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We’re not going to have a jobless recovery. We’re going to have a jobless future
UPDATE: This is now the topic of my South by Southwest proposal. Please go vote for and comment on it here. We're not going to have a jobless recovery....
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 594 posts.
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Why Startup Hubs Work
October 2011 If you look at a list of US cities sorted by population, the number of successful startups per capita varies by orders of magnitude. Somehow it's as if most places were sprayed with startupicide. I wondered about this for years. I could see the average town was like a roach motel for startup ambitions…
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Skype 5 for Mac
A while back, when Skype's group videochat feature was still free, a friend of mine sent me a Skype message, asking me whether it was possible to do videochat with more than one person in Skype. "Sure," I replied, "you can do that, but you need to install the new Skype 5 beta." I sent her the link. A few minutes…
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Success, and Farming vs. Mining
Let’s come up with an analogy and then torture it like we’re the Cheney administration: imagine you’ve just purchased a plot of land. What a...
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Being Frugal Makes You A Loser
I'm all for saving money. I get as much pleasure watching my bank account grow as I do from buying things or taking trips. But, people often take frugality too far. I don't care if you're poor, and if you're reading this you're not actually poor, there are things where you should always spend a
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Why apps are not the future
I heard it first on the cover of Wired Magazine in March 1997 and again in August 2010. I was so impressed I added it to my blogroll , as a reminder to all that you're reading a dead medium.
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Airbnb
obama_oj Originally uploaded by charmaine_cooper. When you walk into our conference room at Union Square Ventures, you see the box of cereal on the right on our conference room credenza next to a wifi router and a jar of Jolly Ranchers. It is there because we are big Obama fans? Nope. The cereal box is […]
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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies
Hiring even one person creates a lot less profit than you'd think, and launching a product rarely works out. Here are some tips for consulting companies.
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I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences"
The best 25 books I’ve read since the last time I did one of these book roundups way back in 2024.
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Krugman on BitCoin
Digital, but still a barbarous relic.
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Cringley: Japan may have just permanently lost 20% of its electricity supply
There’s a 40 year-old nuclear reactor cooling-down right now in Japan following the big earthquake in that country. Actually there are 11 such reactors cooling-down, automatically brought offline by the 8.9 temblor, but one of those reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi generating plant is not going gracefully and 3000…
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Angry Bird’s “overnight success” only took 8 years.
by Paul Hontz
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Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End
I am not angry, this is just the end of a love story, and i want to say goodbye.
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Companies that make money by distributing misleading versions of VLC
Some thoughts about the people who use the name of VLC media player to spread adware/spyware while infringing the VideoLAN ‘s intellectual property and brand…
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Steve Jobs, BMW & eBay
There have been so many articles posted on Steve Jobs in the past week, I really thought I wasn’t going to add one here on my blog. However, yesterday, John Lilly wrote a great piece on Steve…
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Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs Dies
Link to: http://www.apple.com/
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Why T-shirts matter at tech companies
During my tenure at LinkedIn, I’ve held a wide variety of roles and responsibilities within the company. Some are fairly public (as described on my LinkedIn profile). Others are the the typ…
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The Next Six Months
I am nearly dead certain the iPad 2 is going to have the same display resolution and size as the current iPad. I am not so sure at all, though, that there won’t be a double-resolution 2048 x 1536 iPad in 2011.
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