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Film Review: BlackBerry
The Greatest business film ever made... in Canada
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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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How Dropbox sacrifices user privacy for cost savings
Note: This flaw is different than the authentication flaw in Dropbox that Derek Newton recently published . Summary Dropbox , the popular cl...
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How Clash of Clans earns $500,000 a day with in-app purchases
Confession time: While I like to rationalize my blog’s recent silence with changing jobs and moving to a new city, the truth is, the single biggest drain on my free time lately has been Super…
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IE10 won't run Flash unless website is whitelisted by Microsoft
Yeah you read that right. I just received an interesting email from Brightcove (the video delivery guys) about issues with their Flash based solution and Windows 8 running the new Internet Explorer 10. To quote:
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Why the iPhone will fail (2007)
The forthcoming (June 29) release of the Apple iPhone is going to be a bigger marketing flop than Ishtar and Waterworld (dating myself aga...
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Exploding offers are bullshit
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers.
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The Lies that can Undermine Democracy
Recent events highlight our need to take serious measures to counter lies that are undermining democracies.
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Daring Fireball: The Daily Wait
Waiting is death, so unless they fix their app, The Daily is dead.
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The Myth of the Product-Market Fit (2013)
The ideas behind Product Market Fit (PMF) were first articulated by Marc Andreessen in a detailed blog post around 2007 [https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html].
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The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager
And how to combat it. The story of an EM who created a ChatGPT for the internal docs in a few hours
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Airlines using reverse auctions to determine true seat pricing
Of this (via MR): It’s an auction conducted at the airport terminal. In this auction you are a seller and you are bidding to sell your ticket back to the airline. Optimists look at this and …
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Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics
Twitter threads are a pain to read! So let's just steal them, right? Umm... Nope, probably wrong. I'm going to say very wrong. Think about it.
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The Dubrovnik Interviews: Marc Andreessen
The Internet King on why the Internet is a force for good, on media conformity, the inevitable triumph of the WEIRD, Crypto, Retards, etc.
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You Want Technology with Warts
I normally skip presentations because I prefer reading, but Building the Hundred-Year Web Service (YouTube) was worth the time. 1 1 Note that despite “htmx” featuring in the title, very little of the presentation is actually about htmx. It is about choosing and using technology in such a way that it won’t require…
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Defending your app from copies and clones
App developers sometimes ask me what they should do when their features, designs, or entire apps are copied by competitors.
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The free money machine that went into reverse: Grayscale Bitcoin Trust
A lucrative arbitrage opportunity formed the foundation of much of the cryptocurrency industry. When it turned bad, it brought the whole house of cards down with it.
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Spoil your secret sauce
Go on an adventure. Find a New Thing™. Bring it back. Share it, and demonstrate why the New Thing™ is worth sharing.
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Unremarkables
There has never been a better time to be remarkable, nor a worse time to be unremarkable.
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Paul Buchheit: The Cloud OS
My recent remark about the future of ChromeOS generated a surprisingly passionate response . Some said that my prediction was obvious and b...