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Thank You for 20 Years of Discogs
Discogs Digs is the place to start your journey of music discovery. Explore recommendations, unique stories, guides, and more.
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Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments
Online health information is terrible. How can we fix it?
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Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
Today, we are excited to announce a new chapter in our partnership with Google: a multiyear agreement that represents a first-of-its-kind option in payment choice and offers opportunities for both consumers and developers. Users who’ve downloaded Spotify from the Google Play Store will be presented with a choice to…
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The best Parts of Visual Studio Code are proprietary
I've been very surprised and delighted over a number of years now by Microsoft's strong efforts in open source. I understand the skeptics, I was on Slashdot when they tried to sue Linux out of existence and I think only time will tell. I figure MS contributing is better than them hunting Linux distributions for sport…
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We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations
Starting in 2020, we at Pushbullet began receiving more and more Play Store policy violation notifications from Google. At first the violation notifications seemed plausible, if a bit abrasive. At this point though, I’m pretty sure we’re being picked on by an AI. We’ll see what you think after you hear our story.
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Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
A framework to make your pitch 10x more compelling in a few minutes
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Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
Poking around in Android the other day I found this nugget in Carrier Config manager ; a flag (KEY_INFLATE_SIGNAL_STRENGTH_BOOL) to always report the signal strength to the user as one bar higher than it really is.
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What I Learned Selling a Software Business
Some lessons learned in selling a bootstrapped software business. Relevant to buyers or sellers.
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Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI [video]
Jeff Dean is a Google Senior Fellow in the Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain project. He spoke to the YC AI [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/yc-ai/] group this summer. Here are his slides:
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ChatGPT Health
ChatGPT Health is a dedicated experience that securely connects your health data and apps, with privacy protections and a physician-informed design.
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Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
I spend a lot of time negotiating this in the software world: And if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because: 1. people aren't talking to people 2. people aren't listening So lots of designers and product people have leapt onto 1, basically trying to
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How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
A caller phones Radio Erywan. “Is it true that in Moscow, on Red Square, they give out cars?” “True. Not in Moscow, however, but in St. Petersburg. Not on Red Square, but on Revolution Square. Not cars, but bikes. And they don’t give them out, but steal them”. Edit: Through the apparent magic of Hacker News, my Google…
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Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Sony Finally Admits It Doesn’t Own Bach
Here’s the thing about different people playing the same piece of music: sometimes, they’re going to sound similar. And when music is by a composer who died 268 years ago, putting his music in the public domain, a bunch of people might record it and some of them might put it online. In this...
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Yahoo's Fight for its Users Earns the Company Special Recognition by EFF
Each year, EFF’s Who Has Your Back campaign assesses the policies and practices of major Internet companies as a way to encourage and incentivize those companies to take a stand for their users in the face of government demands for data. Normally, when a company demonstrates it has a policy or...
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Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
Apple’s accidental moat
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Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs
You know nothing John Snow
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You might not need machine learning
Machine learning is a trendy topic, so naturally it’s often used for inappropriate purposes where a simpler, more efficient, and more reliable solution suffices. The other day I saw an illustrative and fun example of this: Neural Network Cars and Genetic Algorithms . The video demonstrates 2D cars driven by a neural…
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Google signs agreement with HTC
Creating beautiful hardware products that people rely on every single day is a journey, and we are investing for the long run.
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Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
100% cotton paper. 100% crazy.