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Advice for PhD students(seas.upenn.edu)
2 points by npk 19y ago|1 comments
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by npk 19y ago
Hmm, this is an interesting take on graduate school. I'm not convinced that graduate school is the only or best way to accomplish your goals. Why not move out to CA and join a startup? Assuming you mean a PhD, I'll give you the following
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by npk 19y ago
To paraphrase a famous college saying: "Read the five posts above yours; read the five posts below yours; only one of you will have a successful company." Do what I do. Don't worry about retiring :) But if I did hit it big, I'd probably d
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by npk 19y ago
Ahh, I didn't see that link. Consequently, this posting should be deleted.
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by npk 19y ago
Often, if i click on an url enclosed in parens ( http://www.cnn.com) the url includes the trailing paren, and leads to a 404 error.
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Bug Fix/Feature Request- Remove trailing ")" in url
11 points by npk 19y ago|6 comments
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by npk 19y ago
This sounds like the beginning of a new type of "computer language shootout." Somebody: 1) Defines an application, all apps have to spit out the same HTML (or roughly the same.) 2) Solicits codes from a number of different languages/framew
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by npk 19y ago
Though you didn't ask for it, here's my advice: try to put yourself in other peoples shoes. Jessica's not saying she stole granola bars, because they are there for her to take. She's actually complementing google, and telling her audienc
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by npk 19y ago
I'm assuming you're young. Please look at other posts, and compare them to your own. You probably don't realize that you're presenting yourself poorly. I say this with good intentions: When I was a 15 year old, I posted a totally inane
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by npk 19y ago
1B views=5M$ is an approximation to first order. I'm sure I could be convinced the CPM is off by a factor of 5. However, there's got to be a fairly hard minimum sales/month for an IPO: I didn't know it was $60M/year. If your goal is to fo
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by npk 19y ago
The result presented in this article is fascinating. If you're going to support your business through pure advertising, you need 1B hits/month to make $5M/month. Clearly there's a linear relationship. This is an interesting fact.
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by npk 19y ago
I'm so curious about this subject. Is there something worth reading to learn more? Ultimately, I want to understand why you came to the decisions you did. Short term questions: Are disk updates performed immediately? Is there a separate
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by npk 19y ago
Ok, here's the obvious follow-up question: What DB does news.YC use?
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by npk 19y ago
It's a platitude. The full quotation and context is here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/10/17.html I read the "very senior Microsoft developer"'s point as something like: because if statements are so fundamental, most lowly MS
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by npk 19y ago
ced - "Bayesian Theory" is more than just a formula, it's a way of thinking. A beautiful book exists on this subject, "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms" by David Mackay, which you can read for free online. Granted, th
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by npk 19y ago
My personal experience is the contrary. In fact, I found this article eye-opening, which is funny, because the result seems so obvious. It seems most people who join social networking sites are essentially voyeurs, and this has consequence
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Extrasolar Planet Prediction Market(oklo.org)
2 points by npk 20y ago|0 comments
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by npk 20y ago
This seems to be a follow on to http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=13177. After reading this essay several years ago, I started asking all visiting professors, "What are the important problems in your field?" (I'm a PhD student in A
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by npk 20y ago
Ok: This seems useful, but I don't fully understand it. Are you saying that the VCs will force you to take a high salary, so that they can take a bigger chunk of your company?
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by npk 20y ago
All - This is an important question, and one that may have not been answered. To the people who say you can take a $150K salary: how sure are you? ($300K seems wildly excessive to me, as CEOs of 400M corporations don't make that much in s
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by npk 20y ago
You may consider posting your application on the web, and asking people here to read it. I have never applied for investor funding, but I believe that I could give constructive feedback. You will expose yourself to the risk of theft. On th
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by npk 20y ago
All - I'm not posing my question properly, only chris_i and neilc seem to understand my question. A lot of people present software implementations, but the choice of an implementation is step 5, and I'm still hung up on step 2 :) I'm tryin
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by npk 20y ago
Suppose the application was gmail? Obviously, one big sqlite DB is not going to cut it. Someone, somewhere on here, mentioned having a sqlite DB for each user. I can't imagine this is what gmail does. It may have worked in the case of v
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by npk 20y ago
This post is a follow on to: http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=10001 Paul Buchheit @ startup school told us to put our heavily accessed, small data, in hash-tables kept in RAM. Paul Graham mentions viaweb used the FreeBSD fs as its
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Follow on: Use DBMS or fs?
4 points by npk 20y ago|12 comments
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by npk 20y ago
I'd love to tell you what I'm trying to do: But I'm not really sure yet. Clearly, it's hard to ask for advice on an issue that's not fully fleshed out. It's just that so many webapps today need to have user authentication/profile managemen
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by npk 20y ago
The power of the internet today is the social component. It seems silly to spend resources reinventing the wheel. Does it make sense to use Facebook's developer toolkit? 1) Should you worry that you're relying on the infrastructure of ano
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Q: Is it better to use Facebook's developer toolkit, or roll your own?
2 points by npk 20y ago|7 comments