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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 920 posts.
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Matt Cutt's thoughts on Google Bing Debate
Earlier this week I was on a search panel with Harry Shum of Bing and Rich Skrenta of Blekko (and moderated by Vivek Wadhwa) and the video now live. It’s forty minutes long, but it covers a l…
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VCs Are Not Your Friends
One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is not understanding the relationship they have with their investors. At times they confuse VC’s with their friends. Lets Go to Lunch At Rocket Scienc…
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Paul Buchheit: The two paths to success
The recent WSJ article on the supposedly Chinese style of parenting has generated a lot of interesting discussion. The most amusing comment...
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Counterfeit Game Sold on Apple's App Store
You may recall that two weeks ago we added Lugaru HD to the Mac App Store for $9.99 (the same price as on Steam, our own site, and all other…
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What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate)
By now you’ve no doubt smelled the shitstorm surrounding Google’s allegation that Bing are ‘cheating’ and copying Google’s search results. If not, in brief, Google spotted that Bing sometimes includes results that seemed to be copied from Google, so Google set up a honeypot – they made some made up words like…
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Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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37signals Basecamp Mobile HTML5 app for WebKit browsers
Today we launch Basecamp Classic Mobile for phones and devices with WebKit browsers. This includes the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Incredible, HTC Evo, Palm Pre 2, BlackBerry Torch, or any other device running iOS 4+, Android 2.1+, webOS 2, …
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Readability's new service
I’ve always been a huge fan of Arc90’s Readability bookmarklet, which performs an article-text parse of any web page and displays the results in a highly readable, adjustable format. (It’s like Instapaper’s text view, but nicer and applied in place, instantly, to the web page you’re viewing.)
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Why I Left Google
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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You Dont Need a Good Idea To Start a Great Company
I met recently with a friend of mine who has been talking about leaving Google for the last 3 years. Every time I see him he says he is just "waiting for a great idea" to leave to start his own company. I expect him to do what a lot of people do - stick around Google for another 6-24 months, and then join someone…
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Woot's take on affiliate marketing
What's in it for you? Make that money! We offer competitive commission on almost everything.
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Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code
The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code wr…
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Stop Saying ‘Let me know when works for you’
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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The Dilbert Black Swan Portfolio: a skeptical/practical guide to investing
If you are a young professional and you’re making your first savings, and wondering what to do with them, this post is for you. Disclaimer: I am not an economist. But that’s probably a good thing. Why? Read on.
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ACM considered harmful
The Association of Computing Machinery is the premier US representative body for computer science and according to its own blurb: “serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge …
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Delegate or die: the self-employed trap
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.