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Firing People
Firing People: a talk about firing people, by Zach Holman.
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A very valuable vulnerability
The vulnerability — which has since been fixed, or else I would not be writing about it publicly — was in Stripe's bitcoin payment functionality . Some background for readers not familiar with this: Stripe provides payment processing services, originally for credit cards but now also supporting ACH, Apple Pay, Alipay…
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No tipping means better business
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CEO
In this post I’m going to try to give potential and actual CEO’s (and other C level execs to some extent) some actionable advice when it comes to how they conduct themselves in the hope that this will at some future date save some of you a great deal of misery and in some cases charges of misconduct or worse. My hope…
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Trump
I'm going to say something very unpopular in my world: Trump is right about some big things. He's right that many Americans are getting screwed by the system. He’s right that the economy is not...
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Pinboard Turns Seven
Heh, don't worry, that's just the whiskey talking. Pinboard is seven years old today!
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What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
In the least surprising news of 2016, Yahoo is selling its core business to Verizon for a sad $5 billion. Everyone knew this was coming —…
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Scammers Game Amazon A-Z Policy By Replacing iPhones With Clay
This morning I discovered some rather anomalous 1-star reviews on Amazon for the Apple iPhone 6s 128 GB. About 17% of the reviews for that product are 1-star...
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Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan
About a year ago, we made the decision to use Paypal as the primary payment method for our company, Hacker Paradise. After about a month…
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Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards
I run a job board that caters to tech jobs, primarily web professionals. This year has been pretty bonkers compared to previous years.
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Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Industry
There has been an explosive new development in how scientific research is read and distributed. It’s name is Sci-Hub [https://web.archive.org/web/20181007100235/https://sci-hub.cc/]. Founded in 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan (who was, at the time, a 22 year-old graduate student based in
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Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling
Some thoughts about why npm style micro-packages are a huge liability for everybody and what we could do to make them work.
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Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming
People are focusing on the wrong thing when analyzing Apple's path forward in the face of slowing iPhone sales . Instead of debating how much Apple will try to monetize the iPhone user base with services (not as much as consensus thinks), the company is instead planning its largest pivot y
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How to Survive an Acquisition
Last week Facebook announced that they will be shutting down Parse.
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Why Twitter Must Be Saved
First, a reposting of an old Stratechery article, Rebuilding the World Technology Destroyed. Then, why Twitter is an essential antidote to Facebook and must be preserved.
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Software Developers: how to get a raise without changing jobs
Here’s how to boost your lifetime earnings by hundreds of thousands of dollars by getting periodic raises without changing jobs.
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Anil Dash Is the New CEO of Fog Creek Software
For the first time since Fog Creek Software was founded more than sixteen years ago, we have a new CEO, Anil Dash.
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'We're in a Bubble'
A lot of people have been saying we’re in a tech bubble for quite some time. Someday they’ll be right, but in the meantime, I thought it'd be fun to look back at some articles from the last 10...