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Opendoor, a startup worth emulating
OpenDoor has a unique yet high-risk approach to residential real estate; that’s a great thing, both for its prospects and for society.
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Google: Hide sites to find more of what you want
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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We still believe in private offices (2015)
There was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument , the Internet agreed that private offices were the future, and only incompetent management (or a tight budget) was still putting developers in cubicle farms. A glorious future lay before us.
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Today's Outage Post Mortem
This morning at 09:47 UTC CloudFlare effectively dropped off the Internet. The outage affected all of CloudFlare's services including DNS and any services that rely on our web proxy.
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Startup Competitive Advantages that Work
It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
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Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
Dear Matt,We were all very surprised by your post, as you have so many claims against us.Wow, dude I did not even know we were fighting.First, you say we have been taking from the open source community without giving back, well, of course, that isn’t true. Here is a list of 224 projects on our public GitHub page, and…
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Exploring the Supply Chain of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines
Sections of this post were co-authored by Cornelia Scheitz. Noah Leidinger created a German translation. Piotr Kwapin created a Polish translation. Last updated on February 7, 2021. Bert Hubert’s excellent and widely shared article about Reverse Engineering the source code of the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine is…
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6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
Read the onX report on corner locked land to learn how much land is involved, the concerns of affected property owners, and what can be done to solve this issue.
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Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable
Let’s make software even better.
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Bitcoin and positive vs. normative economics
There’s an agenda there, and it’s a bad one.
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How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (2010)
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of “outsiders” ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail. Drawing on data from the US, Germany and the UK, Alexandre Afonso looks at how…
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Three Observations
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity. Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to...
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YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
This article contains a list of the top 50 YC software startups (sourced from the October 2019 YC Top Companies page). It also contains aggregated statistics for valuations and back-end programming languages used. Values in this article are sourced, but I cannot guarantee their accuracy. Find me on Twitter…
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A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
Element has chosen to pursue future development of Synapse, Dendrite and associated server-side projects under the terms of AGPLv3.
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Separate Your Billing from Entitlements
Building your own entitlement service is key for supporting a modern, flexible SaaS product. Whenever I read about billing systems, there’s a lot of talk about the billing aspects but not so much around entitlements. In the spirit of sharing, and since I haven’t found any good articles about it, I decided to tell you…
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Analyzing the legal implications of GitHub Copilot
Explore the potential legal challenges GitHub Copilot faces regarding copyright infringement and license compliance of its code suggestions.
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A skeptical response to Musk's hyperloop
There is a belief within American media that a successful person can succeed at anything. He (and it’s invariably he) is omnicompetent, and people who question him and laugh at his outlandish…
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Google resumes transition to Manifest V3 for Chrome extensions
In December of last year, we paused the planned deprecation of Manifest V2 in order to address developer feedback and deliver better solutions to migration issues . As a result of this feedback, we’ve made a number of changes to Manifest V3 to close these gaps , including:
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Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN
Mozilla has long played an important role in the online world, and we’re proud of the impact we’ve had. But we want to do even more, and that means exploring ...
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Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"
SparkFun is forced to incinerate 2,000 multimeters because they are yellow.
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No-Cost RHEL Developer Subscription Now Available
May 2019 UPDATE - The no-cost developer subscription now includes RHEL 8.
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Steve Yegge and Grok
Bryan Summersett's home page.
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Index Investing Makes Markets and Economies More Efficient (2016)
U.S. equity index funds have grown dramatically in recent decades, from a negligible $500MM in assets in the early 1980s to a staggering $4T today. The consensus view in the investment community is that this growth is unsustainable. Indexing, after all, is a form of free-riding, and a market can only support so many…
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“CEO said a thing” journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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