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Cash Cow Disease: The Cognitive Decline of Microsoft and Google
Watching the recent product retraction of Google Wave convinced me that Google is fully infected with the same protracted, end-stage wasting...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 913 posts.
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Dropbox hits 1.0
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Why You Need To Work For A Big Company
There are lots of lists around these days So in the interests of balance I think it is time for some anti-lists Here is my 7 things I am glad I did
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Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2
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Paypal's logo designed to look like a recommendation?
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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Amazon Taking Down Erotica, Removing From Kindles
On December 9, 2010, I was contacted by CreateSpace (Amazon’s Print on Demand service) who publishes my print books. They informed me that m...
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Our first week in the Chrome Webstore: the numbers
Lost Decade Games
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Aza Raskin Leaving Mozilla
Since the beta version of Mozilla's Firefox, I've been a devotee. It became my go-to web browser in 2004. In addition to being open-source, it was far
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10% unemployment yet every startup in NYC struggling to hire
Managing Director in Lazard's Media, Entertainment & Sports Group. Former CEO of Future Plc, founder of Cheddar News, and President & COO of BuzzFeed.
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What's really wrong with BlackBerry
Just a couple of weeks after Research in Motion turned in a good earnings report, the death watch over the company has resumed, with Busines...
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How to reject a job candidate without being an asshole
I used to send a job candidate an email like the following after the person failed a phone intervi...
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The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee
The Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. Apache has served on the EC for the past 10 years, winning the JCP "Member of the Year" award 4 times, and recently was ratified for another term with support from 95% of the voting community. Further, the project communities…
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How to Fly 35,000 Miles, Visit 4 Continents, 9 Countries, and 15 Cities for $418
"I have to tell you sir, this is easily the most ridiculous itinerary I've ever put together," said the American Airlines operator the other night as I finalized plans for a worldwide adventure that would make Marco Polo blush. "Welp, that makes two of us!" I replied. And just like that, I had committed myself
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How to detect a toxic customer
A month ago I received a sales inquiry via email for my invoicing software package. The prospect asked if we could complete the questions he had attached in a spreadsheet: I will need the attached questions answered in order to proceed as I can’t get them all answered off your website.
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How I Screwed Up My Google Acquisition
I began building a web-based version of PowerPoint called Preezo back in the Spring of 2005 after switching the direction of my angel-funded startup for the third time in less than a year. Prior to that I had been working on a web collaboration concept akin to JotSpot , but after awakening to the the potential of AJAX…
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Founder Control
December 2010 Someone we funded is talking to VCs now, and asked me how common it was for a startup's founders to retain control of the board after a series A round. He said VCs told him this almost never happened. Ten years ago that was true. In the past, founders rarely kept control of the board through a series A…
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Introducing Nexus S with Gingerbread
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Google announces eBooks
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture