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Transparency is Bunk
Adapted from an impromptu rant I gave to some people interested in funding government transparency projects.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,898 posts.
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The Best Deal In Startup Land
Sarah Lacy has a post up on Techcrunch about Paul Graham and Y Combinator. In the post, she says: I’ve been a bit hard on Paul Graham and Y Combinator in the past. It’s not that I think he hasn’t been a great mentor to young entrepreneurs– he has. But that’s a lot of equity […]
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Mockingbird, Cappuccino, and what really matters
What makes an app an app?
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John Walker's Crisis Letter to Autodesk Employees (1983)
This letter marks the time when the change began, but the letter did not cause the change. The transformation of the company was wrought by numerous people, working long, largely uncompensated hours, at daunting and unfamiliar tasks, as the workload only piled higher. Progress could be measured only by realising in…
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How Ning made me a chump and how you can avoid it
You get it for free, but you don’t have a stake and you don’t have negotiating power. Â Instead, try to work with services that give you an exit plan or that have the safety stamp of an aGPL license . 1
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What's your story? Why start Balsamiq?
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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How to make money with free software...
For a dutch text click here . Introduction The Dutch Ministry of Finance organized an architecture competition for which a selected group o...
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The most important question to ask before taking seed money (from VCs)
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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There's no shame in looking good
Aesthetics have a bad rap in geek circles. CmdrTaco infamously slammed the original iPod with “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame”. In other words, it’s all about the features and the functionality. If you don’t do more than the other guy, you’re useless. I don…
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Java is Dead; Long Live Python
Version 3.0 of Python has been released . Notably Python has again done something Java has long resisted: it has broken backwards compatibility with Python 2.x. Notable fixes include a much saner string processing model based on Unicode. I am told by my Pythonista colleagues that a lot of other weirdnesses such as the…
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"How to Get Rich": an anti-self-help book by Felix Dennis
One of the books I read whilst away in Portugal was the How to Get Rich book by Felix Dennis. I bought this book a few months ago following an Amazon
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This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern...
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of poorest 50%
The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth.
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Figuring out what your company is all about
What is your company about? Recently I got inspired by Kathy Sierra, whose blog Creating Passionate Users and Head First series of books revolutionized developer education. She kept saying the same…
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The natural evolution from side project to full-time business
Some have doubted our advice that you should hold on to your day job and start something on the side. They argue building a business requires such persistent effort that you need to devote all your time to it to do it right. And it’s true that building a business requires plenty of time an…
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Some people like to pay. Let them.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Balsamiq - A look back at 2008
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan
Minimum steps necessary to give business investors confidence in the United States
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