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You need to consider what you want out of that money -- if you really want a fiscal return on your investment then you should stay away from startups. But if you serious... First y…

Yeah, theres definitely some details to work out. I was kind of throwing it out there as a seed of an idea and hoping people would either thrash it or expand upon it until it made …

From my understanding SOPA will make sites go dark by doing dns blocking. Wouldn't it make sense to convince even a small number of dns server operators to show support or solidari…

Change your Windows power settings? Are you freaking kidding me? Maybe they should have put included "Make sure the janitor doesn't turn off the desktop", "Getting slow? Reboot!" o…

Paypal was aware of it, as they claim its written into their policy. They should stop worrying about the 'important people' and just simply 'do the right thing'. Start with retrain…

Apparently now they're refusing comments on their blog because theres so much negative backlash.

How long have you worked for PayPal?

The big backlash is that PayPal has a history of doing this kind of thing. They're just getting called to task for it now.

Pair Programming. Seriously you get more than just code review.

The only way to get SEO these days is great inbound links or great unique content. If you don't have really great inbound content, then you better have a ton of really high profile…

Its been a while, at one point EngineYard was pretty awesome and really moved a lot forward in the RoR community. They've lost so many great people (and theres still some great peo…

Its interesting, and now that I understand the game it makes sense and is cool. But it literally took me a few minutes to figure out why male 'C' liked woman 'b' better, and I kept…

Gads, its unfortunate that the site hosting this article is so filled with spammy ads -- the full screen intro is acceptable, but the full screen popup is not, and having both is j…

If you are representing this on an HTML page you'd need to Base64 encode the bugger, adding a lot more overhead. Honestly I'm not sure why you wouldn't just simply use gzipped/JSON…

"Idea Guys" make me laugh. Theres the old sayings about "10% inspiration and 90% perspiration", "the devil is in the details", etc are usually ignored by the idea guy, they think t…

I'm a perl hacker from way back. I put a few things in CPAN back in my day. But honestly I've not written perl in a decade, so when I got a really amazing job offer for a position …