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utnick
19y ago
c++ LDO el oh l
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19y ago
That post has zero real world examples of things that Vista DRM has prevented him from doing.
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utnick
19y ago
Isn't part of the appeal of harvard and yale that for the most part only the wealthy and well connected can get in and afford to go there. That way you will make connections with the leaders of the world and write your own ticket after grad
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utnick
19y ago
This is really simple but it works really well for me. I write the things I want to do today on a notecard and then cross them out as I do them.
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utnick
19y ago
http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-fire... I read that guys article to get the basics down, also he has a good batch file for compiling the extension on windows that I use I go to xulplanet.com or mozilla for specific
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19y ago
it would be cool if people did things they wanted to do instead of things that look good on applications if colleges didn't care about them, I think membership in student council, natl honor society, habitat for humanity, chess club, band,
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utnick
19y ago
from your previous posts I'm assuming you want to do audio capture. I looked at this problem before and here is what I found: Java Pros: Free, hosting is not a problem, plenty of java programmers and resources in the world Cons: Java Sound
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19y ago
Here is one thing you could do ( inspired by that youtube video marketer guy on techcrunch ) 1. Nobody wants to join an empty social site. Either do it yourself or pay some people in 3rd world countries to have multiple accounts on your sit
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19y ago
thanks for posting this sadly, I didn't start at UT until a few years after he passed away. Must have been amazing to learn from this legend. All my professors had nothing but great things to say about him as a person and as a teacher.
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19y ago
My predictions: buffer overflows will no longer exist because anything user input facing will be written in 'safe' languages sql injection/cross site scripting will be no more as frameworks continue to prevent them out of the box somebody w
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19y ago
I skipped compilers in undergrad, did any of you guys use what you learned in compilers in other topics? ( have no desire to make a compiler, but wondering if this is a topic I should pick up )
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utnick
19y ago
if you 'game' the system by submitting a bunch of news or insightful posts, I think we all benefit
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19y ago
you are incorrect imo chess computers are better than people because chess computers brute force the problem, they can think millions of moves in advance and plan out every possible game path, a human can only think several moves in advance
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utnick
19y ago
the cool thing about poker v trading though is you need solid 6 figure bankroll to make a stable living trading, you can start poker with a few K or less
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utnick
19y ago
Some of the most successful people people I know graduated in so called 'less valid majors'. The real world requires a different skillset than just memorizing what a euler path is for the exam next week.
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utnick
19y ago
sha-1 will eventually be compromised most likely probably better to use sha-1 and md5 together, that way even if both are broken, it is very unlikely that an evil person will be able to create a fakefile that has the same sha-1 AND md5 hash
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utnick
19y ago
you should just call it theApp or theGreatestAppEV4R something generic
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utnick
19y ago
ok MUCH MUCH better, I now understand what it is
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19y ago
- http://superhappydevhouse.org/ - http://barcamp.org/ - organize a news.yc meetup - make friends on irc, freenode, #facebook, #rubyonrails, etc, etc - depending on how far along your startup is you could probably try to set up some vc
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19y ago
You've posted a few times on here about this app, but honestly you need to do a MUCH better job of explaining what it is if you want advice imo.
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19y ago
I have a feeling that the person receiving the email will be a lot better than your AI is at knowing if the person is depressed or suicidal.
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19y ago
Looks ok, It needs a facebook application BADLY. Users need to be able to post polls on their facebook profile, anonymous/logged in profile viewers should be able to vote, and users should be able to compete for 'points' using their facebo
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19y ago
One of my CS professors said something along the lines of A students generally go forward and get masters and phds, B students go out and build the stuff that changes the world
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19y ago
my google searches always seem to get driven to these kind of sites, so I bet they draw a bunch eyeballs, the answers seem to be pretty terrible though in general ( at least for technical ?s )
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19y ago
lol, so instead of equity we get beta invites? in seriousness, 2K is not worth raising money for, just get a job as a waiter and work for a month
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19y ago
I don't really see anything revolutionary that Android has over J2ME. Is there something I am missing? Probably most apps are going to be simple android interfaces to existing web services. But that being said you can be sure I am going to
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utnick
19y ago
Is xobni's business model to eventually sell their outlook plugin?
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yea, probably, especially if I lived in a country with a lower cost of living than the USA Most 'web 2.0' sites are not difficult or time consuming to make from a technical perspective, the value is in the community.
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19y ago
looks pretty solid, clean, and well put together Personally I'm pretty much burned out on typical facebook apps like this ( vampires, zombies, egg hatching, and so forth ), but I could see a lot of my friends using your app what did you wri
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19y ago
kind of like drawball.com?
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