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The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
Part of my series on common misconceptions in space journalism. Now available in audio form. SpaceX has been working on some variant of the Big Falcon Rocket for almost a decade, with a publicly an…
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Introducing Facebook Shops
We’re launching Facebook Shops and investing in features across our apps that inspire people to shop and make selling online easier.
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Is the Lean Startup Dead?
A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review Reading the NY Times article “Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture,” I realized it was time for …
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New Y Combinator Website
Our website got a facelift [http://www.ycombinator.com]. [http://www.ycombinator.com] The content is pretty much the same. Since the old site was mostly text, I did my best to just make that text easier to digest and hopefully entice people to get through more of it. A lot of the best content on the site like What…
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New Thunderbird Releases and New Thunderbird Staff
Thunderbird is going strong at version 52 (ESR) and 57, 58 beta In April 2017 Thunderbird released its successful Extended Service Release (ESR) version 52. This release has just seen it’s fifth “dot update” 52.5.0, where fixes, stability and minor functionality improvements were shipped. Thunderbird 57 beta was also…
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Takeaways from looking for a new senior role in tech
A few months ago, I left SeatGeek without much of a plan of what to do next. My green card was finally issued in 2021, which means that I didn’t have to scramble to find a new job in forty days. Fo...
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This coupon code is a slap in the face
At the moment of purchase that you get a slap in the face: "You're paying full price, but if you had our magic code you wouldn't have to."
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Does it scale? Who cares (2011)
Web developers the world over are always terminally worried about whether or not their application will scale orders of magnitude without keeling over.
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Microsoft Kills off ISVs by Foisting Its Own Products That Are No Better
Hi Folks! Meet David, the magnificent masterpiece sculpted by Michelangelo at the start of the 16th century. A photo of his face with that curious furrowed brow featured on our very first anti-cyber…
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How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours
NOTE: This post was originally written after JetBrains announced a controversial new licensing model. Many people spoke out about it. The ...
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New Search Strategy for Firefox
Ten years ago, we built Firefox to keep the Internet in each of our hands — to create choice and put people in control of their lives online. Our focus h
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DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist
New users can start creating straight away. Lessons learned from deployment and improvements to our safety systems make wider availability possible.
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If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot
As a rule of thumb business owners should be primarily focused on delighting their customers in any way possible. Every subtle interaction should be closely optimized for customer enchantment, and a decision as simple as where to park your car can subconsciously attract or detract a customer.
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How We reduced our Google Maps API cost
Being a highly reliable commute partner to our customers, we at Cityflo take all kinds of measures to ensure high accuracy and predictability of our vehicle tracking system. Showing incorrect arrival time to our users will heavily hamper the experience that our users expect from us.
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Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
A redacted document showed extremely sensitive information. Google's lawyer accidentally made it public.
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Excel Never Dies
The Spreadsheet That Launched A Million Companies
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Don't forget Microsoft
Understanding the behemoth in Redmond teaches us valuable lessons in cloud infrastructure, startup strategy, and the future of software.
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Oh shit, my weekend project turned into an App Store Best New App (2018)
How a quick weekend app for sharing book quotes, Snaplight, got featured by Apple—and the lessons that matter more than star ratings.
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Everything I know about good API design
Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs: public interfaces for communicating with a program, like this one from Twilio. I’ve spent a lot of time…
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