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by silencio 18y ago
THANK you. I went to a CC because I dropped out of high school a couple years early with my GED (would have gone completely nuts if I didn't), and there was no way I would get accepted to the top tier universities I wanted to go to in that
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by silencio 18y ago
Ah yeah. If it's worth noting, that charger of mine was in two pieces: the charger, and the power cable. The latter went behind my desk, and once in a while it would get dislodged. The LED would never come on if the battery were charged, bu
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by silencio 18y ago
> why not just have (snip) one LED that's turned on/off? I used to have a camera with a battery charger that only had one LED that was turned on/off. The problem with that particular solution to the red/green charge indicator is that yo
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by silencio 18y ago
With 52% ownership of a web startup specifically belonging to a nontechnical cofounder (she would be the logical "leader" with the vision) is that who knows what will happen on a bad day. I've already shot down one suggestion of hers becaus
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by silencio 18y ago
That is a really interesting thought that I've never given any consideration to because I've always just assumed we were all cofounders. I will point that out to her when we do talk, but I'm fairly sure there were some roles in the company
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by silencio 18y ago
That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure. Just thinking about the idea of how to differentiate that is becoming a massive headache. But if we split three ways evenly, we might run into the "you're not doing enough work (compared to how much
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Ask YC: Sharing ownership with nontechnical founder?
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by silencio 18y ago
>I don't see how sex matters when you're a business person, when you're programming, when you're building things. Sex shouldn't matter, but how people perceive me due to my sex could have an impact on how I do things. I know the follo
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by silencio 18y ago
Yay! It's really nice to see women help other women out like this. I'm not applying for this upcoming cycle, but I have benefitted from talking to and being mentored by other women with more experience. Helps a lot when there's only a very,
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by silencio 18y ago
And since 2001, I haven't seen any actually succeed (i.e. iPod killer s from microsoft, iriver, cowon, sandisk et al), although there are a fair number of worthy competitors :)
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by silencio 18y ago
something very similar to the idea, as neoxr mentions in another comment here.
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by silencio 18y ago
Whatever you do, don't forget about privacy features. One of my friends used to work on an app called Twinkle for iPhone ( http://tapulous.com/twinkle/ )...it's a twitter client with their own custom location feature so you can get all the
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by silencio 18y ago
I once had to deal with a hosting company that had a ticket tracking system that would mark tickets as closed if there was any kind of customer reply, and they had a fat fingered support person or two that also marked tickets as closed..a
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by silencio 18y ago
I'm paying for a dedicated server at the moment with 1GB ram for 39 euros/month, an upgrade to 2gb ram (total) is 10 euros/month extra from LeaseWeb ( http://leaseweb.com ), which has half decent routing. I know the exchange rate sucks (bei
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by silencio 18y ago
The double agents that do drive around in the VW bugs get paid around that much. But yes, the geek squad jobs generally suck. And, well, I have seen ones over 2 years old hanging around the genius bar waiting for an appointment. At least a
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by silencio 18y ago
Geek squad employees get discounts at Best Buy, which is arguably better than an Apple Store discount in the variety of things you could get. At any rate, both are typically overpriced to begin with for accessories, and just how many times
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by silencio 18y ago
I can see where you are coming from..but between my ACM and IEEE CS student memberships costing only like $50/year combined (give or take a few for the variety of add-ons) and giving me access to MSDNAA (lots and lots of MS software my sc
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by silencio 18y ago
The problem being nobody knows what these rules are. Applications have been accepted that are incompatible with the NDA, and conversely, applications with no NDA incompatibilities have been rejected or pulled for frivolous/unknown/bizarre r
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by silencio 18y ago
The problem with that part of the NDA is that Frotz is available on the app store and has been for a month or two. Frotz is an interactive fiction application (arguably interpreted) and also open source (gplv2, http://code.google.com/p/iph
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by silencio 18y ago
Oh yeah, how could I forget lego?! What you want would probably be on http://mindstorms.lego.com/Products/Default.aspx Regarding the Arduino boards, I have no idea. I've never really looked into them much. Others on HN might be better-ver
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by silencio 18y ago
Because it's outright discrimination right here that voters in california need to deal with in November that could most definitely have an effect on other states and maybe eventually countries in removing discriminatory practices: a set dea
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by silencio 18y ago
Hmm, it's been a while, and I only have a dismantled bot right now sitting on my desk as a paperweight.. I'm not sure I actually did anything with the propeller chips, but at Defcon last month I saw a project by Kingpin that interested me (
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by silencio 18y ago
I was in the same position as you a while ago..some people I know were buying some Parallax products and wanted to know if I were interested in joining them to get a volume discount, so I got some of their products..I'm not sure what kind o
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by silencio 18y ago
Companies do this all the time, directly and indirectly, i.e. on gay rights, what kind of benefits to extend to gay employees (see http://www.hrc.org/issues/workplace/cei.htm ). Why is Google and Sergey's public announcement of this so sur
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by silencio 18y ago
No. Google would have to tell people to stop being racist, not to vote for Obama, for that to make any sense. Also, my sexuality SHOULD have nothing to do with my work, but if I were affected adversely by this or other similar discriminator
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by silencio 18y ago
$deity forbid gay people have the same rights as married couples without calling it a marriage. I have a feeling some people would still be offended like their own personal marriages would be under attack even if you removed all trace of "m
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by silencio 18y ago
You think Google using its influence to go against Proposition 8 is something, I don't want to know what you think about individual Mormons donating $6.4 million dollars to support this nonsense proposition. I'm not even beginning to coun
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by silencio 18y ago
I half want to upvote you and half want to downvote you..so instead I'm going to comment: google him indeed. I just spent a few minutes reading/watching some of his stuff and it's more amusing than this "I hate Macs" one, which I thought wa
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by silencio 18y ago
don't even get me started on copy/paste on iPhone ;) Especially since said rant contained lots of code and that's nearly impossible to type with the iPhone autocorrect in the way. Grarrghghghg
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by silencio 18y ago
What more does mobile safari need except the ability to load pages in the background? It needs to stop crashing ;) (recent gripe of mine after mobile safari crashed after I typed up a huge rant defending something on a bug report and trie

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