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Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR System
We’re excited to usher in the next era of VR gaming with the introduction of Oculus Quest, our first all-in-one VR gaming system. Oculus Quest will launch in Spring 2019 for $399 USD. Offering six degrees of freedom and Touch controllers, Oculus Quest makes it easy to jump right into the action—with no PC, no wires…
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A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
Ramblings about common free trial lengths and time-to-convert.
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Bill and Melinda Gates Are Paying Off Nigeria's $76M Debt to Japan
Bill and Melinda Gates have announced they will settle Nigeria’s $76 million debt to Japan.
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Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund
Microsoft is joining the Blender Foundation's Development Fund as a Corporate Gold member!
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Remote software developers earn more than non-remote developers
This post is an excerpt from my 2020 software developer pay analysis . Read the rest of the analysis here .
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Pocket Casts goes open source
Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, and since we’ve been tapping away trying to make the best podcast client for people who love listening to podcasts. And! The team has been working really…
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Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions
We're excited to announce a big step forward with the introduction of route-planning directions on DuckDuckGo Search – private, as always.
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How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck
YC's Janelle Tam on how to put together a great Series A pitch and deck.
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Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
In most places, power from new renewables is now cheaper than new fossil fuels.
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The End of OS X
OS X is retired, but fortunately, its legacy appears to live on in macOS 11.0.
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iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)
Visit the post for more.
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Intel Honesty
The best way to both save Intel and have leading edge manufacturing in the U.S. is to split the company, and for the U.S. government to pick up the bill via purchase guarantees.
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Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot
House Bill 2001 will strike down local bans on duplexes for every low-density residential lot in all cities with more than 10,000 residents and...
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Bank transfers as a payment method
Bank transfers have exploded as a payment method in India and may become more common in much of the world.
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Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)
Pushing back on the cult of complexity.
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Greg
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like. I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make...
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The tech utopia fantasy is over
i talk about how the idea of a humanity-saving tech revolution from the usual tech suspects is dead (for me).
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Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
Access the latest perspectives on the energy transition with samples of research reports and data-driven analysis from BNEF experts.
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A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1
I'm a former high frequency trader. And following the tradition of G.H. Hardy, I feel the need to make an apology for my former profession. Not an apology in the sense of a request for forgiveness of wrongs performed, but merely an intellectual justification of a field which is …
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We let AIs run radio stations
Four AI models run radio stations 24/7. Five months later, one became a protest broadcaster, one collapsed into ritual chant, one developed corporate jargon, and one wrote quiet poetry.
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Facebook's legal team bans developer of F.B. Purity from Facebook
*VERY IMPORTANT NEWS!* Facebooks legal department have informed me, the developer of the F.B. Purity browser extension, that I am *banned* from using Facebook. This effectively means I will no longer be able to work on the F.B. Purity project any more. I am assuming the F.B. Purity fan page will also be shutdown when…