Hasnain says:

"By early February, the weight of everything – the scrutiny, the relentless criticism and accusations – felt crushing. He couldn't sleep, couldn't focus, didn't want to go outdoors. His parents, he says, "worried about my well-being." His tweets became darker and more cryptic. "I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine," read one. "But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it." He realized there was one thing to do: Pull the game. After tweeting that he was taking it down, 10 million people downloaded it in 22 hours. Then he hit a button, and Flappy Bird disappeared. When I ask him why he did it, he answers with the same conviction that led him to create the game. "I'm master of my own fate," he says. "Independent thinker.""

Hasnain says:

"Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur’s business proposition and previous experience are regarded as the main criteria for investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteria that investors use to make these decisions: the gender and physical attractiveness of the entrepreneurs themselves.

Across a field setting (three entrepreneurial pitch competitions in the United States) and two experiments, we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same. This effect is moderated by male physical attractiveness: attractive males were particularly persuasive, whereas physical attractiveness did not matter among female entrepreneurs."

Hasnain says:

This is pretty cool. Hats off.

Hasnain says:

"Direct3D -> OpenGL translation layer.

Taken directly from the DOTA2 source tree; "

This is awesome!

Hasnain says:

Some very good tips on introducing people over email.

Hasnain says:

Let's hope some of that $19B goes towards securing user data, at least.

(the same AES key for every user? tsk tsk tsk...)

Hasnain says:

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game - 30th Anniversary Edition"

This is awesome.

Hasnain says:

"In fact, technology companies appear to be extremely picky in even choosing to interview applicants, let alone actually hiring them. This pickiness alone probably accounts for the perceived “shortage” of “qualified” applicants. It also explains why a minority of software engineers who fit or appear to fit the extremely narrow, rapidly changing, and often unstated criteria of the tech companies report fierce competition and multiple job offers, while many others like Chand John or Darin Wedel (and perhaps Brian Acton in 2009) report a long frustrating job hunt."

The writer makes a very good point.

Hasnain says:

Today's dinner menu: One (1) Baked Macbook Pro.

Hasnain says:

"Wangohan’s head fell to his desk. “Clearly a cardboard box must be a fit meal for the Emperor’s daughter, for here it is on the Imperial menu.”"