andrewacove

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by andrewacove 16y ago
This is a really interesting situation, certainly not one I'd thought about before. My knee-jerk reaction was "well, this sounds like something you should start a company to solve." (ASL to speech apps?) I'm rarely the pitch recipient, bu
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Interactive projected visuals on skate ramp for Tron Legacy premiere(funkyspacemonkey.com)
1 points by andrewacove 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewacove 16y ago
In my experience at one of those traditional institutions, those experts often couldn't care less about any responsibility to undergrads. Their job is to do research, and to get grants to support that research. The number of professors fo
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Eternal Sunshine for Chrome - Hide people on Facebook without unfriending them(andrewacove.posterous.com)
3 points by andrewacove 16y ago|1 comments
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by andrewacove 16y ago
He's talking in the context of console game programming (though it applies to everything). The current generation of consoles has pushed a lot of this stuff to the forefront - with in-order processors and cache behavior in particular expos
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Job Security Through Code Obscurity(seven-degrees-of-freedom.blogspot.com)
29 points by andrewacove 16y ago|9 comments
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Okay, I signed up for Quirk. Now what?(andrewacove.posterous.com)
1 points by andrewacove 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewacove 16y ago
He mentions mobile phones in this context. I don't foresee the telecoms giving up bandwidth caps (or worse, metered bandwidth). There's no way I'm streaming media over the carrier networks to my phone if it's using up my bandwidth allotmen
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QR-social network services that have received more attention than Quirk(andrewacove.posterous.com)
1 points by andrewacove 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewacove 16y ago
http://www.getaquirk.com/ And my Rate My post from ~August: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672140 I've moved away from it since, though.
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Data Oriented Luddites(home.comcast.net)
1 points by andrewacove 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewacove 16y ago
I guess the value for me isn't. A lot of the time, I don't go through the effort to read it.
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How I Read the New York Times(andrewacove.posterous.com)
13 points by andrewacove 16y ago|15 comments
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by andrewacove 16y ago
Presumably, a CS person isn't going to ITP for the tech education. Are there not other things for them to extract from the program?
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by andrewacove 16y ago
Care to elaborate why? I've got a CS background, and I'm looking at ITP.
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by andrewacove 16y ago
> you won't be left out to dry with your skills even if you > go do a startup, burn all your cash, and fail miserably. That's true, but you might develop a distaste for 'regular' jobs. Not that those will be your only option, but i
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by andrewacove 16y ago
That's really, tremendously depressing. There's a huge list of reasons to follow rules exactly to the letter. Enforcing this one, which should be entirely about potential and not at all about an arbitrary date of birth, is inane.
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by andrewacove 16y ago
at 20? Isn't there the Peter Thiel program? Do you have an idea worth submitting to YC? Do you have a good network of people to mine for cofounders? I'd say that if you've got other people to work with, and an idea to pursue, then try your
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Ask HN: Live coding and creative programming in SF?
4 points by andrewacove 16y ago|0 comments
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Nanotechnology for the Body API(andrewacove.posterous.com)
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Split Testing Dating Site Profiles(andrewacove.posterous.com)
1 points by andrewacove 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewacove 16y ago
My project ties QR codes to Twitter, Foursquare, and Facebook profiles: http://www.getaquirk.com/ So you can scan a QR and easily follow, check-in, etc. Currently debugging a change in the FB API that broke something. But still somethin
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by andrewacove 16y ago
Yea, I knew I'd get stung by this. Should I have gone with "consumer" ? Or "mindshare" instead of "relevance" ? What I intended to get across was that I think Microsoft would love to use Kinect as a platform to recover some of its losses
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by andrewacove 16y ago
I suspect that Microsoft would love to leverage the Kinect platform as a way to reclaim relevance in mainstream computing. I'm sure that, with enough success, they'll productize it beyond XBox. I've thought for a long time that a successfu
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by andrewacove 16y ago
Adding archiving to the address book requires two things: A mechanism for archiving a contact, and an input for switching between two separate views of the contacts list: the filtered view (archived contacts hidden), and the full list of al
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Archiving in UIs(andrewacove.posterous.com)
2 points by andrewacove 16y ago|3 comments
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by andrewacove 16y ago
Where do you live? A number of companies in and around SF have meetups and hacker events, and sponsor other groups. Go to hackathons at company offices, build something on top of their products, and then tell them you're interested in a jo
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by andrewacove 16y ago
> My dream is to one day create my own startup (possibly right out of college) If you're going to start your own right out of college, the most important thing will be having people to do it with you. You'll get great work experience a
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by andrewacove 16y ago
http://www.getaquirk.com/ Ties your social network accounts (FB, Twitter, 4SQ) to a QR code. Scan to connect. Main focus is on getting users past the home page to sign up for the service. What's there still doesn't do a good enough job
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by andrewacove 16y ago
Every now and then, Twilio fires the transcription callback with a blank transcription. Unfortunately, we didn't encounter the problem until about 20 minutes before demo time, at which point it started to happen pretty frequently, includin

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