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Why I have zero faith in crypto venture capitalists
Mostly the reason I have zero faith in crypto venture capitalists as an institution is that their primary value add is marketing, their due diligence is a joke, and they are functionally equivalent…
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Pop culture has become an oligopoly
A cartel of superstars has conquered culture. How did it happen, and what should we do about it?
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AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
I’ve often heard it said that AWS is a major contributor to Amazon’s profitability. How major? Here’s a graph covering the last ten quarters, with a brief methodology discussion:
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What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate)
By now you’ve no doubt smelled the shitstorm surrounding Google’s allegation that Bing are ‘cheating’ and copying Google’s search results. If not, in brief, Google spotted that Bing sometimes includes results that seemed to be copied from Google, so Google set up a honeypot – they made some made up words like…
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About the Apple Card
My name is Jamie Heinemeier Hansson. Since my husband, David, tweeted about an unfortunate and ridiculous situation with AppleCard that involves me, I have been (or my credit-worthiness has been) the subject of lots of speculation. Unlike David, I am an extremely private person who does not post on social media. I am…
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Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case
It's damned hard to prove an antitrust case: so often, the prosecution has to prove that the company intended to crush competition, and/or that they raised prices or reduced quality because they knew they didn't have to fear competitors.
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Pinboard Turns Eleven
Pinboard is eleven years old today! Every year when I don't forget I try to publish the same stats:
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The Human Cost of Tech Debt
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Infragistics blog. Head over to their site and check out the original. While you’re there, have a look at the other blog authors and their product offering. If you’re not already familiar with the concept of technical debt, it’s worth becoming familiar with it. I…
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How I built the best-selling BlackBerry app
Many years ago, I built what I believe was the best-selling BlackBerry app of all-time, BBSmart Email Viewer. It feels strange to write that, and it's not something I'd say I'm really known for outside of the small niche community of BlackBerry app developers that used to exist. But of course this had a huge impact on…
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Dear StackExchange: Thank You
Miami-based DJ, producer, and songwriter blending Dance-Pop, Tech House, and Festival energy. Latest single 'Somethin' Right' out now.
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Frugly vs. Freemium
uglify the UI for non-paying consumers
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EU Scolds Visa et al. For Killing WikiLeaks Donations, Initiates Regulation
Today, the European Parliament ordered new legislation to regulate credit card companies' ability to refuse service. This regulation follows the unilateral and rightless cutoff...
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Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies
NOTE: This post is a slightly longer version of a piece I recently published on The Federalist. Their editor asked me to cut some passages because it was a bit long, but I figured that readers of my blog would…
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The life and death of open source companies
More thoughts on Open Source licensing and companies.
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Apple’s Social Network
Apple’s decision to stop reporting unit sales is defensible; the company, though, should provide more data to support its new growth story.
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The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
Slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip return about 93 cents on the dollar. This is widely considered some of the worst odds in gambling. Yet on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, traders have wagered vast sums on longshot contracts with historical returns as low as 43 cents on the dollar. Thousands of…
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Chrome, 10 Years Later
Reflecting on my work on Chrome.
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My Interview at Uber
A little less than a year ago I had the “pleasure” to interview at Uber. I didn’t know much about the company at the time, other than that they were big. I was looking for work already and Uber’s…
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Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
What my father taught me.