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Which city in Canada is the best for internet startups, considering abundance of talent, a startup culture...? Edit: Thanks to all those who gave in input.

Hi, I am a novice programmer, currently self-learning, would really like to understand Object Oriented Programming well. Can anyone suggest some books that are good at explaning OOP for beginners? Thanks for the help in…

Windows beat Apple to market share by involving a whole bunch of customers,licensing out the product, involving a whole bunch of potential partners in the development process. Isn't the same thing happening with the…

Or is it a unified term that we like to use for a concept with lot more factors at work than we care to acknowledge? say like the way we use the word "God" to explain anything that we can't explain, don't know yet or…

An idea has been stirring in my grey mash for a while, got no way I can follow it up. But, I was wondering what you would think of it: A large monitor(extension) for a small laptop. This was a an issue I wrestled when I…

How do you go about finding good mentors in life. career or business? Any advice on how to find and develop relationships with them?

In the next few days, I would like to list prospective features of the site/idea, details about me, etc on the demo url included in the application. There are some that I would like to list which I would like to keep…

If the technology for artificial eyes advances so much that their performance far surpasses the performance of natural eyes to give a competitive advantage in life, would be there a day when people desire to or…

Almost all the big companies of the world were at one time very small, or one can even say teeny relative to their current sizes. Yet, not all small companies grow into those big companies. What is it that enables a…

Hi, I am considering attending the Ethical hacking course offered by CEP Logic in Orlando in November. Has anybody or anybody you know attended this course before? If so, what would be your (or that of the person who…

For those who are/have been founders among the readers of HN, can you share some perspective on the toughest decisions you have made regarding your start up? How did you go about making those tough decisions? Thanks.

Can giving noise cancelling headphones like Bose's Quite Comfort 15 to employees (those who would like to use them) improve productivity (letting them concentrate or overcome noise distractions better), while allowing…

Which is the best cms out there, based on PHP & MySQL? I am looking for: 1) relative stability ( can't afford to experiment for this part now) 2) very good online/published support 3) ease of starting (for a guy new…

Are there any good alternatives for MS Project? I have used MS Project in the past on my job and love its functionality. Now I need project management tools to use in my own company and I find MS Project to be quite…

The short of it: What would be a reasonable amount of equity that I can offer him? The long of it: I am considering bringing in an old friend as a co-founder. These are the facts: Though he had done quite a bit of…

The short of it: Its surprising how well the principles explained in the book "Contented Cows give better milk" held up when I analysed 1) two gas stations I worked at and their work environments, the way the owners…

I guess what is stated up in the title is as obvious as the fact that there is a night and day. But it is the explanation (the why) or the method of explanation that I would like to be critiqued: The Why: (for what is…

Beliefs in human nature are like complex nested loops with a bunch of conditional statemetns thrown in. For quite some time, I have had this belief that people run on beliefs, whether they are conscious of their own…

Its amusing, amazing, surprising, but the general bunch of formulas used to build giant companies, monopolies and the sort have remained the same over more than a century. The formulas used by the Gateses, Ellisons,…

Have there been any YC startups where the founders or some of them are Indians or from other 'difficult to get easy visa' countries, who are in the US on non-immigrant visas? I am on an H-1B Visa and looking to apply to…

The rate of one's personal growth is directly proportional to one's readiness to be BRUTALLY honest with oneself. Yep, brutal. The more painful a truth about oneself is, the more we tend to cover it up from ourselves…

It is about creating a nourishing environment. That's something I realized when reading an article on being a nourishing parent in a parenting magazine, years ago.(nope, i am not a parent, it just interests me) Having…

If there are two people with the same inherent intelligence, wouldn't the person with more knowledge APPEAR to be more intelligent? Wouldn't the one with more knowledge be better at solving problems, because he has more…

How much does the leadership qualities of founder/s factor in the success of a start up? We all know that most of the startups are founded by whizkids. And not all of the startups, even those with good ideas end up…