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The History of Microsoft Encarta
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,982 posts.
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What Is a Bitcoin, Really?
When I first started learning about Bitcoin, I found plenty of information, but nothing that directly answered the most burning question: When you buy bitcoins… what is it …
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“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.”
In general, open source maintainers owe you nothing. Despite maintainers often being volunteers, some users feel entitled to maintainers’ time, submitting…
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The Verge editor secretly joins Apple, doesn't inform the Verge
Link to: http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13036012/a-note-from-the-editor-in-chief-about-chris-ziegler
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Merchant Service Horror: Amazon Pay and the Disappearing $2300
This is a story of a small e-commerce merchant who signed up for Amazon Pay: a payment processing service similar to PayPal that leverages customers’ existing Amazon accounts. It all seemed so promising. Amazon Pay would provide an easier checkout experience for my customers, with the shipping address and payment…
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Sued by Meta, Freenom halts domain registrations
The domain name registrar Freenom , whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The move comes after the Dutch registrar was sued by Meta , which alleges the company ignores abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing…
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The Inner Osborne Effect (2021)
In software development, we talk a lot about software anti-patterns, how to recognize them, and how to extricate yourself from them via refactoring.
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How to get meetings with people too busy to see you
Asking, “Can I have coffee with you to pick your brain?” is probably the worst possible way to get a meeting with someone with a busy schedule. Here’s a better approach. —— Jason, an e…
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The default state of a startup is failure
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Data Factories
Facebook and Google and other advertising businesses are data factories, and regulation will be most effective if it lets users look inside
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Translation of Carrier IQ's Media Release
We Got Caught Doing Something We Were Kind of Hoping No One Would Notice and Now We’re Nervously Placing Exclamation Marks at the End of Our Media Alert Headlines!
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Welcoming Adrian Cockcroft to the AWS Team
Adrian Cockcroft will be joining AWS as VP of Cloud Architecture
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Spend analysis of 6 years, 686 rides, and $12k spent on Uber (2017)
What I learned from my Uber data I save $703/month using Uber versus owning 2 cars (🚙🏎). I’ve spent $12,041 on 686 Ubers over 6 years. By comparison, car ownership cost $11,783 per year, most of it depreciation. What could $703/month buy you? Well, four years of $703/month and you’ll save enough to climb Mount…
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Stack Overflow is almost dead
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.
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The Prospect of an AI Winter
Texts on this and that.
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Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
Now this is pretty weird: I just got blocked by Twitter for a tweet that I did not make:
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The Lightness of Windows
The Windows 11 announcement was fun and interesting, but there is a reason that Windows is no longer the center of Microsoft’s business.
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The Plumber Problem
“The Plumber Problem” is a phrase I coined to describe the experience of watching a movie that touches on some subject area that you know way more about than the average person, and then some inaccuracy in what’s depicted distracts you and takes you out of the movie. (This can occur in any work of fiction, of course…
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How to distort Scrum until it no longer works
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange
Plus! The Other X; Refinancing China; The Activist Short Death Spiral; Rebundling; Fitness Bands; Diff Jobs
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The international student bait-and-switch
Come for the schools, be used as pawns for politics.
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Obvious and possible software innovations
There are a number of things that people theoretically know how to do, but which aren’t possible because of how software gets made. Some of these are almost forgotten, but there are at least …
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The Doom Justifies the Valuation
I’ve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I haven’t really been back here for a while, and it’s worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to justify their life choices. Or acceleration. Or something. They need to make impact. I mean, narcissism of small differences…
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Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007)
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
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Interview with Vitalik Buterin on ETH2, Scaling Plans, NFTs, etc.
Please enjoy this transcript of my conversation with Vitalik Buterin and Naval Ravikant. Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) is the creator of Ethereum. He first discovered blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies through Bitcoin in 2011 and was immediately excited by the technology and its potential. He co-founded…
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I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
A business report from a 3D printing enthusiast
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The Future of Compute: Nvidia's Crown Is Slipping
Demand consolidation, changing compute mix, custom silicon, and distributed training will hurt NVIDIA's pole position.
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Google Update Tanks Traffic
Yet another existential threat to PainScience.com.
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It's Not Sabotage, They're Drowning
As you gain visibility into system problems, you’ll often experience push back like this: I refactored the code from untested and untestable, to testable with 40% test coverage. The senior ar…
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How Many People Can Someone Lead?
How big of a team can someone lead well? What are the factors that might decrease or increase this size? Find out more in this article