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Big Data: Overhyped And Overpaid?

readwrite.com

Formulating a right question is always hard, but with big data, it is an order of magnitude harder, because you are blazing the trail (not grazing on the green field). Asay is an emeritus board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and earned his juris doctorate at Stanford, where he focused on open source and other IP licensing issues.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. For (B) there are some tens of billions of rectangular green reasons to keep it quite secret until some good lawyers have done good things with patents.

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11 Trends in Web Logo Design

mashable.com

Verdant and Plant-Inspired Plants and leaves aren’t just for green tech companies, folks. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Rephoria uses my personal favorite, Candy Script, a swash-heavy number that’s almost too voluptuous for work but which still makes the cut for a single-word logo.

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11 Trends in Web Logo Design

mashable.com

Verdant and Plant-Inspired Plants and leaves aren’t just for green tech companies, folks. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Rephoria uses my personal favorite, Candy Script, a swash-heavy number that’s almost too voluptuous for work but which still makes the cut for a single-word logo.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. You could run an assay where you have your control substance and you see the virus infect these cells, and it's very easy to tell that they infected them, because they will literally glow green.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). IP Location Tools. Open X (Open source Ad server).