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“It was a chance conversation on March 23 1985 ("in the afternoon, as I recall") that first started Josh Silver on his quest to make the world's poor see. A professor of physics at Oxford University, Silver was idly discussing source...

“ Inspiration for Stack Overflow occasionally comes from the unlikeliest places. Have you ever heard of the dating website, Plenty of Fish? Markus Frind built the Plenty of Fish Web site in 2003 as nothing more than an exercise to source...

“Suggestion: Look through all of them and then choose the top 5-10 you think will help you the most. Print them out and then get creative. You can laminate and hang them on the wall around your desk, or create source...

“I've been mulling over a similar situation, and my inspiration was the large extended families that crammed into villas and farmhouses alike before the industrial revolution. My impression is that early businesses truly were based on families, and that family source...

50 ways for improving your software or be inspired to start programming one.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today more...

“I posted last weekend about the difficulty of blogging every day. It's something I want to do for a bunch of reasons, most of them selfish. But it's not always easy to find something interesting to write about.”

During WWII, Japanese-Americans were interned in camps in the US. Ansel Adams was invited to photograph their lives at Manzanar, where internees were alloted the greatest lattitude. Previously they were subjected to a harsh regime, but after a riot where more...