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ThemeForest author to sell more than $1million in WordPress stock themes
Discover ideas, trends and tools to inspire your creative projects on the Envato Blog.
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Insights on Teufel’s first open-source speaker
An interview with some of the creative minds behind Teufel's new open-source MYND speaker. Find the whole story straight from the source.
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Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum
This is the definitive guide to video encoding. Learn everything you need to know about encoding, transcoding, compression & video codecs all in one place.
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Latest TPP Leak Shows US Still Pushing Terrible DRM and Copyright Term Proposals
Today Wikileaks published a new draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)’s intellectual property chapter. This draft text, from May 2014, gives us another look into the current state of negotiations over this plurilateral trade agreement’s copyright provisions since another draft was leaked...
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First, Do No Harm
As regulators look closer at acquisitions they should be extremely wary of unintended consequences. The current system works well for everyone, most of the time.
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The Enterprise Eats Software
Just now, Avdi had a miserable experience buying curtains. He went to pick up an order that he placed last night, but Lowe’s didn’t have it. The order was sent to the wrong store and it…
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Pivoting
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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On the Exponential View
The following is the text of a talk I gave in San Francisco on December 1st, 2016.
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Showing up
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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First Time vs Serial Entrepreneurs
I've been thinking a lot about the differences between first time and serial entrepreneurs. We invest in both and do not have a preference betweeen the two. But there are significant differences. The best first time entrepreneurs have been stewing on their idea for quite a while. It is a personal passion of theirs and…
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Tell President Obama to support the Federal Research Public Access Act
If you’re tired of blog posts about open science, sorry dude—but it feels great to be part a group of blogging nerds who, for once, are actually having a nonzero (and positive, I think!…
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Why a land-value tax is inevitable
A decade after the late 2000s recession, much of the world is now back at the top of the economic cycle, and critically near the next…
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Chainless electric drive system “Free Drive” for bicycles (2021)
Schaeffler Website
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Is "Rich Dad Poor Dad" a Fraud?
With my interest in personal finance, the headline Robert Kiyosaki, ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ Author, Says, ‘I Am a Billionaire in Debt’ — And Calls Dave Ramsey An Idiot For Encou…
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Why we picked Java
Picking a tech stack for your startup isn’t something to do lightly. It’s a choice that will shape the future in many ways: how will the tech enable your emerging product and business, what talent can you attract, and how future-proof is the tech stack?
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Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools
And yet it does. Are we ready to deal?
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Finality does not exist in payments
Many people believe some transactions are final. The reality is a bit more complicated, and involves technical, social, and legal factors.
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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy
What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.
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Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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University of Oregon will monitor students' social media statements
We have been discussing the expanding monitoring and sanctioning of teachers for their political commentary on social media. We have also discussed such actions taken against college, high school …
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Apple's Texas-Sized Problem
Link to: https://popular.info/p/apples-texas-problem
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