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Vampire Attack Twitter
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Running a software team at Google
I'm often asked what my job is like at Google since I left academia. I guess going from tenured professor to software engineer sounds like ...
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xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout
An artisanal, free range blog. GMO-free. Sincere always, expect for the rare occasion. No AI was used in the making of this site or its content.
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Apple Broke My iPhone, and Their Policies Prevent Them from Fixing It
Hello. I’ve been an otherwise happy iPhone user since 2008. I use my iPhone with an MVNO carrier in the U.S. called Straight Talk, which runs over AT&T’s network. This is my story.
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The China ICO Ban
Regulators in China imposed a blanket ban on ICOs over the long weekend. A number of people have reached out to me via email and Twitter asking me what I think about this. I think regulation of ICOs is inevitable and a good thing if done right (ie lightly). The SEC’s comments on ICOs back […]
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How Tokyo built its way to abundant housing
Tokyo has rightly been getting some plaudits for housebuilding of late, and this post brings together some stats that illustrate just how impressive its record is. First, some definitions and conte…
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The Digital Advertising Duopoly
This chart from eMarketer really brings it home. We have a digital advertising duopoly. The difference between second and third place is massive. I don’t want nor do I expect any governmental response to this market failure. I want to see the technology industry adopt new approaches to monetization, ideally not…
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Strava cuts off leaderboard for free users, reduces third party apps
After roughly five months of appeasing users with new feature after new feature after new feature , the other shoe has finally dropped. Today, Strava sold its segmented soul. At least, if you believe Strava Segments are the soul of what makes Strava, well, Strava.
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Ignore Sunk Costs (2009)
The most important decision-making rule you learn in business school is still largely misunderstood. When making a choice between two options, only consider what’s going to happen in the futu…
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The Idiot's Guide to High Frequency Trading
First, let me say what you read here is going to be wrong in several ways. HFT covers such a wide path of trading that different parties participate or are impacted in different ways. I wanted to put this out there as a starting point . Hopefully the comments will help further educate us all
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Unkown Unknowns: Why you should release early
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. - Mark Twain
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Don't bet on the most likely winner
It's all relative
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Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover
There are striking similarities between Microsoft today and IBM in the Lou Gerstner era, but today’s IBM should be a warning to Redmond.
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Dear “Dear GitHub”
Dear “Dear GitHub”, Thanks for your recent open letter about GitHub’s shortcomings. As an occasional contributor to Chef, a large open source project itself , I completely empathize with your position. It totally sucks, for example, when an issue is DoSsed with a wall of unhelpful +1’s, especially by people who think…
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Online music distribution companies may not want Creative Commons music
*maybe The Plot Many of the online music distribution companies: CD Baby, DistroKid, OneRPM, MondoTunes, TuneCore etc., are either rejecting, or at least not entirely happy about accepting, audio content that has been released under a Creative Commons (CC) licence, and are not accepting it into their distribution with…
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The Railsification of SaaS
Every decade since the dawn of the World Wide Web in 1989 there have been about two major paradigm shifts in how web software is built and…
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Finally, a Private Stock Exchange
Today was a big day. In 2013 we raised our seed round on the pitch of “building the Nasdaq for private markets.” Eight years later we call…
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The Open Source Initiative Did Not Win Neo4j vs. PureThink
everywhere it looks, OSI sees itself, and in triumph
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DHH: Fuck the Real World
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