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Patrick and Tyler are obsessed with progress — and they think you should be too.
By Jerome A. Cohen It’s not only “Hong Kong people” whose fate is at stake here. Anyone passing through Hong Kong airport could be detained and sent to China (compare the Huawei Vancouver extradition case). Even people who have been extradited by a third jurisdiction to Hong Kong could be subject t
A recent judgement makes it a breach of copyright to sell pre-owned eBooks. Do publishers really want to deter everyone from buying eBooks?
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Jeff Wilcox is a principal engineer at Microsoft working on Microsoft's engineering system. Jeff lives in Seattle.
How Adriaan van Rossum drove more than 30k visitors to his website from Hacker News
It’s easy to buy into the ‘overnight success’ story. But in reality, building a venture is a five- to seven-year endeavour. It requires…
Senator Warren’s proposal about how to regulate tech is wrong about history, the source of tech giant’s power, and the fundamental nature of technology itself. That doesn’t mean t…
(Note: although I originally wrote this as a stand-alone post, it may make sense to think of it as Part Two of a series, beginning with The Rise of the Access Economy.) There’s a classic exercise…
On March 11 2005, Jessica and I were walking home from dinner in Harvard Square. Jessica was working at an investment bank at the time, but she didn't like it much, so she had interviewed for a job as director of marketing at a Boston VC fund. The VC fund was doing what now seems a comically familiar thing for a VC…
Camera sales are continuing to falling off a cliff. The latest data from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) shows them in a swoon befitting a Bollywood roadside Romeo. All four bi…
Update: Due to lack of interest/use, in June 2021 this site was shut down and user data (emails, names, search alerts) deleted from all systems and backups. For Extramaze LLC I'm using Racket in a commercial project -- a search engine with email alerts fo...
I was looking through my iPhone device analytics as I plan my iOS 13 updates and noticed something that really jumped out at me.
How my app’s keywords mysteriously disappeared from search results and downloads were slashed by 44%
Link to: https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tim-cook-talks-vision-apple-breaks-ground-facility/story?id=67165042
It’s the Lightning to 3.5 mm headphone jack adapter. I figured Apple got rid of the headphone jack and came up with this simple adapter to send analog audio signals from the phone to a 3.5 mm jack. Simple, right?
The Internet has gotten too big. Growing up, I, like many computery people of my generation, was an idealist. I believed that better, faste...
Technology, startups, programming, technical management and software architecture
It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole
Learn how Google kills competition through anti-competitive behavior. This is the true story of how I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with two of the former founders of Myspace between 2006-2008 on a startup called LiveVideo.com. Some old files I found related to LiveVideo.com: Automated Transcript: 00:05 You…
Yesterday Apple announced News+, “ an immersive magazine and news reading experience ”. This immersive experience is, for now, a US/Canada only product, with Apple noting: “Available in the US and Canada, Apple News+ presents the best and most relevant articles to meet any range of interests from renowned publications…
At my last company, KISSmetrics, I made a mistake that I truly believe lost me a billion dollar opportunity. It’s not something I’m proud of, and it’s one of the main reasons I’m now obsessed with building products the right way. I wrote the painful details of exactly what happened so you don’t have to make the same…
