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Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)
April 2008 Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there aren't more Googles is that most startups get bought before they can change the world.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,891 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
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Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
Why don’t tech companies pay engineers more to stay? The top companies for engineers are transparent and they pay attention to an engineer's salary. Ethena
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Red Hat announces no-cost RHEL for small production environments
Introducing new no-cost RHEL programs for small production deployments and enterprise development teams.
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Mozilla Moving Forward
Mozilla finds itself in the midst of an unexpected leadership transition. Along with my fellow board members Reid Hoffman and Katharina Borchert, I am plea
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A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees.
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Scale Ruins Everything
Your Startup Could Destroy Society
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No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
For the last two years I’ve had an O’Reilly subscription . Their offer is quite attractive with unlimited access to books not only by O’Reilly but also Manning and others. The catalog is just enourmous and covers pretty much every technical book around software engineering et al. that I might ever want to read. There…
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Managing difficult software engineers
Effectively managing difficult employees in a software engineering context hinges on three core principles: fostering trust by empowering autonomy, promoting growth through challenges and constructive feedback, and ensuring a comfortable work environment with streamlined processes and minimal disruptions.
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Java is still available at zero-cost
The Java ecosystem has always been built on a high quality $free (zero-cost) JDK available from Oracle, and previously Sun. This is as true...
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Why we choose Java instead of a polyglot stack
Java is HubSpot's language of choice. Read how it's helping the company scale its product, tech stack, and team.
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Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS
5 user limit per top-level group on GitLab SaaS Free tier
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What's The End Goal for Wealthfront and Betterment? (2016)
There are three ways to make money in the asset management space: Have a large amount of assets under management ( AUM ) and charge fairly modest fees (mutual funds) Have a relatively low amount of AUM and charge high fees (hedge funds, venture capital funds) Have a relatively low amount of AUM,
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College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
My son is a college baseball player. One of the singular aspects of having kids is that they open your eyes to facets of humanity that you might not have seen otherwise. I was not a college athlete (and knew little of even baseball until he got the bug at age seven), so I have learned much along the way. You — perhaps…
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Requests for Startups Refreshed
We’ve refreshed the Requests for Startups [http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/]. Here are the additions: Food and Farming An estimated 40% of the world’s workforce works in agriculture. Better food and farming could increase the world’s health, unlock the potential of numerous workers, and improve living conditions for…
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Research finds immune system responds to mRNA treatment for cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Adding messenger RNA, or mRNA therapy improves the response to cancer immunotherapy in patients who weren't responding to the treatment, Mayo Clinic research shows. Immunotherapy uses the body’s immune system to prevent, control and eliminate cancer. The study is published in Cancer Immunology…
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CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
Learn how teams using GitLab SaaS can build, test, and deploy on CircleCI.
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DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in shares of DraftKings, Inc. This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report.
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Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings
The unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings and what they tell us about the modern world
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Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
Actinide becomes the first startup to enrich natural uranium into HALEU, advancing a secure, scalable fuel supply for next-generation nuclear reactors.
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Cloudflare announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 financial results
Fourth quarter revenue totaled $193.6 million, representing an increase of 54% year-over-year; fiscal year 2021 revenue totaled $656.4 million, representing an increase of 52% year-over-year Record dollar-based net retention of 125%, representing an increase of 600 basis points year-over-year, driven by continued…
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Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API
Over the last 20 years the Wikimedia projects have grown into essential knowledge resources that are not just used by billions of people, but also by many commercial organizations that incorporate …
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Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1
Raspberry Pi RP2040 chips are now on sale, allowing you to build your own projects and products on Raspberry Silicon
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