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G is for Google
Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google.
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Google Hangouts 4.0: now simpler, faster, more beautiful
We’ve been hard at work on big improvements to make Hangouts faster, simpler, and easier on the eyes.
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Bringing Intel Xeon to notebook PCs
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Quantity Always Trumps Quality
Nathan Bowers pointed me to this five year old Cool Tools entry on the book Art & Fear. Although I am not at all ready to call software development “art” – perhaps “craft” would be more appropriate, or “engineering” if you’re feeling generous – the parallels between some of the advice offered
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Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
We're announcing a move from doing the majority of our development work internally, to almost exclusively working in public issue trackers on GitLab.com.
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Standard Treasury Acquired by Silicon Valley Bank
We're proud to say that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has acquired the assets and team of Standard Treasury. More information can be found in the press release. Dan and I started Standard Treasury...
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The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ
Here is a small sample of stuff that pops up with some regularity, if you want me to add entries please mail me jacques@mattheij.com, if you ask a question that is hard to answer it may take a while before I can post it . Please note that I’m not affiliated with HN in any way other than being a user, the majority of…
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Twitter Contest Winning as a Service
This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale
In a move that could set a crucial precedent for all service providers, Google pushed back against the expansion of what's become known as the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) ruling, and refused to comply with a notice issued by French data protection agency Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et...
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Joining a Different YC
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining Y Combinator full-time. My job is to help our companies make hardware people want faster and better than ever before. Fortunately, our alumni are the best resource in the world for this: they’ve built some of the most innovative startups of the last decade. Coupled with our…
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Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control
Satya, I am writing to you about a very disturbing aspect of Windows 10. Specifically, that the update experience appears to have been designed to throw aw
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The adblocking revolution is months away
The thing about print adverts was that they stayed where they were. Photo by Bethan on Flickr. TL:DR: when Apple’s iOS 9 comes out in September, there’s going to be a dramatic uptake of…
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Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet
“Learn to code,” they say. But most working professionals don’t have the time to do that. They know that software is becoming more central to their business, and they’d love to learn how to code, but they can’t spare months or years to self-educate in computer science. They just need an easier on-ramp to their...
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Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial
Trade ministers are meeting behind closed-doors at the Westin Resort and Spa in Maui this week to finalize the terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). This is the first formal round of talks since the U.S. passed the controversial Fast Track trade legislation in June, which has given U.S....
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Final Steps
An update as promised: all systems are now ‘Go’ on the technical side (pun intended) and we intend to release Frontier this week. Thank you to everyone who...
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Using Google without a Google+ profile
Over the next few months, we’re going to be making some important changes. Here’s more about what you can expect.
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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of “outsiders” ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail. Drawing on data from the US, Germany and the UK, Alexandre Afonso looks at how…
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What Makes Founders Succeed
I recently dug up my introduction to Founders at Work, which I wrote in 2006, and I was amazed how accurate it still seems: –––––– Some kind of magic happens in startups, especially at...
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The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library
It's been an exciting summer for the Library of Congress. Last month, the Librarian Dr. James Billington announced he would soon be stepping down, vacating a seat he's held for some 28 years. That announcement came hot on the heels of a new legislative proposal—the nigh-ungooglable CODE Act, which...