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The coolest thing about bbsing in the 80s was a side effect of running the over phone lines: because long distance charges were expensive, you ended up dialing local bbses and orga…

not sure if thinking of the solution ('advancing the state-of-the-art) is appropriate yet. Two questions to ask yourself: 1)how well do you understand your customers (are you your …

I liked this quote - "I think the essential way to do anything great, you have to have some incremental development philosophy because you're just going to be wrong with your grand…

Where does this man-child get off building these kinds of cynical products? As if border crossings are the largest threat to American security. It's technology without any sense of…

It's surprisingly hard to beat investing in real estate in growth markets like SV because of the leverage afforded by the ratio of down payment to home price.... For example in Los…

That's awesome! Keep it up :)

Traveled to India ~2+ years ago. Landed in Delhi - couldn't make out the city at all from the air due to pollution. We drove to Agra (3 hr drive) and there was smog pretty much the…

"Oil, coal and gas received more than four times the $120 billion paid out in incentives for renewables including wind, solar and biofuels" source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar…

This is amazing, thank you. For those of you who didn't read the Usage guide: "Use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-. by default). It’s worth memorizing this." btw, I'm not sure why but…

You beat me. MicroEmacs on an Amiga....

The second sentence doesn't necessarily follow from the first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Superinvestors_of_Graham-a...

I worked there in 2000 as a graphics engineer - it was an interesting tech, lots of bright people.