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Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
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Are Rotisserie Chickens a Bargain?
Rotisserie chickens are delicious, ready-to-eat, and don't cost any more than an uncooked chicken. Is that combination too good to be true?
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Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app
Google Duo is an app available for Android and iOS that takes the complexity out of 1-to-1 video calling.
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This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
With only three more years of savings, you can finally afford that two-bedroom condo
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Stories and Tips: Interviews with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Others
Many of my students have been asking questions lately about how to do technical interviews, so I've decided to write about my interviewing experiences. I will start by giving a number of anecdotes because they're interesting to everyone, but the later parts of this post are mainly targeted at prospective students who…
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How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost It All
In 1980, two brothers from Texas controlled two-thirds of all the privately held silver on earth. This is the story of how one of history's biggest bets went bust.
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Why some businesses aren't allowed on Stripe
We’re building business infrastructure. As with other kinds of infrastructure (like hosting or electricity), we'd like to make it available to as broad a set of users as possible.
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Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more
FINAL UPDATE (Wednesday 9th May 2018): Arduino is back in stock! Check out the Arduino range on our store here: https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/arduino -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE #2 (Friday 12th August 2017): Paul and I have spoken with Massimo Banzi…
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Employee #1: Tumblr
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Nothing is Cheaper than Proof of Work
I previously wrote a post on proof of work (PoW) and mining . The first half generated great interest but (apparently) failed to be universally persuasive. For example, CCRG (Ethereum’s multi-million dollar funded “research” organization) consists almost entirely of academics theorizing about proof of stake (PoS) .
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Tips for selling your side project
All I did was put together a trivial web app to scratch my own itch, and it keeps scratching it, while I drink my free beer.
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EU expands copyright to furniture and extends term by a century
The UK has just changed its copyright-and-patent monopoly law to extend copyright to furniture and to extend the term of that copyright on furniture with
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The meeting that showed me the truth about VCs
I had a meeting with a well-known startup investor yesterday. The talk somehow pivoted from my seed-seeking startup into talking about the…
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Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
“People use Tails to chat off-the-record, browse the web anonymously, and share sensitive documents. Many human rights defenders depend on Tails to do th
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Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
Migrating from GitHub to GitLab and setting up your own GitLab instance
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News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed
To address feedback from our community, we're making an update to News Feed ranking to further reduce clickbait headlines.
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The Human Cost of Tech Debt
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Infragistics blog. Head over to their site and check out the original. While you’re there, have a look at the other blog authors and their product offering. If you’re not already familiar with the concept of technical debt, it’s worth becoming familiar with it. I…
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LibreOffice 5.2 “fresh” Released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux
LibreOffice 5.1.5 “still” announced, for enterprise class deployments Berlin, August 3, 2016 – The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 5.2, a feature-rich major release of the best free office suite ever created – targeted to early adopters and power users – with several user interface improvements and…
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Why we lost Uber as a user
On 07/26/2016 01:53 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > The write amplification issue, and its correllary in VACUUM, certainly > continues …
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Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS
Ideen erproben - Offenheit schaffen!
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