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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 913 posts.
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You Can’t Take It With You
If you’ve had a great career what happens to all your knowledge and experience when you retire?Great Suit My wife and I had dinner last night with a friend of hers from high school. Tom, her husban…
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1099 will end the world in 2012
According to the Mayan calendar, the world will come to an end in 2012. Books and movies have been written about how this will happen… asteroid impact, alien invasion, hypervolcanoes, you nam…
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Google takes the FTC to school
Google just issued a response to the Federal Trade commission's staff discussion draft on potential recommendations to support the reinvention of...
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I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)
Update: StackVM is now called Browserling. Hey everyone, I have awesome news! I am doing a startup together with James Halliday! I met James on FreeNode several years ago and it turned out that we had very similar ideas about doing great hacking. So we teamed up as equal co-founders to do a startup. We're on…
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We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.
Link to: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_att_fail/all/1
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How to find start-up ideas
Chris Dixon had an interesting post a while ago about how to find start-up ideas. The advice boiled down to keeping a spreadsheet of ideas and talking to lots of smart people (entrepreneurs, potent…
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Startup Competitive Advantages that Work
It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
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Founders at work: Interview with Steve Wozniak
Interview: Steve Wozniak , Co-Founder, Apple Computer If any one person can be said to have set off the personal computer revolution, it might be Steve Wozniak. He designed the machine that...
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Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase)
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Reddit reveals their traffic numbers, compares to Alexa/Compete etc
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPOs, and VCs)
If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collap…
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Themes are GPL, too
If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are compl…
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Software will be unpatentable in New Zealand
Forge Creative is a full-service Web Design Agency. Providing Branding, Web Development, Graphic Design, & Digital Marketing in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Veracity: The next step in DVCS
One week from today, at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention , SourceGear will be making a big announcement. Today I'm giving you an early preview. We've been building something new. :-)
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Hacker News Daily (announcement)
At the same time, there are a lot of very interesting articles on Hacker News. Several times recently I've read a fascinating article elsewhere and submitted it to Hacker News, only to find that it had already been on Hacker News several days earlier but had been crowded out by other articles before I noticed it. This…
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RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000
Big hat tip to my friend Jon Newton at p2pnet.net for uncovering these documents. The RIAA's "business plan" is even worse than I'd guess...
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