RuggeroAltair

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by RuggeroAltair 13y ago
I'm originally from Italy, and I can tell you that so many of my friends had to go through unpaid internships which were 'offered' with the excuse of a learning opportunity but were basically considered just as free employees. The high unem
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by RuggeroAltair 13y ago
Advertising the 'work for free' thing pushes towards establishing a dangerous culture, in which slowly all first jobs are expected to be unpaid. And some companies would (and some already do) include these 'free' people in their business mo
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by RuggeroAltair 13y ago
The Hex game is nice, but I don't see how the second player ever loses (swap rule). Isn't this a solved game that, given optimal strategy, is either won or lost based on the where the first tile is placed?
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by RuggeroAltair 13y ago
More on the Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/twitteroffice/sets/721576336477... San Francisco: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7315/8798020541_80aa618bab_o.p... Manhattan: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8136/8808603540_e298c96fd3
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by RuggeroAltair 13y ago
I think that the word "Science" deserves some attention. I completely respect the data structure side of a data scientist but more often than I'd like I find people addressing themselves as data scientists being very good as software engine
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
I know directly of one case in which one of the terms of the acquisition was that in case of the founder's death within the retention plan, his family wouldn't get the remaining part of the money (which would be given at the end of the rete
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
Great work! Is there already an API to use? It would be great to use it directly and credit this website for the algorithms used. The dynamical palette would become very useful in that case.
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
It's interesting since, apart from all the talking about the social network in real life (didn't it use to be 'always' in real life before the internet?), we will probably see more and more of entrepreneurial attempts to include time in the
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Rubles For Minutes, Not Mochas, At Russian Cafe Chain(npr.org)
1 points by RuggeroAltair 14y ago|1 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
Of course, 2001 has so much good visual material that such a recut was possible. But this confirms why I stopped watching previews. 1. They are rarely a reflection of a movie style, although they are at least forced to use the same images (
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
For completeness, the original trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8TABIFAN4o
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How ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ Would Be Advertised in 2012(filmschoolrejects.com)
1 points by RuggeroAltair 14y ago|2 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
Oh, I agree with you. Since I wrote a lot I didn't want to be so detailed, but basically I meant that I hear a lot of 'college is useless, I can learn by starting a company', and I disagree about the fact that you are learning the same thin
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
I understand what you are trying to say, but this article is silly from many points of view. I don't want to answer with wise-ass comments like "you went to the wrong college" and such, so I'll give you a couple of arguments: - College isn'
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
I've had this funny song in my playlist for a long time. I used to listen to it when I didn't know any english and it's amazing how at the time I couldn't distinguish it from normal english, since often in songs it's hard to catch all the w
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
The first * isn't necessarily true. For a small startup I know several people with H1Bs that are paid just slightly above $50k, but yes, I think you do need an office address, since the H1B is usually tied with a specific branch/office/addr
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Interesting paper: Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-)Hard(arxiv.org)
2 points by RuggeroAltair 14y ago|0 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
The information does not travel faster than light.
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
I agree with everything you said. I hope you'll make it into YC. Good luck guys!
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by RuggeroAltair 14y ago
Why did you take off your kickstarter? Are you trying different ways of getting funded? I almost thought you gave up since the kickstarter page doesn't say much about the cancelation.
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
thanks, will do...
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
pg says in the application page: "The ideal company would have two or three founders. We'll consider those with four or five. We're reluctant to accept one-person companies, though we have funded a couple." so I hope that wasn't the reason
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
2 PhD's of quantitative fields (lots of coding experience) 2 MS's in CS that were already in a startup (<20 ppl) that sold for several $M's (as early engineers) we are all 30-32 yo. (no family/kids yet) but maybe the age? seems like a
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Thanks for your answer. I think your idea is good and has a lot of potential. Don't get me wrong. I understand what you say, but still I'm not sure I get what the relation with YC really is. To me it doesn't matter if I make it into the sta
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
From what they explained that means that the application itself didn't motivate them to open the demo/video. Sorry to hear.
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Sorry, I just wrote too fast and didn't want to get into details. Of course I didn't mean literally they had zero experience, I am writing from Chrome and use Google Earth pretty often myself (SketchUp etc...). I just wonder how many apple
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Same reason I don't want $everything-facebook I also don't want $everything-google. Plus google has little to zero experience at offering big products on non unix/android platforms. EDIT: I didn't literally mean zero, since I'm writing from
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I think it creates a dictionary of n-grams. Adjusting heuristically the probabilities the algorithm probably chooses the one with the best chances. There is probably some assumption about the fitness function that can be tuned to include mo
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Honestly I don't understand from your post what the reason for not applying to YC was.
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
At a quick look in one case this function was generating more 1s than 0s. It seems also that it generated very often a 1 after a 0 (more than twice as many times than it generates another 0). Now I got curious, I'll do more tests and look a

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