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At my last company, KISSmetrics, I made a mistake that I truly believe lost me a billion dollar opportunity. It’s not something I’m proud of, and it’s one of the main reasons I’m now obsessed with building products the right way. I wrote the painful details of exactly what happened so you don’t have to make the same…
I once thought I had traveled a unique career path. Graduating from college with a degree in computer engineering and electrical engineering I was on fire to be a manager. My dad had worked for the same electrical contractor for 30-something years and I knew everyone from the Chairman of the Board d
Whether you’re a recruiter or an engineer, you’ve probably heard of "cost per hire". Here's how to measure it properly.
Social media companies today are using smoke and mirrors to hide an important key metric. I’m going to pick on Pinterest first because the social media company recently...
Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he ... Read more
Here is how you can fight vendor lock-in beyond testing on a serverless app, using hexagonal architecture.
When we came across the Otonomo API documentation we quickly realized it looked oddly familiar. That’s because we wrote it.
Last week, I linked to a NYT article about the spread of CorePower Yoga: how its business model is contingent upon enrolling thousands in expensive “teacher training” courses, even though there’s already a surfeit of teachers out there.
Did you know that anything created by federal government employees, under American law, can’t be copyrighted? They go right into the public domain. That means it’s impossible for there to be any copyright infringement on, say, a report by the Special Counsel on the investigation into the President...
Learn how to use micro-promotions, mentorship, and small gestures to strengthen your engineering team.
If you like your employer plan, you don't get to keep it.
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The companies have reached a global patent license agreement and a chipset supply agreement.
New functionality in Wolfram Language 12 and Mathematica covers: ComplexPlot3D, computation with uncertainty, polygon operations, polyhedra, Euclidean geometry, AxiomaticTheory, NBodySimulation, machine learning superfunctions, neural nets, computing with images, SpeechRecognize, AudioIdentify, natural language…
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It's hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take, when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something.
Apple’s latest marketing campaign — “Privacy. That’s iPhone” — made us raise our eyebrows. It’s true that Apple has an impressive track recor
ACM (Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets)2019189 points117 commentsTech Industry & Business details
The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) will investigate whether Apple abuses the position it has attained with its App Store. ACM will do so following indications that ACM has received from other app providers over the course of its market study into app stores.
Benjamin Tseng — startup operator, deeptech investor, and applied technologist. Writings and projects across deeptech + AI, biotech, operational models, and software systems.
Three months ago, a German court ruled that part of a Wikipedia article—found to be defamatory in a previous court decision—had to be removed from both the article and its associated revision tracker, known as a “history” page. (History pages allow anyone to see how a Wikipedia article has developed since they were…
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“Boeing 737 Max: What went wrong?” (BBC) contains a plot showing the angle of attack data being fed to Boeing’s MCAS software. Less than one minute into the […]
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one o…
