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I quit my job just over 1 year ago to work for myself, to do some consulting work and improve on a website that I had knocked up with a mate over 2 weekends and see where it would …

Yes I remember the 90's and how scary it was (the idea of contracting HIV). I wonder how children born in the 90's see it and whether they still view it as we did when we learnt ab…

May I ask, i felt the same way but I myself am not much of a facebooker who likes t share his life, post on twitter or post on pinterest. Maybe its just me but all those ideas are …

Don't like the title, should probably be more like "Be flexible with your consistency" You can't be inconsistent and learn say a language (programming or otherwise), or even learn …

> but if you want the next Facebook, you're not going to get it by investing in, say, Codecademy, which, as laudable as its goals are, only appeals to newbie coders, who are a tiny…

If you could pull that off without discrimination that would be an awesome idea. It may cause somewhat of a North/South Korea kind of thing but if it can be done it would be a grea…

So it seems for investors, the big winners are simply based on luck, there is no logical factor that you can easily pick out that will give you a better chance of winning accept fo…

Im not sure if you can find many places where they have both in great detal as most machine learning material assume some knowledge in the specific math but you could always write …

Aus not doing so well either

As mentioned probabilities is something you want to get into very early. Its easy to understand at the start and its practical uses in many different computing areas along with man…

i somewhat feel this is facebook trying to justify the massive IPO money and hence expanding into other areas that will make use of this money. Its the typical scenario were a comp…

In the same boat as you, quit my job around the same time you did (august of 2011), built an iPhone app and have some affiliate marketing. Turned over a bit more then 10 bucks a da…

I have always seen education as the most important gift that one can give because once its given excluding fatal accidents its something that can never be taken away or lost and is…

> Ouch. It's one thing to have your idea panned, but to say "nobody gives a shit about your team"? That's harsh. Thats the sentence that got me too. It shouldn't be personal and th…

I searched a few things, one being the project im working on now and i discovered very interesting things that lead me to book mark the results. One of the results even made me lau…

Yeh, i was looking/playing the puts and it was traded very thinly as well, took ages to get bites so didn't try again after i did it once.

Is it possible that the dodgy side of groupon was seen earlier and predicted earlier by the google MnA team and it wasn't Andrew Mason that said "No" ? Im sure if nothing has chang…

Yeh thats true, but i think the key is (as you suggested) he had many differences/oddities from the beginning (a very young age), you being a good father didnt tell him to change o…

In the text it states that " Genius often comes from finding a new perspective that no one else has taken ". I think this is clear and people not even considered geniuses can also …

Great post dude and i think i can relate to many of the situations you found yourself in. Hell every time i finish a module or feature on my current project i am always like ... Wh…

Thats because there is a hell of a lot of coding in mech eng degree now. I actually did a few programming courses in my comp sci degree as an elective that were titled mech302 mech…

Depends what you are doing. I did quite a bit of work from indonesia, philippines and singapore. Singapore no problems , indonesia & philippines it depends on what you do. If your …

I dont know what to say ! i get angry when i see a domain name that i want being parked on and going to absolute waste, but on the other hand the business this guy has created and …

This is so true. I met people during the course of my life whom i sometimes think back on and say, why didn't i just do what s/he said and i wouldn't be in this mess. It was only a…

It all comes down to the development you like to do. There was a time when i really didnt like paying extra cash for a macbook (that at the time) seemed like it was more expensive …