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The main issue is the conflating of usage and value. The persona/user group that consumes the Trending pages are likely users who themselves contribute to open source, and thus are…

One of my favorites! Source: "How to Be Polite", https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c

Dilbert comic strip: https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25 "Over here we have our random number generator." "Nine nine nine nine nine nine" "Are you sure that's random?" "Thats the …

A letter from an associate director of science at NASA in 1970 answering this question: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

I haven't started a company that needs to provide employee healthcare--does this have a short-term improvement to insurance rates? What incentivizes a company to employ HealthWiz--…

The site and data normalization are great. The problem is that applying the phrase "best case scenario" is simply false, and it is just a distraction that was not necessary on the …

In a simplistic sense, the "esteem" and "self-actualization" levels of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

Hey nxzero, I saw PG say this once in a short interview I saw on Youtube. I'm looking for it now. Will update when I can [Edit] Found it: https://youtu.be/JK3sVFs6_rs?t=175

> "Make sure everyone speaks" From personal experience in a YC interview: My cofounders and I decided we would speak and answer in turns. The problem we ultimately ran into after a…

Airtime | New York City, NY | Mobile Engineer (iOS) We are building really cool things in the real-time video space, and have been quietly experimenting and iterating on a number o…

Let us suppose that there is an organized group of Bitcoin enthusiasts with a combined amount of Bitcoin holdings of around 100,000BTC. Would an article "App.net begins accepting B…

Those are examples of predicting demand changes on a macro scale. Amazon wants to do this on a more micro, person-by-person level. For example, you visit a product page for some sp…

Without addressing the issue of tax loopholes in general, there is a logical rationale for lower taxes on capital gains (for Schwarzman, Buffett & co): - It's a double tax, as mone…

As far as I know, they incorporated information from a similar dataset I created back in mid-2011 [1]. [1] http://danielamitay.com/blog/2011/6/13/most-common-iphone-pa...

The software simply attempts to read the device's root folder. Success == Jailbroken. Piracy detection involves checking the app executable's compile time, permissions and similar.…

I've found two apps using it so far. That's the thing: I wish more people would notify you when they use your open source stuff. Attribution means less to me than simply knowing th…

Here's my implementation from June 2012: https://github.com/danielamitay/DAAnisotropicImage I like how you're only re-drawing if the motion change passes a threshold.

Basically, I derive a significant amount of esteem and happiness from making things that people use. It was this that lead myself and those around me to believe I should pursue Eng…

I understand the financial mistakes (underperforming investments). I understand the building mistakes (extravagance, over-spending). What I don't understand is this policy that wil…