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New Ubuntu-based Precision line-up
Update: Precision 7520 and 7720 available as of March 28; Dell Precision 5720, a 27” All-in-One available as of April 18. Today I am excited to announce the next generation of our Ubuntu-based Pre…
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Why I Spent $100k to Fight a $10k Small Claims Lawsuit
What follows is my personal perspective on an interesting dispute. Obviously, it is only my opinion of the situation and there are two sides to every story. I invite the other side to respond if they wish in the comments. I also made the decision to keep the other side anonymous after I first wrote
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Lessons Learned with Stripe Subscriptions
Monitor agents, cron jobs, websites, APIs, and everything in between. Jobs, uptime checks, heartbeats, status pages and analytics in one tool.
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Venture capital is going to murder Medium
It’s a crying shame, really. I love Medium. It’s the best writing environment on the web, and they sweat the details like nobody else. The community too is just peach. This could have been a love s…
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I've removed all ad network code from my blog
I don't mind ads on websites as a concept, that is I don't mind the idea of a message appearing somewhere that helps the producer of said content earn a crust. However, there are other things about ads that I do mind enormously and most of them are
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Working remotely with 150+ people
Work asynchronously, keep a single source of truth, avoid management overhead and communicate.
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The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of…
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Notes for the New Year
Happy 2017! As a kid, I just sort of took for granted that stuff got better every year—TVs got bigger and then thinner, cars got a little faster, and computers got unbelievably better on an exponential curve. As an adult, I realized that the future is not guaranteed to be better. The default is that things stay the…
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Alexa: Amazon's Operating System
Money is made at chokepoints, and the most valuable chokepoints are operating systems; Amazon is building exactly that with Alexa.
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The ad tech renaissance
We simply must fix the monetization and distribution challenges that publishers face.
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Request for Startups: Water
We’re optimistic we will beat climate change. But, at the same time, we need to prepare for things to get worse. One area we think a lot about is water—natural fresh supplies could be at serious risk around the world. We’re close to a tipping point where technology will let us make clean water extremely abundant and…
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Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot
Developing your own medical chatbot? Challenges and lessons learned from developing Symptomate.
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Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Increase Ticket Prices
When Delta started testing 'Basic Economy' fares in 2012 the idea was to compete with the ultra low cost carriers -- they already had to match price, so they wanted to be able to offer a product that was closer to the limited service Spirit provided, in hopes that customers would buy up to more expensive fares for…
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On the Exponential View
The following is the text of a talk I gave in San Francisco on December 1st, 2016.
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Bionic Office
Well. That took rather longer than expected. We have, finally, moved, into the new Fog Creek office at 535 8th Avenue, officially ten months after I started pounding the pavement looking for a repl…