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Thoughts about Twitter
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,982 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
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Where have you gone, Peter Norton?
Recently on Facebook, my friend, nerd extraordinaire Esther Schindler, shared a photograph of herself wearing an old T-shirt and challenged her followers to identify it: Either you have no idea what that image means, or you know exactly what it is. It's the torso, rolled-up sleeves and fol
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Notes from an Interviewer
These days I find myself interviewing quite a few candidates. Some are good, some aren’t. So it goes. However, there is another group who I feel could be good but just aren’t showing it…
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The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)
[ Updated (06/16/08): Here’s a real-world project review memo , written several years ago, that described (among many other things) the Dead Sea effect. ]
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The Importance of India
This post sparked a great conversation on Hacker News! See the comments here. “Quantity has a quality of its own”–Attribution contested A significant factor in the power of states throughout history has been sheer numbers. Spain was able to control an overseas empire to a significantly greater degree than Portugal…
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Where Are the Android Killer Apps?
It’s not that most top-notch mobile apps are written for iOS. It’s that *almost all of them* are, despite the fact that Android, by most accounts, has surpassed iOS in phone sales and perhaps drawn even in unit sales overall.
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Greece’s Proposals to End the Crisis
The only antidote to propaganda and malicious ‘leaks’ is transparency. After so much disinformation on my presentation at the Eurogroup of the Greek government’s position, the only response is to post the precise words uttered within. Read them and judge for yourselves whether the Greek government’s proposals…
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A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
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I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games
A Queen's Wish screenshot. Note that I use game art that I like to look at. This is necessary because I'll be staring at it for years, and...
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AppStore Reviews Should Be Stricter
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Mortgages are a manufactured product (2022)
Mortgages are popularly thought of as loans, but to understand the industry, it's better to model them as complex manufactured products.
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When AI Costs More Than the Engineer
Anthropic spends 2.3x payroll on compute. Top software firms spend 0.4x. Three scenarios for where the rest of the market lands by 2029.
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People in Silicon Valley Don’t Click on Ads
At least, not according to Facebook data
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What Killed Innovation?
I entered the data visualization field in 2012, when D3.js had just come out and interactive graphics were going through a digital Renaissance. By the time I was fully steeped in the field in 2016, it felt like a new, experimental project was coming out every week—each one pushing the boundaries of how we think about…
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The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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China, Leverage, and Values
If there is a new tech cold war, it is one with shots fired over a decade ago, largely by China. The questions going forward are about both leverage and values.
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New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+
Where are you from? Try using TOR to sign up if your country is blocked, once you have an account you should be able to access the service without having to run TOR again.
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Kindle Paperwhite
Amazon’s goal should be for Kindle typography to equal or match print typography. They’re not even close.
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Where's my petabyte disk drive?
Fourteen years ago I noted that disk drives were growing so fast I couldn’t fill them up. Between 1997 and 2002, storage capacity doubled every year, allowing me to replace a 3 gigabyte drive with a new 120 gigabyte model. I wrote:
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Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?
Link to: https://x.com/markgurman/status/2067741507273289766
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Hire for slope, not Y-Intercept
Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run.
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ICANN has taken my site hostage
This is an short story on how ICANN acts like mafia and has taken my site Nomad List hostage for 2 days now. Here’s how my site used to look: Here’s how it has…
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NYT and vaping: How to lie by saying only true things (2022)
An exercise in spotting agenda journalism: dissecting a 2022 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 article on teen vaping sentence by sentence to show how it pins an EVALI hospitalization on legal nicotine vapes while never quite saying so—since the actual cause was illegal THC products. Every misleading sentence is technically true.
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The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy
#Democrat, #VoteBlue, #Bernie, #JohnOliver, and 24 other hashtags Instagram censored on the day of Trump's inauguration.
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Cannot Measure Productivity
It is impossible to measure the effectiveness of tools and techniques in software development because we have no way of measuring our output, and thus our productivity.