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Am I the only "founder" / "entrepreneur" that doesn't really appreciate these special labels? They're generally something I only hear from the VC tech startup crowd, and usually in…

I can kind of see the cost point - though most would argue that the lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree far outweigh a $100K investment. Do those studies on lifetime…

No, most people are taught not to pursue their own individual goals during the first two decades of institutionalized education.

The problem here is that good UX isn't borne of qualitative analysis -- you have to build something worth analyzing to begin with. Once you do start analyzing, what do you do with …

we don't apologize for working hard. we're a startup trying to make it in a competitive business. Past a certain amount of time, you're spinning your wheels, doing bad work you'll …

The majority of recent graduates just spent 4 years in college instead of gaining relevant experience, so, yes. The economy is tough, they don't stack up to the competition, and ad…

We also know that the gap in income between those with a higher education and those without is increasing significantly. There's an unaccounted for correlation between the accessib…

I don't see any economic forces that would trigger a burst. In fact, I see most entry-level jobs demanding more education now than ever before. A college degree, if required, has a…

The point I'm making, though, is that every instance of someone running a dictionary attack against one of my servers was a script kiddie running a tool against a range of IP addre…

In general, BSD assembler tends to be pretty stack heavy for cultural/engineering reasons. I don't think it ultimately matters all that much if you're fiddling around on your perso…

It's depressing that your post hasn't received more attention. Your control systems should be on a private control network, not exposed to the wide internet. OpenVPN is capable of …

Using a non-standard port for ssh eliminates the need for this altogether. This is almost a no-brainer, and it's the first thing I do when standing up a server. No, it doesn't. Run…

What possible benefit justifies writing the code to be little-endian only? Why on earth would anyone do that? It's not a trade-off if there's no upside.

If you're dominated by function calls, you're already wrong. Function calls are way expensive, because you're resetting like 4 registers and screwing over the instruction cache. Gi…

I wish I could win at the lottery and start something on my own.. ... maybe if you stopped wasting time and money on domain squatting

Unless you are eating 1,000 tic-tacs a minute, in which case they really start to add up. We're talking about the potential to slow down every single function by inserting unnecess…

You're awesome (and the update looks great).

If my goal is to get to my house, and I am standing 10 meters from it in the diagonal, I must traverse ground both in the x and y directions. If the goal is long term recollection,…

The main point I'm trying to make is that one _can_ memorize something and not understand what it means. And one can understand something without having memorized it verbatim. If y…

I know this was a joke, but adding condoms would be fantastic. I find it mildly embarrassing and equally annoying to buy condoms, and yet I definitely do not want to run out.

Having memorized X lines from anything is a 'cool' feat to some people, but it's an entirely orthogonal endeavor from understanding what the text means. I hold that there's an unde…

I too, hate shopping. I selected my daily man-uniform years ago, and know exactly what I like to wear -- I haven't changed my basic outfit in almost 5 years. Yes, I am that manly. …

As addicted to programming as I am, I can't sustain the same levels of intelligent programming as I can the consumption of media, be it playing a game or reading a book. When progr…

It's pretty difficult to commit that much text to memory without reading it inside and out. Comprehending it also makes it considerably easier to remember it. Seems like you just w…