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by neodude 17y ago
One of the questions you need to ask is: what you are going to do with all that data? If all you need is to store the data and never read it again except sequentially, then flat log files are probably the best way. But if you ever need to,
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by neodude 17y ago
Iridesco, the company behind Harvest (a time-tracking app), also made something similar, called Coop - http://coopapp.com
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by neodude 17y ago
I'm Thomas, and I work at New Relic. I wore a green jacket. New Relic is looking for Rails engineers, so give me a ping if you're interested.
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SF Revolution Cafe HN Meetup
9 points by neodude 17y ago|7 comments
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by neodude 18y ago
and 100x the market?
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by neodude 18y ago
So you're saying that randomly hooking up with many people is like BitTorrent?
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by neodude 18y ago
I'm taking the summer quarter off from Monday, so I'll see what happens. I definitely agree with your grandfather, though - I have been in college for two years, and I've witnessed the polishing on myself. I've been talking to a lot (4+) of
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by neodude 18y ago
Could it just be that college doesn't really fit me? I have learnt some self-discipline, actually. I'm sitting down, but I'm not working. Everything takes 10 times longer than it should, and every minute is very painful. I can count on two
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by neodude 18y ago
I think I'm more idealistic than that - I've spent a lot of effort trying to get a degree, and I just don't see the point in it. When I don't win the lottery, the tentative plan is to hang around and badger startups until they let me do stu
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by neodude 18y ago
What if you have no time to throw ideas against the wall because it takes all your effort + time to do college work? It's a safe place, but very, very painful to be in. I'm in the process of throwing an idea against the wall right now, we'l
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by neodude 18y ago
Yup - I've heard that I would have liked Oxbridge very much. Apparently they just give you the syllabus and a reading list and meet you once a week to keep you on track? If I had known that when I was choosing colleges, I'd have jumped at i
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by neodude 18y ago
Oh. Well, I know nothing about MIT. I was discouraged from applying there because they don't have good financial aid - for international students. It turns out I'm not international after all, but who knew. I quite liked english literature,
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by neodude 18y ago
I think 'doing things my way' probably defines me as a person - if anything, college has shown me that I absolutely flat out will not do it not my way - at least, without some serious, serious self-grinding. The CS classes have been good, b
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by neodude 18y ago
I'm a CS and math major already, but I'm at a liberal arts college. I've learnt a lot forcing myself to write english literature papers, but I think I'd have fared better, academically, if I just went to MIT.
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by neodude 18y ago
I think I have the skills. And I have some runway to burn (savings, that is). I actually have an idea that a friend and I have been working on for a while. I'm not satisfied with it yet - but it's getting closer, with each mulling, I think.
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by neodude 18y ago
The problem: this wonderful time of college is being dragged through the mud by my resistance to doing the work required (less for the CS, though). It's incredibly painful, not to mention cutting significantly into time to do anything at al
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Ask HN: Why shouldn't I drop out of college to do a startup?
8 points by neodude 18y ago|24 comments
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by neodude 18y ago
Perhaps he repeated himself for effect? I certainly found the repetition effective.
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by neodude 18y ago
Me too. I found it fascinating. I also didn't read it for school, but ironically 'borrowed' one of the copies from the English class that was currently studying it.
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by neodude 18y ago
Trick the mind, not the person. Symbolism may convey something you can't understand through normal conversation.
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by neodude 18y ago
If your 4 year tenure is absolutely non-negotiable (or if you're not ready), then fiddle - let your hacker instincts take you places. Learn a scripting language (python ruby etc), write a blog, dissect apps, join an opensource project.. Aft
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by neodude 18y ago
What about WebKit and Darwin, to name a few?
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by neodude 18y ago
I go to an Ivy League school, but not Yale - one of the lesser well-known ones. There are certainly people here who have "arrived", and are skating across, partying, until they get their job at Wall Street, but there are some genuinely inte
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by neodude 18y ago
Thanks for the advice. It rings very true - lately, I've begun to bias for good profs, and good profs only. They make everything worthwhile. Actually, I'm taking intro to islam this summer quarter, from a really good prof (though some say h
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by neodude 18y ago
I'm trying to, and planning to, take as many hard, hard courses at college as possible, for precisely that reason. When is the next time in my life when someone will hold me accountable to learn something really hard? I don't think it'll ha
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by neodude 18y ago
This is a very good case for trying something.
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by neodude 18y ago
Not sure. Probably because I tried a few times and was bored - and just wanted to get back and do stuff. But I get your point. Thank you.
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by neodude 18y ago
You're right. I'm also depicting the social organization - and my resistance towards it - in rather polarizing terms. A large part of the problem is choosing socializing over doing something fun/interesting, which I've learnt, only a while
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by neodude 18y ago
No, I meant the other way round - is it feasible not to get a job out of college? I was thinking the startup route, but again, that idea is still the vague-move-to-Valley plan.
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by neodude 18y ago
Not intending to get a job or get married (is the former actually feasible?), but will keep your advice in mind. I'm trying to get out hiking and climbing (I'm in the northeast), but (this) college is so much work.

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