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> And that's a good thing for the article author too, because it gives them the chance to see if they're a fit for the job and could learn the required skills even if they don't ha…

My main takeaway from this article is that the author wasn't necessarily frustrated with spending 12 hours to prepare a 1-hour long presentation - though this does seem like a big …

I don't think what you've written is exactly true. At least some of the rental property in San Francisco is rent controlled (possibly a lot of it if you believe this site: http://w…

One of the nice things about Vanguard is that the fee structure is much less than 1-3% for many of their funds. I invest with them in some of their index funds and pay no more than…

Building the "vanilla post and search rental platform" first reminds me of a strategy I've read elsewhere: spend time working in the industry you hope to disrupt. There is no subst…

"The proper solution is to make it very easy to strike down bad patents ..." isn't this exactly what the author is trying to do? The author states that he uses StackExchange to "re…

Rather than asking "Why don't designers take Android seriously?" I'd ask "Why don't companies take Android seriously?" Once a company decides to take Android seriously, it isn't al…

I've just downloaded the Holification Nation Instagram client. It's nice, but the icons are very grainy. They may not have included xxhdpi assets, which is unfortunate; that oversi…

If there's a shortage of doctors we could increase the supply or examine whether we need fully trained doctors for certain more basic services in the first place. There are plenty …

I know you're just providing a hypothetical example, but I think it's common for services provided by doctors or a hospital emergency room to cost quite a bit more than $100; in ma…

These types of of writings are often hard to come by, but they always provide a refreshing taste of an often hidden part of entrepreneurship.

We rarely hear of the hard times before an entrepreneur/ company hits it big. It's all smiles at that point. Andy's blog series is a real gem.

Whether or not voting is a system to avoid violence and conflict or create accountability, it's dominated by a system that allows for those outcomes (assuming they are binary) and …

Isn't this generally what investors look for in a market? Something large enough that even a small share can earn a handsome return? I wouldn't judge Dwight on that statement alone…

I've actually enjoyed the first two episodes (half watching while programming); they're are quite entertaining! I think it's a bit unfair to judge the overarching merits of the per…

An important topic, Andy! Related: if you're motivated (positively) enough to work that extensively, that's a gift unto itself. Take a step back and think about working just 8 hour…

It's not clear to me whether the process you describe would infringe. It seems to me that if the component server returns only a data object with all scripting instructions provide…

I'm no scripting historian, but I believe the relevant date from which to judge this patent's validity is 4/12/2000, the date of the provisional application from which this patent …

"But once a user has signed up, make sure you take them by the hand along the funnel." A few weeks ago, Danielle Morrill of Refer.ly, blogged about a her company's new user onboard…

A preliminary injunction requires the fulfillment of 4 requirements: 1) the plaintiff will likely succeed in proving infringement, 2) the plaintiff will likely suffer irreparable h…

I read things a bit differently; the assumption is that the product experiences 30% customer growth per year (around 2.2% growth per month) and loses 10% of those new customers per…

Posner's positions, and the frank and open manner with which he expresses them, are a much needed breath of fresh air from a legal system that is all too esoteric. Especially with …

True innovation protects itself in most cases, depending upon the ease with which a third party can copy it. In general, the threshold for what constitutes innovation in software i…

So now textbook authors are forced to license their books in such a manner? Or is this a choice that certain authors can make? If it's the former, financial incentives for textbook…