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Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement
So now the narrative is not “Away fires woman CEO and co-founder, replaces her with a man”. Instead, the narrative is “Away fires CEO who created ‘toxic culture’, brings in fresh leadership” — a narrative that wouldn’t be possible without The Verge’s story last Thursday.
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Long Bets by Confidence Level
If you want to make a long-term bet one of your options is to register your bet with the Long Now Foundation as a Long Bet. They have some rules, which are roughly: Both parties put up the same amount, at least $200/each. Long Bets effectively runs a donor-advised fund (DAF). When the bet concludes the winner chooses…
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Larry and Sergey: A Valediction
Photographer: “How ’bout we do the shoot in a hot tub?” Larry and Sergey: “Sure!” Never such innocence again. Can billionaires be tragic figures? Lear must have been w…
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The Product-Minded Software Engineer
Product-minded engineers are developers with lots of interest in the product itself. They want to understand why decisions are made, how people use the product, and love to be involved in making product decisions. They're someone who would likely make a good product manager if they ever decide
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Jack Dorsey Needs to Step Down
To: Omid R. Kordestani Executive Chairman Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103
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Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests
KrebsOnSecurity ran a story this week that puzzled over Apple ‘s response to inquiries about a potential privacy leak in its new iPhone 11 line, in which the devices appear to intermittently seek the user’s location even when all applications and system services are individually set never to request this data. Today…
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Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Selling Juicer
Ryan MacInnes is a web developer, programmer, and designer in Los Angeles, CA. He loves working on Ruby on Rails projects, Javascript and iOS. His forte is large, scalable and highly interactive web applications with a beautiful minimal approach to UI and UX.
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How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?
My name is Gabi and I am the co-founder of Chicisimo (Fashion Taste API).
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The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler
One of the more curious behaviors of Apple’s new iPhone 11 Pro is that it intermittently seeks the user’s location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request this data. Apple says this is by design, but that response seems at odds with the company’s…
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Born in a Garage
We started a computer company!!! The Oxide Computer Company started in my garage, this is a story about its origins.
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The soul of a new computer company
Over the summer, I described preparing for my next expedition. I’m thrilled to announce that the expedition is now plotted, the funds are raised, and the bags are packed: together with Steve Tuck and Jess Frazelle , we have started Oxide Computer Company .
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Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen
Patrick and Tyler are obsessed with progress — and they think you should be too.
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PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
telegra.ph/private-internet-access-vpn-acquired-by-malware-business-founded-by-former-israeli-spies-12-0120191,004 points359 commentsSecurity & Privacy details
arccompute.com/blog The following article contains quotes and links meant to inform VPN consumers concerning the ownership, affiliations, and past business practices of Kape Technologies (formerly known as Crossrider) in light of their acquisition of Private Internet Access VPN. I'd like to start by giving credit…
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Unbundling AWS
Why startups can build valuable businesses by unbundling AWS: focused developer tools, better user experiences, and software that does one thing well.
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Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work
How to be effective in the theatre of work
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Google AdWords charged me for clicks in Istanbul while location-targeting the US
Three months ago, I quit my job at Google to start my own company. This past week, I decided that I wanted to get a feel for how much it…
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Who eats who in open source
TL;DR: If the cloud didn’t eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects? Marc Andresseesssen’s “software is eating the world” has given rise to an entire technolog…
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The first non-bullshit book about culture I've read
I’ve always been frustrated that people often talk about culture without giving actionable or realistic advice, and was previously prompted by this tweet to write about what I did when put in charge of a broken team:
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How Y Combinator Started (2012)
On March 11 2005, Jessica and I were walking home from dinner in Harvard Square. Jessica was working at an investment bank at the time, but she didn't like it much, so she had interviewed for a job as director of marketing at a Boston VC fund. The VC fund was doing what now seems a comically familiar thing for a VC…
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The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself
Here’s a common pattern that I see play out very often in software teams: There is a need to change the existing system behavior to accomplish new functionality. The software engineer l…
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Cook: ‘China Hasn’t Pressured Us’
Link to: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tim-cook-talks-vision-apple-breaks-ground-facility/story?id=67165042
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Microsoft's “Love” of Linux
Recently Microsoft has been making a lot of announcements and releases of technology that fall under a supposedly “Microsoft Loves Linux” type of strategy. This is particularly noteworthy given the history of Microsoft since the end of the 90s. Their internal policy was a full attack on Linux 1 . and they were…
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