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by S4M 12y ago
Out of interest, how did the startup pan out?
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by S4M 12y ago
You really shouldn't use any opportunity to bring on your usual thesis - VCs collude to fund only startups created by "connected" founders - when it is so out of topic.
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by S4M 12y ago
What are your sources of that? I am French myself, and used to be fond of the history of Napoleon, but I never heard of that.
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by S4M 12y ago
I think it's a fine question. You are asked to design a program that would do something sufficiently complex and ill specified, which is something you will encounter on the job. I am not saying that you shouldn't test the coding a
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Ask HN: HNers in Tokyo?
2 points by S4M 12y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
The post really makes the OP sounds like a headhunter ("don't worry, the grass is always greener somewhere else..."), in which case I would be very wary of his advice.
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by S4M 12y ago
For what is worth, I downvoted your first comment, and I'm not an employee of SnapChat - in fact, I don't even know what SnapChat is exactly. The reason why I downvoted you is already explained by the commenters who responded to y
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by S4M 12y ago
Thanks for the tip! I gonna give xMonad another chance!
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by S4M 12y ago
There [0], how to use xMonad with xfce, I followed the instructions and it worked fine. I didn't have any problem to roll back either. https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Using_xmonad_in_X...
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by S4M 12y ago
I used to use xmonad, but ditched it because it wasn't working well with Android Studio. I read somewhere that other tiling window managers have problems to display Android Studio under some video drivers. Now I'm back to the defa
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230M still can't buy a startup original design(fastcodesign.com)
1 points by S4M 12y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
From your description, Paris sounds like a cheaper London, minus the English - I wouldn't recommend moving there to create your company if you don't speak French, administrative tasks will be too much of a pain, and many people in
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by S4M 12y ago
Where are you based? I found out the French government has a program to help companies doing things for higher education - my own startup targets middle and high school, so unfortunately I don't think I can benefit it. The thing is det
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by S4M 12y ago
Out of curiosity, what is your company?
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by S4M 12y ago
I think you don't get the point of danmaz74's comment. Job hired his childhood friend as first employee, making him quit his job to work in the garage, and when the company goes well and they start talking about IPO, he doesn&#x27
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by S4M 12y ago
> I've considered trying out other editors (Emacs, Vim, etc) but I haven't seen much in the way of first-party multi-file grep like I have with Sublime. In emacs you have M-x rgrep (M is the metakey, alt most likely). It greps
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by S4M 12y ago
This post makes me wonder, what about Jython? I don't use it, but it would be a nice fit for the OP (writing performance critical code in Java, and use Jython as a glue). Are there any drawbacks with it?
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How crime location knowledge is a proxy for Uber demand (2011)(web.archive.org)
2 points by S4M 12y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
I don't do web apps with java, so I honestly don't know if it's the proper way to do it, a satire, or if there is a more straightforward way. Especially, I don't see why one has to write both the class HelloWorldServlet
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by S4M 12y ago
It's boring at some point. You should make a countdown instead: you have, say, 1 minute to answer as much questions as you can (with an possible skip button).
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by S4M 12y ago
If it's government funded they should provide you a PhD grant. If not, you should be careful before going into that PhD.
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by S4M 12y ago
Funny, I am reading this comment at the right time for me. I "launched" my startup recently - I put in on HN and reddit but didnt get feedback, then I got some feedback on a forum specialized in maths (my startup is in maths educa
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by S4M 12y ago
Apart from the links the other commenters mentioned, there is IRC as well. I don't go there too often, but I came here with some "abstract" questions and I was well received - the last time I went, I asked in #python on freen
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by S4M 12y ago
I don't think you will find a mentor that way. Instead, I'd suggest you to go to stackoverflow or various programmers forums with your questions. Stackoverflow is more for straight forward questions ("I have this code, it&#x2
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by S4M 12y ago
Isn't system administration a "closely related field" to software development, at least from the point of view of the people reading the visa application?
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Magnus Carlsen Remains World Champion of Chess(en.chessbase.com)
4 points by S4M 12y ago|0 comments
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by S4M 12y ago
I'd be wary about that advice. Sure, the companies you mention have elite teams of super smart people, but they have lots of programmers as well, so many must be average. End up in the wrong team and nothing changes (except, you get a
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by S4M 12y ago
Bear in mind that they already spent lots of money one way or another on you before they made you the offer - at the very least, interviewing cost them in developers time. The worse that can happen if you ask more money than they offer is t
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by S4M 12y ago
> 6. Get somebody to come to my house, pick up my dry cleaning and drop it back off the next day (Amazon "Clean"). Isn't this what HomeJoy is doing? If not, I have a friend who tried that, but failed. I'd be happy to
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by S4M 12y ago
If you want to follow stuff about a particular topic in programming, you can try /r/<your_topic>: /r/lisp, /r/ocaml, /r/clojure, /r/python, etc.

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