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Over the last 5 years of bootstrapping, I’ve tried a lot of things, and discovered there are many ways to create hassle for yourself that wastes time and energy and distracts you from building value in your business. This is my second post on lessons learned from bootstrapping; you can subscribe to updates to this…
Two books — 45 years apart — explain it. If you want to get ahead, it’s time to face the facts.
It's 2020 and many of you have been wanting a roadmap for the next year. We've got several major updates to shed the light on Corona's future and give you more perspective on your business goals connected to our product. First, let us separate the business entity Corona Labs from the product Corona. On May 1, 2020…
This is an “intro packet” you can use to argue for the benefits of formal methods (FM) to your boss. It’s a short explanation, a list of benefits and case studies, and a demo. Everything’s in TLA+, but the arguments apply equally well to Alloy, B, statecharts, etc. Adapt the material to your specific needs. Quick…
We’re partnering with Microsoft for Startups to make GitHub available for all participants, starting on February 13.
Simple Analytics open page shows an updated overview of key financial and customer-focused metrics.
As regulators look closer at acquisitions they should be extremely wary of unintended consequences. The current system works well for everyone, most of the time.
February 10, 2020 4 minutes read The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of full-time development on the tool NDepend I’d like to elaborate a bit here. Let’s start with the…
Facts are friends not food
We want to take this opportunity to thank all our UK customers for believing in our vision to build the bank the world loves to use.
Today we’ve released Firefox 73, with useful additions that include CSS and JavaScript updates, and numerous DevTools improvements. We’ve added to CSS logical properties, pushed performance forward in the Console ...
Can consumers at Costco really have their free sample and eat it too?
ICANN has announced significant changes to the contract it has with Verisign, Inc. to operate the top-level domain .COM, including .COM price increases.
What happened was, in the late stages of my career at Sun Microsystems, as we were sliding into Oracle’s loathsome embrace, I had discovered Android. The programming language was Java, and not a dorky “ME” subset. My employer was saying nice things about it , and I’d long craved something I could both carry in my…
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I felt like I somehow needed fame. In retrospect, there was a lot of self-loathing from tough childhood experiences, and I desperately hoped that love from without (i.e., from masses of other people) would somehow make up for hate from within.
As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable…
Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry. We can hat…
Revenue of $4.1 billion, growing 37% year-over-year or 39% on a constant currency basis Rides Adjusted EBITDA of $742 million, with continued margin expansion Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2019. Financial Highlights for…
An SEO case study: the 7 steps we used to grow a SaaS site from 0 to 197,514 monthly organic visitors in under two years, with what actually moved it.
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The doors 2019-nCoV will open, and the doors it will close.
