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by raffi 18y ago
Thanks for the advice... this story takes place mostly in June. Everything I wrote about feels like ancient history to me now. Once I started moving to my personal plan B I've found a lot of the effects I wrote about reversed quickly. Th
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by raffi 18y ago
When I left the military I had substantial savings to get a startup off the ground and finish a graduate degree. I decided to write software to help people write better. I always had issues with my own writing as was excited about an exten
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by raffi 18y ago
Here is a question [sorta on topic in this thread]... awhile ago I wrote a marketing tool that recommends social news sites based on content you provide it. The idea was to help people market stuff better by finding communities that want i
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by raffi 18y ago
I really like slinkset. Good execution on their part. I created a niche news site with them and when I'm ready to populate it and promote it I will.
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by raffi 18y ago
Oh yeah Logic in Computer Science: Modeling and Reasoning about Systems by Huth and Ryan. We used this as a textbook in a formal methods class. The book teaches techniques for developing proofs and for specifying and proving properties ab
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by raffi 18y ago
On the topic of reading SICP and other things. I find the exercise of porting programs/concepts from the presentation language to one I use helps me reinforce what the book/paper says. It also helps me honestly contrast my tool choices wi
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by raffi 18y ago
I'm in a good position in the job market right now. Masters degree (soon), security clearance, lots of experience, will relocate anywhere and open source work to prove my credentials. I'm definitely interested in a startup over a big corp
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by raffi 18y ago
Yes, I reference them on the help page even. Dict has under 1000 rules in it and style's engine for checking things is pretty simple. When I started writing my engine I definitely looked at the source code for these.
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by raffi 18y ago
Should be fixed soon. There is a change I'm supposed to make soon to make the rule database shared amongst sessions. Right now its loaded for everyone and well that makes memory go bye bye real quick.
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Ask YC: Feedback on PolishMyWriting.com (polishmywriting.com)
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by raffi 18y ago
In 2001 I was in bootcamp. Prior to that I was working for a small music store chain writing an E-Commerce package. Spent my high school years (pre-2000) as a system administrator at a local ISP. In 2005 I gave a presentation to a high s
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by raffi 18y ago
#startups @ irc.freenode.net although I discovered it yesterday. Haven't seen a conversation there yet but I'll give it time #jIRCii on EFnet (my IRC client, http://jircii.dashnine.org -- check it out) #unix on irc.gimp.org - tight commu
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by raffi 18y ago
Hi John, I'd be interested in hearing your story. Submitting a link here is harmless. If the article doesn't catch on it won't get voted up.
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by raffi 18y ago
Thanks for the well thought out reply. I'll post the link to Sphinn.com (a Digg-like site for PR/Marketing folks) and get their take. Part of my goal getting involved here is to find potential partners. Has anyone used HN to do that?
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by raffi 18y ago
Right now this is a tech demo. Looking for feedback on the idea itself. If I find I've hit a nerve (i.e. a problem others want solved) then I would like to move forward with the business building route.
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by raffi 18y ago
Hi Bd, Ironic, yesterday I uploaded a tech-demo of something I call kindling which attempts to correlate articles against news feeds from social websites. I read a book called Collective Intelligence by Tony Segaran. Its basically machine
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by raffi 18y ago
Hi, I've been floored ever since discovering this community. A group of people with similar interests to mine that I didn't even know existed. Finding this community led me to an idea. What if there was software to help people find commu
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Feedback on Idea: dashnine.org(kindling.dashnine.org)
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by raffi 18y ago
Here is a derivation of the Y Combinator in Perl: http://use.perl.org/~Aristotle/journal/30896
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by raffi 18y ago
Try learning to write mobile code in Sleep. Its like Perl with anonymous functions all over the place. http://sleep.dashnine.org/ Actually, its my language. Couldn't resist the opportunity to plug it.
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by raffi 18y ago
Throughout most of my life I was an extrovert except I was frustrated that I didn't know how to bring new people into my life. And I also dealt with that nervousness of being a stranger in a room (bar, party, whatever)--then I discovered a
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What should a press release look like and who to send them to?
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