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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What's Next
On his 65th birthday, Stephen Wolfram details how his 'now or never' thinking has made the last five years some of his most productive. Read about his projects in tech and science.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,895 posts.
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Move fast or die: Key startup lessons
Lessons from Facebook, Dropbox, and SPC on the singular importance of speed.
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Cars and second order consequences
Electric and autonomy are rolling through the car industry, changing everything about it. But though they transform gasoline and car accidents, they could change a lot more besides - everything from cigarettes to parking. It's the second-order consequences that are hardest to see, but most interesti
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The Claude Code Framework Wars
How developers are experimenting with structure, orchestration, and standards to get more out of AI coding.
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Things to Love About Reddit’s First Transparency Report
Here’s something that merits a lot of reddit gold. On Thursday, reddit published its first-ever transparency report covering all of 2014. It’s a summary of all the legal requests to take down content from the site as well as all government attempts to access reddit’s user data. Lots of companies...
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The Penguin Random House trial
The Penguin Random House trial is ripping the lid off publishing
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Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
You may know us from such popular websites as Stack Overflow Q&A, Stack Overflow Careers, The Stack Exchange Q&A Network, and most of your Google search results.
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Ultra high-speed broadband is coming to Kansas City, Kansas
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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The FDA's perpetual process machine
Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millions and billions; science; technology; economic development; long-term growth; code as language.
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NYC taxi meter and options pricing
An experiment analyzing the NYC taxi dataset through the eyes of an options trader.
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How we scaled Google Meet during Covid-19
Learn how Google Cloud ramped up to handle high demand for Google Meet in light of COVID-19
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How to sell your software for $20,000
I guess you can either sell $20 software to 10,000 people a year, or $20,000 software to one business a year that buys 10 seats, and either ...
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The Tyranny of ‘The Plan' (2013)
A long, close reading of Poppendieck's talk on how plans quietly become the thing we manage instead of the outcome, from the Empire State Building up.
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TinyPilot: Month 11
How do I increase TinyPilot’s profit margins?
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The evolution of expert communities
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
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Dash for iOS: Back on the App Store
Great news! Dash for iOS is back on the App Store and completely free. Download the mobile documentation browser again.
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Closing The Portal App
Portal was a passion project that we built to experiment with other ways of moving data between phones and computers. We built the slickest app we could and have continued to support the app, site and server for over 6 years now.
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Techmeme vs Hacker News
My two favorite tech news aggregators are Techmeme and Hacker News. I visit both multiple times per day for a quick scan of what is going on in techland. They are very different and you can see that in action this morning. Here is the above the fold Techmeme right now (9am eastern): We might […]
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Amazon Maps API
Amazon Developer Portal has the tools and guides for building apps and experiences for Amazon-supported devices and services
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The First Hedge Fund
How A. W. Jones improvised his way to an investment style and structure that has persisted till today.