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At YC, we’re deeply interested in education because of its power to transform lives and societies and to maximize human potential. On a micro level, we believe technology can help reverse the trend in K-12 of spending more and more money to achieve the same learning outcomes. We believe tech can also create…
Cisco custom-built the so-called “Great Firewall of China,” also known as the “Golden Shield.” This system enables the Chinese government to conduct Internet surveillance and censorship against its citizens. As if that weren’t bad enough, company documents also revealed that, as part of its...
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Tariffs have been affecting numerous industries—including ours. This post explains the tariff impact on Puget Systems' pricing and our strategic approach.
[UPDATE: To all those who got here by clicking a link entitled “Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India”, that title has been retired as an unfortunate misfire on my pa…
After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I've decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm.com…
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As a product, the original iPhone exemplified Apple’s holistic approach to hardware and software that are designed for each other, yet, at the engineering level, the iPhone hardware and software teams were almost completely siloed, with only Jobs and a mere handful of his most trusted (and talented) senior executives…
Making things look nice can take a long time, either due to lack of resources or abundance of opinions. This could delay launches, frustrate people, and waste precious energy. Those are high costs for startups or companies hoping to move fast. Is it worth it? Long ago I got fed
Coding Tools Are Just One Front in AI’s Supply Chain Wars
First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.
It basically falls under the de minimis rule.
One of the most common misconceptions startups have about applying to Y Combinator is thinking that they are too early or too late. We have funded companies with only an idea; we’ve funded...
A model that helps people design effective teams for software development.
We posted a follow-up update on July 13, which you can read here: The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright As we discussed last week, on June 21 Red Hat announced that RHEL source code will only be available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. What is the status of security updates?Prior to Red Hat’s policy change, when RHEL…
Faire’s engineering team grew from five to over 100 engineers in three years. Throughout this growth, we were able to sustain our pace of engineering execution by adhering to four guiding principles.
The history of credit cards helps explain why Plaid is valuable to Visa, and how Visa can make it significantly better.
The Paint.NET web site runs ads designed to lead naïve users to download unrelated adware. This needs to stop
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
A Circle K, a family crime ring, and $400,000 worth of missing Playdates.
Chicago and Bally's have teamed up in an investment offering.
Here’s how Big Tech is trying to give itself immunity from government oversight through the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.
Today we're announcing that Mapillary has joined Facebook on the quest to improve maps everywhere and for everyone.
On February 27th 2016, an artificial intelligence named NCVSAI joined Numerai. His creator downloaded encrypted stock market data, trained…
Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: There was much comment about how expensive or difficult this would …
