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by icky 19y ago
> Jupiter Ace, RAM: 3K, Resolution: 512x368 > That'll be tight. 23552 pixels in 24576 kilobits of RAM. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_ACE : "While it had only one video mode, text only, which displayed 24 rows of 32 co
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> a startup that is boostrapping a semantic web framework through top-down crowdsourced information from free plugins and widgets Web2-speak is leveraging the new synergistic paradigm! ;-)
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> Agree with yourself that you'll do whatever it takes to make it succeed. Or, conversely, "fail fast".
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... and have a 10% chance of not just having done something really dumb! ;-D
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> Assuming that all you need to do is tell people about what you've got and the money will come freely and nothing will break, That's a pretty big assumption... ;-)
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> Their claims don't sound that plausible: Apple is full of not-stupid engineers. s/don't/do/ s/Apple/Japan/
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> Yang reiterated his plan to turn Yahoo into a starting point on the web, a concept he promoted during a speech he gave at last month’s Consumer Electronic Show. Decker said that Yahoo would soon release a new feature that highlights “
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You can still take something positive away from this article if you look at it as a compelling argument to work for yourself. Charityfocus had an interesting story, but they spun it with the kind of sad, defeatist attitude that is antitheti
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For me, perl's killer app these days is the one-liner. Where python has (for me, at least) muscled in on perl's niche as general-scripting-language-of-choice, perl remains unmatched as the most terrifyingly useful extension to the command-l
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Nobody respects the lone, eccentric time-travel researcher...
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Maybe news.yc needs a [fluff] designator, similar to [dead], so that articles bearing it can be optionally made invisible (the difference being that [fluff] might be visible by default). (Or maybe [fluff] articles can be subject to downvote
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From the article you linked: "If I proposed such a design, our company would never approve it," said one of the engineers. "I can't find anything that is technically superior. We can make the same computer at a lower cost," said another. D
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Higher-priced and more brittle (so they can sell more support contracts)!
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But I thought "IP" stood for Ixtreeemly Personal! :-O
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If you've got someone in the company recommending you apply, discreetly ask them what range to expect. Worked for me! ;-)
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> It doesn't have to be entirely based on past performance - you could do some statistical analysis on the number of funds, which funds are associated with individual investors, fund returns and find whether the distribution of returns
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Davwina? Davetha?
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import random print random.choice(('yes', 'no', 'maybe', 'outlook hazy',))
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> I've always figured that the "past performance, future performance" phrase principally was just legalese, not investment advice. I'd like to see a study on this. You do realize that any such study would necessarily be based entirely o
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I think that, at least during a startup's early-adopter stage, the userbase is comprised of exactly the people who thrive on change (especially change for the better), so even if your hypothesis is correct, you may have a window of opportun
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> A better predictor would probably be someone's comments here on N.YC. Don't you mean, someone's karma , nickb? ;-)
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> Note:When I was younger and before I was married :p What a lucky guy you are, to have a wife who reads news.yc! ;- )
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Where on earth did you come up with that idea?
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> Loading water onto a ship to ship it across more water to sell in a place which already has plenty of water seems pretty wasteful. Gee, I thought we were talking about California, for a second.
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Human-level AI is always ~20 years from "now" (whenever "now" happens to be).
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No, too many of my notebook doodles are valid Perl...
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> my friend Dikshit Gupta Please tell me you're kidding... > got far fewer callbacks than Dave Gupta, even with identical resumes (both are obviously Indian). Maybe "Dave" implies a certain level of cultural assimilation? (Or at le
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> I'm well into my first startup, but I need to get to a startup hub where I can iterate faster and be around the right people. I think you might want to examine your assumptions. If you need to hire people (or are desperate to get fun
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Short commute, good free snacks and food and drinks and tea (and soup!), within walking distance of lots of good restaurants, great coworkers, minimal distractions, no politics, flexible hours, occasional telecommute (but not so frequently
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Where is this "21k lost wages" figure coming from? I guarantee you, if I were only forgoing a wage of 21k/year, I'd finish school in a heartbeat! The problem for a lot of people on this forum might be that they can no longer justify college

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