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The Economics of Building Knowledge Bases
During the summers of my high school years in suburban Georgia, my friend and I would fill the time by randomly walking into local establishments asking for odd jobs. It was a great way as a studen…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,099 posts.
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TSMC Builds a Dedicated 28nm Fab for Sony Orders
IFNews reports that TSMC will build a OEM production line exclusively for Sony to produce high-end CIS in 28nm process at the Nanke 14B fab...
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Why business is so difficult and unpredictable
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Limitations and pitfalls of the job interview
Better hiring leads to better work environments, less turnover, and more innovation and productivity. When you understand the limitations and pitfalls of the job interview, you improve your chances of hiring the best possible person for your needs.
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Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build the Post-Pandemic World
It all started as a curiosity in 2015. Now, the whole world is looking into universal basic income to stimulate the economy. The timing of Finland’s basic income experiment results could not have been better. But what can we learn from it when reimagining the post-pandemic economy and society? It...
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Charge more for app subscriptions
The conventional wisdom for app subscriptions is to price affordably, like $1.99/month, and hopefully attract lots of subscribers at a low price. Then by having low pricing, fewer will reject the idea of subscriptions, and you’ll make up the difference with volume. But this is the wrong
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Changes to Fusion 360 for Personal Use
A comprehensive guide to Fusion for personal use changes — what's changing and what is remaining the same.
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Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately
The solution to one of our most challenging privacy issues of today could have the simplest answer.
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The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy
If you’re lurking on HackerNews, or are interesting in entrepreneurship, you might occasionally bump into something like this Starbucks coffee is $2.45 + taxes. $100/mo is less than a cup of coffee a day. And it’s very tempting — and somehow logical — to consider how much money we might spend without thinking too much…
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I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t exist
In this blog post, I would like to show you a practical example of a “fake it till you make it” approach to product development. To my mind, it basically means that you are trying to stay a few steps ahead of your current situation. You are “faking” the idea that you have progressed more, but you actually haven’t…
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An Email got us $5k in AWS Credits
The story of our company's most valuable email.
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The Law of Conservation of Complexity
"Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?" Larry Tesler's original law regarding complexity in software applications, and links to articles and pap
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A Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft
Organizations in the throes of cleaning up after a ransomware outbreak typically will change passwords for all user accounts that have access to any email systems, servers and desktop workstations within their network. But all too often, ransomware victims fail to grasp that the crooks behind these attacks can and…
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Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale
As a "fully remote work" company, we had to make some choices about the technologies we use to work together and stay in touch. We decided...
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What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?
Credit card users today can transact online with peace of mind because card-accepting merchants are subject to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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In Defense of Bad Ideas
This past Friday was my last day working in Mojave.
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D2iQ (formerly Mesosphere) sunsetting DC/OS and focusing on Kubernetes
Tips from experts, thoughts from leaders, news from the front line. Join the conversation beyond hyperconverged infrastructure to the enterprise cloud.
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The Three Sides of Risk
I grew up ski racing in Lake Tahoe.
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Common Problems in Financial Services Reconciliation
Common problems in financial recon, for fintechs, particularly those building deposit products and managing their own ledger.
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How early American inventors funded their ventures
From Colt's traveling show to the Wrights' bicycle shop
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How might the coronavirus change our world?
The doors 2019-nCoV will open, and the doors it will close.
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The Most Counterintuitive Recession Ever
All the weird outcomes from the most counterintuitive recession in history.
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Unremarkables
There has never been a better time to be remarkable, nor a worse time to be unremarkable.
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India Surpassed the USA to Become the 2nd Largest Smartphone Market in the World
Counterpoint Research Insight
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State of Independent SaaS
The State of Independent SaaS is our annual survey and benchmark report covering the insights you need to know in the Bootstrapped SaaS sector. Get data to help you make decisions about how to build and grow a successful software business.
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Blameless post-mortems and a just culture (2012)
Last week, Owen Thomas wrote a flattering article over at Business Insider on how we handle errors and mistakes at Etsy. I thought...
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Emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of poorest 50%
The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth.