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Marketing 101 for developers
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I can manipulate your amazon.com recommendations
I can put any item of my choice on your personalized amazon.com homepage. Did I hear you say Bollocks! ? Well, here is proof:
Never ever do business with Samsung India Software Operations
Back in October 2010 I was very glad to receive a mail from the people behind the Samsung Dolfin browser, who turned out to work from Bangalore, India, asking for my cooperation in making it better and even offering to pay me for it. Unfortunately, by now it turns out that they’re a bunch of fucking assholes who don’t…
The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades
The Mac App Store has been a huge boon to Mac software developers, but has an enormous flaw: it needs to allow developers to charge existing...
A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure
. Not the kind of log I meant.
Startups, Fix Your "From" Field
A short rant. I have seen this problem happen too many times to stay quiet anymore. I have reached out in private when this happens, but I'm going to write a public rant so I can stop repeating myself.
How To Get Media Coverage For Your Startup: A Complete Guide
How to get the press and media to spread your startup's story. A detailed and comprehensive guide for mere mortals.
To the Pirate Bay: a modest proposal
Back to: A writing experiment I plan to try | Forward to: PSA: Amazon order cancellations
The one interview question I always ask
I’ve just gotten past a peak interviewing period where I would interview 3-5 engineering and product management candidates every week. I’ve used this question for as long as I’ve …
Why software sucks?
[First published: September, 2005] No one makes bad software on purpose. No programmer has ever sat down, planning out weeks of work, with the intention of frustrating people enough to make them cr…
Introducing Instapaper 4.1 for iPhone, iPad
With so many Retina iPad updates, it looks like the App Review team is working overtime to approve apps quickly. In a very pleasant surprise, my 4.1 update was approved much more quickly than I expected. Thanks, App Review team!
The myth of the overnight success
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
Ignore Everybody.
Insights You Can See. Gapingvoid works with leaders to design culture intentionally.
Instapaper for Retina iPad
This is slightly embarrassing: Instapaper doesn’t show Retina-resolution graphics on the new iPad yet.
Amazon Data Center: 450,000 Estimated EC2 Servers
(Edit 3/16/2012: I am surprised that this post is picked up by a lot of media outlets. Given the strong interest, I want to emphasize what is measured and what is derived. The # of server racks in …
European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout
In an unexpected turn of events, one of the key committees in the European Parliament voted recently to weaken a reform of the copyright...
I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook
Anyone who reads this blog knows how much I hate patent laws . I think 99pct of the time they are anti-competitive, corruptive, impede creativity and innovation and can kill small businesses. I think the ratio of patent law doing a good job protecting company IP vs it being used purely to negatively impact competitors…
DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months
Hi my name is Dan Shipper. I’m a sophomore at UPenn and last month I sold my web app DomainPolish. If you’re new around here DomainPolish is an MVP I built
Yahoo Crosses The Line
The patents that Yahoo! is suing Facebook over are a crock of shit. None of them represent unique and new ideas at the time of the filing. I supect they all can be thrown out over prior art if Facebook takes the time and effort to do that. But worse, Yahoo! has broken ranks and […]
I'm not a "curator"
Curator’s Code is an attempt to codify and standardize “via” links and attribution from link blogs and aggregators with two new symbols: