Richard reached out to my cofounder and I after reading about Plasmyd on TechCrunch. During our call, he…

You would have turned 57 today. Everyone on Facebook would have celebrated your birthday. Dad is very obsessed with Facebook now. A lot has happened since you left. I graduated college, I’m vegetarian again, I co-authored a paper in a prestigeous journal, and a friend and I sold a company. I…

Note: This article has been updated after bug fixes were done the day after I reported this on the mailing list. Please refer to the update at the bottom.

One of the first things that my current graduate advisor, Steve, emphasized to me before I even joined his lab and the graduate program is that there’s no shame in asking others for help. Of course, it comes with the assumption that you’ve made an effort to attempt…

Two weeks ago (10/15/2012), “What Would Paul Graham Do?” (WWPGD), a site that I developed, made it to the front page on Hacker News. After being posted at approximately 11:00, the…