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Employers turning a blind-eye to intra-company dealing / distribution is not at all a new thing but I don't think that was the poster's question. I think the poster was talking abo…

I think it is still taboo among most VC's and angels. Founders are supposed to be cookie-cutter stereotypes who fit a pre-established program. Your personality / public face can be…

Neat. Here's some inspiration. (Note, Don Hopkins has been at this for a while.) http://www.donhopkins.com/home/CAM6/

Via huffingtonpost, here is a link to the IRS document which is the source of this report about "Open Source" firms being targeted. What is released here is a "Be On the LOokout" (…

Bah. I call BS. You sound like a San Francisco real estate speculator or developer. "High density infill" projects are loved by the people who make money off the development of the…

I think PG is asking the wrong questions. None of merely plausible hypotheses as to the motive of an imagined government actor creating bitcoin is testable . Perhaps more important…

Setting aside whether the two groups you name are likely suspects, the fact that both public identities and open institutional affiliations does not contradict the hypothesis that …

The reasoning in this short message has been a consistent part of RMS' talk and actions since the very beginning of the GNU project. Earlier than Ogg Vorbis, the very existence of …

The poor sap made an off-hand remark from the dais during public comment on the Council's plan to send a letter to the USPS asking them to delay the sale of our historic downtown p…

It measures a skill very different from ordinary typing, so, no.

A lot of people read this and this kind of story and they want to talk about the morality or value systems of these kids, themselves, and so forth. I propose that there is a much m…

This quote is one of those intuitively plausible things that turns out not to be true: "the more important point to analyze is: when you add it all up and average over all business…

The Linux kernel has not been a project of "love" since at least the time that Linus was hired by Transmeta in 1996. The bulk of the heavy lifting that keeps it going is paid labor…

Paul Graham, or anyone "in the know", may we please hear a bit about what the equivalent of a term sheet looks like for a Y Combinator non-profit investment? Is Y Combinator giving…

Riddles, logic puzzles, "write some code on the whiteboard" .... It took me years to realize that these are not tests of technical ability, they are tests of submissiveness . For e…

It's very harsh but I find fault with some of the adults who made him a "celebrity" in the first place. Here's a link to the (yes, harsh) piece I wrote about that. It's significant…

A focus on the prosecutor helps distract attention from the question of whether and how Swartz was mistreated by being made a (somewhat artificial) "tech celebrity" at a very young…

I wish someone had given me advice along these lines, long ago: (a) Make sure you have a really strong grip on your finances. (You sound like you probably do but I'm mentioning it …

I think that RH and Canonical are very problematic for the community. They are a mixed bag containing a lot of good, but also containing some critical problems (for the cause of fr…

Their users are, de facto, locked into a few vendors who, because of this arrangement, can charge excessive rent. In part this is because of a tiny number of critical components th…

For a time I too was the maintainer for GNU sed. Part of that time I was paid by the FSF for that work (this was a long time ago, when the FSF had a small staff working directly on…

There are no such companies. The problem is that you said "monetize later" rather than "become profitable later". For example, someone else suggested that Google was an example of …

Amazon's main strategy is to broker transactions between its users and the vendors that supply those users. Amazon is aiming to be everyone's primary retail store for everything. F…