A month ago , I got dumped. It was the third in a series of failed long-term relationships I’ve had over the past five years. All relationships end differently. Some exes stay friends and some disappe
Justin Williams captures much of the complexity facing modern app developers in The Parts of Your Platform : Ignoring the cloud or web services because they are out of your comfort zone is no longer a
In Web Hosting for App Developers , Marco makes some important points. One is that high-level cloud hosting (think of Node.js hosts, for instance) may come with “unexpected changes, limitations, and c
Update (3/29/14): I've written up an analysis of national tuition cost trends in a new blog post . It turns out that Michigan State University's tuition situation isn't uncommon! Earlier today, I ran
Mitt Romney famously called Tesla Motors a "loser" company during his run for president. He lost, of course, and Tesla is by any measure winning. And so we see would-be presidential candidates lining
Demo day just wrapped up for Beacon . We feel pretty good about what we've done since starting YC in January. But it's been a long and winding road to get here. One of my cofounders ( @dmitric ) and I
A Nation of Takers? In the debate about poverty, critics argue that government assistance saps initiative and is unaffordable. After exploring the issue, I must concede that the critics have a point.
San Francisco's Bay Bridge covered in fog. Nick Bilton/The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — For some time, people have been saying that San Francisco is transforming into another, different kind of big
A curious download hit Apple’s App Store this week: a messaging app called FireChat . It’s a new kind of app because it uses an iOS feature unavailable until version 7: the Multipeer Connectivity Fram
"A data scientist is a statistician who lives in San Francisco. Data science is statistics done on a Mac" - @smc90 This week we welcomed a new member to the Balderton team, Ferenc Huszar, ( @fhuszar )
The Goog Life: how Google keeps employees by treating them like kids I was talking with a friend the other day about that perennial subject of conversation in the Valley, Google. And finally she gave
Home Pricing Help Blog Log In Chunkhost Blog Huge Security Hole in Sendgrid By Nate Daiger ,posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2014 We had a serious security incident over the weekend that took us by surp
Khalid Mar 26, 2014 What´s the next big thing? well, I give up thinking about that 🙂 fredwilson Mar 26, 2014 i never stop. it drives me crazy. JimHirshfield Mar 26, 2014 “THE” next big thing? Why just
I’m reading about how Microsoft read a blogger’s Hotmail (or other Microsoft hosted email) to determine who leaked Microsoft information to that blogger. Microsoft’s response is pathetic , stating that “the privacy of our customers is incredibly important to us” in the same post that explains that…
I was in a Facebook discussion about “Friendly Artificial Intelligence” — this is a buzzword from the Singularity Institute people. They believe in their heart of hearts that artificial intelligence o
Over a period of 6 months, two programmers and I, worked nights and weekends to create, launch and kill an iOS app called YayNay (hot or not for anything). We maintained full time jobs and families wh
Somewhere on the outskirts of Marrakech, Morocco, inside a vault housed beneath the shadow of the Atlas Mountains, there sits an engraved silver-and-nickel box with the potential to spawn a shift in t
Back in May, [Chris Bowler posted][1] about his use of Reading List. His post actually inspired me to dump Instapaper and use only Apple’s Reading List feature instead. On the surface this seemed like
In 1997, about a year after launch, Hotmail was growing exponentially, adding thousands of new users every day. We were on fire. And then one night, it all seemed to unravel. We had a program called t
As first noted by developer Olga Osadcha, Apple is testing a related search suggestion feature on the App Store, which started rolling out earlier today for iPhone users on iOS 7. The new menu, a scro
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“I have more botox in me than any ten people,” Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February. He is a reality-show producer’s idea of a cosmetic surgeon—his demeanor brash, his bone structu
Anonymity is all the rage these days, and so we bring our attention to Whisper . This week, we’re joined by Leena Rao , who has some mixed feelings about the craze around anonymous social sharing apps
It is almost 9 AM on St. Patrick's Day, and he is on the Metro North train to Manhattan from some grassy, forgettable Westchester suburb. When he boarded the train he was carrying a case of light beer
President Obama and senior administration officials huddled with top technology executives Friday to discuss progress on the president’s proposed reforms to electronic government surveillance program,
“Raise your hand if you’d like to be in my will.” Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This post originally appeared in Business Insider. Google CEO Larry Page has an unusual idea about what should h
More About Marc Marc Andreessen is a Cofounder and General Partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used b
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A New York man who says he was scammed by an OKCupid user is now suing the online dating site for not properly warning him that he could be duped. In February 2013, 65-year-old Michael Picciano of Que
As you will probably already know, Apple’s i OS 7.1 update recently became available. Along with a raft of revisions, security patches and other improvements there was one little feature I was particularly interested in: a new Mobile Safari property known as minimal-ui . Apple describes this as…
It’s not crazy for Sam Altman’s phone bill to rack up 6,000 talking minutes in a month. He talks a lot, to a lot of people. If you ask anyone who knows Altman, from former employees to investors to me
A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource explo
Questions Over Absence of Cellphone Calls From Missing Flight’s Passengers Relatives of passengers who were traveling on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 watched a news conference at a hotel in Beijing on
“Do you ring a doorbell with a finger or a thumb?” That’s the kind of question Alice Rawsthorn, design critic for The International New York Times , asks when she thinks about design—all design—and th
Marc Andreessen Download Photo Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software
Have you ever wondered what the most popular colors are in each category of the iOS store? We did. So we crawled the iOS app store and grabbed the top 5 app icons in each category and ran a histogram analysis on each one to find which colors were used most often. What we found was very interesting.…
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