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Engine Yard's management took several strategic missteps over the years. One of them was stifling Merb. The quotes from Yehuda describe his difficulty in making the best of a force…

I wrote a book on Merb and was an active contributor. Before that I had developed several apps with Rails. That said, the Rails vs Merb era was mostly good natured competition and …

The "and" in "try and..." may be a shorthand for the material implication of two temporal modal paths: "try and X" = can X -> must X = not can X or must X That said, the word "both…

> "specification of system behavior" sounds like a programming language to me By "specification language" Lamport means one capable of verification via model checking. In contrast,…

Th article traces the development of computers back through the development of symbolic logic. It may seem silly to connect to such ancient history, but the path from then to now h…

Mandarin speakers ability to understand slowed down Shanghainese is likely a recent development. This is because much of traditional Shanghainese diction, grammar, and even pronunc…

Most likely, 'vita brevis'.

Namecoin isn't actually a "registrar" in this case, but the canonical blockchain used with Passcard.info. You can think of it as the self-registration alternative. The Namecoin lin…

For educational purposes only and not legal advice: This incentive plan is structured as restricted stock units that are paid out as shares upon an IPO or trade sale (called in the…

FYI: The carry distribution schedule mentioned in the article (carry after 3x) is way off market for a VC GP-LP relationship. The most typical arrangement is 20% after 1x in LP dis…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle

Sadly, I've read pieces where obsidian blades are labeled as nanotech as well. In other news, cranberry glass is actually kind of cool and helped win this guy a Nobel Prize in 1925…

For anyone potentially dissuaded to watch the talk based upon this parent comment, please know that this talk is not actually about the dynamics of individual success. Instead, it …

A list of misconceptions from both sides would alone pique my interest.

Startup founders get tired now-and-again. Knowing a co-founder is working while you're resting is a source of invaluable relief against the pressure to get things done. Long-term, …

Question for anyone: if you're not a single founder, how did you meet your co-founders?

Only after seeing how many comments on the article attempted to genuinely refute the article did I get a sense of how few people grasp the foundation of mathematics (that is, the c…

There is clear resonance between his main point and Kazantzakis's famous epitaph: Δεν ελπίζω τίποτε. Δεν φοβούμαι τίποτε. Είμαι λεύτερος. I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am f…