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Daring Fireball: Android Opportunity Addenda
Follow-up points and observations regarding ‘The Android Opportunity’.
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The Value of the Y Combinator Experience
I'm often asked about my Y Combinator experience so I thought I would take the time to blog about it.
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What MySQL Founder Michael Widenius said about Oracle acquiring Sun
Tonight at 4:30 AM, USA Pacific time, my phone started to ring; it was a call from a Sun employee saying that Oracle has bought Sun and he w...
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Gruber's WWDC 2009 Predictions
What I know, don’t know, and know I don’t know about tomorrow’s WWDC announcements. As usual, please, no wagering.
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Google Website Optimizer Case Study: Daily Burn, 20%+ Improvement
This post will show exactly how one start-up improved their homepage conversion rate (visitor to sign-up flow) more than 20%, then 16% again, with a few simple changes and Google Website Optimizer. Once reading this, you will know more about split-testing than 90%+ of the consultants who get paid to do it… There are a…
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Morality, Compassion and the Sociopath
Again, the response to the Gervais Principle II seems to require a response to key themes that have emerged. There are several that I am going to touch upon in…
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Dave Shen: What I've Learned in Angel Investing
Paul Graham of YCombinator ran a great afternoon conference called Angelconf where he brought together a great afternoon of Silicon Valley angels to talk about how to become an angel. He then wrote a great blog post about it . I managed to watch a lot of it, although I was in NYC at the time and it was tough to watch…
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Call to action: Deceptive marketing of Safari 4
@burnout426 I was one of the complainers. But my complaints were limited and refered only Opera tools panels (sidebar setup, Bookmarks/History panel). I'm still confident that mentioned panels should be locked at 100% zoom because they directly refer to the UI (which is not zoomable in Opera). So sidebar setup have…
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Hardware is Expensive, Programmers are Cheap
In response to Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive at Coding Horror: The million-dollar question: What’s wrong with this picture?...
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How My Startup Failed
Share a story that could only come from you. A spiritual experience, unexplained mystery, or an unlikely series of coincidences.
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What Does $14 Million Worth of PageRank Look Like?
CircuitCity.com is back after Systemax purchased the brand and domain at bankruptcy auction for $14 million. Systemax also owns TigerDirect.com and acquired CompUSA last year. CircuitCity.com was quickly relaunched last week to capitalize on the remaining brand strength and traffic to the website.
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Daring Fireball: Copying the Wrong Thing
The key ingredient I see in successful apps, Mac or web — and, really, in creative commercial endeavors of any kind — is that the creators are building something they themselves love.
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Your People
In your career as a geek, there's a list of essential career intangibles. These are the things you need to do in order to be successful, which are also maddenin
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From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks
After holding off for nearly two years, I’m posting this because too many people have asked for it. The lasses should read it, too, as the same principles can be applied to bodyfat loss. I weighed 152 lbs. for four years of high school, and after training in tango in Buenos Aires in 2005, that […]
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Personal Webpage Responsibility Acknowledgement
This article outlines the responsibilities of users, including employees, students, and faculty, who create and maintain personal webpages to ensure that the content is appropriate, accurate, and accessible to all users.
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Subdomains and subdirectories
Towards the tail end of PubCon, I noticed a spate of articles talking about subdomains and subdirectories in Google, and I wanted to talk more about this subject in case I was unclear. Historically…