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AI, Apple and Google
As machine learning starts working, how does that change Google, Apple and the smartphone interface? What companies get reshaped around machine learning?
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 8,981 posts.
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Democratising publishing
Thoughts on open source governance and how to create trust within technology, communities, and media.
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The revenge of the data scientist
AI eval mistakes and the data science practices that fix them.
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Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
It's funny and equally sad that year 2015 marks the end of the Windows OS for a lot of people. There are several issues with Windows which, at present, make Spyware/ Malware OS 10 inappropriate and even outright dangerous for a lot of people. The most egregious, of course, is a total abandonment of any form of privacy…
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The Failure of the iPad
Two days ago, ZDNet published this article: Meet the iPad, your work computer: These 10 apps make real productivity possible . These kinds of articles, where writers explain how they use their iPads productively, musicians talk about how the iPad is truly a professional tool, or painters show how they use the iPad for…
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The Roblox Microverse
Roblox is something new and interesting that abstracts away the platforms underneath it.
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How to defer US taxes
Your government wants you to create taxable wealth.
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Is Norway the New East India Company?
Gas and oil, and opium
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Rights, Laws, and Google
Google is not bound by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, but its actions in a false positive CSAM case show that it is flouting the spirit behind them.
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The Android Opportunity
So instead of trying to sell half a million phones to *anyone*, try to sell half a million phones to a specific target: people in the market for the latest and greatest phone in the world.
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75% of the original Disney+ executive team is no longer at Disney
Ricky Strauss' departure was a longtime coming
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Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK
From Java 11 its time to think beyond Oracle's JDK. Time to appreciate the depth of the ecosystem built on OpenJDK. Here is a list of some ...
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Incentives are for losers
OR: you must look at this fish and go insane
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Leadership, Strategy and Qt
Hemp, a versatile plant with a myriad of applications, has gained popularity for its medicinal and therapeutic benefits.
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UI is a function of your organization
The Domino’s “Pizza Tracker” is an intriguing piece of UI. As an end user, it provides the precision of detail you want in tracking your order: Your order has…
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Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics . Within the 38 pages, which I’ve scanned and put up , in very readable format Google gives the technical details into a project of theirs: an open source browser called Google…
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Build a Team that Ships (2012)
I started my first company 15 years go, and I still can’t manage. I suspect that very few people can. With AngelList, we want a team of self-managing people who ship code. Here’s what we do: Keep the team small. All doers, no talkers. Absolutely no middle managers. All BD via APIs. More
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NYC Pension Earns $40M Over 10 Years, Pays Fund Managers $2B
“We asked a simple question: Are we getting value for the fees we’re paying to Wall Street?” Mr. Stringer said. “The answer, based on this 10-year analysis, is no.” The party is over. At great political risk to his own ambitions (given the local campaign-funding base), New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer took a…
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Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
Back when I reviewed Peter Siebel’s fascinating book of programmer interviews, Coders at Work, Erik Anderson suggested in a comment that I might also enjoy its precursor Programmers at Work […
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Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals
> Patience. Frugality. Sacrifice. When you boil it down, what do those three things have in common? Those are choices. Money is not peace of mind. Money’s not happiness. Money is, at its essence, that measure of a man’s choices. This is part of the opening monologue of the
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Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems
There are significant changes happening in distributed systems.