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If you want this kind of company, come to Boston. The start-up culture in Boston is much more "change the world" than "make a buck." This results in fewer, deeper start-ups, as wel…

Honestly, this is why I would never, ever consider using something like Google App Engine for anything other than a toy. Google is not a support organization. Except for ads, you c…

My hope is that programs like Khan, edX, and Udacity will address this.

I would tend to agree. Google has been extremely monopolistic lately. The only reason for Google+'s and Google Chat's relative success is shoving it down the throats of users of GM…

Presumably, because Coursera's TOS require a substantial amount of notice to yank a course...

Does this mean Firefox will stop blaming add-ons for its own memory leaks?

Carly Fiorina. She did the same thing to HP, very differently. Cut quality. Cut R&D. Cut support. Cut service. Slightly lower prices, while your reputation is still sky-high. Outso…

At this point, I think Google should have more worries about antitrust. Google is very aggressive about bundling G+ with everything. I didn't want to get on it, but I was on gmail,…

Interesting list. The one surprise is that Caltech choose to go with Coursera rather than the much more open edX.

Don't know. I grab from official web site, so latest as of a year ago.

The problem is not add-ons. Let me repeat that -- THE PROBLEM IS NOT ADD-ONS. I left Firefox about a year ago, once Chrome was good enough, because my plain-vanilla Firefox, with a…

With Amazon, we have a business support contract. The first-line phone operators are pretty bad -- they're neither technical nor fluent in English -- but we've been able to work up…

This is quite exactly why I would never consider using the Google cloud, or any customer-facing Google services for our business. Google is set up for B2B, not B2C. Their job is to…

Whoever wrote the article should take the course. Lots of numbers are wrong. The plot was wrong -- MIT would take over 2000 years to reach 160,000 students with the intro stats cou…

I have an extremely, extremely, extremely healthy level of skepticism. We do substantial business with AWS. When they went down and came back up, some of our data was damaged. I ca…

reddit don't aspire to democracy. Note that the set of links on the default page aren't the most popular or up-voted; they are from a pre-selected set of reddits that e.g. include …

The major problem I have with reddit isn't censorship, although that's certainly occasionally there. It's not even the increasing stupidity of the users and the move to the lowest …

If you want to do good, rather than sell ads, why not apply some place like edX (jobs@mitx.mit.edu) or Khan Academy ( http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=JobListin..…

My guess is FJ and Oatmeal are both getting massive traffic thanks to this little battle.

The differences between ESR and RMS are: * RMS is technically competent. ESR is technically clueless. * ESR is more charismatic. He manages to convince people he's important. RMS h…

Please post an example of the HTML above in YAML (or your preferred language) that would be better than SGML or XML. Sidenote: YAML doesn't consider itself a markup language. See t…

Or... they're designed for different purposes and not even competitors. XML is a markup language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markup_language It was designed for documents. Try co…

I think a better summary would by "MIT professor collects 90,000 hours of video of his son's first words, gets tenure based on that, does nothing with the data. With tenure safe in…