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by jlees 16y ago
I'd be interested in hearing the HN take on this. I recently moved here from the UK and am still trying to figure out the must-attend events, places to be, people to meet. For hackers, it seems SuperHappyDevHouse always comes up in conversa
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How to get started in the SF tech scene(jolieodell.wordpress.com)
2 points by jlees 16y ago|1 comments
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by jlees 16y ago
Yeah, there are times when it's easy to be frustrated at the roundabout way you have to do certain things in Python compared to Perl; I also found the latter to be true on other occasions so it's swings and roundabouts. My side point was re
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by jlees 16y ago
Good to know. Should I ever feel masochistic enough to look back at Perl, I'll undoubtedly check it out. And this reply alone is proof Perl isn't dead.
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by jlees 16y ago
I'll vote you down for calling me he. ;)
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by jlees 16y ago
On an internship with the UK defense research agency my job involved the conversion of some ALGOL-68 simulation code into Java. I would be very surprised if the professor for whom I worked was not still hacking away at the ALGOL. No idea ho
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by jlees 16y ago
Agreed, though startups also like to cut costs, and old stuff can be free. A lot of the hackers I know who still hang around the fringes of academia have some crazy old hardware salvaged from university skips etc that still works and is use
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by jlees 16y ago
Observe the vague handwavy terms I used: I'm about 18 months out of date as I made the switch to Python around the start of 09. At the time, Catalyst was very unfriendly (a quick google - it still is) and nowhere near as rapid-accessible as
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by jlees 16y ago
It's nice to see someone saying thanks rather than "What, is that all?". Google doesn't have to do any of this.
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by jlees 16y ago
FYI, I use Perl extensively for text file parsing and processing Yeah, me too, but that's the issue. It's great at that. Great at quick and dirty command line hacks. Hell, most of my PhD code was written in Perl. (Something I take a perve
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by jlees 16y ago
As someone on TC put it, a mid-range dev at Google could easily be a superstar dev elsewhere. Ignoring that, if you factor in vesting stock and the annual bonus, 150k doesn't seem that insane to me.
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by jlees 16y ago
Apologies for submitting an article with the W-word, but these folk are particularly after more engineer applications (and it's not just women, most teams from the first batch had 1 or 2 blokes too). It looks like an interesting cross betwe
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Women 2.0 Labs pre-incubator program applications close Sept 4th(women2.org)
3 points by jlees 16y ago|1 comments
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by jlees 16y ago
My way: #1, pick a supervisor who's going to be absent the entire first year and who decides to change your research topic significantly from its proposal to fit in with her own research (yes, I know this is common) then #2, decide the real
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by jlees 16y ago
I'm in SF and my default was San Francisco to Cologne. Nice subtle use of geoloc - it's the details that matter.
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by jlees 16y ago
I'd think of this as more on-demand towncar than a new type of taxi-disrupting the limo business rings far more true. For the slightly upscale customer who wants privacy and looks and can pay a bit more. And not for women, dear god no. But
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by jlees 16y ago
Did you contact using the delivery form at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=m... and still get no response?
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by jlees 16y ago
I started university in 2000 and still haven't even started paying my $20k UK student loan back. shrug
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by jlees 16y ago
Look at some of the customer development stuff that's come up recently, though; I've seen companies with very very little actual code/product (in some cases, none!) iterate extremely quickly through wizard-of-oz smokescreens and the like. I
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by jlees 16y ago
il, I'm the same, but I think it helps to at least be on that side of the fence - a hacker turned to the dark side - than be the proverbial "Here are my mockups in PowerPoint, now build me a website" clueless/exploitative 'business guy'.
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by jlees 16y ago
My issue with both of the articles, true though they are, is they don't represent the partnership model that most often succeeds: you know, people who are actually friends, who work together and trust each other. The blind "hello, please be
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by jlees 16y ago
Something like http://www.founderinstitute.com/ seems useful to me - that plus a degree in computer science and design plus a term in Y Combinator. (there are alternatives to Founder Institute that don't seem quite so MBA-ey, too)
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by jlees 16y ago
yeah, I'm very surprised there isn't a twt.tr or something. Maybe they're holding out for .co...
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by jlees 16y ago
Not quite as simple as that, none of the three are readily available to use by just, say, visiting the site and typing in an URL. You need toolbars/extensions/clients etc. If she usually uses a client that's set to xrl.in changing to anothe
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by jlees 16y ago
She only started to get uppity after the extremely terse and unforgiving reply from bit.ly ("We don't allow that"), obviously we should all wait a while before writing emails or blog posts while angry, but we're also all human.
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by jlees 16y ago
I'm sure I saw this in the UK - maybe http://www.deskspacegenie.co.uk/ but there seem a few results. The lack of traction and options available on each site is telling.
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Why I'm not applying to the Founder Institute(trendpreneur.com)
3 points by jlees 16y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 16y ago
At Startup Weekend Bay Area. Not visible in photo: donuts, pizza, empty coffee and red bull containers, iPad, 80 other hackers. http://imgur.com/AnZOw.jpg
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by jlees 16y ago
This is a StartupWeekend project, we'd love to find out more about what motivates you to network at events and the problems you have. Personally I always feel there are awesome people I'm just missing in the crowd, and I want to fix that us
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Ask HN: How can we make networking more awesome in a weekend?(spreadsheets.google.com)
11 points by jlees 16y ago|7 comments

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