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New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker
A recent U.S. college degree long meant lower unemployment than the average worker. That edge flipped in 2019, and the gap is now the widest on record.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,891 posts.
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Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy
[DISCLOSURE: As always when I write about Amazon, I'll note I worked there from 1997-2004 and that I still own some shares in the company. I still have many friends who work there, though I have no more idea what Amazon is working on now than any of you in the public.] With every quarterl
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The least impactful way to spend $300M?
Buying status is as close to bad as a good act can be.
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Read This Before You Build Uber for X
Sam is a cofounder of PocketSuite (YC W16). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We still hear it all the time: “I’m building the Uber for X.” That idea – an app that lets consumers get a specific service when they need it, while giving service professionals (“pros”)…
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Docker Enterprise Edition
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Google Search is only 18% Search
Google Search is only 18% Search - Monday, 03 September 2012 - Alex's blog
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Country Time Lemonade Will Pay Legal Fees for Unlicensed Lemonade Stands
Are you thinking of helping your kid setting up a lemonade stand this summer? Apparently, some young entrepreneurs are getting shut down due to a lack of small business permits. In a very savvy PR move, Country Time Lemonade has offered to reimburse any permit fees or fines (up to $300) that are incurred while…
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Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet
Manu Cornet's personal website.
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The True Cost of Commuting
It was a beautiful evening in my neighborhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Stree…
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Apple's Pro Display XDR takes Thunderbolt 3 to its limit
I like Thunderbolt a lot. Mostly because USB's land of optional features is a mess which makes choosing a cable/peripheral difficult. With thunderbolt you have a single number to get right. And then you are supposed to be golden. However the idyll with Intel's interface took a hit when I tried to make sense of Apple's…
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Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us
Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
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The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
Alex Danco's Newsletter, Season 3, Episode 2
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Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen
Facebook is testing radically different Explore Feed in six countries than in the rest of the world.
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Stock options are complicated
Most employees at startups get some of their pay in stock options. This is often framed to the employee as “you get x percentage of equity in the company.” Unfortunately, stock options are a lot more complex than true equity.
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Let a thousand flowers bloom, then rip 999 of them out
For the past eleven months I’ve been the tech lead for Twitter’s Engineering Effectiveness group. Engineering Effectiveness is our name for what elsewhere might be called Developer Tools, Developer Productivity, Engineering Infrastructure, or Developer Efficiency. We provide the tools and processes that allow the rest…
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On Corpspeak
Syncing Up, Circling Back, Learnings and Asks, Oh My
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Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core
About 3 months ago, we set off on a little experiment into the world of the Amazon App Store. Back then people were hailing it as the solution to the problems with the Google Market, industry pundi…
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Funding GIMP developers for sustainable development
GIMP is developed by its community - support the humans behind
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Pay attention to deviations from mainstream incentives
The second part of a three part piece on incentives. It turns out that if you've grokked the primary incentives of an industry, you can do one other thing: identify aberrations, and use that as a guide to dig further.
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Dear Al-Jazeera: thank you for doing the right thing
Our AI transforms your ideas into immersive, interactive stories in just a few clicks — built to drive 17x more engagement than static pages.
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