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Wanna quit your job and become upwork freelancer? Do not do that
Almost every day I receive job offers on my 5 star odesk (upwork) profile . I do not search anything manually, clients contacting me directl...
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Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible
Today, we announced a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible, a popular IT automation tool launched in early 2013. Like in any acquisition, customers and partners will likely have a number of questions, so let me get straight to the point and cover the top three questions I anticipate: Why an IT automation solution?…
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YC Continuity
YC will fund its 1,000th company this year, and many of these companies are now scaling their organizations, revenue, and operations. Though years removed from our program, these founders continue to come to YC for advice and support, and we would like to do more to help them. To that end, I’m delighted to share that…
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We Looked for Work as a Software Development Team
Part of this story is a common one. Established company in an industry undergoing major disruption hires developers to innovate back to viability. Management lacks clear vision of what that means and so chops and changes ( not pivots, that’s something else) technology strategy several times. After two years of hard…
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Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
A shorter version of this post ran as an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News on October 6, 2015. The ubiquitous blue “Like” or “Share” buttons that you see all over the Internet are hiding an ugly secret. Starting this month, Facebook will use them to track your visit to every Web page that displays...
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Mattermost 1.0 released – open-source Slack alternative
One secure place for everything critical to your team: messaging, file sharing, and collaboration — deployed on your terms.
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ARM server market
Microservers and the motivations for microservers have been around for years. I first blogged about them back in 2008 ( Cooperative, Expendable, Microslice, Servers: Low-Cost, Low-Power Servers for Internet-Scale Services ) and even Intel has entered the market with Atom but it’s the ARM instruction set architecture…
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Twitter's Moment
Twitter has had a rough stretch, and most are pessimistic about its chances. I was previously, but I think the upside is looking much brighter than it did before this week.
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The ‘Oh, Shit’ Moment When Growth Stops
“A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.” –from the movie Annie Hall Most high-growth businesses stare down periods when growth unexpectedly slows down or stops altogether. At some point, that…
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The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
Today's release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions...
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Welcome Jared
I’m delighted to share that Jared Friedman is joining YC as a full-time partner. Jared co-founded Scribd, the world’s online library, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2006. He was the CTO there. Jared has also been an investor in more than 30 YC companies. Before Scribd, he studied computer science at Harvard…
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YC Research
Updated on 6/5/20 YC Research, now OpenResearch [http://openresearchlab.org/], and its portfolio of research projects are no longer affiliated with Y Combinator. YCR generated important ideas and organizations, and we are proud to have helped them get up and running. They have, in fact, been operating independently…
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When the Steve Jobs movie came calling
Last January the Steve Jobs movie came to town and called me up. I was leaving work one day when I got a phone call from a guy named Todd ...
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New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
We’ve been talking about Windows 10 for over a year now and today we started our next chapter, with new devices designed for Windows 10. Today I stood on stage in NYC along with members of my team and had the honor of unveiling a new era of Windows 10 devices from Microsoft. We introduced
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Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal
Trade negotiators from the U.S. and its 11 Pacific Rim partners announced their agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) today, concluding the final round of closed negotiations in Atlanta and marking the culmination of seven years of secrecy. Throughout all that time, the U.S....
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The economics of software correctness
You have probably never written a significant piece of correct software. Neither have I. Here's why that's not quite as bad as it sounds.
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Terrorism is not about terror
Terrorists act irrationally from a rational activism perspective, and groups act in ways most consistent with terrorism being about social status and belonging