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Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles
Apple and Amazon are approaching the tablet territory from opposing sides.
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How Seattle Killed Micro-Housing
Micro-housing—dorm-room-sized apartments in desirable, walkable neighborhoods—isn’t for everyone, but it most definitely is for Anna Rogers. Anna is a recent college graduate who grew up in the suburbs of Seattle and now works a retail job while looking to start a career that harnesses her passion for politics. Thanks…
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Interview: Vitalik Buterin
In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.
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New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
Update: We have published a new blog post describing an additional Zulip plan for self-hosting without commercial support. Zulip is a 100% open-source team chat application designed for efficient communication. Zulip is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution. Organizations that self-host …
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It is an amazing time for programmers
Many legends of software development, like John Carmack or Chris Lattner, are very approachable. Check out their projects and go talk to them!
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If it isn't going to work, just shut it down
Don’t build the startup ship of Theseus.
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Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11
The team and I are pumped to be back at Build with the developer community this year. Over the last year, Windows has continued to see incredible growth fueled by Windows 11 adoption. In fact, one of the mo
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Nim receives $100k in Bitcoin donations
Earlier this year we have had the privilege of receiving 1.868BTC (~117k USD at time of writing) to our long-standing Bitcoin wallet address.
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Delegative Democracy – a scalable voting model
In between representative democracy , where voters elect politicians to make decisions on their behalf, and direct democracy , where voters directly decide the issues, lies a third model that deserves more consideration. In this model, people have the choice of either voting directly on a decision, as in direct…
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An Economic Analysis of Ethereum
Originally published: January 2021 The anonymous founder of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, solved the hard problems associated with digital scarcity with a white paper in 2008, and launched Bitcoin in 2009. After that invention, numerous other projects came in its wake. There are now over 8,000 separate digital assets…
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AWS EC2 General Price Cut
It is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) customers who plan to use Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying new RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able […]
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Taking money off the table
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Opera: Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster browsing
If there were no bloated ads, some top websites would load up to 90% faster. Today we introduce Opera's ad-blocking feature.
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The $150k Solution
An article was published yesterday in one of Austin's local papers about Austin's tech talent shortage . I was job hunting just a couple months ago and get a lot of calls from recruiters and hear about friends' companies who are hiring and I think it's pretty damned accurate. And by accurate I mean that it points out…
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Startup America -- Dead on Arrival
For its first few decades Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semiconductor manufacturer…
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Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces
Proton and the end-to-end encrypted note-taking app Standard Notes are joining forces. We’ve long been admirers and are excited to welcome Mo and his team.
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My Guide to Software Engineering Contracting in UK
My experience and tips for being a software developer contractor, in the UK
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The Growth of Administrative Staff in Universities
This is a post loosely based on an article appearing today in the German newspaper “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” by Axel Brennicke and me. The raw data for our analysis is available. Please do let us know if you find a […] <a class="more-link"…
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It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App
The best 25 books I’ve read since the last time I did one of these book roundups way back in 2024.
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Urban highways destroy wealth
Infrastructure investment is often seen as a good way to stimulate the economy and to provide facilities to allow the economy to grow. It's...
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