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I’m very excited to share that I’m investing in reddit (personally, not via Y Combinator). I have been a daily reddit user for 9 years—longer than pretty much any other service I still use...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,982 posts.
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Work Habits at Apple
In episode 47 of the Debug podcast, former Apple managers Lisa Melton and Nitin Ganatra talk about their work schedules at Apple and the questionable practice of being expected to work on weekends and vacations.
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The economics of a web-based book
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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HFT in my backyard – II
This is insane: more than 28,000 visitors came to read Part I of “HFT in my backyard”. Some of them are inevitably bots, but my logs reveal the majority to be human readers from bank desks, technol…
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This email may be worth millions of dollars in sales
We were comparing two SaaS applications. One gave us a better quote, so we asked the second if they would match it. They wouldn’t, but their founder, wrote us an email explaining: Why their...
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HFT in My Backyard
INTRO As soon as the summer sun returns to Belgium, there is a natural human migration from Francophone Wallonia to the west coast sea in the Flemish part of the country. Here, à la mer du Nord, pe…
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Ads work by cultural imprinting, not emotional inception
There's a meme, particularly virulent in educated circles, about how advertising works — how it sways and seduces us, coaxing us gently toward a purchase.
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Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innovation?
Collection of Peter Thiel's evidence that we're economically stagnating and no longer living in a technologically-accelerating civilization.
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How I Pranked My Roommate with Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads
Ghost Influence by Brian Swichkow2014343 points46 commentscited by 8Tech Industry & Business details
This is the chronicle of the most epic retaliation and how I pranked my roommate with targeted Facebook Ads to the point of complete paranoia and delusion.
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Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations
I think Apple Watch prices are going to be shockingly high — gasp-inducingly, get-me-to-the-fainting-couch high — from the perspective of the tech industry. But at the same time, there is room for them to be disruptively *low* from the perspective of the traditional watch and jewelry world.
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Applying to YC
One of the most common misconceptions startups have about applying to Y Combinator is thinking that they are too early or too late. We have funded companies with only an idea; we’ve funded...
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I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral
Hacker Experience is an online hacking simulation game. Read more about it here.
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iPhone 6 and Android value
The new iPhones were much the most predictable part of Apple's event - widely leaked and impelled by an irresistible logic - the customer is always right. For all that Apple thought and argued that you should optimize for the thumb size, it turns out optimizing for the pocket size is a better metr
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How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers
A blog for third-party developers on the Clover POS platform.
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Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr
(Background: Dinnr was an ad-hoc, same day ingredient delivery service. Select a recipe on our website, and we deliver everything you need…
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera
I’m excited to be teaching Stanford Law’s first Coursera offering this fall, on government surveillance . In preparation, I’ve been extensively poking around the platform; while I found some snazzy features, I also stumbled across a few security and privacy issues.
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Shenzhen trip report – visiting the world's manufacturing ecosystem
Last year, a group of Media Lab students visited Shenzhen with, bunnie, an old friend and my hardware guru....
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Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
Citymapper is what happens when you actually understand user experience.
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Dylan: the harsh realities of the market
So, this is a little case study. I did everything for Dylan. And when I say everything, I mean everything . Here's my resumé: I got e...
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