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The Reddits
"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.
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1922
It looks like a product but is secretly a subscription
The mental minefield of capex and opex
1923
OpenAI's misalignment and Microsoft's gain
The end of a dramatic weekend in tech is that OpenAI has split and Microsoft is partnered with one and has hired the other; this is the ultimate failure case of what should have been a for-profit c…
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Why should anyone ever use a Google API again?
By Adam Feldman, APIs Product Manager UPDATE June 3: In the days since we announced the deprecation of the Translate API, we’ve seen the ...
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WaveNet launches in the Google Assistant
Just over a year ago we presented WaveNet, a new deep neural network for generating raw audio waveforms that is capable of producing better and more realistic-sounding speech than existing techniques. At that time, the model was a research prototype and was too computationally intensive to work in consumer products.
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Godot at GDC 2018
I went to GDC yet again (this time GDC 2018) trying to see how Godot is doing at the game industry. To my surprise this time, it was quite different..
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TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms
After years of secret trade negotiations over the future of intellectual property rights (and limits on those rights), the public gets a chance to looks at the results. For those of us who care about free speech and a balanced intellectual property system that encourages innovation, creativity, and...
1929
What Will Happen in the 2020s
It’s 2020. Time to look forward to the decade that is upon us. One of my favorite quotes, attributed to Bill Gates, is that people overestimate what will happen in a year and underestimate what will happen in a decade. This is an important decade for mankind. It is a decade in which we will […]
1930
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now.
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Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results
New cars, including the Mercedes A, C and E class, BMW 5 series and Peugeot 308, are now swallowing around 50% more fuel than their lab test results, new…
1932
An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
Here’s a look at why you should remove Google Analytics from your website and help create a more open, independent web that’s more friendly to the visitors.
1933
Data Science: Reality Doesn't Meet Expectations
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How and why I built Japan Dev
Japan Dev started as a list of companies I wanted to work for back in 2014. Here's the story of how that idea morphed into a job board showcasing hundreds...
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Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven
Why software organizations should prefer genuinely good arguments to weak arguments dressed up with data and metrics.
1936
Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month
Here at EFF, we see a lot of stupid patents. There was the patent on “scan to email.” And the patent on “bilateral and multilateral decision making.” There are so many stupid patents that Mark Cuban endowed a chair at EFF dedicated to eliminating them. We wish we could catalog them all, but with...
1937
What I Heard from Trump Supporters
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online. This was a...
1938
Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
Samsung’s 60% DRAM price hike tightens supply. Learn how rising DDR5 and DDR4 prices impact buyers, sellers, and used RAM markets in 2026.
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Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild
See the ad for ebay at the top of the results? Not particularly interesting, right?…
1943
OS X Reviewed
Nearly 15 years ago, I wrote my first review of Mac OS X for a nascent “ PC enthusiast’s " website called Ars Technica . Last fall, I wrote my last . Though Apple will presumably announce the next major version of OS X at WWDC this coming June , I won’t be reviewing it for Ars Technica or any other publication…
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Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
Today Eclipse Foundation’s president Mike Milinkovic blogged about the final result of the confidential trademark negotiations between Oracle and the Eclipse Foundation. As we remember, Oracl…
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Learning not to trust the All-In podcast
Gross incompetence or purposeful deception?
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Lying on your resume
It’s not the crime that gets you, it’s the coverup. Richard Nixon and Watergate Getting asked by reporter about where I went to school made me remember the day I had to choose whether t…
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Monetizing open-source is problematic
Blog posts and Musings from Marak
1950
You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy
I recently read a story here titled “We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.”