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Agile: 5 years later and you're still doing it wrong
Which values of the Agile Manifesto do you find foolish? If you're going to tar and feather it(Agile), maybe you should start at the source.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 975 posts.
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The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling
David Pogue tests the Google Nexus Q home entertainment device and finds himself bewildered.
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Why Facebook is killing Silicon Valley
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energi…
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Fred Wilson's response to "Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies"
I don't disagree with PG when he says that Facebook's IPO performance (or lack thereof) has the potential to impact valuations in startup land. I think it will be particularly impactful on the late stage and secondary markets where most of the IPO valuation speculation is happening. But let's put Facebook's current…
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Getting Beaten By A Voting Bot In 50 Minutes
More apartments across the US and Canada than you can ever imagine!
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Don't write on the whiteboard
Quill Grid: The Starlink for AI becomes a network. An optional, opt-in distributed AI grid where idle Quill One devices share spare capacity, earn credits, and donate AI hours.
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Amazon Prime members buy twice as much, don't compare on price
Removing friction is critical to increasing e-commerce conversion and shipping costs play a big part. That's why Amazon's Prime program generates big results by...
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Transfer of Wikipedia sites from GoDaddy complete
After months of deliberation and a complicated transfer, the Wikimedia Foundation domain portfolio has been successfully transferred from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. The portfolio transfer was formally…
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Why Tarsnap doesn't use Glacier
On the surface, Tarsnap sounds like the perfect use case for Glacier. Out of every TB of data stored on Tarsnap, in any given month approximately 100 GB of data will be deleted, while only 33 GB of data will be downloaded; in other words, Tarsnap is very much a "write once, read maybe " storage system. Tarsnap's…
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Elon Musk and the Hyperloop
For a while now there have been tantalizing hints that Elon Musk is at it again. His usual way of approaching a problem is to look at an industry, find some fatal flaw in it, fix that flaw and then leave everybody else in the dust, wondering why they didn’t do what he did. He’s one of the most interesting people on…
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One hiring filter that works
In a fairly popular blog post, Raganwald advocates against using various heuristics while filtering out resumes. For the most part, I agree with him. Since it's hard to find good programmers, false negatives are very costly compared to the cost of a false positive (a wasted interview). But I have …
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Lies, Damn Lies and LIBOR
I've been hesitant to write about the LIBOR scandal because what I want to say goes so much further. We now know that Barclays and other ma...
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Stripe updates policy: free refunds and chargebacks
Find Stripe fees and pricing information. Find our processing fees for credit cards, pricing models and pay-as-you-go fees for businesses.
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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition
Photo by psiaki Based on the title of this post you might be thinking I have mad stacks of money in the bank. That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing s
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Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)
Today I announce the launch of HashiCorp. I am Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator and maintainer of Vagrant, and I am founding HashiCorp to drive Vagrant's development forward. Vagrant has become a trusted tool in the industry in the three years since its release, with users ranging from individuals to entire development…
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A fresh new Dropbox on the web
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Clearing up some things about LinkedIn mobile’s move from Rails to node.js
There’s an article on highscalability that’s talking about the move from Rails to node.js (for completeness: its sister discussion on Hacker
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The Bozo Event Horizon
I’m on a Harvard mailing list for some folks interested in startups and innovation. A recent thread of discussion was around hiring, and in a posting to the group I talked about making sure that you did your hiring so that you avoided the bozo effect. I was asked by a number of people what I meant by that, which led…
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Yahoo Lays Off Flickr Support Staff
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