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Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners, Recorded Chats
Voice Chats first appeared in December, adding a new dimension of live talk to Telegram groups. Starting today, they become available in channels too – and there are no more limits on the number of participants. This update also brings recordable voice chats, rich lists of participants, raise hand mechanics, invite…
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Hire talent, not five years with Java
Too often we see job requirements for development positions with a long series of bullet points: General Tech X everyone has heard about, 5 years Specific Tech Y that came out last year, 3 years Sp…
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Index Investing Makes Markets and Economies More Efficient (2016)
U.S. equity index funds have grown dramatically in recent decades, from a negligible $500MM in assets in the early 1980s to a staggering $4T today. The consensus view in the investment community is that this growth is unsustainable. Indexing, after all, is a form of free-riding, and a market can only support so many…
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What Happened to Treehouse?
In September 2021, online coding school Treehouse laid off close to 90% of its staff without severance pay.
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How can we know if paid search advertising works?
Addressing causal problems on major eBay and Facebook
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Microfinance Is Mostly a Scam (2015)
I might be well behind others on this subject, but I’m trying to catch up. I just finished a book entitled Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: how microfinance lost its way and betrayed th…
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GitHub monoculture
I continue to notice an unsettling trend: the rise of the GitHub monoculture. More and more, people seem to believe that GitHub is the center of the programming universe.
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Google Cloud files complaint due to Microsoft's anti-competitive licensing
Google Cloud has filed a complaint with the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s anti-competitive licensing practices, which restrict customer choice, stifle innovation, and harm European businesses.
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Fire the workaholics (2008)
Jason Calacanis wants you to save money for your startup, so he has come up with 17 tips on how. The intention is good. Working lean is great and means you probably won’t need outside money. And there’s some good stuff, like don’t buy Microsoft Office and skip the phone system. Bu…
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An eBook pricing model that resulted in $100,000 in sales
How you price a product can have a radical impact on the revenue you make from it. My search for the perfect pricing model resulted in an additional $50,000 (a 170% increase) in revenue. Here's how.
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Interesting Tech Markets for 2019
Every year I take a step back and ask if there are common themes in technology.
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”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls”
Back in June I wrote about the China branded OEMs as the last big ‘swing vote bloc’ in the handset market. These vendors which contribute so much to global handset volumes have not fully voted on w…
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Firefox 49 fixes sites designed with WebKit in mind, and more
Several recent articles on the Hacks blog explain why web developers should care about cross-browser compatibility and how great web developers achieve it. Web developers have a critical role in ...
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Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)
Over the course of my tech career thus far, I’ve been through two acquisitions. In each case, I was just a normal employee without any special inside knowledge, and found out only a few days before the deals were publicly announced. In retrospect, however, there were some clear signs in the weeks leading up to the…
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Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work
Lessons on maintaining a hobby Android app
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Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open
Update: Virgin fixed the issue Tuesday night after taking their login page down for four hours. Please see my update at the bottom of this post.
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Job mismatch and early career success
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000
Big hat tip to my friend Jon Newton at p2pnet.net for uncovering these documents. The RIAA's "business plan" is even worse than I'd guess...
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Uses and abuses of cloud data warehouses
Data Warehouses are great for many things but often misused for operational workloads.
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The Future of Payments and Open Source Support
Some thoughts about various payment systems on the internet and how viable they are for open source project support.