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I know he has an investment vehicle of some kind to manage his wealth (I think it's called Cascade?) but does anybody know what it has stakes in? And his quoted wealth figure doesn…

the depiction of "wall street jobs" isn't very accurate...most people are not wearing many "hats", and quantitative modelers certainly aren't getting coffee for execs. outside of a…

There's a huge spectrum of what a "workout" can be depending on your goals. The original title of the post said it was "amazing" and "beautifully designed", which is a bit of an ov…

Anybody want to venture a guess as to what those 350 million daily messages are worth as far as advertising goes? I feel like they would be relatively "low quality" ad impressions …

There's no guarantee that all the IPO shares would have been placed at $46 (I'd doubt it).

US Cellular has a program where you can bring your phone to any retail store and swap out your battery for a charged one. No need to return to pick up your original. Granted, that'…

Wouldn't readers be better off if the author wrote about this problem with PCA in the book, instead of ignoring it entirely?

Pretty fascinating reading the comments here about how big WhatsApp is outside of the US. I've never encountered anybody using it here, never would have guessed it's so popular els…

So we can't discuss for-profit startups on HN either, since they're walled-gardens that try to make money off their apps and services, without open sourcing their entire codebase?

Wouldn't this cause spreads on stocks to get very wide? Liquid stocks are a penny wide now, I could see that going up to five or ten cents with such a tax. While the average invest…

Sorry, I still can't agree with #1. It assumes that all workplace programming is gluing things together, fixing/maintaining legacy crap, or writing generic CRUD apps, which is untr…

I wonder if they're thinking of going to a for-profit model where users pay to take a class and earn a certificate. On a side note, who owns the course material a professor creates…

Sounds like your complaint is against mediocre programmers and enterpriseyness, not C# (which in my opinion is a technically superior language to Java). I use it all the time for s…

Yep...why go through the normal interview process to work at Google when you can get acqui-hired, get paid the same, but get a million-dollar "signing bonus"?

For all the times I've seen people on HN say "ideas are worthless", you would think HN would love this. I myself think it's a great experiment.

What do you do now, if you don't mind me asking?

Maybe it's just me but I like the "Strong use of color" better. I find it hard to quickly find the tool button I want when they're all monochrome. I'm sure I'd get used to it, but …

You found companies willing to wait a year for you to start? That's surprising, I wouldn't have guessed that would be easy to do. I'm thinking about this myself, but I'm looking to…

Visual Studio compilation times are ridiculously fast for me, are you talking about Mono/Linux in point #2 also?

In the accepted answer, what's so bad about the "non-restful" approach the author describes? Who cares if I use GET/DELETE/PUT/POST vs putting the "verb" in a query string argument…

I wasn't cool when tech wasn't cool, and I'm still not cool now that tech is cool. Maybe I need to start wearing sunglasses when I code.

While there isn't enough trading history to say with confidence, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that GRPN has a pretty high beta to the broader market, so I would expect it…

Not necessarily. It's completely normal for borrow rates to be ~100% shortly after IPO, it takes a few days for the stock borrow market to settle on a more realistic rate. I wouldn…

is anyone else a bit skeptical at the number of countries averaging over 3,000 calories/day? wouldn't such a person consistently gain a pound or two a month, every month?

not much of a vc scene compared to SF/NY, weather sucks almost half the year, and chicago is generally underrated as a place to live for various reasons. a lot of it is chicken and…