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How do I prepare for the GRE? Antariksh Bothale 677 votes Whee! GRE is the one exam I had a lot of fun preparing for. One year is plenty of time, so you're good to do. How you should go about preparing for the GRE depends a lot on where you stand right now. The Quantitative Reasoning (Math) part of the exam is fairly easy for anyone with an engineering background, so that can be tackled by solving a few practice tests to ensure that your speed and a... Read More » What are the 10 must-read books during the ages of 21-25? Sebastian Hammer, Marketing Strategist & Filmmaker 1.7k votes Here we go! In this age you want something that build character that will shape you into to your best self, and skills you can use the rest of your life. The Defining Decade by Meg Jay. This book is entirely about you. It will answer questions about life, you didn't even know you was asking. It will tell you all the things you parents didn't about what you should do to get as much out of your ...  Read More » What are some things that psychologists know, but most people don't? Anita Sanz, psychologist 817 votes You don't really know how happy or sad something is going to make you in the future, even though you think you do right now. Put another way, psychologists know that most people are very bad at being able to predict how they will respond to positive or negative events in the future. People will predict they are going to be happier about getting a raise or a promotion, finding a partner, or pur... Read More » Why did Bonobos have such an epic fail on Cyber Monday 2011? Jon Schlossberg, product designer 352 votes Summary We are currently hosted on Rackspace Cloud. In short, we experienced 10x more traffic than we planned for. And we planned for a ton. The incredibly high volume revealed several major issues with our infrastructure, the worst of which resulted in charges to customers' credit cards without an order being placed. We have already or are very soon to have refunded all of these charges, and... Read More » How many lines of code can a good programmer write in one hour? Barry Rountree, Computer Scientist, LLNL 761 votes Good programmers avoid writing code. It's hard to get right, hard to debug, hard to maintain, and expensive to document. Better to use some other sucker's code who has already made that investment. On particularly productive days, a good programmer will delete more code than they write (especially if the person who had been writing the code was trying to impress folks with their hourly rate ... Read More » What is the single biggest mistake entrepreneurs make when starting up? Jason M. Lemkin, partner @ Storm Ventures; ceo/co-founder @ EchoSign (acq'd by Adobe), the web's #1 electronic signature service. 408 votes The single biggest mistake I made was not having a full founder team (all of us) that was 100% committed to giving it 24 months to get to Initial Traction, no matter what or how or why. You have to give it at least 24 months: SaaStr | If You’re Going to Do a SaaS Start-Up … You Have to Give it 24 Months It turned out, by 15 months from Decent Idea, and 8 months from public launch ... we had s... Read More » Algebra: What is infinity plus infinity? (My 6 year old son keeps asking me.) Alan Bustany, Trinity Wrangler, Poker Player 580 votes It sounds like your son is ready to stay at Hilbert's Grand Hotel where you, as the Hotel Manager, are able to fit him in despite the hotel being full. The Grand Hotel has infinitely many rooms numbered[math]1,2,3,\dotsc[/math], so there are a total of [math]\aleph_0[/math](pronounced "aleph null") such rooms. To fit your son in room number[math]1[/math] you simply ask every guest to move from room[math]n[/math] to room [math]n+1[/math]. You have demonstrated that: [math]\aleph_0+1=\aleph_0[/math] In f... Read More » How do Chinese people study? Sion Sci, kaiser fan 532 votes I can't give you a definitive description, but I can show you some pictures! The "Chinese way of studying" can be summed up by the slogan "只要学不死，就往死里学", which roughly translates into "As long we don't die from studying, we'll study until we're dead." . Pictures of a typical Chinese classroom before Gaokao The holiday homework assigned to students in a famous high school (which is known for ... Read More » How do I train myself to code faster and with fewer bugs? Erkan Arslan, Web Developer and Embedded Systems Designer 43 votes 1. Plan Before Starting to Code Many developers start coding before planning it. They simply write what comes to their minds and this causes problems, unnecessary code and bugs. To prevent this, take a pen and a paper and draw or write the software structure/flow that you should get after you finish coding. Also, think about what could go wrong in every step/operation and add what to do in cas... Read More » What is the most underrated travel destination which turns out really amazing? Olena Petrosyuk, Startup enthusiast and insane traveller (80+countries) on round-the-world trip 5.5k votes Iran. I would have never expected it but the country is beyond stunning. It took us months to plan the itinerary around Iran. Weeks to select the best spots we want to see. But only after a few days in the country we were forced to take a tough decision: extending our two-week trip to a full-scale one-month journey. The reason is simple: the country turned out to be too beautiful to skip on any... Read More »