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India Surpassed the USA to Become the 2nd Largest Smartphone Market in the World
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,898 posts.
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Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Software has its own Gresham's Law
I recently found myself reading a few of Gregor Hohpe's blog posts and came across Design Patterns: More Than Meets The Eye . In it, Hohpe repeats a message that needs to be repeated every so often even now, twenty years after the publication of the GoF book: software patterns are fundamentally about human…
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Paying freelancers in equity and dividends
Gumroad pays freelancers around the world $125-$200/hr. They choose how much of this they'd like to get in equity–between 0 and 80%. Equity entitles one to annual dividends.
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Introducing Stellar: a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money
Stellar is a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies. This means users can, for ...
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Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Why getting traction is so hard these days
The end of the cycle One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. Although he doesn’t directly talk about it, the end of a tech cycle has major implications…
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Making money with a product: a myth?
I’ve realised there was a time I didn’t believe people would pay for a product. In my mind, it was a myth. As an entrepreneur, it’s so vital to overcome that.
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Startup Growth and Venture Returns
If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.
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Jay Powell traded during blackout period; failed to disclose most trade dates
Jay Powell traded during restricted blackout period; failed to disclose most trade dates; apparently lied about muni conflict; directed massive Wall St bailouts despite conflicts
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The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an activist named Brian Patrick (@pano.
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United Airlines made passenger abandon mobility device at gate before honeymoon
I did everything right, according to both United and TSA’s disability policies. The TSA told United it was OK.
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Selling t-shirts beats selling mobile apps
Stop doing the apps. Start selling t-shirts. I spent an enormous amount of time doing apps, or even programs (before we begun to call it apps). I spent days on doing more or less challenging stuff like PGP [https://github.com/krzyzanowskim/ObjectivePGP] implementation or Cryptography [https://github.com/
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The Birth of Chipzilla
Or, the early history of Intel Corporation
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Moving Past the Scaling Myth
Moving Past the Scaling Myth - Discontinuous Transition in Process and Architecture
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The Perl Foundation got $100,000 donation from the Craigslist Charitable Fund
maybe some funds will be used to get some serious thread support going (and don't tell me that threads work in Perl because I'll throw some tomatoes at you).
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Introducing the Google Translate app for iPhone
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Redefining Work
The most modern definition of work is “an exchange in which the participants benefit from the interaction”. Interestingly, cooperation is…
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Interview with Viktor Lofgren from Marginalia Search
Viktor Lofgren is the creator of Marginalia Search , a search engine takes you of the beaten track by letting you find small quality web pages. These pages barely surface in commercial search engines because they are snowed under by larger commercial websites and marketing. We interviewed Viktor for FreeWebSearchDay …
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Startup School Online: Registration and Deals
Startup School online registration will be open from March 20th, 2017 to March 27th, 2017. Since the announcement of Startup School Online, we’ve received nearly 50,000 signups from prospective founders from Brazil, Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Bahrain, Nepal and over 100 other countries. From this tremendous response, the…