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Microsoft, I Forgive You
Microsoft is different now. The evil masterminds are all retired. No more Ballmer jumping around screaming for developers, developers, developers. No more Gates plotting monopoly schemes for world …
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How Paul Graham Gets It Wrong in “Economic Inequality”
Paul Graham (PG) is one of my favorite writers. His Essays are just about all well worth the time to read (and sometimes re-read). It’s not…
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US Cellular Now a Part of Project Fi's Network
With the addition of a third network, Project Fi now gives you more coverage and speed, helping you stay connected wherever you are.
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It’s easier and cheaper to use bank wires than Bitcoin
This is my short story on why it’s easier and cheaper to use old fashioned bank wires when you have to transfer money.
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Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co
Round-up and comparison of several popular and free transactional email services and Mandrill alternatives.
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Why YC
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.
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Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable
Let’s make software even better.
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Apple's amusingly round reuse figures
If you take a look at Apple's Environment page you might well be impressed by the amount of reuse Apple is getting by taking back devices....
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Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation
At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires
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The collective insanity of the publishing industry
Unless you're a writer, I imagine you haven't been paying quite as close attention to the publishing industry and all its weirdness as I have, and that's a shame, because it's been really entertaining. Actually, entertaining isn't the right word. It's been insane, but the kind of insane that's unreasonably fun to…
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The Curse of Culture
It is very fair to say that Apple is threatened by the potential rise of AI. Google, though, is also threatened by its inability to own customers’ attention. The solution for both companies m…
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Understanding VCs
I saw Joe Fernandez‘ tweet a few days ago and thought “he is making an important point.” too many young entrepreneurs talk about vc’s like they’re heroes and their blog posts are scripture — Joe Fernandez (@JoeFernandez) August 19, 2016 VCs are not heroes. We are just one part of the startup ecosystem. We provide […]
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Spaces, a tool for small group sharing
An new app called Spaces lets people get together instantly to share articles, videos and images around any topic.
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Learning from Tay’s introduction
As many of you know by now, on Wednesday we launched a chatbot called Tay. We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay. Tay is now offline and we’ll look to bring Tay...
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Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments
Everyone agrees that housing in San Francisco is expensive, and that the high costs are hurting the city. But there is a lot of disagreement...
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The illegal city of Somerville
Zoning is complicated. It’s complicated on its own, with even small towns having dozens of pages of regulations and acronyms and often-inscrutable diagrams; and it’s complicated as a policy issue, with economists and lawyers and researchers bandying about regression lines and all sorts of claims about the micro and…
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How I make $400 a month in Passive Income by Self-Publishing
I’m the author of Behind the Ivy Curtain: A Data Driven Guide to Elite College Admissions :
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Announcing Google Research, Europe
Posted by Emmanuel Mogenet, Head of Google Research, EuropeGoogle’s ongoing research in Machine Intelligence is what powers many of the products be...
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Report from the VMware GPL court hearing
Today, I took some time off to attend the court hearing in the GPL violation/infringement case that Christoph Hellwig has brought against VMware. I am not in any way legally involved in the lawsuit.