Mahh

I kinda think back to how PG says that the founders are more important than the idea -- That if the idea was worth starting at all, then it could always be pivoted as long as the founders are fearless and excited enough to keep working and applying changes to their idea.

I can't imagine someone not being able to think of an idea within a month -- but I can imagine someone who shuts down all of his own ideas because he's afraid of failure. Following the blog post, someone like this really probably isn't suited for startup life at all. He'd probably find himself in some of the other of the Five Reasons if he gets that far.

When I was younger, tinkering on the computer on my own was fun for awhile, but contributing in a way that I felt I was affecting others made it even more fun.

It would be pretty powerful if online textbooks linked together like wikipedia. It wouldn't be too hard for a online textbook company to create a script to find instances of words from their index and link them together. If I could mouse over an important vocab word and have other relevant pages pop up, then online textbooks could be seen as more powerful than paper, rather than as an alternative.

Makes me think about why online dictionaries are so powerful compared too flipping through paper dictionaries.

Personally, i tried to buy online versions of my textbooks, but they required me to download their own client to view the textbooks, which didn't work in ubuntu(I wasn't being stubborn about switching to windows, my textbooks were for programming classes so I definitely needed to stay in my programming environment). I can understand not needing to cater to the small niche of people in linux, but a web based app to view the textbooks through the browser would have been much more pleasant for everyone of any OS.

Problems like these are good for new programmers to think while keeping abstract thought farther away.

Using cats rather than eggs or dogs paints a story that's fun to imagine. I could also ask the question by saying: there is an integer to find and any integer guessed above this removes one chance

I wonder how people might go about constructing their answer if they worry with respect to the cats lives as compared to the abstract version

After all that talk from startup school about building and running facebook for the fun, I don't think that zuckerberg is going to let facebook go.

For this situation, I'd just stick to the thought of facebook and apple having a deal for social integration.

The point of the article was to dismiss precautionary worry as a reason to believe in the effect.

Unless there is anything pointing towards the phones causing cancer, we shouldn't worry about it.

Consider how afraid we would be of touching anything that hasn't been proved to not cause cancer. People would have anxiety over doing anything, and most of it would be unwarranted.

Of course, considering that there is a bit of evidence pointing towards cell phones causing cancer(even if it's just correlation rather than causation), it may be of worth to consider worrying, but don't worry just because you have no information at all.

Consider who the 'consumers of java are. In particular, I'm thinking of a ton of college students taking computer science are introduced to programming through java. If college's CS departments start hating on java because of Oracle and change their curriculums, Java's foothold as a mainstream language is going to start fading away.

They only have to frustrate a certain group of people to start suffering from repercussions

Further new ways of creating disruptive easy advertising that doesn't do much to make people really want the product.

I can't quite imagine what the senator was imagining this to turn out as

I think that kids have been finding their own ways into programming.

I used to play Warcraft III, a game that has players play on precreated levels with each other which came with a pretty open level editor. My first 'coding' experience was here, with a checklist of possible 'events', 'conditions' and 'actions', that acted as functions for my levels. My own interest came with my excitement in playing my own level in my favorite game. I think that kids will find their own way into programming following other computer related interests.