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Brex layoffs
Our co-founder and co-CEO sent an email to the Brex team today to share a difficult message.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft
Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology2022442 points881 commentscited by 4Society, Policy & Culture details
From 2021 to 2022, I worked as a manager in Microsoft’s AI Platform division. I’ve been working in the software industry for over a decade, and while I’ve often encountered some combination of the words “diversity” and “inclusion,” how those words have been translated into culture and policy has varied dramatically…
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Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers
New series of interactive Q&As and one-on-ones provide developers with direct access to Apple experts.
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Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
London, UK: UK-based IP and technology licensing company Vectis IP today announced a call for patents essential to the Opus codec.
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U.S. Army Chooses Google Workspace
Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.
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SmooshGate (2021)
What can SmooshGate teach us about standards development and the Web Platform? This write-up gives an overview.
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An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets
Monopoly This is the difference between “pro-business” and “pro-market” policies which are often conflated. The former leads to concentration of
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Energy vs. Sovereign Bond Markets
October 9, 2022 Latest Articles: A Look at the Lightning Network Energy: The Area Under the Curve This newsletter issue focuses on recent problems with developed country sovereign bond markets and how energy supply constraints pose an ongoing problem for them. The Sovereign Bond Bubble During much of 2019 and 2020…
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Happy 20th birthday Jira You suck so bad
I write about reverse engineering & development.
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Stripe is PayPal circa 2010
After integrating both Stripe and Paypal I've come to the realization that they are nearly the same, including all the evil.
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I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls
For a project I was working on, some of the research involved listening to thousands of sales calls from well known high-growth B2B SaaS companies.
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For Best Results, Forget the Bonus
NEW YORK TIMES October 17, 1993 For Best Results, Forget the Bonus By Alfie Kohn “Do this and you’ll get that.” These six words sum up the most popular way in which American business strives…
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Banks are not repaying victims of Zelle scams
When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released this week suggests that for some of the nation’s largest…
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How to distort Scrum until it no longer works
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing
In 2022, it actually makes sense to build your own infrastructure for scientific computing if you're a university, NASA, or a growing bio company.
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Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc
A few days ago we received a large packet in the mail from Meta's legal team informing us that SimulaVR has been subpoenaed for their antitrust case FTC vs. Meta Platforms , in relation to the government's recent injunction against their acquisition of a VR fitness company.
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Computer Saturation and the Productivity Slowdown
One of the current puzzles in economics is the recent worldwide slowdown in productivity, compared to the late 1990s and early 2000s. This productivity loss is economically large: if productivity growth had stayed at the same level as in 1995-2004, American GDP would have increased by trillions of dollars. In this…
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Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots
A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site, and for companies that rely on it to hire and screen prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from…
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Steve Yegge Joins as Head of Engineering of Sourcegraph
TL;DR: Steve Yegge has joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world's most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP).
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The deception of “buying” digital movies
World of Matthew is a personal website, like few others. Not just a blog but also provides reviews and video content
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How to kickstart and scale a consumer business by doing things that don’t scale
Also, how today’s biggest consumer products got their first 1,000 users
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From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate
After a 23-year career at Microsoft, Facebook, and a Gates Foundation nonprofit, Philip Su burned out and found unexpected recovery working as an Amazon warehouse associate.