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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Just seven months after rolling out a preview, we are excited to announce that Grafana Incident is now generally available to all Grafana Cloud users.
Today, we’re excited to announce a product that we feel is transformational: a persistent, scalable, cloud-native Materialize.
Above: Dropbox’s innovative growth initiative — A referral program to give/get storage
It’s taken decades of iterative refinement to get to this point — a nearly perfect laptop for nearly everyone.
This article is part of the series The Costs of Parking Mandates Find audio versions of Sightline articles on any of your favorite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Google, and Apple. In 2015, the city council of Fayetteville, Arkansas, adopted a radical but simple idea: do away with minimum parking mandates and…
Let's have fun, I'm now a salesperson and I have to convince customers to buy OpenBSD, here is how I would proceed.
This is a story of a small e-commerce merchant who signed up for Amazon Pay: a payment processing service similar to PayPal that leverages customers’ existing Amazon accounts. It all seemed so promising. Amazon Pay would provide an easier checkout experience for my customers, with the shipping address and payment…
In software development, we talk a lot about software anti-patterns, how to recognize them, and how to extricate yourself from them via refactoring.
Now this is pretty weird: I just got blocked by Twitter for a tweet that I did not make:
Since the introduction of subscriptions 7 years ago, we have not increased the pricing of our IDEs, .NET Tools, or the All Products Pack. During this time, we have introduced new products that have been included at no extra cost to everyone using the latter. However, we are at the point where we need to increase our…
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.
Enjoy browsing again with an app that cleans up the web as you use it, thanks to DuckDuckGo's unique privacy protections.
When and why the IKEA effect causes people to overvalue their own ideas. Examples of organisational pitfalls of the IKEA effect. 4 ways you can defend against the IKEA effect: 1) Acknowledge your unconscious bias; 2) Spike rough prototypes; 3) Talk to customers; 4) Run growth experiments
Userpilot helps product teams deliver personalized in-app experiences to increase growth metrics at every stage of the user journey.
Initial $35M will foster an ecosystem of startups that push the internet — and the tech industry — in a better direction Industry veteran M
One year ago, my startup was acquired. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to run an acquisition process yourself.
This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Feedback is very welcome on bert@hubertnet.nl. I’d also like to thank the many proofreaders, but all mistakes remain mine! In the world of (high) technology, Europe is exceptionally weak at innovating. There are many ways to explain how this…
Curious if company swag still lands? Get the data on gifting misfires and straightforward ways to reward employees with choices they value.
On looking for alternatives to Slack culture.
I’ve been feeling a certain stagnation in Mac software these past few years. In this piece I try to understand why.
What would “open sourcing the Twitter algorithm” actually look like? In Part 1 of this series, we focus on understanding how Twitter’s algorithmic feed works under the hood.
This week’s post is coming to you all a bit early, as the folks at Paradox Interactive were kind enough to send me a review code for Victoria III – Paradox Interactive’s long awai…
