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Hasnain says:

"As for academic references, we’re glad to see that Oracle is reading from the Microsoft Research Database Group. But crowing triumphantly that there is “no mention of papers dealing with in-memory databases” [your emphasis] does not serve you well. Couple of suggestions for Oracle: Switch to Bing; and how about this VLDB paper as a starting point."

Burn. (and it's always fun to see companies argue like kids.)

Posted on 2012-11-20T22:00:26+0000

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Hasnain says:

"Live in the future and build what seems interesting."

That's what I'd advise college students to do, rather than trying to learn about "entrepreneurship." "Entrepreneurship" is something you learn best by doing it. The examples of the most successful founders make that clear. What you should be spending your time on in college is ratcheting yourself into the future. College is an incomparable opportunity to do that. What a waste to sacrifice an opportunity to solve the hard part of starting a startup — becoming the sort of person who can have organic startup ideas — by spending time learning about the easy part. Especially since you won't even really learn about it, any more than you'd learn about sex in a class. All you'll learn is the words for things.

Posted on 2012-11-20T01:31:33+0000

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Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer | CycleLove

16 Nov 2012Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customerWhen I started selling CycleLove t-shirts, I made myself a quiet promise: that I would deliver my first order in person, and by bike.It seemed like a simple way of celebrating this small but important milestone in my new venture.CycleL...

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When the Nerds Go Marching In

President Obama's reelection campaign brought 40 engineers into their ranks to build the technology they needed to get the president reelected. This is the very human story of how they helped out, even if they never fit in.

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AIM Report: Did Mueller Know Hoover’s Dark Secret?

It may be the worst scandal in FBI history: Joseph Salvati spent three decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He was put there by u

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Hasnain says:

The FBI helped frame four men for a 1965 murder in order to protect an informant. Two died in prison; the other two served more than 30 years before being exonerated.

Posted on 2012-11-15T21:14:37+0000

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westiseast.co.uk - Taobao's absolutely gigantic day of sales

Two days ago, taobao.com (one of my favourite success stories in China) racked up an unbelievable 19bn RMB of sales.... in a single day.

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU: On happiness

Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862) was an American writer, poet, philosopher and one of the leading figures of thetranscendentalismmovement. Besides writingCivil Disobedience, which inspired such revolutionaries as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jnr, Thoreau is most well-known for his bookWalden, in whic...

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Hasnain says:

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

The image illustrates it beautifully.

Posted on 2012-11-13T05:50:07+0000

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An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business

Ten years ago, if asked what company would revolutionize computing, a book merchant with a tech edge probably did not come to mind

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