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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,896 posts.
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Now is a good time to start a service business
Now is a good time to start a service business. Maybe you should try it! A service business is one where your company sells its work output directly instead of selling a product. Dentists, plumbers, design agencies, pool cleaner, consultants: these are all service businesses. The opposite of a service business is a…
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Communication as a critical business skill
There is more to communication than just the correct use of words, phrases, and clauses. Let’s look at some of the communication skills that don’t get enough attention.
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More info about synonyms at Google (2010)
Steve Baker, an engineer in the search quality group at Google, just did a nice post about synonyms on the Google blog. A lot of people seem to think that Google only does simple-minded matching of…
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RenderMan Price Restructuring
What's New in RenderMan
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Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies
Why you can't skip to the top (but you can skip to the bottom)
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Andreessen Horowitz Raises New $1.5B Fund
BY SCOTT KUPOR We are pleased to announce the closing of Andreessen Horowitz Fund IV, a $1.5 billion multi-stage venture capital fund. We are grateful for the ongoing support of our limited partners and thankful to the many outstanding technology entrepreneurs with whom we’ve had the chance to work over the last five…
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A Contrarian View of MITx: What Are We Doing?
I love MIT but confess being frustrated . The MITx announcement added to my frustration. As outlined below, I argued against OpenCourseWare (OCW) before it was announced. I was not persuasive and lost the debate. My view of how MIT should take advantage of the digital revolution was unusual then, but is more common…
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Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service
Disclaimer: the information in this post is the author’s personal opinion and is not the opinion or policy of his employer. It was spring 2010 when we decided that even though Softlayer‘s server provisioning system is really great and it takes only a few hours to get a new server when we need it, it […]
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Clustrix, a distributed SQL DB, launches on AWS
Keep your databases online with MariaDB Enterprise Platform. MaxScale, Galera Cluster and Raft clustering give you automatic failover, read scaling and zero data loss.
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CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars
The Agency knew that their best asset for selling their wars was Barack Obama -- the same reason so many in the security state were eager to get rid of Donald Trump.
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The Best Tech Ad I’ve Seen Lately
A few days ago, I got a copy of TIME Magazine in the mail with an advertisement that really struck me as near-perfect. I thought I’d write a quick post about it since I haven’t heard m…
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From 486 to Vue.js: Evan You's Full-Time Gamble on Open Source
From the early days of exploring creative possibilities on a 486 computer in his childhood to developing one of today's most popular web frameworks, Evan You's journey is a tale of passion and innovation. Evan started Vue.js while working at Google, just wanting to scratch his own itch for a lightweight JavaScript…
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Losing 80% of mobile users is normal
Exclusive data on retention curves for mobile apps In a recent essay covering the Next Feature Fallacy , I explained why shipping “just one more feature” doesn’t fix your product. The root cause is that the average app has pretty bad retention metrics . Today, I’m excited to share some real numbers on mobile…
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Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds
Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds Mogul & Wilkes, HotOS’19 It’s hard to define good SLOs, especially when outcomes aren’t fully under the control of any single party. Th…
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California consumer groups allow CenturyLink to end dark fiber leasing
If CenturyLink is allowed to buy Level 3 , then California will lose a major source of dark fiber. That’s my reading of a settlement agreement between CenturyLink, Level 3 and three of the organisations that challenged the deal at the California Public Utilities Commission. The fourth challenger, the California…
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Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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True product-market fit is a minimum viable company
Hi, I’m Ann. I was one of the first investors in Lyft, Refinery29, and Xamarin. I have been on the Midas List for the past 3 years and was…
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Captcha Patent Is an All-American Nightmare
A newly formed patent troll is looking for big money from small business websites, just for using free, off-the-shelf login verification tools. Defenders of the American Dream, LLC (DAD ), is sending out its demand letters to websites that use Google’s reCAPTCHA system, accusing them of infringing...
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Why you can't solve knowledge problems with information tools alone
Knowledge and information are part of a continuum but not the same, and knowledge problems cannot be solved with information tools alone. ...
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Interop 2022
Interop 2022 is a cross-browser initiative to find and address the most important interoperability pain points on the web platform.