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The monster imagery made my day, and yeah, it would match pretty well my own impression of many acquiring companies. I doubt Yahoo fully understood Tumblr for example, and even aft…

That's true. Eno worked on a number of projects to generate music years ago, with Bloom and similar: http://www.generativemusic.com/ . A quick fiddle with that can definitely gener…

People want and need other people around, doing human things. Even if the musical output was impressive, I can't think of people developing a deep relationship with it outside of n…

What's stopping you from ditching the kindle and finding a bookstore?

Interesting how Teichmueller has a bunch of stuff named after him, yet there's very little information about him to be had. There are some references on Google Scholar: https://sch…

What anki offers that memorang doesn't is a number of things: * Thousands of free decks * An open ecosystem * Source code * Doesn't spam your email * Isn't just a straightforward m…

"Over the last seven years, I’ve discovered and invested very early in a handful of highly valuable companies (Wish, Lyft, Zenpayroll, Postmates, AngelList, Plated, Styleseat, Klou…

You yourself have also been gracious. Thank you.

I don't want to get into a flame war, but no, that isn't what I meant. In general, in the mainstream, people will typically think of men when they think of programmers. Something l…

A "poem" with typos, a dearth of wit and worst of of all, questionable content: why is the terrible programmer a woman? A woman doesn't normally spring to mind when discussing prog…