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A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm
You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker.
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How to charge clients: flat fee vs. hourly rate?
credit Having been back in the freelance world for a while now, I once again have to deal with quoting my clients an hourly rate for long-term contract work on an ongoing basis. I've been able to...
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How GitHub Works: Creativity is Important
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How GitHub Works: Be Asynchronous
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Amazon announces AWS GovCloud for U.S. government agencies
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing AWS GovCloud (US)
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How GitHub Works: Hours are Bullshit
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say
Please stop repeating these ideas! This isn't how successful companies work.
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Google to acquire Motorola
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization
Thoughts and musings of Dennis Forbes, expert software developer/architect and AI engineer
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Jonathan's Card shut down
Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan's Card
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Flickr is dead
You know what? It doesn’t matter. It’s totally irrelevant. The Google one looks far better, but that’s so beside the point at this point.
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Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"
The printed copies of Version Control by Example arrived last week. We moved seven tons of books into our fourth-floor office space and all the tenants on the third floor are still alive.
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Google releases Games for Google+
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Why software patents are not fixable
I’m not a patent lawyer. I’m not even a lawyer. I’m just a software developer, and like every software developer, I’ve probably unknowingly infringed upon hundreds of patents while routinely doing my job.
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An Idea for the Economy that will Freak Out a lot of People
The US Treasury is currently borrowing money at a Negative Real Yield . In any normal environment, if you can borrow money at a negative rate you should borrow as much as you can. The premise is that any idiot should be able to earn a return of greater than zero with the money. That’s a premise that should make the…
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Winter is coming
It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down. We're...