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Steve Yegge and Grok
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Pay Too Much for everything
Have you ever inherited something that's really old? When you held it, did you notice that it's different than what you can buy at the store today? Chances are your grandparents saved up for quite some time to buy it, and that’s why it’s lasted until now. Often something that costs twice as much doesn't
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Eugene Kaspersky: What Wired Is Not Telling You
This is a very unusual post. It’s not about cyber-crime, malware, our latest business achievements or my latest long journey around the globe. It’s about truth and facts, and the importance of not hiding certain facts while revealing others. For sure I was surprised to read such an article from a journalist who, up…
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Goodbye AdSense
I have been using Google's AdSense web advertising system since it opened to the public, eight and a half years ago. Aside from one quickly-resolved incident eight years ago, Google and I have been very happy with each other and have made a lot of money for each other.
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Apple's no internal client syndrome
Once upon a time Apple proceeded this way: They worked on frameworks and services internally, made them private, gave them a little time to mature (about one or two releases) and only then made them public. This way they had knowledge how the usage pattern was, what part of the API is good, what is bad, maybe adjust…
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Peter Thiel’s startup class notes in PDF
@bgmasters created an awesome series of blog posts covering his notes of Peter Thiel’s startup class CS183. Personally i try to re...
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I can manipulate your amazon.com recommendations
I can put any item of my choice on your personalized amazon.com homepage. Did I hear you say Bollocks! ? Well, here is proof:
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Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson)
I got fired from Facebook... and it cost me $100 million dollars. Probably even more now. This is my story as (former) Facebook employee #30.
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The Forgotten Yahoo Project That Inspired Two Recently Funded Startups
IFTTT and Zapier are getting a lot of attention but they're really just a reinvention of Yahoo! Pipes.
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Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account
i dont really get it... did you actually create multiple account? did you redeem multiple adwords credit coupons? what exactly did you do? or were there just other people with the same idea so there were multiple adwords accounts advertising dropbox? if the latter: would it be possible to get other advertisers banned…
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Never ever do business with Samsung India Software Operations
Back in October 2010 I was very glad to receive a mail from the people behind the Samsung Dolfin browser, who turned out to work from Bangalore, India, asking for my cooperation in making it better and even offering to pay me for it. Unfortunately, by now it turns out that they’re a bunch of fucking assholes who don’t…
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Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open
Update: Virgin fixed the issue Tuesday night after taking their login page down for four hours. Please see my update at the bottom of this post.
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Why Tarsnap won't use DynamoDB
As I've blogged about before, the Tarsnap server code synthesizes a log-structured filesystem on top of Amazon S3 . As a result of this design, for each block of data stored on Tarsnap, the server code needs to keep track of two key-value pairs: First, to map a 64-bit machine number and a 256-bit block ID to a 64-bit…
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B2B Is Unsexy, and I Know It
Discuss this post on Hacker News. When I tell people I do B2B software I get some very interesting reactions. “Why do B2B? It’s so unsexy.” And that’s true
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