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A Timeline of the OpenAI Board
Yesterday, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were fired from the Board of Directors of OpenAI.
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Are we at Peak Google?
Despite the hype about disruption, the truth is most tech giants, particularly platform providers, are not so much displaced as they are eclipsed. IBM, for example, has been successfully selling an…
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How and why we acquired our .com domain
The story of acquiring and migrating from supertokens.io to supertokens.com
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Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch
As we near the end of this decade, and more importantly the end of the hell that was 2020, I realised two things. First, I survived catching Covid-19, and secondly that I had a good story about the…
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R Passes SAS in Scholarly Use
Relative market share of R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Spark, H2O, and other data science tools
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Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI
Salesforces has entered a phase of public reckoning after senior executives publicly admitted that the company overestimated AI’s readiness
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Why Trello Failed to Build a $1B Business
Trello was so focused on building its free customer base first and monetizing later that by the time it looked to its paid subscribers, it was too late.
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So you want to be a consultant?
Or: Why work 8 hours/day for someone else when you can work 16 hours/day for yourself?
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Startup Anti-Patterns
An anti-pattern is a commonly used process, structure, or pattern of action that, despite initially appearing to be an appropriate and effective response to a problem, has more bad consequences than good ones.Simeon Simeonov first wrote an introduction to the value of startup anti-patterns back in 2013. To sum it up…
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What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper
Before today, I knew that a reading-list feature similar to Instapaper’s core bookmark-saving purpose was being added to Safari in Lion, and wrote a big blog post about its potential impact on Instapaper.
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PayPal closes account of UK's Free Speech Union without explanation
I interviewed Toby Young about this ironic and shocking case of censorship.
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Jonathan Coulton strikes back by re-releasing his own song
This went up in the iTunes store a lot faster than I expected (nice work there Tunecore), and some of you have already found it:
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Solve Less General Problems
Two decades ago when I first started working at Avid, one of the tasks I was assigned was porting our product (a consumer video editor - th...
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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals
Graphics for Professionals
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Mahalo's disappearing noindex tags
Last week at SMX West, during the Ask The Search Engines panel, moderator Danny Sullivan asked Matt Cutts why he didn’t ban Mahalo.com for spamming Google. Matt stated that he had talked to Jason Calacanis, Mahalo.com CEO, about the issues, and warned him that Google might “take action” if Jason didn’t make some…
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Paulo Coelho advertises on Pirate Bay front page
The Pirate Bay starts today a new and interesting system to promote arts Do you have a band? Are you an aspiring movie producer? A comedian? A cartoon artist? They will replace the front page logo with a link to your work. As soon as I learned about it, I decided to participate. Several of…
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The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps
The Apple Vision Pro is missing some important apps, and it seems likely that Apple’s App Store policies played a part. Might the company respond by doubling down with Disney?
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The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth
Three points motivated me to write this — forming a Bermuda Triangle in which the average American’s savings disappear without any apparent cause. 1. Considerations on Cost Disease — the observation that certain costs (Education, Medical Care, Housing) have increased many times fas
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Three Observations
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity. Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to...
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The physical Apple Card is a case of form over function
Apple Card is not just the physical card you get in the mail when you sign up for an Apple Card. There are a lot of upsides to what Apple's doing with Apple Card and Apple Pay. I get it. And I also believe the physical titanium Apple Card is a marvel of engineering. Kudos to the metallurgists and designers who…
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Reasons to fight cashless contagion
Total payments uberfication is a virus, and we need to build resistance to it
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The 2020 MacBook Air
Faster, cheaper, and now with a truly great keyboard.