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Now why did you have to go and ruin a perfectly good libertarian fantasy world with facts ?

@era86 Do you write software for a living right now ?

ycombinator could sue you for stealing their business-model.

tl;dr : Dude... do you even lift ?

jrockway, we know that google does things a certain way that blows up the costs of simple storage. It's not necessary to make 12 copies worldwide to get bare minimum redundancy req…

I happen to have knowledge that google indeed does have such an explicit clause in it's employment contract. It sounds something like "... google deals with pretty much everything …

It's worse than this case makes it look like. In this case they (seemingly) reacted to an actual legal takedown request from a (putative) copyright holder. Google's required to fol…

"My passion for software often leads me to ignore work-life balance. I'm making a conscious effort to take time out to exercise and eat right so my all night hacking sessions are e…

It almost sounds like the writer just discovered the concept of a queue. Just a plain old queue. It's as if a 100 years of queueing theory development just illuminated his world in…

There's an easy way to weed out unlucky people. Just randomly throw out half the applicants. (You can substitute any proportion for "half" based on business needs)

You might say it's useless (in your blog post) but would it surprise you to know that there's a venture funded startup doing pretty much what your weekend project does (with extra …