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Hi Mehr, I'm a leukemia survivor (AML) and was diagnosed when I was 21 and in undergrad, roughly 8 years ago. I started www.cheekswab.org in 2012 to educate people, especially ethn…

Please delete this. This is in poor taste.

I was being sarcastic, which admittedly is lost on the web. Software dev is reduced as easily to an overly simplistic implementation as business savvy is. I think we're making the …

I had a lawn mowing business when I was 16. I had marketing, a service and collected payments. What's the point of business school?

I enjoy photography but not enough (at the moment and foreseeable future) to sink a lot of time/money into it. I don't even consider it a "hobby" as much as I just like to carry a …

I am a pretty strong introvert, not in the sense that I have a problem socializing with others or even communicating in a leisure/professional setting, but rather that doing so tak…

I'm in the summer batch. I put in my notice yesterday at work and saved for many months to have enough money to live in NYC and not starve. Attending hackerschool is not solely a m…

While it is a very easy "excuse" to hide behind, I believe in holistic admissions qualifications. I think charts of SAT score x race x admissions are as good of a metric of assessi…

There's an unbelievably popular froyo franchise in Northern VA called Sweet Frog[1] that markets effectively enough to stand out among seemingly a zillion competitors. They have a …

FWIW, a friend who writes for a popular online food publication says gourmet donuts are the new cupcakes.

Cool idea. I'm a diehard Washington Wizards fan (sad, I know) and tend to unfollow a lot of players in favor of reports/beat writers/bloggers. The tweets are just more substantive …

I think part of the problem here is that many devs often don't understand how much power they yield over their own situation. If you're good enough to be depended upon in every pan…

I have a strange sense of sadness for my friends who are "stuck" on Wall Street. Strange because it's weird to feel sad for someone making $250k+ per year, but I've heard their fir…

I still remember the all-consuming dread I felt as an intern when I ran an UPDATE and forgot the WHERE clause. I consider it part of the rite of passage in the web developer world.…

Sort of off topic, but I wish there was a better tool for pinboard user discovery. I love the self-selection bias of pinboard in that it's highly tech and the popular links are rig…

When I hear about the overinflated cost of medicine I can't help but think of ties to the overinflated cost of education. While I believe in paying specialized, skilled laborers a …

God I love this. I like browsing the popular pins once in a while when I have time to kill, but it gets kind of boring when it's just a rehash of the HN frontpage or after the 100t…

Someone with more business savvy than I please chime in: It seems that the maps functionality was a non-trivial trump card when it came to the Android vs. iOS debate from the consu…

I really like the design of both the app and the website. Nice job! If you don't mind me asking, how did you manage the cross platform dev?

Teespring does some really cool work with non-profits, launching kickstarter-esque campaigns for them (at no cost) and giving a cut of the proceeds to that organization. A few frie…

I don't know if I'm more surprised by his English fluency, earrings or open-mindedness. To be honest I'm kind of worried for his safety after giving an interview like this... given…

I saved a link to my pinboard a while back about a couple who sold all their possessions and took a VW van through North/Central/South America and in and around Africa. Super inter…