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John T. Reed's analysis of Robert T. Kiyosaki's book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Part 1
An in-depth, factual analysis of Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad. Discover the dangerous advice, factual errors, & misleading claims exposed by John T Reed.
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HFT in the Banana Land
It’s beautiful outside Looks like it’s raining money Dr. Dre, For the love of money [Updated 1 on 01/27/2016 | Minor corrections + kmz file added] [Updated 2 on 01/27/2016 | This post w…
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Amazon's customer service backdoor
As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able…
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I believe in the 10x engineer, but
The easiest way to be a 10x engineer is to make 10 other engineers 2x more efficient. Someone can be a 10x engineer if they do nothing for 364 days then convinces the team to change programming language to a 2x more productive language.
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Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley
Why “few successful startup founders grew up desperately poor”
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A free shipping mystery
If you've ever purchased a physical good on the internet, you know that shipping is a big deal. And all online shop owners know that providing competitive shipping is a key part of their success. It is indeed one of Amazon's greatest strengths and they are famous for offering free shipping to their Amazon Prime…
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How to Leverage Technical Debt
“There ain’t no good debt, only different types. A cunning hacker is one who leverages some debt, in some circumstances, to create good…
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Is Apple Using Swift?
Apple has been actively evangelizing the use of Swift since it was announced at WWDC in 2014. In the Platforms State of the Union, Andreas…
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I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
Update: Amazon changed Glacier pricing on 21 December 2016, about 11 months after this was originally posted. The “gotcha” pricing…
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Before Growth
We tell startups all the time that they have to grow quickly. That’s true, and very good advice, but I think the current fashion of Silicon Valley startups has taken this to an unhealthy...
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Dear “Dear GitHub”
Dear “Dear GitHub”, Thanks for your recent open letter about GitHub’s shortcomings. As an occasional contributor to Chef, a large open source project itself , I completely empathize with your position. It totally sucks, for example, when an issue is DoSsed with a wall of unhelpful +1’s, especially by people who think…
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Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable
Let’s make software even better.
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Urban highways destroy wealth
Infrastructure investment is often seen as a good way to stimulate the economy and to provide facilities to allow the economy to grow. It's...
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Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
TLDR: Google suddenly claims a “terms of service” violation on a route plotting site that has been built on the Maps API for a decade.
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Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
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The Trouble with the TPP, Day 5: Rights Holders “Shall” vs. Users “May”
The Trouble with the TPP series concludes the first week with a look at how the TPP treats the interests of rights holders and users completely differently (prior posts include Day 1: US Blocks Balancing Provisions, Day 2: Locking in Digital Locks, Day 3: Copyright Term Extension, Day 4: Copyright Notice and Takedown…
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Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan
About a year ago, we made the decision to use Paypal as the primary payment method for our company, Hacker Paradise. After about a month…
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Chinese Markets Halted, Equities Plunge Another 7%
Sea of Red in Asia There's another bloodbath in Asian equities his morning, the second in a week. click on chart for sharper image C...