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by iqster 13y ago
I lived in the bay area for a while and moved away. I went to the meetups and didn't get it initially. I used to joke that every person, including their dog, has a lil startup. After a while, I started to "get" the extreme optimism, ideals,
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by iqster 13y ago
I was fortunate to have dinner with him once when he visited our University (sadly, this was close to the time of his death). He was a pretty sweet old man. I recall he was very humble and a vegetarian. I had no clue he was so accomplished
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by iqster 14y ago
I think this is an important issue. I didn't think about fumes when I got the printer. Someone who sat next to me started getting headaches. Also, another colleague was concerned about the effect of burning ABS on reproductive health (she p
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by iqster 14y ago
One thing that should be noted is the burning smell of ABS plastic. I got a 3D printer in my office that is currently serving as a paperweight on my desk. That is until I get access to a lab with an exhaust hood. All my previous experiences
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by iqster 14y ago
Would you be willing to do a short post-mortem write up on the load challenges your site faced? Since you are part of the HN crowd, I imagine you did all the reasonable things and somethings still surprised you :)
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by iqster 14y ago
I was one of the participants and I had a great time. I'm probably a bit of a hackathon junkie. I judge my involvement in such events based on a few metrics. Did I learn something new? Did I have a good time? Was I able to get something wor
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Nest learning thermostat gets refreshed with a slimmer design(engadget.com)
42 points by iqster 14y ago|42 comments
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by iqster 14y ago
May I suggest you take a look at Make: Electronics, Making things talk, and Making things see. The Make folks also have a set of smaller books: Getting Started With Arduino, Getting Started with Processing, etc. These books are written in a
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Show HN: Hosting my WordPress blog entirely on Amazon S3(slowping.com)
39 points by iqster 14y ago|11 comments
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by iqster 14y ago
Just got off stage. Say what you want about TechCrunch, their hackathons are a lot of fun! NYC's tech scene is solid!
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Revision3 (co-founded by Kevin Rose) acquired by Discovery Channel(plus.google.com)
6 points by iqster 14y ago|0 comments
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by iqster 14y ago
Bump ... I've had personal experience where I needed a few 100 VMs for a short experiment. A quick message to Amazon got the job done. Took less than a day to get approval.
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by iqster 14y ago
I was in the audience at the NY AWS summit ... quite a loud applause when they give their per hour cost number. I was also impressed. However, I found it a bit surprising that that it took 2 hours to acquire the VMs, and 1 hour to do the ac
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by iqster 15y ago
The C64 was the first computer I programmed. Made my life better for it. Thanks Jack! RIP.
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By the numbers: Larry Page's first year as Google's CEO(techcrunch.com)
1 points by iqster 15y ago|0 comments
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by iqster 15y ago
This is an interesting program ... wish there was a weekend bootcamp organized in a similar way. I know people do things like ROTC on weekends ... why not us hackers? :)
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by iqster 15y ago
Isn't that the OpenStack philosophy? "Lets be flexible" I like AWS. You're right ... it isn't perfect. But it is good enough. And that's exactly what you want for a standard IMHO. Just my personal opinions.
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Revenue differences between three app stores (Apple, Amazon and Google)(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by iqster 15y ago|0 comments
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The best Nanny money can buy(nytimes.com)
1 points by iqster 15y ago|0 comments
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by iqster 15y ago
I'm a computer guy who loves his work a lot! That said, I do have to eat and I do need to retire some day. That is certainly not the purpose of my life but it is kinda necessary. I've also done the numbers on how much I need to retire and i
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by iqster 15y ago
What professions do you speak of? I know many (recent graduate) lawyers, doctors and dentists who are all bogged down by loans. For lawyers, making partner seems to be the main road to riches. But that's a lottery. A dentist I know has take
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by iqster 15y ago
What I find really shocking is how the UX of the main google search page has deteriorated for me. It gives me all sorts of crap that doesn't make any sense ... and I don't even know how to complain since all the content is personalized to m
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by iqster 15y ago
This is such an obvious thing, it shocks me that policy makers don't get it. In Canada, there has been a push to increase the supply of CS PhDs for years. The result? Getting a University job in many regions became ridiculously hard. The ne
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by iqster 15y ago
I've done numerous hackathons, and more often than not, I'm disappointed. Yesterday, I participated in the Hacker Olympics "hackathon" in Manhattan. It was absolutely awesome, and somewhat of a unique event. We did silly things like have ti
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Kenyan chief foils robbery via Twitter(cnn.com)
3 points by iqster 15y ago|0 comments
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by iqster 15y ago
Check out biobricks.
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by iqster 15y ago
Good point. Does one really need to know how to code up a neural network in order to just use it? This has been my biggest frustration with some teachers of Machine Learning. They need to abstract away the innards and provide a usable high-
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by iqster 15y ago
Anyone see the list of textbooks? I couldn't find it.
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by iqster 15y ago
Based on that description, I'd consider you to be self-taught :) I have a degree but I also consider myself self-taught. What gives? I've encountered many folks (probably not your average HN reader) who are simply unable to learn new things
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by iqster 15y ago
Heh ... I should have specified ... free/open membership to all ... as long as you agree not to sue other members of the group. I don't think IV does that.

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