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Watch the Lunar Eclipse From Anywhere(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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Big data and the semantic web(radar.oreilly.com)
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by snikolic 15y ago
I'm happy to see NC even mentioned in the startup world. I'm tired of people raising an eyebrow at the 919 area code on my business cards. D-TOWN, STAY DOWN.
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by snikolic 15y ago
"I don't really want to just start going round telling everyone my idea..." Ideas are cheap, start building something. It'll help you recruit people and you'll almost certainly need something tangible to get funding. If events are that lack
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by snikolic 15y ago
Premise: Traditional economics is pricing things low when entering a market, and pricing things high in a captured market (a monopoly). Argument: Apple does the opposite of this. e.g. Apple entered a new market with the iPhone, but priced h
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by snikolic 15y ago
There are ways of distinguishing yourself and building pedigree without spending the first years of your career at megacorp. Education, side projects, introductions, etc. If you can't create one of these distinguishing factors for yourself,
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by snikolic 15y ago
...and it seems to be working now...
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by snikolic 15y ago
Link broken? update: working now?
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by snikolic 15y ago
I disagree with most of this. I've been posting words to this effect a lot recently, but as a prospective employee, I think there's currently a false dichotomy between startup and big company. There are plenty of companies in between "2 guy
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by snikolic 15y ago
First, don't write off startups just because you've got stability on the mind. Demand for programmers and startup funding is high enough at the moment so that you don't need to forfeit stability or high wages to be at a startup - especially
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U.S. F-16s Shadow United Flight 990(blogs.wsj.com)
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by snikolic 15y ago
As a technical founder, this was super helpful. I had intuited a lot of this, but it's nice to see it all clearly spelled out and bulleted. Thanks for posting this. Does anyone have other specific/tactical tips for blogger outreach? Specifi
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by snikolic 15y ago
This is a really cool idea. I started a game server hosting company years ago, and my biggest challenge was renewing existing customers. Customers rarely lasted for more than 2-3 months or so. My business's biggest enemies were customers' p
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by snikolic 15y ago
"The market is so strong for engineers right now that you don't need to choose between decent compensation and startup environment; you can have both." Far more articulate than me :)
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by snikolic 15y ago
I think a great solution is to work for a late-stage startup, or a startup with plenty of funding, or a company that's recently entered its growth phase. You'll have the security and resources of a larger company (and more time out of work
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by snikolic 15y ago
Here are some things I do: 1) One task at a time. Hint: Use a todo list to break things up into individual tasks. 2) Don't be a perfectionist. Hint: Just get it working - make it fast/scalable/sexy/whatever later. 3) Separate work and play.
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by snikolic 16y ago
I've recently started using VMs to help get me into my zone faster and keep me there longer. I keep a separate VM for each project I'm working on, and I keep all other activities (browsing, music, chat, etc.) out of them. I've found a few a
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by snikolic 16y ago
I think this is cyclical, and to be expected. I had a conversation ~2 years ago with the head of a CS Dept in Boston who was anticipating this. He explained that enrollment in his department had grown by an order of magnitude (or more) duri
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by snikolic 16y ago
Neat! I like the idea of algorithmically enumerating opportunities for innovation. I'm sure there would be some gems buried in the findings (and some pretty amusing ideas too :-). I'd totally be interested to see this go further.