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   by biscarch 14y ago

   I'd be interested to know about your habits in hs to see if there is any behavioral correlation. ie: did you go to class? do homework? spend more time on projects that were non-school related? etc.
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   by biscarch 14y ago

   Thank you. I was an NMSQT semi-finalist, but not a finalist, so I'm fairly certain I don't qualify as an NMSQT Scholar however, by your definition, I probably aced it. The extent of my studying (for any standardized test) was taking an SAT
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   by biscarch 14y ago

   I've been doing the same as you, unfortunately due to changes in cofounder structure, which has a pretty large impact on the application. I am currently under the impression that all of the applications are reviewed by at least one partner
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   by biscarch 14y ago

   "(believe me, it takes MONTHS (or even years) of dedication to actually ace the PSAT or SAT)" I'm disinclined to believe this statement. Would you mind taking the time to prove this for me? Also, what is considered an "ace" score? In my exp
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   by biscarch 14y ago

   Was going to mention this as well. socket.io falls back to long polling, so you have to be careful when trying to produce benchmarks based only on websockets. I didn't see this in the server code so I assume the default transports were used
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   by biscarch 14y ago

   Agreed, but I would put it slightly differently. Every goal has a percentage likelihood of success, your job (as the goal-reacher) is to increase the likelihood of desired outcomes. Ex: Moving to SF increases your luck-factor/success-percen
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   by biscarch 14y ago

   Having started riding this roller coaster I particularly enjoyed a view of what pitfalls to be aware of in the future. Also, since I just survived a dual-founder breakup (company intact), it was encouraging to know that this was probably a
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   by biscarch 14y ago

   The more I look at Titan, the more I think it's a great solution to my needs. Thanks for the great post guys, it hits on some topics I've been wondering about lately.
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   by biscarch 14y ago

   While critiques are awesome, those sorts of comments actually provide valuable insight. Judging by frequency/consistency of topic, they can be used as a launch point for improving a product. They often include insight into what people makin
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    Ah, thank you. Missed that when I was skimming.
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    Is this linguistic scale available somewhere?
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    Thanks to everyone that took the time to view my personal site and give feedback. I've lost my cofounder since I posted so that makes the site that much more important. Redesigned Site: http://christopherbiscardi.github.com/
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    Hacker News Postmortem (Personal YC app site)(christopherbiscardi.github.com)

    1 points by biscarch 14y ago|1 comments
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    Ask HN: Media queries for high res phones?

    2 points by biscarch 14y ago|0 comments
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    I highly appreciate what you're doing for me. This is something that is very important to me, and every bit of advice and criticism is worth gold.
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    The more I read it, the more I agree with you. I was trying to preemptively adjust the font size (I prefer large text and find myself zooming in all the time), but in combination with the paragraph width I'm starting to believe it doesn't w
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    That's exactly what I'm doing. HN is giving me exactly what I was hoping for.
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    Thanks for the perspective. Skill bars are clearly non-trivial. I think I will swap out the skill bars. Maybe some code/explanations would work better.
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    On it.
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    Fair judgement. The reason for the photos being on the same page is because it eliminates a click, a page load and a move offsite. I'll work to become more knowledgable in the field of design as I clearly have left some issues on the table.
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    Highly Appreciated. I'm looking over everything again.
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    Thank you!
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    I'd love to check some out. Which of your posts would you recommend? edit: Just checked out Easy Retirement Planning. Looks pretty sweet. What age do you think is a good time to start using such a platform?
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    You have a point. Originally this was just a side project to develop something other than the product for a night. It then grew into a personal site to be used on a YC application. I appreciate the viewpoint, and since I know not what PG &#
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    Agreed. Thank you for the feedback. edit: should be fixed.
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. Perhaps an accordion would serve to condense the information into a more manageable space... or maybe displaying them in a different chart style. I'll have to put some thought into it.
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    I've been working with node since v0.2.x Mostly JSON API's. I wrote an oauth library awhile back from spec to talk to the tumblr api. Recently I've been moving away from node for API's and towards Clojure, but that's a different issue. As f
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    If it's just a static site, why not use GH-pages?
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    You inspired me to build out a personal website for my YC app. Check it out here if you're interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676920
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    by biscarch 14y ago

    If anyone takes a look I'd love to hear some feedback. I'm trying to get into YC this year (with my co-founder) and I didn't have a personal page... so I made one.