Why numbering should start at zero To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 without the pernicious three dots, four conventions are open to us a)2 ≤ i < 13b)1 < i ≤ 12c)2 ≤ i ≤ 12d)1

WSJ : Twitter Inc. has a proposition for app makers: Let’s start over. Two years ago, Twitter irked developers with stricter rules around applications that plug into the social-media service. This wee

We are pretty much always looking for new people, what is holding us back from expanding even more rapidly is the time that it takes to get to grips with our codebases and what we do here. But that al

Jonathan Abrams: “Each year, 600k 1st-yr college students take calculus; 250k fail. At $2k/failed-course, that is half-a-billion $” http://t.co/Upyp8MQMwg

Mike Stern , Apple User Experience Evangelist in Designing Intuitive User Experiences - 211 WWDC 2014 session (at 31’ 57"): But I feel like I would be remiss If I didn’t use this opportunity to talk with you about hamburger menus . AKA Slide out menus, AKA sidebars, AKA basements, AKA drawers. Now,…

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Chris Dixon: Some ideas for native bitcoin apps http://t.co/E9sBdxYidF

Semil: @jrlevine see paragraph #4 - http://t.co/Cl8tNzdoZb

Paul Buchheit on listening to users : I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sen