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Was the intent ever not to get talent acquired? I'm very confused by all of the anger at Google and Facebook for acquiring these companies. The companies look like they were design…

Are there any good books (or other resources) on modern PHP? I last used PHP back with PHP3 (and then went C++ => Java => Python => Python/JavaScript => Ruby => Python/R), but a bu…

Does anyone know if namespace packages actually work? I've been wanting to put up a few utility libraries on Github. I don't think they're good enough for PyPI, and I mostly just w…

Does Python have a BPEL/BPM-style workflow engine like Ruby's ruote? This doesn't seem to be it, but I would love to have a workflow engine which is designed for long running tasks…

If this post wasn't on Hacker News, how would someone reach this page without knowing what R is? Would you expect a JavaScript tutorial page to explain what JavaScript is? Or a sta…

Is that what Blank is arguing though? I remember listening to your office hours at TC Disrupt, when you were talking to the guy from Omniplaces. You said: "This is commercialized r…

Is there a better signal than high-pay for choosing a technical internship? Looking at Alexey's list, with the exception of hedge funds, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox would be…

If I'm reading you correctly, you definitely made money on the App Store. But it sounds like you are still tens of thousands of dollars underwater in opportunity cost. Is it wrong …

Is there a standard set of tools that are being advocated here, in addition to the repository structure? I've been mostly working with Rails lately, and I'd like to continue using …

Has anyone made a comprehensive comparison of the top web frameworks and how mature the libraries/plug-ins/services around them are? Frankly, Rails and Node.js seem to have much mo…

This is actually a good answer, in that it suggests that norms might be important in answering the question. However, this [1] paper by some of the authorities on P3P suggests that…

What is the preferred way to handle P3P for a young startup or a small (possibly academic) project? As I see it, there are seven relevant facts: 1. The intent of P3P is to make it …

Is there a particular type of startup that would be appropriate for Boston versus other locations? My instinct is that outside of Biotech and Enterprise software, it is still a hug…

This story lacks a summary, so here goes... Flailing Fast is an underground classic chronicaling the story of two young entrepreneurs. I got an earlier version a few months ago, th…

Apple, Google, and Facebook all make around $1m revenue/employee and employ around 100,000 people. (Profit/employee is about $300-400k, incidentally.) While the average SV engineer…

Is there anywhere to read more about Geoff's Rocketmail experience? In Founders at Work , Sabeer Bhatia (who co-founded Hotmail) paints a pretty awkward picture of Four11. Accordin…

How do people actually test multiple client-side browsers? In terms of testing, Jasmine and QUnit both seem to have reasonable APIs, and I'd be totally happy to use either. I'm sur…

I agree that Hollywood is evil, however, is the argument that it has peaked really accurate? ("Hollywood is dying.") This RFS doesn't really give any statistics (perhaps because it…

Is hiring software developers an evaluation problem or a supply/demand problem? GitHub provides a great signal for evaluating whether someone is one of the top 100 or top 1000 deve…

Would you argue that students should not study for standardized tests (e.g., SAT, GRE, ACT) as well, because they should have learned the (restricted set of) material on the test i…

This presentation brings up a tangential point that has always confused me: how error-prone is starting a subprocess, really? I agree with the author's goals of making common tasks…

Is there a list anywhere of which Computer Science (and related) textbooks are worth reading? (Perhaps based on which universities are actually using them?) Personally, I find that…

Would it be wrong to think of Scala and Clojure as the F# of the JVM? I had been thinking of Scala as though it was Java++ (in analogy to C vs C++): a language that adds a few feat…

My understanding is that 0% of MIT admissions is non-academic admits (legacy, recruited athletes, development, under-represented minorities). Is that incorrect?