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Sorry, but my guess is that there is no demand for this. You could test this simply - just offer to run these sorts of batched calculations to people and don't specify how they wil…

I was hoping this would be about Battletoads, which IMO is the hardest platform game I have ever played. Even on an emulator, with the ability to freeze frames and save/reload game…

The lady’s husband, a semiconductor engineer, has been unemployed for three years, yet people in his field are being brought in on H-1Bs. She doesn’t think this makes any sense. My…

They say "please don't take this seriously" and pretend it's a parody. Yet... the product is real, and the "see plans and pricing" button still takes you to a payment page. So beca…

You don't think Apple and Google are solving big problems? They were startups too, once. I think the flaw in your logic is that once a startup successfully solves a big problem, th…

I really appreciate that this site uses interesting quotes rather than lorem ipsum. It makes it less boring to trawl through different fonts.

Really interesting slides. As someone who has only briefly played around with Haskell, I do envy some of its features, particularly the type inference. I wish there were more langu…

An interesting article - thanks for the link. In summary, these practices are extremely common, and Ben Horowitz recommends them. However, they are technically illegal in Californi…

Referencing images and code from another site without permission This is not illegal, merely poor form and also a bad technical decision because the other site can then control you…

It's also often a very successful strategy for companies to copy the design of competitors, and differentiate on other things. Zynga copying competitors' games is a great example. …

At what point does this become unacceptable? Look at what Zynga did with FarmVille. At first, it was exactly like FarmTown. Same appearance, same menu layout, same gameplay. They w…

I feel like SOMA is now the center of mass of the tech startup scene. Try 21st Amendment.

So let's say I am running a startup with two employees. A friend of mine is also running a startup and needs to hire people. Is it wrong for me to ask him not to hire my employees?…

That sucks - chasing payments sounds really frustrating, because it's not even like you're doing something wrong, it's just this situation that you shouldn't even have to deal with…

Sort of a silly thing to bring up, but at my previous job bitbucket was down so often we started calling it sh*tbucket. At my current gig we're on github and it seems far more reli…

For people with experience and multiple job offers... there is no incentive That's true. But think about a smart programmer who is fresh out of school, or maybe dropped out. If you…

This emphasis on "culture" is fatuous horse excrement. Whenever you hear that word, reach for your resume. The new twitter is a dreary testament to the deceased neurons of the new …

To be fair, you loadtested with ab, whereas the author launched his feature on the Google homepage.

It's not that hard to memorize the 2-letter words. Most of them do have a meaning that makes sense. So it's easier to remember aa = lava ab = your abs ad = tv ads ae = scottish "on…

Quite an interesting product. I typed a competitor's name in and immediately saw a huge list of ads they were running. Very helpful in just ten seconds!

Very interesting. I would love to see this for other programming languages, especially Ruby (probably fairly easy) or Objective-C (may be quite hard).

One prominent chief executive told Fortune he'd heard from someone close to Gates that he might be considering such a move. It's hard to imagine a less reliable source. And that se…

These aren't myths. This is the author attempting to redefine the meaning of the word "introvert". For example: Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. From dictionary.com: noun: 1. a shy pe…

It seems pretty neat, certainly a cool senior thesis! One suggestion if you take this further is to add a "dictionary" or "hash table" type. For practical programming problems, tha…

This is similar to some of the effects of entanglement in quantum mechanics, where you can't affect the probability of a single event, but you can guarantee the events are not inde…