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Before vanishing from twitter, Pmarca, my favorite tweeter, posited that if he had to start from scratch today he would focus his energies on learning BitCoin/BlockChain and AI/ML. I want to start devoting 2 hours each…

Has cloud storage suddenly become a few orders of magnitude cheaper? Periscope.tv has announced that every stream will be permanently archived by default. YouTube already is replete with archives of Google Hangouts that…

It came out of nowhere. Was mindblowing. I would've thought that it would have permeated everything by now. Yet it seems to have vanished.

I want to 'remotely' study the population in a given geographic area (city size) by analyzing what the population puts out on social media. If anyone out there has experience with this sort of thing, I'd appreciate…

Every language should come with a "minimum" instruction set. A curated subset of commands and syntax that makes the most common 80% of tasks possible. My guess is that the MVL for Javascript + jQuery would be about 10%…

Via a website, I've found a programmer living in Iraq / Kurdistan. He's very good (provably so) and I need him to implement a couple of features in one of my websites. My fear / concern is that if and when I pay this…

A friend of mine signed up for Twitter, and couldn't figure out to use it. She asked me for help. This is a highly educated, intelligent, smart person. I was scanning 'scopes on periscope.tv on my laptop PC, and I…

So, for the last 11 years, since the Allied "powers" destabilized Iraq, at least around 100 people have been killed each day by terrorist attacks there. I've never seen Amazon.com put up a special banner up to reflect…

There are so many sites for residential property where one is free to search and look at properties. How come there aren't any national sites such as these for commercial real estate? Commercial real estate sites tend…

That's what it seems like from examples on this page: http://latentflip.com/imperative-vs-declarative/ Essentially imperative programming is shown to be the case where the programmer constructs procedures. While…

I know some HTML, CSS, JavaScript (via jQuery mostly), MySQL, PHP, and basic web server admin (LAMPP stack set up and operation). I work on hobby projects for myself. I'm wondering where these skills can be transferred…

Go to missinfo.tv , click into any story , scroll down, and click on the "headphones" icon on the Google ReCaptcha widget. I'm a (mostly) normal functioning human, and I couldn't solve single audio captcha. It sounds…

it seems every month I read about a young startup in the "mobile analytics" arena being bought for multiple hundreds of millions of dollars. 1) what exactly do they do? 2) why are they so valuable? 3) why haven't the…

I realize that Amazon is not in Silicon Valley, but if it is true that white collar workers in Silicon Valley have to sign contracts like this, then there's no other way to describe this but a modern, "lite" version of…

Do you have an uncle? Good. (Alternatively, an aunt will do too.) Designate your uncle a venture capitalist. Next, form an LLC. Have your uncle do a seed round of VC investment in your company. Say, sell 0.0000000001%…

How could they get it so wrong (in my opinion)? I want a clear separation between folders and bookmarks. And I want to be able to decide which folders to put what in. It seems Chrome now wants you to save bookmarks…

I've worked a little with Terminal (via a Mac). Set up Linux boxes. Configured remote hosts. Even an Amazon EC2 instance. Basic, minor web hosting stuff. However, I'm just not warming-up to the Command Line. I found the…

A co-worker (and friend) has this "ego-problem." When he offers ideas in work meetings or up the hierarchy (at work) -- if the ideas are shot down, his feelings get terribly hurt. He feels so bad that he shuts down and…

Red kidney beans are awesomely balanced food, and I find them really tasty. But I don't know if it's age, or what, but lately, I just can't handle them any more. The gas collects inside my body, and causes sever aches,…