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This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
"The conversation I'm going to have with my parents now that I've turned down this job is more of a concern to me than turning down the job," he said.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,466 posts.
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Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal
Programming, creative coding, tutorials by Keith Peters
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This is Why I'll Never be an Adult
I have repeatedly discovered that it is important for me not to surpass my capacity for responsibility. Over the years, this capacity has g...
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Back Office Exposed: Bingo Card Creator
Jul 30, 2010 • Paul Singh If you spend just a few minutes on Hacker News, you’ll come across Patrick McKenzie in one way or another (I’m convinced that he must comment on every single HN post). He lives in Japan and recently left his cushy full-time job to focus on Bingo Card Creator — … Continue reading Back Office…
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How to Take a Walk
It was cool and mildly breezy around 8 PM today. So I went for a walk, and I noticed something. Though I passed a couple of hundred people, nobody else was…
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Organic Startup Ideas
April 2010 The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish someone would make for you? There are two types of startup ideas: those that grow organically out of your own life, and those that you decide, from afar, are going to be necessary to some class of users other than…
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"Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
A while ago, I came across a unique registration form built by Jeremy Keith for his audio sharing site, Huffduffer. Though it asked people the same questions fo...
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Think big with a gig: Our experimental fiber network
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Daring Fireball: The Kids Are All Right
Somehow I don’t think young Mr. Kaplan — a 13-year-old with an iPad app — sees the iPad as hurting his sense of wonder or entrepreneurism.
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How Do You Look When Merging Fails
There was a Simpsons episode, I can’t recall correctly, but I think Bart recorded Lisa when her heart broke and he watched it in slow motion to stop exactly at that point. I thought of this e…
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Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory
Today we are excited to announce a collection of high quality open source web fonts in the Google Font Directory , and the Google Font API ...
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Why I feel like a fraud
Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
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Unlocking and jailbreaking are now legally protected in the U.S.
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now...
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If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good.
By now, everyone is tired of hearing about the iPad, but the negative responses are so perfectly misguided that it would be wrong to waste t...
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Things I've learned at Google so far
Well I've been an employee at Google for about a month. So this seems like as good a place to reflect for a moment. The first thing that I'...
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Call phones from Gmail
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google
Are we really in control when making decisions? In his book, Dan Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us.