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Kindle Unlimited scammers on Amazon
This is extremely long and probably only of interest to indie authors, but it does impact readers who shop Amazon, so I’m putting it here for anyone.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 882 posts.
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Google Cloud is 50% cheaper than AWS
Let’s revisit Google and Amazon pricing since the AWS November 2016 Price Reduction. We’ll analyse instance costs, for various workloads and usages. All prices are given in dollars per …
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Running costs for running a web app
Finally know if you’re on track—without spreadsheets, guesswork, or end-of-year surprises.
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Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter
Groove is now Helply!
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Buffer Layoffs
Some tough news: Buffer has made 10 layoffs, 11% of the team. We want to share openly how we got here, the financial details and how we’re moving forward.
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Cruise
There is a long and sordid history of people coming out of the woodwork with bogus claims when huge amounts of money are on the line. This has just happened to Cruise, which is run by my friend...
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GitLab Master Plan
GitLab announces $20M in Series B funding, and its Master Plan to build an integrated toolset for the modern developer!
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Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
Since we started shipping bikes eight years ago, here at VanMoof we’ve struggled to find shipping partners that give our bikes the same…
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Facebook is the new Excel
If you’re building a SaaS startup, then your biggest competitor isn’t a competitor. It’s Microsoft Excel. That was the mantra a few years ago. Add in Google Docs and it still holds true. Contact lists, mailing lists, accounts, invoicing, mark...
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Dropbox Hasn't Learned Their Lesson
You would think less than a month after a very popular HackerNews article on how Dropbox hacks your Mac, the file sharing company would be careful about their software distribution. They just distributed an update that hacks your UI and presents a Yahoo-like banner from 2004.
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Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic
Update 10/17/2016 6:30pm: You can read a response from the tech lead of the AMP Project for Google, in the comment area. Update 11/01/2016 10:40pm: After learning more about AMP, it became clear that…
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90 Cents of Every 'Pay-For-Performance' Dollar for CEOs Are Paid for Luck
Read our latest post from Moshe Levy (Jerusalem School of Business Administration) at
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We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
One of the most common pieces of advice you’ll get as a startup is this: Only hire the best. The quality of the people that work at your company will be one of the biggest factors in your success – or failure. I’ve heard this advice over and over
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New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
DevTeam.Space blog — technology insights, hiring guides, and software development best practices.
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YC Changes
TL;DR: *Michael Seibel will be the new CEO of YC Core, which we are now just going to call “YC”. *Ali Rowghani is now the CEO of the YC Continuity Fund. *I’m going to be the President of YC Group, which includes YC, YC Continuity, YC Research, and our new online class. We’ll add more organizational units over time…
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Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS
Ideen erproben - Offenheit schaffen!
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The Rails Doctrine
Read about Rails design pillars like convention over configuration, optimize for programmer happiness, value integrated systems, the menu is omakase, push up a bit tent, and more.
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YC's Winter Reading List
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation [https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797] “It’s amazing how prolific Bell Labs was — the transistor, information theory, Unix, amongst other creations — but it’s fascinating to understand it as an organization…
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Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
TLDR: Google suddenly claims a “terms of service” violation on a route plotting site that has been built on the Maps API for a decade.
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When you change the world and no one notices
Do you know what’s happening in this picture? Literally one of the most important events in human history.
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One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers
If you live in an economy where officials are corrupt, contracts are hard to enforce, and trust is scarce, everyday transactions are burdensome and time-consuming. If you don’t want to get scammed,…