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by jf 16y ago
I work for Microsoft. Part of my job is talking about BizSpark. BizSpark doesn't impose any conditions like you listed, to qualify for BizSpark, you just need to meet the requirements listed here: https://www.microsoft.com/BizSpark/Faqs.as
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by jf 16y ago
Agreed. A few years back I looked at several other spreadsheet programs and wasn't able to find one that even approached Excel.
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by jf 16y ago
The difference in pricing is likely due to the schools participating in different programs. Feel free to reach out to me if you're interested in seeing your school have a similar program as the one your wife attends. I would be happy to put
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by jf 16y ago
They are a startup. It's two guys: Otavio Good and John DeWeese. They built their own technology and aren't an offshoot of someone else's.
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by jf 16y ago
I know Otavio and John through SHDH. I've known about this application for a long time, Otavio showed me an early prototype of this running on his laptop over a year ago. I'm ecstatic that they finally released it. (I'm also happy that I wa
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by jf 16y ago
It performs very nicely in the wild. One of the nice things about the "real time" aspect of this app is that you can nudge the phone around until you get a good translation.
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by jf 16y ago
This app does all the work client-side in (30-60 frames per second) real time. From what I understand, this is the only app that does that.
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Introducing Word Lens(questvisual.com)
1297 points by jf 16y ago|281 comments
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by jf 16y ago
I have it on very good authority that this is serious and totally legitimate.
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by jf 16y ago
For what it's worth, I would love to get patches to my open source Hacker News app. ( https://github.com/jpf/hacker-news-wp7 )
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by jf 16y ago
http://nedroid.com/2010/11/thanks-for-reading-my-comics/
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by jf 16y ago
I'm very glad that you wrote this. Thank you.
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by jf 16y ago
You would probably like reading "Empires of Light" - one of the interesting insights I gained from that book was how important Westinghouse was to Tesla's success.
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by jf 16y ago
This would be pretty easy to do with WebDNS: https://github.com/progrium/webdns
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by jf 16y ago
> I've never heard of any problems at the most party-ish hacker event I've been to, SuperHappyDevHouse. I don't know if it's the culture, the frowning on drunkenness, the mixture of people it attracts, the physical layouts, or what. We
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by jf 16y ago
You should have come to DevHouse:DC - Conrad gave a lightning talk about his book there :D
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by jf 16y ago
I'd love to help. (We could run a Hack And Tell at SHDH?)
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by jf 16y ago
Yeah ... app distribution is really limited to the store. (PS: Send me an email? Would love to hear what you're working on)
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by jf 16y ago
The announcement was timed to coincide with Microsoft's Open Enrollment period - which opens in November.
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by jf 16y ago
I'm using ihackernews.
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by jf 16y ago
I'm working on an HN app too ...
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by jf 16y ago
email me (you don't have contact info in your profile)
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Ask HN: Want to tour the Silicon Valley on the day before Startup School?
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by jf 16y ago
This was a very depressing thing to do after the bust. So many buildings were for lease during those times.
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by jf 16y ago
... email me if you're interested.
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by jf 16y ago
any number x, where x is a positive integer greater than 1
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by jf 16y ago
It looks like this was inspired by the Ask:YC question "How do I make the most out of Startup-school?" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1753141 ). To that end, if anybody is interested in taking a tour of the Silicon Valley before or a
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by jf 16y ago
> Its almost like someone has a gun to their head and they are really carefully with what they say. It's not just one gun. Saying the wrong thing can get you in trouble with any number of people: lawyers, PR, managers, and other employe
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by jf 16y ago
... I'm jaded from a year of commuting daily on Caltrain. :(
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by jf 16y ago
Swing by on your way to the ballpit at your work :D

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