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+1 for Roaccutane/ Isotretinoin - worked really well for me with a one-time 3-month treatment and I wish I had tried it earlier.

Post-its are hard to beat because they function as a backdrop and everyone walks by a couple of times per day, whether they want to or not. For remote teams that run on Slack, give…

For anyone else wondering: author of Leo Explores is Leo Polovets @lpolovets Twitter bio: "Partner @SusaVentures. Before: 2nd non-founding engineer @LinkedIn → @Google → early engi…

Regarding prior notice et al.: "Private API" is a slight understatement IMO. Uber is running a $3.4bn business and their car data is a lot of what makes them valuable. I wouldn't b…

The Blue Card requires that you have a job contract or very concrete job offer with a minimum salary, and will more or less be tied to that job: If you lose your job, they apparent…

To be frank, I don't share the excitement (or now sadness about loss) either: I was hoping it would set an example for the European ecosystem (...) but [we] decided to join another…

Definitely listen to the Freakonomics podcast on Chicago's quintessential role in developing the US as a country and economic giant - well worth the 30min or so, and based on a boo…

It doesn't bring the $1m kick-off grant for the fertility fund, but another new app in that space is http://www.helloclue.com/ It focuses more on tracking the monthly cycle and how…

Incorrectness of linked article's headline was pointed out already. Also, this is not the "German Government", it's the CDU/CSU conservative party's election agenda. Yes, they are …

tl;dr: Esp. for standard positions, Berlin combines low salaries & rents with a growing (young & international) population and trustworthy German processes; bureaucracy is the same…

NPR's Planet Money has devoted a 20min episode to explain the LIBOR manipulation - worth a listen if you want to brush up on your interbank financial knowledge. http://www.npr.org/…

http://www.syncany.org/ looks promising but - like many OS projects - lost some steam after the founder took on a full-time job.

Why wouldn't I be surprised to find out Andrew Mason had joined to record this in the studio?

Kevin Systrom went all in at an earlier point. Discussed in more detail by the two of them here: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2745 (video)

To me, the Netflix price is as much about marketing as it is about the quality of the algorithm: Netflix was ahead of the pack (i.e. Blockbuster) even before, but after spreading t…

BTW, thanks a lot for the sticky notes - I was fearing another very carefully designed presentation with few words that works for the actual audience, but not an individual reader.…