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Yes having talented team members at both extremes can be powerful. The key is to prevent individuals from retreating into the mindset of "I have a hammer and everything looks like a nail". A large part of that involves showing everyone that diversity is necessary and can really benefit the company if these perspectives are fused in the right way.

Links to later parts of the speech:

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RIsIRIYE4

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VtSbT6gc6A

Hey I can't see your email address. I think you need to move it to the about field in your profile because the email field is hidden from public view. My address is in my profile if you want to email me.

Yup. Meeting up sounds good. I sent you an email.

That's true in general, but the business of tech can sometimes benefit from local knowledge. A submission about the best lawyers for tech startups in Singapore wouldn't really be appropriate for HN since it wouldn't benefit a large part of the audience.

It also helps to have a site where there's a high chance that the person you're talking to is close enough to meet up for coffee. =)

Ok noted. Let me mess around with that when the site is restarted next.

Not yet comparable to the bay area but definitely picking up. There also seems to be a genuine desire by the government here to see the startup scene flourish and they're allocating resources as such.

Consumer Internet companies here are predominantly English language.

Ok good suggestion. I'll dig around the code to change that when the traffic dies down.

It was actually never intended for sigint.sg to seem like it was created independently. There's a link back to Hacker News in the FAQ: http://www.sigint.sg/faq

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Startup that makes a gaming platform. >1 million hits per day. Alexa ranking of <1000. http://gg-game.com and http://garena.com

We're also trying to grow the team. If you're a hacker in Singapore or South East Asia, I'd love to get in touch with you! =)

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You might also want to use:

AllowUsers user1 user2...

And it's probably best to disable password logins and use keys instead (http://www.google.com./search?hl=en&q=ssh+authorized_key...).

Interesting stuff about the nature of truth starts at 10:35.