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What happened to innovation?
There’s a lot of debate about whether or not the pace of innovation has slowed, and if so, what that means. After some particularly brutal pitches that felt like Saturday Night Live parodies of...
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Technology predictions
Some of these are probably apocryphal, but making predictions about the limits of technology is really hard: Space travel is utter bilge. - Dr. Richard van der Reit Wooley, space advisor to...
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How to beat Apple
In the near term, companies making iPhone and iPad competitors are never going to beat Apple at their own game. Apple has supply chain advantages, a massive num
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The Internet and the Third Estate
Mark Zuckerberg suggested that social media is a “Fifth Estate”; in fact, social media is a means by which the Third Estate — commoners — can seize political power. Here history matters…
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Tips for Noogler Engineers (Noogler = New at Google)
I'm surprised by the number of people inside Google who actually read my blog. I once did contemplate writing a "career guide for Googlers",...
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Twitter cuts off “find friends” access to Tumblr
As with Instagram, the change does not seem to have affected sharing outwards, but will impede users’ ability to follow friends that they may know from Twitter. This is part of Twitter turning the screws on sharing information about the users of its network out to other services like Instagram (and by extension…
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Money Stuff is Linear-ish
What was once a pre-market morning newsletter became an afternoon newsletter, 12 seconds at a time
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Talk like a systems engineer: Yaks all the way down
Professional niches have – time immemorial – built their own special dialects and languages, sometimes using this as an…
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Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Increase Ticket Prices
When Delta started testing 'Basic Economy' fares in 2012 the idea was to compete with the ultra low cost carriers -- they already had to match price, so they wanted to be able to offer a product that was closer to the limited service Spirit provided, in hopes that customers would buy up to more expensive fares for…
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Nvidia – significant increases in parental benefits for employees
Yesterday all of us who work for NVIDIA got an email from our flamboyant CEO Jensen Huang. With some really quite startling positive changes to employee benefits for maternity and parental leave af…
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It's Time to Nationalize and Then Break Up Boeing
If America wants to make civilian airplanes here, the government must step in, take over Boeing, and then design a competitive industry.
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An Honest Review of Gatsby
I write about software, building companies, and whatever else I'm obsessed with.
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HBO No Go
I put the awesome HBO GO app on the family's iPad yesterday and tried to Airplay into our family room TV. I got audio on the TV but not video. I thought I was doing something wrong. So I rebooted everything and tried again. Same thing. So I did a web search on the topic […]
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Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
Here's a small thought experiment that explores an alternative approach to ranking posts on HackerNews.