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Google account activity
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 975 posts.
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I can manipulate your amazon.com recommendations
I can put any item of my choice on your personalized amazon.com homepage. Did I hear you say Bollocks! ? Well, here is proof:
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Never ever do business with Samsung India Software Operations
Back in October 2010 I was very glad to receive a mail from the people behind the Samsung Dolfin browser, who turned out to work from Bangalore, India, asking for my cooperation in making it better and even offering to pay me for it. Unfortunately, by now it turns out that they’re a bunch of fucking assholes who don’t…
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The Mac App Store Needs Paid Upgrades
The Mac App Store has been a huge boon to Mac software developers, but has an enormous flaw: it needs to allow developers to charge existing...
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Parse 1.0 is released
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A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure
. Not the kind of log I meant.
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Startups, Fix Your "From" Field
A short rant. I have seen this problem happen too many times to stay quiet anymore. I have reached out in private when this happens, but I'm going to write a public rant so I can stop repeating myself.
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How To Get Media Coverage For Your Startup: A Complete Guide
How to get the press and media to spread your startup's story. A detailed and comprehensive guide for mere mortals.
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To the Pirate Bay: a modest proposal
Back to: A writing experiment I plan to try | Forward to: PSA: Amazon order cancellations
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The one interview question I always ask
I’ve just gotten past a peak interviewing period where I would interview 3-5 engineering and product management candidates every week. I’ve used this question for as long as I’ve …
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Apple Announces Plans to Initiate Dividend and Share Repurchase Program
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Why software sucks?
[First published: September, 2005] No one makes bad software on purpose. No programmer has ever sat down, planning out weeks of work, with the intention of frustrating people enough to make them cr…
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Introducing Instapaper 4.1 for iPhone, iPad
With so many Retina iPad updates, it looks like the App Review team is working overtime to approve apps quickly. In a very pleasant surprise, my 4.1 update was approved much more quickly than I expected. Thanks, App Review team!
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The curious case of our iOS app (Prey)
Resources and best practices for IT ops, cybersecurity, mobility, privacy, and product updates.
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The myth of the overnight success
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Ignore Everybody.
Insights You Can See. Gapingvoid works with leaders to design culture intentionally.
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Shutting down a product? Open source it.
One month ago, we informed Copycopter customers that we would be shutting the...
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Instapaper for Retina iPad
This is slightly embarrassing: Instapaper doesn’t show Retina-resolution graphics on the new iPad yet.