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What technologies do you work in?

Maybe it's shorthand for "{this()}" ? Sorry couldn't resist. I'm not really bothered by it in the comments, I guess it's kind of a substitue for "agreed" or "totally".

Hi, great work! Very clean and easy to play. I just played a game against your AI - I should've lost but it got stuck at the very end. I had a king and 2 blocked pawns, AI had quee…

Great read, but I think that if the VCs can resist the temptation of investing too much too early there does exist a positive outcome. We might just see feature development moving …

Don't get me wrong, lambdas are really useful and elegant, I just think they should be used when there is a purpose other than simply making the code succinct - such as limiting sc…

For languages that support it, use lambda functions judiciously - too much of them make code really error-prone and hard to debug. (Not the most wide-spread problem, but came acros…

I think this article is just an original argument for bootstrapping. I don't think this guy is saying: "don't reach for the stars" - at least that's not how I interpret it. He's sa…

Agreed, it's just that building stuff is cheaper and easier now, and more industries/SMB are going to digital book-keeping, so there is now more data to be gathered by more people.…

In the realm of software, which is diffuclt to defend, I like how much of a barrier to entry these companies create just by virtue of collecting data no one else does. Even google …

The economy of scale here will be huge - if the founders of Imagine K12 build vertical expertise in promoting education startups (i.e. connections with schools, VCs who invest in e…

I think whether you agree with the specific technical points or not, this is a great article. I don't know if "best practices" exist, but consistent practices do, and they make it …

Awesome article. How important do you think is experience in attaining these vs good instincts/personal qualities?