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Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search
People whose opinions I respect have all been echoing the same sentiment — Google, the once essential tool, is somehow losing its edge. The spammers, scrapers, and SEO’ed-to-the-hilt content farms are winning.
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It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
This quote, which went viral 2 months ago and that Steinbeck probably never said, has stuck with me:
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Mono Developers start their own company
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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One base class to rule them all.
Last week, I released base , a universal Base class for Ruby. Inheriting from it gives your class every instance method, class method, and constant from every module and class in the system. In a Rails app, it results in:
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Don't. Waste. Time.
Office space Launch parties Health insurance plans Salary negotiations Founder equity splits Series F stock Office Food Team-building activities CRM systems Bookkeeping Head count Working in SOMA Convertible debt caps Valuations TechCrunch Karma scores ISOs Powerpoint Business Cards Banks Lawyers Desks 1099s Bug…
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Why the #AskObama tweet was garbled on screen
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Your taste is why your work disappoints you.
I love this observation about taste and creative work from Ira Glass: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do cr
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Minimum Viable Personality
Today we have a special guest post. There have been a few guest posts here at AVC. Maybe a half dozen in total. One of my favorites was this one by JLM during the financial crisis of 2008/2009. But this one today may top that gem. It's from our favorite Giant Robot Dinosaur and it's […]
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Node.js has jumped the shark
I've been trying to understand this whole Node.js thing that's been going on for the past few days. It's taught me a lot about how the Node....
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JQuery 1.6 released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Google Killing Off Buzz and Code Search
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Why you can't hire
There isn’t a shortage of developers and designers. There’s a surplus of founders. The cost of starting a company has collapsed. It’s now just (minimal) salaries. For entrepreneurs, desks are free, hosting is free, marketing is online, and company setup is cheap. Raising the first $25K for product development is easy…
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