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Google’s New Business Profile: When Search Becomes a Political Tool
Google, in an effort to regain control of the antitrust narrative, has brazenly and deceptively enlisted small businesses to argue the company's case.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,121 posts.
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REvil Ransom Arrest, $6M Seizure, and $10M Reward
The U.S. Department of Justice today announced the arrest of Ukrainian man accused of deploying ransomware on behalf of the REvil ransomware gang, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal collective that has extorted hundreds of millions from victim organizations. The DOJ also said it had seized $6.1 million in cryptocurrency…
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It’s mostly a demand shock, not a supply shock, and it’s everywhere
Monetary Policy 3 created a self-reinforcing demand explosion that is getting harder, not easier, for supply to keep up with.
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Your users will do what you make easy
Recently was thinking about Java and reflection and how it actually ended up causing the prolifera…
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Don’t do interviews, do discussions
(5 Min Read) This change guarantees better signals from the interviewing candidates.
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Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future
It's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
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Zillow, Prophet, time series, and prices
So I made a mildly controversial tweet. Lots of people enjoyed it, but the LinkedIn-adjacent section of data science Twitter is not happy about it. I want to provide as much context for it as I can…
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American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
A review of "Amtrak, America's Railroad"
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OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
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We need more boutique search engines
For most queries, Google search is pretty underwhelming these days. Google is great at answering questions with an objective answer, like “# of billionaires in the world” or “What is the population of Iceland”. It’s pretty bad at answering questions that require judgment and context like “What do NFT collectors think…
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We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR
It took us a year to reach the first $400 MRR and then it took us nine months to go from $400 to $10k MRR. Now, ten months after the $10k milestone, we’re at $500,000 ARR.
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The promise and paradox of decentralization
Plus! Valuation Arbitrage; Labor Liquidity; Pricing Power; Diff Jobs
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How credit cards make money
Credit cards make money through net interest, interchange, fees, and marketing contributions.
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Helion
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen. David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense...
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Thank you, GitHub
This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHub’s next CEO.
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Are daily standups hurting your team?
What software developers can learn from Ford and GM
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Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corps
As a kid, my parents would open the television set, and we would get to watch whatever the state television decided we would watch. It was a push model. Some experts pick the content you need and they deliver it to you. You have little say in the matter. There was one newspaper in my … Continue reading Stop spending…
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High-fidelity remote communication
Remote is hard but it can work if you focus on what matters.
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Microsoft Edge GA on Linux
From the Microsoft Edge team, we want to thank and celebrate customers and users who continue to trust and partner with us to make Microsoft Edge the best browser for your environment. Customers like GlaxoSmithK
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Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service
We are piloting an advertising program that we expect will enable us to continue providing basic users with access to our robust platform.