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Fired
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,894 posts.
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Create your own MailChimp clone for $5 a month with Sendy
Possibly the one you're Googling about.
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Why This Tech Bubble is Worse Than the Tech Bubble of 2000
Ah the good old days. Stocks up $25, $50, $100 more in a single day. Day trading was all the rage. Anyone and everyone you talked to had a story about how they had made a ton of money on such and such a stock. In an hour. Stock trading millionaires were being minted by the week, if not sooner.
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The Social Radar: What I Did at Y Combinator
Culture matters for startups. For a startup to succeed, it must have a culture that reflects what it wants to achieve. This is one of my areas of expertise. I've spent the past decade focusing on Y...
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Technology predictions
Some of these are probably apocryphal, but making predictions about the limits of technology is really hard: Space travel is utter bilge. - Dr. Richard van der Reit Wooley, space advisor to...
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GitLab acquires Gitorious
GitLab and Gitorious announce today they are joining forces to strengthen the development of GitLab’s open source Git management application.
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Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015
As you may have already seen, Mozilla is not in the list of organizations accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015.People who have observed the list carefully may have noticed that
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Machine intelligence, part 2
This is part two of a a two-part post—the first part is here. THE NEED FOR REGULATION Although there has been a lot of discussion about the dangers of machine intelligence recently, there...
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No, it’s not the end of XMPP for Google Talk
There’s some recent discussion about the sky falling for XMPP at Google. See this blog post by Dan York for example. In reality, we don’t know the state of XMPP inside Google because they don’t share their use of XMPP with the XSF. …
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An $89 remanufactured Ubuntu workstation
This website is for sale! symplepc.com is your first and best source for information about symplepc. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Thunderbird Usage Continues to Grow
We’re happy to report that Thunderbird usage continues to expand. Mozilla measures program usage by Active Daily Installations (ADI), which is the number of pings that Mozilla servers receive as installations do their daily plugin block-list update. This is not the same as the number of active users, since some users…
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Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web
Lately there’s been a barrage of articles about how Apple is destroying the open web (because “app store, lol”) and it is Time Something Was Done About This: Apple’s paranoid appr…
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Rethinking office space
Today we’re submitting a plan to redevelop four sites to the Mountain View City Council.
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VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
Legal | Report Trademark Abuse VideoLAN, VLC, VLC media player and x264 are trademarks internationally registered by the VideoLAN non-profit organization. VideoLAN software is licensed under various open-source licenses: use and distribution are defined by each software license.
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Congress Is Poised to Introduce a Bill to Fast Track TPP So It's Time to Act Now
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are stalling while the White House assures its trading partners that this secret trade agreement won't be amended when it comes back to Congress for ratification after the President signs the deal. That's why the Executive is scrambling to get its allies in...
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Invented here syndrome
An explanation of how I use an LLM to help me with Unity, do math quicker, and add Victorian flavour to the text.
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Show me the salary!
This website is for sale! jobbox.io is your first and best source for information about jobbox. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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White House Doesn't Want You to Know the TPP's Effects on U.S. Copyright Laws
As the White House doubles down on its attempt to pass legislation to fast track secret trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, their oft-repeated refrain about these deals' digital copyright enforcement provisions is that these policies would not alter U.S. law. In a...
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Google announces Android for Work
Posted by Rajen Sheth, Director of Product Management, Android and Chrome for Work (Cross-posted on the Android Blog .) Over a billi...
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Machine intelligence, part 1
This is going to be a two-part post—one on why machine intelligence is something we should be afraid of, and one on what we should do about it. If you’re already afraid of machine intelligence,...
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How to pick startup ideas
One of the most important things I learned from running a startup is that on a macro scale the innovation market is efficient. If the market conditions allow for a startup to arise, it’s overwhelmingly probable that multiple startups already exist in that market. The converse is also true — if there are no startups in…
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A different cluetrain
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