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by r0naa 12y ago
> They are, however, often poorly presented. I got tired of that problem, so I am working on making it easier to get better exposure during hackathon presentations even if the presenter is not amazing at pitching. I think that hackathons
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by r0naa 12y ago
This is funny because whenever I get into an argument on HH about the "true" meaning of the term hacker I end-up posting this link to catb. It usually ends up with me being called a nostalgic conservative. tl;dr: Apparently I am 1
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by r0naa 12y ago
I think that this is from "From Zero to One" but I am not 100% sure.
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by r0naa 12y ago
Spot on. Jeff Dean was a judge at TreeHacks but some of the top prizes where shitty hacks (App to wake up or something). Most of the prized hacks were really impressive though and involved a lot of engineering. I was really excited about
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by r0naa 12y ago
I was a little disturbed by that as well, I don't think that this is appropriate or funny.
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by r0naa 12y ago
That's a really neat hack, love it.
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by r0naa 12y ago
> Well, as above, he did say "choose an idea that avoids competition at all costs" and joined YC thus avoiding competition by joining. Following your reasoning there should be no tech startups and everyone should join Google, F
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by r0naa 12y ago
To be fair, PT has never said that dropping out of college was for everyone. If you take a closer look at the past and current Thiel Fellow, you will notice that they often come from the same top schools (i.e Stanford, Harvard, MIT, CMU, Wa
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by r0naa 12y ago
She did not say that, this is intellectual dishonesty. Obviously they did not weight her essays very heavily and she got in because they saw a bright, dedicated woman who had entrepreneurial aspirations. Chill out and don't be so quick
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by r0naa 12y ago
Hey, I have a growing interest in distributing systems but I am also very interested in programming language theory. I know that I want to become a software engineer but I also like to dabble with research papers. This summer I'll join
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Get your hands dirty with Threads and Semaphore [pdf](see.stanford.edu)
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by r0naa 12y ago
I am studying at Waterloo, I love Pebble and while this is exciting news, I wish they had made the screen's margins thiner. The watch looks like a toy and is certainly not on par (design-wise) with other watches on the market. I hope i
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by r0naa 12y ago
I don't know much about the subject but what about flattr, aren't they trying to solve this problem?
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by r0naa 12y ago
Location: Waterloo, Ontario Remote: OK Willing to relocate: Yes Github: http://github.com/aaronwinter Résumé/CV: http://rely.io/resume.pdf Email: aaron@rely.io I am a University of Waterloo student loo