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Quitting your old job seems like a very sane thing to have done. Your position now is unrelated to your position before. By that I mean quitting your job was one event, and what yo…

I agree that some sort of cushion/runway is very important. But why do you suggest 12 months? Is the idea that you can spend 6-8 months making no money chasing around contracts and…

I'm sure I saw that a long time ago. It's just a landing page to explain how businesses can use Facebook (i.e. with ads or pages etc), right?

> surely a harder working software engineer will make more money than a lazy one "Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way …

As a colleague said "Wow, you can type really fast... for someone who only uses two fingers". Now he's exaggerating a bit, but I am a slow typer that predominately uses index, midd…

It's a shame they're just static images, the sound effects that go along with the GUIs are the thing I get the biggest kick out of!

I tried two quick examples in the browser for a little test. Thinking in terms on banal clipart I use the tag "happy" and I get back a very nicely shot photo of two attractive peop…

I don't understand any of that (finance n00b). Can you let me in on the joke?

Typo in link. Should be: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/12/add-nosql-capabili...

If Einstein were around today, I wonder if he'd be working on Wall Street?

+1 I'm a self taught designer/developer, not a genius but pretty competent with some useful skills. No CS or Art/Design degree so a lot of companies (start-ups included) will dismi…

Something about 4chan /b/ inventing memes that then end up on tumblr unattributed. (I don't know that any particular memes were named in this allegation.)

Since the article doesn't say, anyone care to hazard a guess at some of the apps he may or may not be using?

Is there any chance that there's bit of a chicken/egg scenario going on here? Maybe we won't see many coupons for LBS until they have a large enough slice of the retailer's demogra…

Is making a site or a business around other people's data (YouTube's, Vimeo's etc) a bit risky in the sense that if YouTube changed their policy or terms, or just got arsey, and bl…

>> "It is OK if a query is slow as long as it is always slow" I'm having trouble understanding the motivation. If a slow query is always slow, then I'm always going to be kept wait…

I don't know how many more of these kinds of posts I have to read before I get my act together. One more at least.

From the site: "Although fake smiles often look very similar to genuine smiles, they are actually slightly different, because they are brought about by different muscles, which are…

>> My kids are 16 and 11, they're both smarter and more capable than all the rest of humanity combined Beautifully said. I envy you your parenthood!