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Oh, I was just applying the principle of the quote to itself.

That should be -- "Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away."

Actually, Google does have one major challenge -- how to motivate its people. I'm not talking about fresh college graduates, but rather people who are high up in the organization b…

By your logic, one could have seriously hampered your self confidence by suggesting that your reasoning about this is faulty, and the only reason you beat your parents at chess was…

Actually, not only do you want to know the number of outstanding shares, you also want to find out what kind of liquidation preferences exist for the VC's. Depending on the liquida…

I believe that the author makes one fundamental mistake: Assuming that there is one great filter, and that its common across all civilizations. It seems to me there are a large num…

Well, you can pay people to praise you but the reverse doesnt hold.

Actually, its a little strange that they would do this for a spreadsheet program. Spreadsheets are, by nature functional, and would yield themselves to approaches like quickcheck. …

A plane?

Funny, because Science itself is a religion. See Foundation, Part I (Asimov).

I would say that there are two important things to consider: 1. Understanding how a compiler works without getting bogged down by programming language details - This means that you…

The best non-database solutions I have seen are: 1. Google file system, and crawler cache 2. Lucene storage