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NYC tech catching up to Silicon Valley, while Seattle flails
The startup world is an interesting place. As cities around the US work to establish their own Silicon XYZ, the variables required to build…
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$2.5T has been wiped from US stocks
The Nasdaq wiped out roughly $2.5 trillion in market cap on Thursday, officially pushing the index into correction territory.
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Why is finance so complex? (2011)
Lisa Pollack at FT Alphaville mulls a question : “Why are we so good at creating complexity in finance?” The answer she comes up with is the “ Flynn Effect “, basically the idea that there is an uptrend in human intelligence. Finance, in this view, gets more complex over time because financiers get smart enough to…
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Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
We have hundreds of easter-egg logos (featuring our friendly mascot Dax Brown) that surface when you make certain queries on our search engine. Our subreddit is trying to catch ‘em all. They’ve certainly caught a lot, currently 504, but we keep adding more so it’s a moving target. The total as of this post is 594. I’m…
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Quote Meritocracy Unquote
Meritocracy is a political philosophy that holds power should be vested in individuals according to merit. Advancement in such a system is based on perceived intellectual talent measured through examination and/or demonstrated achievement in the field where it is implemented.
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Apple's Unlawful Evil
Apple has removed ICEBlock, a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi:
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My bank has an API so I built online banking
I recently attended Mondo’s second Hackathon, and it was incredibly insightful. My first hackathon, and moreover, my first time working…
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We are no longer a serious country
And the world is starting to notice
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What does it mean that MP3 is free?
The MP3 format, once the gold standard for digital audio files, is now free. The licensing and patents on MP3 encoders have expired, meaning you can now include them in your applications without payin
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Section 174 is reversed, mostly
Finally, relief: tax regulation hurting the US tech industry is striked off for good - for the most part, that is.
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The Anatomy of Determination
September 2009 Like all investors, we spend a lot of time trying to learn how to predict which startups will succeed. We probably spend more time thinking about it than most, because we invest the earliest. Prediction is usually all we have to rely on. We learned quickly that the most important predictor of success is…
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Kelly Criterion (2007)
It’s fairly clear when one should buy a particular stock. One should buy stock when it is undervalued. What I have always wondered about is how much stock one should buy. A few months ago I stumbled upon the answer which is given by the Kelly criterion . It says that one should invest an amount to maximize one’s…
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Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn't Get About Silicon Valley
Founders at Work
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NY Payroll Company Vanishes with $35M
MyPayrollHR , a now defunct cloud-based payroll processing firm based in upstate New York, abruptly ceased operations this past week after stiffing employees at thousands of companies. The ongoing debacle, which allegedly involves malfeasance on the part of the payroll company’s CEO, resulted in countless people…
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The Bluffers Guide to the Mythical Man Month
One thing that often strikes me when sitting in on client interviews is how many candidates lack an historical perspective on software development. In a profession of “perpetual beginnersR…
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Canonicals Interview Process
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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The Myth of Commoditized Excellence
Contents A New Idea Desire to Share Affirming Response The Naming The Movement Pressure for Simplification Fear of Stagnation Commoditizing the Excellence Crescendo of Disillusionment Conclusion A
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The Nvidia Way
Tae Kim's terrific new book on the story of Nvidia and Jensen Huang
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How Apple Works
Who takes over for Steve Jobs? 1 John Gruber recently posted his argument for thinking it will be COO Tim Cook. The biggest point in Cook’s favor is simple: “He’s already run the company while Jobs has been on leave.” That’s true, but it’s less meaningful than it sounds. But to understand why, you need to understand…
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Tips for selling your side project
All I did was put together a trivial web app to scratch my own itch, and it keeps scratching it, while I drink my free beer.