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These two books will be pure candy for anyone who reads this site: Daemon Freedom T.M. Daniel Suarez

this book is the yin to neuromancers yang. instead of predicting the net it predicts how networks change our thoughts. i can't recommend this enough.

Why everyone seems to be wanting to use INFERIOR tools in the tech world baffles me. Why in the world would you ever want to do development on the web? You have no control over you…

People tend only do things like this for people they actually know and not for acquaintances on the 5th or 6th degree of separation. Seriously, this isn't a startup. Its not a busi…

There is nothing like free contract work. This is no different than the way Microsoft treated developers before the anti-trust hammer was brought down upon them.

The only real businesses affected by this are Instapaper and Dropbox. The rest are just cool applications that our bubble media props up as enterprises.

A company like this may deliver better education than traditional colleges and universities. However, it won't matter. It won't have the reputation, that matters more than anything…

Whenever a business grows by hiring more and more people it won't scale well and be massively profitable.. People are expensive. They are always going to have razor thin margins.

I usually will create a new branch based on the TODO list item I am working on. Then I will checkout that branch and work on the new feature. When it is done I will merge it back i…

Okay I apologize then. There are tons of companies who can afford to pay who don't. I think that a good way to motivate them is to give them a broad thing to do and let them try to…

Seriously, just pay something even if it is only $10/hr or whatever service student jobs pay in the area. Not every kid can afford to work free for a summer regardless of the exper…

I find that most people just don't understand what being poor and living and rural place is like. Besides the need of a car for a job it is absolutely necessary in order to have an…

Sounds actually useful and not like a time sink designed to force feed ads to users.

I am currently trying to find my first project post graduation to do. I am having a very hard time getting started in the freelance. So I would say getting the "first one" is a pre…

Despite people likely being able to break this 50 years in the future, I am willing to bet that ICE couldn't sieze a .bit domain right now.

Its not just a CMU problem. That is the attitude of the entire state of Pennsylvania and probably all of the north east.

Rails development on OS X is so nice if you use things like MacPorts and Passenger. Coupled with TextMate I would not want to Rails dev on anything else.

This would not be the number one story on any other site like this on the internet.

I agree with you. I guess I was simply stating the way it is.

I do think the "leadership" bias is only really apparent in large corporations. I do think that small companies tend to value skill and hard work more, however I find, being in sch…

This is falls in line with one of the fundamental problems with college and that problem is that success is college is skewed towards those whose parents, or whomever, pay their wa…

The story is pretty awful from a journalistic standpoint, however how much money does it really take allow three organizations to communicate with each other. I am willing to be it…

I think this is more along the lines of what he was trying to say; he was young and dumb and now he has learned from his mistakes.