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Bill Gates on iTunes Store: another interesting memo
Link to: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/PDF/Gates/gatesmail15.pdf
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Rands in Repose Gives Dropbox Love
Cloud computing is yet another name for services that have existed for a really long time. Here's the 2008 IEEE Internet Computing quote regarding Cloud Computi
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Are You An Entrepreneur or a Wantrepreneur?
Compare the best sports betting sites Singapore bettors use on odds, bonuses, banking and payout speed, with the wagering terms and limitations explained.
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Rules for startups
My buddy Jason had a GREAT post about rules for startups. Read it, love it learn it.
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Feedback Army: website feedback for $7, inspired by HN post
Feedback Army is an incredibly useful little website where you pay $7 for feedback to a given website of yours, and then get back 10 comments. Feedback Army uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in the background. You enter the domain in question, say “example.com”, and then ask a bunch of question. Questions could be, “What…
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Stephen Fry on the iPhone, Bold, Storm, and G1
So here I am. In a hotel room in New York. The writing desk and its view of xth Avenue are all but obscured by:- 7 x Mini USB cables: 2 of them are the new Micro type that Blackberry has switched to for the Storm only, the rest are standard. 1 x Ethernet cable: […]
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Tarsnap public beta
Tarsnap's paranoia also extends to the client-server protocol. With most online backup services, you're lucky if they use SSL; I avoided using SSL because I wasn't satisfied with its security. Obtaining a fraudulent SSL certificate is too easy (read: possible) for an attacker, and relying on external certification…
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YC's summer update
We’re less than 2 weeks away from Demo Day and I feel like this funding cycle has whizzed by faster than any other. We have 22 startups this summer, bringing the total number we’ve funded to...
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Bootstrappers Beware
A lot of people are damn religious about bootrapping businesses. Especially nowadays when it’s so easy to start a software business– you just need a few hackers, Ruby on Rails, a cheap virtual server and you’re ready to roll, right?
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An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists
I first encountered venture capitalists (VCs) in 1987. Despite a bad start, I caught the start-up bug
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I'm Joining Craigslist in July (by Jeremy Zawodny)
I wasn't really looking for a new job a few months ago when I received an email from Eric Scheide (see Team Bios ), the CTO at craigslist . He mentioned that they were looking for someone with MySQL experience and asked if I knew anyone. This sort of thing happens all the time.
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If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform
I wouldn't invest in or develop an iPhone app because Apple could decide not to approve it, and if they don't approve it you can't sell it. You can't even give it away. You don't find out if you've been approved until the last step, after you've fully invested, so you could lose, totally, if Apple says no.
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Top 10 Reasons to Avoid the SimpleDB Hype
The personal home page of Ryan Park of San Francisco, California, USA.
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Yahoo loses key mysql developer
It seems that word has started to leak out, so I might as well remove any speculation or ambiguity. In the next few weeks, I'll walk the halls at Yahoo! as an employee one last time and turn in my purple badge. After 8.5 years of service and a better experience than I could have possibly imaged back in 1999, the time…
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TripIt is awesome
You know what I really like? TripIt.com. It’s amazingly simple. You take all those travel confirmation emails that you get from your travel agent, hotels, car rental agencies, etc, and you ju…
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Rees Re: OO
(Jonathan Rees had a really interesting response to Why Arc isn't Especially Object-Oriented , which he has allowed me to reproduce here.) Here is an a la carte menu of features or properties that are related to these terms; I have heard OO defined to be many different subsets of this list.
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1,000 True Fans
This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →
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Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering
Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out of typical low res…