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Stripe and Coinbase apparently can't find my Bitcoin
Update2: Stripe sent an update and it sounds like Coinbase will credit the BTC to my Coinbase account soon:
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Why software sucks?
[First published: September, 2005] No one makes bad software on purpose. No programmer has ever sat down, planning out weeks of work, with the intention of frustrating people enough to make them cr…
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How Quora Onboards New Users
Ask around about the best onboarding experiences out there, and Quora's flow is likely to come up. That's for good reason - it's brief, it's effective, and it's even kind of fun!
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The Birth of Legacy Software – How Change Aversion Feeds on Itself
Here’s a common pattern that I see play out very often in software teams: There is a need to change the existing system behavior to accomplish new functionality. The software engineer l…
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The Economics of a Kickstarter Project
or How Much I Didn’t Make
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Airbus A320 Fly by wire corrupted by radiation in flight
Aviation insiders say an airworthiness directive may soon require software updates across the Airbus A320 fleet after investigators linked a JetBlue incident—where the aircraft entered a sudden uncommanded descent—to a faulty ELAC computer. Any grounding is expected to be short and staggered, with airlines updating…
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The truth about being a manager
I vividly remember most of my own journey into engineering management over the years. Throughout my career, I’ve also mentored several people taking the step from engineer to engineering manager. It’s a challenging and often lonely journey, and here are a few truths most new managers realize the hard way. (If you…
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The Cambrian Period of AI
I’ve noticed that AI twitter is talking a lot about evolution lately, and for good reason. Comparing AI development to an evolutionary system lets
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Open-Source Contributors Worth Sponsoring
A curated list of underappreciated open-source creators worth sponsoring on GitHub — maintainers whose libraries quietly power the JavaScript ecosystem.
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'Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe Meets the Koch Brothers
If you haven't seen it, my name appeared a few weeks ago in a headline next to Koch Industries
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Daring Fireball: iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations
Notes from today’s WWDC keynote.
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How I doubled the price of my software product and sold ten times as many copies
A bootstrapped developer doubled his software price from $9.99 to $19.99 and saw sales increase tenfold — proving that customers still equate cost with quality.
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The economics of software correctness
You have probably never written a significant piece of correct software. Neither have I. Here's why that's not quite as bad as it sounds.
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Learning from competition
I experimented with custom fonts in Instapaper last year, but my efforts fizzled out. Before iOS 5, rendering custom fonts in a UIWebView on iOS was extremely buggy and slow. And nearly all of my licensing inquiries to font foundries went unanswered, so I couldn’t legally ship any of the fonts I wanted even if I could…
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Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies
It is tempting — and useful — to look at Apple and Amazon’s deal in a bilateral context. It probably makes more sense, though, in the context of Netflix and the future of video.
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Founding is a snowball
It can happen to anyone.
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Leaked Chats Show Lapsus$ Stole T-Mobile Source Code
KrebsOnSecurity recently reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the LAPSUS$ cybercrime group in the week leading up to the arrest of its most active members last month. The logs show LAPSUS$ breached T-Mobile multiple times in March, stealing source code for a range of company projects…
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The recent Bank of Japan meeting and its implications for markets
Listen now | The Bank of Japan sudden change of heart has important global implications
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