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Remote-first companies that actively hire
Do you ever dream of working remotely in a place where you will thrive the most? Here's 82 remote-first companies that actively hire people worldwide!
Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy
Apple has released new developer APIs that will allow mobile advertising conversion tracking while protecting individual user privacy. The new APIs are part of the StoreKit framework and include a …
A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable
Through a nebulous network of bully tactics and insider dealings, government agencies and corporate campaign donors conspire to deny patients the benefits of market competition.
Why “Whiplash” Won an Oscar for Best Editing
whiplash (n): 1. the lash of a whip. 2. an abrupt snapping motion or change of direction resembling the lash of a whip. 3. a neck injury caused by a sudden ...
The Myth of the Objective
A young but earnest Zen student approached his teacher, and asked the Zen Master: "If I work very hard and diligent how long will it take for me to find Zen." The Master thought about this, then replied, "Ten years." The student then said, "But what if I work very, very hard and really apply myself to learn fast — How…
Working remotely with 150+ people
Work asynchronously, keep a single source of truth, avoid management overhead and communicate.
Google and Box Announce Partnership
Posted by Nan Boden, Head of Global Technology Partners Today, we announced a partnership with Box to power collaboration and productiv...
Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
A shorter version of this post ran as an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News on October 6, 2015. The ubiquitous blue “Like” or “Share” buttons that you see all over the Internet are hiding an ugly secret. Starting this month, Facebook will use them to track your visit to every Web page that displays...
How to write a cold email (2020)
Some tips on writing a cold email.
Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets
Airline pricing may seem mystifying, but behind every airfare is a complex system of fare buckets and inventory controls. Airlines don't just sell seats - they manage a dynamic inventory of fares, divided into booking classes (fare buckets) with different prices and rules. For the technically curious, understanding…
News Feed FYI: Click-baiting
Today we're announcing some improvements to News Feed to help people find the posts and links from publishers that are most interesting and relevant.
A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022
Maddie Stone, Security Researcher, Threat Analysis Group (TAG) This is Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild...
Domain Name Registration and Geo DNS for Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service (DNS), including a powerful Health Checking Service. Today we are extending Route 53 with support for domain name registration and management and Geo DNS. We are also reducing the price for Route 53 queries! Let’s take a closer look at each one of…
JL: Why I Do YC
I think the past 4 months have been the busiest of my life. We wrapped up YC's winter funding cycle, hosted Startup School for more than 700 people, conducted interviews for the summer funding cycle,...
Mahalo's new spam is worse than old
Last week, after Matt Cutts gave Jason Calacanis a warning about Mahalo.com’s spammier pages (and probably a few stern looks as well), Jason changed a few items. He had them rename their spambot from “searchclick” to “stub”, thinking a less obvious name would throw off anyone looking into the spam situation. Very…
Mintlify GitHub read/write token leak
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Bitbucket announces Connect platform
More than 3 million developers and 450,000 teams use Bitbucket to manage and collaborate on source code. But code collaboration is only a fraction of what software teams do on a daily basis to ship software. Nowadays, shipping great software involves constant context switching using tools that don’t integrate tightly…
Lessons learned on SaaS pricing
When starting a SaaS business you eventually arrive at the challenge of pricing and packaging. Many great articles have been written on the subject, we've read them all, and still we missed the mark. Here's our thoughts on version 2.0.