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by brentr 19y ago
I beta tested MS Office 2007. I actually liked it. The new UIs for Word and Excel are much better than the old UIs. My XP machine is dead though, so I now use my Mac for everything.
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by brentr 19y ago
By 'in the next year' he means that feature creep will postpone it for another three to four years.
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by brentr 19y ago
Do you intend to code a realistic physics system into this game? If so, will you be using a physics engine that has the concept of relativity built into it?
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by brentr 19y ago
I find the concept of Second Life interesting, but it is difficult to use. If you could create something along the same lines of Second Life that is easier to use and eliminates the lag problem, it would definitely be something I would try.
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by brentr 19y ago
I am currently researching an idea. PROBLEM: Search results are full of noise. PROPOSED SOLUTION: (1) Take a raw search feed; (2) Give searchers a tool that enables them to maintain a persistent search state (i.e., it keeps track of your pr
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by brentr 19y ago
I'm going to go ahead and call this one an April Fool's joke.
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by brentr 19y ago
Have you tried understanding the Berkeley Sockets API with C? There are some good sites that cover basics: http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/ If you are on Windows, search "winsock".
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by brentr 19y ago
I forget where I saw the lecture on the internet, but the argument basically stated that people are only starting to realize what multi-core processors are able to achieve. It's a relatively new technology to the average user, and it is goi
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by brentr 19y ago
My experience with vim started when I got OS X. I had always wanted to learn how to use the terminal on a UNIX machine, and as an extension of that want, I learned to use vim as it was very easy to jump right into it from the terminal. If t
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by brentr 19y ago
Creating a comment limit would, theoretically, reduce the DH0-DH3 responses. Let's examine this. Let us assume that X gets n units of utility for every point of karma the community awards. Let us further assume that the community only award
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by brentr 19y ago
If you are offering the chance to work at a startup, I would have to answer yes. If you could bear with someone who learns quickly, but is not quite up to full coding power yet, I would be a great candidate.
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by brentr 19y ago
So was it their great idea that Paul was sold on, or was there something else that made them stand out?
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by brentr 19y ago
It's certainly a lot better than the result I got when I was told by KeyBank that I was being laid off: "Here's your HR rep. She will work with you to help you find placement within another department." Little did I know that "She will work
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by brentr 19y ago
This posting is a great example of something I should be able to vote down and delete from showing up next time I click on "new". What exactly does this have to do with startups? Absolutely nothing.
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by brentr 19y ago
Why worry about predicting what the next major company will be? You are focusing on the wrong issue. The thing you should be trying to identify is what are the major companies of today not doing quite right or not doing at all. While there
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by brentr 19y ago
This is a great article. The section concerning self-describing code really hit home. Comments can, at times, be more distracting than helpful. If one chooses to appropriately name code items, it is my belief that comments become unnecessar
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by brentr 19y ago
I am working currently on my first major project. It is still in the research phase. I've been reading over a lot of academic papers in the area of search improvement. The basis of the problem I am looking to solve is this: Search engines t
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by brentr 19y ago
This is an interesting paper a professor pointed me towards when I was inquiring about methods to improve search results. It is not exactly along the lines of what I was looking for, but it does pose a significant area on which on YC team c
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PDF: A System for Co-located Collaborative Web Search(scribd.com)
1 points by brentr 19y ago|1 comments
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by brentr 19y ago
So for startups, what is consider to be a good-sized project? Are we talking about thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands lines of code?
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The Semantic Web 1-2-3(disobey.com)
4 points by brentr 19y ago|0 comments
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by brentr 19y ago
I personally go through my code by hand using nothing but vim. Consider this process a means to get to know your source code better.
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by brentr 19y ago
I want to make sure that I understand your first comment correctly. Were you stating that upon file upload, the filename should be encrypted so that the malicious user would not know the name of the file stored on the server and thus not be
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by brentr 19y ago
Do you have any helpful links on a one-way hashing algorithm?
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Secure File Upload in PHP Applications(scribd.com)
9 points by brentr 19y ago|7 comments
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by brentr 19y ago
My grandfather used to say, "If you don't fail every now and then, you are not doing enough." Failure is a good thing. It is from failure that new things are learned. I am willing to fail if that failure ultimately leads to riches. In a sta
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by brentr 19y ago
I have never set up Apache, PHP, and MySQL on a computer before and managed to get it to run correctly. This solution offered a service that I found to be of use. That is why I posted the link to the video that explains the process of downl
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Easy Install of a Local Web Server on Mac OS X(lullabot.com)
2 points by brentr 19y ago|2 comments
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by brentr 19y ago
If anyone is interested in someone with C++ skills and a background in finance for their project, feel free to contact me.
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In recent news, Microsoft claims their blue screen of death actually increases user productivity.

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