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My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
In 2014 I wrote http_build_url, a temporary PHP polyfill for AOL's CMS. Twelve years and nearly 20 million installs later, I'm deprecating it.
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Starfighter, Summer 2015
An Erin post. On finding, in app pentesting, the only game worth loving, and turning that into Starfighter: a company that hires people by letting them play it.
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Twice as happy customers means half the marketing spend
Halving your cancel rate doubles the number of customers your business has. Even if you run a subscription business forever, you will not have infinite customers. Instead you reach a steady-state number.
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Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)
Startups can’t do things the same way big companies do. And that’s a good thing; here’s why. Startups and big companies differ in a lot of ways. When it comes to hardware, the gulf between the two is massive. Early-stage startups are painfully under-financed. This lack of capital makes manu
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Solar panels reduced my electric bill in 2022
In late 2021, I had solar panels installed onto the roof of my house. After some bureaucratic delays, the solar panels began producing electricity for me at the beginning of January 2022. I have been tracking the performance of the panels for the last year in order to assess what the financial impact of the panels is…
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The OpenAI board was right
Even on little things, Sam is not consistently candid.
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Microsoft Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
Microsoft Team's link preview feature is susceptible to spoofing and vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery. Team's Android users can be DoS'ed and, in the past, their IP address could be leaked.
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Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
We have sat here for the last 3 years seeing only infrastructure apps like wallets and exchanges emerge on top of Bitcoin. Why is that?
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Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal judge to dismiss Facebook's claims that criminal law is violated when its users opt for an add-on service that helps them aggregate their information from a variety of social networking sites. Power Ventures makes a web-...
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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)
The smartest people in the world use mental models to make intelligent decisions, avoid stupidity, and increase productivity. Let's take a look at how ...
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Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge
It's great that you aren't quitting google, but it seems like you misspoke rather than being misinterpreted. It's kind of random that you claim that people misheard the word "project" when it is easy to check the actual video and realize that you didn't say that word. Your exact quote was "I am officially quitting…
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DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online
At DuckDuckGo, our vision is to raise the standard of trust online. For the 7th year we're making donations to organizations that share a similar vision.
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Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.
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How to get rich without being lucky (2019)
A collection of all my interviews about my ‘How to Get Rich’ tweetstorm. Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep You probably know Naval from his Twitter account. We’re going to talk about his tweetstorm, “How To Get Rich (without getting lucky).” More
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The Coming Meltdown In College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Soon
Remember the housing meltdown ? Tough to forget isn’t it. The formula for the housing boom and bust was simple. A lot of easy money being lent to buyers who couldn’t afford the money they were borrowing. That money was then spent on homes with the expectation that the price of the home would go up and it could easily…
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A $1k AWS mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
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Intel exits memory business, sale to Hynix for $9B
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS SK hynix will pay US $9 billion for the Intel NAND memory and storage business, which includes the NAND SSD business, the NAND component and wafer business, and the Dalian NAND memory manufacturing facility in China. SK hynix aims to enhance the competitiveness of its NAND flash solutions as one of the…
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Micro-promotions and mentorship: impact of small actions in engineering culture
Learn how to use micro-promotions, mentorship, and small gestures to strengthen your engineering team.
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Penny Auctions
Unless you use an ad blocker, you probably notice ads for penny auction sites from time to time. They usually advertise with sketchy messages like “iPhone sold for $14.21.” They can sell iPhones such low prices because of their unusual auction system where each bid increases the auction price by only one cent. This…