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NPS doesn’t say anything particularly useful
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 580 posts.
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The gift of it's your problem now
Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hund...
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How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught
Thinking better isn't about learning more; it's about doing a few simple things that really help create unstoppable progress.
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Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech
A few months ago, I left SeatGeek without much of a plan of what to do next. My green card was finally issued in 2021, which means that I didn’t have to scramble to find a new job in forty days. Fo...
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The Importance of Price Signals
Originally published: December 2021 When price inflation occurs, it can be a very challenging time for everyone. In that type of environment, prices of goods and services often go up faster than wages, and the public and policymakers wish to constrain them. Historically, when price inflation becomes rampant…
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The cost of cloud
Putting your IT infrastructure into the cloud seems to be the "in" thing. It's been around for a while, of course. And, like most things rel...
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Selling my own GPL software, part 1: a lot of hurdles
Published: 24-12-2021 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Buy a coal mine, drive a gas guzzler, and other uses of reverse logic
Readers with long memories may recall the brief, inglorious UK fuel shortage of a few weeks ago, which was mostly caused by the rush to refuel for fear the pumps would run dry. Some petrol stations…
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Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
Programs are more complicated than projects which are more complicated than milestones. Instead of projects, focus on milestonesMost engineering organizations focus on delivering projects. You can get better results by focusing on milestones instead.
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Turkey's Financial Crisis
Earlier this week, Mohamed El-Erian was lost for words.
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Building Remote Teams for Startups
Most of the companies in the last year had to try out remote work in one way or the other. These are my highly notes on #remote #teams.
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The Sucker Complex
One is killed every minute
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Tinder just permabanned me or the problem with big tech
Banned by algorithm with no explanation - the dark side of big tech's automated moderation.
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5 Important Things to Do Before the Market Bubble Bursts
Yes, you are living through a bubble in the financial markets. No, this is not an article about how to time the market. No, you don’t know when the bubble will burst (and neither do I). Yes, there are still things that you can do that will set you up for investing success.
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Apple and NeXT, 25 Years Ago this week
Remembering the merger of Apple and NeXT and how anxious we …
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Why start a new database conference?
Somehow I am organizing a conference called Have you tried rubbing a database on it?
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The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company
The large declining tech company. We’ve all read articles in the tech press and blogs analyzing how once hot companies lost their way. Most ...
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NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft
A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Nicholas Truglia was part of a group alleged to have stolen more than $100 million from cryptocurrency investors using…
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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
More than 600 new functions in Version 13 plus loads of updates covering: symbolic integration, mathematical functions, PDE modeling, video creation, image stitching, tree constructs, graph coloring, subgraph isomorphism, spatial fields, leap seconds, maps, geometric regions, chemical formulas & reactions, bio…
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Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (2013)
I entered Boston University Law School in the Fall of 2011. Like most law schools during the heyday of blogging, BU's prospective students website featured a handful of blogs that were written by current students. To get a blog on the site, you had to be selected among various applicants, and, if you were selected…
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Chess.com vs. Lichess
A comprehensive comparison of the two most popular chess websites.
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The Great Bifurcation
Tracing the evolution of tech’s three eras, and why the fourth era — the Metaverse — is defined by its bifurcation with the physical world.
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I started a paper website business
I started a business that lets you build websites using pen and paper. In the process I went viral on Twitter, made $1,000 in two days, and blew $720 on 100 paper notebooks from Alibaba.
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Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain
No product gets built without at least one good supply chain war story – especially true in these strange times. Before we get into the details of the story, I feel it’s worth understanding a bit more about the part that caused me so much trouble: what it does, and why it’s so special.
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More than you want to know about gift cards
Gift cards are a loosely-regulated quasi-financial product and frequently misunderstood. Here's how they operate under the hood.