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by mlchild 13y ago
Interesting—is there something small and replicable that a piece of software could help you do right away? Also, I lump 1) and 3) together in my mind as not-quite-objective, analytic content, but I admit that was poorly expressed.
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by mlchild 13y ago
Most news stories are already being boiled down to < 140 characters by humans. The next frontier in journalism is an explosion in informed, opinionated analysis from multiple perspectives. We're seeing this in sports (Grantland, Dea
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by mlchild 13y ago
I always found the idea of YC's 'secrets' funny, because if there's one organization with its central philosophies laid bare for all to see and consider, it's YC. I wish we had so much detail on the founding princip
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Are iWatch and the New Apple TV Just One Product?(volleythat.com)
2 points by mlchild 13y ago|2 comments
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11 Hard-Won Startup Lessons from a Grizzled Entrepreneur(volleythat.com)
1 points by mlchild 13y ago|0 comments
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by mlchild 13y ago
I like Clayton Christensen's formulation: “Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – yo
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Show HN: Volley – Instagram Meets Instapaper (Instacart just missed the cut)(itunes.apple.com)
3 points by mlchild 13y ago|1 comments
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by mlchild 13y ago
Apologies in advance to Sam Altman—I know writing HN comments is not work. But I had fun answering! Back to the code. _____________________________________________________________ Tell us in one or two sentences something about each founder
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by mlchild 13y ago
Mea culpa for the "ATM machine" error with "MOOC courses."
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by mlchild 13y ago
Just saw Don Norman speak and he said most MOOC courses are way too long and lose most of their students. Seemed like a reasonable design critique.
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Reflections on our YC Interview (podcast)(volleythat.com)
1 points by mlchild 13y ago|0 comments
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Before today's YC interview: Two founders on prep, hopes, fears(volleythat.com)
1 points by mlchild 13y ago|0 comments
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Android ART as potential solution to slow mobile web apps(digitstodollars.com)
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by mlchild 13y ago
I am, to some degree, running the concluding thought experiment in real life—I dropped out of business school to try to build my own company. (Left after one year, at least partial credit?) Some thoughts: —I can't speak to how widespre
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by mlchild 13y ago
One way to make the humanities more attractive might be to dissolve the link between learning to express oneself in words and studying literature. To quote pg, "students are writing not about how a baseball team with a small budget mig
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Reflections on Startup School (Podcast)(uncannyvolley.com)
1 points by mlchild 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is RFS1 Buzzfeed?
1 points by mlchild 13y ago|0 comments
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by mlchild 13y ago
I took the class because it was supposed to be easy and satisfied (then-core) requirements. But I still regularly consider Confucian, Mohist, and, heck, even Han Feizi(an?) philosophy and their applications to daily life. Chinese philosophy
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5S, Clinkle and SV culture, and our parents on a beta (Podcast episode 3)(uncannyvolley.com)
1 points by mlchild 13y ago|0 comments
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by mlchild 13y ago
But you still feel that SV is the power-law best place to start a startup, right?
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Making Money vs. Making Something People Want(uncannyvolley.com)
3 points by mlchild 13y ago|0 comments
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by mlchild 13y ago
Yes, agreed, having used it for 3 months on now, it replaces the visual affordances of shadows, shading, and textures with physics and animation. My key learning so far from building something iOS7-native is that the closer you can make it
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Quitting our jobs/school to learn to code and build—YNC podcast 1.0(whynotcombinator.com)
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by mlchild 13y ago
That's fair, but I think there's more than one causal factor. Of course, the rise in programming in culture plays a role, but I think David Malan might be more important—I shopped CS50 the year before he started and took it a year
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by mlchild 13y ago
"Just do it" is an unactionable platitude, but many athletes still find it inspiring. The push off the cliff is as valuable as the plan for learning how to fly on the way down.
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Show HN: Two newbie founders explore SV from below — Why Not Combinator podcast(whynotcombinator.com)
3 points by mlchild 13y ago|0 comments
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by mlchild 13y ago
Also I clicked the "play" button at the center of the splash page about 8 times before realizing that it was not, in fact, a video, but merely advertising forthcoming videos.
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by mlchild 13y ago
NSLog(@"All the code that's fit to NSLog()");
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by mlchild 13y ago
Whether you agree or disagree with the piece, I think it's perhaps more interesting to try to put together the clues about Marco's next project. My guess would be something like a new publishing standard or system that makes it ea
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A weekly assemblage of startup founders in Palo Alto(whynotcombinator.com)
52 points by mlchild 13y ago|10 comments

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