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Would be awesome to see some of these games implemented with Node.js and HTML5... Angry Birds and others have demonstrated that HTML5 is good enough for graphics, and Node.js is a …

I've been meditating for a few months now. It helps reduce stress, improves ability to focus and resist distractions. Love it.

I'll argue that not everything about this is "sad". Knowing JavaScript opens new opportunities when it comes to the kinds of products you can develop and kinds of audiences you can…

"Sarbox ... also prevented/delayed the Facebook IPO" Could you elaborate? (I'm genuinely curious)

"Increasing the value of the firm they are investing in? Great job guys." Did Goldman increase the number of Facebook's users or add a new awesome feature? Did they address the pri…

Or, to put it another way: meditation.

Another impressive aspect is how quickly Kinect hacks are coming out. Some products seem to strike a chord with the enthusiasts, plus all of these things look very cool in videos, …

"To work around that problem hospitals needed to, as one medical physicist put it, essentially trick the machine into thinking it was using a different attachment, which it did rec…

Started with Basic around 10yo on a simple 2mhz machine with 32kb of RAM. Fun times.

I've been on both the tech editing and author sides. It really depends on the quality of people that you get working with you.

The argument for ditching dead tree books is especially valid for books that have short shelf half-life: the ones that deal with quickly changing topics, such as technology. By the…

The Google giveth and The Google taketh away... Moral of the story: diversify your income stream as much as you can. I don't know much about advertising world, but it seems that Ad…

2 points: 1. Moral issues aside, the key is to get the idea out of your head and have other people go at it. There is a class of people that can't spend enough time focused on one …

Sounds like the initial investment into reengineering their software to handle distributed environments well turned out to be quite large, which is why it does sound a bit like the…

If you do decide to adopt your very own pet Chaos Monkey in your next project, make sure you ARE able to gracefully degrade your service in case of failures. Otherwise your custome…

I especially like point #7: "You get a baseline. Then you go and try to do it better." One possible interpretation: "learn as much as you can about your enemy, then use that knowle…

I think what that post is trying to say is this: focus on your core competency. Amazon is good at cloud computing, Netflix is good at renting/streaming movies. However, there are s…

That's ok, we'll just replace honey with high-fructose corn syrup - problem solved!