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I would put it: 1. IPO 50% lower then you guided 6 months ago 2. Float so few shares that you can push the value yourself with cash from previous financing round 3. Profit 4. ???

No, I don't think so. Go to the extreme and think about leaving for a week or a month - it is quite clearly more efficient to let it cool and then warm it back up again. On a short…

That may be true but I also do not believe that the improvements in the last 20 years have had anything to do with food production. As Sen argued way back in 1981 the cause of hung…

While I think there's a market here, I wonder if the Chromebook will feel enough like a separate appliance to make inroads. The iPad feels like something different - a Chromebook j…

Just read this in the last month and devoured it. I'm currently doing a lot of thinking about how to apply the ideas that drive entrepreneurship to the international development se…

The first letter in the word "titties" is? Beware if you have users that might be sensitive to such things.

I'm also a vim addict and keep all my notes in a semi-gtd inspired vim wiki. It's a vim plugin on top of the viki plugin ( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=861 ). Th…

This whole discussion seems to be missing a large part of MBTI's value. MBTI is not just about knowing yourself, but also understanding how other people in a group might be feeling…

Would be interesting to automatically run something like this and find a way to assert that the tests should fail. Almost an automated test of your tests.

http://aviary.com has a great color picker called Toucan. It allows you to pick colours spaced out around the colour wheel based on a few parameters. Also does the colour-blindness…

I went to Waterloo - not for CS but for Systems Design Engineering. I very much enjoyed my time there in Engineering and now have a great job doing primarily web development in Dja…

You can use it to block indent/unindent code, I find that quite useful.

Is it just me or is the python being taught not very good? See for example this lecture: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... . The prof starts off by sa…