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My experience with off-shoring teams and what went wrong
This is the return code blog, tech and other stuff.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 817 posts.
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Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is
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Nikon versus Canon: A Story of Technology Change
Nikon losing the leadership position to Canon in the market for professional photography 30 year technology transition story.
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Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking leaves no land untouched. In 2013 the U.S. State Department estimated that there are 27 million victims worldwide trafficked for forced labor or commercial sex exploitation. A 201…
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Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy
Apple has released new developer APIs that will allow mobile advertising conversion tracking while protecting individual user privacy. The new APIs are part of the StoreKit framework and include a …
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The Stack Overflow Age
I want to catch you all up on some stuff but mostly I want to tell the story of Stack Overflow in a not-completely-disorganized way.
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Payment Request API for Apple Pay
We’re pleased to announce that Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3 now support the W3C Payment Request API for conducting Apple Pay transactions on the web.
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Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
B2 Cloud Storage has now partnered with Packet and ServerCentral to announce compute options. Here’s everything this means for you as a customer.
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Panera Bread did nothing about its customer data vulnerability for eight months
tl;dr: In August 2017, I reported a vulnerability to Panera Bread that allowed the full name, home address, email address, food/dietary…
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We might be swinging away from the newsfeed
What do we do now that there’s more in the newsfeed than we can possibly read? Can the algorithmic sample ever actually work, or do we swing back to 1:1 messaging? How do Stories rebundle that? And what happens to all the traffic that the newsfeed provides?
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The End of Windows
The Windows division no longer exists at Microsoft, marking the end to a four-year process of changing Microsoft’s culture.
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Emails suggest reviews from the Wirecutter are “pay to play” (2014)
Does the Wirecutter offers unbiased real reviews? Not even close. This story is about a little company taking on a fake review site owned by the NY Times.
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Prototyping a YC Startup Each Day
See how Meredydd recreated Meter Feeder entirely in Anvil.
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Study finds increased possibility of information leaking around Fed meetings
Booth study finds increased possibility of information leaking around Fed meetings
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Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avoid It
Drivers already know upfront pricing typically doesn't work in our favor. But what is upfront pricing, or variations of it, looking like for passengers? We had frequent traveler and RSG contributor Will analyze how Uber charges frequent riders.
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How Tokyo built its way to abundant housing
Tokyo has rightly been getting some plaudits for housebuilding of late, and this post brings together some stats that illustrate just how impressive its record is. First, some definitions and conte…
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Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday
Discover fresh perspectives and stories on #BestSchoolDay 2018: Every Project Funded! from the heart of education, shared by teachers themselves at DonorsChoose.
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Stratechery 4.0
The newest version of Stratechery.com: now explore the site via concept, company, or topic, or use dramatically improved search functionality. Plus, a new logo!
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Where Yegge’s Wrong
Recently, Steve Yegge published two rants, each of which has gone viral and moved the Internet conversation needle a bit. I liked both of them, thought they were generally well-argued and useful. Unfortunately, there are a few assertions of fact there that are just wrong, and may be damaging. So I thought that, first…
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EU GDPR – Another reason for SaaS to reconsider on-premise
We review GDPR's impact on SaaS vendors and data collection practices and how it may reduce the cost disparity between hosted SaaS and on-premises Private SaaS.