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What If Drivers Were Hired Like Programmers?
What If Drivers Were Hired Like Programmers? - Sunday, 22 May 2011 - Alex's blog
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EFF: Apple Should Stand Up and Defend Its Developers
Update II: Apparently not frightened off by Apple's letter defending its developers, Lodsys went ahead and sued at least seven developers in the Eastern District of Texas for patent infringement. In its original cease-and-desist letters, Lodsys gave developers 21 days to respond. But – apparently...
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Twitter’s Shit Sandwich
On Twitter’s just-annoucned pan to require third-party clients to use OAuth.
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Being Frugal Makes You A Loser
I'm all for saving money. I get as much pleasure watching my bank account grow as I do from buying things or taking trips. But, people often take frugality too far. I don't care if you're poor, and if you're reading this you're not actually poor, there are things where you should always spend a
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Mono Developers start their own company
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Everyone sucks at interviewing. Everyone.
Interviewing is broken. Has been for years. This rigid commitment everyone seems to have to the standard resume/cover letter/interview system of hiring is just plain insane.
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Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly
I hate to have my first blog post after over a year be a negative one, but I feel like these guys need calling out. I recently received an email from a company, Honestly.com, that…
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Why Microsoft bought Skype
There is so much to write about but I’ll begin with Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5 billion. The pundits are debating whether this move by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes good business sense, but that’s the wrong way to look at it. The better approach is to wonder what would have happened had Microsoft not
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The Ballmer Days Are Over
Disclaimer: I own Microsoft stock. Yes, this is *not* pro-Microsoft but I feel the need to be very open about this. He’s employee number 30 and has been with Microsoft since mid-1980. In 2000…
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Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers
In a recent comment someone shared the fate of Patrick Jordan , owner of justanotheripadblog.com.
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New iMacs run fans at full on all drives other than Apple supplied...
Hard drives fail. With the new iMac from Apple, when the main drive does fail, there is no DIY replacement option available.
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This is What Irony Tastes Like: Capcom and the PSN Outage
So Capcom senior VP Christian “Sven” Svensson mentioned that Capcom is losing money because the Playstation Network is down . This is especially hard on Capcom, because the phone-home DRM Capcom uses has locked all of their Playstation customers out of their games.
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Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS
Last year I shared how Twitter was moving more and more towards a closed, less-standards oriented model of sharing content as they upgraded their design to bring more people to the Twitter.com website. At that time, they removed the prominent RSS icons and made it only possible to access an RSS feed for an individual…
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How To: Spend your investors’ money
I’ve invested in two startups and advise, officially and unofficially, a dozen or so other startups. Recently, a company that I’m involved with, attachments.me , raised $500,000 from Foundry Group . Since their raise, the two cofounders, Ben and Jesse, have been on a tear adding features, solidifying the…
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