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This argument is just surreal. Are you claiming that the two are related? Why are fertility rates low in other countries not on the list as well? And in many countries, it's even lower. You never explicitly link the two together but you seem to be making some sort of implication that the trend of low fertility rates, which is more than anything related to the economical development of a particular country, is related to the lack of religiousness in the particular country.

Tell me I was not the only whose first thought was how cool it would be to build a cluster out of these things. But props to the OP, it looks like something I would spend hours playing with.

Does it really matter? It's not like that was the point of the article.

I remember him saying what he did for his previous book and I can imagine that for this one he did something similar. Basically, he came up with 10 or so possible titles (before having finished the book) and then used AdWords to check to which title customers respond.

Yeah I go to the "other" school and there were no announcements about it either. I read about it yesterday in an email from Boston startup digest.

The problem with this argument is that all of the websites that you mentioned were founded before Ror or alternatives were mature enough. Adam D'Angelo (former CTO of Facebook) said that if Facebook was created now, they would not use PHP (source: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=137376312958147). I can imagine that the situation is similar with the other websites.

I doubt that there is anyone who is not that way. In fact there is a Chinese saying "I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand." which arrives at the same conclusion.

Do you think that you could eventually post this road-map online? I'm sure more people would be interested. Fell free to remove any sensitive data.

What I actually meant to ask is not how do they make money, if they make money, or even if it is their goal to make money but if you were in moot's shoes and you wanted to turn page views into money, what would you do?

Thank you for your response. I'm aware of OPT and H1B but from what I have heard, H1B is nicknamed indentured servitude for a reason. The employer is often aware of the fact that the employee has to comply with any of his requirements as if the employee gets fired, and he is unable to find another job soon enough, he'd have to leave the country. Furthermore, I'm not exactly fond of the idea of being an employee, I'm leaning more towards self-employment or founding a startup. But I guess beggars can't be choosers.

Can anyone recommend a book about working out? As in about exercises and such.

tl;dr = Procrastination is an ego defense mechanism which works by hindering your performance. This is a way to avoid the possibly painful reality. In the article, the give the example that if, for example, you study for a test only the night before and get a bad grade, you can still tell yourself "I just did not have enough time" which is by far not as painful as admitting to yourself that you are not smart enough.

You are not the first person to point it out. See explanation below.

You sleep 4 hours 25 minutes a night‽‽‽

Sure but that is dependent on how low-level your definition of "mimic" is. I did not mean that I would do the very same thing. This might not be the most instructive example, but for example if someone said "I work hard all day long", you can certainly get successful as well by doing that. I guess I should have said "get inspiration" instead of "mimic".

How can one improve in these sorts of problems? Crack open CLRS and read that?

Actually the thing that sold me on kindle was that you can use dropbox with it as well, trough the dropbox website interface. I can imagine that it will be a sub-par experience and probably it will not take 5 seconds but oh well. And yes, the plan was to try it out and return it in the worst case.

I ordered a kindle yesterday ($250, 1/2 of the iPad price, for a refurbished DX from amazon warehouse deals was just irresistible) and even though I do not have any first hand experience yet, I think that the device has a lot of potential. I have a lot of PDF textbooks that I never get around to read because I just cannot read on a computer for longer periods of time. Therefore, I intend to use the kindle for reading through the textbook the first time I work my way through it (which will likely take a long time and therefore the e-ink comes in handy) and search through the PDF on my computer if I, at some point in the future, need to reference something. As far as I know kindle caches pages before and after the current page and accessing these pages is exactly the type of movement that one performs then reading through a textbook the first time through. Can anyone who has experience with kindle say if my assumptions wrong?

They mention it in the text, but I would be more interested in performing these tests with longer texts so that the strengths of e-ink could really show.

No, what I wanted to say is that I'm familiar with meditation but I was trying to figure out what is the difference between normal meditation and TM but all TM websites described how TM will influence your life without actually explaining how is it different.

I think that the recent case with Bradley Manning demonstrated that even though WikiLeaks provides anonymity to the people who submit the materials, it is still possible to track down the whistle blower anyway and if cases like this were to repeat, people would not submit anything to WikiLeaks for the fear that they will be discovered anyway.

Edit: Huh, I was not aware of the fact that Manning was caught because Adrian Lamo revealed his name to the investigators.

I tried to look up more info about it but it seems like to learn anything, one has to take some $1500 course. Can you summarize how it differs from the standard meditation (i.e. zen meditation)?

Thank you so much. I saw on your linkedin profile that you specialize in IP protection as well, can you recommend some books from that category as well?

You tell us this story without saying why they invited you :-)?

Check out the book series Art of Problem Solving.

Edit: There is also a book called Art and Craft of Problem Solving which is unrelated to this series but which is worth checking out too, despite the fact that it is not exactly what you are looking for.

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/10/six-rules-of-building-s...

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

Bertrand Russell

"Digital highway"? Someone should tell CNN that it's not the 90's anymore.