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Excellent read. There is a lot of great advice in this post, especially the note about urgency at the end.

Here is an article I like a lot that shows just how bad a bad programmer can be. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html Basically to sum it up, the author mentions a…

Yea, me too. I mean, while I'm not part of the hacker culture, I always understood the point of it was more for recognition than actually hurting anyone. This very much goes agains…

Oh man, this kinda reminds me of "The Incredible Machine", but much cooler. I used to love that game. I actually helped make a 3D version in school with some friends as part of ACM…

I've experienced a little bit of this same sentiment when I tell people I am using flex for my current idea. They look down at me almost, without having ever touched flex. Most peo…

The letter attached to this article is one of the hardest hitting letters I've ever read and makes for a good read.

Really neat. While not as technical, on Shacknews they just posted the HD feed of the Epic Games presentation on the engine enhancements that they've done for Gears of War 2. Looki…

I'm personally using flex for my current app. I don't recommend it for every app, but for what I am doing it makes perfect sense. It makes doing a lot of things that would be diffi…

I completely agree with you. I recently left my career at one of the larger banks and the additional time has made all the difference. Now I get to spend time prototyping various i…

Yea, I agree on the feature you just mentioned. I think it would be really helpful. I mean, there is a jobs tab, but that's only for previous YC companies. Anyways, it wasn't so mu…

Mostly indie rock. :)

Not sure if this is kosher or not, but I figured I'd throw it out there. I am looking for one or two other people in the NYC area that are interested in partnering up to create a s…