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Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs Dies
Link to: http://www.apple.com/
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Why T-shirts matter at tech companies
During my tenure at LinkedIn, I’ve held a wide variety of roles and responsibilities within the company. Some are fairly public (as described on my LinkedIn profile). Others are the the typ…
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Google buys Zagat
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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"How much does a website cost?" – a survey of web designers
Hi! My name is Rob, and I find the best website design leads for agencies on the web. Save hours finding great projects to pitch.
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The Next Six Months
I am nearly dead certain the iPad 2 is going to have the same display resolution and size as the current iPad. I am not so sure at all, though, that there won’t be a double-resolution 2048 x 1536 iPad in 2011.
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Google search and search engine spam
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Why can't all "tech" journalism be like this?
Over at the New Yorker, Ken Auletta has some insight into why Eric Schmidt is stepping down as Google’s CEO. Schmidt, according to associates, lost some energy
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Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back – And It’s Worse than Ever
We've reported here often on efforts to ram through Congress legislation that would authorize massive interference with the Internet, all in the name of a fruitless quest to stamp out all infringement online. Today Representative Lamar Smith upped the ante, introducing legislation, called the Stop...
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Tower Bridge bot killed by Twitter, replaced with marketing
I got an email today, a bit sad that the bot I made to comment on Tower Bridge's state had disappeared.
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Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers
There are a lot of posts out there about identifying and hiring 10x engineers. And a lot of discussion about whether or not these people even exist. At Spool, we’ve taken a very different app…
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What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate)
By now you’ve no doubt smelled the shitstorm surrounding Google’s allegation that Bing are ‘cheating’ and copying Google’s search results. If not, in brief, Google spotted that Bing sometimes includes results that seemed to be copied from Google, so Google set up a honeypot – they made some made up words like…
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ACM considered harmful
The Association of Computing Machinery is the premier US representative body for computer science and according to its own blurb: “serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge …
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Ryan Bates launches RailsCasts Pro
Short Ruby on Rails screencasts containing tips, tricks and tutorials. Great for both novice and experienced web developers.
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The True Cost of Commuting
It was a beautiful evening in my neighborhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Stree…
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Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core
About 3 months ago, we set off on a little experiment into the world of the Amazon App Store. Back then people were hailing it as the solution to the problems with the Google Market, industry pundi…
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Nobody Cares
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The