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Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone
Edit: This post was created 2016 shortly after Instapaper was purchased by Pinterest. As part of the acquisition, Pinterest decided to make Instapaper Premium free for everyone. In 2018, Instapaper was spun out into an independent company run by the same people who managed it since 2013. As part of the spinout, we…
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Launching Our Crowdfunding Campaign
Today we kicked off our first crowdfunding campaign with the goal of raising enough funds to cover about one month of our operations - $200,000. That amount covers the operational and engineering staff, the hardware and the software, and general operating expenses needed to securely and reliably issue and manage many…
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Bandwidth Costs Around the World
CloudFlare protects over 4 million Internet properties using our global network which spans 86 cities across 45 countries. Running this network give us a unique vantage point to track the evolving cost of bandwidth around the world.
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How ReadMe Went from SaaS to On-Premises in Less Than One Week
Discover the tech stack used by ReadMe.io. Explore 6 tools across 2 categories.
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What the Heck Is Happening at Apple?
Apple's not in trouble (yet) but here's how Cupertino can get its mojo back
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Hyperloop Freight is a Joke
As the ongoing attempt to build a Hyperloop tube in California is crashing due to entirely foreseen technical problems, the company trying to raise capital for the project, Hyperloop One, is lookin…
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Everything about the state of the Mac
Updates: October 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , November 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 18 , 22 , 27 , December 2 , 5 , 12 , 13 , 27 , January 2 , 5 , 5 , 9 , 11 , 13 , 22 , February 2 , 19 , March 15 , 17 , 21 , 22 , 28 , April 3 , 5 , 6 , 12 , 20 , 23 , May 3 , 6 , 19 , June 4 , July 27 …
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Open Letter to Tim Cook
Why do some car and motorcycle companies have the courage to devote significant resources to racing?
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The Mac Platform Decline
David Owens II: To me, Thursday’s event signaled one thing for me, and maybe I’m completely wrong, but the Mac is officially over. Apple, the MacBook Pro is not a pro-level computer. It’s simply not. Ted Landau: Apple’s desktop Mac lineup is headed for the graveyard. Dead. Done. Over. It has taken me some time to…
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After Mac?
So, there are new MacBooks and many people are unhappy . Tl;dr: Apple thinks thin-and-light is more important than well-equipped-and-powerful.
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Seattle: Highest Minimum Wage, Lowest Unemployment Rate
Doomsayers Keep Getting It Wrong on Higher Minimum Wages In Seattle, unemployment has fallen and business has boomed since the city raised its pay floor. Bloomberg, October 21, 2016 In 2014, Seattle passed an ordinance to eventually raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour, giving the Pacific Northwest…
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Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
Dear Matt,We were all very surprised by your post, as you have so many claims against us.Wow, dude I did not even know we were fighting.First, you say we have been taking from the open source community without giving back, well, of course, that isn’t true. Here is a list of 224 projects on our public GitHub page, and…
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A very valuable vulnerability
The vulnerability — which has since been fixed, or else I would not be writing about it publicly — was in Stripe's bitcoin payment functionality . Some background for readers not familiar with this: Stripe provides payment processing services, originally for credit cards but now also supporting ACH, Apple Pay, Alipay…
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New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
DevTeam.Space blog — technology insights, hiring guides, and software development best practices.
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Vine will be discontinuing the mobile app
Since 2013, millions of people have turned to Vine to laugh at loops and see creativity unfold. Today, we are sharing the news that in the…
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Microsoft, I Forgive You
Microsoft is different now. The evil masterminds are all retired. No more Ballmer jumping around screaming for developers, developers, developers. No more Gates plotting monopoly schemes for world …
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Open Salaries: Outcomes
What happens when you give employees control of their own salaries? A lot of great things, actually.
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CoinTent: A Sustainable Ad-Free Web
Introducing CoinTent
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Samsung Sets Its Reputation on Fire with Bogus DMCA Takedown Notices
While there are countless examples of DMCA abuse, sometimes a story stands out. Last week, Samsung sent a series of takedown notices aimed at videos showing a GTA V mod in action. The modification replaced an in-game weapon with an exploding Samsung phone. Whether you think these videos are...
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Debunking Misleading Benchmarks Of Redshift vs BigQuery
Publishing misleading performance benchmarks is a classic old guard marketing tactic. It’s not surprising to see old guard companies (like Oracle) doing this, but we were kind of surprised to see Google take this approach, too. So, when Google presented their BigQuery vs. Amazon Redshift benchmark results at a private…
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MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs
MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced The Engine, a new kind of enterprise designed to support startup companies working on scientific and technological innovation with the potential for transformative societal impact.