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by raffi 18y ago
I wouldn't let the lack of a cofounder stop you from trying. If you start on something you can handle on your own, you'll: 1. better understand your strengths (i.e. what you have to offer) 2. better understand your weaknesses (i.e. what yo
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At the end of Feb, I will have gone one year without a job. By choice. I spent that time finishing grad school and working to get some things off the ground. I used to have cold feet and sometimes I really hated my own guts for throwing m
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Oh one other thing about tollfreemax--I use them but can't recommend them. The service is fine once I got going. However the backend user interface is the most awful confusing thing you'll ever encounter. In fact, the whole user experien
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I'm using tollfreemax.com and added a phone number to FeedbackArmy.com weeks ago. I recommend having a phone number and putting it everywhere. I know when I see it, I feel better. No one calls me and I still get a lot of contact through th
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by raffi 18y ago
Forbes.com, Facebook.com, and Hamsterdance.com
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by raffi 18y ago
University of Saarbrucken in Saarland Germany seems to have a lot going on in this area. I'm probably spelling all that wrong. Also look for the LASER summer program that is in Italy each year. Finally, www.lambda-the-ultimate.org is a m
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by raffi 18y ago
I'll avoid me too and agree you should learn these front end technologies. That said, there seems to be a question of how and what underlying your post. I'm not a designer by any stretch of the imagination, still I hope this helps: == XHT
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This thread will go on forever with our tit for tat responses. But thanks for the encouragement! People have written quality content for awhile now, agreed. They did so before the word processor too. My claim is that I will speed up the
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I really like this, so here are my suggestions: 1. When a user joins, if their email address doesn't match an existing school, immediately prompt them for what their school is. It took me some head scratching to realize I had to add my sch
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I just graduated. I don't think you're going to hurt anyone's feelings if you accept any email address and let folks specify their school. This is a great idea though and I hope it gets use.
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One of my challenges is educating my market on the differences. 1) A word processor provides spellcheck, grammar check, and some text enrichment aka style checking. My software provides spellcheck, minor grammar things, and very heavy text
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Its a TinyMCE plugin that talks to a web service I wrote. It does require a proxy script on the server side. My wordpress plugin comes with one of those. Getting ready to go beta with the whole thing soon.
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by raffi 18y ago
I'm debating some of these questions myself. I'm getting ready to launch a software as a service product to add language checking tools to CMSs (i.e. Wordpress). I'd like to offer some sort of free version but the processing I do is very
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by raffi 18y ago
I'll agree with you on the fog, a little. In the US, if a flight gets delayed for Weather, the airline still gets you home somehow. Ryan Air offered to refund my airfare only. As for leaving earlier, I read this statement as "it was your
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by raffi 18y ago
I've put significant work over the past 6 years into an open source programming language called Sleep. I have a small community and I love programming in it and that is enough of a reward to me. That said, I've attracted my critics too: Su
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by raffi 18y ago
I don't find RyanAir charming. I was turned away from my flight for trying to collect a boarding pass 35 minutes before departure at Hahn Airport. Their policy is show up 40 minutes before or no boarding pass. Security wasn't an issue, s
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by raffi 18y ago
I live and work in an apartment and my nextdoor neighbors like to kick it with the good vibrations too. I used to go over there and ask them to turn it down. I've since given up. Now when I hear them kicking it I just start blasting some
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by raffi 18y ago
Also check out http://jircii.dashnine.org an open source irc client I wrote awhile ago. [Another shameless plug] :)
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by raffi 18y ago
I appreciate your rant and I agree with your points. I'm not saying a CS degree is the hardest thing to obtain--it certainly isn't trivial though. Please refrain from attacking an entire field because of a troll.
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"It's childish. It's a childish, semantic game. And it reminds me of him winning the Chinese National Kickboxing Championships by leveraging a little-known rule that people are disqualified if they stop outside the box. So he pushed each of
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by raffi 18y ago
Dr. Dobb's was one of the few magazines with real code on bookshelves. My first publication was in Dr. Dobb's so it'll always be special to me. Shame to see it fade like this.
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by raffi 18y ago
I don't know anything about applying to PhD programs. I would like to add something to point three though: You could grab a research position with the government. Lincoln Labs at Hanscom AFB is associated with MIT for example. If you work
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by raffi 18y ago
I have a lifetime account on livejournal. An LJ friend actually bought it for me (I was very surprised). I love the service and use it as an online diary. It has novelty to those of us who want that. Plus some of us started with it many
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Try subscribing to the computer gigs and jobs section on craigslist for your city and surrounding areas. I watch it for contract jobs in my specialty. I see a lot of web stuff float that way as well.
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by raffi 18y ago
http://www.coderscv.com - a live version of this type of thing. I've been playing with it. Still needs work but it is a step in the right direction. Ben (the guy behind it) is awesome about accepting and implementing suggestions.
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This is smaller. Its probably more comparable to Nachos. Minix is a full featured UNIX with many features TCP/IP, Posix support, etc. That said, I'd rather learn (or possibly teach) from this code over Nachos.
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This didn't really have anything to do with idea and opportunity cost vs. job. It was about cultural differences. I interviewed outside my network (to avoid burning bridges for saying no). At the time--I found the process distasteful as
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When I left the military--I interviewed, outside my network, looking for a tech lead position. During the interviews I emphasized my leadership skills and experiences. I had come from a research background: won funding on my own, executed
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Repost of my comment on rishi's blog: I’ve been subscribed to HARO for awhile now. I got one of my projects featured in a blog about writing and I made a contact that may result in some press around February. It is the real deal. Oh I’ve al

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