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I've been playing around with a music synthesizer and sequencer that just came out. I noticed while uploading new presets to the OP-XY that the presets themselves are in a .JSON fi…

Maybe the founders are just trying to throttle for performance and ability to let in users only as fast as they can talk to them and get feedback. That’s what I feel like Y Combina…

Retool is the closest thing I've seen to capturing the magic of early Visual Basic.

But if you can crack the code in solving the transaction cost/friction, it would open up a tremendous amount of creative value. I hope this team succeeds.

I get what you’re saying but is the track record of terrorism any better at causing constructive change? Really we need to engage a lot of people’s minds, and that just turns out t…

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Really interesting to think about hardware vs software. Thank goodness for Von Neumann for helping us get more generic. A lot of historians assume that Babbages work collected dust…

More over the risk of death is part of the cost calculation for tobacco. Not all prices / values are monetary. This is a crucial aspect any serious economist incorporates and this …

Carmack’s Twitter is a fun follow

Our dog caught Valley Fever on a road trip through the southwest. It was just dumb luck that our vet originally practiced in Arizona and was familiar with this fungal infection. Th…

Why would this actually be true? If it’s easier to find in source, Microsoft probably would have found it. Ever single feature there goes through multiple security reviews and ther…

"Stay Awhile and Listen" is a great book covering the founding story of Blizzard North, creators of Diablo 1 & 2. While not as great as Masters of Doom, it reminded me quite a bit …

Was hoping for a way more interesting interview. This guy is the most singularly responsible person for being XML HTTP Request (AJAX) to web browsers. There could be such an intere…

I read it and agree that sometimes it goes too fast and other times too slow (do I need to know the geographical history of New Jersey?), but so many good nuggets in this book. I’v…

I am working on one for engineering. Goal is so send no more than every two weeks and just keep quality bar super high. First issue is up at https://buriedreads.com/2019/01/19/how-…

The #1 approach that worked for us at Mattermark was having founders talk to every single prospect early on. Most of the best approaches I have heard are just a business contextual…