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Vaccines don't cause autism
The debate is essentially over and the final word is in: vaccines do not cause autism. The results of a rigorous study conducted over several years were just an
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Then Welcome To Android
Openness, choice, innovation.
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The secret to 4 letter domains: include one (and only one) digit
In our last experiment we attempted attempted to estimate the proportion of pronounceable 5, 6 and 7-letter domains that are already regist...
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You Negotiate Commodities, But You Seize Opportunities
It took losing something important to understand the difference between a commodity and an opportunity. Along the way I also learned yet another way entrepreneurs see the world differently from the…
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Wordpress Themes for Launching your Minimum Viable Product
By leveraging the web in creation of rapid prototypes for testing business model assumptions, and using customer feedback to develop them, companies will be able to advance in its’ search for…
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Here's to the Next 3 Years (Yehuda Katz Moves On)
I officially joined Engine Yard on January 1, 2008, about a week before we announced our Series A funding, becoming its twenty-second employee. I was Engine Yard's very first "Engineering" hire, and I would spend the next year working on Ezra's Merb project, finally releasing Merb 1.
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Extreme Pair Programming - Guy Steele and Richard Stallman
"We sat down one morning," recalls Steele. "I was at the keyboard, and he was at my elbow," says Steele. "He was perfectly willing to let me...
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IPhone vs Android? No. We're fighting the wrong fight
We have been distracted by ridiculous arguments and fabricated “wars” for too long. We have been distracted by thinking that Google is Microsoft and Apple is Apple in a doomed fight alr…
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No, you are not "running late", you are rude & selfish
This post may offend some readers, recruiters or not. But only because it’s going to cut close to the bone for many. And I don’t care if I sound old-fashioned, because actually it’s nothing to do with ‘fashion’ or ‘generation’. It’s got everything to do with basic good manners and respect for other people. So
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Why C Is Not Assembly
In response to a previous article a poster in some forum called me an idiot and said "everybody knows that C is a portable assembly languag...
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Nobody Understands Probability
The goal of this post is to give an overview of Bayesian statistics as well as to correct errors about probability that even mathematically sophisticated people commonly make. Hopefully by the end …
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How I boosted my Vim
Where I lay out the recent changed I made to my Vim setup.
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Steve Blank What’s A Startup? First Principles.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill Everyone knows what a startup is for – don’t they? In this post we’re going to offer a new definition…
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