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The 2020 MacBook Air
Faster, cheaper, and now with a truly great keyboard.
Book Review: Hoover
You probably remember Herbert Hoover as the guy who bungled the Great Depression. Maybe you shouldn’t. Maybe you should remember him as a bold explorer looking for silver in the jungles of Bu…
Mathematica v12.1
Biggest .1 release from Wolfram. 182 completely new functions, plus updates and enhancements. Includes full HiDPI support, computation with video, data structures, asymptotic superfunction, mathematical functions, plotting, geometric optimization, vector plotting, cross-hatching, computational topology, tabular data…
When to Copy Ideas, When to Steal Ideas
ALEXISTOGEL menyediakan slot gacor situs resmi terpercaya yang emang sudah terbukti kasih kemenangan besar tanpa ribet. dan fokus pada pengalaman main yang asyik dan adil, ditambah transaksi online secepat kilat.
Yahoo, AOL results biased in favor of parent company Verizon’s websites
Verizon Media’s search engines promises “unbiased” search results, but serves results clearly favoring the company’s media websites over competitors.
How to get your money back on a non-refundable hotel
From a friend, a few days ago: We were supposed to be in Vienna today for a short vacation, but the city is at high risk and we […]
Funding for Covid-19 Projects
I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help. I think we will soon have enough testing capacity, so now I’d like...
Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale
As a "fully remote work" company, we had to make some choices about the technologies we use to work together and stay in touch. We decided...
A Checklist for Evaluating New Technology
New technology often comes along with a lot of promises. All the hard things? They’re easy now. All of your troubles? Shh, they’re all better now.
Zero Trust Information
Zero Trust Networking is security with Internet assumptions; there is tremendous value if we apply the same approach to information.
How to sell to 20M software devs with amazing onboarding
20M software developers in the world— if you can convince this set of people in the world to use your software, you've got a very very valuable startup. Today I wanted to sit down with the folks...
How some good corporate engineering blogs are written
I've been comparing notes with people who run corporate engineering blogs and one thing that I think is curious is that it's pretty common for my personal blog to get more traffic than the entire corp eng blog for a company with a nine to ten figure valuation and it's not uncommon for my blog to get an order of…
How early American inventors funded their ventures
From Colt's traveling show to the Wrights' bicycle shop
How I built the best-selling BlackBerry app
Many years ago, I built what I believe was the best-selling BlackBerry app of all-time, BBSmart Email Viewer. It feels strange to write that, and it's not something I'd say I'm really known for outside of the small niche community of BlackBerry app developers that used to exist. But of course this had a huge impact on…
Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs
You know nothing John Snow
The Coronavirus Recession and What It Means for Developers
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
Mathematical marketing: a piece of calculus to change the way you advertise
If you make $10 profit each time you sell a product, what cost per conversion should you aim for? Answering this question isn't easy, but it can teach us a…
True product-market fit is a minimum viable company
Hi, I’m Ann. I was one of the first investors in Lyft, Refinery29, and Xamarin. I have been on the Midas List for the past 3 years and was…
6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far
It's been 6 months since the official launch of Lunch Money and I've been sharing milestones, both big and small. But that's hardly the full picture.
“Let’s use Kubernetes.” Now you have eight problems
For smaller teams, Kubernetes is usually the wrong solution: too complex, too complicated, and with too much work to keep it running.
Project Svalbard, Have I Been Pwned and its ongoing independence
This is going to be a lengthy blog post so let me use this opening paragraph as a summary of where Project Svalbard is at: Have I Been Pwned is no longer being sold and I will continue running it independently. After 11 months of a very intensive process culminating
Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook
In the most recent issue of the prestigious American Economic Review, a group of well-known economists published a paper titled “The Welfare Effects of Social Media.” It ... Read more
Why business is so difficult and unpredictable
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