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The coming IP war over facts derived from books
Facts are friends not food
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,099 posts.
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Apple Watch momentum is building
In a few months, the number of people wearing an Apple Watch will surpass 100 million. While the tech press spent years infatuated with stationary smart speakers and the idea of voice-only interfaces, it was the Apple Watch and utility on the wrist that ushered in a new paradigm shift in computing.
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Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity
Bugs are a natural part of the app development process, when triaging a flood of bugs its important to understand priority versus severity.
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Bringing 4K and HDR to Anime at Netflix with Sol Levante
By Haruka Miyagawa & Kylee Peña
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Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack
Discover SEO strategies, AI search optimization tips, and digital marketing insights from RankScience. Boost your search rankings and grow your business.
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Things to know before starting a Patreon page
For the three years starting in April of 2017, I ran much of The Prepared’s (and ultimately my family’s) income through Patreon. I started doing so as an experiment - one that by any measure has been a success. But while Patreon was instrumental in that process, I recommend that creators not str
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To Understand Jio, You Need to Understand Reliance
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
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Is Y Combinator worth it?
Back in late 2016, I started Armory [Http://www.armory.io]in my garage (pictured above) with my two co-founders. We also applied to Y Combinator. I often…
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Hard work vs. Long work (2011)
Long work is what the lawyer who bills 14 hours a day filling in forms does. Hard work is what the insightful litigator does when she synthesizes four disparate ideas and comes up with an argument …
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Five Buck Fatigue
This is about a reaction I noticed with myself in response to membership programs, patreons and individual sponsorship as I've run into significantly more of these following Corona. The advertising-supported model has confirmed many of the concerns about its sustainability and creators are looking for more reliable…
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Safari is adopting an extensions API similar to Firefox’s WebExtensions
Safari is adopting a web-based API for browser extensions similar to Firefox’s WebExtensions API making it easy to build once and port to multiple browsers. Developers
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Monopoly Technology Platforms Are Colonizing Education
Perspectives is an opportunity for Fellows and others to share their ideas in short, accessible essays. IPE/BC Fellows hold a range of views and interests relative to public education.
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Choose Boring Technology
Analytics built for developers. Real user monitoring with page-load decomposition, Core Web Vitals, error tracking and conversion — cookie-free and without a tag manager.
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Technical Debt: Why it'll ruin your software
We think that Tech Debt is just lousy code written by reckless people. Here's a bigger picture view of what that really means in a Sustainable Software era.
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The Slack Social Network
Slack lost to Microsoft head-to-head, but has smartly shifted to a horizontal strategy that the vertically-oriented Microsoft can’t match.
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Old bills in Yemen are worth 10% more than new ones
I often write about odd monetary phenomena on this blog. Here's a new contender, Yemen's dual banknote system. Yemen uses the Yemeni ri...
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Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal
One bad privacy idea that won’t die is the so-called “data dividend,” which imagines a world where companies have to pay you in order to use your data.Sound too good to be true? It is. Let’s be clear: getting paid for your data—probably no more than a handful of dollars at most—isn’t going to fix...
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On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
Explaining the background of our choice on CMS platform and the response to a recent WordPress Tavern post
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The End of the Beginning
The beginning of technology was about the shift from batched computing in one place to continuous computing everywhere. That era of paradigm changes may be over, which means the real changes are on…
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Signaling as a Service
01 Intro One of the best books I have read in the last few years is The Elephant in the Brain by Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler. The book makes two main arguments: a) Most of our everyday actions can be traced back to some form of signaling or status seeking b) Our brains deliberately hi