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Stripe: Platform of Platforms
Stripe’s announcement of Treasury — banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company’s ambition.
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Tips for Founders Sales: Lessons from Starting Two B2B Startups
Thus far I’ve founded two bootstrapped B2B startups, and led sales on both. One is off to the races, profitable, and growing. We even hired a general manager so that I can free myself up to work on other projects. The other is slightly more nascent, and just barely at ramen profitability.
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Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap
This is part 1 of a series where I’ll look at the future costs of clean energy and mobility technologies.
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Why I teach vim
The why of why people use vim has been covered fairly extensively, so I thought I would spend a little time explaining why I teach vim to my high school students, even in 2020. It all began when I …
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MGA Entertainment: A privately-owned toy company doing billions in revenue
The privately-owned toy company quietly doing billions in revenue.
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Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive
You can upgrade the storage in your Raspberry Pi 4 with an NVMe drive using USB3 to get more reliable storage and faster I/O than an SD…
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How much things can change
This post is about how much things can change in the world over a lifetime. I’m going to restrict my attention to science, though there are many parallels in technology, human rights, and social justice.
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Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (2017)
After two years of being open source and a lot of development, Specter has reached 1.0. In this po...
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Assange Hearing Day 3
In yesterday’s proceedings in court, the prosecution adopted arguments so stark and apparently unreasonable I have been fretting on how to write them up in a way that does not seem like caricature or unfair exaggeration on my part. What has been happening in this court has long moved beyond caricature. All I can do […]
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How to Drive on Sand Without Getting Stuck (2017)
Tips and techniques for driving in sandy conditions. Must read before hitting the beach or dunes in your vehicle to avoid getting stuck because it is very easy to get stuck in sand. Avoid joining the 'digging club'!
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Penetration testing and low-cost freelancing
Penetration testing is complex. For it to be successful, the tester needs to possess a variety of different abilities and skills. Some testers rely only on automated tools, while others focus more on manual analysis. While a creative and unconventional way of thinking is necessary, it is also important for the tester…
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Five Second Feedback
And they said it couldn’t be done!
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Using Clojure in the command line with Babashka
Kari Marttila’s Blog (e.g. cloud and Clojure related articles)
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Plotting patterns in music with a fantasy record player
A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.
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Beginners guide to gateways and proxies
Have you heard of gateways, proxies, load balancer, API gateways? This article explains what gateways are, what is their purpose and how they work with pract...
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Unlimited is like a Ponzi Scheme
You shouldn’t be surprised when unlimited ends, because unlimited is more often than not an unsustainable Ponzi Scheme.
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Sync vs. Async Python: What Is the Difference?
Have you heard people say that async Python code is faster than "normal" (or sync) Python code? How can that be? In this article I'm going to try to explain what async is and how it differs from…
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Decentralize Messaging
Twitter is funding a team to decentralize social media. I think they should start with messaging.
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Trust Is at the Core of Software Marketing
Discover why trust is the foundation of software marketing success, from Apple's $205B brand value to proven strategies for enterprise SaaS and cloud vendors.
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Clear and Present Leadership
Great leaders communicate clearly and are involved
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A Pico-8 story: How the fantasy console unlocked Frédéric Souchu’s dreams
Pico-8 and the retro-gaming trend
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Continuations by example: Exceptions, time-traveling search, threads, and more
Continuations are the least understood of all control-flow constructs. This lack of understanding (or awareness) is unfortunate, given that continuations permit the programmer to implement powerful language features and algorithms, including exceptions, backtracking search, threads, generators and coroutines.
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DisplayPort and 4K
The Problem Video playback looks better with a higher scan rate. A lot of content that was designed for TV (EG almost all historical documentaries) is going to be 25Hz interlaced (UK and Australia)…
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Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry