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Mac Pro gets half-assed “update”
After two years, the Mac Pro was “updated” today, sort of: now we can choose slightly faster two-year-old CPUs at the top end, and the other two-year-old CPU options are cheaper now.
How I manage 40 people remotely
I’m Ryan Carson, and I’ve been a Founder CEO for 20 years, building, scaling and selling three companies.
The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy
China is a kleptocracy of a scale never seen before in human history. This post aims to explain how this wave of theft is financed, what ...
Rogue Amoeba responds to Phil Schiller
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The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives
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Selling your company doesn’t make you happy
I started my first company eight years ago in 2004 and I’ve been through two acquisitions. The first company I sold was DropSend in 2008 and the second was Carsonified in 2011.
Firefox 13 Released - Homepage + Speed Improvements
Firefox makes it faster and easier to get where you want to go on the Web with a redesigned Home Page and New Tab experience. The Home Page now includes ic
Google Acquires Quickoffice
We're happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions.
Fred Wilson's response to "Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies"
I don't disagree with PG when he says that Facebook's IPO performance (or lack thereof) has the potential to impact valuations in startup land. I think it will be particularly impactful on the late stage and secondary markets where most of the IPO valuation speculation is happening. But let's put Facebook's current…
Google Street View: A wolf in sheep’s clothing
I’m in the middle of taking the Coursera Machine Learning class -- which has been amazingly good -- and it recently covered how one could implement a machine-learning algorithm to power driverless cars.
The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack
A core value CloudFlare is that security information should be shared between organizations to make the entire Internet safer. That is how CloudFlare's systems work: if one site is attacked, data about that attack is immediately shared with the rest of the network so other sites can be safe.
Google buys Meebo
Our team is now working just a few miles down the road with the Google+ team, where we continue to focus on creating delightful experiences for our users, developers, and publishers.
Getting shares back from my co-founders
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Heroku Isn't for Idiots: developer time and comparative advantage
My rant on David Cramer's The Cloud is Not For You: Heroku is just Ubuntu, enforces twelve-factor apps, has New Relic, and saved my team time and money.
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Persistent patterns in long-lived online groups.
The Cloud Is Not for You
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Cloudflare Attack Post Mortem; Apparent Google Apps/Gmail Vulnerability
This morning a hacker was able to access a customer's account on CloudFlare and change that customer's DNS records. The attack was the result of a compromise of Google's account security procedures.
Barack Obama Directs All Federal Agencies to Have an API
Studying the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010.