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I know. I was being sarcastic.

Pity he didn't learn Lisp.

Speaking from experience, being a sole founder is boring and lonely. It's hard enough getting a company off the ground; why not share some of the load?

My god. It's truly amazing how any technical or academic topic seems to degenerate into a Java vs C debate. Is there a law for that?

It isn't a problem. You car is probably perfectly fine and may get great gas mileage. The problem is that you are not consuming. Bad American!

This program is about keeping consumerism alive to benefit the economy, not about fuel efficiency, The idea of trading in clunkers for fuel efficient vehicles is a thin veil to the…

Because we tend to deep fry and eat anything not nailed down.

This is a piece in Entrepreneur Magazine about the startup scene in New Orleans. Since it's in my backyard, I'm curious about wider opinions from residents of more mature startup s…

I don't about where you live, but along the Gulf Coast region, it is hotter and drier than normal.

Pride, dignity, and self-respect be damned, he should get on the public dole, right? Oh wait, he's from Kansas, so he probably has some mid-western values in his DNA.

Come visit New Orleans.

It looks good on their annual performance evaluation.

Did you stop to get your shoes shined?

Here is her LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/susanvlewis

One week to talk about goals? You don't need Seth Godin's voodoo to do what you describe. You need self-confidence and self-discipline.

Universities aren't going to disappear completely. The strong ones will survive through adaptation - witness Stanford and MIT vis-a-vis online courses. The stodgy, bureaucratic, st…

I like Bing. It does a much better job for image search and presentation than Google. The thing that will make Bing competitive with Google, however, will be the front page. Google…

That comment suggests an interesting study: how many experiments published in papers are actually repeated by other researchers. I think in computer science it is very low. I would…

The real question is "why don't men have breasts?" The answer is "because if they did, they would stay home and play with them all day long."

This should be re-written as "Pentagon Plans Another New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace".

I'm glad somebody is excited. Not to be a downer, but I'm personnaly seeing copy-cat evolution, not revolution. The new toys just aren't going to change the way I work and play.

Schools receive their incentives for (1) high standardized test scores, and (2) promotion/graduation rates. There are no incentives for producing creative, literate, and critically…

Turns out he didn't tell the part of the story about his wife's bankruptcies: http://kottke.org/09/05/economics-reporter-gets-caught-in-mo... .

Graham and Buffet engaged in"fundamental analysis", which attemptes to determin an implicit value of a company based on business (accounting/financial) information. The traditional…

I don't write articles on entrepreneurship and technology startups, either, if that is what you are trying to say. I don't purport to be an expert on entrepreneurship through artic…