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by dzink 13y ago
This is the oldest battle in the history building anything. I can't even count the number of reason's I've seen make that happen in large companies, startups, homework projects, everything. - procrastination (trying to get in
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by dzink 13y ago
Kudos to Susie for putting herself out there to make a point! For everyone else debating this issue: to look at the problem objectively, we have to break down the different clusters of people that need encouragement and support to get into
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by dzink 13y ago
It's a museum of the present that could have been.
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by dzink 13y ago
Why not just limit access to validated students?
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by dzink 13y ago
We had those in Bulgaria for a number of years before the fall of communism. They were restricted to use only by foreigners buying with foreign currency and locals could only gawk, but never buy. As a child I remember seeing Kinder Surprise
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by dzink 13y ago
This is no different than saying "you should be looking for a wife on a dating site". You should be looking for people you would trust with more than a side project and the best way to do that is to do many different projects with
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by dzink 13y ago
If you're taking the time to dig through my posts and/or remember them then I assume you stick around as a more active member of this community and create a fake account to vent. So I'll reply for you and for others who may t
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by dzink 13y ago
Yeah, it lasted about 2 months. Now I can only do it a couple of times a week unless absolutely necessary. Instead of coffee I used milk/high protein foods to keep the brain going. At one point it got so bad I couldn't recognize m
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by dzink 13y ago
I am watching the reactions of non-technical people after they hear how this latest Net Non-Neutrality development affects them. Some are saying "Google, Apple, and the other big guys will step in for us". Others reply that when g
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by dzink 13y ago
Nice work! In order to balance my project and school I ended up taking 2 hour naps around 6pm (right after school) to refresh my brain for coding between 8pm and 4am, then napping again till 8am for the 9am till 5pm cycle. The good news was
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How the Japanese did to their love industry what the Internet did to Print.(youtube.com)
1 points by dzink 13y ago|0 comments
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by dzink 13y ago
A business with network effects if it works. The risks are: we borrow each other's strategies and go on a direct collision course, we merge and the teams don't mix, we merge and diverge in strategy later on... One of the teams has
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Ask HN: Would you reach out to the competition?
7 points by dzink 13y ago|5 comments
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by dzink 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6998559
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by dzink 13y ago
I went outside in what felt like -34F in Chicago to blow soap bubbles in the air and watch them land at the consistency of plastic bags.
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Movie Code(moviecode.tumblr.com)
4 points by dzink 13y ago|0 comments
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by dzink 13y ago
The hard part is not building a prototype but getting traction. What happens when customers use your prototype today?
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by dzink 13y ago
Hi Kelvin0, I respect your opinion and I think those who want attention usually go to the press with some sobbing story about the tech world's insensitivities towards them. They don't expose themselves and their work to the full s
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by dzink 13y ago
On the code side, I love what I'm doing right now with Neo4J and the DoerHub badges and topics. I am trying to use graph database searches to surface people who are strong in areas you are weak in and weak in areas you are strong in wh
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by dzink 13y ago
Of his work, I think the The Last Question has stuck with me the most http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
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by dzink 13y ago
Hi Silvia, thank you for jumping in! Feel free to add your answers to the AMA questions. It would be helpful to have multiple perspectives.
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by dzink 13y ago
Small world, isn't it? I grew up right across the street from the one in my hometown (twin story house with a grey garage fence).
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by dzink 13y ago
The checklist I mention comes from conversations I've had with young girls in the US (seeing what resonates with them). I thing I would attribute the social stuff to a lesson I got from a KPCB guy at F8: Major startup innovation happen
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by dzink 13y ago
I started building websites and getting paid to code at 13. In 1998 building web sites was only possible if you were self-taught via the web, so market in Bulgaria and Europe (UK, Belgium) was quite lucrative. Not sure if that qualifies as
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by dzink 13y ago
In the first few years this is the stuff that helped: - W3Schools + A List Apart + CSSZenGarden (on WebDev) - Code Complete (on Software Engineering best practices) - JavaScript: The Definitive Guide - A Bulgarian niche forum and community
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by dzink 13y ago
I got feedback from interviews with non-technical users and a couple of top universities.
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by dzink 13y ago
I look up to Reid Hoffman, Jobs, Drew Houston, Zuckerberg, Marissa Mayer - founder/product people who put so much love into their products that you can feel it. In order to build like that you have to be so immersed into the problem an
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by dzink 13y ago
Keep building it up. Add github and linkedin logins, build up the collaboration and contribution metrics features, grow at places where people and projects are really interesting, add to the team, maybe apply to an accelerator. This is my l
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by dzink 13y ago
It develops the ears mostly. I could see so many friends getting the same basic understanding as well. When I went to an English Language School for High School I failed my first written test, because I wrote a letter in Germish (English wo
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by dzink 13y ago
I tried to aggregate those as a sub-thread. You make a great point with the MySpace example. Legos with built in robotics might be fun as well. I never had a lego (too expensive) and I only saw the $200 robotic kits in college in the US. In

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