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Not necessarily Burning Man but that's just an upcoming relaxed event where there's lots of downtime plus a long drive to and from. So far I've been preparing Marvin Minsky's lectu…

Engineering blogs have a lot of practical knowledge as well as content bridging theory and application. What are some that are good reading? Google has an engineering blog, First R…

I'd guess for purity reasons. Volcanic eruptions don't always come from the mantle - in fact think convection cells, the rising material actually comes from deep down

Max Levchin put his money into Slide, Elon Musk put it all into Tesla/SpaceX, and I could name a lot of other entrepreneurs who did similarly but you get my point. Investing in you…

At Burning Man I met a couple of people who work on the Tor project. They were brilliant. Honestly it's going to be hard for a govt agency to recruit people like this - people who …

check out copycopter and bcms as well. Honestly I'd say this depends on your goals - are you trying to learn? Or just make something (either answer is fine)? If the former, build. …

Yeah I was thinking about that too. Though if the limiting factor for switching speed is the impedance of the interconnects (I'm guessing it is), makes sense.

How come not many people are talking about this article in the context of entrepreneurship? Pretty astute advice for people doing startups. "1) it fits the classic definition of a …

You cannot level such a stark criticism against a man who dared to be great - when you do so you embarrass only yourself. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points o…

RPX is defensive aggregation only - they don't go out and sue people. There's also value add whenever you have centralized expertise: think PGExperts, Percona, and EnterpriseDB (my…

huh. I guess hacking hours have a non parametric distribution

Paul, how does C fits into the picture? I don't see anything in the source for compiling native extensions, and the implementations src/recommendify.c calls look incomplete? I am g…

Valid conjecture, but I think Ryan's always had that about him ("Camelcase... how cute")

Of course :) You stepping in and writing NPM was HUGE! Along with Ryan, you and guys like Tim, Guillermo, TJ, Felix, now Bert and others really got the ship pointed in the right di…

I think your question is more intended to ask about seed round - $500k-$1mm ish Rule of thumb for first round of engineer hires is $85k as of late - they get substantial stock in r…

AND... around and around the carousel we go. The threads vs. event loop thing doesn't always pan out to either one being 'better' - who do you think is doing the work when your bro…

About time! I would actually accept a much lower wage than in industry (as long as I could live off it - which I doubt would be very low in NYC haha) to teach at such a school

xcode compiles C++ too - you can write your iOS app in barebones obj-c and then link to a bunch of C++ libraries ;)

Dude, Laconian - iOS 5 already enables GC (a generational one at that), which already came out for regular Cocoa in in obj-c 2.0 You can bet your socks a lot of devs for typical iO…

Depends where. You probably can't live in Manhattan working as an oDesker, but you could easily make enough to make a good living if you're in the midwest. Your strategy though wou…

so, this is speaking from personal experience, I presume?

It's quite clear not a lot of the posters in this thread have actually used these illegal substances. Which is understandable, as those who have would be reticent to come out. I'll…

that's why I just don't turn off my devices

You know something interesting? I went around linking friends to this article due to Bill possessing a lot of the traits typically lionized in entrepreneurs. My psych major friend …

You're assuming all the record labels do it distribution. But they also do management. Without a startup that tackles the management side of things (which is pretty complex relatio…