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Facebook the Devourer
I can't find a way to write this article without it sounding like a rant, so why fight it? The views and opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer.
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The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things
LaunchDarkly helps teams safely manage code and AI agents in production with feature flags, progressive delivery, automated rollback, and runtime control.
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The promise and paradox of decentralization
Plus! Valuation Arbitrage; Labor Liquidity; Pricing Power; Diff Jobs
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Visa and MasterCard Are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub
Pornhub is removing millions of user-uploaded videos. This action comes after a New York Times column accused the website of hosting sexual videos of underage and nonconsenting women. In response to the Times’ article, Visa and Mastercard cut ties with Pornhub, making it impossible for Pornhub to...
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How Microryza Acquired the Domain Experiment.com
How do you get an amazing domain name like Experiment.com?
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Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice
The administration of the Spanish autonomous region of Valencia has completed its switch to LibreOffice, a free and open source suite of office productivity applications. Last week Friday the region's...
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Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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App.net’s new direction
Today, App.net launched free accounts . Previously, everyone had to pay — originally $50/year, then reduced to $36/year.
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CES2011: The end of the PC era
At this year’s CES two unthinkable things happened: The abandonment of Windows exclusivity by practically all of Microsoft’s OEM customers. The abandonment of Intel exclusivity by Micro…
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Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)
You can still discover stuff, I promise
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AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
A year ago, Mihail Eric wrote a blog post detailing his experiences working on AI inside Amazon: How Alexa Dropped the Ball on Being the Top Conversational System on the Planet. It’s a great …
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The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms
Back to: Rudy #3: Looking For The Big Aha. | Forward to: Rudy #4. More on The Big Aha.
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CFPB finalizes personal financial data rights rule
The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just finalized a rule that makes it easy and safe for you to figure out which bank will give you the best deal and switch to that bank, with just a couple of clicks. We love this kind of thing: the coolest thing about a digital world is how easy it...
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The Morality Police in Your Checking Account
In the latest example of a troubling trend in which companies play the role of law enforcement and moral police, Chase Bank has shut down the personal bank accounts of hundreds of adult entertainers. We’ve written before about the dire consequences to online speech when service providers start...
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Annual pre-pay and marketing budgets
Dozens of founders have used this technique to transform the cash-flow of their businesses. Now it's your turn.
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High-fidelity remote communication
Remote is hard but it can work if you focus on what matters.
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AI Update, Late 2019
It's been 7 months since my last commentary on the field, and as it became regular appearance in this blog (and in fact many people apparently enjoy this form and keep asking for it),
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