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Fourteen years ago I noted that disk drives were growing so fast I couldn’t fill them up. Between 1997 and 2002, storage capacity doubled every year, allowing me to replace a 3 gigabyte drive with a new 120 gigabyte model. I wrote:
Where are you in your company's layoff list? Every company has one, even if it's just a vague idea in the mind of the CEO. By looking a...
We're excited to announce the formation of a new grassroots network, the Electronic Frontier Alliance. Bringing together community and campus organizations across the U.S., the Alliance will serve as an increasingly vital hub for activism and organizing addressing a spectrum of civil liberties and...
The top 1 percent of Americans now earn 21 percent of total national income. Why? Jonathan Rothwell debunks three myths often used to explain away their success.
As many of you know by now, on Wednesday we launched a chatbot called Tay. We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay. Tay is now offline and we’ll look to bring Tay...
Justin Kan is going to be the new spokesman for YC and handle the PR requests we get. You should probably follow him on Snapchat (username: justinkan).On a more serious note, I’m always impressed with how well-spoken Justin is, and how well he is able to connect with both reporters and founders.
Some thoughts about why npm style micro-packages are a huge liability for everybody and what we could do to make them work.
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
Over the past few days, EFF and one of our staff technologists, the talented Micah Lee, have had an illuminating back and forth with Canonical Ltd over the use of the Ubuntu mark. While we don’t believe that Canonical has acted with malice or intent to censor, its silly invocation of trademark law...
Some lessons learned in selling a bootstrapped software business. Relevant to buyers or sellers.
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There’s a new wave of customer empowerment coming. It’s called Justice-as-a-Service (JaaS), and you need to know about it because it benefits you – you just don’t know it yet. We’ve all...
Andy Grove passed away the same day that Apple announced the iPhone SE. One of Grove’s best decisions reminds me of this launch.
Andy Grove, former Chairman and CEO of Intel, came to the United States as a refugee from Hungary. With a relentless energy and exceptional mind, he helped build the iconic tech company Intel — and in the process, Silicon Valley itself. Ben Horowitz offers a tribute to this legendary leader (and his own inspiration)…
We are announcing an update to pricing for GitLab Enterprise Edition. We have replaced the three subscription plans with one simplified plan.
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Round-up and comparison of several popular and free transactional email services and Mandrill alternatives.
An acquaintance of mine, let’s call him Mike, is looking for work after getting laid off from a contract role at Microsoft, which has happened to a lot of people I know. Like me, Mike has 11 years in industry. Unlike me, he doesn't know a lot of folks at trendy companies, so I passed his resume around to some…
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Yesterday one of the major Russian business newspapers ("Vedomosti" -- it's like Financial Times or WSJ in Russia) published an …
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
If you’re building a SaaS startup, then your biggest competitor isn’t a competitor. It’s Microsoft Excel. That was the mantra a few years ago. Add in Google Docs and it still holds true. Contact lists, mailing lists, accounts, invoicing, mark...
Imagine a contest in which we are going to pit man against machine. But instead of measuring who is best in playing the game of ‘Go’ we are going to measure who is fastest. In the one corner: Human, all of 175 pounds of extremely well trained runner. And in the other corner, a Formula 1 racecar with a remote control…
Automation and offshoring are playing significant roles in the types of jobs that are growing or stagnating.
Firing People: a talk about firing people, by Zach Holman.
