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by tsestrich 17y ago
I found some documentation online about several policies surrounding this: http://www.pitt.edu/~offres/policyu.html It's not really an easy read, but it seems that, by default, the University wants in on anything you do in their facilitie
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Any tips then if I wanted to get around this? In my case I won't be using anything from the University for the project. To be honest, I might do work on it in the library from time to time or something, but I could even avoid this if absolu
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Yeah, agreed. I've found the contact information for the person in charge of our tech transfer office (called the Office of Technology Management... I assume they're basically the same thing). I'll wait to hear back from my department head
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by tsestrich 17y ago
My schools actually listed in my profile for the curious. But no, I haven't signed any kind of agreement saying that I won't use their property. The only agreement that would be standing currently is if I agreed in my acceptance letter to l
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by tsestrich 17y ago
I have no code written currently, and have only met with my adviser to have him sign off on his agreement to oversee the project. I'll probably go the route of getting the school to sign off on something saying, basically "I won't use your
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by tsestrich 17y ago
That's helpful information. I'll have to dig up what I signed when I agreed to go to school here and find out what it said about research.
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by tsestrich 17y ago
For those curious, the response from my department head (who I worked with to set up the independent study): " This is a complicated question. Effectively, the University owns everything (all IP) that we do while we are here, faculty, staff
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Really well done. I love the idea too, and if I hadn't already started on another project this was essentially going to be my next :) Glad someone beat me to it though, since maybe now I can find an easy avenue to sell some paintings on if
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Ask HN: Legal rights to University project?
18 points by tsestrich 17y ago|45 comments
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Might not be an expert, but I'm in a similar boat in that I have a firm footing in PHP and want to develop a web app on my own. I chose to go with PHP and Symfony, as it seems to be a pretty powerful framework with great documentation (they
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Two things about the community page and user pages in general... It would be nice to see a "More..." or "All..." option to see more than just the top 25 users, in case someone wanted to see where they fell for instance. Also, the user pages
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by tsestrich 17y ago
That's exactly what I'm going to be doing with my Computer Engineering degree (like CS with some electrical engineering thrown in), but in the US with Deloitte Consulting. I had the exact same conflict, where I didn't want to be programming
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by tsestrich 17y ago
I think the solution is to have multiple colored lights that flash like a game show whenever you finish off a certain task. Makes it seem more important than if you had just made a little mental note of it
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by tsestrich 17y ago
I'm just thinking that for any larger company (think Fortune 500), $20-$25 would be a rounding error. I bet they'll charge their premium accounts significantly more ($hundreds at least). Their "analytics" would have to be pretty kick ass th
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Twitter Launching Paid Business Accounts(telegraph.co.uk)
29 points by tsestrich 17y ago|18 comments
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Can you please continue down this alternate thread of straight-to-the-point-badassness? I was enjoying the story until the last paragraph, when it wasn't a story anymore
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by tsestrich 17y ago
It's very difficult to critique specifics without handing you back a physical paper with redlines on it. Generally, the grammar needs a lot of work, as does the tense (jumping back and forth between past and present), and the flow from para
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by tsestrich 17y ago
The real question is: "who's 22 and still living in a dorm room"? Cool story though, glad to hear your users are finding original uses for your app
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by tsestrich 17y ago
That's pretty interesting that he'd put his money into Prosper rather than Lending Club (lendingclub.com). Maybe as a company it's currently more profitable, but for investors (ie. people making the P2P loans), its far more risky than lendi
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by tsestrich 17y ago
You could read Go! as "go not" :)
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by tsestrich 17y ago
I see what you mean, and I haven't been able to find a full text of what was said about each topic. Out of context, I saw each point as an unsubstantiated claim that was part of a single, larger point. There wasn't an indication that each o
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by tsestrich 17y ago
This might be me being a nitpicker... but how does being able to bet on "Innovation... Software... Things on Screens... Programming Languages" help anyone? Are these things that were up for debate? The useful things in here are the bold pre
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Yes indeed I did, lol. Thanks
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Eh, I get the sense that sometimes people will just grab any news story that hasn't been posted yet and post it hoping to get voted up points. I haven't been around all that long, but it seems like the signal to noise ratio is getting a lot
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by tsestrich 17y ago
"Japanese people were surprised about the news since he made that in his age." As opposed to most other people, who were not surprised at all? I agree though, the title implies that he improved all of Ruby's performance... even though it wa
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by tsestrich 17y ago
I like the idea, but just a heads up that Pitt plays Notre Dame at home that day too (an 8pm game)
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by tsestrich 17y ago
What if someone threw you something?
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Side note: I have been told by the person in charge of recruiting at my company that explicitly stating references as "available on request" is really unnecessary, and just takes up space. Obviously your references should be available upon
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by tsestrich 17y ago
Good advice. Not trying to be mean or say anything about the service, but it was a big turnoff from the moment I saw it.
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by tsestrich 17y ago
I thought that was a very interesting experiment, but I thought of it more of a proof of concept rather than a "I wish this could work for everyone". The thing that will ultimately make something like this impractical is the emotional attac

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