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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 920 posts.
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Always have 18 months of cash in the bank
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India
[UPDATE: To all those who got here by clicking a link entitled “Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India”, that title has been retired as an unfortunate misfire on my pa…
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Translation of Carrier IQ's Media Release
We Got Caught Doing Something We Were Kind of Hoping No One Would Notice and Now We’re Nervously Placing Exclamation Marks at the End of Our Media Alert Headlines!
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You'll be dead soon - Carpe Diem
For the next few months I’ll be posting a series of posts on family, startup culture and careers. These vignettes are about how I’ve lived my life trying to make my dent in the universe and trying …
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WordPress Launches Google Adsense Alternative, WordAds
Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers to earn money from their blog through ads. We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we…
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Cutting their own throats
Back to: World building 201: Heuristics | Forward to: Upcoming reading in Edinburgh
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You Guys Are Millionaires Right?
People often ask, “What’s it like to be an independent developer?”, “You guys are millionaires right?”, “Your job sounds awesome, tell me more!”. So let…
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Linux Mint signs a partnership with DuckDuckGo
The search engine features some revolutionary ideas and is now the default search engine in Linux Mint 12.
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Quotes from 1995 Steve Jobs Interview
I had the pleasure of catching the opening night showing of Robert X. Cringely's rediscovered TV interview with Steve Jobs in 1995. In the interview Steve mused...
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How Spotify Works
Synthpop and sci-fi
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Fun With Numbers
Tablet market share numbers sure do look different when you don’t count any of the tablets that people are actually buying.
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The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application
The Gun.io blog: insights on hiring software developers, AI in engineering, distributed teams and how to build high-performing technical teams.
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How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story
I highly recommend Lauren Rivera’s “Ivies, Extracurriculars, and Exclusion” (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 2011). Not only is the piece careful, edifying, and interesting; it’s even emotionally affecting. Learning more about elite hiring actually replaced my apathy toward elite firms with sour grapes…
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Progress against SOPA
When I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week, things looked quite grim. The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few d…
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The Sugru story
The benefits of original formula + family friendly formula = the best Sugru ever!