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Haha, I'd bet real money that > 75% of people who read this site still use a centralized VCS, most likely SVN. The pace of change is glacial.

Perhaps because he has accomplished a great deal and may have some advice for those who wish to as well? Seriously, he is out of touch with reality because he doesn't waste his tim…

Looks more like a modified ouroboros - wee bit older than Firefox.

I don't know if being a great programmer, and great at business (as in management, sales, etc), are mutually exclusive or not. However they do seem to require very different attitu…

Sure, but what sort of hacker? Hackers have narrow and deep interests, so they tend to spend time in communities that are narrow and deep like comp.lang.*, Lambda the Ultimate, A L…

I don't think so, at least not hackers who are programmers. Most of the interesting links seem to be cross-posted from programming.reddit.com and receive relatively few upvotes. I …

I prefer CentOS ( http://www.centos.org ) as a server OS. It is well tested, secure, and reasonably up to date. CentOS is very nice for the sysadmin: configuration is well thought …

E is a fascinating distributed programming language, designed explicitly for building secure systems. With E and capability security you can build digital currencies, mobile code, …

E is a fascinating distributed programming language, designed explicitly for building secure systems. With E and capability security you can build digital currencies, mobile code, …

"We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding. Please don't take it personally, because most of the proposals we rejected, we rejected for reasons having nothing…

Amen! That was my very first thought as well :) You would think history provides sufficient demonstrations that private deals with tyrants usually backfire in the end. The Dalai La…

You might have to work much harder being outside of a tech center, but if you build something great, people will initiate contact with you regardless of where you are. If your idea…

How about doing some consulting for a startup, maybe even one from a previous YC round? You should be able to negotiate a pretty flexible schedule if you have expertise they need.

Server Side If your app is db-bound then use your favorite language. If it requires a lot of CPU time, you'll probably want a language that compiles to native code. Lots of choices…

schmoe@sent.com

What a great example of Hannah Arendt's "the banality of evil". Since the domain market is unregulated why not take advantage of that for your own personal gain, regardless of who …

Where did you get the $25-$30 USD figure for Windows Server? Pricing a server at dell.com shows $799 for Standard and $3,295 for Enterprise (useful if you want more than 4GB RAM or…

With the nearly endless supply of interesting links from del.icio.us, digg, reddit, news.yc, etc, do you use one of the popular link aggregators to stay on top of what's hot? So fa…

schmoe AT sent DOT com - oh well, thanks anyway.