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by swilliams 18y ago
Can you provide some more info about them? I looked at the site, but there isn't a lot there beyond the signup-for-beta form. It looks kind of like a social-media based VC thing, is that correct? Interesting idea, but how feasible is that m
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by swilliams 18y ago
Close :). Her field is Audiology. (And I'm filling out my profile now, thanks for the heads up).
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by swilliams 18y ago
...pg here a while ago to the extent that YC once tried funding a team remotely, but it didn't work due to the lack of frequent contact It's on the faq ( http://ycombinator.com/faq.html ). I understand the reasoning behind it completely,
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by swilliams 18y ago
Thank you. That's pretty much what we've concluded: continue at my current job and hack at it on nights and weekends until a prototype is ready. I hadn't heard of TechStars, and will check them out.
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by swilliams 18y ago
We talked about that, and it would mean bad things all around for my family. Background: She's a PhD student and will graduate in May or August. Option 1) She continues what she's doing right now, research and lab work, and occasionally pi
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Y Combinator?
11 points by swilliams 18y ago|21 comments
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by swilliams 18y ago
That's pretty in depth. On one hand, the controversial stuff will be dug up by the media or someone else anyway, but on the other, it's asking quite a lot to hand over every bit of privacy you might have had.
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by swilliams 18y ago
If we have libraries (jQuery, Scriptaculous, etc) that do this for us, do they need to be added to main technology too? Would it allow a performance increase or something?
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by swilliams 18y ago
I think it's primarily that Best Buy came in and took all of their business. For all of its faults (and there are plenty), BB runs a pretty good ship.
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by swilliams 18y ago
I enjoyed the first half of Timeline, and like I said, it was my first exposure to the quantum physics presented there. The second half (after everyone was trapped in the past) seemed kind of cliche. I didn't find Prey too interesting thoug
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by swilliams 18y ago
Others have already said it, but to quote Mr. Obama directly: "As a starting point, it means I believe in [sic] that Jesus Christ died for my sins and that I am redeemed through him." http://rickwarrennews.com/transcript/civil_forum_transc
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by swilliams 18y ago
People slag on him for his more recent work and speeches, but at least for me, his books really made me interested in the science presented in them. Even stuff like Timeline, which piqued my curiosity in everything it talked about.
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by swilliams 18y ago
Politics and a dated beer ad mixed together? How is this hacker related?
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by swilliams 18y ago
Good point, I should have added that its smart people with good intuition and a passion for what they do.
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by swilliams 18y ago
It's crazy. Sometimes it feels that 37signals just shouldn't still be in business with how they do things. This makes it sound like they take the Cosmo Kramer school of business management, "this price just FEELS right." But it's been wildl
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by swilliams 18y ago
Good for them, but I don't understand how they waited until 2008 to get this in. It seems like such a basic UI concept to me.
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by swilliams 18y ago
Are there any specifics? The article only mentions fuzzy market-speak buzzwords.
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by swilliams 18y ago
I think it was around 8 hours for an empty to full charge on 220v.
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by swilliams 18y ago
It will plug into a standard wall socket, but if you can plug into a 220v socket (like a washing machine) it will charge in half the time.
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by swilliams 18y ago
Well, all of the founds are pretty heavy MS based; same with their audiences. I believe that joelonsoftware's .NET questions group was going to shutdown and forward all the users to here too. I did find some decent Non-Windows questions in
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by swilliams 18y ago
Yeah, some of the most annoying aspects of other sites is sifting through the banal "discussions" which are typically just echo chambers of inside jokes and blowhards congratulating each other. You can have mini discussions on an answer thr
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Motorola Inside Blame Game(gizmodo.com)
1 points by swilliams 18y ago|0 comments
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by swilliams 18y ago
Agreed completely. I found the original Eee (and I don't even know the numeric model to go with it) to be a great idea. Nowadays I don't even have a clear mental image for what it is, a low-end cheap laptop? A desktop? What? Too bad really,
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by swilliams 18y ago
An interesting article, but why does it seem like every time the good things in OS X are mentioned, a dose of "Windows Sucks" goes with it? It gets old.
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by swilliams 18y ago
Great quotes, illustrates the personalities of all three perfectly.
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by swilliams 18y ago
I do love how INDEX.HTM is all caps.