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charlesdm
16y ago
The chance of it existing somewhere is pretty big. However, our galaxy is huge so the chance of ever encountering them is pretty slim for now. I don't really expect us to find something until we develop a working sort of FTL technology. Sin
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This depends a lot on the person, the school and the actual teacher. While I believe that a high quality school like Stanford, MIT, etc will have excellent teachers and will teach you a fair amount, I have yet to encounter such people. I al
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16y ago
Sure -- there's plenty of stuff you can do. I'm a developer similar to you, the majority of my work is in C++ and C oriented languages. Some things to consider - Mobile apps and games (Iphone, Android, etc) -- Anything that doesnt require U
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16y ago
It depends on a lot of things, like for example -- in what kind of company do you want to work and on what kind of things do you want to work. I'm a dropout and I believe a portfolio is really helpful. Get a showcase together of some of the
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16y ago
A liquidation preference of 1x seems fair. However, how common are deals where the liq pref is 2x or 3x?
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16y ago
I think it depends on the age. If he/she is 9-10-11 I think a fun combination could be a Lego Mindstorm robot that is controlled in C. You don't have to learn them pointers from the start, just let him mess around with the basic stuff such
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16y ago
I really like it, looks really good. :)
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16y ago
Throw me a mail if you want to have a chat. cdmba1 at gmail dot com
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17y ago
Wouldn't mind one -- email is on my profile.
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17y ago
They are only sending out invites to american residents then? I signed up a couple of months ago from outside the US and still didn't receive an invite. Time to try using a proxy!
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17y ago
They went from 10K to 100k, and they're probably going to end up with even more massive amount of money in the end. I'm really interested in seeing what they're going to deliver.
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17y ago
I'd say it depends on the kind of person you are. Some people are fine actually learning the concepts (or actually learning anything) on their own, while others might have a problem. I attended college for a year, but eventually dropped out
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17y ago
This is great. I need to get this!
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17y ago
I like the idea of it, but you should really document this more. It's just all on one page now, and that makes it hard to read imo.
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17y ago
I started off messing around in HTML when I was 10. A few months later I decided that I wanted to have a dynamic websites so I moved to PHP & did a whole lot of DB-related stuff - 'because it was cool'. Kept working on my PHP skills and