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vanguard index fund or fidelity spartan fund (which actually is a money loser for fidelity, but they keep the fees at .1% as a loss-leader to bring in the chumps for the managed mu…

whoo... tough crowd :)

i don't know... the algorithm killed jeeves

Scribd is growing quickly and actively hiring all kinds of developers (ruby on rails, flash/actionscript, C++, etc) so please contact us, hackers@scribd.com, if you're interested. …

yeah, this is using alexa rankings, so it's far from perfect and misses a lot of other data, so take it for what it's worth.

i prefer a proxy balancer that is smart enough to know when the back-end servers (mongrels in this case) are busy or not, and smart enough that it doesn't send requests to back-end…

until fair proxy balancer is production ready ( http://www.brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-bala... ), i really like nginx in front of haproxy in front of the mongrels …

i still wouldn't trust him with my cats or with mowing my lawn

they were already making millions a year for many years. it's not like they were broke before this.

also, with the value of the dollar plunging below even the canadian dollar, the US stock market prices in terms of euros, for example, haven't been climbing that much, iirc (might …

answer is 42. I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

i thought one of the big advantages of jQuery was the smaller size of the javascript file(s). but this demo uses 106k of javascript (and it's not compressed for some reason) photo …

isn't that a picture of safari?

keep in mind that if the company is successful and is one of the lucky few to get a series A VC round you will likely get diluted to 0.5% - 0.6%.

'YC company' is the new google

in other news, so did Twytter and yLike

fake knock-off? so it's not a knock-off?

there's a facebook group for it too

y-scraper