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As a computer science student whose other passion is touching lives, I've always found it hard to bridge the gap between my skillset and bringing about social change. Other discipl…

What are the advantages and disadvantages of backing my website with CouchDB? CouchDB and other document-oriented databases have been touted as databases of the web in the future, …

I've learnt a lot from this discussion. Hope you have too... Thanks guys, and I certainty did not mean any disrespect =]

"So, what if he is wrong and you know that you're right? Listen to what he has to say and try to understand why he raised that objection. Perhaps, there's a gem hidden beyond the s…

So what did you do in the end?

That is an interesting piece of advice. Credit yourself in areas that you are capable but be humble to recognize your weaknesses, and you'll have a clearer picture of whether you c…

....and got away with it?

As a budding entrepreneur in Asia, I find myself questioning, contextualizing, and even ignoring popular startup advice. Am I the odd apple or have you also ignored popular advice …

Share your stories...

Yes you are right. My memory failed me ;)

How does the book compare to the video?

A paid overseas internship? Wowee... great story for students everywhere. I'm planning to do something like myself next summer :)

Before entering university, I had an applied research project that generated visitor passes by performing OCR on identity cards. The idea was to use them for protected locations as…

Good to have some positive examples where academic research helps rather than hampers the startup... It strikes me that the profile of a person who does research doesn't seem to fi…

Leadership: Theory and Practice (Peter Northouse) The Craft of Research (Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams) On Writing Well (Zig Ziglar)

Do you think this principle holds true most of the time? In your experience have there barriers that nullify it? I'm interested to hear from all of you. =]

I have a web app that I would like to commercialize at some point in the future. What should I look out for in payment gateway providers?

Where did it come from, what was it, and how did it turn out?

I have done web apps before but only in the classroom so I've not dealt with real customers and heavy database loads. Now I am working on my first serious web app for my startup wh…

So when my iphone displays 1 bar my signal strength is really MINUS 1? Great!

I've heard startup speakers frequently suggest that budding entrepreneurs learn to fail quickly and cheaply. I'm in my first web startup, trying to develop and roll out an Internet…