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Sam, you started Loopt when you were 19 and figured things out very quickly along the way. Could you give us some insights on how to increase the speed at which we learn stuff? Man…

This is something I've also been wondering for a while (I live in Peru). Most of the folks I know follow this path: apply for a Master's degree abroad and then try to find a way to…

I've noticed that PG in his essays solves a difficult question by transforming it, e.g see http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html (3rd paragraph) and http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html …

I remember that some years ago while reading "Hacker and Painters" I got the naive impression(I was 18) that I could just go to grad school and then become rich by just building a …

Leechblock(Firefox add-on) did the job for me; you can make the websites available only for some amount of time per day/week and then they'll be blocked. The effect of this after a…

Care to elaborate? I'm early in my career(24), love embedded systems, but I just don't know if there are good jobs available in this industry for young people. Could you give more …

What works for me is to go to bed early(10pm), wake up at 6am and to study/ready/practice programming for an hour not matter what . The key is to set aside that hour even if there …

I'm an electronics engineer who likes to work on embedded software, unfortunately where I am from(Peru) there are no jobs available on this area(apart from being a teacher assistan…