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This year’s Founders' Letter
Every year, Larry and Sergey write a Founders' Letter with some of our recent highlights. This year, Sundar reflects on his vision for Google.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 882 posts.
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Note from Mark Zuckerberg
Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.
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Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting
Starting today, if you use Google Apps for Work or Edu, you can schedule meetings from anywhere with "Find a time" in Google Calendar for Android.
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MakerBot Is Outsourcing Its Brooklyn Manufacturing Jobs to China
Discover MakerBot's classroom solutions: 3D printers, software, and certification that help teachers pioneer 3D printing in education.
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Dropbox Project Infinite
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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BYOT: Bring your own team
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Do not talk about pricing
I’ve been slightly obsessed with pricing since 2010. Before joining Magnetic, I was part of the team that changed the price of The Times…
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Why I run my business like an open source project (2013)
When I first started consulting, I used to squirrel away in my corner and code. Some weeks later, I’d deliver my perfect shining gem to the client after, quite frankly, trying to talk to them as little as possible throughout most of the process. It wasn’t that I didn’t like people, I especially enjoyed talking with…
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Bots won't replace apps, only better apps will replace apps
Why conversational UI fails in practice and what the West can really learn from Asian messaging apps.
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When to Rewrite from Scratch – Autopsy of Failed Software
A case study of rewriting software system from scratch and why it failed.
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On the Road to Recap
Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” By…
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NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails
The startup world is an interesting place. As cities around the US work to establish their own Silicon XYZ, the variables required to build…
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England and Wales House Price Analysis
The last time I looked at house prices it went pretty well, and I ended up winning a data science competition. There I was only dealing with a million or so records, and a relatively small 120 MB dataset. Then I found out it was possible to download 3.7GB of property sale records for all of England and Wales since…
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Apple’s Organizational Crossroads
A core part of what makes Apple Apple is its organization structure; Tim Cook has said it will never change. However, if Apple is serious about being a services company, change it must.
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Cisco’s Attempt to Dodge Responsibility for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses
Cisco custom-built the so-called “Great Firewall of China,” also known as the “Golden Shield.” This system enables the Chinese government to conduct Internet surveillance and censorship against its citizens. As if that weren’t bad enough, company documents also revealed that, as part of its...
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GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
We are excited to announce our partnership with DigitalOcean, the world’s simplest cloud infrastructure provider.
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Telegram to award grants to bot developers
Win $25K or more for your Telegram bot – @durov is giving away 1 million dollars to devs in 2016.
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Kindle Unlimited scammers on Amazon
This is extremely long and probably only of interest to indie authors, but it does impact readers who shop Amazon, so I’m putting it here for anyone.
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The Real Rates of Business Survival
8 out of 10 businesses successfully survive their first year and increase their chances of survival with every year they stay in business.