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True. But I think his point was that by not investing in other parts of the country, people are not giving a chance for the ecosystem to develop. I think local culture plays a big …

It seems like you're kind of a jack of all trades. This is an awesome skill-set to have while working in a datacenter. Call it IT/dev-ops whatever. The tech field isn't restricted …

This seems to be normal in most other countries as well. For example in Japan, UK etc Internet penetration grows to about 75-80% and then stops.

I had a longer response, but I think the short response is that this is just the way the corporate world is. Things were also different when Silicon Valley companies were smaller a…

Please continue using words like "sociopath", "snot-nosed" etc. I've watched ethics deteriorate over the years in the Valley. I support the one person who can see through this ongo…

I read this great article and bought both his books on Amazon. I want Dan to read this post and analyze why I did it.

You can already do this at kinzaa.com.

Oh, I'm on Gmail already, trust me. But thats because I like the faster interface, search capabilities, being able to check multiple mail accounts, gtalk etc. Yahoo is a great repo…

I can't remember having this sort of problem with yahoo mail. Then again they don't build their own filesystem.

Hmm..when I read the article the first time I didn't get the impression that he was saying business people should stay away from politics. But I was closely following the 2008 elec…

You're saying the goal of government is to "return value" to the people. I'm saying its goal is to "serve" the people. I think we can agree we're saying the same thing. Here's the …

This is a superb article. The portion I was really interested in was the one on bootstrapping. Completely agree with Jason Fried about taking on investor funds, maintaining your in…

@protomyth, re: "why wouldn't we want a.."because the criteria to be successful in business and government are completely different! In business the ONLY goal is to create value fo…