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Understand the author's (Clintonesque) pain, as I am going through a similar problem, but don't have it all figured neatly to disengage from the industry yet. My own views are that…

I think both authors miss the point that historically (esp. post WW2 which corrected the abberation during WW2) that capital flow was increasingly borderless. It has been labor tha…

>> I'm also fascinated by Bob Woodward, a brilliant Yale grad who spend several years in the Office of Naval Intelligence, before deciding to become a reporter. Watergate was one o…

This article intentionally or otherwise distorts how the real world really works even in the bubble of SV. The game in SV is more subtle - the meaness comes in different forms by s…

I fully agree with you and I have my theories: 1) The early 2000 dot-com crash + the Enron crash that changed the regulatory landscape to make it harder for companies to IPO. This …

If you are a co-founder, and you are being side-lined, and you have no recourse to get back into the driving seat, it is time to go. This can happen if the other founder secured th…

Thought this will be interesting to this crowd - merging of tech. and music.

Sorry to get back too late for the response as I hadn't seen it earlier. I do agree that the patent system as it is applied to software (and possibly other areas too like biotechno…

The core of the issue (if any) is that historically, the patent system is inextricably tied into the free-market/laissez-faire economic system, which for all its flaws, did create …

A slightly long winded way of addressing this dead-horse of an issue, so that even clueless managers and leaderless dimwits can understand why this idiotic concern keeps cropping p…

Welcome to programming! "Also I waste considerable amount of time trying to do things in the most readable, maintainable and simple way possible" Motivation is tied to your attitud…

Possibly Polynesians might have landed in California earlier than the Vikings: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Did-ancient-Polynesians-v... There was a documentary about this to…

Haven't read this book but read this author's "Icebreaker" which has some interesting viewpoints, mainly that Stalin was the true 'evil genius' whose plans to conquer Western Europ…

I don't think it is too far off. Recently an exoplanet with a long elliptical orbit was discovered: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16501-elliptical-orbit... Also it could be…

Belatedly realizing the same points. Most start-up work is 'hauling shit uphill' (horribly paraphrasing a quote about acting that Sean Connery said in his acceptance for some lifet…

Good luck to MS. Their busineess metrics currently looks good but can they win the hearts and minds of the next gen.? On the gaming side, they are well positioned. As mentioned by …

> This is only going to push the industry away from the heavily favored CPI pricing to CPC pricing. Which is really not ideal: 1) Why pay for clicks to direct users to the appstore…