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The License Zero Manifesto
sustainable software in the open
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Wading Through AccuWeather’s Response
AccuWeather issued a statement regarding the controversy over their app sending location-identifying information to a monetization firm. It’s a veritable mountain of horseshit
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Steve Jobs and the Missing “Intel Inside” Sticker
I’d be quite content if I never again heard the Intel “bong” at the end of every PC ad.
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“Side Hustle” as a Sign of the Apocalypse
“Side hustle,” “mom-tech,” and “the sharing economy” are covering up something sinister
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O'Reilly's Decision and Its DRM Implication
On Wednesday, I got mail from Laura Baldwin, President of O'Reilly, announcing that "as of today, we are discontinuing fulfillment of indiv...
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Crazy Eddie Fraud
The Crazy Eddie fraud may appear smaller and gentler than the massive billion-dollar frauds exposed in recent times
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Avoiding Startup Tarpits
Startup growth can be painfully slow. So slow that many entrepreneurs just give up and quit when their launch doesn’t go as expected. When…
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Crypto Tokens: A Breakthrough in Open Network Design
It is a wonderful accident of history that the internet and web were created as open platforms that anyone — users, developers…
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The Amazon Machine
Amazon is a machine to make a machine, and the machine it makes is more Amazon.
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Goodbye Mozilla
Today is effectively my last day at Mozilla, before I start at Impossible on Monday. I’ve been here for 6 years and a bit and it’s been quite an experience. I think it’s worth reflecting on, so here we go; Fair warning, if you have no interest in me or Mozilla, this is going to make pretty boring reading.
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Basic Economy Fares Don't Lower Ticket Prices, They Increase Ticket Prices
When Delta started testing 'Basic Economy' fares in 2012 the idea was to compete with the ultra low cost carriers -- they already had to match price, so they wanted to be able to offer a product that was closer to the limited service Spirit provided, in hopes that customers would buy up to more expensive fares for…
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Building a One-Person SaaS App Offers a Profound Sense of Personal Achievement
It's Raining Mobile Out of 20m global software developers, very few have built a profitable SaaS business. To give some context, consider
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Apple Begins High Sierra Automatic Rollout
I have heard rumblings that Apple was considering making a bigger push for macOS users to upgrade to High Sierra. At the time, I was very unsure what that meant. Forcing updates for patch releases, such as 10.13.0 to 10.13.1 is one thing; moving users from Sierra to High Sierra with little input is another thing…
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Google and Paint.NET need to stop misleading users (2013)
The Paint.NET web site runs ads designed to lead naïve users to download unrelated adware. This needs to stop
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Is there data on the quality of management decisions?
A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly be eliminated. A contentious example of this is the claim that companies can’t be discriminating because the market is too competitive to…
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Bringing back the Somali shilling
Somalia has long played host to one of the world's strangest monetary phenomenon, a paper currency without a central bank. I explored the...
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why Should Anyone Care?
The Crypto market is gaining lots of steam. Gravity-defying price rallies…
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What's The End Goal for Wealthfront and Betterment? (2016)
There are three ways to make money in the asset management space: Have a large amount of assets under management ( AUM ) and charge fairly modest fees (mutual funds) Have a relatively low amount of AUM and charge high fees (hedge funds, venture capital funds) Have a relatively low amount of AUM,
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Amazon Is Becoming the New Microsoft
Amazon.com is hugely dominant in cloud computing and behaving like Microsoft did in the 1990s
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A Hacker Writes a Children's Book
[2018 Update: After posting this article and making it to the top of r/programming and HackerNews sales of the book increased noticeably. The book is now nic...
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Getting Hacked, Lessons Learned
I read Cody Brown’s blog post about getting hacked on Thursday of last week. I feel very badly for Cody and plan to send him some BTC once I get access back to my account. His post helped me avoid his fate. I woke up Friday morning (central european summer time) and saw a bunch […]
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The no excuses culture
Getting ready for our next semester’s class, I asked my Teaching Assistant why I hadn’t seen the posters for our new class around campus. Hearing the litany of excuses that followed –“It was raini…
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Working at Netflix 2017
Working at Netflix, 2017: a personal update from a performance engineer about working at the company.
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