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I agree, for large companies, referral makes sense. But they were quite clear they want to get involved in seed stage and for that, referral-only is another way of saying "innovation, but only where i…

I feel really lucky. Back in 1999, I was working in Zurich and found out Kent was living there at the time, so I figured out a way to have lunch with him. He talked about XP with such passion; it's …

> This decoupling is likely to cause a decrease in the overall amount of work put in by the students. I'm American but I live in a post-Communist country, and what I've seen in terms of the gener…

This is exactly why I love HN. Thanks, Misha.

Very interesting!

I think he understands many things we'll only recognize much later, and one of these is that kids need clarity. (Not simplicity; people talk down to kids all the time.) And clarity is orthogonality,…

startuply.com, craigslist.org

YCombinator is a waste; replace it with Vegas.

Wait... I thought my startup was going to reinvent the web...

Both pilots of an Air Comet flight from Lima, Peru, to Lisbon, Portugal, sent a written report on the bright flash they said they saw to Air France, Airbus and the Spanish civil aviation authority, th…

6 the airplane came apart from being oversped, overstressed, etc. 7 but it all happened so instantaneously that no distress signal was given. An oversped, overstressed plane does not come apart ins…

I thought it was clever and funny, but that doesn't justify it. Clearly I offended people here and for that I apologize.

IQ can't measure intelligence because intelligence is qualitative, not quantitative. It's not like height or weight, it's like beauty. People can generally agree on it, but there's no concrete way t…

And those who believe they are "above" the vast majority are too arrogant to discuss the issue rationally. Simply, if you believe that IQ measures intelligence, you lose 80 IQ points.

Perfect answer. Thanks.

I know this is a generic question that's a bit off-topic, but how do you pitch to someone like this? How do you get introduced (especially if you're in Europe)?

Aspect-oriented is interesting and merits reading up on, but really we have to get away from "x-oriented" and more toward, "Here is the code model. How do you want to view it?" We've spent too long …

Yes, the art of computer programming has been standing still for the last -30- years. Why? The industry got rich and implementation became king. There's some good work going on here and there. Chec…

When I first heard of it, I didn't get it. Then I got it and thought -- that's really cool. Then I ungot it. Twitter is a mullet. It's not just a fad, but a fad that will embarrass us later. Liste…

I'm an American a few hours North in Prague. Drop me an email if you come up this way; it's in my profile.

>That's a really heartwarming story. Unfortunately, it's a single data point. We certainly can't expand that to cover all poor people Sit quietly and really ask yourself if you think that was my p…

I met a guy on the streets of Berkeley years ago. I gave him some money and he smiled a warm, effusive smile. He said it was his birthday. We started talking. He had been on the streets for a coup…

"We have very low economic mobility here" There. Fixed that for you. http://www.economicmobility.org/assets/pdfs/EMP_American_Dre... …

The core technology comes from there but the funding comes from Sweden. Let me see if I can wrap up the argument: Paul's argument, if I understand it, is that innovation is critical. To get it, we n…

> Things that can't be produced profitably aren't produced voluntarily If for good x to be produced profitably, it needs for the human labor component to work for less than livable wage, then it s…

I know it seems like minimum wage would price workers out of the market, but in reality it tends not to work that way. For example, McDonalds doesn't price a hamburger based on costs, but the best pr…

Outsiders? I'm from northern California and lived and worked for years in Oakland. Maybe it wasn't as bad as we thought, but there were definitely areas that you "knew" not be in after dark. And the…

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There are no "bad" parts of Bratislava. There are massive "bad" parts of the Bay Area. There are even larger "bad" parts of Rio. The more bifurcated the wealth, the more you have the gated communit…