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Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it
Yes, just set that deadline.
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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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Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind
How internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind
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Cost of Attrition
How would we think about retention if we could visualise the full impact of someone leaving our team?
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Efficient Computer's Electron E1 CPU – 100x more efficient than Arm?
100x More Efficient than Arm?
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Build versus Buy
A few years ago I was working on a contract negotiation with Splunk, and we kept running into what felt like a pretty unreasonable pricing structure. They wanted some number of millions of dollars for a three year license, which felt like a high price to pay for roughly thirty-two ascii characters in a particular…
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How we tripled our revenue by adding one button
Or the secret of the “Unlock All” button
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Netflix is not a tech company (2019)
Like Sky before it, Netflix is a television company using tech as a crowbar for market entry. The tech has to be good, but it’s still fundamentally a commodity, and all of the questions that matter are TV questions. The same applies to Tesla, and indeed to many other companies using software to ente
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Krugman on BitCoin
Digital, but still a barbarous relic.
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The room the economy can't see
(This post is written mostly by Claude, you can tell that it isn’t in the same voice as my other work, but it has notes of it. All the personal anecdotes are still from my life, and it’s interesting that this is one of my most popular posts of all time. Go figure. Also Interesting: […]
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In 2022, Web3 went just great
Come, reminisce with me.
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The Apple Tablet
If you’re thinking The Tablet is just a big iPhone, or just Apple’s take on the e-reader, or just a media player, or *just* anything, I say you’re thinking too small.
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Telegram, Apple, Belarus, and Conflating ‘Irrelevance’ with ‘Inconvenience’
I’ve said it before and will adamantly say it again: it is *prima facie* wrong that one of the rules of the App Store is that an app is not allowed to explain the rules of the App Store.
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Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances
AWS EC2 Spot prices have surged since the start of 2023. In this article I investigate this trend, possible causes, and how AWS customers can improve their deployments to get the maximum discount possible.
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Generating Income from Open Source
Ink has been getting some good traction lately and it's already being used by some well-known companies for a while. Like most other open so…
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Cringley: Japan may have just permanently lost 20% of its electricity supply
There’s a 40 year-old nuclear reactor cooling-down right now in Japan following the big earthquake in that country. Actually there are 11 such reactors cooling-down, automatically brought offline by the 8.9 temblor, but one of those reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi generating plant is not going gracefully and 3000…
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How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?
Two weeks ago, Spotify announced it was migrating from its own datacentres to Google Cloud Platform.
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Things Paul Graham is wrong about
I debated with myself for a long time over whether to write this post (which is one of the reasons some of the subject matter is a little ol...
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Angry Bird’s “overnight success” only took 8 years.
by Paul Hontz
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Doing an HD Remake the Right Way
This is part 1 of a series. Part 2 (regarding Final Fantasy VI) is here [https://www.fortressofdoors.com/doing-an-hd-remake-the-right-way-ffvi-edition/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Fantasy V [http://store.steampowered.com/app/382890/] just came out on Steam…
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The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
It’s 11:43pm on a Monday night. My 6-week-old son is asleep in my office so my wife can get some uninterrupted rest for the first half of the night. He’s finally asleep now, and I probably should be also after a full day of work. But I’m not done for the day. Even though I’m a software engineer by trade, I’m also a…
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A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
Lessons from Dolores, my failed AI girlfriend product: built on the Stanford AI Town paper with GPT and ElevenLabs voices, why it earned $50 and I gav