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The Apple Tablet
If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a big iPhone, or just Apple’s take on the e-reader, or just a media player, or *just* anything, I say you’re thinking too small.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 679 posts.
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Doctorow, How to Destroy the Book
Cory Doctorow, my former EFF colleague, now novelist and all-around-inspiration, gave a stirring speech entitled "How to Destroy the Book" in November at a Canadian conference dedicated to literacy. Fittingly, it was spontaneously transcribed and posted online at The Varsity.ca. The whole thing is...
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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition
In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit. Failure to get product/market fit right is very likely the number…
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Phil Greenspun debunks Malcolm Gladwell on airline safety
This article explores an alternative explanation: foreign airlines do comparatively poorly because their first officers have almost no pilot-in-command experience.
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Google’s ‘Meaning of Open’
Link to: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
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Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month
Therapists don't tell you what to do. Rather, they ask probing questions that get you to discover for yourself what is true for you, your situation, and what you want. Similarly, these ten questions will force you to make the important decisions about your business. Ask them of yourself every month instead of writing…
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Anatomy of a bad search result
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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EtherPad Open Source Release
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
Dec 18 Update: This morning I was contacted by a PayPal manager from their fraud department who talked with me close to an hour. He went out of his way to apologize for their mishandling of my case. He told me that...
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Daring Fireball: PastryKit
The best iPhone web app I’ve ever seen.
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Goo.gl: Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Googling for Sociopaths
One of the best things about capitalism is the way it handles sociopaths. Major executives look up to Alexander the Great and apparently try to follow in his footsteps. But instead of leading a murderous campaign across Asia, they decide to make something people want: newspapers and movies and television shows. True…
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How to determine if your A/B test is statistically significant
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.