trekker7

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by trekker7 19y ago
i mean the two scenarios seem similar... what are the unique characteristics of either case? in both cases, a startup posts a job offer, multiple people apply, and these people compete for the job. at the same time there could be multiple s
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by trekker7 19y ago
No way are you doomed. I don't remember who it was, but a wise person on this forum posted the phrase "there is no one path" in response to another post like this. However you may have to play to your strengths... if your Web application is
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by trekker7 19y ago
Crap, the SDK doesn't work on OS X Tiger? Anybody know of a work-around?
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by trekker7 19y ago
You should definitely pursue what you love most, but by being practical you can avoid a lot of the obstacles that are bound to pop up when you take up this pursuit. I think you should stick with the programming, get a day job as a programme
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by trekker7 19y ago
why exclude anyone? i got the joke but there's tons of other stuff that's posted here, that i don't understand, and may never understand. who cares? great things happen when people from different backgrounds collaborate. i think hacking is
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by trekker7 19y ago
Go to a place with easy exams, cool course projects, and smart people.
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Ask News.YC: Conservation of Pulse - Local Causality - Save The Galaxy
2 points by trekker7 19y ago|2 comments
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by trekker7 19y ago
i hope so. digital cameras let me take tons of photographs without worrying about cost. it would be cool if i could turn out 100 Web apps every day, just to see what works and what doesn't.
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by trekker7 19y ago
http://www.risk-services.com/Second_Edition_Conrow_Book.jpg :-)
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by trekker7 19y ago
Shhh... I want to keep reading great articles.
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by trekker7 19y ago
In addition to all the advice from the other comments, read this essay: http://paulgraham.com/die.html .
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by trekker7 19y ago
Why is it so hard to make stuff people want? I wish somebody would start a company that solved this problem itself; i.e. a startup that generated ideas for startups.
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by trekker7 19y ago
I just graduated in December, don't know, maybe we've met. Shoot me an email at keshavs at berkeley dot edu if you want to chat!
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by trekker7 19y ago
just make sure you don't spend all your time studying in Soda...
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Using Nature as a Design Guide(businessweek.com)
2 points by trekker7 19y ago|0 comments
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by trekker7 19y ago
Something on the beach, with an ocean view.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Wow, I really admire your initiative in bookmarking sentences, taking notes, etc. If I can ask, what's your motivation for doing a startup? What drives you?
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by trekker7 19y ago
$$$ earned :-)
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by trekker7 19y ago
The central point is the <form> </form> tag set. When you write <form action="page.html" method="get"> [other code] </form> the browser well make a request for page.html and add the form data as part of the U
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by trekker7 19y ago
If you need a basic intro page, why not just hand code it? Check out http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp which is a good HTML tutorial. Also if you're going to do more complex stuff, try Django (www.djangobook.com).
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by trekker7 19y ago
Nice, this is pretty cool! I think this is a pretty unique idea, although I haven't seen much else in this domain. Seems to me like it's genuinely useful also.
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Ask News.YC: Teach for America?
8 points by trekker7 19y ago|16 comments
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by trekker7 19y ago
Are there really lots of great ideas floating around, more than we can all use? If so, please tell me two or three!
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by trekker7 19y ago
good point but in how many real world situations is this going to be an issue? for situations like measuring distance to a car while parking, a camera works well.
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by trekker7 19y ago
if the title's quote was what Torvalds actually said, this would be the funniest news post of the week
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by trekker7 19y ago
Dang, I thought the article was going to be about some cool new browser technology/GUIs or something.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Yep... this is pretty much the greatest story ever.
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by trekker7 19y ago
What's with all this negativity... it's not like you paid for the code and he owes you something. It's like someone builds a new type of car and gives it to you, and you say it totally sucks because there isn't any paint on it.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Bah, PG could write that in Lisp on the back of a napkin.
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Ask YC: Where do you work?
21 points by trekker7 19y ago|69 comments

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