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No one chooses insurance, it chooses them. Joined a management consulting firm out of school, got assigned to a bunch of insurance cases. Escaped to Oracle. 1998, got a call from a…

Please don't. Lots of horrible things were said there behind a wall of anonymity. Think Secret + 4chan for failed startups. For those of us that tried to do the right thing by our …

I'm just starting out teaching my daughter (10). Any recommendations on how best to get her started with JS?

Great reply. I'm reminded of a recent New Yorker article about the poverty bureaucracy in NYC. Can't remember the exact details, but one of the recipients talks about how much they…

Family photos are the only items I don't think should be stored on the cloud as they are too important and too large. About a year ago I bought 2 external drives and we back up our…

PG offered a clear underlying model in this essay. His model is that a) founders need to sell well to succeed and that b) it's hard to sell well if you can't be easily understood. …

I'm also surprised by how often this issue comes up. To use an example other than buses -- many ski lifts and gondolas are designed to take 10-15 minutes, but it's not unusual to b…

In the late 90's, the CEO of our startup told us about a raid on his Palo Alto home. His daughter was away at camp for the summer and his wife had mailed her a care package that in…

Exactly, the "Mark Burnett problem" (producer of Survivor). I heard him claim in an interview that with enough footage he could create any perception of a person that he wanted (he…

I'd say the biggest issue is that they provide a perverse incentive to the local government -- reduce the duration of the yellow light to generate more red-light revenue. I couldn'…

We got hit with one of these letters. I read through it and it was clear that we weren't actually infringing -- it only applied to the use of distribution to employees via the scan…

This is extremely helpful. I'm looking for a local Realtor and was going to try to compile some of this myself. It would be great if you added the # of sales within the target pric…

I'd be interested to see the analysis with the day of week included.

I'll add that even in the high net worth category, buyer beware. You really need to do your own research as the quality of advice is uneven at best -- and quite likely to be self-s…

Denver, CO metro (Englewood) This or That Media is looking for a software engineer with experience in Java, Hibernate, and Spring. We are a small team that gets a lot done. We offe…

Denver, CO (Englewood). This or That Media We are hiring full-time software engineers: JAVA, MySQL, EC2,MongoDB, jQuery, Hibernate, Spring. We're looking for folks who can make an …

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I definitely liked the personality that came through the writing. "On the other end of the scale, I think Black Swan is a terrific film, but I’d sooner pull my nails out than watch…

I attended this last week and had to share. It's very, very long, but it's the best macro-econ presentation I've ever seen. Really worth watching if you are thinking about macro fa…

If you believe in it still, it's great news. A story that may help... I had a very well-funded dot com in the 90's. A guy went around the valley pitching "this is a big idea becaus…

I loved that post -- it is exactly how I see my job. But the first point is actually to define & tell the story. http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/what-a-ceo-does.html I'll add that …

That's really pretty neatly evil, I hadn't heard of that.

Yep, I should have said _about_ 1/2, but that's why I said 5 to 7 rounds. Even 5 straight wins produces the illusion of skill.