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How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers
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Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment
Posted by Daniele Procida, Adrienne Lowe on Feb. 4, 2016
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The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations
In November 2012 voters in the states of Colorado and Washington approved ballot initiatives that legalized marijuana for recreational use. Two years later, Alaska and Oregon followed suit. As many as 11 other states may consider similar measures in November 2016, through either ballot initiative or legislative action.
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It's a Tesla
Tesla is not a disruptor, but then again, neither is Apple, the closest comp: both succeed by building a brand around being the best.
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Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Startups Can’t Manufacture Like Apple Does (2014)
Startups can’t do things the same way big companies do. And that’s a good thing; here’s why. Startups and big companies differ in a lot of ways. When it comes to hardware, the gulf between the two is massive. Early-stage startups are painfully under-financed. This lack of capital makes manu
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Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
We have sat here for the last 3 years seeing only infrastructure apps like wallets and exchanges emerge on top of Bitcoin. Why is that?
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Penny Auctions
Unless you use an ad blocker, you probably notice ads for penny auction sites from time to time. They usually advertise with sketchy messages like “iPhone sold for $14.21.” They can sell iPhones such low prices because of their unusual auction system where each bid increases the auction price by only one cent. This…
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YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers
The new preview function shows you what to expect before choosing to save or play the video, and in which resolution. You can also share videos to friends nearby, without using up any data.
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We're ditching the office completely
Last week we closed down Buffer's only physical office. We're now fully, truly remote. Here are the reasons why.
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Employee 1: Yahoo
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Salary transparency at Stack Overflow
We believe (and developers tell us ) that job seekers should be empowered with as much information as possible when looking for a job – especially salary. So we ran an experiment on Stack Overflow Jobs to see if the evidence would support it. Remarkably, we learned that job listings which include a salary range got…
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We Only Hire the Best
How many times have you heard a company claim that they only hire the best? The top of the top. The crème de la crème. Most of them, by sheer necessity of math, are delusional. There just aren’t th…
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Employee #1: Dropbox
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RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software
RethinkDB and sustainable business models Three weeks ago, I spent the evening of Sept 12, 2016 with Daniel Mewes, who is the lead enginee...
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Google endorses the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are beginning to recognize the Internet’s transformative impact on trade.
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Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo
At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. The foundation of our technology is Signal Protocol, a modern, open source, strong encryption protocol for asynchronous messaging systems. It is built from the ground up to make seamless end-to-end encrypted messaging poss...
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You Are Not Paid to Write Code
“Taco Bell Programming” is the idea that we can solve many of the problems we face as software engineers with clever reconfigurations of the same basic Unix tools. The name comes from the fact that every item on the menu at Taco Bell, a company which generates almost $2 billion in revenue annually, is simply a…
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Learning from a Year of Security Breaches
This year (2016) I accepted as much incident response work as I could. I spent about 300 hours responding to security incidents and data…
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What the Heck Is Happening at Apple?
Apple's not in trouble (yet) but here's how Cupertino can get its mojo back
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YC’s Summer Reading
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Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
How we use natural language processing to qualify leads
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