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Sam has stake in Y Combinator from when he was CEO, who also has an ownership stake in OpenAI. So to say that he owns no part of OpenAI is silly.

I think The Verge said it the best. Taking advantage of these tools to the maximum requires you to have "software brain" which the average person does not have. They struggle to se…

Apple's culture is such that everything is in Radar. EVERYTHING. It doesn't get done if it's not in Radar. Positive: Everything is searchable. It is organizational history going ba…

WhatsApp isn't real-time, and there's no reason for traffic 2 weeks ago to be any bigger than tomorrow. However, there's a Presidential Debate tonight so you know Twitter's traffic…

It takes a really special person who hasn't gone through a CS education to be aware that when faced with a problem that have an obvious solution, they realize that there are things…

I recently went through an MS phone interview and didn't do as well as I would have hoped. I did learn quite a bit though. Here's my advice: 1) Actual programming and a technical i…

Right after you buy a company that adds 20% more to your workforce? I think not.

Honest question as a developer looking eventually to move to the Valley in a year or so: is it really that hard to find good people? Is software development really that hard? I tau…

Spotify had to stop P2P because it makes no sense on mobile devices.