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by akamaka 17y ago
There's a lot of comments here saying that you need to "get some perspective", but I recently got into the exact same situation, and have had some of the most terrible months of my life. Before this year, I had never been turned down for an
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by akamaka 17y ago
The author cites Spencer Wang's estimate of YouTube's earnings yet again, despite the fact that most HN reader have pointed out that those numbers are useless. It's amazing how crappy information like this keeps getting spread around, and I
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by akamaka 17y ago
There's a much simpler explanation which I find equally plausible. If the job you're applying for doesn't require a master's degree, then why waste the reader's precious attention on something irrelevant? As a programmer applying for a web
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by akamaka 17y ago
I'd says he's got a fair point overall. There's so much advice and analysis posted here that one wouldn't get any work done if one tries to digest all of it. It's often better to just go and try something, as experience is the best teacher.
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by akamaka 17y ago
Fear of violating contracts isn't a valid reason for not pursuing great ideas. This is what Silicon Valley was built on. If you have investor backing, you'll have help in handling the legal issues. A much better reason to try to sell your
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by akamaka 17y ago
Touché
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by akamaka 17y ago
I posted my comment as a helpful warning to HN readers. People come to this site because they value their time, and want to be picky about what they read. My personal preference is academic-style writing. But there's a few simple things a
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by akamaka 17y ago
I couldn't get halfway through the article, as it's filled with pointless details. This TED talk, on the other hand, is straight to the point. Watch it instead.
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by akamaka 17y ago
A lot of people are hurting right now, and you're quite right that investors both large and small have been hit the hardest. But after a year spent clamouring for government help, whether bail-outs for big banks or compensation for individ
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by akamaka 17y ago
Lots of pleasant thoughts about fairness in this article, but no mention of the simple fact that the financial sector has rapidly burned through their collective reserves of political capital over the last year, and is hardly in a position
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by akamaka 17y ago
Just to be clear, the problem I had was limited to a specific type of network protocol, and that may be why nobody bothered to take interest in fixing it. Sorry if my comment came across as saying that DD-WRT is just unreliable..
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by akamaka 17y ago
Thanks for posting this! If any of you want to know more about Intel's early days, I strongly suggest reading Tedlow's biography of Andy Grove. He goes into great detail about the early culture of Silicon Valley, more than any of the artic
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by akamaka 18y ago
The parent poster has a much better grasp on the big picture than the author of the Salon article. While he was bashing western banks, he failed to point out that domestic Chinese banks have long been giving out loans to unprofitable compan
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by akamaka 18y ago
Tomato. I ran DD-WRT on a WRT54GL for a few months, and during this time, I kept experiencing intermittent connection problems. I spent hours and hours poring over packet sniffer logs, and finally discovered that the router was the problem
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by akamaka 18y ago
Fantastic post! The timeline offers a lot of insight (and encouragement) to someone like me, who is in the same position he was a year ago. And I like Garret's simple and honest writing style. It's really refreshing compared to the didac
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by akamaka 18y ago
While it's amusing for us computer science majors to poke fun at the scientific irrelevance of postmodernism, its influence is undeniable. Few academic fields have been left untouched by postmodern thinking, and you'll quickly run into it i