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One thing I'm curious about is: at a larger software company like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Microsoft, how much of a raise do you typically get every year? Also, does Goog…

According to the blog post ( http://blog.trello.com/launch/ ), "It’s free. (We might charge something for premium features in the future). You can make one board or 100."

Yelp's filtering algorithm is terrible. Purely anecdotal, but: I've tried writing reviews on Yelp several times. When I first started reviewing and my reviews were getting filtered…

One awesome and pretty understandable blog post of his is a layman's introduction to Quantum Mechanics, using Tomb Raider as an analogy: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/qu…

Another funny one (also by a familiar name, though perhaps not as much in contest math circles) is Manjul Bhargava's: http://www.math.princeton.edu/graduate/generals/bhargava_man..…

It's even worse when they don't even read your resume until they enter the room.

It'd be awesome if Google+ also tried to suggest ways of organizing your friends into circles (similar to how Gmail suggests people to add to emails). In general, I think the Circl…

Wasn't AdGrok just acquired by Twitter? (Did he move to FB before the acquisition?)

^Typo: from the link, it's $26,000 (!), not $26.

Just curious, how has your experience been getting jobs as a dropout? I dropped out of college a couple years ago as well, but found that a lot people wouldn't even talk to me simp…

Awesome, awesome response, thanks! I've tried to understand the ad ecosystem many times before, but never got it until reading this now.

Would anyone mind explaining what the difference between all these ad companies is? In my mind, ad companies are kind of like finance companies, in that they all have the same goal…

Is it really true that Hadoop > MapReduce? I was under the impression (as a limited outsider) that Hadoop is still trying to catch up to MapReduce. Also, I've heard from a Google f…

The graphs look great (and actually useful). Does anyone know what they're using to make them?