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I have a 15 mo girl. My wife read lots of books. I read a few. With a few exceptions, the books have been a waste of time and money. So many of the books in this genre have the fee…

I don't think getting stuck in a local optimum is as important as the speed with which you get there. Techniques for finding a global optimum of a numerical function are expensive,…

It's interesting to me that Paul lists humility as an (the?) important factor leading to successful product design. It seems like there would be a natural tension between the coura…

I think the point of the Vista comment is to illustrate the theme of patenting fairly obvious programming technology, not to take a shot a the "modern day best and brightest." Micr…

I usually sleep about 7.5 hours. I don't know any hacks for sleeping less. The best hack I know for getting more done in the same amount of time is to exercise intensely for 45 min…

I think the possibility of failure is a great motivator, so I wonder if I would have the motivation to attempt to succeed if I knew I wouldn't fail. The most interesting things I'v…

It's more like he gave you a scalpel, a tool that's great - even indispensible - for a specific set of cutting tasks, but that might leave you disappointed if you chose to use it f…

Sorry but that's like selling someone a car and saying "Oh you want the chassis to be made of metal instead of wood? Well you can change that can't you." Except pg isn't selling an…

Common Lisp will keep chugging right along. You could ask on comp.lang.lisp if you wanted some really well-informed opinions wrt the impact of Arc on CL, but I wouldn't advise it u…

His "challenge" is totally missing the point. Just because it is difficult to identify the owner of a random picture doesn't mean that one couldn't use that picture against the wis…

I agree with a lot of what he said, although I don't expect that Clinton would get "swatted" by voters against any of the potential Republican candidates. But mostly I just wanted …

A production language should favor reading the code over writing it, and a toy language should do the opposite. Note that I don't mean that the language is a toy, but that it's use…

I don't have any experience in a startup, but just thinking on the problem leads me to believe that not releasing early would be a big contributor. Seems to me that if you release …

s/had to be rewritten/rewrote itself/ would be funnier.

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>please don't confuse hard work with anything that happens in college. You can work hard at anything. Playing an instrument isn't something I consider work, but it takes hard work …

The XFL had a lot of problems, but very few were related to the business structure. The biggest problem was that the best players in the world weren't playing in the XFL. Div I-A c…

I think the big difference between CEO's and football coaches is that the coaches' products are more easily subject to scrutiny. The average joe can watch weekly football games and…

If nothing else, the author demonstrated the ability to work hard. Demonstrating to yourself that you can work hard has a lot of value in and of itself, IMO. Of course, there are o…

I think there are certain aspects of Web startups that require iteration - it's not easy to figure out exactly what customers want on the first try. Even the customers might not (u…

re: Web 2.0 being out of style, perhaps some of the trendy things like gradients, etc. may have fallen out of fashion, but, IMO, simple interfaces will never fall out of fashion. F…

Hmmm...cutting your own hair to save time. This, I like. But how do they do it? Flowbee? Clippers?