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What is your personal method for waking up early? Paulo Knabben, Entrepreneur/Pharmacist, Co-founder/CEO at Nanorganic. 4.6k votes I wake up at 5am every morning, consistently, for 6 months now and I'm so used to it that I'm able to get out of bed even before the alarm starts ringing. Here's my 2 simple steps on how I managed to do it: 1) I decided I would be a morning person: You may want to be, but you have to decide to be a morning person. And for that, you must plan how to do it. 2) I have a well planned routine (tha... Read More » Can any machine find the factorial of 12345678910111213...979899100? Michal Forišek, teacher, scientist, competitive programmer 2.6k votes Not a chance. This is many many many orders of magnitude away from anything we can do. And forget computation. Simply storing the number is already completely out of the question. Your number is about [math]10^{191}[/math]. The factorial of this number is a product of roughly [math]10^{191}[/math] numbers. Almost all of those numbers have 600 or more bits. This means that the result will have well over [math]600\times 10^{191}[/math] bits -- i.e., digits in base 2.... Read More » I'm hearing a lot of people, some that I respect, say that the tech bubble is going to burst soon. Are we even actually in a bubble? Paul Cohn, I've been involved in all aspects of VC/PE/FOF so I have an opinion on everything. Feel free to ignore it. 499 votes I firmly believe that we are in a tech bubble but not like the dotcom tech bubble. I don't know when it is going to burst. It could be years. The bubble always bursts. We constantly repeat cycles even when there is an argument for a structural change that will sustain crazy valuations. During the dotcom the structural change was the internet. Crazy valuations and unprofitable business mod... Read More » What are the strengths and weaknesses of my 12yo son's Theory of Infinite Energy? Barak Shoshany, Graduate Student at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics 96 votes Is your son's theory based on the popular video game franchise Portal, by any chance? A similar mechanism is used in the game to accelerate objects, or the player, to arbitrarily high accelerations. This works because, to create the portals, you need to create curvature in spacetime. In other words, you create a wormhole, making both the geometry and topology of spacetime very different from t... Read More » I like my job and boss a lot, but I am underpaid. I received an offer from a competing firm for 30% more. How should I use this to increase my current pay, given that I have no intention to quit and don't want to harm my current relationship with my manager? Andrew Gumperz, Professor Emeritus, Bio-Sophistry (if you don't know what that means, here is a hint: the initials are BS) 1.3k votes Michael Settle nailed it. My own experience getting raises has been very different from those of the other answerers. I have worked for software startups and usually in attractive job markets, so I am sure the next paragraph reflects those favorable-to-the-employee conditions. In the software startup world, there is a lot less process and a more pragmatic approach to employee compensation is ... Read More » What do Silicon Valley company CEOs do on the weekends? Adam Nash, CEO @Wealthfront 3.7k votes I'm a little nervous about posting this answer. As a first-time CEO, I'm a little afraid that there is a tacit agreement among Silicon Valley CEOs that I'm breaking by speaking honestly here. The answer is: I mostly spend time with family & friends. That's not to say that I don't bring work home with me. I personally tend to prefer the "integrated" version of work-life balance, where I will... Read More » Is [math](a,b) =(1,1)[/math] the only solution of the equation [math]3^a = b²+2 [/math] where [math]a,b[/math]are integers? Alon Amit, Mathcircler and Origamist. 593 votes Alright, buckle up. I'm going use this little problem as an excuse to introduce the wonders of Algebraic Number Theory, at least a small portion of it. Ready? We're trying to solve [math]3^n = m^2+2[/math] where [math]m,n[/math] are positive integers (the question posits "integers", but it's easy to see that [math]n[/math] must be positive and[math]m[/math] might as well be assumed to be positive). Forgive my change of variable names, it's a bit more com... Read More » How quickly can I make $100k in Silicon Valley without an engineering background? Jonathan Brill, Writer Relations at Quora 180 votes You can make $100k or more right away in Silicon Valley without an engineering background. I know this because I was making more than $100k per year in my second job, just out of college with only a couple years work experience - 15 years ago. So it's not only possible now, but should be expected, especially by someone in Silicon Valley who has used their time in high school and college to buil... Read More » What are some amazing facts about Google or Microsoft? Toshak Singhal, Unknownymous 41 votes The I'm feeling button is used 1% of the time and is probably decreasing with the instant search and direct search from web browser's URL bar. However Google has been playing with it. If you take your mouse over the button, things roll, literally The I'm feeling button will make some rolls and Voila! Now who doesn't like some stars ... Read More » Why do we need coders and programmers? Can't computers do this better? Paul Tomblin, Computer programmer and kayak racer 447 votes If you invent a system that would allow computers to generate programs based on a clear and unambiguous statement of the requirements, you will discover that 99.99% of the people in the world are incapable of clearly and unambiguously stating what they want the computer to do. Most of what we do as programmers is convert our users and managers ambiguity and vagueness into clarity and specifici... Read More »