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Things that are more inequitable than road pricing
Don’t decry congestion pricing as inequitable until after you fix, or at least acknowledge, these ten other things that are even more inequitable about the way we pay for transportation.
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AdaCore Joins the RISC-V Foundation to Provide C and Ada Compilation Support
GNAT Pro and GNAT Community toolchains available both for professionals and hobbyists NEW YORK and PARIS, January 29, 2019 - AdaCore today announced its…
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Helping to Build Cloudflare, Part 2: The Worst Two Weeks
It’s always best to speak plainly and honestly about the situation you are in. Or as Matthew Prince likes to put it “Panic Early”. Long ago I started a company in Silicon Valley which had the most beautiful code.
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Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps
Chrome 72 for Android shipped the long-awaited Trusted Web Activity feature, which means we can now distribute PWAs in the Google Play…
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What we've learned about hiring engineering managers
Hiring a great engineering manager is not the same as hiring a great engineer. After hundreds of interviews and many great hires, here’s what we’ve learned.
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Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
I don't mind letting your programs see my private data as long as I get something useful in exchange. But that's not what happens. A forme...
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CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR
CCPA impacts dev teams more than GDPR. Learn who must comply, what data is covered, and how to protect test data safely.
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Scott Alexander Reviews Thiel's Zero to One
I. Zero To One might be the first best-selling business book based on a Tumblr. Stanford student Blake Masters took Peter Thiel’s class on startups. He posted his notes on Tumblr after each l…
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Google Cloud Firestore NoSQL database is in GA
The Cloud Firestore database is a NoSQL, serverless solution for mobile and web application development -- now generally available globally.
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Extramaze: Using Racket, PostgreSQL, AWS, but no ads or JavaScript (2018)
Update: Due to lack of interest/use, in June 2021 this site was shut down and user data (emails, names, search alerts) deleted from all systems and backups. For Extramaze LLC I'm using Racket in a commercial project -- a search engine with email alerts fo...
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Ending our Medium integration
Sometime in the past few weeks, Medium abruptly deleted third-party access to their publishing API. There was no warning before, or notic...
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YC 120
[https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/wordpress/2019/01/yc120-v1.png] The world is shaped by people with intelligence, drive and vision. At YC, we’ve learned a lot about cultivating a network of such people — and we believe that having a strong network is such a force multiplier that it is one of the most…
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A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet
We’ve noticed a common problem: founders don’t know what “good” looks like in a term sheet. This makes sense, because it is often, literally, the first time in their careers that they’ve seen one. This puts founders at a significant disadvantage because VCs see term sheets all the time and know what to expect. Because…
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The Buzzfeed Lesson
The lesson of BuzzFeed is that dominant Aggregators like Facebook have no incentive to act against their self interest and support suppliers.
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Netflix Flexes
Netflix is an Aggregator, with a value chain that lets it drive demand, raise prices, and dismiss competition.
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How Water Heaters Have Evolved into Grid-Scale Energy-Storage Devices (2014)
ContentsWhat is grid-interactive water heating? Benefits to the utilityLowest-cost energy storage New control technologiesSo far, no negative impact on customersGetting GIWHs into customers’ homesWhat’s happening with GIWHs now?
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Samsung to Replace Plastic Packaging with Sustainable Materials
Under the company’s sustainability policy, Samsung plans to minimize and replace packaging
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My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales
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Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
Mark Zuckerberg’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today (paywalled, but summarized here) relies on all-too-familiar refrains to explain the dubious principles and so-called “facts” behind Facebook’s business model. It’s the same old song we’ve heard before. And, as usual, it wildly misses users’...
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Continuing our work to improve recommendations on YouTube
That's why we update our recommendations system all the time—we want to make sure we’re suggesting videos that people actually want to watch.
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Oracle v. Google and the future of software development
An update on Oracle v. Google, our long-running copyright dispute over the use of software interfaces.
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Office 365 is now on Mac App Store
Office 365 is now available for download from the Mac App Store.
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Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
Data and analytics are increasingly at the center of digital transformation, with the most leading-edge enterprises leveraging data to drive customer acquisition and satisfaction, long-term strategic planning, and expansion into net new markets. This digital revolution is placing an incredible demand on technology…
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Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration
Technology should be optimized for humans, and prioritizing less in-app time needed to get the job done is so right now.