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You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy
I recently read a story here titled “We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.”
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 383 posts.
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Comparing Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing
We're building something special. Stay tuned for the launch.
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Video Pros Moving from Mac to Windows for High-End GPUs
But as good as that juiced up Mac Pro Tower is today, I know at some point, the time will have to come to an end, simply because Apple hasn’t built a PCIe-based system in many years now. As my article described, the alternative Mac Pro trashcan is simply not a solution for our needs, imposing too many limitations…
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Uber Driver Tip-Hustling Schemes
Uber drivers increasingly resort to aggressive tactics for tips, leading to uncomfortable experiences for riders.
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Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident
The Practical Nomad: Edward Hasbrouck's blog
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The eigenvector of “Why we moved from language X to language Y”
I was reading yet another blog post titled "Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y> (I forgot which one) and I started wondering if you can generalize it a bit. Is it possible to generate a N * N contingency table of moving from language X to language Y?
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Maintaining an Independent Browser Is Expensive
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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LA Times and ads
The LA Times is a good newspaper and is currently doing the best political coverage in California. They are also the most aggressive ad shoveling website I have ever seen. Their ad blocker blocker …
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Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
Web developers the world over are always terminally worried about whether or not their application will scale orders of magnitude without keeling over.
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Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing
You might have used Google’s new AMP project without even knowing. It’s a technology that makes mobile page results load very quickly on Google, it
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YC Annual Letter 2017
Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress. Our mission is to enable the most...
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Everything I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Demoing SaaS
Everything you want to know about Medellin and Colombia
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Tesla Model S: the story of a very short happiness and excitement
As an IT professional, I always felt an eager for technology and lust for new gadgets and hi-tech toys. When first electrical vehicles appeared on the roads, it was not an exception. However, lack of charging stations and high cost coupled with a need to own some backup vehicle for road trips and…
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Things learned while running your own self-funded startup
Here's a brain dump of the things we've learned while running our business and shipping our first product ( Basis ). My experience at Valv...
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Firefox marketshare revisited
Why building a better browser doesn’t translate to a better marketshare I posted a couple weeks ago about Chrome effectively having won the browser wars. The market share observations in the blog p…
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Plain emails not only save time but work better (2016)
I used to dread setting up email automation and email campaigns. Why? Because before a single sales or marketing email could be sent, it needed a design. In my attempt to sidestep this time-consuming process, I learned that plain emails not only save time but work better. Why Design
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Greg
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like. I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make...
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Yes, but what does your startup do?
I recently signed up for a hackathon. Part of the deal these days is that sponsors get to send promotional messages to the attendees. Fair enough. The only problem is, most of these messages are rubbish! Here's the verbatim message I received - there were no links other than to Twitter. See if you can work out what…
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What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch podcast apps
The Apple Watch desperately needs standalone podcast playback, especially with the LTE-equipped Series 3, which was designed specifically for exercising without an iPhone.
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Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017
I'm awarded the Swedish Polhem Prize 2017. (Link to a Swedish-speaking site.) The Polhem Prize (Polhemspriset in Swedish), is awarded "for a high-level technological innovation or an ingenious solution to a technical problem." The Swedish innovation must be available and shown competitive on the open market. This…
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Considerations on Cost Disease
I. Tyler Cowen writes about cost disease. I’d previously heard the term used to refer only to a specific theory of why costs are increasing, involving labor becoming more efficient in some ar…
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Textbook manifesto (2016)
Allen Downey's textbook manifesto: students should read and understand textbooks, so why are so many textbooks written as if nobody expects them to?
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