trekker7

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Ask News.YC: What would you do if you were a billionaire?
5 points by trekker7 19y ago|30 comments
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Games that can educate: SimCity donated to OLPC project(arstechnica.com)
11 points by trekker7 19y ago|9 comments
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by trekker7 19y ago
The new courses that are designed to apply programming to real-world problems seem really promising. In my opinion, giving up concerts, outdoor parties, and sunbathing - in order to have students practice programming for 3 hours a day so th
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by trekker7 19y ago
Wow, he took pretty detailed notes in some classes (and strangely very little in others). For the past ~2 years I haven't even carried a pencil to lecture; usually professors have PPT slides that they put online, so listening works better t
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by trekker7 19y ago
Uhh is it just me, or does the ballerina switch her direction of spin every now and then... it starts off clock-wise, then after a while it changes direction, and then back again...
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by trekker7 19y ago
I read good explanations... so please keep posting 'em
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by trekker7 19y ago
I think you guys chose the wrong space... PR/advertising can be can be a very interesting field to learn about :-)
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by trekker7 19y ago
correlation with GDP per capita, or no?
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by trekker7 19y ago
I don't think the problem is too much information and too much activity. The problem is too much information/activities that people don't enjoy.
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by trekker7 19y ago
It's pretty hard to focus on pure hacking (including interesting articles not about startups) when something glamorous like startups is on everybody's minds. programming.reddit.com has been pretty good about sticking to pure programming s
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by trekker7 19y ago
You do have a point... there could be a much greater need in developing countries. But I think generosity is in short supply in this world. Any charity should be applauded loudly because it helps someone .
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by trekker7 19y ago
I'm trying to understand the technology here: Will this product enable me to make a personal website where I can easily pull together information from lots of different places, regardless of format (Google maps, data from a social network,
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by trekker7 19y ago
As an add-on to that point: Make sure what you are doing is SOLVING a user problem, not giving them a WAY to solve their problem. If you are making a site to help entrepreneurs find co-founders, you'd better deliver on that promise: if peop
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by trekker7 19y ago
No idea is stupid... just keep trying and learn from your mistakes. I think you might be on the right track if you're thinking of new ways to find people to co-found with. Cofoundr exists, and News.YC exists, but have you ever wondered why
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by trekker7 19y ago
See it's not that I wanted to go to college. What happened was, I turned 18, and what do you know I wasn't yet a billionaire entrepreneur. College is a back-up option that lets you get a job and make 60k a year to support yourself, just in
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by trekker7 19y ago
He did raise a ton of money through the Web in a short amount of time... for better or for worse, all that upvoting has some power to it.
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by trekker7 19y ago
No no, I'm not saying California isn't a good place to be. Let me elaborate. I've been in the Bay Area for about 18 years and I absolutely love it here. If I wasn't raised here I probably wouldn't have gotten interested in startups. You rea
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by trekker7 19y ago
In my opinion, this is true at Berkeley as well.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Wow, this is pretty impressive... I don't know about the valuation, but the revenue is awesome.
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eBay's Chaos Theory(fastcompany.com)
2 points by trekker7 19y ago|1 comments
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by trekker7 19y ago
I guess if you do, be careful, because if the startup doesn't work out you'll be even more in debt.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Nice article. Discover Magazine also seems to be a great place to find things to read. Anyone have recommendations for other websites that have good articles (aside fron News.YC)?
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by trekker7 19y ago
Maybe tech support? I don't know about the multiple answers bit, but perhaps there's a market for crowdsourced tech support, that works much faster than regular channels.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Just curious, if you live in the U.S., do you still feel in touch with the Indian market? I'm Indian but I've lived in the Valley for about 18 years... I took a trip there last year, and I was blown away by how much has changed.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Thanks prakster. Your comment got me thinking again... a subset like this may be feasible after all. Shoot me an email if you'd like to stay in touch.
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by trekker7 19y ago
Some sort of Web application to actually help with coming up with startup ideas. I knocked at this for a month or two, but couldn't come up with a decent solution. The best I got was some sort of database of user-generated customer pains, w
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by trekker7 19y ago
thinnest. client. ever.
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by trekker7 19y ago
"Increasingly, people with goods to sell set up their own websites and find buyers by advertising on Google's search pages." Really?
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by trekker7 19y ago
hey that's pretty cool The beauty is, you have to remember your passwords... so you'll have an image of a grande frappuchino permanently embedded in your head, the next time you drive by a Starbucks. Consumerists, rejoice.
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by trekker7 19y ago
21 + almost out of college (studied EE/CS)

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