Though, it’ll be interesting to see if Apple’s gamble pays off. They’re due to face-plant with a product as they haven’t really had a significant market failure since the Newton.

Having worked in a startup where the co-founders eventually needed to go, “When to fire your co-founders” is an article every entrepreneur should read and have a good understanding of. In the end, business is business; while an organization may have been started by someone with a great idea, it doesn’t take long for candidates who are better suited to successfully manage that idea than the original founder(s) come along. Of course, sometimes those replacement candidates end up being far worse than the original founders, but that’s a whole different story…

The one about the good Dr. Wakefield was a fun read.

0MQ rocks.

Vector clocks are wonderful and extremely useful in distributed systems. Unfortunately, I’ve found that quite a few people seem to have a hard time understanding them. Though, I believe the blog entry you referenced could easily provide such users with a good real-world example capable of helping them grasp the basic underlying concepts.

“Why Students Hate Algebra” was fairly good. I especially liked the bullet point, “No youth group leader would ever solve this problem with a system of equations”. Ahh, how I remember my first day of Geometry and my teacher saying, “you’ll never use this unless you become a Geometry teacher.” However, she was very wrong.

I believe the main problem today is that most mathematics are taught in a non-applied way. Having done comp-sci for many years now, I’ve learned to love math. A thorough understanding of math can help solve many problems. And, even though you don’t need a complex set of equations to solve everything, knowing when and how to apply them is a very important thing. As mathematics play an essential role in so many areas of life, it’s unfortunate that very few textbooks/teachers help students learn by means of real-world examples.

Nonlinear thinker was a good read.

I don’t find multi-threading difficult, but I think the whole article could be summed up by the statement, “never assume anything, test everything”.