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Fun tends to be best enjoyed in small groups. The auto industry is far from a joyless place, engineers at AMG or BMW design products with the aim of fun, great design for the sake …

Do you know the price point at which purchase orders predominate over credit cards for payment? I'm launching a product soon and I plan to price it at $6k per year. I assume that t…

A middle class lifestyle is based upon the products that companies produce, not so much the jobs they provide. A house with a garden is within reach of the masses only if cars are …

The decline of the empire and being whittled down to 'just our island' has coincided with the best possible time to be alive in britain, very far from being a disaster. As for havi…

It supports linux too, I've had it up and running on Mint and Ubuntu for at least 6 months.

narcissism. Its a running theme throughout the 'parent' blog, http://thelastpsychiatrist.com , that many social ills are at root manifestations of narcissism.

Notes in margins have also caused century long headaches; wouldn't it have been better if Fermat had a blog instead?

Can't the same be said of accountants or wall streeters? Top founders like Bazos, Jobs and Gates all seem to have pretty solid mariages; is the divorce rate higher for people who h…

'The lifebox, the seashell and the soul' by Rudy Rucker. http://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox/ It has the same sort of feel as GEB, he riffs about cellular automata etc, its not too d…

Suddenly elevated status! Two billion dollar companies and 20 years in the valley, is the rest of the world really that cut off to condescend like this?

They have Chrome OS in the works and smart phones are getting more powerful, almost comparable to netbooks. Assuming that this is relying on C++ as Chrome does; might they be able …

You could look to China as an example; a country that has re-entered the world economy fairly abruptly and is looking to acquire raw materials. They might follow their lead and do …

Not on the basis of this article it won't; this was about the Poincare conjecture, Perelman and pettiness.

I don't have a business, just an office drone; but I have to find out about legal ownership of companies all the time, when our customers issue purchase orders we have to make sure…

The point is that the arrangement of bits might not be appropriate to copy; people have been writing poetry for millennia but when you need to write copy of a webpage or lay out a …

Silicon Valley companies are no good at negotiating with barbaric governments, therefor are no longer king? Since when was that SVs claim to fame?

1) Think outside the box 2) Maximize potential 3) Push the envelop 4) Keep your eye on the ball 5) Always wear a condom

Was this done with R?