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This - if you have to fetch data from or output data to outside of the AWS ecosystem, the 512mb /tmp limit pushes you into the additional (relative) complexity of having to run on …

I live in LA and travel to the Bay for work frequently. I can walk to a Metro station from my house in Highland Park in 10 minutes and be at Union Station in 13 minutes. If I could…

But the COST of the interest is in year 0 dollars. I may be buying Cokes in 2015 dollars, but if the price is set in 1900 dollars I'm getting a shitload more Cokes.

But I'm buying a $500k house in 2015 dollars. If we peg the appreciation of the house only to the long-term inflation average of 3.22% over the next 30 years and I purchase the hou…

Poverty may be a necessary condition for "startup" success in the somewhat narrow definition of a startup common in our industry, but the idea that it's necessary for BUSINESS succ…

This is 4 blocks from me. I went to check it out but there was a line of around 150 people out the door and I bailed since I wasn't willing to invest the 90 minutes in line. There …

I'm as much a grammar-and-spelling nazi as anyone and can quote you chapter and verse the difference between it's and its, your and you're, effect and affect - but considering I've…

Anyone want to speculate on how many years it will be till we see a similar announcement on a trial program for e-hailing self-driving Uber cars in SF? The future is a cool place t…

Pet projects? Absolutely not, although never a minus. ;) More: are you engaged with the community enough to be aware of the current ecosystem, (handwaving) "best practices", librar…

Depends on what stack you're working with, and the associated broad engineering culture. I haven't hired anyone who didn't have a Github repo in 2 years, out of 18+ FTEs and contra…

Kept hitting the next button until I realized it was not, in fact, the play button. Nice concept and work though! Would eat again.

Compassion is a great one, a trait I feel like we don't spend enough time talking about as an element of success. I've worked with many extremely talented, genuinely bright people …

Saw this post this evening: http://nickoneill.com/building-a-plane-on-the-runway/ - "pivoting" is a meaningful startup pattern when it means "variations on a theme", informed by da…

Like "agile", "lean startup" can mean pretty much... anything the person using the phrase wants it to mean. With agile, sometimes the word is used to justify a rigid excess of cere…

I'm fairly sure that the federal case against Aaron is still being litigated ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR ), which means that he almost certainly can't discuss…

When I hear the "shouldn't we solve poverty and climate change here first?" argument about space exploration, I feel it's useful to remember that almost all improvement in the huma…

I don't understand why more tech recruiters don't ruthlessly specialize and laser-focus on building a deep understanding of a particular niche when matching candidates and employer…

In my opinion probably a more viable approach for testing consumer-oriented ideas (e.g. "Daycare Review Service") than B2B products (e.g "Lesson Scheduling for Music Teachers"), bu…

The famous "everything that can be invented has been invented" quote attributed to Charles H. Duel, a late 19th-century commissioner of the US Patent Office, is apocryphal ( http:/…

Are you going to be releasing an events API in the near future? I've had an app idea banging around for a few months that this API would be perfect for.

There are two semesters in an academic year. ;)

Ubiquity and response time matter. I live in Los Feliz, a popular LA neighborhood full of lots of 20 and 30 somethings with disposable income. It's nigh impossible to hail a cab he…

SEEKING FREELANCER: Front-end developer, html5/css3 with sass & compass. We're a web and mobile consultancy and work mostly with early-stage startups. Primarily US-based but fully …