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Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD
Wise has stolen more than $60,000 AUD from us, and refuses to let us access it. We’ve had a Wise account for around 5 years (since they were called TransferWise). It’s been a really useful …
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Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store
For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t approve of, and alludes to their trademarks and iconography. I don’t personally agree with this, as Juno is just a web…
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Software is eating the world, all right (2024)
I retired from my IT career a couple of months ago after 43 years of commercial software product development and transitioned to the real…
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80% of the Web Powered by PHP (2017)
Today, PHP is used by more than 80% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Popular websites such as Slack, Etsy, Cloudflare,
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Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness
Link to: https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers
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TechCrunch covered Vic Gundotra's departure badly
Mad rantings from a computer guy. My thoughts are my own, and don't represent my current or past employers.
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Google and Microsoft have opaque and unpredictable ad moderation
Yet another sad story of how big companies kill small ones because of poor processes.
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How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers
A blog for third-party developers on the Clover POS platform.
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The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions
On how software that survives first encounter with production tends to live longer than we think it should.
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Against Hickelism
Poverty is falling, and it isn't because of free-market capitalism
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Do VCs really add value? Founders say sometimes
NOTE: If Hacker Noon & Medium allowed multiple authors, this post would carry 2 other important names. The study referenced below, its…
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Leveraging mispriced AWS spot instances
AWS creates a market for spot instance pricing, but this market is inefficient as customers don’t consider all instance types available. Leveraging this mispricing can save even more than spot pricing already does.
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Data will not tell you what to do
How disappointing it is to learn that the best ideas rarely come from data after 15 years of working in the field.
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Avoiding Startup Tarpits
Startup growth can be painfully slow. So slow that many entrepreneurs just give up and quit when their launch doesn’t go as expected. When…
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What happened to Priceonomics?
I wanted to check the going rate used Nintendo Wii consoles. Sifting through Kijiji was slow and only showed me the price of things which not sold. So I turned to Priceonomics, a site which is supp…
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Rainy Day Ideas For Things You Can Build To Grow Your Business
Spinning your wheels for today? Here are some mini-projects to get you started.
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design
It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…
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How My Book Launch Went
Greetings, superfans! When we last tuned in , I was just about to “launch” my self-published book . I put that in quotes because it’s an awfully serious-sounding word for what was really just doing some clicking on my laptop. If my last post was the climax of my book writing adventure, consider this the denouement…
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Hacking Google for Fun and Profit
At the end of last year, Google announced their Vulnerability Reward Program which rewards security researchers for reported security and privacy holes in Google properties. This sounded like an interesting challenge, and I set out to find security holes. I found three, got paid, and am now in the Google Security Hall…
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The Mac Platform Decline
David Owens II: To me, Thursday’s event signaled one thing for me, and maybe I’m completely wrong, but the Mac is officially over. Apple, the MacBook Pro is not a pro-level computer. It’s simply not. Ted Landau: Apple’s desktop Mac lineup is headed for the graveyard. Dead. Done. Over. It has taken me some time to…
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What I've Learned From Female Founders So Far
On the whole, I got a great response to my request for feedback about how YC could encourage female founders. It's clear there are two separate problems: 1) Some women already starting startups...
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The Importance of Price Signals
Originally published: December 2021 When price inflation occurs, it can be a very challenging time for everyone. In that type of environment, prices of goods and services often go up faster than wages, and the public and policymakers wish to constrain them. Historically, when price inflation becomes rampant…
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Wavelength
Private group chat with friends and AI, with good native apps.