tomkit

I was going to comment along these lines, but you summed it up very well.

This could possibly be A/B tested, i.e. have one job that's described as looking for 'awesome' vs 'good' developers for the same job and see what type of candidates it attracts at various levels of the interview process.

It depends on the exact open source license they release it under. I googled around and all I could find was that they would release it under "an open source license".

I don't think you'll get that kind of in-depth analysis and research from a "a nonprofit that promotes expanding learning time to improve student achievement".

The irregular intervals at which you scroll your mouse produces a stop-motion type effect :).

White lies are a necessary evil in business and in life. Would you tell someone with terminal illness that they look like shit and that there's no hope? It is a good thing, however, that YC has been turning back the dial on presenting vanity metrics + funding pitches at their demo days. At some unquantifiable threshold, white lies do become outright lies.

So much for "thermonuclear war"

[Update] Ha! Apparently it's tripl.com and not tript.com.

If you checkout his site at tript.com it's either poorly designed or people are already spamming his site under the 'Latest Travel Advice' section.

Great insight and objective elaboration into the Zynga culture. "Adapting to thrive" and "treat[ing] crises differently" is what made this guy have a fair-headed and upbeat retrospective instead of it deteriorating into a rant that happens so often.

They're after my 150K DPS Demon Hunter.

Random tangent, but I wonder what procedures NASA goES through to scrub all living organisms from the robot itself if one of their aims is to see if they can detect life on the martian planet.

I think the attribution to overestimating one's smarts, citing "fundamental attribution error" is a little misguided; most entrepreneurs aren't disillusioned about the success rate of startups. Rather, in the Valley, we call it being optimistic/head-strong/determined and it's a key attribute in entrepreneurs -- one that allows them to continue forward when everyone else is saying "no."

It was bound to happen -- Now they have to pay a premium for having failed to launch a game in this genre. The model was proven by Newtoy with Words with Friends (which they acquired) and Zynga has since launched a series of others based on the same model (Hanging with Friends etc.). All they need to do is look at the biggest existing markets for board games, console games, etc. and apply it to the WWF model. Pictionary should have been a no-brainer!

Why is this suddenly a trending topic? Elevator algorithms have are an old topic that have been studied in the 80's 90's in the database community in relation to doing efficient reading/writing for hard disk heads. The tradeoffs of each algorithm are already well known.