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A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1
I'm a former high frequency trader. And following the tradition of G.H. Hardy, I feel the need to make an apology for my former profession. Not an apology in the sense of a request for forgiveness of wrongs performed, but merely an intellectual justification of a field which is …
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Getting around the London 2012 branding police
The Guardian reported the other day on the London 2012 Olympics branding police who ensure that words like London, 2012 or Games aren't be...
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Kickstarter Is Totally Disrupting Consumer Electronics, Probably By Mistake
Given everything out there about Kickstarter’s founding story one gets the impression that the crux of its existence revolves around art and creativity. Just a guess based on that huge banner on their home page. Funding a rock concert in New Orleans and all that . Novellas, art projects, letters, albums, tours, Girl…
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No I won't sign your NDA, here's why.
The other day I got to chatting with a lovely woman who reached out after reading my blog. She was interested in talking about an idea she had, how she might get it off the ground, and if I might …
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What Amazon's ebook strategy really means
It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don't really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry.
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How I created and launched a website from the Internet café in Zimbabwe
After my last interview with a big mining firm,I got fed up.I had gone to many interviews with big companies , and the result was always the same.With unemployment at a staggering 80% , one can ima…
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Meteor meets NoGPL
Meteor made a big splash this week. Check out their screencast if you haven’t already. For “real-time” web applications it really seems to simplify things a whole lot. The team behind it seems plenty experienced and they are building a business on Meteor by going with the GPL/commercial dual-license approach made…
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Inside Votizen - Tech, Design, Culture
A chat with Votizen co-founder Jason Putorti. I am particularly interested in how startups work, their internal processes and culture, rather than their external pitch and product features.
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Community and Diversity
[I hope that it’s obvious from what follows that this is a statement of personal opinion, not an official Mozilla document.]
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Caller ID Made Simple
I'm building OpenCNAM with friends: a simple API that returns caller ID names for phone numbers, with a free tier of 60 queries an hour, no account needed.
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One hiring filter that works
In a fairly popular blog post, Raganwald advocates against using various heuristics while filtering out resumes. For the most part, I agree with him. Since it's hard to find good programmers, false negatives are very costly compared to the cost of a false positive (a wasted interview). But I have …
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How We Fooled Ourselves Into Waiting Too Long To Launch
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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On Building Flipboard for iPhone
Flip flopping between bits and atoms
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