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Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop
Laptop makers have long shortchanged AMD-based offerings. Read on to find out how they can avoid common mistakes that limit the potential of their products.
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Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts, but quick to reduce them
Chase Sunset & Vine, 2012. Painting by Alex Schaefer There is a fundamental asymmetry to banking. Banks don't like to share higher inte...
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Little Tasks, Little Trust
Why Delegating Responsibilities Beats Micromanagement
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"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs
Tough questions to ask your remote employer who gives you Cost Of Living based compensation and some thoughts on how remote compensation will work in the future
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AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit
I’ve often heard it said that AWS is a major contributor to Amazon’s profitability. How major? Here’s a graph covering the last ten quarters, with a brief methodology discussion:
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Pinboard Turns Eleven
Pinboard is eleven years old today! Every year when I don't forget I try to publish the same stats:
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How I built the best-selling BlackBerry app
Many years ago, I built what I believe was the best-selling BlackBerry app of all-time, BBSmart Email Viewer. It feels strange to write that, and it's not something I'd say I'm really known for outside of the small niche community of BlackBerry app developers that used to exist. But of course this had a huge impact on…
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Stripe responded to my concerns about user tracking
Stripe has made several significant, positive changes to its user tracking and privacy policies in the last week.
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Buy Don't Build
This is my new hugo site
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Towards a Rust Foundation
In my #rust2020 blog post , I mentioned rather off-handedly that I think the time has come for us to talk about forming a Rust foundation. I wanted to come back to this topic and talk in more detail about what I think a Rust foundation might look like. And, since I don’t claim to have the final answer to that question…
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“This resentment runs deep and is stunningly widespread”
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/opinion/apple-app-store-hey.html
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Why do incompetent managers get promoted?
Two books — 45 years apart — explain it. If you want to get ahead, it’s time to face the facts.
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How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (2012)
“No speech was ever too short.”
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RFC: Let's Disrupt Dating Apps
This is a new series I’m going to start doing, much in the same spirit as YC’s Request for Startups . RFC doesn’t mean “ Request for Comments ” — although comments are of course welcome — but rather “Request for Co-founder.” RFC posts will be deep-dives on products and problems I find interesting or that I’m…
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A Sick Giant
Available today
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How to Keep Your Company Alive – Observe, Orient, Decide and Act
This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. It’s been updated with new information about the U.S. Paycheck Protection program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan progra…
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IBM's Lost Decade
TL;DR: Down and to the right I wasn’t going to do this post until I learned IBM PR is out browbeating reporters (one of the rare activities where the company is still world class) for being “too ha…
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Lessons from six months at Shopify
I’m now six months into Shopify. So far it’s going basically on schedule: as I was told, “Your first couple months you’re going to have zero idea what’s going on. Then around month three you’ll com…
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I enforced the AGPL on my code
Published: 20-10-2020 | Last update: 28-02-2022 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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How much did AlphaGo Zero cost? (2018)
Answer: probably around $35 million.
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Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
I just spent the past 6 hours migrating some of my open source projects from Travis CI to GitHub Actions, and I thought I'd pause for a bit (12 hours into this project, probably 15-20 more to go) to jot down a few thoughts. I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. For almost a decade, Travis CI made it possible…