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A Thousand Years of the Painted Face

Humans have always been compelled by faces. We like to look at them, we like to draw them, we…

Average Faces of Different Professions

Using a career-focused social-networking site, I’ve gathered images of faces from different professions. For each search (eg, ‘software engineer’), I took the first 50 to 80 faces that the career site displayed that were forward-facing and in color. Here are the…

Cosmospolitan

Browsers Are The Worst

Half (mostly) kidding, but: JavaScript shouldn’t be a language, web browsers suck, and are all of those MOOCs making…

Rob Talks Tech

Hackerati cofounder Rob Marano had some interesting opportunities as a purveyor of technical wisdom over the past couple of weeks. With over twenty years of experience in the industry — from building rockets and satellites with GE Aerospace to founding his own tech startups — Rob has deep insights…

The Hackerati Do YC Startup School

Last week a few members of The Hackerati attended Y Combinator Startup School at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square, NYC. The event is an expo of Y Combinator companies, venture capitalist presenters, and their success stories and advice. Over 1000 people made their…

Science and Art at the United Nations

The Hackerati was invited back to the United Nations for another presentation to promote…

Dev Bootcamp’s NYC Debut

Derby and I checked out Dev Bootcamp’s first NYC graduate presentations last week, and we were seriously impressed by the graduates, the teachers, the space, and the core philosophy. Wall Street had better ready itself for a transformation!