the_dude

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   by the_dude 16y ago

   This is something I've dealt with as well. My usual strategy, when asked, is to ask what the employer plans on offering and if they push to see what I was making before I'll give them a ballpark figure of what I'd like to be making in the n
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   by the_dude 16y ago

   Yes, I've run into this many times as well. Personally I'd love to get into some type of programming job (esp. at a startup), but I didn't major in CS or Computer Engineering nor have I had any professional experience in the field (read: ha
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   by the_dude 17y ago

   Yeah you really wouldn't want to convert anything but WAV or any other lossless format into FLAC (mp3 and Ogg are lossy formats). Converting a lossy format (mp3 or Ogg) to a lossless format (FLAC or WAV) wouldn't recover any of the lost dat
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   by the_dude 18y ago

   Hey guys, thanks for the great suggestions, this is definitely the kind of stuff I'm looking for. I checked out most of the links so far and BarCamp (definitely plan to attend), Betahouse, and Open Coffee look cool, I'll have to try those o
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   Ask HN: Hackers And Founders In Boston

   23 points by the_dude 18y ago|20 comments
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   by the_dude 18y ago

   I'd definitely like to attend, I'm a soon-to-be (full-time) entrepreneur and avid HN reader living in Boston. I'm strongly considering applying for the next YC round, so it'll be cool to see what pg and the YC summer '08 folks are up to, an