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Things we did not do while reaching $2M ARR
This is not a list of things you should not do; it's simply a collection of things we did not.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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Friday.app is shutting down
We are shutting down Friday. Read more to learn about next steps, exporting your data, and more.
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Your competitor wrote the RFP you're bidding on
I think it was due to overwhelming boredom with the RFP process that I once partnered with my sales leader to say Yes to every single requirement on every RFP bid during the summer of 2020. We called it The Summer of Yes.
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From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb
Airbnb brands itself as creating community and fostering belonging. Today, former Airbnb software engineer Sahil describes how “Airfam” ignores internal inequi…
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Introducing ReadySet
Today, we’re excited to launch Readyset. Our mission is to help developers build faster applications without writing extra code. To accomplish this, we're building a high-performance SQL caching engine and performance...
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The next Google
DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google.
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First Light (Oxford University spinout) achieves nuclear fusion
First Light Fusion (First Light), the University of Oxford fusion spin-out, today confirms it has achieved fusion. The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has independently validated the result.
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Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq
It’s hard for me to believe these words but I pushed Sidekiq’s first commit on Jan 16th, 2012. Ten years ago. The public announcement. One month later. One quarter later. Some context for those new to this blog: Sidekiq is the most popular background job system for the Ruby programming language. Every application has…
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Apple Business Essentials now available for small businesses
Thousands of small businesses in the Apple Business Essentials beta reported significant time savings and renewed ability to focus on their mission.
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Exit interviews are a trap
It’s tempting to air your grievances at your exit interview. Don’t. There’s almost no upside to speaking up, and tremendous potential downside. Avoid exit interviews if you can. If you must go, be totally bland; say nothing negative.
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Return to Monkey Island
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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Olaf's New Menu Item
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The tech interview prep industry
Before I got into tech, I worked at a tutoring company in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., doing a mix of schoolwork-related tutoring and standardized test prep. From a business perspective, it made so much sense - you have kids taking standardized tests and parents who wanted their kids to do well…
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Young women earn more than young men in several U.S. cities
The gender wage gap is narrower among younger workers nationally, and the gap varies across geographical areas.
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What are you doing, WordPress.com?
Be sure to check out the update at the bottom. I recently wrote that I've stuck with WordPress.com for so long, for all its purported limitations, because its features fully suffice the committed blogger whose content is textual for the most part and because the company behind WordPress.com is running a good business…
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Lessons from Owning a Bookstore
I’ve done some crazy things in my life, but as I’ve said, the absolute craziest was deciding to open a bookstore. Running a small business is always difficult, running a small business during a pandemic is damn near impossible but a small town book store in rural Texas? But here we are, a year later, not just still…
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Unbundling Airbnb
There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. So the idea behind unbundling of Airbnb is simple: Pick a niche use case with passionate but unsatisfied guests and then build a business around it.
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Choose your status game wisely
On status games and how to outsmart them.
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Stage win: FinFisher is bankrupt
FinFisher, the Munich-based state Trojan exporter, is bankrupt. For over a decade, a wide variety of international groups, including the CCC, have worked toward its end.
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The YC Winter 2022 Batch
For the Winter 2022 batch, we received 17,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 414. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at Y Combinator’s 34th Demo Day.
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Justice Stevens reads the fine print
Matthew Butterick
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We can do better than “same, but electric”
We've been making compromises to the limits of fossil fuels for so long that we've forgotten they're compromises.
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Open AI gets GPT-3 to work by hiring an army of humans to fix GPT’s bad answers
A few months ago, Smith wrote an AI-skeptical article where he threw some sentences at the GPT-3, a text processor from Open AI. As wikipedia puts it:
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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea (2020)
When good ideas make bad business
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What is money, anyway?
Editor’s Note: This topic is now comprehensively covered in my book, Broken Money. Money is a surprisingly complex subject. People spend their lives seeking money, and in some ways it seems so straightforward, and yet what humanity has defined as money has changed significantly over the centuries. How could something…
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Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income
Open letter from an Android developer to the Android community and especially to Purnima Kochikar, Director of Google Play, Apps & Games…