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The Right Way to Lay People Off
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 913 posts.
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Shoes and software
Yesterday, during an interview with Andrew Warner at Mixergy, I spoke about my early work experience bagging groceries, selling shoes, pumping gas, etc. There’s nothing particularly unique about these jobs – they are common jobs. But they taught me some important lessons about people, h…
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App Engine: Multi-tenancy, High Performance Image Serving, Increased Quotas
Today marks the 1.3.6 release of App Engine for Java and Python. In this release we have made available several exciting new features, relax...
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Tips for Tech Leads
One of the unending sources of frustrations of being an experienced engineer in a company full of fresh graduates is having to deal with new...
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Google's getting B(l)ing
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Maybe Jason Calacanis isn't being totally honest about Mahalo?
Last Thursday, in response to Matt Cutts stating that he needed more than “arbitrary inurl searches” to sway him (which was in turn in response to a Hacker News submission about Mahalo and the plethora of keyword rich domains they were apparently building out) I wrote a post explaining in some detail how the latest…
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Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1% contribution to GNOME
(Warning: ill-advised rant ahead. Read the apology here.) In case you missed it: $SUBJECT is the percentage of contribution to the GNOME codebase. Thanks, Dave Neary. An upside of not working for…
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Google's AdSense Revenue Share
Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — A...
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IronRuby Manager Leaves Microsoft
Though Frank Sinatra says it best , “I’m leaving today” isn’t exactly accurate; my last day as a Microsoft employee was July 23rd, 2010. This post is almost two weeks delayed as Felicia and I have been on the road since the 26th, driving cross-country to the east coast; we also decided to leave Seattle in favor of New…
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Introducing Nexus S with Gingerbread
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant
People are shocked when they hear I've been able to pull off the use of virtual assistants in startups, and excited at the thought that they might be able to do the same. The conversation almost always turns to questions about where to find virtual assistants and how a startup can use one.
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Paul Buchheit: Tablet thoughts
I don't know anything about Apple's tablet, and I generally don't pay much attention to the speculation about their unannounced products. Ho...
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Restaurant Menu Pricing
Restaurants are great test labs for testing neuromarketing techniques. It's easy to change offerings, menus, and pricing, and one gets immediate feedback on what's working and what's not. Today, many eateries are employing sophisticated menu psychology to maximize sales and profits.
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Steve Jobs’ Response
He’s not impossible to get ahold of, he reads his e-mail and every so often, he gives a response. And the "Telegraph" has assembled some of his choice retorts.But I’m only g…
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The Shirky Principle
[Translations: Japanese] “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds me of the clarity of the Peter Principle, which says that a person in … Continue reading →
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