silencio

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by silencio 18y ago
Our 3 person startup's disappointment at YC rejection is strongly correlated with age. The ancient one in our group (ha) is disappointed but thinks the challenges we've faced to even get started were more problematic than what we're going t
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by silencio 18y ago
:) I guess that depends on what you're doing. For me? Not so much as being rich and famous as it is about paying the bills while helping solve problems people have. Also, you're making me feel older than I should. Please get off my lawn ;)
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by silencio 18y ago
Why is age such a bad thing :) I'm 20 and we also got rejected, but one of us happens to be in her 50s and doesn't consider this the worst thing in the world (or even, the worst thing to happen to our startup).
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by silencio 18y ago
http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html Maybe worth a shot regardless, but from talking to other people I know applied and also rejected in the past few minutes (including myself), we seem to pretty much all fall under that "good but pushed ou
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by silencio 18y ago
I suppose it's then weird if I use twitter's RSS feeds. There's some accounts that only talk about new releases and things like that, and it's easier for me to follow their twitter rss feed (and not their unavailable or spammy regular rss)
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by silencio 18y ago
Well, you don't necessarily have to pay. Just that your local BBB will be a lot less annoying if you do, and they'll also give you a shiny seal of approval and a better grade that doesn't mean squat. I have no idea why so many people I know
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by silencio 18y ago
Newegg actually sells non-prescription Gunnars. I've been looking into those since I'd like a pair of computer glasses to try. And if you thought finding a dealer was hard, I'm having a hard time finding a dealer that'll do prescription len
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by silencio 18y ago
I was told by my ophthalmologist to not use those red eye drops. I wear contacts half of the day, and I typically use rewetting drops or Systane eye lube... definitely cuts down my cause of red eye and discomfort (typically dry eyes or some
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by silencio 18y ago
Me too, but at a certain point when you are established in a way, you want to fly a small flag just to say "hey look, it's possible!" to other women. When I was wee (oh god, I'm getting old?! but I'm only 20!) I was put off by how many men
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by silencio 18y ago
aww i'm sad. i was working on a dope wars clone for iPhone :( are you guys open source or just free as in beer?
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by silencio 18y ago
Not only this, but that ultimately the decision comes down to if ads and a free verson are even appropriate in the first place for your users, and if bad reviews for a free version will hurt your paid sales. From my point of view as part of
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by silencio 18y ago
I'm actually writing some (custom internal) software for blind folk at the moment, as an extension of having worked with a small nonprofit for visually disabled people for general volunteer work (mostly admining the network and teaching). T
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by silencio 18y ago
How is this a violation of the TOS? There are plenty of iPhone applications out there for SaaS (i.e. Evernote, rememberthemilk).
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by silencio 18y ago
> Pre is even further behind given that their delay will probably be even longer since they're a smaller platform to develop for. While the Pre is brand new, Palm itself isn't the way Apple was new to the mobile market. It could draw
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by silencio 18y ago
I don't know - I think there's a few things to keep in mind. First, when devs were faced with the prospect that for the next year Apple would not be providing a real way to write native applications for the iPhone, plenty of webapps poppe
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by silencio 18y ago
I wonder too. I'm considering applying - still working it out with the cofounder as to our final decision about applying - and (as much as I'd like a girlfriend) I have a boyfriend who'd support me no matter what but can't move because he h
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by silencio 18y ago
> none of us will give out our usernames to external websites Maybe so, but in the case of Twitter, not many people seemed to learn their lessons - and there people were giving away their usernames and passwords. > decide between
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by silencio 18y ago
I'm going to whine from a user perspective - I no longer browse the app store because of the ridiculous shit out there. I think I gave up after the first couple of weeks. Yes, now there are probably children and my boyfriend who enjoy spend
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by silencio 18y ago
I have a main setup comprised of 3 displays with one desktop and a laptop, it's quite nice to work like this, especially when I run macosx and then have windows in vmware fusion on another display. The only thing I'm torn on is rotation. I'
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by silencio 18y ago
More statistics: 3582 fatal unintentional drownings in 2005, more than one in four a child 14 or younger. Then for every child who died, there's 4 children that needed medical attention for a near drowning. ( http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecre
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by silencio 18y ago
For 2007. Amber alert: 227 amber alerts issued involving 278 children with 188 recoveries and 48 as a direct result of the alert being issued (see http://www.amberalert.gov/pdfs/07_amber_report.pdf ) Intentionally set structure fires:
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by silencio 18y ago
ah, sorry if it wasn't clear, i meant to ask jorgem about the book that didn't mention exceptions :) although, i have seen this particular pdf floating around before, and i keep forgetting to bookmark it and this time i did, so thank you :)
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by silencio 18y ago
Out of curiosity, which book was this? And on a sidenote, Apple has some extensive documentation on that available in the docs.
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by silencio 18y ago
I do everything in my bedroom when I get a chance, it's easily one of the more comfortable, cool (temperature-wise) and quieter rooms in the house. Even though I technically have a more "appropriate" workspace available, I just don't like i
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by silencio 18y ago
In my experience (still a teen...) it's the rule until proven otherwise. I mean just by being a teen many people assume you have some level of technical knowledge, but it doesn't go beyond helping people with setting up their computers an
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by silencio 18y ago
I personally think that both are valid methods to learn, but that you learn different things from going the separate ways. i.e. when I'm writing something from scratch I have to learn every little detail of what I'm trying to do, whereas ta
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by silencio 18y ago
The way one typically knits on straight needles, you knit from the left needle to the right. When you are done with one row, reverse the right needle so it becomes the left, then knit the next row, repeat. What you see is the graphic when
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by silencio 18y ago
(wow, i never thought my obsession with knitting would come in handy here) Basically, that's it. My only problem with the pattern is that it's not entirely specific about what to repeat, typically patterns will go "(p2, k2, p1, k1) repeat t
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by silencio 18y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to point out mediatemple alone, nor that a separately-hosted status site would have necessarily...been available. AS 47868 was causing issues for all sorts of providers worldwide.
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by silencio 18y ago
aha, you outed the site in question :) which was the same one who offered the same deal to us..and they still haven't reviewed our app one month later. backlogged indeed that they can't catch up with so many other sites that do just fine?..

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