay developers, time to have a serious talk. As you are probably already aware, this week React, Babel, and a bunch of other high-profile packages on NPM broke. The reason they broke is rather astounding: A simple NPM package called left-pad that was a dependency of their code. left-pad, at the time of writing…
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Global Desktop Browser Market Share
Web browsers are an important part of everyday life. In this article, learn about browser market share, and which browser is most popular!
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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false information to the press.
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RethinkDB is shutting down
Today I have sad news to share. After more than seven years of development, the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We worked very hard to make RethinkDB successful, but in spite of all our efforts we were ultimately unable to build a sustainable business. There is a lot of information to unpack – over the next…
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A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
Understand iPhone performance and its relation to your battery.
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Changes at Basecamp
At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck with what we have, we can create what we want. Just as we improve products through iteration, we iterate on our company too. Recently, we've made some internal company…
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Big data is dead
Big data is dead. Long live easy data. | Reading time: 18 min read
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Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program
New developer program accelerates innovation and helps small businesses and independent developers propel their businesses forward on the App Store.
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An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options
There's a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt when it comes to stock options, and I'd like to try and clear some of that up today. As an engineer, you may be more interested in getting on with your job than compensation. However, if you're working at
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The cost of 1GB of mobile data in 228 countries (Feb 2020)
A global league table of mobile data costs. The average cost of one gigabyte (1GB) compared from over 5,600 mobile data plans in 237 countries.
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Welcome Peter
Edit: Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with Y Combinator. I’m delighted to announce Peter Thiel is joining YC as one of the (now 10!) part-time partners. In addition to founding PayPal and Palantir and being the first investor in Facebook, Peter has been involved with many of the most important technology companies…
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Our commitment to Windows quality
Hello Windows Insiders, I want to speak to you directly, as an engineer who has spent his career building technology that people depend on every day. Windows touches more people's lives than almost any technology on Earth. Every day, we hear from th