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I don't usually blog, but I have been writing micro-blogs, which is somewhere around 350 words or more on Quora, here is what I can tell you:

1- Always having to answer a question is important and here is why: The fact you answer a question, means that there are more unknown things relying behind this question that your audience don't know.

2- Try being exposing yourself to as much information as you can about! This might sound less intuitive, but it helps alot with building perspectives and being less biased.

3- Have an opinion and don't be afraid to actually back it up. I love it how PG goes badass by stating things that others can't really say outloud, but because he have all those awesomely explained examples he backs his arguments.

4- When you write, be open to critic, but don't change your style, because after you get to have this very different style that is nourished from different inspirations.

5- On that note, don't be afraid to write, I have no issue giving a speech in front of 500 people, but I was scared to post something I thought of. There i a self confidence that you build after a while when you practice writing.

Like I mentioned before, picking inspiration is very important.

My very first inspiration of writing about anything was Joseph Campbell's book: "The Hero with thousand faces"

I still have horrible grammar mistakes, run on and verb tense issues, but it's okay you improve over time.

Dang I have an interview coming up and this really helps :)!

#oly $#it! I have read these papers, all of'm! WHAT! Haha that is so accurate LOL!

Great stuff! But there are way more important whitepapers to be honest. I can't really think of the others right now, but if you go to the Digital library from ACM / IEEE, you can find really good stuff.

Kudos to the hardworking team. I'v always thought that Google would acquire them, but their commitment and goal driven startup means a lot to their clients at this point, which is awesome.

This is such a great comment! I really wanted to say this, but didn't know how to put it into words.

Very interesting! I bet most entrepreneurs that I know who even work really hard have Lazy Expert Syndrome.

I guess mentoring would be a great thing to do.

Oooow snap!

Kudos SkyGeeks folks! I'm from North Iraq I know how much of dedication and hard work it takes to leverage a startup.

Don't speak the politics language, when you do business or become an entrepreneur open your doors to everyone. I'm sure there would be people from Israel or any other region be willing to invest in your talents and skills.

Follow the dream & passion don't let the other trivial stuff staph! you.

Ah you are here Jeff! You da man, seriously I read most of your blogs, because I have been self-taught & I appreciate when people write good stuff to make you learn rather than just selling. :)! Kudos!

Ah Jeff! I love how this guy actually write and simplifies the technologies.

This is one easy way for non-cloud users to pickup EC2 and use it as hosting services and demystify the price VS usage behind it.

You are the man! Thanks for the great insight on the performance.

Ouch that is a lot of years! Kids don't do hacks.

Ow man! Assembly! I spent a quarter creating a calculator (only calculating 2*9).

But O boy I learned about computer architecture a lot, just a lot about Flow of logic + OS systems.

This is very interesting! I'm using AWS elastic transcoder, but this as an AMI could be cool too, any thoughts on going that way?

best of two worlds? :). pretty cool.

I respect this man! True passion and dedication.

You guys should watch this 4 part documentary about him and his early days, JUST amazing story:

Tetris - From Russia with Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhwNTo_Yr3k

That music is so haunting at the start!

This is awesome, and the cost is pretty affordable. I don't know if the lambada feature was there before, but it's pretty cool!

This would be an awesome service, almost something like the Heroku Deploy button or Codepen's demo tool, but I think the website is down!

Not in Iraq! But I bet people would still give it a shot!

This is kind of game changing for internet access in developing countries!

I'm originally in Iraq and when $#it hits the fan, the government turns of Internet! Now Imagine if one of these babies could talk to a V-Sat and broadcast even when there was no local Internet!

There are just so many great uses for these Micro-Satellites.

Wow, what is this can be used for anyway?

Besides "for creating radio waves in the sub-millimeter-wave terahertz range"

Moved to United States and abandoned all the horror stories I faced in my country after what my startup brought me to! You never know, even the failure of your dream company might be the reason you are a live or maybe your life is begging for a new beginning and failure lead to it.

It's right on the corner, don't give in! You have time, make it count. Reach out to your target market, audience before hands.

If you were still getting 404 idea not found, ping me maybe I can share some random thoughts :)!

There are a lot of ways to come up with an idea if nothing itches:

1- Learn a new technology and you realize there is a missing feature in between 2 technologies and now you can full-fill it and make it happen: it can be a Rails gem, Node package, some library, or a service.

2- Try talking to peers and folks who you feel are smarter than you, if you can be influenced by them, they can give you a good insight on what solution is missing around you or in a specific field.

3- CHECKOUT PG's essay on coming up with startup ideas: http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

4- DON'T push it, don't focus on coming up with an idea just for the sake of doing something. Once you let that go, some ideas will come to you.

5- Go to communities like /rails or /webdev or just go on Github and do a random search and see what people have built and left it alone, maybe you can fork something then rebuilt it or go on top of it.

6- I personally endurance through books, tweets, blogs, hackersnews, reddit, quora, github, my client startups every f#$kin content I can find when I get excited and want to build something :)! So I'm not sure if that is the smartest way to do it all the time.

Ah this is pretty baddass, kudos!

This is really awesome! I was working a gem similar to this while ago, but I didn't open source it, because I couldn't support it.

This is amazing, good job guys! Excited to try it out.

This is amazing and absolutely inspiring for entrepreneurs. It's just great to read what he have done in order to learn more about what he wanted to build.

"Musk "knows everything about what he's building," Cantrell says"

Ow my! This is Christmas for me right here! Thanks again, this is awesome!

Great post. Thanks this is an awesome blog post, I love it when someone summarizes the good stuff :D! I wish someone would do the same for the AWS cloud papers.

Wow TIL what Tao is and what it can do.

This part is very sexy to me: Facebook's new architecture splits the media into two categories: 1) hot/recently-added media, which is still stored in Haystack, and 2) warm media (still not cold), which is now stored in F4 storage and not in Haystack.