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Lawsuit against Meta invokes modern portfolio theory to protect shareholders
New Lawsuit Argues that Directors Failed to Consider Portfolio Impacts of Corporate Decisions On Monday, October 3, a class action was filed in the ...
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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What do great engineering managers need to know about compensation and equity?
Understanding how companies go about figuring out compensation. And an exercise to do for your team.
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“Downthem” DDoS-for-hire boss gets 2 years in prison
A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites.
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Lessons from Owning a Bookstore
I’ve done some crazy things in my life, but as I’ve said, the absolute craziest was deciding to open a bookstore. Running a small business is always difficult, running a small business during a pandemic is damn near impossible but a small town book store in rural Texas? But here we are, a year later, not just still…
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The Buy and Hold Mindset
When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a buy-and-hold mindset when it comes to making new investments. It is hard to know when you’ve reached the bottom and can start buying again, but if you think about a ten or twenty-year hold, then it […]
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How Asus and a Microsoft Bug Almost Broke Remote Work
A couple of years after it happened I'm sharing this story about the intersection of an OS bug, a network hardware quirk, and a global pandemic. A chain…
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DuckDuckGo for Mac
DuckDuckGo for Mac gives you privacy by default. With one download, you get nearly a dozen protections, including built-in private search.
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AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
View the press release archives from AMD.
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RIP Stack Overflow Jobs
Stack Overflow have announced they are going to kill off sunset their popular Jobs product. In this post, I talk about what Jobs was, why it was great, and why so many (myself included) will be sad…
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The map is not the territory (2015)
The map is not the territory reminds us that our mental models of the world are not the same as the world itself. It cautions against confusing our abstractions and representations with the complex, ever-shifting reality they aim to describe.
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How can you tell if the company youre interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
How can you tell the companies who are earnestly trying to improve apart from the ones who sound all polished and healthy from the outside, whilst rotting on the inside?
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The Asymmetry of Open Source
A comprehensive guide to funding open source software projects
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I live in the country with the most expensive Apple products on the planet
I live in Brazil. Brazil is a developing country. It is definitely not a rich country, but it is definitely not among the poorest either. We are placed on 84th in human development index rankings. You will find Brazil similarly in the middle of other rankings like per-capita income, education or life expectancy. There…
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How prestige outlets get away with copypasta
On the anatomy of malpractice
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Norvig's Law (2002)
In July 1999, there was a news article stating that PC usage had doubled yet again, reaching penetration of 50% of homes. People were hailing this as yet another sign of the inevitable climb of technology, but I saw it as a warning sign that the glass was half empty, and coined the following:
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Solving the housing crisis requires fighting monopolies in construction (2020)
U.S. government concerns about great disparities in housing conditions are at least 100 years old. For the first 50 years of this period, U.S. housing crises were widely considered to stem from the failure of the construction industry to adopt new technology -- in particular, factory production methods. The…
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Why people make dumb financial decisions on purpose
Probabilities vs. the real world when it comes to big money decisions.
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Lock-In and Multi-Cloud
Alone in a room with the customer’s CTO, I said “So, I spent this morning talking to your people, and it looks like you’re using low-level generic tech for everything and managing it yourself. You could save a shit-ton of money by using high-level managed services and get load-scaling for free.” “Yeah,” he said, “but…
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Interview with Marc Andreessen on learning to love the humanities, and RSS
The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior.
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SmooshGate (2021)
What can SmooshGate teach us about standards development and the Web Platform? This write-up gives an overview.
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Strategy is not X
Strategy is the madness towards the destination, not the destination itself.
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The Financial Times has had an error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months
Market Data section of the Financial Times US Edition print edition from May 5, 2021. If you’ve flipped through printed broadsheet newspapers, you’ve probably seen pages full of tiny te…
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MCC (Master Chief Collection) Server Incident Summary
<p>A deep dive into the recent incident that affected matchmaking and the custom games browser in Halo: MCC on April 1.</p>
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Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex
We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
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McDonalds Event Driven Architecture
We explore our journey of developing a unified platform enabling real-time, event-driven architectures.
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SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies
Comparison confirms that SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment & technologies. Our analysis also uncovered many similarities between the SMIC 7nm and the TSMC 7nm, which are available in our comparison brief.