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hmm is this effective altruism, seems like they used it to cover massive fraud.

did you use vectorbt or event driven backtesting?

At first glance, it seems very logical. Why do you need a middle man, these companies will all die out. The problem with this argument is that he doesn't realize advertising is 600…

Because Rapgenius hasn't profited out of the lyrics yet. DMCA focused on monetization of other people's content as one of the main criterias for violation. It doesn't matter whethe…

In healthy corporate cultures, a well-fed staff is a well-fueled and happy machine of productivity. For this reason, more and more companies are bringing free food perks to the tab…

Grit & determination are for me defining factors in a person's character IMO. What initially turned me onto this was the Teach for America article on the effectiveness of teachers.…

There are a couple of things: 1. The servers aren't all application servers. There's load balancers, memcache servers, lossy memcache servers, etc. 2. It's the cloud. It includes l…

I disagree with this. You want to go after roads that give you greater option value. Adult industry is not a career killer per se, but provides you less option value in terms of in…

Who you are is a more accurate predictor of entrepreneurship and success. That being said the two schools that have the best track records are Stanford and UIUC. Stanford (Google, …

Social network composes of three parts: social graph, reach applications, and games. Slide provides social media applications and the expertise to make them. The part about FB prof…

Slide started out as a global recommendation push engine for shopping items. They pivoted to a widget company when it took off.

I believe that tenacity leads to luck, simply through more tries: Chance II springs from your energetic, generalized motor activities... the freer they are, the better. [Chance II]…

It's about time. Google AppEngine (Map Reduce, GFS, etc) has always lacked behind the Dynamo architecture in terms of winning developer mind share and specing the right features. T…

It's hard to tell. For salary info go to: glassdoor.com

I think the core of the question is can you start a technical company if you have a MBA. Yes you can, but you have to have a strong technical founder. Sun Microsystems had Andy Bec…

Hosted by BusinessWeek columnist Steve Wildstrom, Tech Policy Summit 2009 offers you a chance to network with an exclusive group of thought leaders while gaining a better understan…

Read this: http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/the-pmarca-gu-1.html "Once you have picked an industry, get right to the center of it as fast as you possibly can." "Every job, every role…