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Tech Industry & Business

The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 457 posts.

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How did we geeks become experts on macroeconomics?

There are certain topics that are certain to incite the internet. Emacs vs vi. Programming language holy wars. When it comes to programming geeks, though, I’ve got one that will get them to break out the flamethrowers . All you have to do is bring up topics like fiat currency, the gold standard, money creation, the…

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YC Terms are Poor

I love Y Combinator. They are scrappy, innovative, entrepreneur-friendly, and created a model that VCs originally laughed at but are now copying. I love Paul Graham’s essays and I like him pe…

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Conferences

Last week my friend Mark Pincus noted, via twitter, that I was not at the D conference and wondered if I knew something others did not. I replied back to Mark that I'm not a big fan of attending conferences. I don't go to TED and never have and don't think I ever will. I […]