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811.
by keefe 17y ago
Currently employed at a late state, nasa funded startup... soon to be writing my own software full time, at least for a while.
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by keefe 17y ago
Moderation of comments is not a particularly easy problem... You made a post that apparently the first four people found unhelpful and confusing? I looked through the post and I didn't find it particularly interesting, but then the whole to
813.
by keefe 17y ago
At the current clinics they often distribute it in these pseudo-medical test tubes that are highly amusing... The bottom line is if they legalized, there's no real need to market anything but the dispensaries giving it out.... I think it wo
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by keefe 17y ago
Design an appropriate interface, hammer out something quickly, move on, revisit if necessary.
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by keefe 17y ago
This is a great article that highlights one of the key changes of our times : every day it becomes easier for a new software business to survive and surviving changes the game. I think about the surfing metaphor I have heard VCs use and ima
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by keefe 17y ago
If she is looking to be mediocre and use writing software as a ramp into being a nearly-technically-competent manager, then no, algorithms and data structures are not important. If she wants to have any deep understanding of this field? Wel
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by keefe 17y ago
Can you just modify the gift wrapping algorithm such that the next point selected must be on a straight line from the previous point? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_convex_hull Suggests it is doable in O(n log n) still, but total
818.
by keefe 17y ago
I'm writing this between moments @ my job so it is a bit rambling... I end up talking about similar problems I've worked on, suggest an interface and then in the end address the particular problem and what modifications of convex hull I thi
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by keefe 17y ago
The first question I have is : am I correct to infer that the set of rectangles must be a subset of the original rectangles? In other words, it is not sufficient to simply generate an arbitrary set of rectangles. Finding a minimum set of re
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by keefe 17y ago
moot point : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/23/obama-wont-support-... Obama won't support it. The first mover would be the clinics throughout CA that are already quasi-legal (various ones accept sham prescriptions) and they'd just
821.
by keefe 17y ago
I think it's nearly impossible to predict. We are in the middle of a societal revolution brought on by the availability of instantaneous communication across a distance and perfect memory and repeatability.... so, I think previous models of
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by keefe 17y ago
I wonder what circumstances would lead to that? Some kind of a societal crash where computers are either fully exploited or no longer relevant.... well, who knows maybe road bandit? If I got busted with a court order keeping me off computer
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by keefe 17y ago
I wish I had the time to read enough comments to have an intelligent opinion on this.... I generally vote things up that I strongly agree with and vote things down that I strongly disagree with, without putting much more thought into it tha
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by keefe 17y ago
I got one the same way! I was pretty young at that time so it was really exciting until I, too, realized how useless it was... and now my android phone does it all and more!
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by keefe 17y ago
I moved to silicon valley in 07 and was (and still am) very interested in the bookmarking space... I was doing an analysis of delicious and came onto a link for startupschool, which I then applied to and got into, not really understanding a
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by keefe 17y ago
Last serious book : http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Cryptography-Practice-Hewlett-P... Last fun book : http://www.amazon.com/Woken-Furies-Takeshi-Kovacs-Novels/dp/... I can't resist the body swapping stuff ever since reading Lord of Light
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by keefe 17y ago
I couldn't agree more...
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by keefe 17y ago
So like, why are you working so many hours? I was trying to say that if your main focus is making money, maybe startup work has to wait or be seriously de-prioritized. In the last year, I worked perhaps 50-60 hour weeks at my current job at
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by keefe 17y ago
So, maybe the right thing to do is concentrate on solving your financial problems and only do high level planning on your startup? I found myself in a similar situation and have been working for a couple years to shore up finances before do
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by keefe 17y ago
I don't think humans are so weak that they can't handle 60 hour weeks, but 90 is definitely too much. I agree very strongly with the overall idea of your post, but for me it is all about building the right kind of balance in my life so that
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by keefe 17y ago
I have been working full time and working on my startup for over a year now. I think the most important thing for you to consider is the concept of diminishing returns. How productive are you in hours 0-70 vs hours 70-90? I spent a lot of m
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by keefe 17y ago
title = troll, rtfa
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by keefe 17y ago
linux port? (:
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by keefe 17y ago
Yeah exactly, AS3 is turing complete? I know the ES4 was ditched cause of the typical corporate nonsense but I think eventually one language will emerge that has a lot of AS3's features - dynamic typing, objects for local state, lambda poin
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by keefe 17y ago
I don't think the readability of implementations is all that important. Java is widely regarded as having poor syntax, but any client of this type of a method (assuming it is in a static utility class) will do something like double myEntrop
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by keefe 17y ago
I hail from Cincinnati originally, details please???
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by keefe 17y ago
caveat: I have done no deep research on HTML 5, but I work with AS3 and JS daily. The whole web space is just client/server distributed computing environment with relatively thin clients and high powered, cluster back ends. AS3 or JS is jus
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by keefe 17y ago
nice! I scanned, lots of text for an at work distraction (:
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by keefe 17y ago
uhm, call me cynical but maybe he could have spent his time more profitably? Could he have launched this as a $2 app?
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by keefe 17y ago
Yeah, I have a wide variety of very interesting books collecting dust on my shelves. I don't know why really, I think maybe I spent my time in graduate school immersed in theory and these last few years I have been completely focused on und

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