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We're actually using the Twitter Streaming API, which has pretty high limits even with access levels lower than the full firehose.

Thanks for the suggestions - it's certainly an issue we're thinking about and looking to improve. Also, d3.js is a pleasure to work with. Really appreciate all the work you've put …

Did you actually read the article you linked? The article and the fund are quite consistent. Thiel argues that the economic growth and tech breakthroughs of the past few decades ar…

It depends on your view of what makes the world a better place. For tech startups, the distribution of world-changing impact probably closely follows the distribution of investment…

Dropbox was not the first mover [1]. In fact, their entrance into the market for cloud storage/sync is in a way analogous to Google's entrance into search. You're second point soun…

Both true points, but not sure what you mean by "actually".

In the UK, there is http://lovefilm.com Also interesting: http://zediva.com

Most people behave differently in "near-mode" and "far-mode". I'm more willing to commit to donate $20 to charity 6 months from now, than I am to cough up a $20 this instant. Swipe…

We heavily adapted http://moochart.coneri.se/ for the graph.

I'd argue that looking at polarization is a good way to detect such movies, but that not all such movies are polarizing.

You'll have to forgive slightly imprecise language. This post was in response to the noise around the blogosphere that Hollywood has become too conservative, and is targeting relia…

This was an intentional choice. It attempts to fight duplicate questions by forcing users to see the search results for their question before asking it. I don't claim this to be th…