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Could this be retitled as "hipster goes to harvard, couldn't stand preppy atmosphere?"

Why wouldn't the author just spend that time learning to code instead?

top_14_scientist = ["Albert Einstein", "Sir Issac Newton", "Nikola Tesla", "Gregor Mendel", "Charles Darwin", ...] top_15_women_in_tech_history = [] for x in top_14_scientist: top_…

*note: I might be biased personally since I am only 3 years out of college from my master degree From experience working at a corporation, about 80% of the younger programmers I ha…

I think pure computer learning is not the most effective way. Since there are often "hurdles" when learning that takes in depth explanation from another person. However, if augment…

I thought unladen swallow was dead, someone correct me if I'm wrong

Almost thought that was the Ruby Shoe framework...

I wonder if the Corona framework is good for fart apps.

Reposting old articles that has been seen many times in Hacker News is useless in my opinion. However, no one will downvote pg.

What is funny is the Google is ranked below Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and SIG is ranked very high. Google clearly have the best benefits out of those companies. But I guess …

This is pretty good. How many developers and how long?

This idea is brilliant. Probably one of the best viral marketing campaigns I've seem. How badly did I want the extra space? I joined twitter because of it.

Someone who inherits 10M and has no skills in investing the money will lose it soon anyways. If you look at the fortune 400, most people who got there did it because of their perso…

How well does lift perform. I think one stat mentioned that it is 6 times faster than rails. Did anyone do a req/second analysis between scala and rails?

For something built in 48 hours, they are all pretty impressive. Some of the project really had good visual designers.

Instead of various weird ways of stimulating the economy such as "cash for clunkers" the US would be wise to imitate this initiative to create new businesses during a economic down…

This is f*ing awesome, I can't wait to use this. This presents such an awesome addon for framework like appcelerator titanium and rhomobile.

There is a thin line between motivation and obsession. Both are representations of passion. While the above comment might portray getting a billion dollars as an out of perspective…

For me, I would have no shame moving back to my parent's house and mooching off them while I work on something for a while.

Following your dream is a great mantra. However, risk management should also be taken into account too in making career choices. This does not mean don't take risks. For example, i…

This is why it is better to invest in index funds than money managers. If you make a correct decision 80% of the time, you are probably already among the best hedge fund managers.

A novel idea, but would the underwater shock also trigger tidal waves for potentially more damage?

A lot of students don't want to move away from the city they went to college in. Does the proximity of MIT also affect this and the low number of technology companies affect this?

This is for more professional users who use craigslist to advertise their services. (handyman, maids, etc) They can look at the effectiveness of their ad titles by tracking vistors…