Failure is only a matter of perspective, and not a label. It’s the dissonance between how we expect things to work, and how they actually pan out.
Balaji (@balajis) describes his take on limiting blockchain-executable code in a tweetstorm.
The blockchain can be understood as a filesystem for a new kind of web
Another piece to the NY Times - Science Times. It didn’t make it, so I’m publishing it here
I submitted this piece to the NY Times, as a letter to the editor. They rejected it, so I’m publishing it here
The weekend edition of the Daily Brief by Quartz had a very interesting take on Snapchat that I wanted to publish here for those who haven’t read it
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ― R. Buckminster Fuller
A primer on how to build, test, scale and finance heardware startups
We are embracing context in ever more applications today, but was that ultimately inevitable?
A new effort to create the next big super computer and applications for it
Is it the right time to get a developer to work for you, on your project?
How to ask the right questions to keep a team on target and push for performance
The browser extensions that we use today might be the future of operating system design
Beautifully designed products moving into the future of seamless integration
16 trends in technology for this new year discussed by a16z
What does it mean to be special? Maybe not all that much..
Significant bitcoin venture investment continued and much progress was made in furthering adoption, particularly in bitcoin payment acceptance by big brand names such as Microsoft and Dell.
The Economist explains what happens when a country defaults on their debt
Since the general concept of SSL has already been covered into some other questions (e.g. this one and that one), this time I will go for details.
There are some rare occasions when I come across some brilliant pieces of information that I can’t help but share and showcase. This is one such example. This question was asked on the security stack exchange, and well for the most part it’s hidden because no one will search for this particular answer. All the more reason I think it’s incredibly important to bring it to light. The question was asked by Polynomial. The question is answered in an incredible amount of detail by an expert, Thomas Pornin and is covered in this 3-part series. I copied his answer directly with minor changes to keep it as accurate as possible.
This is taken from Matt McCaffrey’s repository
Why the need to blog? And more importantly, why is that all the more important for security-researchers?
What is this idea of deliberate practice and how does it differ from plain old regular-practice?
I recently gave a talk at Cloudspace on using Jekyll and a little bit of the history behind it. Lastly, I talked about how to build a simple plugin using ruby. The slides are present here
*Tweetstorm by me, on similarities between the immune system and user-base growth**
What can Mega-man teach us about designing APIs that are built to last
Tweetstorm by me, on modeling diseases with new data-structures
I’ve talked about continous deployment and integration before but today I wanna talk about one of the providers Codeship. The service is an absolute pleasure to use and their support is just as good. Let’s look at why you’d want to use Codeship:
CoinDesk’s state of bitcoin report. Significant bitcoin venture investment continued and much progress was made in furthering adoption, particularly in bitcoin’s use as a medium of exchange.
Tweetstorm from Balaji about judging crazy new ideas for content, rather than immediate application
Tweetstorm from Marc about cash burn rates being too high
Tweetstorm by Marc Andreessen on how technology has provided us with superpowers
A huge list of frontend development resources collected over time. Sorted from general knowledge at the top to concrete problems at the bottom.
Tweetstorm by Marc Andreessen about ideas being too early or too late
Tweetstorm by Marc Andreessen on the big ideas that Silicon Valley is working on
This is a curated list of product management threads from Quora. The list comes from Baryy Clark
Predicting the future or defining the future? The current state of Windows phones.
Tweetstorm by Balaji, discussing the idea: Is the goal to solve problems or to try to solve problems?
Tweetstorm from Marc Andreessen on the differences between a technical vs professional CEO
The importance of being adaptable, and avoiding single points of failure.
Conflict management done right. Bring out the conflicts and don’t bury them under feelings or the fear of being called out for messing something up. In a startup, that could be a killer.
You just need two minutes to think of an idea, but what does it take to actually create a company around that idea? A startup is a lot more than just an idea.
Emerging middle-class of programmers. How will the future of our economy depend on those who can program, and what does that mean for those who have the chance to learn it now? In the end, technology is dominating our lives and that trend is not going down.
A new paradigm for rapidly developing prototypes and testing them with customers: Meteor.js for startups
MVP is not a smaller, hacked up version of the final product. There’s a lot more involved, in reality, an MVP is a model that will provide you with the best results from tests that you are conducting to verify the assumptions about your business model.
Software is eating the world and producing a lot of that. In turn, that data is re-structuring it. An interesting feedback loop for the age of technology.
Steve Blank summarizing the Lean Startup movement along with the recent advances and developments in his article for HBR. He has some very unique top-down insights into what makes Lean Startup work, and reprints of his paper are now openly available.
The importance of design to a young-startup. In short: There isn’t any. You can’t out-compete innovative features by building a better designed product. It just doesn’t work like that in the long run. Sure it’s nice to have a sleek app, but you need more lead bullets
Cloud computing as a Service. There are a lot of new acronyms becoming buzz-words, everyone is talking about a new SaaS service, or a newly deployed PaaS, but what do they mean? Beyond the hype, there’s a lot of amazing technology at play here.
CoinDesk’s report in the State of Bitcoin in the second quarter of 2014. The most promising results include the price bounce-back for Bitcoin. A number of factors explain bitcoin’s price rebound in the second quarter, including what appears to be a stabilizing regulatory situation in China as well as continued interest in bitcoin by large, well-established brands such as DISH, Expedia, and Apple
CoinDesk’s report in the State of Bitcoin in the first quarter of 2014. The most promising results include venture capital soaring, showing confidence in the technology and hopeful profitable performance