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YC-backed startup means a culture of 'move fast and break things' - works for facebook, but definately not something I would want to store my bitcoin on, since 'break things' means…

This is an example of a pretty good april fools joke - Enough to cause an emotional reaction, but not so far out there that it is obviously fake.

Past performance does not guarantee future results - That is true for all investment types, including home ownership. Home ownership does have very advantageous tax consequences in…

Okay, let's do that thought experiment. Set Sales and marketing expense (Currently $171 million) to zero. So, they would be making $2.3 million a year in profit. But you can't have…

While it looks impressive, i don't think 'raytraced' is the correct term - i suspect it is just rendered

How many people actually have a net worth > $30 million due to stock options from a Silicon Valley startup? Assuming a billion dollar exit, you would need 3% equity (post dilution)…

This is pretty cool. It makes we wonder if it would be possible to create an automatic SVG-to-CSS converter

The unicode consortium got unicode wrong, not java. At the time Java was created, there only was a BMP and Unicode had a purely 16-bit design. Therefore, it was perfectly reasonabl…

'Even memcached, which is the conceptually simplest of these technologies and used by so many other companies, had some REALLY nasty memory corruption bugs we had to deal with, so …

I'm hoping for a self-driving car giveaway myself

there is a bright side to it - the 'sold out in a hour' situation last year was ridiculous. While i would have preferred a coding challenge to eliminate that problem, a price incre…

His advice for using 'short selectors' for performance is just plain incorrect. http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rendering.html is a great page describing CSS performan…

it does, but you cannot predict future legislation. In 2010, you may not yet know that the timezones will change in 2012, but you might still need to store a 2012 date in your data…

There is an apache incubator project http://raffaeleguidi.wordpress.com/

Awesome article, if anyone knows of an equivalent article about moving to London, please provide a link

GWT has a fair number of sessions at google i/o as well - so not a dedicated conference, but a dedicated track at a conference.