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There's definitely inherent bias in much of the interviewing process, whether deliberate or not, for many tech startups. But there's also a high degree of bias once inside them. Ol…

The last point is key, and overlooked by young insecure startup hirers too often. Hire smart people with good work ethics that play nice with others. Having built technical teams n…

So, a few years back, as a non-technical founder I lost my technical co-founder in back-to-back startups. This was not a great experience, and made me decide to never be dependent …

...having been in several organizations in recent years which are challenged to find enough people, everyone says 3-5 years, but everyone will hire someone with obvious talent, a p…

Barely employable? ...Ruby/Rails/Full Stack jobs are so hard to fill it's insane. Starting salaries are in the $130-150k range for mid-level $150k plus for senior and even junior l…

Hackathons are a good way to make yourself try to build something in a short space of time with a new language which can teach you more about it than any amount of lessons.

How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise -- Sophocles :-)

yeah the selective hackathon is a relatively new thing and kinda stupid - like hackathon organizers have some magic formula for picking winners... dumb idea

I think a key part of the question though is the fact that it didn't used to be just entry level devs and college students at hackathons.

You aren't wrong. I've been going to hackathons for many years and there's been a steady increase in folks who are going "to win" rather than folks going for the fun, the energy, t…

great tl;dr

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 GOTO GUANTANAMO BAY

This is what the whole article says - the title is merely more layman-friendly wording.

...also regarding his final point about the speed of light - of course special relativity which explains this is similarly a generalization of older theories such as Galilean relat…

Per the footnotes at the bottom this builds on the work of Hardy a few years ago, who demonstrated that QM could easily have been derived by Victorian era mathematicians as a gener…

I don't think you're correct here. The stresses of being an entrepreneur take a tremendous toll and given the risk-taking nature of the condition (entrepreneurialism) I absolutely …

Thanks for at least having the decency to give people notice and a chance to download everything. I still remember the shameful way in which Dailybooth handled its loss of interest…

Wow that was a lame attempt at humor. Not remotely funny. Not realistic enough to be satire. Why even bother?

Love this. Always looking up movie quotes.

This is great. Nice work.

Exactly right. It's great to see a company which is growing fast, generating real revenue and quietly establishing itself as one of the most exciting startups in the valley, giving…

Started programming on an Apple II which I still own, in 1983 aged 11. I'm 42 now so that's 31 years. You'd need to have started at 4. Plus by the mid eighties it's not like this w…