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   by speek 16y ago

   I'm really excited about this project. I hope it succeeds.
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   by speek 16y ago

   This semester I was in school full-time and working on my startup part-time with co-founders. That was a huge mistake. As much as it was fun, the only time where I got major progress done was during vacations, when I should've been focusing
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   by speek 17y ago

   Yet, I'm standing here outside the Boston apple store waiting in line, MacBook pro in my bag, checking my news on my iPhone. Honestly, the real reason I'm getting an iPad today is because I thought I would enjoy playing with it, not because
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   by speek 17y ago

   Boston, MA: Zazu ( http://getzazu.com ) -- in the middle of rebranding. We're looking for a few full time developers and dev interns. We do mobile stuff (we're working on an android app now, but we've got iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, etc in
5. 185.▲
   by speek 17y ago

   MongoDB is one of the few open source projects that I'm really excited about. I'm seriously considering flying over to SF (I'm a broke college kid in Boston) just to be a part of it.
6. 186.▲
   by speek 17y ago

   http://getzazu.com :-)
7. 187.▲
   by speek 17y ago

   I wonder if visualizing this kind of data can help people find what makes "popular" or "good" music.
8. 188.▲
   by speek 17y ago

   This seems close to Solution Focused Brief Therapy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_focused_brief_therapy ). It's interesting though.
9. 189.▲
   by speek 17y ago

   By the way, Richard Revis(not sure if that's you) gave a fantastic talk ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os1NevFafNA ) about the neat stuff you can do with JS ( http://theplanis.com/clouds/ ) the other day at my university.
10. 190.▲
    by speek 17y ago

    Thanks for sticking me in there, I'd love to work over at Facebook.
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    by speek 17y ago

    Also, if any of y'all have any company suggestions, I would love to hear them.
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    Who wants a long-term intern?

    5 points by speek 17y ago|4 comments
13. 193.▲
    by speek 17y ago

    You should check out this paper: Disk is the new ram http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/gene/papers/acm-viewpoint08.pdf It's really neat.
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    by speek 17y ago

    Developer headset is 500 bucks, Research edition (developer headset with EEG access) is 750, or 650 if you bought a developer headset a while ago.
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    Awesome new (relatively inexpensive) Brain-Computer Interface(emotivepoc.com)

    57 points by speek 17y ago|28 comments
16. 196.▲
    by speek 17y ago

    Anybody have any pointers/books about into getting into Quantitative analysis/trading?
17. 197.▲
    by speek 17y ago

    Anything distributed makes me wet.
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    by speek 17y ago

    http://www.precisionnutrition.com These guys are fantastic if you want to change your lifestyle. In the past, I've done something like this program and I lost about 70 pounds (meanwhile becoming relatively buff and, if I might say so myse
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    by speek 17y ago

    As much as I love BostonDynamics, I'm pretty pissed off at them since they won't return my emails about speaking at a local university.
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    by speek 17y ago

    Just got back from the sale... got about 80 bucks worth of books (lots of $100+ books if from amazon). 11 books total, a few books the size of rhode island.
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    by speek 17y ago

    The reverse debugging is built on http://dmtcp.sourceforge.net/ (if I recall correctly). It's really neat technology
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    by speek 17y ago

    Northeastern University (right across the river) uses Scheme/How To Design Programs for the intro CS course then uses Java/How To Design Classes for the second CS course. We've got one of the best (I think) CS programs in the country: http
23. 203.▲
    by speek 17y ago

    These things remind me of cylon raiders on wheels, but cool nonetheless.
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    by speek 17y ago

    I think the sound it emits makes it vibrate in the "right" direction.
25. 205.▲
    by speek 17y ago

    Is this meant only for YC startups or people who have started up things that are news.YC members?
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    by speek 17y ago

    Y'all should check out the movie The Final Cut ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_(2004_film) http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2978742553/ ). Not only is this one of the best Robin Williams movies I've seen, but it is al
27. 207.▲
    by speek 17y ago

    I still think Twitter is overhyped...
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    by speek 17y ago

    Those "clouds" are probability clouds. It means that the electron should be in the vicinity of the cloud at any given time. Also, consider that an electron is 1/1000 the size of a proton.
29. 209.▲
    by speek 17y ago

    It's not out yet, though I'm planning to release it by mid december.
30. 210.▲
    by speek 17y ago

    I'm both excited and pissed that this came out. Excited because it's awesome, pissed because my book didn't come out before this. Edit: my book is still more children-based. :-)