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by brianchu 13y ago
I don't think we should be changing titles/urls of articles just because a company made a statement denying something. CNET is making a claim. Nike is denying it. That's not grounds for changing titles. Companies, people, and
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One exception to the "solve your own problem" approach to startup ideas(blog.garrytan.com)
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by brianchu 13y ago
IANAL, but a company claiming that you give up your rights is not the same thing as you actually giving up your rights. All these companies are essentially doing is claiming that you are giving up your rights. It remains to be seen whet
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Tinder Is Not Valued At $5B, And IAC Did Not Buy 10% Of The Company(techcrunch.com)
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Quora Raises $80M Led by Tiger Global, Now Valued at $900M(recode.net)
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by brianchu 13y ago
Just so people are clear here, America has never had a right to free speech in the sense that a lot of people seem to be thinking. America has only ever had a legal right to free speech (and even then with many exceptions [1]); only gover
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by brianchu 13y ago
I'm not too sure either. In JS, block scoping does not exist. There are only function scopes, so the var declaration gets hoisted out of the if block (but the assignment occurs in the if block - so the assignment doesn't happen).
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by brianchu 13y ago
There's a difference between assigning an anonymous function to a variable and declaring a named function. It's the difference between: var funcName = function(){} function funcName(){} The problem is that using named
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Making Decisions(brianchu.com)
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by brianchu 13y ago
I'd like to point out that famo.us recently announced a public beta release date of April 9th, with respect to the "secrecy" criticism.
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by brianchu 13y ago
The first time he applied it was with an test prep idea, if I recall PG correctly, and he was rejected. The second time he applied with Dropbox, he was accepted. After being accepted, he got Arash to join him. It seems to me that about ever
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by brianchu 13y ago
TheCoelacanth is looking at the market over the short and medium term, which is the correct way to look at it if we're arguing over whether there is a shortage today . Furthermore, it's not like quantity supplied is perfectly res
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Bill Gates: It’s OK If Half Of Silicon Valley Startups Are "Silly"(techcrunch.com)
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by brianchu 13y ago
Who said big companies don't use Angular? Google uses Angular for a few projects. Amazon AWS uses Angular for their dashboard.
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by brianchu 13y ago
Does it really matter? I go to UC Berkeley right now, and it's not the legacy that's important to me. It's the state of the university today. The legacy is only important to me insofar as the legacy affects the current state
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by brianchu 13y ago
Pincus was not ousted. That's a really common misconception. Pincus still retains voting control over the company (much like Zuckerberg retains control over Facebook). Any changing of the guard that took place had to take place on his
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Work where you have comparative advantages(brianchu.com)
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by brianchu 13y ago
I currently attend UC Berkeley and graduated from a fairly affluent top US high school a few years ago. Meaning: everyone was very concerned (I won't say obsessed) about college admissions. This focus on leadership in admissions is ver
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by brianchu 13y ago
Despite all the really negative comments (and yes, I agree that Quora shouldn't hide its great content from guests), Quora is fairly valuable for me. I spend more time on Quora than I do on Facebook or Twitter; the only site I spend mo
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by brianchu 13y ago
It's a matter of perspective. The grass is always greener on the other side, and I think it's unrealistic to pine for an idealistic childhood. I was born and raised in Palo Alto and I go to UC Berkeley now. I spend a lot of time i
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by brianchu 13y ago
Also relevant: a big question is how CoffeeScript is going to deal with ES6 and the overlapping syntax between ES6 and CS, which may involve breaking backwards compatibility or leaving out ES6 features. https://news.ycombinator.c
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Sponsored Data: AT&T will let companies buy out data charges for specific apps(theverge.com)
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by brianchu 13y ago
I would focus on JavaScript. No CoffeeScript [1]. Start with basic HTML and CSS on the frontend; nothing fancy with HTML/CSS yet, just a couple of workshops. Then basics of JavaScript. Then jQuery (leave the DOM for another day). Then
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by brianchu 13y ago
I'm a student at Berkeley. Here's my list: learn Vim. master iOS and release several apps. learn devops / sysadmin. gain experience with SQL/Postgres (as opposed to just hacking together something with MongoDB, the easy
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Mothers Scrimp as States Take Child Support (2007)(nytimes.com)
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Be Careful with Coin(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by brianchu 13y ago
1. Java and C++ are quite foundational, I think. I don't think it is a problem at all that you don't learn version control in school. Version control is quite simple conceptually and is a simple matter of memorizing the API/c
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by brianchu 13y ago
One data point: Mark Zuckerberg did not drop out of Harvard when he left to do Facebook. He took a leave of absence and he did not permanently drop out until November 2005, by which time Facebook was well on its way to success , with a 100
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by brianchu 13y ago
I contribute a bit to Quora. Despite the bad rap that Quora has on HN, Quora does a really good job of curating posts, and there are a lot of extremely high quality posts related to software and startups. It's a lot less nitpicky than
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by brianchu 13y ago
1. Have a blog. 2. Have an About/Bio page. 3. Have a projects page that showcases your projects, ideally with pictures. 4. Links to Github, Twitter, LinkedIn. 5. Responsive (lots of mobile visitors). Bonus: Make sure everything is SEO-

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