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by marcus 19y ago
Congrats guys, I have 2 requests: 1) Get a Linux version out, it shouldn't take too long as you developed the thing using Python (not sure what OS specific bindings you have) 2) Add support for LAN connections, when two boxes sit on the sam
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by marcus 19y ago
A PS3 is probably the best bang per buck computing power you can buy for tasks that can be parallelized. Quite a few scientists use a small cluster of PS3 for their data crunching.
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by marcus 19y ago
So don't strip them indiscriminately, have the HN site compare submitted pages it gets by dropping them one by one to the original link, only maintain those that actually affect the resulting page.
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by marcus 19y ago
I think they have a name for those... wait for it... they're called users
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by marcus 19y ago
The solution is to have a karma cost for voting on a submission/comment that isn't upvoted enough (for example doesn't make the 40th percentile) or to finally add downmod for submissions and make you pay for supporting something the communi
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by marcus 19y ago
Because we have almost no editors, we police ourselves and if the community grows too rapidly it can lose focus, if tomorrow we'll be featured on Oprah this site will lose everything I love about it. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etern
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by marcus 19y ago
You need to impress the hacker with your understanding of the market, quality of ideas, commitment, background/experience and above all intelligence. Convince him that the work will be challenging and interesting. The generous stock options
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by marcus 19y ago
When your company has hundreds of workers, you're right it isn't going to fail because of one bad hire, although one bad hire can lead to slow bozofication of your workforce, I know companies where you can quite accurately predict how many
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by marcus 19y ago
Multitask in classes that are a waste of your time, I used to review contracts, write code, go over the finances of the biz and do homework in classes. Condense your school work to a single day in the week or two consecutive days, I juggled
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by marcus 19y ago
That is the problem that plagues Lisp and to a lesser degree other powerful languages, because you can develop things so quickly and express yourself easily, a lot of code is single use, throwaway code. No one bothers with developing a libr
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by marcus 19y ago
Of course you wouldn't uppercase a string using RPC that's what you have map reduce for... split that string into chars send each node a single char to uppercase and combine the results you get back. And they said programmers have a tendenc
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by marcus 19y ago
Nice job, 3 comments 1) If I fill a time in 24 hour format for example 23:00 you need to parse it correctly and understand its 11pm. 2) Let me add users to an event I already created. 3) Let me add people's IM instead of email. Especially c
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by marcus 19y ago
I already trust Google with my medical information, whenever my doctor tells me I have something, I always run home and Google it.
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by marcus 19y ago
I agree with one exception, DRM that is designed to keep a company's trade secrets secret. Encountered a few startups building DRM for that purpose and I have to say that I don't find it offensive. Data leakage is a serious problem for many
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by marcus 19y ago
Even their particular implementations may not be owned, only patented and patents may be owned. A patent is a temporary monopoly granted by the state, in exchange for the release to the general public knowledge of the mechanism and best pr
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by marcus 19y ago
I thought all VCs used a magic 8ball as standard divination tool.
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by marcus 19y ago
If they really wanted to create value through AI prediction of success based on social connections, they should have leveraged LinkedIn Accounts instead of trying to create a new social network. A lot of people already have their network in
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by marcus 19y ago
EU antitrust litigation involving MS Office lack of interoperability , they were already fined 613M USD.
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by marcus 19y ago
Well it is a picnic, a picnic in the park, Jurassic park that is.
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by marcus 19y ago
Yeah, that'll work too. The point is that you need to leverage someone else's work to do it. Focus on your core, find shortcuts for everything else.
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by marcus 19y ago
It's a wild guess but I would have used COM access to the word.dll to convert it to a more reasonable format. Again, a wild guess but that is how I would have done it, trying to reverse engineer formats as bloated as the office formats is g
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by marcus 19y ago
From my experience in most startups (2/3) spend the first 4 months almost entirely on programming. Later stages are obviously more balanced as other activities begin to take the spotlight. So according to your stats you get a 25% improvemen
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by marcus 19y ago
If your tolerance for risk is low (for example because you have a family to support) join a startup as one of the early employees, you still get a percentage of the wealth you generate and have almost all of the "security" of working for an
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by marcus 19y ago
They missed the most important question: 26) Do you really want to be working for someone else? A smart friend of mine once told me, when you're an employee you are generating wealth for someone else, when you're an entrepreneur you are gen
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by marcus 19y ago
Assuming that a significant portion of your time in a software startup is spent programming, a language that makes you twice as productive means you can try twice as many ideas, or develop the same software and free half your time for findi
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by marcus 19y ago
I just use Octave (open source implementation of Matlab)
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by marcus 19y ago
I'm sorry to inform you but you don't get to keep your color if your karma drops below 250... although it is saved and it pops back when your karma passes 250 again. (already did the experiment :) )
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by marcus 19y ago
Ashamed of those hours in front of msdn.microsoft.com?
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by marcus 19y ago
Don't worry about surviving the digg effect just add memcache, worry about building the application rapidly, cleanly and being comfortable with the codebase.
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by marcus 19y ago
Just wanted to tell you that you are on the right path, track everything, every stage, optimize the pitfalls.

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