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Can we replace a $150k Looker with a bucket of HTML files?
(BI) Software is dead, apparently
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 8,982 posts.
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Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (2012)
Wouldn’t you like to live in a world where your monitoring systems only alerted when things were actually broken? And wouldn’t it be great if, in that world, your alerts would always fi…
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Cucumber maintainer has been laid off
Well, this is new. After ten years building a company around the Cucumber open source project, I suddenly find myself out of a job. I...
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What I’ve learned from sitting next to a pro salesman
(for audio version click here)
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Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing — Tiny Capital and Buffer
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Ship faster by building design systems slower (2023)
Successful design systems can and should move more slowly than the products they support—but a deliberate pace doesn’t have to create bottlenecks. Josh Clark shows how to reconcile the needs and speeds of product versus design system.
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If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire
I see that the chairman of another major private equity fund has graced us with his wisdom on investing. I’ll summarize it for you:
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Selling your company doesn’t make you happy
I started my first company eight years ago in 2004 and I’ve been through two acquisitions. The first company I sold was DropSend in 2008 and the second was Carsonified in 2011.
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Why Speed Matters
The one constant that I have observed in my professional life is that people underestimate the need to move fast. Of course, doing good work takes time. I once spent six months writing a URL parser. But the fact that it took so long is not a feature, it is not a positive, it is … Continue reading Why speed matters
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Deadlines as Technology
Confession: I’ve never felt like a very productive person. During the mobile app explosion, circa ~2009, I remember trying all kinds of different…
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My zero-equity co-founders
One of the unusual aspects of my online backup startup is that I'm a sole founder. Despite such commentary as Gabriel Weinberg's Will single founders please stand up? and Ray Grieselhuber's The Royal We: Single Founder Startups , single-founder startups are still unusual and carry with them some stigma — Paul Graham…
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The story behind the NeuralRad organ and tumor segmentation cloud service
Late last month, I received a message.
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Profits vs. Growth
One of the things I’ve always struggled with as an investor in high growth tech companies is the tension between getting profitable vs growing more quickly. It has become a central tenet of tech growth investing (in both the public and private markets) that growth is more valuable than profitability and you can always…
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Seeing like a spreadsheet
How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America
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Eventual Business Consistency
Executive Summary of Bi-temporality
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Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting
The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also
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Microsoft at Work
I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to apologize, but I do feel a little bad. Part of it is just that I've been busy, with work and travel and events. Part of it is that I've embarked on a couple of writing projects only to have them just Not Work Out. It…
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Pmarca: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to
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Aaron Swartz's Y Combinator Interview
Editorial note: This entry has more dialogue and so on than usual and I’m pretty uncertain about ordering and attribution, so don’t start changing your opinions of people on the basis of things I say they said.
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Greg Knauss's 10-year-old son's $23,800 bug bite
It’s just after midnight and I’m sitting in a hospital room in the pediatric unit next to my ten-year-old son. He’s asleep now, after a hard day of watching TV and playing games on the iPad and telling me to stop looking at him, geez .
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AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
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GeForce Now: A Review
In my writeup the other day about not getting a new computer (or, more accurately, about ordering one and then cancelling the order because of supply chain issues), I mentioned that in lieu of gett…