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by marquis 15y ago
Yes, but that wasn't design related. They had desirable technology and software for the time and they marketed aggressively.
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by marquis 15y ago
Are there any existing startup communities by the beach in Mexico? I can't think of a more ideal way to work for a few months (for those of us without families or who otherwise can't move around).
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by marquis 15y ago
I'd like to note that every single item listed in this is a technical barrier. There are no political barriers, there are no wealth or resource barriers. RF is free to use on the spectrum we need it to work on (ok, until that's illegal). It
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by marquis 15y ago
Guangzhou is also in southern China and noted as a 'city of new wealth', just a guess on my part if factory life and migration is the same (I have no insight on this whatsoever).
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by marquis 15y ago
For a very good look at life in these cities for workers see Last Train Home, a superb, emotionally-tense documentary following a Chinese family from a farming community as they move to the city for work in a clothing factory (without makin
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by marquis 15y ago
True, I guess that they just look really happy in the photo.
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by marquis 15y ago
>One thing Wei may not appreciate is Sun taking the time to stick rhinestones all around the edge of the casing he so lovingly created What's wrong with her personalising this? That piece of editorialising was unwarranted, I'm sure he w
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by marquis 15y ago
Everytime, I would rather have a potential hire be upfront and honest rather than 1. accept a position, 2. we stop looking, and 3. they drop out. That's just not professional. And as Joel says, by them telling us they have other options we'
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by marquis 15y ago
What an extraordinary woman, and also envious of what must have been an incredible family life with Carl and her brilliant sons.
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by marquis 15y ago
The moment ads are permitted on Wikipedia, advertiser conflict begins. We see this all the time on news sites: unintentionally offensive correlated-ads on content that should be free-standing. I believe the Wikipedia Foundation would agree
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by marquis 15y ago
>the war on culture sharing What a powerful concept as an anti-dote to 'war on file-sharing'.
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by marquis 15y ago
I've spent time on mesh networks for disaster recovery efforts, I consider myself fairly technical when it comes to wireless networks, and it's a damn hard problem to solve. Even with some great gear, things drop off the network all the tim
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by marquis 15y ago
There's also a lot more to learn and possibly more confusing. In 'my day' it was just CGI with MySQL, Apache and perl, then comes Java, then along came PHP then Python, Ruby, now there is JQuery and Redis and Hadoop and.. and on HN now you
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by marquis 15y ago
I also love Grooveshark, so much that I wish they'd put blocks on how much you can play for free to get more income. I often forget to log in, have adblocker on by default and after a few hours realise I've been using their service complete
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by marquis 15y ago
Reach out to someone you trust and ask for an introduction. Imagine: in a year, with some advice, you'll be so much further along than having to try and figure everything out for yourself. A mentor can just be someone you trust who will lis
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by marquis 15y ago
So we should be teaching those new to this, that it's ok to stop and say 'this is hard, i need perspective'. This is not helped by the cult of the founder that is lauded: the strong-willed and headstrong leader who has 100% confidence in he
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by marquis 15y ago
An issue for me with startup names is that they have absolutely no relation to what they do. How many times I have found a great service on HN, only to try and remember what it was a month later and for the life of me it could be any one of
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by marquis 15y ago
Is this particularly endemic to start-up culture? University was also extremely demanding and brought many people to their knees. And while on the one hand, you may work harder than you ever had in your life, you are working for yourself, y
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by marquis 15y ago
There are also a lot of young people being brought up conservative. I don't believe conservatism is going to magically disappear after a few generations, we can only hope that exposure to global cultures build tolerance: to spread global cu
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by marquis 15y ago
This story was heartbreaking. How frustrating it is to be bound to our own shortsightedness, and worse - to know it.
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by marquis 15y ago
Stealth mode right now, it's a niche market but lots of fun.
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by marquis 15y ago
>check out Etsy’s gift recommendation page. It’s driven by Facebook. It’s magical. It recommends gifts based on my friends and family’s Facebook behaviors. Where is the inventiveness and joy of surprise, if you are relying on recommenda
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by marquis 15y ago
I'm constantly telling a good friend of mine who is a co-founder of a start-up NOT to learn to code. He's absolutely brilliant in his field (a technical but non-CS field) and while he wishes he could code up his ideas I've directed him to d
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by marquis 15y ago
I was just talking about doing this with friends every friday, we all love to cook and show off - it makes me spend a week investigating food preparation to impress. I've been in cities before where groups of friends have an open night once
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by marquis 15y ago
Yes, that's a good point: to not be afraid of computers. I think I had a myopic moment where not all parents are technically savvy and apps are a way of engaging kids in having a technical culture from an early age.
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by marquis 15y ago
My 4 year old nephew knows all the tool names in our workshop and what they are for. But I give him an iPad and he's honestly bored, even with story books - he's just not engaged and I'm not going to spend money on iPad apps for him. I'm op
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by marquis 15y ago
So from a technical perspective it can be interesting, but perhaps ultimately knowing all you are doing is keeping a massive finance system from falling over, and processing data as quickly as possible, day in, day out.. may become a little
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by marquis 15y ago
Just to advance that thought from my own perspective: she may have believed that language is rich and various. It's easy to revert to such simple words but it takes an adventurous mind to consider other forms of expression. Think of it as a
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by marquis 15y ago
>the assumption is that you are a cookie cutter, untalented programmer What is it exactly that a finance programmer does? I've honestly no idea and would love to know out of curiosity.
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by marquis 15y ago
Won't wall street then just start outsourcing development to start-ups (and consequently, start-ups who focus on this lucrative market)? I don't see how shifting the talent around will stop the finance sector from developing new tech.

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