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by kovar 15y ago
How does the original post relate to private schools that screw students over? The poster incurred debt, ignored it for years, failed to make any efforts to pay it back, made risky investments, and now is at risk of legal action. Sounds lik
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by kovar 15y ago
I learned about distributed computing in the '80s by writing a lot of small client server applications, tearing apart early chat systems, looking at the internals of NFS, etc. Pick some current distributed system you find interesting and wr
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MassChallenge - endorsements and deafening silence
2 points by kovar 15y ago|0 comments
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by kovar 15y ago
You often need to go through the discovery process to determine what is real and what isn't. To go through discovery, you need to file a suit. Just because someone is a convicted felon doesn't mean they're not entitled to the same access to
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by kovar 15y ago
You lost me with the first line: "Leaving someone a voicemail message on someone’s cell phone in 2011 is not only misguided, it’s selfish." If you don't want to get voicemail, don't offer it as an option to your callers. I get really bent o
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by kovar 15y ago
Similar situation - single founder, not doing social or green, niche B2B market (ediscovery), older (48), out of practice on software engineering, and deep insight into target market. I applied to YC knowing that I wasn't a good fit. Going
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by kovar 15y ago
I wish I could agree, but I do not. There are way too many variables. To even get close to making a valid test you'd need to run the same startups through different accelerators at exactly the same time.
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by kovar 15y ago
The money was a very small part of YC's appeal for me. Access to the mentors and other human capital was the real draw. I can't see giving up 6% of my company if the program doesn't offer human capital similar to YC's.
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by kovar 15y ago
It's also focused on younger applicants - "At least 50 percent of the team members must have been enrolled in a college within the last three years."
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by kovar 16y ago
I fear the following will sound rather negative. If you're only looking for positive suggestions, please skip over this. I know you mean well and I wish I could offer you more encouragement. Hopefully others are able to do so. I'm writing t
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by kovar 16y ago
"The people who are signing your paycheck."
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Recommendations for Assembling a Successful Team of Freelancers(news.yahoo.com)
2 points by kovar 16y ago|0 comments
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by kovar 16y ago
I happen to be in California this week for a client. I'd be happy to run up to Palo Alto .... :-)
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by kovar 16y ago
In my undergrad CS program, it was Operating Systems. The course required us to move from writing programs to solve well constrained problems to addressing issues of memory management, file systems, command line interfaces, etc.
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by kovar 16y ago
I wrote a post recently about fragmentation in the digital forensics community. One of the issues I raised was that we're less willing to call people, or companies, out for bad behavior, poor execution, etc. Is there any chance this is also
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by kovar 16y ago
1) "But as you already know, I am here to argue that this is not in fact a bubble." So get on with it. Dump the first two paragraphs. 2) "First of all, most of the overheating is going on in private markets, and there are only a few compani
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by kovar 16y ago
Evolution in action.
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by kovar 16y ago
No, I was determining the limits, pointing out that he does care, and that there are many things he would object to finding on those computers. Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds? Woman: My goodness, Mr. Churc
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by kovar 16y ago
I've used all the tools mentioned in the article and they generally will find most anything present, even if the user is computer savvy. Two major reasons: a) artifacts and b) carelessness. On a related note, our half serious joke was that
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by kovar 16y ago
So you're OK with your employees using corporate resources for child pornography? Edit: I do computer forensics and ediscovery for a living. I'm not trolling. That was just one of many things that you really don't want your employees storin
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by kovar 16y ago
We will either be quite successful by the time the next YC application deadline rolls around, or we'll have determined that the concept isn't viable and will be doing something else. We might apply again, but my tendency is to do things tha
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by kovar 16y ago
Without following the link, the post reads like spam. I didn't downvote it, but that's probably why others did.
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by kovar 16y ago
I'm bootstrapping and using hired guns. They're getting paid by revenue I'm bringing in doing, essentially, product research - ie, consulting in the field we're selling into. Also may end up in DC due to potential client base - lawyers.
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by kovar 16y ago
s/all/some/ If you need significant CPU cycles or access to non-local resources, the web apps will probably be faster.
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Over-reliance on tech leads to significant increase in SAR callouts(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by kovar 16y ago|0 comments
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by kovar 16y ago
I overlooked the "search" button at the bottom of the page for weeks until I actively went looking for it.
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by kovar 16y ago
Allow me to introduce you to the "search" function on news. (There are several posts already on the impending YC S11 decisions.)
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by kovar 16y ago
Like real estate, it is about location, location, location. Think of it as a lever - if properly applied, it can move a world. There's also the emotional component. The Japanese population has been shaken by the initial quake, the tsunami,
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by kovar 16y ago
'O'Farrell noted that some of the firm's portfolio companies have a voracious appetite for capital in order to hire, make acquisitions and expand internationally. Andreessen Horowitz believes the best way to meet those needs -- and not have
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Another day, another ginormous funding announcement from Andreessen Horowitz(mercurynews.com)
1 points by kovar 16y ago|1 comments

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