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by jkush 20y ago
hey - try portland, maine to san jose - tickets were in the 300 range. You can alternatively try Manchester, NH. Both airports aren't that far away. Let me know if that helps.
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Conan O'Brien on failure(february-7.com)
17 points by jkush 20y ago|5 comments
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by jkush 20y ago
Hey, congratulations! That's fantastic!
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by jkush 20y ago
I've got you beat. I built a robot last night (runs on Lisp and parts from Radio Shack) that constantly monitors the internet, my phone lines and packets going out of YC's office. As soon as my robot picks up a signal of interest it beams t
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by jkush 20y ago
Heh. I didn't know YC was into that kind of thing. How interesting.
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by jkush 20y ago
Has anyone heard back yet?
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by jkush 20y ago
Nice anecdote.
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by jkush 20y ago
Same to you sir!
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by jkush 20y ago
Haha. No matter how many times I see that video it kills me. Thanks for the laugh, I needed it. Hahaha.
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by jkush 20y ago
Do you mean "gut instinct"? I go by that a lot and have been learning how to trust it more. More often than not, my initial reaction is right. If you're interested, here's a link to a book about this topic: http://snipurl.com/1fxk7
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by jkush 20y ago
I agree - it's just that I've met too many people who live by principle and not by the situation.
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by jkush 20y ago
When there's a mispelling or obvious sign that someone in HR wrote the job description. For Example: "Must be proficient in Sequel." or "Must have 10+ years experience in the .NET environment." When that kind of thing catches my attention
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by jkush 20y ago
I think how you answer this question says a lot. I'm not sure how I would answer this question myself. Would you refuse to sell on principle? Or because as Paul says, Microsoft is dead? Or do you just take the money, principles be damned?
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If Microsoft made an offer to buy your startup would you sell?
3 points by jkush 20y ago|14 comments
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by jkush 20y ago
Please pardon how newbieish this article starts out. I don't mean to insinuate that you're at this level - I was just dropping a link that may or not may be of use to you.
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by jkush 20y ago
There's also this resource which is very much for beginners but if you're just starting to find out all about using Lisp to do web development this might be a good read: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-web-programming-with-allegr
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by jkush 20y ago
interesting interview that would have been much more interesting if they'd used typography that made it readable.
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by jkush 20y ago
We are using lucene at http://www.todotoh.com We're using it to index questions and answers and have plans to extend it to recommend questions and answers to a user based on their interaction with other q's and a's. What are you using it
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by jkush 20y ago
My response isn't very scientific, but it seems that having to take a "test" in order to be able to post or comment somewhere would immediately indicate that the community in question would be elitist and probably boring.
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by jkush 20y ago
The only problem with this idea is that communities evolve. Who gets to modify the test to seek out people with the new, desirable traits? The site creators? Oldest member of the community? I think the concept of communities being self-poli
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by jkush 20y ago
In the narrow sense you don't need ANY degree to be a brilliant entrepreneur. Having an advantage is independent of school. That's not to say that school is worthless, but "advantage" and "business degree" are not synonymous.
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by jkush 20y ago
good lord that is amazing!
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by jkush 20y ago
Thanks!
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by jkush 20y ago
I've never been afraid of the red pill. If it'll improve my ability to be effective, I'll gladly take it. :) Without knowing much about Lisp, it seems that trying to describe it is like to trying to tell someone about Buddhism, or Jazz. Tal
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by jkush 20y ago
That's precisely my point and why, I think the article was written.
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by jkush 20y ago
Thanks very much for your response. I don't think it's odd because this article (even with it's length) would probably benefit people coming from entirely different environments. They might know something about programming but need some hel
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by jkush 20y ago
Being primarily a microsoft developer, I'm probably in the minority here. My coworker and I have been talking about branching out and learning completely different languages to stay fresh and learn some different views. It took me 3 read t
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For Lispers: How accurate is this portrait of Lisp?(defmacro.org)
18 points by jkush 20y ago|13 comments
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by jkush 20y ago
I think the author is missing part of the point. YCombinator is simply a way to make something that's very very hard to do just that much easier. Nobody should bank everything on getting accepted (I know I'm not). Just because you shouldn't
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by jkush 20y ago
Now I feel like a jerk for upvoting.

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