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by mirsadm 14y ago
In my opinion the success of Apple with the more recent products is the only reason most people tolerated his shitty behaviour. It is easy to stay positive when everything is going so well.
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by mirsadm 14y ago
It's hard to take anybody seriously when they write "M$". Reminds me of people still using the "Windows crashes" argument as a reason to use Linux.
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by mirsadm 14y ago
I met these guys at work at a startup. Before meeting them I had an overwhelming desire to punch them in the face when I heard they founded SocialCam. In reality they are really nice and congrats on the sale!
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by mirsadm 14y ago
I have been travelling Canada while working on my startup. This has been great so far. My friend took this idea to the extreme and has been travelling around Europe for 3 years in a motorhome. He's earnt enough money to keep going pretty mu
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by mirsadm 14y ago
In Melbourne, Australia the wait is over 2 hours and they don't have toilets in the building. Once you pass the many security checkpoints you can't leave until you get your visa. Pretty funny watching everybody run out after they get their
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by mirsadm 14y ago
I have flights booked from Toronto. I'm pretty excited.
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by mirsadm 14y ago
At another company I went for an interview, got an offer and quit my current job. All seemed fine until I got a call a few days later from a HR person that started with "now that you have passed the first round of interviews". Luckily I had
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Personally when applying for a start-up I would never go through recruiters. I don't want to go through that process. I rather meet with the company in person over coffee and show them the work I've done and discuss things like that. If it
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by mirsadm 15y ago
At the end of the day YC is just a business with the same goal as every other, to make money. They pick people and ideas aligned with their own interests. It also seems to be that a large part of it is to find companies that are easy to pi
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Thanks for the kind feedback! Unfortunately the time that (I think) they looked at the web site we didn't have the scheduler implemented! We're located in Melbourne, Australia. I was a senior software engineer before and so was my co-founde
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by mirsadm 15y ago
We applied with http://www.musicfilmcomedy.com :).
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by mirsadm 15y ago
We didn't get an interview either! Bummer..we were hoping for an interview as we both have quit our jobs + had senior software positions previously. What kind of teams/people did you guys apply with?
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I hope your being sarcastic! YC is only one opportunity among many.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
That is a big problem with the wavelet based approaches. They tend to be tuned for impressive PSNR numbers which doesn't always correspond well to perceptual image quality. I haven't seen that article in a while and he raised many valid poi
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I think it is all still a little sketchy. There's a lot of uncertainty regarding the patents so most people seem to just stay away from it.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
The difference between the Panda and RasPI is pretty significant (as it should be given the price difference). Per clock the Panda is faster as it is based on the Cortex A9. It is also clocked at 1.2 ghz vs 700mhz for the RasPI. I wouldn't
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by mirsadm 15y ago
WebP support transparency with lossy compression which is a huge advantage over JPEG. When I was studying image compression back at university we wrote a whole bunch of lossy/lossless codecs. The issue is that most of the cool algorithms ar
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I always find this sort of stuff undesirable. For giving up hours of your time over a few months they are giving away $100 worth of software. If they want valuable feedback from people older than 15 then it might be worthwhile providing bet
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by mirsadm 15y ago
We also made a schedule/planner for Coachella here: http://t.co/6wr61E3e It shows recommendations and you can print/share your schedule. Much more useful than what the guys on the forums are doing (sharing Excel sheets!)
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I'm sorry but this is the most ridiculous thing I've read on HN in a while. Those lyrics are hilarious and if they inspire you do do anything significant in your life then you need to step back and re-examine a few things in your life.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I signed up (we applied for YC). Having gone through the hassle of finding a place in a few places recently it is a huge pain in the ass. This is a great idea but I'm not sure we'd be able to commit to a 6 month contract.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
You can already buy ARM based dev kits from Nvidia, TI etc. They're much more powerful and suited towards that sort of goal (and more expensive). Edit: for eg http://pandaboard.org/
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by mirsadm 15y ago
If they're successful then it sounds like both of you have identified a real problem. Competition is good so their launch may have confirmed your business model.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Personally I disagree with him on those points. He may view games as an art form, and some certainly are. The problem is I don't have time to invest into deep and philosophical games anymore. I use to spend hundreds of hours playing/investi
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I really meant to say technically just a platformer. Braid is much more than that as a game but in terms of technical complexity it isn't all that complex. Even the creator says they had the actual gameplay/mechanics sorted out very quickly
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by mirsadm 15y ago
I agree with you but I think with big studio games it isn't always the case. The graphics can carry a mediocre game very far. On the other extreme they can crush a really fun game if it doesn't look "current generation" or has other technic
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by mirsadm 15y ago
With games like Braid you can afford to do that because as cool as the game is, it's just a platformer. Big production games don't have the same luxury as most reviews will focus on graphics/sound etc. If it runs like crap and looks average
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by mirsadm 15y ago
Using Chrome as well and I thought it was broken but then I tried it in Firefox and it looks the same. So my guess is it just looks broken to most of us.
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by mirsadm 15y ago
There's a crappy trend of releasing free games on the basis that you need to pay for gold/coins/credits to progress. This totally ruins the game for me. I would rather pay for a full game then the pay-for-progress model. In this case it isn
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by mirsadm 15y ago
This is a project I've been working on for the last few weeks. We'd like to get some feedback from anybody to may be going (or just curious). There are still plenty of issues to be fixed but it should be functional.

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