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This is a really interesting account of an interview. At the same time, I am skeptical of the author's armchair psychology and his speculation about the 'real' Jobs. He pushes his own interpretation so hard that I can only assume it colored his reporting on the interview itself.

Startup Bootcamp is always a great event. Thanks to the guys who put it on, and I highly encourage you to go to Startup Bootcamp if you're on the East Coast and can't make it out to Stanford.

"You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you’re connected with about two feet of headphone cable."

- Steve Jobs (http://37signals.com/svn/posts/52-steve-jobs-just-put-it-in-...)

What does this have to do with Twitter?

This mentality ("give people what they want") results in the empty, sensationalist journalism that most people dislike. When I read the news, I don't want to be entertained, I want to be informed. The same goes for Internet searches.

I suspect that you didn't read the article. In addition to heavily discussing Dunbar's number, the entire point of the article is that, even with the aid of social networking technology like Twitter, Dunbar's number still applies. From the article:

"The bottom line is this: social networking allows us to vastly increase the number of individual we can connect with. But it does nothing to change our capability to socialise. However hard we try, we cannot maintain close links with more than about 150 buddies."

Strangely appropriate is today's XKCD: http://xkcd.com/904/

Half of the world has SMS access and can therefore use Twitter.

David Baltimore won a Nobel Prize for discovering reverse transcriptase, the enzyme that allows HIV to work. In a talk he gave at my high school, he stressed the same message, saying that "the frontier of knowledge is nearer than we expect".

Growing up, we learn everything throuugh books which seem to present all that is knowable about a subject. It's hard to unlearn that perspective and appreciate how much there is that humanity doesn't know.

Apparently nobody reads the TOS, because clicking the TOS link leads to the press release.

I used to use del.icio.us as a sort of online magazine. I would read the feed for posts tagged "python" and see all the blog posts about Python that people were reading that day. My usage was very similar to the way people use Twitter and Hacker News today.

Fascinating statistics. I wish the charts had been designed in a way that made it easier to compare the numbers: for instance, I want to visually compare the number of hours that each country spends sleeping, but these charts force me to read the numbers instead of interpreting the graphics.

I wonder how many non-geek users who read this article will simply disallow all third-party apps, even legitimate ones.

I was a bit disappointed to find that this was a Kindle book that repackaged a bunch of already-published blog posts, rather than some clever way to publish a blog that would be delivered as a periodically-updated Kindle book.

Nevertheless, this is a cool idea. I'd love to see one for Paul Graham's essays (including those written after Hackers and Painters was published) and Steve Yegge's old blog.

I also find it strange that Amazon forces you to charge a minimum of $.99, but I suppose that's their way of making sure that they can pay for hosting.

I don't think that calculus should be included in a high school curriculum. Differential modelling is a valuable skill, sure, but I don't think that it will be applicable to 95% of students. There are such a broad range of jobs in the world, and very, very few end up doing differential modelling, despite increasing numbers for university calculus course registration.

Based on their past actions, I feel like Google or Twitter would never do this, and that makes me respect them much more.

A bit friendlier than the title of an unauthorized biography which my friend owns: "iCon".

It's neat that he was able to make this effect, and I'm glad we're experimenting with new Javascript+CSS3 effects.

This particular effect, though, reminds me of turbulence in an airplane, or the rumble of a subway. When I see the rumbling elements on the page, it makes me nervous and anxious.

Bing Maps makes napkin-sketch style maps as well, if you have Silverlight installed.

Say what you like about Bing in general, but Bing Maps is pretty cool.

> Today, do any colleges even consider this? In the time you work flipping burgers, you could just as easily become leader of 12 after-school activities that look "impressive" on a resume.

Most college application forms have, in addition to after-school activities, a section for employment history. I don't know how much it counts for, but it's not ignored.

This was really hard for me to understand, so I'll post my summary in hopes that it helps someone else:

CityPockets is a website that helps you organize your coupons and vouchers. You import your coupons and CityPockets will plot the deals on a map and display their expiration date. This should make you more efficient with your coupons.

Josh Stevens is "The Groupawn", a Groupon customer trying to live off of Groupons for an entire year. What this means is that he has no cash, but a year's supply of vouchers from Groupon, provided to him for free as a sort of publicity stunt.

Josh Stevens broke the CityPockets website by trying to import thousands of Groupon vouchers onto CityPockets, a site whose average load is nine vouchers per user.

For anyone else who didn't know: HBCU = "historically black colleges & universities".

To be clear, coasting while in gear still saves gas.

It seems like we get this story every week.

Idea: clicking on a sparkline opens up a lightbox with the larger and more detailed chart.

It is notable that this idea is the exact opposite of GTD - in GTD you write everything down to eliminate stress. Here, you use your stress to help yourself prioritize.

Likewise, everybody should do sales and user support.

Honest question - why is this article #3 on Hacker News? It isn't interesting to me at all; in fact, it seems like nothing more than a press release. Is there something I'm missing?

And to make it more concrete: those who take the risk are rewarded because investors need people who take risks, otherwise they'd have nothing to invest in.

iPhone, Android, and Mac clients. Maintaining as well as improving the web interface and the API. Lots more scaling - people check Twitter way more than they do Wordpress-hosted blogs.

I'm sure there's more, this is just what came off the top of my head.