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The Importance of Abandoning Crap
Curating the intersection of modern lifestyle and technical obsession. We are currently architecting our systems for the upcoming launch.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 320 posts.
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How to Ask for an Introduction
I don’t know a ton of important people. But as a founder of a venture-backed startup with some amazing investors and advisors, I do know a few.
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Gave up a day job Now what? - Income report #3
So here is my another monthly income report. At the beginning I would like to thank to all my loyal readers that are visiting my site (leave a comment on this post with a short HI if you want me to…
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Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap.
Once again, there’s been another story about how Google is having trouble retaining talent. Despite all Eric Schmidt’s attempts to tell folks that Google’s regretted attrition rate has not changed in seven years, this story just doesn’t want to seem to die. (And those stories about Google paying $3.5 million and $7…
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You Don't Need Math Skills To Be A Good Developer - What About A Great One
Why everyday CRUD work needs little math, but search, machine learning, cryptography and other interesting fields need plenty.
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Making A Living (Barely) On The iPhone App Store (aka The Numbers Post)
The App Store is a very hit-driven environment. A few apps sell a large amount of units, and the great majority sell next to nothing. That’s somewhat similar to the music industry, except that the audience for music is much larger, so both the big hits and the small players get more sales. We’ve drooled over the…
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How To Be Your Own Boss
The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. The 99% conference is aimed at creative professionals and is focused on Edison’s “99% perspiration.” And in the spirit of how to get your ideas to happen, they asked me to talk about entrepreneurship and the myriad […]
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The Clean Coder: The Craftsman 62, The Dark Path.
Fri, 17 Mar 2002, 14:00 "Hey Alphonse," Jerry called as I walked by, "let's do a bit of practice. I've got a kata I'd like to show you." ...
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Mark Cuban: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers
An article by John Doerr had a great quote from technology luminary Alan Kay that every entrepreneur needs to remember “ The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ”