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Quality and Effort (2018)
It seems as though the opposite of “careless” ought to be “careful.” That the best way to avoid avoidable errors is to try harder, to put more care into the work. This means…
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40% off Pragmatic Programmers books this week
In honor of this week’s Agile 2011 conference, our titles are on sale for 40% off both paperback and ebook formats. Use the coupon code AGILEWEEK , expires 8/12/11.
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Karl Rove's book vs. Rework - what the American People need to know
REWORK, our new book on starting, building, and growing — or not growing — a business was released one week ago today. The book is selling out around the country and rocketed to #3 on Amazon.com’s bestseller list. Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy and spread the word. But…
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Minimum Viable Finance: The Guide for Seed/Series A Startups
Causal has joined Lucanet to deliver Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) as part of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform. Make smarter planning decisions with unified real-time insights across financial and operational planning.
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Eight years of victory
The big story this year was last month's surprise acquisition of Pinboard's long-time nemesis Delicious. This illustrates the importance of always having a backup nemesis, an area where Pinboard leads the industry.
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Email: the easiest way to improve retention
Build amazing customer experiences on the Twilio platform with APIs for SMS, RCS, voice, and email, plus conversational AI for smarter engagement, and identity verification for trust.
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How to Build an Escrow Product
Escrow is a payment setup where the payer sends funds to a third party rather than directly to the payee. If certain conditions are met, the third party routes the funds to the recipient; if not, the funds get returned to the sender. Escrow is particularly useful for high value payments because the payer can rely on…
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Charles Stross YAPCA keynote: The world in 2034
This should be titled Keynote talk for YAPC::NA 2014 . What's up with the title?
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Listerine Royalties
With an iron-clad court ruling, Listerine royalties represent a uniquely enduring cash-flowing asset.
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Systems Thinking and Quality
Wise words from Russell Ackoff regarding systems thinking and quality improvement – and what we can learn from them
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OpenAI Team Update
We’d like to welcome the latest set of team members to OpenAI (and we’re still hiring!)
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Google Analytics Blog: What’s happening on your site right now?
The web is getting faster, and not just the speed of the pages, but also the speed of change. Before, it was fine to build a website and mod...
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Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Transcriptic for YC biotech startups
Reducing cost and cycle time as much as possible is one of the highest-leverage things anyone can do to help startups. A few years ago, we rolled out deals with Amazon, Heroku, Microsoft, and Rackspace to make web hosting available for free to the startups we fund. As we expand into new areas, we’ll put similar…
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Stop lying on stage
Entrepreneurs crave information about successful startups, and they should. Most of the received wisdom about business and entrepreneurship ...
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Google’s unfair performance advantage in Chrome
Google Chrome gives Google Search (when set as the default search engine) a network performance-boost over competing search engines.
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Analytics at GitHub
In the interest of getting back into writing, I want to break the seal with a simple “what have I been up to and thinking about lately” style post.…
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Startup Therapy: Questions to ask yourself every month
Therapists don't tell you what to do. Rather, they ask probing questions that get you to discover for yourself what is true for you, your situation, and what you want. Similarly, these ten questions will force you to make the important decisions about your business. Ask them of yourself every month instead of writing…
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HFT in my Backyard – IV
[Update, November 18, 2014: check episode 2 with the Latent answer to this post] There’s a thin grey line Between the black and white It’s evidently hard to find at night Depeche Mode, …
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US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade
Counterpoint Research Insight
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The decline of high-tech manufacturing in the United States
America's major high-tech manufacturing industries have not escaped the general decline in manufacturing employment.
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States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option
Low-cost micro-units, often called single-room occupancies, or SROs, were once a reliable form of housing for the United States’ poorest residents of, and newcomers to, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and many other major U.S. cities.