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by raffi 18y ago
The picture was on boingboing I think. I remember reading it. It wasn't a year ago though. More like within the past three months.
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by raffi 18y ago
I wrote a Java scripting lang that supports continuations. Lots of fun stuff: http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/07/24/fun-with-contin...
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by raffi 18y ago
I don't like pre-interview surveys much. I tend to fill them out biasing against myself which tends to be a disservice to myself and to the employers. To use an example. Lets say I'm considered an expert in a closed pretzel making communi
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by raffi 18y ago
I applied for YC W'09 w/ a software service to add grammar, style, and spell checking to web apps. It wasn't selected. No big deal. I went ahead with full scale development anyways. I have an early beta now and am still working to achie
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by raffi 18y ago
One thing I liked about the military is that we were paid based on time in grade and rank. I at least knew I wasn't being cheated out of something someone else was getting.
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by raffi 18y ago
Ah Apex Designs, I remember when they published this game on the Gameboy Advance. Except they ran into issues with their publisher/distributor. I was living in Europe and was able to buy it via mail order. Its a really fun game with great
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by raffi 18y ago
Shameless plug but I'm working on the user generated content side at http://www.afterthedeadline.com
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by raffi 18y ago
I agree with this. I use third party libraries when its not inconvenient to do so. All the complexity and the kitchen sink that comes with a lot of stuff drives me crazy. For example, when I try to use any Java library from Apache I inev
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by raffi 18y ago
I agree with this. There should be no place for pains in the asses, no matter how smart they think they are. I remember when I was interviewing (seems so long ago), I got to interview with one of these kinds of guys. I felt so belittled
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by raffi 18y ago
I grew up in Detroit (suburbs) and plan to spend a little time there between relocating. My cousin opened a restaurant by the old Tiger stadium and he is doing well. He DJs too and loves the Detroit scene. It has its own culture. Between
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by raffi 18y ago
Congrats on making it this far. Maybe we should start a meetup or support group for hackers who quit their jobs to find their entrepreneurial selves. I just had my one year anniversary six days ago. Oh how time flies. I left the military
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by raffi 18y ago
I used PrinceXML to typeset the HTML documentation for my open source scripting language Sleep into a book. You can see the results at: http://sleep.dashnine.org/download/sleep21manual.pdf (result) and http://sleep.dashnine.org/manual
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by raffi 18y ago
This is a repost of one of my old comments: I highly recommend reading: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=198 Peldi's advice and the links he give are dead on. I pitched bloggers before reading this and got a zero response rate. Then I adju
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by raffi 18y ago
I didn't read the article but I'll be honest... I'm really thankful for my education. I taught myself programming when I was young and I thought I knew everything when I went to college. I was thankfully proved wrong. College forced me t
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by raffi 18y ago
My plan: 1. Attack a hard problem. 2. ... 3. Profit! Once I refine and prove this technology, I expect it will open the doors to bigger things like integration with hosted platforms that want to differentiate themselves.
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by raffi 18y ago
I submitted this yesterday and pulled it after 20 minutes. This was written in jest to capture my feelings the day before I announced my product here.
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If my startup fails, this is my cover letter for my next employer(killall.dashnine.org)
94 points by raffi 18y ago|17 comments
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by raffi 18y ago
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your thoughts. If you'd like to discuss integration email me, raffi@dashnine.org. I'll have to try out Safari 4 and see what happens. I agree the price structure is a bit of a wag. I'm really trying to leave it op
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by raffi 18y ago
:) Either you're asking this because I look more established than I am or you're asking because it looks really trivial. I find both of these extremes hard to believe. Whats on your mind?
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by raffi 18y ago
Thats not good. What version of Wordpress are you using? The process should be simple, i.e. after you active the plugin it shows a notice saying "hey enter your API key" at the top of every admin page until you do it. I just upgraded and
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by raffi 18y ago
I have a massive fear of launching (just did it 1.5 hours ago). Before launching I wrote this cover letter to my "future employers" to help relieve some of the tension: http://killall.dashnine.org/2009/02/i-may-need-a-new-job-bec...
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by raffi 18y ago
Quotes are tricky to deal with. I'll note this as a bug and fix it. I'm sure you can imagine NLP isn't trivial and without "launching" there was only so much I'd catch on my own. Will get on these issues though! I know whats causing the
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Ask HN: Review my startup, After the Deadline - Proofreading Plugin for Wordpress, TinyMCE, etc.(afterthedeadline.com)
30 points by raffi 18y ago|15 comments
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by raffi 18y ago
I really like Write to the Point by Bill Stott. Agreed that every hacker should work to improve themselves as writers.
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by raffi 18y ago
I worked with one startup on an equity only basis, and it didn't even finish getting started. Here are some of my thoughts on what you're asking: 1. You are a startup that isn't even started yet. No matter how many pieces are in place, the
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by raffi 18y ago
Wow, ThomasVail, account created 9 days ago with 1 submission. This is an impressive rant. I like Wordpress, I haven't tried DevHub, and I'm sure the things you're saying are true. It might help to let folks know your stake in this as: Tho
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by raffi 18y ago
I missed the equity bit when I looked at the post. My main point is many of us see through inflated titles and some (myself included) perceive them negatively.
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by raffi 18y ago
Mmm... in the military I got thrown into so many teams in real and artificial environments. Its amazing how much culture matters. Beware, if you're the dominant personality, the culture is going to reflect your personality. i.e. if you'r
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by raffi 18y ago
I'm going to follow the rule of not saying anything I wouldn't say if you were right here. So pretend we're having a beer: I have to agree with fizx, I thought this was misleading. I wouldn't consider myself a cofounder without equity. I
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by raffi 18y ago
Rather than beat up your site, I'll take a stab at answering your question: I highly recommend reading: http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=198 Peldi's advice and the links he give are dead on. I pitched bloggers before reading this and got

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