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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 817 posts.
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Email marketing for e-commerce
Send the right email to the right customer at the right time. Learn more about email marketing for ecommerce.
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Godot at GDC 2018
I went to GDC yet again (this time GDC 2018) trying to see how Godot is doing at the game industry. To my surprise this time, it was quite different..
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Problems coming for online publishing
Let’s start with Facebook’s Surveillance Machine, by Zeynep Tufekci in last Monday’s New York Times. Among other things (all correct), Zeynep explains that “Facebook makes m…
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Figma Platform
Today, we’re excited to launch the Figma Platform, a way to improve design workflows by connecting Figma to other tools, scripts and even web apps.
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Congrats Dropbox
I wrote Dropbox their first investment check on June 26, 2007. What strikes me as I look at a copy of the check is that Drew and Arash must have been fairly effective at getting all their incorporation paperwork completed. I often had to chase startups well into July. Little did I know back then what a momentous check…
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Luck and startups: Our journey
To make money and acquire users in the startup world, you need lightning to strike, a rare moment of sheer luck that propels your company towards success. So how can tech founders cope with this randomness? In this post, I'll share my tips on making your own lightning. Luck and
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Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users
Within the last 30 days, Telegram was used by 200 million people. This is an insane number by any standards. If Telegram were a country, it would have been the sixth largest country in the world.
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Mozilla Presses Pause on Facebook Advertising
Mozilla is pressing pause on our Facebook advertising. Facebook knows a great deal about their two billion users — perhaps more intimate information than
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Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes
My first job out of University was in the IT department of a payment processing and debt collection company. My desk was juxtapose to a call center w...
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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned
There's no way to sugar-coat this: Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) only exists due to a whole bunch of highly illegal activity that has harmed many individuals and organisations alike. That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of
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How Facebook’s Naive Optimism Built a Toolbox for Totalitarianism (2014)
Fractal GTM frameworks, big ideas, and narrative techniques
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An employee whose job was to be sacked (2010)
Customer service has improved little in the last fourty years. This story demonstrates the high standards that once existed in one of our leading Department Stores.
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Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps Vision (2017)
How we're building GitLab into the complete DevOps toolchain.
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Stack Overflow Culture
This blog post was most directly provoked by this tweet from my friend Rob Conery, explaining why he’s giving up contributing on Stack Overflow. However, it’s been a long time coming. A…
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A billion reasons never to buy IBM services
IBM just stole $1 billion from Canada. If this is how IBM treats staff and governments, how would IBM treat your small business?
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First Lightning mainnet release
Today, we at Lightning Labs are announcing the release of lnd 0.4-beta ! This release marks the 4th major release of lnd and the first Lightning mainnet beta, an important milestone. With this release, lnd has gained a considerable feature set, deeper cross-implementation compatibility, a new specialized wallet seed…
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Qualcomm, National Security, and Patents
The Trump administration blocked Broadcom’s acquisition of Qualcomm, and I think it was the right move. Understanding why means understanding Qualcomm and Broadcom’s plan for the compan…
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Apple to acquire digital magazine service Texture
Apple today announced it will acquire Texture, the digital magazine subscription service that gives users unlimited access to their favorite titles.
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Slack's bait and switch
Slack has finally decided to close down their IRC and XMPP gateways. True to form, you can only read their announcement if you already have a Slack account and…