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Nay, basketball is not much different. Get the best players + good coaches and you'll win the most games. End of story. "a good deal of detail, and outright truth, is sacrificed to…

eh, then Wall St. will just pass the extra expense on to Main St. in the end. its a lose-lose solution

According to Shenk, we are erroneously led to believe that stars like Tiger Woods and cellist Yo-yo Ma were born to climb to the top of their fields, when in fact the environments …

You can outsource what you suck at, but its a bad idea to outsource to someone who sucks at it as well. I think what the post was getting at was that most people buy fashion magazi…

While I am in agreement with the sentiment, these "its good for society" arguments don't really move anybody. Just look at the music industry and it's pleas against piracy. Most pe…

Well it's a big enough minority that ars technica is noticing it. And most people just tend to tolerate ads, it doesn't mean they like them.

Exactly. There is a major opportunity lurking here. Online ads suck, actually ads in general suck, but how does one fix them? Sounds like a good challenge.

Don't file patents, which often make it much easier for competitors to see how you solved a given problem. If they reverse engineer your product, that means they are late to market…

“We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We thin…

"We're the largest mobile device company in the world. Larger than Sony, bigger than Samsung. And by revenue... even bigger than Nokia." - Steve Jobs when introducing the iPad. It …

Applicants need a working knowledge of ASP/ASP.net, MySQL, Movable Type, HTML/CSS and general web server experience. Knowledge of JavaScript, LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) servers,…

I would also suggest Introduction to Computer Science and Programming from OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Compute... It's the right approach, …

The question to ask yourself is what exactly were you trying to learn from philosophy, sociology and literature critique ? And why did you think such books would benefit you? If yo…