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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Many of Microsoft’s security issues, instability, and less elegant interfaces can be traced directly back to the decision to focus on the needs of developers, particularly enterprise customers who made big investments

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Ben Bowers • J.Crew’s ‘The Bear’ Collab Celebrates the Show’s Best Characters

In practice, what users want from IT products are functionality, resiliency, and usability. But software engineers (especially at places like Google and Facebook, which selectively hire and sell themselves as places for cool smart people to work at) want to think of themselves as smart and creative. So instead of spending massive amounts of time di

A co-founder at Justin.tv, Vogt was later described as the "creative genius" at the start-up, who "hero-coded" the company out of problems and designed the camera systems necessary for live streaming.[8] As reported in Fortune, according to Justin.tv co-founder Justin Kan, Vogt would "just, like, lock himself in a room for three days and code away ... See more

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But another turn of the tech cycle would arrive, and as Microsoft grew more powerful, a sect of programmer activists struck back by forming the open-source software movement. As Tim O’Reilly, the tech publishing magnate, described the situation in his 1998 blog post “Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet,” “Despite all Microsoft’s efforts