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Ok: 1. This doesn't account for undiscovered reserves. 2. This doesn't account for the ability to substitute one mineral with another in some applications (copper was replaced with…

There was a 20x performance difference between the 2 machines they tested simplejson on. Having used both, I feel that simplejson has a pretty sizeable reliability advantage (unles…

15 people for 100k/month would mean you are paying an average of 74k/year. Who would willingly work for a startup for that, without lots and lots of equity (answer: the exact peopl…

Making a really big website does cost money. You can't host yelp on your VPS account. On the other hand, startups that have raised money when they aren't basically failing due to i…

Free shipping with the gift card, can't you read?

4% of 0 is 0, so I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you don't have a no-compete, which it sounds like you don't since there isn't any company to have an agreement with at this …

I just ditched slicehost in favor of http://www.vpsfarm.com $80 per month, 10mb/s unmetered, 2048mb RAM, 80GB disk. Slicehost gives 400GB, 1024mb, 40GB for $70, which isn't too bad…

it's painfully slow. Try indexing your database.

The stock market is zero sum? That is hilarious. I guess you haven't heard of dividends? I totally understand people being wrong about basic facts. But what motivates you to go out…

I agree. Also, you can't patent or trademark just an idea. So just wait out the year or whatever on your NDA and make the company yourself. Unless the people who want you to build …

The two paths are not equivalent at all. When two people bring you in, they might bring someone else instead. So the outcome should be reduced by how easily you can be swapped with…

You can't make a reasonable self study. People will say you can, but they are full of crap. There are maybe a few hundred people in the world who can do something like that, and th…

I've developed a handful of things using APEX and their webservices API. I've found APEX is a weird combination of a Java-like language, and you query their database with a goofy, …

Like half of Microsoft is Indian. I've heard lots of stories about the Indian Mafia at MS and so on. So, I think Indian Society did produce Gates.

The neighborhood I live in is almost exactly 50% Black, 50% White (at least my cul-de-sac is exactly 50%, if you count per-house, probably about that per-person). I have yet to see…

Well, it depends how big you need to scale. Postgresql can scale far far better than mysql on a single multiprocessor machine. Postgres scales up to about 16 cpu's without much dif…

I agree, Mysql is a poorly designed pig. Big count(*) is fast, so people lap it up.

Strategy: Keep Memcached and drop MySQL, and get a RDBMS that can handle concurrency without 50 servers.

This server is already painfully slow. Lets not completely shut it down, mkay?

They have tried this extensively. Inner city block grants, subsidizing business, etc. The idea that you can 'fix' another person's neighborhood is equally as racist as the policies…

This has nothing to do with poverty. The article goes out of it's way to make it clear that the family is black without mentioning it, by saying they are from Oakland, and by pictu…

There are like 1 billion prediction markets out there. The measure of a prediction market is the quality * quantity of earnest participants. What secret sauce do you have? If you d…

What qualifies her to be CEO of any company? It's like executives have a career ratchet, they can only go up, and once they are CEO of one company, they sortof just refuse to do an…

After smoozing the bigwigs, he goes off and tries to figure out how to install Eclipse for 3 days, and gets ever more creative for his reasons for not producing code, eventually us…