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Yet another article written by someone who runs a not well known or successful company giving advice on how to be successful.

How does in-flight wifi work then?

All these "Uber for" services, excluding Uber, just seem like things for people with too much money on their hands that are unsustainable and will fizzle out in a couple of years.

Oracle is at the helm of Java and plenty of right-minded developers are interested in that.

The cofounder of a company whose product was a vapid, unoriginal piece of nonsense that no one cared about for more than 5 minutes steps down. Good fucking riddance, hope this insi…

Boohoo, things change. People have a right to live and set up shop in any part of the country they want if they have the cash.

Many prominent investors and others in tech have come out and said that they don't think it's a bubble. People overlook the main difference between the dotcom bubble and now: In th…

> All songs will be set to “montetize”, meaning there will be ads on them. Ha.

Independent contracting/consulting, anyone? I'm looking into this as a possible occupation for the near future, it seems like it would allow me the opportunity to work hard but in …

What is actually the advantage of using Octopress as a blogging framework instead of something like Tumblr/Wordpress, which are pretty much equally customizable?

Have you ever used a relational database? It would be much easier and faster for a dataset like this. The general consensus on the use case for something like MongoDB is actually t…

Congrats on the success. Did you code the game from scratch with Xcode's tools, or did you use something like Unity? Also, you said you started working on the game in March 2014, s…

>I know we are in another bubble. No, we aren't. The conditions of the original tech bubble and today's conditions differed greatly, and several prominent investors have answered t…

I tried Elementary about a year ago and uninstalled it after a couple hours. Everything was ridiculously dumbed down and unproductive, worse than anything I've ever seen. I'm a dev…

Hey, you still there? I'm planning on moving out to the Bay Area in February 2014 and looking for roommates. If you look at my post history I think you'll find we share some simila…

You should have no expectation of anything when it comes to Wired.

Why is everyone(including business journalists who should know better) screaming about a "tech bubble"? There has only ever been one, and the conditions under which it happened wer…

>That essay by Paul Graham about 'mean people' is looking downright prophetic right about now. None of this crap changes the fact that Uber is a massively successful service and is…

Created a website whose sole purpose is to distribute copyrighted files illegally(and includes a very popular "Porn" section I might add), yet he complains about some "sexist" comp…

I've actually tried both Postgres FTS and Elasticsearch(in conjunction with a Postgres DB) and found Elasticsearch easier for search. It's much more robust - for my specific case I…

Good riddance. It's a damn shame that the $35 million investors dumped into this vapid shit - an outrageous number even with the current level of rampant stupidity in SV if you ask…

Sounds like snake oil to me.

How can Julia be "on par" with C when it is itself implemented in C?

Oh wow, another person evangelizing about X obscure language from inside their pseudoacademic ivory tower yet providing no examples of anything useful they've done with it, or anyo…

The inconsistency is that I don't think anyone would say Google isn't one of the most if not THE most successful web era companies, and according to pg the founders weren't driven …