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Giving a shit as a service
A mental model for service businesses.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term
Every infuriating thing on the web was once a successful experiment. Some smart person saw Normal site: 1% sign up for our newsletterThrow a huge modal offering 10% off first order: +100% sign ups …
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Talking about layoffs
We don’t really talk about layoffs. When you hear someone say they got laid off, it’s likely the next thing you hear from them is about the new job they’re starting. But we don’t talk about what it’s like in between those two events - which means we’re not acknowledging how traumatic it is to be laid off.
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Experian, you have some explaining to do
Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. Research suggests…
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Why do so many brands change their logos and look like everyone else?
Tech and fashion logos are becoming increasingly similar, all of them using sans serif fonts. Why do they do that? And why it doesn't make sense.
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Is the smart grid all hot air?
The US has three "grids." They are the Eastern Interconnect, Western Interconnect, and ERCOT. In technical terms, they are AC wide-area synchronous grids. Let's unpack that.
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SOC2: The screenshots will continue until security improves
We got SOC2 certified so now you have to pay us more.
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Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR
Today we’re introducing Meta accounts: a new way for people to log into their VR headsets that doesn’t require a Facebook account. When we announced that we would start requiring people to log into Meta Quest using a Facebook account, we received a lot of feedback from the Quest community. We took that feedback into…
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Problems at Roblox
Problems at Roblox (RBLX)
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Taking action against scraping for hire
An update on what we're doing to protect people from scraping data on Facebook and Instagram.
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Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
Explaining Ethereum's consensus mechanism after The Merge
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Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler
We’re thrilled to announce Ruby Shield, a partnership between Ruby Central and Shopify that underscores our shared commitment to security work. This partnership will allow Ruby Central to focus more on security and general Ruby and Rails infrastructure development and maintenance. Ruby Central operates rubygems.org…
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I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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The New American Micro-SaaS Dream
Raise millions of dollars from Venture Capitalists, rent a fancy office in San Francisco, hire an expensive team of "superheroes," and get valued, on paper, as a "unicorn."
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Goodbye Medium, hello Ghost
Why Crypto Fireside is migrating from Medium to Ghost.
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How To Know Everything
At its simplest, this book deals with the art of asking questions. In reality, it’s about Socratic philosophy. It’s about our willingness to open our minds, close our mouths and listen. The c…
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Watching an acquirer ruin your company
What happens on the other side of the acquisition doesn't get much startup press
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The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)
This article is part of a 3-part series on trimodal compensation: * Part 1: The trimodal nature of software engineering salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021, this article) * Part 2: The trimodal nature of tech compensation revisited (2024, this article) * Part 3: The trimodal nature of tech compensation in
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No Refrigerant Left Behind
We have a plan to prevent 2 billion tons CO2e in the next 10 years by collecting and destroying superpotent refrigerants.
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Driverless robotaxi fleet paralyzed for hours in San Francisco
Apparently, the first system breakdown of a driverless robot taxi fleet occurred. In San Francisco, at least a dozen autonomous Chevrolet Bolts from GM Cruise Automation were spotted blocking the i…
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America needs supply-side reform
It's can't just be an excuse — we need to improve our policies
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Why I’m Cryptophobic
Adam Fisher’s exegesis on why he believes that despite the recent crash, crypto will rise again to the detriment of society.
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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
Substantial set of new and updated functions in Version 13.1 covers generalized listability, language conveniences, emoji computations, default toolbar, large-scale code editing, drawing in notebooks, Tree expansion, video capture, mathematics, customizable documentation, chemical quantities, machine learning…
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Increased Subscription Pricing for IDEs, .NET Tools, and the All Products Pack
Since the introduction of subscriptions 7 years ago, we have not increased the pricing of our IDEs, .NET Tools, or the All Products Pack. During this time, we have introduced new products that have been included at no extra cost to everyone using the latter. However, we are at the point where we need to increase our…