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Simplifying Firefox Release Channels
Streamlining our release process and quickly getting stable new features to users and developers is a priority for Firefox. Taking a close critical look at our release channels, it became ...
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Climbing the wrong hill (2009)
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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How not to monetise a popular blog
The story of how I created a hugely popular meme website and then failed (fail being the operative word throughout this article) to make any money from it. Warning: also includes lolcats. </p> It started when I read something about a girl making $70,000 a month from a MySpace graphics service. This...
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How United Onboards New Users (design)
Approx. reading time: just a couple minutes, despite insane slide count (it's a lot of tiny changes from one to the other)
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United Airlines made passenger abandon mobility device at gate before honeymoon
I did everything right, according to both United and TSA’s disability policies. The TSA told United it was OK.
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Introducing Increment
As software becomes more important in the world, the practice and art of software is becoming more important too.
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Pitch decks we used to raise $1.1M
Buffer famously raised $500,000 investment with their pitch deck. At Twine we have raised more than $1,000,000 so far, see why our pitch was so effective..
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Deutsche Post expands StreetScooter production
All press releases of DHL Group at a glance.
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Introducing paid subscriptions on GitLab.com
Subscriptions and limits to private CI minutes on shared runners are coming to GitLab.com
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Why the Dow is a useless market index
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (or 'the Dow', ^DJI, DJIA), is a stock market index created back in 1896 by Charles Dow, a journalist. The goal of the index is provide a view of the stock market's health. The Dow is an index of just 30 (arbitrarily chosen) stocks, weighted by the stock prices of its component…
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Textbook manifesto (2016)
Allen Downey's textbook manifesto: students should read and understand textbooks, so why are so many textbooks written as if nobody expects them to?
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How a Large Customer Can Kill a Startup
I often hear a founder get very excited about the prospect of a large customer. The implied expectation is that this out-sized customer is going to shower the startup with cash & confer on them the imprimatur of legitimacy. However, when I hear a founder start talking about “the big one” I cringe. I start …
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Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
Web developers the world over are always terminally worried about whether or not their application will scale orders of magnitude without keeling over.
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Unkown Unknowns: Why you should release early
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. - Mark Twain
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Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”
The venture capitalist explores how to shape an innovative mindset.
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FDA Authorizes Ten 23andme Genetic Health Risk Reports
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted 23andMe authorization to offer ten genetic health risk reports including late-onset Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, celiac disease, and a condition associated with harmful blood clots. For several years, 23andMe has worked on demonstrating that its reports are…
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Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups
We're excited to roll out a bunch of improvements to Stripe Atlas today.
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A Thank-You Note to the Hacker News Community from Ubuntu
A huge THANK YOU to the entire HackerNews community, from the Ubuntu community! Holy smokes...wow...you are an amazing bunch! Your f...
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How Bank of America Gave Away My Money
TLDR: Bank of America is a horrible business and it should be ashamed by how bad it is. Two weeks ago, I suddenly received emails informing me that my Bank of America…
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AWS ELB adds support for Host-based routing on Application Load Balancer
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Elastic Load Balancing Adds Support for Host-based Routing and Increased Rules on its Application Load Balancer
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What makes us Red Hat
Open source software is, in fact, eating the world. It is a de facto model for innovation, and technology as we know it would look vastly different without it. On a few occasions, over the past several years, software industry observers have asked whether there will ever be another Red Hat. Others have speculated that…