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Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams
Small software teams are dramatically more cost efficient than large teams. Large teams don't even confer much calendar time advantage over small teams.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 374 posts.
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Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret
What snippets are and why the best Silicon Valley companies like Google, Facebook, Zynga, and Square use them to drive transparency and productivity.
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The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
For a large range of practically useful cases, MIT researchers find a way to increase the speed of one of the most important algorithms in the information sciences.
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Introducing BitTorrent Torque
Over a decade ago we introduced BitTorrent technology and BitTorrent clients, and the Internet was profoundly changed. This week we are aiming to revolutionize the web once again by integrating the power of BitTorrent with the most familiar experience on a computer: the browser. Today, we are proud to announce the…
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Windows 8 Pro Upgrade to cost $39.99
Get to know Windows 11, the Windows that brings you closer to what you love.News and features for people who use and are interested in Windows, including announcements from Microsoft and its partners.Guidance to help developers create products and se
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Getting Beaten By A Voting Bot In 50 Minutes
More apartments across the US and Canada than you can ever imagine!
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Transfer of Wikipedia sites from GoDaddy complete
After months of deliberation and a complicated transfer, the Wikimedia Foundation domain portfolio has been successfully transferred from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. The portfolio transfer was formally…
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Stripe updates policy: free refunds and chargebacks
Find Stripe fees and pricing information. Find our processing fees for credit cards, pricing models and pay-as-you-go fees for businesses.
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Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)
Today I announce the launch of HashiCorp. I am Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator and maintainer of Vagrant, and I am founding HashiCorp to drive Vagrant's development forward. Vagrant has become a trusted tool in the industry in the three years since its release, with users ranging from individuals to entire development…
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A fresh new Dropbox on the web
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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The Bozo Event Horizon
I’m on a Harvard mailing list for some folks interested in startups and innovation. A recent thread of discussion was around hiring, and in a posting to the group I talked about making sure that you did your hiring so that you avoided the bozo effect. I was asked by a number of people what I meant by that, which led…
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All or something (2009)
One of the most pervasive myths of startup life is that it has to be all consuming. That unless you can give your business all your thoughts and hours, you don’t deserve success. You are unworthy of the startup call. This myth neatly identifies those fit for mission: Young, without obligat…
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37signals invests in The Starter League
Today we’d like to announce that we’ve bought a stake in The Starter League. This is the only investment that 37signals has ever made in another company. What is The Starter League? The Starter League (formerly known as Code Academy) is a small school in Chicago that teaches Rai…
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