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The second slide says "If 8 out 10 (or 80%) businesses fail after the first year, the remaining 2 (or 20%) would probably not survive to see their fifth year" - how does this follow? The 'myth' only talks about the first year of the business, and doesn't say that 80% of businesses fail every year.

Ah I see..thanks!

Ok I'm confused by 'environment variable' vs files. How does one set an environment variable without putting it in a file on the particular server. Or by 'file' in this article (and the 12 factor one) do they mean a file that in source control?

Theranos == Umbrella Corporation?

"A key reason that John permanently left Zenimax in August of 2013 was that Zenimax prevented John from working on VR, and stopped investing in VR games across the company." What kind of morons stop John Carmack from working on something?

"The reason for this is that transactions just serialize the execution, they don't guarantee any atomicity of independent row updates. After the delete happens the second transaction gets a chance to run and the update will fail because it no longer sees a row" Umm - I thought everything in a transaction can be treated as atomic wrt to other transactions.. ie they don't see "in between" states?

Its reassuring to see that at least one other person has the same viewpoint as me, when I seem to be surrounded by people who 'love' traveling

Have you tried stuff like the masonry or shapeshift plugins for jquery?

"2 x $30,000 sales sitting at a probability of 10% to close, 1 x $500 sale sitting at a probability of 75% to close", and so on. How does one estimate these probabilities?

This website looks like Guy Fieri designed it.

This isn't 'being worn out by being idiomatic', its just that the language (Java) is too verbose, so most code in Java tends to have too many words compared to its counterpart in Ruby or Python, whether idiomatic or not.

works for me in firefox 3.6.8