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Agree with certain aspects, but the risk-reward is clearly easier for VCs who can hedge their bets across multiple startups and earn nice salaries regardless(even after ignoring th…

They create companies that are broken from inside, and just pumped with marketing money. Most traditional VCs don't touch Rocket companies, they raise funding from oligarchs, old s…

Can you point to a webpage/book discussing "the ideas of Le Corbusier in light of the findings of Christopher Alexander"? Google didn't really help, and it sounds like you have som…

Exactly. Top hedge fund managers regularly make over a billion every year. Even last year, with the stock market meltdown, the 25 top earners made more than $11 billion. http://mon…

Not to take anything away from Bill Gates, but he always had a million dollar trust fund to fall back on. (Source: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/ )

A lot of schools use http://www.applyyourself.com/

Funnily enough, Enron had the same system where if you scored towards the bottom you were quickly shown the door. http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,129988,00.h... Of…

In his linkedin profile Shel Kaphan describes himeself as Amazon's first employee.

Discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=660729

Most of the times they have some prior background in the language. But often you teach to very young kids as well, in that case you are usually paired with a local teaching assista…

The good thing is you will need to make comparatively very little amount of money. If you can make around $25K/year you can live very well in S & SE Asia, parts of S. America and I…

I don't think I would have come back if it wasn't for her You mean to stay you would have stayed abroad? Am little confused as you start talking about expats dying of preventable d…

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/businessdesk/2009/05/ed-andrews-... Original NYT author responding to recent revelations.

Where are the jobs for college grads who are not CS majors?

As someone not familiar with divorce laws and alimony, I was shocked to read that he has to pay $4k every month for child support. That makes a $120K salary almost a $50 - 60K sala…

Considering the author is a Rhodes Scholar, she sounds incredibly risk-averse. Working for a top management consulting firm is a great signal of your competence to future employers…

Agree. But with a title like "What Should I Do with My Life, Now?," an article should offer some more insight than just saying the road to success is extremely complex. I realize h…

what exactly does that imply? Different people have to climb different staircases for success? How is that useful insight?

In Shanghai I thought the Pudong area was surprisingly empty, considering the tall buildings coming up everywhere. It is almost deserted compared to Manhattan, or even the other si…

He is also an angel investor in Xobni. So he will see some payout when they flip.

You are thinking too much. If your idea excited you, just get to it. Stop thinking if you can do it or not, just start trying and see if you enjoy the process.