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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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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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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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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
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On Succeeding Steve Jobs
A new Apple CEO would need credibility with two highly disparate factions: Apple’s rank-and-file employees, and Wall Street. The only candidates who could satisfy both factions, to any degree, already work at Apple.
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Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three years
I started investing in startups with the assumption that I don't know what I'm doing (which is always true), but that the only way to actual...
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Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups
Photo by earthlightbooks This is a guest article by Saba Younus. Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo . When she’s not working to create the best experience for each and every user, she spends her time scouring the web for juicy details about the startup worl
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Scaling GitHub's Employees
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Lessons from GitHub's First Year
The end of the year is a great time to sit down with a glass of your favorite beverage, dim the lights, snuggle up next to the fire and think about what you’ve learned over the past twelve months.
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