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GoDaddy and Felons.io – The life of an unregistered domain
GoDaddy never has and never will use customer search data to register domain names. Read on to learn more.
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Sandstorm Oasis Is Shutting Down
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
Amazon to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters, and announces Nashville as new Operations Center of Excellence with more than 5,000 jobs.
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Today I saw the future
Mozilla and OTOY deliver the power of native PC applications to the Web, unveil next generation JavaScript video codec for movies and cloud gaming
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Resumes suck for hiring engineers
In this experiment, I wanted to see how good engineers and recruiters were at resume-based candidate filtering. Going into it, I was pretty sure that engineers would do a much better job than recruiters. However, that’s not what happened at all. As it turned out, people were pretty bad at filtering resumes across the…
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Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
To help businesses, schools, and others navigate remote work and life, we're making our premium video conferencing solution free for all.
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The unprofitable SaaS business model trap
Marketo filed for IPO. They have $60m in revenues and a nice growth rate; unfortunately they're *losing* $35m/year. Why do SaaS business fall into the trap of being forever unprofitable, and what is the secret to the ones who overcome this trap?
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Lessons from GitHub's First Year
The end of the year is a great time to sit down with a glass of your favorite beverage, dim the lights, snuggle up next to the fire and think about what you’ve learned over the past twelve months.
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Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
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The Next Generation Bends Over
Mint’s sale to Intuit really pissed me off. Why should I care? Because I think it’s indicative of a VC-induced cancer that’s infecting our industry and killing off the next generation. I don’t know the full backstory, but I’d bet this sale was encouraged by a Mint i…
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OpenAI technical goals
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.
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Microsoft makes 5 times more income from Android than from Windows Phone
Microsoft gets $5 for every HTC phone running Android, according to Citi analyst Walter Pritchard, who released a big report on Microsoft this morning. Microsoft is getting that money thanks to a p…
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Extramaze: Using Racket, PostgreSQL, AWS, but no ads or JavaScript (2018)
Update: Due to lack of interest/use, in June 2021 this site was shut down and user data (emails, names, search alerts) deleted from all systems and backups. For Extramaze LLC I'm using Racket in a commercial project -- a search engine with email alerts fo...
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Apple Card’s new high-yield Savings account is now available, offering a 4.15 p
With no fees, no minimum deposits, and no minimum balance requirements, users can easily set up and manage their Savings account directly from Wallet.
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An Update on USDC and Silicon Valley Bank
The Circle Blog is your source for the latest product features, company announcements, and insights from Circle and USDC. Read and subscribe for more info!
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The Paywalled Garden: iOS is Adware (2020)
Over the years, Apple has built up a portfolio of services and add-ons that you pay for. Starting with AppleCare extended warranties and…
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The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)
Misguided modeling created a "physician surplus" narrative, the harmful consequences of which we are still dealing with today.
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Fred Wilson's response to "Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies"
I don't disagree with PG when he says that Facebook's IPO performance (or lack thereof) has the potential to impact valuations in startup land. I think it will be particularly impactful on the late stage and secondary markets where most of the IPO valuation speculation is happening. But let's put Facebook's current…
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New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings
Raspberry Pi launched the 2 gig Pi 5 for $50, and besides half the RAM and a lower price, it has a new stepping of the main BCM2712 chip. This is the BCM2712 D0 stepping. Older Pi 5's shipped with a C1. In their blog post, they said: The new D0 stepping strips away all that unneeded functionality, leaving only the…
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