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> Technical analysis is just silly.

That was also my first reaction, but maybe the commodities market (which he's targeting) is more inefficient than equities.

Is this a YC company? I'm always nervous about installing software on my personal computer. What's the assurance that this isn't a keylogger or that they are reporting all the data they collect back to their servers?

Orkut is also the dominant English social network in most parts of Asia and the Middle East (although Facebook is becoming increasingly popular).

It's even harder to move to Europe as an entrepreneur for someone who is neither in the US or EU.

You missed the East Bay beyond the mountains (San Ramon, Alamo, Lafeyette, Pleasanton, Walnut Creek) and Marin. Less expensive than Saratoga and much better places if you have a family than Cupertino or (shudder) Milpitas. There are quite a few large companies in both places ( Fair Isaac, PeopleSoft, Sybase, Chevron )

Wishful thinking backed up by flimsy anecdotes

http://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chd...

Offshoring is alive, here to stay, and has made permanent changes to the IT industry in America. Why do you think IT contracting rates haven't gone up in the last 7 years?

32 (almost) BS in CS

Marc Andreesen has an interesting counterpoint at http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/09/the-three-kinds.html where he holds up Salesforce as an example of a 'Level 3' platform. Of course, his own Ning is another.

Hmmm ... the author has nothing but praise for PG, but one of the main thrusts of his article was that college students should learn more Java and C#.

Isn't that derided as blub programing languages around here?