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Google+ spamming people every 2 weeks to put up a profile photo
Dear Google, This is you sending me an email every 14 days telling me I should put up a profile photo. I don’t want to put up a profile photo up since it’s a b…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,981 posts.
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How to Make Wealth
May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters .) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word "startup" dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very…
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A new Microsoft browser?
Recently the news broke that Microsoft may be working on another browser instead of IE. After reviewing the available evidence I’ve come to the conclusion that, although Microsoft is making a few adjustments, and a name change for IE might be a good idea, the new browser will essentially be IE12. Still, I think we web…
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John Gruber's Post-I/O Thoughts
The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They’re simply not even part of the game.
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Open Banking and Payments Competition
Why the banks really hate fintechs that allow businesses to learn your account number easily.
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Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud
The post analyzes how major cloud platforms are faring under pressure and usage spikes caused by COVID-19 during March 2020.
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Shifting Cyber Norms: Microsoft security POST-ing to you
tl;dr: Microsoft and other email security scanners will visit the links in email you transmit, and run the JavaScript in those links, including calls that lead to POSTs going out. This used to be unacceptable, since POSTs have side effects. Yet here we are. This breaks even somewhat sophisticated single-use sign-on /…
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Invented here syndrome
An explanation of how I use an LLM to help me with Unity, do math quicker, and add Victorian flavour to the text.
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What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?
An epic tale of deception, stolen artwork, and crappy logos
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Lessons from Failed DocuSign Integration
Technology should be optimized for humans, and prioritizing less in-app time needed to get the job done is so right now.
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Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem
My best guesses as to why our early stage data startup failed. This isn’t a retrospective, but something closer to advice for past me. Or maybe just exorcism.
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Be where your business is
This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog. A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale. I was having breakfast…
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There is no “us” in team
I’ve talked before about the non-team team dynamic that is “one person per task”. Where the management and engineers collude to push the organisation beyond a sustainable pace by making sure that at all times, each individual is kept busy and collaboration is minimised. I talked about the deleterious effect on…
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Why I Hate Adobe
Ok…hate is such a strong word. I don’t exactly hate them…I don’t hate anyone actually (not that I can think of ). However, the image below …
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Being on a board as an employee
I recently left my job at Honeycomb. They’re a fantastic company, and I think they will be wildly successful. Still, life circumstances are such that I wanted to explore an opportunity at a much larger technology organization. More on that in another post, perhaps. In this post, I want to reflect on a unique aspect of…
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Martin Fowler on Software Patents
a bliki entry for Software Patent
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Byte Interviews the Apple Lisa Dev Team (1983)
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple's Lisa.
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How To Know Everything
At its simplest, this book deals with the art of asking questions. In reality, it’s about Socratic philosophy. It’s about our willingness to open our minds, close our mouths and listen. The c…
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Game Theory Patterns at Work
Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent. Outcomes depend not just on what you do, but on what others do, and what they expect you to…
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The Rise of the Forever Renter Class
On those who are unable or unwilling to buy a house in 2024 and what to do about it.
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On Apple's Love Affair with Swift
I wanted to write a thoughtful article in response to Dominik Wagner’s “On my misalignment with Apple’s love affair with Swift” . During my research I realized, that Chris Lattner had already done this. Sort of. 17 months before Dominik published his piece.
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No more JetBrains products for me
The personal website of Matthew Kosarek