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by icky 19y ago
That's the strategy I use while playing against jsomers, but while playing against chengmi, I always use (seconds+2)%3. (Unfortunately, chengmi's watch is 2 seconds fast (or 1 second slow), so he still ends up winning...)
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by icky 19y ago
I think you're selling yourself far too short on monetizability. You could have a model where ad-supported games are free to make (i.e. YOUR ads), or where they could be ad-free (or contain their own ads) for paid subscribers... Monetizabi
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by icky 19y ago
Ad-hoc robotics! :-D
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by icky 19y ago
> - Avoid globals and session state. The more "pure" your function is, the easier it will be to cache or partition. I'd like to emphasize this point in particular. Shared state is a big, inefficient, centralized bureaucrat and is the e
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by icky 19y ago
No way, dude... If they got THAT much, they'd probably just sit around all day and spend all their time on reddit... ;-) (or news.yc...)
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by icky 19y ago
You could find some project that you think is painfully close to being perfect except for X, and implement X for them. (For lots of projects, X is documentation, but you can probably find lots of X's if you keep your eyes open). Or, you co
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by icky 19y ago
Well, I'm just using Google, so I don't feel so bad about it... ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
> I always thought it was because programmers were too lazy to write a couple of extra characters to make a nice descriptive variable name. Nah. A variable name's descriptiveness (and length) should be proportional to the size of the s
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by icky 19y ago
Try it, and see what happens. Worst case, nothing comes of it, and you dust yourself off and think of a new idea.
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by icky 19y ago
Probably an error caused by Mr. Levy's extreme ancientness... ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Yes. Underpromise, and over-deliver. Never the other way around.
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by icky 19y ago
> This kind of thing is pretty common, especially when you have multiple projects and you are in love with one. I came to this realization myself in the past couple of weeks. Nothing focuses the mind like realizing what you really want
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by icky 19y ago
> I said earlier in a comment that I am stuck, I can not code for a week now. You have a good idea, but take a break and code something fun in an area that has nothing whatsoever to do with what you're working on. I find that "coder's b
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by icky 19y ago
The thing to note here is that some areas, especially (pop-)cultural (Nintendo (as mentioned in the article), anime, food products, candy, gadgets, vending machines, etc.), Japan is absolutely bursting with creative energy. The ailing big b
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by icky 19y ago
> Find someone else who is asking the same thing. No way! You're competing for the same resource: a cofounder! If he finds one first, then you're screwed! ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Last time I did that, it spent all its time playing video games! :-(
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by icky 19y ago
He should get a computer. Maybe a nice IBM PC that runs DOS... ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
The real question is: did he come on his own, or did some Googler call him up and get him to come as a prank on Randall?
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by icky 19y ago
Good! The old new name was a meta-WTF...
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by icky 19y ago
> The Universe IS my kitchen. As long as the kitchen isn't your Universe... :)
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by icky 19y ago
"Aw, man... BrainBook is down again..."
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by icky 19y ago
> I think that yo have replied yourself, 20 years ago there were not microwave ovens! They didn't have microwave ovens in 1987 ?! "20 years ago" is not a fixed date ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
> Anonymous hassle free micropayments for instance... Someone please make this, much lighterweight than PayPal, and saturate the market with it. Add a prepaid micropayment card anyone can buy at a store with cash. This is one of the th
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by icky 19y ago
> Uh huh... using EC2 for storage sounds like a bad idea, especially since data on EC2 instances isn't persistent... There are workarounds, involving multiple instances and hoping that not all of them die at the same time... ;-). This
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by icky 19y ago
She's hacked the system. This can only be a good thing if it forces the schools to patch it.
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by icky 19y ago
> For only $49,995, I will guarantee your ycombinator application gets accepted in the next round. Since that's more than their typical investment anyway, you might want to cut them in on that racket... ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Yes, but it's certainly a limiting factor.
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by icky 19y ago
> By buying that widescreen TV, I'm giving all those people who build that TV a job. Doesn't that help to end world hunger? Yes, for the subset of countries that has their shit together enough to manufacture and export TVs.
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by icky 19y ago
Clearly the human brain isn't at its best form when it's hr0ny.
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by icky 19y ago
1) Don't take out a loan, especially not one where either of you are personally guaranteeing it. Creditors will drive your company into ruin faster than investors, and you'll be left paying for it. 2) Talk to an accountant to see if there'

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