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Fun With Numbers
Tablet market share numbers sure do look different when you don’t count any of the tablets that people are actually buying.
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The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application
The Gun.io blog: insights on hiring software developers, AI in engineering, distributed teams and how to build high-performing technical teams.
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How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story
I highly recommend Lauren Rivera’s “Ivies, Extracurriculars, and Exclusion” (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 2011). Not only is the piece careful, edifying, and interesting; it’s even emotionally affecting. Learning more about elite hiring actually replaced my apathy toward elite firms with sour grapes…
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Progress against SOPA
When I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week, things looked quite grim. The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few d…
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The Sugru story
The benefits of original formula + family friendly formula = the best Sugru ever!
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Why Software Projects Are Terrible And How Not To Fix Them
If you are a good developer and you’ve worked in bad organizations, you often have ideas to improve the process. The famous Joel Test is a collection of 12 such ideas. Some of these ideas h…
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The co-op business model: share whatever you've got
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi (Chancellor of UC Davis)
18 November 2011 Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi Linda P.B. Katehi, I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in th…
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Getting Steve Jobs Wrong
On Malcolm Gladwell’s argument that Jobs was a “tweaker” and not a “large-scale innovator”.
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A human review of the Kindle Fire
I expected the Kindle Fire to be good for books, great for magazines and newspapers, great for video, and good for apps and games.
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Internet Community Shut Out of Stop Online Piracy Act Hearing - Again
This morning, EFF’s staff and concerned netizens across the country tuned into the live webcast of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261). At least we tried to. Unfortunately, we were confronted with an incredibly poor webcast stream for much of the...
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The relationship between Readability and Instapaper
I know it’s bad form to mention your competitors, but I’ve been asked about Readability’s announcement enough today that it’s more of a charade not to talk about it, especially since a lot of people are under the wrong impression.
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"Build something people want" is not enough
Most people take “Build something people want” to mean “Pick a problem to solve and solve it well.” This is not sufficient to build a world changing company. “Why now?…
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How I Made $19,000 on the App Store While Learning to Code
The past year and a half has been quite a journey. I’ve gone from starting to learn iPhone design, to quitting my full time job and focusing on an application full-time. All while teaching myself to program in Objective-C with no prior programming experience. OneVoice is a iPhone/iPad application that gives a voice to…
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Fail Upwards
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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords
How cold calling succeeded where AdWords failed, producing a 100% conversion rate and all the information needed to create a scalable business.
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In defense of the Google chef
I'm on the road with very limited internet connectivity so I can't do the homework I normally would before posting this, so it's possible th...
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