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Get a job on Wall Street. If wealth is the only goal, that's the easiest way.

If you want to know how to run a good meeting, read Andy Grove's book, High Output Management. It's the best of the business books I've read.

It's hard work to make meetings useful but the book lays out the groundwork.

Pete Docter is one of the nicest guys alive. I am in no way surprised that he took the time to write back a handwritten note.

I use Araxis Merge. It's expensive but it's hands-down, the best merge / diff utility I've ever used. All the rest look and feel like toys in comparison.

"Bold explorations should remain inside the company and university research laboratories and not be inflicted on any customers until those recruited to participate in user research have validated the approach."

So much for innovation.

Wow. I had no idea Saddam Hussein was responsible for 2 of the top 5 worst oil spills.

When you add new features for your customers, do you default them off?

This makes me think that I should just place limit orders for every S+P 500 company at $.10. Chances are the orders will never be filled but if this happens again I'll get rich.

The spelled out tutorials are a necessary consequence of a free-to-play model with lots of competition. If I pay $50-100 for a game, I will spend the time to learn it. If a free game on facebook is complicated or confusing there are 100s of others that will immediately satisfy with no learning curve.

Ah how times have changed. Two of those top stories were submitted by me (albeit, not very interesting ones). I haven't submitted a front page story in ages.

I believe that the Pixar happy meal deal w/ McDonalds was over by the time Wall-E was released.

I hate posting about Pixar stories because the Steve Jobs omerta still lives strong in me... but what the hell.

I couldn't watch the video because I'm on a train - however, I worked at Pixar from 2002 - 2008, so I'm pretty sure I know exactly what this video is about.

This story was legendary inside the studio - I never thought it would get outside the gates. In some ways, the fact that this had happened in the past, when the assets for a film might actually fit on a single workstation, was great.

Everyone was more careful. The Systems group was great at backups, recovery, and did an amazing job the whole time I was there, and I'm sure this story always sat in the back of their minds as a reminder of why they spent all the extra time and money.

The one time I accidentally locally deleted a day's work, I had a recovery in my home directory in less than an hour.

Call me crazy, but I read this as "The Marijuana Trench To Scale"

With 75m monthly actives, I'm pretty sure almost every demographic is covered.

This is also the philosophy @ Pixar - you can't release a movie twice, so it had better be right the first time. You achieve this by having 1000's of internal reviews, checkpoints, and pivots along the way where you trust your employees to challenge problems they see.

This would be really cool if it used Power instead of speed....

I'm not really sure how this has existed for 16 years and I haven't read it.

This is the best argument I've ever heard against software patents.

Online retail has already been changed by private-sale companies like Rue La La and Gilt Group.

This is just another one, but for baby gear.

RockYou was a widget company - they probably still have usernames and passwords for myspace users.

Yah - the morgue is the archives. This is what newspapers call it too.

The only fake profiles I ever see are from other developers testing their facebook apps.

Cool - it was just a "thought". Would love to contribute to something already started.

I'd love to build up a nice little web framework with node.js, maybe using some of the work from v8cgi.

There was a time in the past when some services online wouldn't immediately authorize the card - it would only check if the value was a "valid" number.

So, you could, hypothetically, get 1-3 hours of shell internet access based on a generated number.

Really this is something of a response to #1 and #3. Imagine that instead of congress listening, journalists/bloggers/etc used it as a way of doing their own impromptu polls of sentiment on issues by district.

Brand new account complains about the direction of hacker news? Not news.

A young man “can work at excessive speed with no ill effect but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life.”. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Why is zuck wearing a tie?

The author mentions snipMate, the vim plugin for snippets. I've started to really embrace this plugin and it has made programming much more pleasant, since I only type the stuff that matters and none of the scaffold (especially in HTML)

"2) Market. We're in an existing market where the pain is pretty acute and the problem domain well defined. Additionally, the incumbent competitors had basically neglected the market as unattractive."

Cust. Dev. is not as important when competing in an existing market, as opposed to building a new market - there's less uncertainty about the needs of customers.