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The patent troll that won a $308M jury trial against Apple
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,121 posts.
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Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
How Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe—and winning In 2010, Photoshop was ubiquitous. Whether you were editing a photo, making a poster, or designing a website, it happened in Photoshop. Today, Adobe looks incredibly strong. They’ve had spectacular stock performance, thanks to clear-eyed management who’ve made bold…
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Productivity vs Wages | Productivity is Soaring, But Wages Aren't Keeping Up
The debate about productivity vs wages has been answered here. A study has found that the growth in compensation is lagging behind the productivity of employees.
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AMD and Xilinx Stockholders Overwhelmingly Approve AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx
View the press release archives from AMD.
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Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
Wix, the website builder company you may remember from stealing WordPress code and lying about it, has now decided the best way to gain relevance is attacking the open source WordPress community in…
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How we bootstrapped a $1M ARR email client
Five years ago, we launched Missive, an innovative but somewhat hard-to-define email client to the world....
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The Daily Standup Is a Waste of Time
Daily standups feel like a waste of time. I will teach you two new techniques the will make every minute count.
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Jakub Konka Hired Full Time
Thanks to continued growth of our generous donors, Zig Software Foundation’s financial status is healthier than ever. With our low overhead and efficient organization structure, we point the flow of money directly towards contributors.
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Apple can own I/O to own the universe
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
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Things I learned while developing a billing system
Half a year ago, I joined Pleo, a FinTech startup with around 15,000 customers (we’re always hiring at Pleo!). I joined to take on and further develop the billing infrastructure. When I joined, I was actually a bit concerned about the narrowness of the new role and the new team. I mean, really… How much […]
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Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent
Netflix’s “current” federal income tax for 2020 was $24 million, which equals just 0.9 percent of the company’s pretax income for the year. This is another way of saying Netflix paid an effective federal income tax rate of just 0.9 percent in 2020. If the company paid the statutory rate, its tax bill would be $572…
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Against Hickelism
Poverty is falling, and it isn't because of free-market capitalism
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Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity
Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false information to the press.
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Apple 2001
David Shayer worked at Apple for 14 years, and he has a wild experience to share. Apple has a unique culture, and David will give us an insider view of what it was like for him at Apple during the 2000s, roughly between 2001 to 2015 when Apple transformed into the powerhouse that it is today. David worked as a…
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My experience releasing failed SaaS products
Build it and they will come! In the 1989 classic: Field of Dreams an Iowa farmer has a vision to bulldoze a portion of his corn crop in…
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Tales from Prediction Markets
Prediction markets are fun, at least if you're making money.
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are clearly covered? If it needs to be said, it’s because compensation isn’t merely…
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IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials
IRS guidance for thieves, drug dealers, and corrupt officials. IRS illegal activities guidance helps taxpayers determine how to report their income.
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Move Slow and Make Things
We're shifting from rapid development and iteration of our algorithms to a slower and more hand-crafted approach.
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100M Posts Analyzed: What You Need to Write the Best Headlines
Write better headlines with tactics from our analysis of 100 million headlines. Discover the best headline trigrams for Facebook, Twitter & more.
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Commoditize your complements (2002)
When I was in college I took two intro economics courses: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macro was full of theories like “low unemployment causes inflation” that never quite stood u…
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Clubhouse clones are coming
One thing is for sure: tech companies are willing to fill the “live audio seats” as soon as possible.
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Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study
Analyzing a national cancer database, researchers find a bump in diagnoses at 65, suggesting that many wait for Medicare to kick in before they seek care.
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The deck we used to raise our seed funding
We thought the deck we used for our seed round could be helpful to some companies, especially those that are open source or developer tools.
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Psychology of Human Misjudgment (Transcript) by Charlie Munger
In The Psychology of Human Misjudgment, Charlie Munger explains why we behave the way we do. This is a transcript of the fully updated talk.
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