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by omnivore 18y ago
I'm in a similar boat, was mulling over it hard because of the economy and people having problems finding jobs, but the last time I went out on my own, I made it work and I had a lot less going for me back then. So I felt like there was no
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by omnivore 18y ago
10-15 years? There will be something better and more cutting edge in the marketplace. These things move too fast to become venerable and established and it seems unlikely that's what the founders intended anyway. But that said, your idea po
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by omnivore 18y ago
It'd be cheaper to get your degree via CLEP, DANTES and GRE Subject tests and get a degree from Excelsior College, Charter Oak State College or Thomas Edison State College, the only three regionally accredited schools that don't have a resi
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by omnivore 18y ago
High interest loans would likely get defaulted on, as $100k isn't very much money for someone who has a house, good credit or a co-signer who can help them get more. It'd be a small sector of people who'd qualify and among those, they'd eit
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A job board for hackers and passionate people.(needastartup.com)
1 points by omnivore 18y ago|1 comments
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by omnivore 18y ago
Coffee shops ftw. It's like having a ton of offices, all around town.
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by omnivore 18y ago
The author of this post is the same person who created the site to get hired by Twitter. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510591 ) The timing of this post and the visibility of it, really, really stinks.
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by omnivore 18y ago
I've always thought they should lower suffrage to kids who can drive, but...it's not going to happen.
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by omnivore 18y ago
Balance. Switching jobs and moving up each time you do it. But that really depends on your industry and timing. Developing projects that can get you up and working for yourself, rather than those that take inordinate amounts of time/money a
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by omnivore 18y ago
Oh and the whole idea is damn clever. She's going to get a job out of it, probably better than the one she's targeting.
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by omnivore 18y ago
It wasn't that deep a comment, at all. It was more like, she's a girl who wants to work a technical company but doesn't have discernible technical skills that she's touting. But as someone mentions downthread, she's just applying to be the
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by omnivore 18y ago
Nope. For that, you'd have to go to her personal blog..and even there, you don't get much. Blame Penelope Trunk. She creates these monsters.
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by omnivore 18y ago
But she's not CS. She's like "breathing girl who wants to play with the boys at the cool company." That's the irony of the thing.
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Girl wants to work for Twitter. Creates site. (twittershouldhireme.com)
52 points by omnivore 18y ago|60 comments
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Could Customized Newspapers Bring Readers Back? (nytimes.com)
3 points by omnivore 18y ago|2 comments
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by omnivore 18y ago
Is this a "real" acquisition or is it some sort of "join our team and I'll pay you" swap? I always wonder about these things...
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Viperball: Creating an open source sport(307ceo.com)
1 points by omnivore 18y ago|0 comments
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by omnivore 18y ago
Me too. I'd have found a way to make it cheaper. I'd already figure out how to network and how to leverage it to make it work for me and yet, I subsidized their game for longer because I wanted access to a school with small classes and pers
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by omnivore 18y ago
You nailed it. I'm about 5 miles from Plainfield.
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by omnivore 18y ago
If more kids go to SUNY, fewer kids are going to pricey liberal arts colleges like Ithaca, Hobart & William Smith or out of state public schools in Jersey or Connecticut. They probably didn't get offered any academic aid at those privat
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by omnivore 18y ago
I work in higher ed and I can tell you that schools are doing pretty much anything they can to stop the bleeding. Some are lowering tuition, others are freezing and the majority are raising it in small amounts. But given there's no where el
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by omnivore 18y ago
I think public transportation in the NYC area makes the "sprawl" into Jersey, Connecticut or even parts of PA not so bad. Hailing from that region, but living now in the western outskirts of Chicagoland, I can attest to the very strange dif
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by omnivore 18y ago
Online news can be localized. Forums like these can be easily retrofitted for the hyper local and give people lots of things relevant to their area, rather than having to sift through the trash of news to find the morsels you want.
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Responding to the myth that entreprenuers don't need college(307ceo.com)
6 points by omnivore 18y ago|0 comments
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by omnivore 18y ago
You're not supposed to do anything. But like all things, opportunities exist to do something beyond the ordinary. Look for openings, ways to stand out and to gain experience. College can provide someone who doesn't have their parents contac
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by omnivore 18y ago
These days, I encourage kids to learn how to hack early and then go to a good school and network. If nothing else, the contacts are well worth it. It's not easy to get into the game anymore without the contacts and unless you've got deep po
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by omnivore 18y ago
Not. easy.
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by omnivore 18y ago
And it's a hell of a lot better than working for someone else and letting them take ALL of the credit, while maintaining the inefficient status quo of their existence.
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by omnivore 18y ago
The problem with these posts -- and I liked it -- is that it always simplifies the path to all of this. I think a lot of folks are always missing something. Either they're decent hackers, but don't have partners. Or they're bad hackers and
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by omnivore 18y ago
I've been thinking the same thing but I find that consulting is really based on personal connections and so, that's where I've always got mine. Which makes it harder in leaner times to get anything done. I've also found that your personal n

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