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What "viable search engine competition" really looks like
Alex Clemmer is a computer programmer. Other programmers love Alex, excitedly describing him as "employed here" and "the boss's son".
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,896 posts.
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Stop Designing Your Web Application for Millions of Users When You Dont Have 100
It’s easy to get carried away when you’re building a new web app. You’ve got big ideas, you picture millions of users flocking to your platform, and you start imagining the kind of infrastructure needed to handle all that traffic. So, you build for scale from day one—optimising databases, setting up powerful servers…
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Clover Health: How Chamath Lured Retail Investors into a Broken Business
Initial Disclosure: This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the report. We have no position (short or long) in Clover Health because we think in this moment for public markets, it is more important for people to…
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A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it
In this day and age of cybersecurity professionals crying out for roles, we're still seeing companies complain that there is a skills shortage and a lack of talent. A quick scan through your LinkedIn feed will show this is absolute nonsense: there is a mass of experienced, capable talent out there l
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Doubling down on permissive licensing and the Elasticsearch lockdown
Crate.io will no longer use Elastic’s Elasticsearch as an upstream project for CrateDB and open source its entire codebase under the APLv2 with CrateDB 4.5
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Rogue Amoeba responds to Phil Schiller
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
This 404 report justly been getting considerable coverage. Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training dat...
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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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How not to get acquired
I launched Gittip.com 16 days ago. It saw really strong initial uptake, then it got side-swiped by a botched acquisition. Herewith, a cautionary tale.
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The OpenAI Keynote
OpenAI’s developer keynote was exciting, both because AI was exciting, and because OpenAI has the potential to be a meaningful consumer tech company.
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IntelliJ IDEA goes open source
I believe you'll like this announcement — IntelliJ IDEA has just gone open-source! Check out the press release as well as the new jetbrains.org community site for the details. We all will soon g
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Nobody Cares (2011)
All the mental energy you waste complaining would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess.
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This Apple-HTC Patent Thing
There are two aspects surrounding Apple’s patent litigation against HTC that demand further consideration. First, the severe problems with the U.S. patent system as a whole, particularly regarding software patents. Second, the strategic implications of Apple’s decision to file suit.
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DHH Is Worse Than I Thought
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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How to Build an Income Sharing Agreement Product
Regardless of specifics, however, the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) structure is relatively consistent. To define it more explicitly, an Income Sharing Agreement funds a student’s tuition upfront in exchange for receiving a percentage of the student’s future earnings (hence “income-sharing”) based on a pre-defined…
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How we validated our SaaS product without building it
Build, collaborate on, and localize on-brand email templates without code. Trusted by Canva, Culture Amp, and 300+ global teams. See how it works.
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Microsoft patent trolls Salesforce
Microsoft has filed suit against Salesforce for infringing the following patent: Method and system for mapping between logical data and physical data System and method for providing and displaying a web page having an embedded menu Method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display Aut…
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Fear of a WebKit Planet
I must confess, I was neither surprised nor disturbed by last month’s announcement that the Opera web browser was switching to the WebKit rendering engine. But perhaps I’m in the minority among geeks on this topic.
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Making The World's Most Detailed Print Maps
To make the world's most detailed print maps, we only make maps when our data resolution exceeds that of our printed resolution and we print our maps using the highest resolution mediums available.
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Strategy is not X
Strategy is the madness towards the destination, not the destination itself.
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