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genera··on Questions you’ll (probably) get asked at your YC interview
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford
genera··on This Tech Bubble Is Different
>Best minds of any generation have always thought about ways to make money.

Yeah, but sometimes it comes from developing technology that sends people to the moon. Or technology that reduced a roomful of vacuum tube computer technology to a chip the size of your fingernail. Or finding ways to mass-produce cheap chip-based computers affordable my hundreds of millions of people... You know, stuff that actually kinda matters, and can improve people's lives.

genera··on Old-School Silicon Valley Company Logos ON T-SHIRTS
Microsoft didn't fail either. Who said anything about "Failed company logos on t-shirts"...?
genera··on Old-School Silicon Valley Company Logos ON T-SHIRTS
No SUN? Their logo would probably be the best seller.
genera··on Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my butt every day.
Linus makes fine points, but it's asinine to say that standards don't matter. His entire contribution to the world could not exist without them.
genera··on The Ghetto Called Facebook
AOL keyword: Facebook
genera··on The Haskell Platform 2011.2 is out: GHC 7 for all
http://learnyouahaskell.com/

A very enjoyable tutorial. Supposedly, this site was going to come out in book form. If/when it does, it should become the de-facto "Camel book" for Haskell.

genera··on Notes on Haskell: What's Wrong with the For Loop
s/naughty/stupid
genera··on Apple Keyboard in pure CSS.
Maybe he mapped CapsLock to be a control key, like the rest of us. :)
genera··on The rise and fall of Lisp at the Jet Propulsion Lab (2002)
"Sometimes, when the difference between "best way" and "standard way of doing things" is not so great -- it is better to go with standard practice. "

...and thus XML is born.

genera··on Do It Yourself Masters in Financial Engineering
By following Step 3, you will lose much more than whatever the amount was in Step 2.