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I was going to donate to aid organizations to help supply food and water, but I guess I should send some nuclear engineering textbooks and maybe my old exams from Nuclear Engineeri…

Gates was already the world's richest man when he married Melinda; he also met her through Microsoft. Bezos was already well beyond f-u money when he left D.E. Shaw to found Amazon…

You're comparing their 2010 year-end valuation with their 2009 year-end net income... In December 2009, Facebook repurchased shares at $25 for an implied valuation of $11 billion. …

I cannot rightly apprehend the confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.

It's definitely Reddit most of the time. It's a larger site.

American Chinese vs Chinese Chinese is the only fair way to do this; otherwise, it's apples and oranges (and oranges are better).

He had to do Math 55 to realize that there were people smarter than he was. Not too many people can readily appreciate what this means. I think you have to have participated in nat…

your comments are so nonsensical that I doubt you'll ever have the "problem" of paying taxes that you fear Like Joe the Plumber, in this guy's imagination he has to deal with the b…

80% of Winter 2010 .... so the ones that have made it a few months.

Nor would I classify all introverts as being Isaac Newton.

I'm wondering why a non-programmer uses Git.

How about for an entry-level web developer in the Bay Area?

Rails is not a programming language ...

Me too. Go Ooshma!

Twitter is all about asymmetric 'relationships'. You can follow whomever you want. This makes it fundamentally different from Facebook.

Thank you! Yahoo Video is awful. It doesn't show you how much of it has actually loaded, and once it's done it has to load all over again to play a second time.

If you let them, they can directly measure the traffic of your website. If you sign up for their service, Quantcast's numbers will be very close to your own Google Analytics. But, …

With Django, I've learned to avoid anything that tries to do too much. Small apps or collections of code that aim to solve very specific problems seem to work with the least hassle…

That's because Python is actually used extensively in the West outside the context of web development. Ruby really isn't. Rails became popular, and people decided to learn Ruby so …

It's easy when you can see the future.

The admin will definitely be extremely helpful to someone who is new to databases.

That's true and all, but Rails and Django were built to run on SQL dbs right out of the box. Getting them to work with MongoDB takes some work, and I don't think it's a diversion t…

Well, Mercurial is written in Python, so I guess it belongs on the right side lol.

I think you really need to understand that there are people who use Facebook in a very different way from how you use it. There are those who, like you, don't care about their acco…