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A unicorn I worked at for two years is going IPO soon. The RSUs are double trigger vest. I want to hedge the risk that the stock gets cut in half in-between the IPO and the lockup …

Depending on how cynical one is, you might view the real estate multiple listing service (MLS) as "community owned", at least from a game theoretic standpoint. It is not a monolith…

I am developing a B2B eCommerce site that will accommodate a wide range of asset types. I am working on the browse/search aspect of the site and trying to develop UX that will allo…

I am interested in what specific anomalies they've detected recently on Twitter.

"We present the first 3D algorithm capable of answering the question: what would a Mandelbrot-like set in the shape of a bunny look like?" I have questions, Science has answers. Sc…

This guy knows what is up.

Is this book worth reading?

I've tried using their tool to report them one at a time, it's quite tedious. I've tried emailing them at info@facebook.com. Redirected to support page. I only care because FB is t…

Ew. Sourceforge. I was excited to try it but I'm afraid of what crapware I'll get if I do.

Maybe its secure, but maybe a vulnerability is simply worth more than the amount of btc in the pinata. The amount in the pinata should probably double every X days. In this situati…

I'm just imagining the subtle bugs that can happen if the developer can't assume a minute is 60 seconds and that each minute is the same length. This seems like a feature for no on…

Has there been any serious quantitative research into the additive or multiplicative effect of tools on effective intellectual horsepower to solve hard problems? For instance, if I…

The problem with Dropbox is that it is not locally encrypted. This means it will only ever be used for sharing excel spreadsheets at work. Dropbox has a team of people whose only j…