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How I learned to stop programming and love carbon foam(cs.indiana.edu)
20 points by dbul 17y ago|5 comments
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by dbul 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=715757
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by dbul 17y ago
I think it really depends on the industry. If someone had offered me an unpaid internship for coding at any point in my life I would have told them no because I am aware that I could easily earn money or I'd probably be better off contribut
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by dbul 17y ago
You could call it cddddring if you like. The question is whether the labor of the person benefited the company in any way. If it did, then according to the Fair Labor Standards Act the person must receive compensation. http://www.dol.gov/e
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by dbul 17y ago
here is one answer of one of the aforementioned parties: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=715667
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by dbul 17y ago
The purpose of mentioning the Big-O in that document wasn't to inform about what it is. Rather, it was to note to the candidate not to go into technical detail during the interview (i.e. we like the intuitive version ).
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by dbul 17y ago
http://www.brandingbrand.com/
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by dbul 17y ago
Man, these neighborhood things are all over the place: http://southorange.patch.com/
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by dbul 17y ago
My bad. Leave out that bit of information. Restating what I meant in point 2 is that there is a large applicant pool, and ideas are just one factor. Doesn't YC choose based mostly on the applicants themselves? The idea is hardly relevant. O
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by dbul 17y ago
RFS1: write a crawler to gather as much information as possible on trending topics, rank the sources, then have a writer look through the autatically gathered data and use his intelligence and skill to put it into a nicely flowing story tha
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by dbul 17y ago
1) I think there are several people without ideas but who also want to be polymaths. So they would become wrapped up in whichever RFS they chose. 2) I think the applicant pool is getting large enough that it is worth the risk. pg said the a
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by dbul 17y ago
Here are three personal reasons: 1) It is good to be in an environment where others are hard at work because you'll be less likely to screw around. 2) It feels like you are doing something fun (you are "out") and at the same time working ha
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by dbul 17y ago
Places like Starbucks and Borders charge for Wi-Fi access Not entirely true. Borders is probably the only place I know that still charges for wifi. Everywhere else it is either free or you get two hours free by entering some kind of code.
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by dbul 17y ago
Damn it feels good to be in Pittsburgh. As I often hop coffee shops, I understand the behavior. Students will even go so far as get a coffee, work, then go to a nearby food shop and bring something back for their dinner while they continue
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by dbul 17y ago
I think there is a balance between code, marketing, and customer service: if no one knows about your product, you have no customers (marketing); if your product is buggy, you lose customers (code); unless you apply the third and fix bugs fo
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by dbul 17y ago
Kannada has a rep of being one of the hardest languages in India. I love the secret language bit. I always speak Japanese in public and it is great fun. Once, though, I met a couple at an event and I recognized them from a time I was at a s
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by dbul 17y ago
Singer warns not to consider moral positions as "rules" as stated in this essay, but guidelines. You can't be 100% perfect at all times (as Franklin discovered). In addidition, moral views are mutable. My friend has been vegetarian for 10
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by dbul 17y ago
Got it. I imagine it is rather difficult to put together a demo for this kind of thing without trying one's patience. Definitely having a video of motion vs. interesting/highlighted motion would be convincing to both tech and non-tech indiv
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by dbul 17y ago
Is there an example of the busy party scenario? It is difficult to see what you mean from the video on the home page or the video on the about page.
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by dbul 17y ago
Even though I don't intend on reapplying, this was thought provoking; thanks. Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate? I think this is a critical question. Several weeks ago I was at a coffee shop and some girl was co
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by dbul 17y ago
just don't plain don't want to stay in the city I'm not so sure it is that as much as... they get hired for research/corporate work ... actually prefer _that_ rather than working in a startup Most of the CMU nerds want to work at the be
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by dbul 17y ago
A few thousand out of 133,000 isn't a huge percentage. I would say that is bound to happen statistically, and you wouldn't want to divert resources to addressing it unless it was a significant percentage of your overall. Chances are those p
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by dbul 17y ago
Anyone know more about the hardware behind this? I tried looking for info on their lab site ( http://senseable.mit.edu/ ) but the publications page ( http://senseable.mit.edu/papers/publications.html ) doesn't load in Chromium and I get a j
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by dbul 17y ago
Eliminate an explicit deadline. It may affect the applicant pool at first, but subsequent iterations should be normalized.
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by dbul 17y ago
We haven't decided for sure, but we have to change something, because reading all the applications is becoming overwhelming. Why not have someone create a simple, private site which makes salient application information: a screenshot whic
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How I Spent My Summer: Hacking Into iPhones With Friends (or: 3GS jailbreak)(online.wsj.com)
7 points by dbul 17y ago|0 comments
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by dbul 17y ago
For the few interested in Delaware vs. Pennsylvania, here is another article from a PA-based firm: http://www.barley.com/publications/article.cfm?article_ID=21...
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by dbul 17y ago
It's interesting that Manhattan has so many murders, diverse ones at that. Consider Philadelphia: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/multimedia/15818502.html In the rich areas like Center City, Manayunk, and Mount Airy there are few murders.
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by dbul 17y ago
The guys behind this are from the Winter/Spring 2009 AlphaLab batch (as Innomi.net): http://www.alphalab.org/meet_our_companies.aspx Informative: http://startuppittsburgh.com/2009/05/innominet-interview-abo...
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by dbul 17y ago
I wonder why they don't just have a 3-year contract? Update: Looks like others have suggested this. http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/06/10/sign-3year-att-contr...

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