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I think there's a great opportunity for bootcamps to help people like me. I'm currently a pre-sales professional, and have been for a few years now. I'm closing in on 28, and while…

Wow, I saw his post earlier on the Stellar subreddit and thought he was full of it, but would you look at that. Here's the post: http://www.reddit.com/r/thestellar/comments/2cebkm/…

Is it normal to carve out two whole hours for exercise every morning? Seems excessive. And the email. The email! A whole four hour block at the end of the day? I'm no CEO, so someo…

Neat. What lead you to decide on Ruby? I feel like Python used to be the most common beginner language, and maybe it still is, but it really seems like Ruby has gained over the pas…

I read it twice, but I still didn't catch a motive beyond "it wasn't fun." I'm thinking he couldn't stomach the process of building a company: the day in, day out of keeping a fled…

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine seems to have your back: http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2012/01/17/phsycists-... A full-body CT scan results in 12 mSv; a…

I don't know. I can't tell if the phenomenon of ageism in tech is under or overrated, but I do think that techies have the advantage of never truly being out of work, so long as th…

Kevin Rose, Digg founder and VC, just made a post about Bitcoin's fall on /r/bitcoin: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rutkt/bitcoin_is_f...

There are similar barriers to the procedure in America, though they are negotiable. The main issue is that people are fickle, and reversing a vasectomy is very difficult, so they n…

You're always welcome. You've got a long road ahead of you, but that's not a bad thing. That means plenty of opportunities. Work hard, take advantage of the awesome opportunities i…

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification.

>The rule of thumb among venture capitalists is that some 20 percent to 30 percent of companies fail, returning nothing to any investor, including the venture capitalists. Earlier …

I think it comes back to something we talk about quite a bit here: the advantage of the youthful entrepreneur. It's not that inexperienced 20-somethings and college dropouts are in…

The whole "8 kids" thing is off-putting for a lot of people. It's certainly not a great idea, but I feel that, even for people with few or no children, catastrophic failure is stil…

Hey, I remember first hearing about them on 4Chan /g/ back in late 2011, when they were maybe $6 a pop. We used to call them "Buttcoins" and laugh at all of the people mining them.…

"The MIT startup has no sales to customers, but possibly a DARPA grant to develop their technology. The team has 9 PhDs and just hired an MBA to start finding customers." That soun…

Seems to be a case of career osmosis. Uncomfortable with the growing popularity of the tech sector, and noticing a distinct exodus of Wall Street-types (who will arrive late to the…

Management consulting firms and Wall Street banks have employed somewhat strict GPA and SAT/GMAT cutoffs for quite some time, but even they can't resist the allure of brainteasers …

It's always been a gamble. If you achieve even a modicum of success or notoriety, your "drop out" status becomes incredibly valuable. You're a trailblazer, a rebel who blew past co…

Wow. That board of directors is a sight to behold. Looks more like a panel at the World Economic Forum. How on earth did the founder manage to get such high-profile backers?

I hope someone can correct me here if I'm wrong, but wasn't this the purpose of the Volcker Rule? Wasn't it designed to put a collar on HFT?

The implications of this have always fascinated me. It's hard to go back to being a worker when you've spent time as a boss, but we also know that 75% of venture-backed startups fa…

If anyone wants to see HR done right, you should read about People Operations at Google: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/01/... I know it's a bit demanding…