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by tedkalaw 14y ago
It's also a bummer when startups don't factor the time it takes to fundraise into their calculations when figuring out how much cash they need. Live and learn, I guess.
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by tedkalaw 14y ago
Well, it's a funny thing, right? You want to be professional, and sometimes people do things they regret. Everyone makes mistakes. On the other hand, how else do people know who these people are? There's no way for us to know if this is a m
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by tedkalaw 14y ago
Is there any way for me to see examples of the kinds of stuff it does? I wanted a peek at how this was different from other sites of the same kind and there isn't any information readily available. And then I thought I had to signup to look
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by tedkalaw 14y ago
This reminded me of Sudhir Venkatesh's book "Gang Leader For A Day", parts of which were described in Freakonomics. Some of his findings included an organized corporate structure of a big gang, a gang member with an econ degree who wanted t
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by tedkalaw 14y ago
Here's a post by Joel Kaplan, VP of US Public Policy for Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-washington-dc/a-mess...
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by tedkalaw 14y ago
Is that a magnet school? I went to a magnet school and my experience was pretty good. Sure, there were "jocks" - but their "power" is vastly diminished in a school where kids are sad if they don't get A's. As you said, it's like minded peop
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I chatted with some engineers from BrainTree and I was impressed at their commitment to helping build the tech scene in Chicago. It's an exciting time.
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I'm back at school now after some time off and I'm happy to be back, though when things suck it's frustratingly easy to say "welp, just need to wait for the summer." My goal for my remaining time at college is to learn things I cannot learn
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I guess that Leo's post resonated with me because I find that the sharing of what I've learned so far helps me learn it better - and sometimes, there are people who are in the same boat as you before you came to some realization. That is to
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I grew to love vim after being introduced to it in my data structures class. One of my favorite tools is much older than me - which seems kind of weird in the current state of technology. I find it very humbling.
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I just found this and...I'm curious about how well it works. Really, really curious. http://www.davidhuskey.com/tDCS/
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
Congratulations Geoff! Geoff is an incredible product guy, and an even more incredible person. Every office hours we had with him during ImagineK12 he gave us a good old-fashioned hustling...prepare yourselves, YC.
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
From the second paragraph: "If these companies were to take this route, all of these sites would go completely dark save for a message of opposition to SOPA censorship and instructions on how to contact your local representative."
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I've had great success with the book "8 Minute Meditation." It's a pretty good primer to what meditation is "all about."
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
"Going analog" is something I have really tried lately. The more I find myself into tech, the more I appreciate not being around it. I really want to give woodworking a shot this year.
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
You might be able to get them to switch if their are problems are big enough. I'm not sure what the hell the deal was, but whenever my parents opened up Firefox, it spammed them with pictures of pie. Like, 5 little windows of pie. I just to
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
Do you think there's any sort of relevance for a Masters, not a PhD? The timescale is more similar to an MBA, and the 6-7 years of a PhD is quite a large commitment.
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Rep. Deutch Presents Amendment To Ban Corporate Money From Politics(ology.com)
9 points by tedkalaw 15y ago|3 comments
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I am kind of surprised by this, especially given all of the positive comments. It took Audrey's post to make me realize that if I were reading HN, a lot of those positive comments would be, well..technical people. So now I'm torn. My girlfr
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I wanted to reply to this because my experience was somewhat similar to yours. I dropped out of school to do a startup and realized that I actually WANTED to learn my major (CS stuff). I also missed the academic environment. Luckily for me,
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
True. It would be interesting to see what the success rate of reported cures, etc in the media is. I like hearing about scientific progress like this, but worry that it will be another "promising advancement" that we never hear about again,
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I think he's not necessarily arguing against t-shirt and jeans (despite his claim that the "days of t-shirt and hoodies are over" - this may be an east coast thing?), but that fit matters. Just because you're writing code doesn't mean you h
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
This is a great introduction, but to this day I find the sheer size of Cocoa the largest barrier to entry for Mac and iPhone development. Just have to get used to it, I suppose.
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
Is there anyway to do one-way flights? I really like it so far but cannot for the life of me figure out if one-way is possible.
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I'm not an Emacs user, but aren't a lot of the text-editing shortcuts straight from Emacs?
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
I heard about these guys after seeing this site: http://aduni.org/ Learned lots of useful things for my theory of computation class.
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
This reminded me that the people that seem to know the most ABOUT Steve Jobs don't actually know Steve Jobs. Really cool to read.
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
Many of the really good ones are also public. In engineering, for example, many of the top 10 schools are public - a lot of which don't have big endowments or are in states with broken policy.
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
Hey there, The core of the project I'm working on is built in PHP. However, we found that there were a few things that would make more sense in RoR, and there are many features in the future that will be better served as RoR apps. Basically
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by tedkalaw 15y ago
It's really cool to see information like this laid out. I'm from Chicago, and even property downtown is not (as) expensive. I was always told that the bay was more expensive, but didn't believe it until I started living in San Francisco. We

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