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His company is geared towards a clear mission which is very motivational to the engineers and managers in team. When a company drives towards a goal with a fanatical zeal, nothing …

The good man was trying the opposite. Which is to make things as simple as possible for early students and get them do the hardest thing they will ever do: "solve some problems usi…

"We usually advise startups to pick a growth rate they think they can hit, and then just try to hit it every week. The key word here is "just." If they decide to grow at 7% a week …

"should" be allowed OR is it "may" be allowed (if apple pleases).

Another technique could be to split the ranking into two modes, a general mode and a power mode(where rules are much strict and biased towards a filtered set of core community user…

Basically a solution looking for a problem. They are right, the complexity that big data caters for requires expertise at both technical and business level that would be costly (th…

congrats to guys. I subscribed some months back. Have been out of perl development since a year. This newsletter really helped to keep me updated. Infact i started re-looking again…

"We have already shifted .., from physics to psychology as the value-driver and resource-allocator. " While not agreeing to the article broadly, i agree to the statement above. Inf…

>at night, over an ocean, in a storm, with no visibility, in possibly significant turbulance Instead of finding out strategies on how to fly under these circumstances, why can't th…

Yes. Ask Stallman, Linus et al

Yes. "Smart people make more money but don’t end up any wealthier" is the more accurate statement http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/smart-doesnt-...

"The only institution that can provide immediate relief is the ECB. As the lender of last resort, it must do more to save the banks by offering unlimited liquidity for longer durat…

> Links to any blacklisted site will get removed from US search engines, directories, and maybe even blogs through lawsuits. Google, Twitter, maybe even HackerNews. It doesn't work…

Nothing wrong to marvel about getting 120K readers to your post.But in a startup community like HN, people put much more value on how many conversions happened, or in this case how…

"Tweaking a button and seeing conversions increase 8-fold is a beautiful thing. Seeing an hour of work turn into 120k visits is magical." If you are a starter at HN, then do not ge…

Sorry, but a true geek never "pretends to know".

There is something unique about tablets like iPad, which is tough to understand. When Steve Jobs released it, he emphasized that this was a major event. However at the time, it loo…

"situation" is about putting a different level of constraints on them and asking them to optimize within those. And not necessarily involving only buying stuff.

"He designed new fluid monitors and x-ray equipment. He redrew that not-quite-special-enough hospital unit. " Instead of charity, if the billionaires or super smarts like gates, la…

That is only for sending the SMS of secret passcode for account security, right ? (Yes if they scrap someone's else phone and your phone number happens to be there then ya there is…

Is there really a YC list of 100 things that can kill a startup so they can be avoided ? Very interested to know

The infographics data is deceptive. 1.8 Billion Minutes of Video calls (All people minutes on skype for year); 916 hours of movies made per year (movies made by production house); …