Side Projects – AVC
Side Projects Back when we started USV in 2003/2004, we used to see a lot of side projects that had taken off and were turning into companies. We funded at least one such side project, Delicious, which ended up getting sold to Yahoo! a few years later. But I remember that we would see one or two of…
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Posted on 2016-04-04T05:48:02+0000
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Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak - Craig Murray
Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak3 Apr, 2016 in Uncategorized by craig Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all in…
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"Unfortunately the leaker has made the dreadful mistake of turning to the western corporate media to publicise the results. In consequence the first major story, published today by the Guardian, is all about Vladimir Putin and a cellist on the fiddle. As it happens I believe the story and have no doubt Putin is bent."
Posted on 2016-04-04T04:57:00+0000
Panama Papers - All articles by Süddeutsche Zeitung
The Panama Papers are the largest data leak journalists have ever worked with. Find the best articles on the offshore leak on this page.
Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management — The Year of the Looking Glass
I first started managing people seven years ago, three years after I graduated and got my first design job. At the time,…
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This is a great read
"Unfortunately at many places, you’re roadblocked in advancing your career unless you become a manager. This sadly incentivizes the wrong outcomes, in which people who don’t love dealing with people become bad managers, and both they and their team suffers. "
Posted on 2016-04-03T16:56:48+0000
AP Style alert: Don’t capitalize internet and web anymore
Associated Press editors announced a new stylebook change Saturday ahead of a session at the annual American Copy Editors Society’s conference — the 2016 stylebook will lowercase the words &#…
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Posted on 2016-04-03T16:50:31+0000
We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source || kuro5hin.org
The timestamps on the files generally say 25 July 2000. The source is contained in a Zip file of size 213,748,207 bytes, named windows_2000_source_code.zip, which has been widely circulated on P2P networks. Some dummy files of similar size, containing just strings of zeroes, have also circulated.
Clang vs. GCC - code coverage checking
Recently, I've been compiling some of the codebases I work on under Clang 3.8 instead of GCC 4.8, to take advantage of better compiler warnings and faster compilation speed (I've seen a 33% speedup, though I haven't tested this rigorously). Today, I got to grips ...
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Posted on 2016-04-02T23:09:06+0000
Head of Oracle Linux moves to Microsoft | ZDNet
The man who turned Oracle into a Linux power, Wim Coekaerts, has moved to Microsoft.
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Posted on 2016-04-02T21:24:01+0000
Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest
Younger people need more sleep than adults, and they face antiquated school schedules.
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Posted on 2016-04-02T08:03:02+0000