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Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
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Pinboard Turns Seven
Heh, don't worry, that's just the whiskey talking. Pinboard is seven years old today!
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Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards
I run a job board that caters to tech jobs, primarily web professionals. This year has been pretty bonkers compared to previous years.
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Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol
Facebook Messenger has started rolling out Secret Conversations, a feature that enables end-to-end encryption for conversations within Messenger. Secret Conversations is built on Signal Protocol, a modern, open source, strong encryption protocol we developed for asynchronous messaging systems.
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Oracle and the fall of Java EE
Recently there has been a lot of ramblings in the interwebz about Oracle removing its funding for Java EE. A long piece by Ars Technica ...
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Investor Day
Below is a copy of an email I sent to investors who attend YC’s Demo Day. It discusses some of the changes we’re making and how they will impact Demo Day. > YC Demo Day Investors,We’re making some changes to Y Combinator’s Demo Days – please take a minute to read below because they are material. As with previous…
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Employee #1: Reddit
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End of Cycle?
One sign that technology markets often exhibit at the tail end of a cycle is a fast diversification of the types of startups getting funded. For example, following the core internet boom of the late 90s (Google, Yahoo!, eBay, PayPal), in early 2000 and 2001 there was a sudden diversification and investment into P2P…
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Later Stage Advice for Startups
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How to Email Early Stage Investors
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Who Owns the Federal Reserve Banks?
Is the Fed public or private? It's both: the Board of Governors is an independent government agency, the Federal Reserve Banks are set up like private corporations.
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Software has diseconomies of scale, not economies of scale
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist...
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Re-reading Kahneman's “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
Behavioural economics, data science and artificial intelligence.
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FOIA Improvement Act Signed into Law
President Obama signed into law the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Improvement Act of 2016 yesterday. The Act places a 25 year limit on the use of the deliberative process exemption, codifies a presumption of openness, and makes various procedural improvements in the FOIA. The Department of Justice summarized its…
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DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo
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Employee 1: Yahoo
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Introducing Worldwide SMS Messaging
Introduction Earlier this week, Amazon SNS released worldwide SMS delivery and made it available in six AWS Regions. Worldwide SMS delivery means that you can now send SMS text messages directly to mobile phone numbers in more than 200 countries. Along with this expansion, SNS also enabled default “opt-in” of…
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From Losing Money to a Profit Margin in 5 Months
A few months ago I wrote about the difficulty of self-funding a rapidly growing startup. If you haven’t read that yet, go and do that now. I’ll wait. Here’s the quick timeline: JAN 2013 — Started on the idea for ConvertKit JUN 2013 — Reached $2,000 a month in recurring revenue (MRR). SEP 2014 — Revenue declines to…
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The Brexit Possibility
Brexit’s downsides are clear; might tech help realize upsides in building something new based on a new world order?
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The Moral Economy of Tech
This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE conference in Berkeley. The other panel participants were Kieran Healy (whose remarks are here ), Stuart Russell and AnnaLee Saxenian .
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AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. August 4, 2023: Updated list of AWS Consulting Partners. We are expanding the AWS footprint again, this time with a new region in Mumbai, India. AWS customers in the area can use the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai)…
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The Real Product Market Fit
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Infrastructure Software is Dead
Organizations must embrace infrastructure built for AI: composable, observable, scalable, and ready to deliver performance across all environments.
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Brexit wins. An illusion dies
What now for the radical left in Labour and beyond?