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Adventures in Self Publishing
My journey from an empty text file to a successful book launch, including pretty graphs!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,895 posts.
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The Deal That Makes No Sense
Early this morning Microsoft acquired Nokia for €3.79 billion (plus €1.65 billion for patents). It is a deal that makes no sense. While industry observers love to pontificate about mergers and acqu…
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Nokia acquired by Microsoft
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Microsoft to acquire Nokia
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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A horrifying startup accelerator story
Recently, I wrote a post called “Entrepreneurs Deserve Full Transparency” for my WSJ series. Several entrepreneurs wrote me, but this story really stands out as a warning to do your diligence and demand full transparency. Not all accelerators are created equal. I’ve posted the following email by permission of the…
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Cannot Measure Productivity
It is impossible to measure the effectiveness of tools and techniques in software development because we have no way of measuring our output, and thus our productivity.
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Does Steve Jobs know how to code?
Our curriculum is designed with one goal in mind: to help you launch your career in technology. As a global leader in curriculum development, our programs meet — or exceed — the hiring requirements of the technology jobs you want, empowering you with Day-1 Skills. WOZ technology training features in-browser coding…
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Humor: Interview with an Ex-Microsoftie Who Used to Name OS Folders
—Sure is. I thought, "This is where we'll put the programs. On the file system. And since they're gonna be made out of files, I'll stick the word "Files" on the end. With a space in the middle. People are going to be typing this all the time, so they'll want it to be as long and descriptive as possible."
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The Journey of Launching My First Product, “To Do Cal”
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10gen is now MongoDB, Inc.
New Branding Reflects Commitment to the MongoDB NoSQL Database and Its Global Community.
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Logstash joins Elasticsearch
Logstash is an open source data collection engine with real-time pipelining capabilities. Logstash can dynamically unify data from disparate sources and...
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Stripe launches German beta
Once Stripe is supported in your country, you’ll be able to accept payments from customers anywhere in the world.
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A Startup Reading List
Books are still vital. Ask the CEOs of the successful companies and you will find that they are well read. Ask the top people everywhere and they read to expose themselves to new ideas.
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No More Notification Ads and Icon Ads in Android Apps
This was 2 1/2 years ago, what happened? Hunting down an app that fits the icon ad in my notification bar.
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Uber for Everything
San Francisco has 800,000 inhabitants. How many cordless drills are there in this city? Probably orders of magnitude more than we actually need. I bought one six months ago, used it just once. It’s now another object in a box filled with stuff. At the time I must have thought that the most convenient way to hang a…
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen
[Editor's note: This post is the opinion of the author and not necessarily that of the Gluster Community] TLDR: SourceForge, once a mighty force f
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What Manning Revealed
A blog about media, politics, music, film, culture, by Greg Mitchell.