DevX101

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by DevX101 16y ago
If you ever get a business card from someone at a networking event who calls themselves a startup advisor, consultant, etc...RUN!!!!
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by DevX101 16y ago
Right now I'm a one man operation but hopefully I'll have the need to hire after launch. But for a startup I'd never consider taking on an English degree college major and teaching them to program. Marketing, sales, etc..sure, but not to
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by DevX101 16y ago
This is the type of asinine comment made in 'jest' that apparently makes so many women cautious about the tech community. It's not explicit enough to be harassment, but just bad enough to make a woman engineer in a professional setting with
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by DevX101 16y ago
I don't listen to music with words. My brain's language processing unit goes into action, and disrupts my ability to code. Instrumentals, electronic music, or classical music are fine.
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by DevX101 16y ago
For more details on WHY the life insurance lobbies aggressively to support the estate tax, see this link from ramanujan's article: http://www.nodeathtax.org/uploads/view/2313/life_insurance_b... Excerpt: "Life insurance is the most basic
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by DevX101 16y ago
Great point! High estate taxes gives an incentive to the wealthy not to pay estate taxes. The original intent of my argument was that I don't like the idea of handing over half your estate to the government. I suppose the proponents of th
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by DevX101 16y ago
I don't like estate taxes. Governments are typically terrible financial stewards and bad examples of financial responsibility. Give the government one billion and it will find a way to spend two. But I also don't like the idea of a perman
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by DevX101 16y ago
http://kodingen.com/ Below is the Founder talking about his product. It looks like a great site, with about 6000 users now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPrvnlvnu-k&feature=playe...
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by DevX101 16y ago
After someone asked Warren Buffet why he wanted to give away all of his fortune, he replied: "I want to leave enough money to my children that they can do anything, but no so much that they will do nothing".
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by DevX101 16y ago
Yes, but so should citizens.
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by DevX101 16y ago
You say "I think I’d be drawn to a founder whose story somewhat parallels my own—working on cool stuff from a young age and more motivated by an interest in solving hard problems than the prospect of striking it rich" What do your VC partne
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by DevX101 16y ago
You asked us, "what on earth do I do now?". I recommend you start another post and change your question to "how do I monetize millions of users?". Give us a description of your market without revealing your business of course, customer pro
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by DevX101 16y ago
Short answer: They're not.
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by DevX101 16y ago
There's something oddly perverse about the concept of a neutron bomb. You drop a bomb on a city, to kill large amounts of people, but leave all the structures intact for conquering. If I had a magic wand, I'd have all countries have milita
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by DevX101 16y ago
If you're talking about centuries old buildings, wealth back then was usually accumulated by way of your family passing along wealth, your inclusion in the favored aristocratic class of the era, or through businesses built on slavery.
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by DevX101 16y ago
This is the type of app that is useful but people won't pay for. Good candidate for open sourcing.
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by DevX101 16y ago
With a name like johngalt I would think you'd be supporting his argument ;)
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by DevX101 16y ago
Am I the only one who has to always look up the definition (w/ example image) for concave and convex to differentiate them?
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by DevX101 16y ago
It's probably worth getting if you're a woman or have a known family history of a genetic disease. 10% of women end up getting breast cancer, and this is sometimes due to a BRCA1/BRCA2 gene mutation. You can take preventative steps if you
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by DevX101 16y ago
Thanks. This is what I was looking for.
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Ask HN: Can someone post a summary of Licensing Terms (GPL, MIT, etc)
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by DevX101 16y ago
I am a scientist. This sure doesn't seem like science to me. I'm not an expert in self-motivation so I don't know if there are placebo controlled randomized experiments to test effectiveness of self-motivation, but it seems like a reasona
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by DevX101 16y ago
I agree with the overall premise, but this presentation had one of the lowest information densities I've seen in a long while. The point could have been relayed in 5 or less slides, not 100.
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by DevX101 16y ago
If I were heading Groupon, I'd absolutely sell. They are the market leader by far, their valuation is high right now, but there are some well funded competitors just coming into the space. Most importantly, their customers have low switchi
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by DevX101 16y ago
Send him a thank you for defending freedom of speech on the internet: http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/
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No knock on you and your research which seems pretty cool, but it really saddens me that motivation for government spending into this research is to build a bigger, better, more lethal weapon. I wish the energy supply rationale were the rea
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This is how modern day corruption works. Smart politicians never take cash in exchange for favors. They get high paid consultancies after leaving office. I'd want politicians/bureaucrats to be able to earn a living after office, but I fea
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by DevX101 16y ago
This is really amazing. I love data, but the real value comes when I'm able to translate that data into a story. Programs like this are going to become increasingly important as we become deluged with data, but don't know what it means. A
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by DevX101 16y ago
Yahoo is launching in this space too: http://mashable.com/2010/11/16/yahoo-local-offers/ I've heard yelp will be entering as well (I can't confirm if they're already there since yelp perma-banned my ip after I tried to do some lite-scrapi
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by DevX101 16y ago
Shop the deal. If the market value of your company is greater than your current terms, you'll find out. As a datapoint from Spolsky here he is talking about his decision to shop the deal rather than taking the first offer. And keep in mind

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