What does it feel like to murder someone?
quora.comWhen I took another man’s life I was just nineteen years old
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Life Advice: I am turning 27, and feel I have wasted a lot of time. Is it too late?
quora.comHonestly, I'm 47, and I'll say this to you, whippersnapper: you're a fucking kid, so get over yourself. I'm a fucking kid, too. I'm almost twice your age, and I'm just getting started! My dad is in his 80s, and he wrote two books last year.
Estimated reading time: 1 min
What does it feel like to be the CEO of a start-up?
quora.comYour job is to create a vision, a culture, to get the right people on the bus and to inspire. When you look around at a team that believes in the vision as much as you do and trusts you will do the right thing all the time, it's a feeling that can't be explained.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
Who is Cristina Hartmann?
quora.comI didn't fit in at all. People at the firm were nice enough, but buttoned-up to the very top button. I'd wear my suits every day with pantyhose and heels, afraid that they could see beyond the suit and see the truth. I wasn't one of them. I didn't come from an upper middle class Irish Catholic background like everyone. I didn't even hear the same way they did.
Estimated reading time: 9 min
Why is it hard to scale a database, in layman's terms?
quora.comIn particular, your web application is a library that stores books and makes them available to people who want to read them. Imagine that this library gets featured on TechCrunch and becomes very popular, and suddenly you have to deal with a bunch of new scaling issues.
Estimated reading time: 14 min
What should you do if someone puts a gun to your head?
quora.comMost important: Stay. Calm. There is no way you're going to remember all of the stuff I'm about to say, but if you remember anything, remember to remain calm. If clarity of thought was ever important, it will be in the proceeding moments.
Estimated reading time: 10 min
What's something that is common knowledge at your work place that will be mind blowing to the rest of us?
quora.comSo, if you were thinking that HFT will get better and more stable as we learn more and build better programs, think again. As we approach nanosecond trade times, there’s nowhere to go but down for market integrity.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
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Law Enforcement and the Police: What do police officers think about legalizing drugs?
quora.comEvery gram of illicit marijuana currently on the street silently screams the lamentations of innocent blood; its smoke currently rises as unintended incense to the god of Chaos.
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