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Hacking Is the Opposite of Marketing
What you call love was invented by guys like me... to sell Nylons.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,889 posts.
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Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market
Mobile OSes and their most successful apps have drained browser choice of meaning for more than a decade. This has lead to confusion for users and loss of control over data. Web developers, meanwhile, face higher costs and reduced ability to escape walled gardens. It's time for the charade to end.
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The Highest Forms of Wealth
Wealth is easy to measure but hard to value.
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K-9 Mail is back
After almost 3 years a new stable version of K-9 Mail is available.
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Is Norway the New East India Company?
Gas and oil, and opium
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Open Decision-Making (2014)
In my experience as the founder and CEO of two startups I have had numerous opportunities to observe decisions being made: technical decisions about how to build products, personnel decisions about whom to hire, business decisions about how to market and sell our products, strategic decisions about company direction…
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My Steam Game Revenue Stats
How much Money has my first Steam game made in the first month of early access? Revenue, wishlist, sold copies Stats.
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AWS's Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.
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Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp
Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp.
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The Tyranny of Spreadsheets
Early last October my phone rang. On the line was a researcher calling from Today, the BBC’s agenda-setting morning radio programme. She told me that something strange had happened, and she hoped I…
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My app failed: lessons learned
Making Software, the hardest way to make an easy living. TL:DR – check out Rithm: Habit tracking machine v2 in apple app store today Hey Kyle here, maker of Rithm. So early 2020, I launched Rithm, an app that helps...
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Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools
Find open source alternatives to popular softwares. Open Source for Business Communication, Project Management, CRM, Video Conferencing, Scheduling & more.
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Facebook took our election ad money then bulk-deleted our pages
Parliamentary elections in Bulgaria (EU country) were on the July 11th. We (a center-right opposition coalition) were running Facebook…
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Planning and estimating large-scale software projects
This weekend I was talking with a friend about how I'd planned and estimated a huge software project in one of my previous jobs. By that I mean not something which can be done by a single team in a sprint or two, but something which requires several teams, across several quarters of effort, involving many other…
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Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
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AWS now allows customers to pay for their usage in advance
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Now Allows Customers To Pay For Their Usage in Advance
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MAPS Celebrates California Senate Passage of Psychedelic Reform Bill
Fifty years after the War on Drugs was officially declared and psychedelic substance prohibition began in contravention of evidence supporting therapeutic use, the California State Senate has taken the first Legislative step to dismantle psychedelic prohibition with a 21-16 vote on June 1, 2021, in favor of Senate…
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Our lawsuit against ChessBase
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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Adobe Joins Blender Development Fund
Adobe announced that they will join the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund as a corporate Gold member.
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Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)
While I was at a family wedding a few weeks ago, one of my aunts asked me, “So, what’s the hardest part about designing a game? It must be coming up with the ideas, right?” I laug…
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The History of the Dot Com Era
I graduated from college in 1997. While at college, the Netscape IPO, Yahoo IPO, eBay IPO, and Amazon IPO all happened. When I graduated, I…
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Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship
Claiming that “right-wing voices are being censored,” Republican-led legislatures in Florida and Texas have introduced legislation to “end Big Tech censorship.” They’re right. Conservatives are being censored. But it’s not just conservatives who have their political speech blocked by social media giants.
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What happens in an IPO? – A Beginner's Guide (Part 2/2)
I like to learn about business through writing. Day Job: Helping founders with their VC pitches at deckrooster.com. Past: Goldman Sachs, IIM Bangalore