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It needs about one more year to pickle. It's way too young.

I avoided Perl up until about six weeks ago, when one of the best coders I know selected it for something we're working on. If it was anyone else I would have overruled the choice, but it turns out h…

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21 Trends: #5 United States #6 Silicon Valley #20 Venture funding all need to move to the "Not Trends". The US, like a wealthy person whose money ran out but kept spending on credit cards, has just st…

You're shoehorning facts to fit your argument: I would be surprised if any single one of the founders of the companies mentioned above knew what the long term capital gains percentage was while they w…

physicists are smarter than professors of French Literature I would tend to say the opposite. Paul, you're mixing up here what I would call "savantism" with intelligence. We know that there is no …

It's a nice idea; I hope it works. Dear god how I could use a business mentor.

You're confusing this with a lot of the garbage out there. This is based on Carl Jung's work and is absolutely valid. It's not "quantifying" personality; it's helping -you- understand yourself bette…

I completely understand. Put some sort of anonymous email in your profile and we'll talk.

Socialism != Communism. I was saying exactly what you're saying: Capitalism but with legal and social protections; Capitalism with boundaries; and that's what most people refer to when they say Socia…

No, but it does promote Socialism. Right now, we're trawling the last fish out of the ocean. That helps a few people (the fishermen) at the expense of the rest of the world. It's not a Nash Equalibr…

"Crossing the Chasm" by Geoffrey Moore "Classic Drucker", edited works of Peter Drucker

I had the 400 which had a plastic membrane instead of keyboard. And it was always running out of memory. Good times.

And for non-YC applicants too. I'm in: @brodlist

I'd love a bookpad that has two screens that fold together like a book. One screen is LCD that can serve as keyboard/(multi)touchpad/video screen and the other e-ink screen for reading books. That's…

And with all the technologies and companies that are gunning for them, how can they possibly "adequately foresee and plan for" the one which will be their successor? So in other words, the main poster…

But we can never imagine what's next. When they said, "What's the worst that could happen to IBM?" No one would have been taken seriously if they said, "A tiny little computer that sits on your desk…

the reocities guys I think that describes Jacques pretty well; he's a substantial team unto himself.

Don't do it; you'll regret it. Listen, you're not the only one that's gone through this. Everyone who invested his/her early years obtaining hard skills (such as technical skills) at the expense of …

Nice! Well done.

Perfect. Thanks.

no SQL query will give you the path in a graph Could you explain what you mean there? Do you mean the path of how a graph was traversed?

Which then means that Microsoft has nothing to worry about.

That's great. But I want it: A) without the stupid pad. I want to have two wristbands (they would look like a wristwatch band) for each hand that would pick up muscle movement when I press/move my f…

Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky Lolita, Nabokov

No, I thought I was "kicked out" for some reason and then it just started working again.

That happened to me about two weeks ago on all browsers and on two machines. But a couple days later it was fine again.