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Training tomorrow's scientists(money.cnn.com)
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by sayemm 16y ago
Yup, that's what I was thinking too. I'm nearly done working on something just for that, will post to HN soon
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Only real artists ship (ghostinthepixel.com)
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Obama Talked R&D With Jobs, Zuckerberg (online.wsj.com)
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by sayemm 16y ago
Interesting reading this because this is exactly why I love emacs, especially when I came across this tip a while ago: "Emacs: TRAMP + bookmarks = awesome", http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2006/03/12/emacs-tramp-b... I'm always plugge
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The countries Facebook has left to conquer(royal.pingdom.com)
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China overtakes Japan as world's second-biggest economy(bbc.co.uk)
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by sayemm 16y ago
The way calculation is taught to kids I think could use a whole lot of work. Calculation and mental arithmetic are pretty interesting and quite handy, even for adults. Check out Vedic and Trachtenberg techniques: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by sayemm 16y ago
"...most often we make money with brilliant people who are hard to get along with, but we rarely make money with normal people who are easy to get along with." The former sounds just like Steve Jobs and the latter sounds just like John Scul
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by sayemm 16y ago
And that's about 10x less than what they bought TweetDeck for. They probably raised a nice undisclosed round when they rebranded into UberMedia.
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Not all content is king on Wall Street (newsosaur.blogspot.com)
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by sayemm 16y ago
I can't speak from personal experience, but in this interview Max Levchin mentions how his girlfriend was key in pushing him forward and giving him the strength to not quit during the days before Paypal - http://gigaom.com/2010/11/08/in-hi
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The Groupon Clipper(time.com)
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by sayemm 16y ago
Good book to check out on this is "Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns" - http://www.amazon.com/Pro-CSS-HTML-Design-Patterns/dp/159059... The author uses OO-based css examples all throughout the book, it was my first time reading about it an
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by sayemm 16y ago
Steve Yegge recommends a few key bindings in his awesome post, "Effective Emacs" - http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs
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Business Insider Interview with Bill Gross(businessinsider.com)
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by sayemm 16y ago
I think those qualities are just a few of the things in talented hackers that also make them naturally strong entrepreneurs too. Tenacity, creativity, and a love for solving problems and building things...
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by sayemm 16y ago
Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray called it back in 1994 - http://www.amazon.com/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-Pape...
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by sayemm 16y ago
Right on. I also think of guys like Warren Buffett or Li Ka-Shing who are insanely competitive and are still putting in crazy hours into their businesses even though they're both in their 80s. They don't live a lavish lifestyle at all and t
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by sayemm 16y ago
Best book on the knack for getting money is "How to Get Rich" by Felix Dennis, founder of Maxim magazine (worth between $400-900M, that's what he says in the book): http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs/dp... Here's a
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by sayemm 16y ago
Philip Greenspun has two solid resources: - http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/ ? - http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ I would also guide myself by looking at the top languages on Github: https://github.com/languages Best way to start t
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by sayemm 16y ago
Zed Shaw's "Learn Python the Hard Way" is a great way to start and test the waters - http://learnpythonthehardway.org
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by sayemm 16y ago
Zuck is concerned with the future of Facebook, as a company and as a service, far more than all this personal bullshit and his own brand, and I think that's what makes him a good leader irrespective of what anyone might think of his past. W
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by sayemm 16y ago
Right... his PR team couldn't have possibly told him to take his entire team to go watch "The Social Network" when it came out. Of course his PR team is going to guide him along the way, but it shouldn't discount how serious he is about con
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by sayemm 16y ago
I really applaud Zuckerberg for positively embracing all the attention that's been shouldered on him, really. I think stuff like this SNL skit or him taking his core team at Facebook to watch "The Social Network" together at a movie theatre
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by sayemm 16y ago
Here's a good video on the topic: "Warren Buffett's Tax Rate is Lower than His Secretary's" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu5B-2LoC4s
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by sayemm 16y ago
Awesome. Thanks a lot!
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Ask HN: Best resources for learning RoR?
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PHP SDK & Graph API base Facebook Connect Tutorial(thinkdiff.net)
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by sayemm 16y ago
Great piece by Jessica. It's cool reading this as I'm 25 years old now, even though I'm a guy. Whenever the topic of women entrepreneurs comes to mind though, I always think of Rose Blumkin - http://www.buffettsecrets.com/rose-blumkin-nebr

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