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I'm mentoring a few people learning Python, and I wanted to quickly evaluate LearnStreet and decide whether to recommend it. With Codecademy I could do that, here I cannot. So Code…

Knowing the author's other writing (which is, by the way, very recommended), I would think he isn't trying to say "look how wrong we went, lets make things smaller again" but inste…

I'm guessing he does it by being a bank himself (ad for a bank safety campaign). The real bad guys have other methods, which you can google (try "online financial crime").

I'd link to the video itself, but I wanted to write commentary on what's so amazing about it and the FAQ instructed me to blog about it and link to the blog. If this is considered …

Hello, I am Aur Saraf. I was in a lecture about legal matters in starting up when I figured out that the easy and fool proof way to make money in this business is not creating a gr…

Ahh, my specialty. SonOfLilit in gmail.

It would be fun for a few moments (for boys), but that's it. Geeks are people who tend to stay OUT of the really stupid ego matches, which is what it would become. Geek girls I've …

Hello, Aur Saraf again. "Either you didn't read the article carefully or have not used the site." I've read the article very carefully, which is not to be said on the way you read …

Good day. No. Do you? I don't think that a club only made up of "hot people" is any less of a meat market, especially since females tend to pay very little attention to physical at…

Hello. I am Aur Saraf. And I don't like this. Why? Because flirting is about communication. Perhaps it's the journalist's mistake, but it seems like communication plays secondary r…

Hello. I am Aur Saraf. Social skills are learnable. Very learnable. I believe that every geek should submit himself to a crash course in social skills (to a level where he can cont…

the Y combinator is an answer to this exact question Aur Saraf

Hello. I am Aur Saraf. Simply put, no. Start ups are about work, not ideas. Ideas flow freely with some people (like me) that just have about one idea per day worth implementation.…

Hello, I am Aur Saraf. Early French Gendarmes earned their bread capturing criminals and charging the populace for the service (as freelancer professionals, not employees of the go…

Hello. My name is Aur Saraf. No, this won't happen. We're drifting AWAY form that, not TOWARD it, in the last 50 years. And yet, a revolution in education WILL come. Some day, some…

Hello. My name is Aur Saraf. If you want to change the world, you have two ways to do it: 1) By force - in this case, don't do it. Waste of energy on anti-productivity. 2) By creat…

I am Aur Saraf. YC can be scaled to any size very simply. So simply, in fact, that had I met the criteria, I'd ask Paul to sponsor me in setting up YC Israel. YC can be scaled by b…