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by sbisker 15y ago
Most of software development is making CRUD apps, integrating APIs, and other tedious but non-complex stuff like that. Isn't that sort of like saying that most of the restaurant business is flipping burgers? Just because something is more
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by sbisker 15y ago
I didn't read the article, but...the intelligent discussion around it meant that I didn't have to waste my time reading what sounds like a lousy article. Had I found this article on my own, I would have both had to suffer through the articl
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by sbisker 15y ago
...ok, I think I just got told. I actually had forgotten we did that. :P
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by sbisker 15y ago
Actually, I asked more to learn about which Show HNs became successful. I was curious if I could detect any common differences the startups themselves that posted on HN in their infancy, as opposed to the total pool of startups or the to
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Ask HN: What successful startups started as "Show HN"?
158 points by sbisker 15y ago|39 comments
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by sbisker 15y ago
Am I the only one whose eyes are really hurt by the brightness of the colors chosen here? (Seriously, I may be the only one - they do seem a little unnecessarily bright, but I've also been feeling tired today.)
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by sbisker 15y ago
Click on any article on TechCrunch, and you'll see that they're not showing the anti-SOPA ads against actual content pages. I'm guessing that they're only doing this at the top level pages of these sites; possibly paying the sites for the
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Microsoft announces Kinect for Windows(blogs.msdn.com)
5 points by sbisker 15y ago|0 comments
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by sbisker 15y ago
Hey, lovelyLaney - I noticed that your HN account is probably tightly linked to Golem Technologies in some way (given that you've only submitted twice, both articles from this domain). There are over 100 comments on this article, and not a
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by sbisker 15y ago
Compared to the news sites you've mentioned, I've increasingly discovered that the primary reason I read things on HN is the page load times. The professional commentary, snark, and community of TechCrunch are lovely - but they simply aren
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by sbisker 15y ago
You defined yourself - as a product of your experiences - and you sold yourself, brilliantly. That's cheating. ;) But seriously, I'm more concerned with the student who is interested in doing both and is still unsure of their career, than i
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by sbisker 15y ago
It would be amiss to separate my own academic influences from my desire to return to school - there were a few Ph.D applications in there along the way :) It is also entirely possible that as someone interested in such theoretical things, m
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by sbisker 15y ago
Thats just the thing - while that worked for me working a bit at the forefront of this trend, this doesn't feel like a long term solution. Entrepreneurship != being a desingineer, as the market is clearly showing. A student / aspiring desin
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by sbisker 15y ago
About six years ago, I decided to become a "desingineer", by accident. Here's how it went down: After getting a BS and M.Eng in Computer Science, everyone was pleased as punched to let me code for them. But I wanted to code and design int
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by sbisker 15y ago
I suspect the insinuation was that said betabeat writer is a New York based VC booster. From his own bio: Brooklyn born and bred. My writing on technology has appeared in the NY Times, Slate, Atlantic and Fast Company. Currently editor o
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by sbisker 15y ago
I'm not sure why there's a down-vote here, because that was exactly the question I had. There has been a system of professors referring their top students to their colleagues for years, and on a small scale I don't see much issue. However,
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by sbisker 15y ago
Oh. Hey, I remember you! I got rejected with you guys! (At that same bar, with the Plurchase fellow.) This is a small forum indeed. Just one piece seems missing from this article. If you're not doing Adeptley.com - what are you doing now, a
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by sbisker 15y ago
Taken; assuming the guy got there in time.
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Ask HN: Anyone want my GrubWithUs YC Alumni meal tonight?
8 points by sbisker 15y ago|1 comments
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by sbisker 15y ago
Usually the cops are on that sort of thing. I hope. But it might be worth checking Google Latitude, MobileMe, Loopt and the like; if she used any of those indirect passive GPS services.
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by sbisker 15y ago
I saw this on Twitter and thought perhaps HN could help get the word out, particularly around downtown San Francisco where she was last seen. My thoughts and prayers go out to her, her family and her colleagues.
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Missing Person - Tracy Williams, Technorati Employee(technorati.com)
525 points by sbisker 15y ago|56 comments
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by sbisker 15y ago
And then you find out that they've managed to get an entire network of cat food distributors on board, and are currently pulling down $50,000 in revenue after having launched the third version of their site a week before applying. Oh, and o
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by sbisker 15y ago
Chiming in on the "it's a lot like dating" band wagon. If you put too much pressure on yourself to find the right girl, you'll miss the steps you really need to take to find the right girl - living your life confidently, being social and
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by sbisker 15y ago
I'll be in the Valley from Oct 25th to Nov 8th, scoping out the startup scene to possibly move out there for good. I'll happily take you up on your offer. (Though for making such a generous offer, I should be the one buying you the beer.
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by sbisker 15y ago
Good old fashioned price discrimination? Why not try to sell a domain name to a struggling startup for $250 and the same domain name to a random BigCo for $2,000?
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by sbisker 15y ago
It feels like the amount given to incubated startups is creeping up, both in YC and now in TechStars, as the programs have gotten more popular. Do people no longer feel that "the amount a graduate student makes for three months" is enough t
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Smarterer and FutureM: Boston’s Marketing Community Puts Itself to the Test(venturefizz.com)
3 points by sbisker 15y ago|0 comments
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by sbisker 15y ago
If your site's copy asks that question, one of the first things I should see after submitting my birthday is, indeed, my age after 1,000,000 seconds. Seeing a list of everything I could be besides 1,000,000 seconds old confused the heck o
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by sbisker 15y ago
I get the sense you were really looking for star power, judging by the speaker list. I do think you should be careful how Startup Bootcamp deals with this fact as an organization, though. There's a difference between "virtually all founder

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