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Tell HN: Browsers on the desktop should work more like iPhone OS 4.0
1 points by jaekwon 17y ago|3 comments
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by jaekwon 17y ago
In my school career fair, ratheon or some weapons manuf acturing company only accepted candidates with GPA 3.8 or higher. I thought that was high, but I guess those companies want straightedge people.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
4.0 means he got the best grade for each class that he took. You can fail a test and still get an A, depending. I believe you can retake a course to get a better grade in my school. 3.5 is fine. 3.0 I guess might be average or not stellar.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
Man, this is a lesson about greed. Don't try to attain IT by confining yourself to any man's (banker's) device. In the end you wont enjoy yourself, no matter what you experience or how wise you become, because you'll learn to despise it all
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by jaekwon 17y ago
Fear and ignorance leads to irrational behavior and anger. Happens to anyone.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
Will "like" data be just as available, or does Facebook get to own that data?
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by jaekwon 17y ago
I love sass, a different approach.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
NM, I probably overestimated the rate of tweets. More like a tweet every 5 minutes. Is there a service like twitterholic that tracks hashtag volume over time?
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by jaekwon 17y ago
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23acta Every minute or two someone is discovering and tweeting about #ACTA. That's in the order of 1000 people a day. How many tweets does it take for all 18+M active twitter users to know about ACTA before i
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by jaekwon 17y ago
I expect great developers to be able to rip through guitar hero at expert level. VIM does that to you.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
theoretically, but go ahead and try that. ;)
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by jaekwon 17y ago
a hypothesis: it's easier to come to a (tentative, possibly false) conclusion that the reward is not worth it, than to execute a high level task to completion. The carrot works for mechanical tasks because high level cognition shuts down.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
Where are you located?
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by jaekwon 17y ago
the end?
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by jaekwon 17y ago
HN itself is great because it has constant attention from the right people, but the organization isn't there.
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Ask HN: Best resource for collaboratively analyzing startup ideas?
6 points by jaekwon 17y ago|5 comments
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by jaekwon 17y ago
this thing is working for me.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
Shine your SMARTS upon your brethren, and watch them shun you like hot resistors on a circuit.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
Where does all that $3M go? College debt + research teams + luxury cars? Do big law firms have state of the art information tools and their own development team?
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by jaekwon 17y ago
"It seems like this should be pretty easy, and indeed Google does provide tools to calculate ROI, but apparently not to optimize it. What they do provide is a tool to optimize your cost-per-action. Does anyone know why this is?" I think you
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by jaekwon 17y ago
+1 on the Paul Bucheit paraphrase.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
I had a fantastic time as well. thanks to everyone! My favorite moments were outside the hall, just mingling with you guys. I said I would talk to at least 20 people, and I did. Nice to meet you all, and thanks for the beer.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
when you push too hard, you will become counterproductive very fast (making wrong decisions that take much longer to work around or fix). focus on what your body tells you, burnout is real and terrible. otherwise, exercise would probably he
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by jaekwon 17y ago
not sure what the closest language is. it's a smashup of lisp/javascript/python, and maybe one day erlang.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
hey, i'm flattered.
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by jaekwon 17y ago
http://jaekwon.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/paralang-my-attempt-...
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by jaekwon 17y ago
I was just working on this last week. I found out after a week of coding and designing, that the fundamental flaw in my implementation design for parallel computation of serial problems, is that it takes as much work for a "forked thread of
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Just sharing some Python(jaekwon.wordpress.com)
1 points by jaekwon 17y ago|0 comments
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by jaekwon 17y ago
Group buying might be the wrong model. What if, instead of focusing on products (which might have been mercata's downfall?), we focus on pooling money for the local community? It's a fundraiser service, except the service will also take car
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by jaekwon 17y ago
After seeing this link I realized that it's time to read the book.

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