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The iPhone Won't Do Well in China(markjournal.com)
2 points by markbao 17y ago|1 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
Because it was created under the server/network enterprise IT management company AdventNet (which now changed its name to Zoho Corp., and AdventNet's stuff is now under ManageEngine.) So basically, some intrapreneurship happened, funded by
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TechCrunch50 Panel: Don Dodge, Paul Graham, Jason Hirschhorn, Mike Schroepfer(techcrunch.com)
5 points by markbao 17y ago|0 comments
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Curiosity HN: Is there a study on patterns in "random" numbers people pick?
6 points by markbao 17y ago|3 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
Complete and utter shit. Entertaining, but it smears both entrepreneurs and VCs/angels, with insulting offers and dramatized acting. Dragon's Den isn't much better, either. It just has worse startups.
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by markbao 17y ago
> For a long time, I thought my calling was in medicine. Sometimes, when I read about interesting new research in neroscience, I wonder what would have happened if I had continued studying medicine. Who knows? I feel exactly the same
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Disruption and My Next Startup... You Help Decide(jasonlbaptiste.com)
45 points by markbao 17y ago|43 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
Co-founders, like women, are often found randomly. I found two of mine on Hacker News. They rock.
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by markbao 17y ago
Hi! TickrTalk is hiring a Rails developer. http://startuply.com/Jobs/Ruby_on_Rails_XHTML_CSS_and_Javasc... I'm also hiring sales reps for another one of my startups, Classleaf. http://startuply.com/Jobs/Part_Time_sale_Sales_Professional_
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by markbao 17y ago
Oh, I definitely agree with you there. I hate the ASK HN: REVIEW MY URL SHORTENER STARTUP and related.
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by markbao 17y ago
I've had my fair share of websites. I don't consider, for example, http://speakhq.com a startup. At all. Whereas I do consider http://ramamia.com a startup, and http://tickrtalk.com a startup (funded and in dev), and http://classleaf
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by markbao 17y ago
The way I see it, high school doesn't really teach content, it teaches learning, which we've been learning (cout << recursive_meta_joke) for about eight years now. The second thing that high school gives is a one-year introduction t
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by markbao 17y ago
> Teenagers are inherently highly capable young adults I'm currently a teenager. This is mostly false. -- On a serious note, interesting idea. It won't happen, since the US education system (and the public sector in general) is not open
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by markbao 17y ago
Yes, http://avecora.com , http://ramamia.com , http://tickrtalk.com , http://classleaf.com , http://adaptance.com , and http://debateware.com
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Portland, Oregon, is (one of the) most entrepreneurial towns in the world(siliconflorist.com)
42 points by markbao 17y ago|39 comments
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How To Live (Comfortably) on $36 A Month For Food(andrewhyde.net)
137 points by markbao 17y ago|132 comments
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When Business Alliances Become Ugly: Apple and Google Edition(markjournal.com)
2 points by markbao 17y ago|0 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
BK/PC submitted their last RMSE 2009-07-25 15:53:34, three hours before The Ensemble. If they can hit the Ballmer Peak or otherwise beat the Ensemble RMSE before tomorrow morning, it should be very interesting.
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by markbao 17y ago
One thing's for sure: BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos is going to get shitfaced tonight.
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by markbao 17y ago
http://xkcd.com/605/
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by markbao 17y ago
Notable that the GPU seemed to run far faster than the CPU for these calculation instances. I think many of the low Hamming achievers used Nvidia GPUs using CUDA which ran up to 700 million hashes per second (seeing the tesla machine in t
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Why Seed Funding Isn't A Regional Business(jasonlbaptiste.com)
16 points by markbao 17y ago|9 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
My startup Classleaf http://classleaf.com leaves it up to the teachers to put in homework and tests and whatnot. (Also has email notifications in the development version, which can be sent to regular sms.) I had a failed startup called St
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by markbao 17y ago
Ah, no problem. Thank you!
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by markbao 17y ago
College social experience, connections, academics, and excuse to be in NYC (that is, if I get into my top choice NYU)
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Microsoft Has Turned The Corner(minimsft.blogspot.com)
46 points by markbao 17y ago|38 comments
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by markbao 17y ago
Yeah, that'd be it! Nice promo.
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by markbao 17y ago
Oh, hey, cool. I heard about Webbynode with the video that RailsEnvy did documenting the reasons to use it (which I found on Rubyflow). Can't seem to find it right now, but really liked the features. We're on Linode right now, but looking a
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by markbao 17y ago
I'm trying to develop my own mobile device. Going to be fun. Intel Atom 1.6ghz, Ubuntu-based, hopefully some kind of 5" capitative touch, software written in Qt/C++ (for lack of a better framework/X drawing option). http://avecora.com Als
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by markbao 17y ago
Wow, this is awesome! Tested it on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=692672 if you need a quick test subject. Worked really well. (+1 for fitting in with the color scheme.)

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