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Getting Started in Android Game Development(rbgrn.net)
2 points by vlad 18y ago|0 comments
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ACM Looking for Heroic and Solutions-Oriented Buzzwords to Attract Students to Computing(yazhbin.com)
3 points by vlad 18y ago|1 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
I like it a lot, but maybe you could have a dedicated area for the job descriptions on the right side, just above the keywords? Right now, it is very difficult to scroll through the list of technologies used because the location of each jo
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by vlad 18y ago
I have to agree. Max says he has two degrees, but does not state from where, or what his concentration was in graduate school. That's fine, but then says he worked with Microsoft, which could mean anything ranging from being an employee,
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by vlad 18y ago
That's because the submission title is misleading (the blog post says nothing about "reverse engineering" anything.) Here is what flickr actually did: "Over time this got us wondering: If we plotted all the geotagged photos associated with
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by vlad 18y ago
I thought the point of a web startup is to figure out ways to increase your hosting bills... :)
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by vlad 18y ago
And in Massachusetts, a question is up to repeal state taxes... what do you guys think about that?
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Ask YC: Mass. question to eliminate state tax: good or bad for startups?
1 points by vlad 18y ago|1 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
Nice post! You said you hadn't realized your idea wasn't exactly unique until after you had started working on it. Some may call this a stretch, but I think this is similar to Steve Wozniak often creating things that already existed, just
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by vlad 18y ago
>> That would cast all what I have historically labeled as "cynicism" toward my employer away. This is actually a letter to non-employee shareholders... making this much more cooler.
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by vlad 18y ago
Patrick, any other resources you'd recommend?
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by vlad 18y ago
Yes, employees could be a subset of shareholders, but again I specifically believe this letter was sent to non-employee shareholders. Here are quotes illustrating why: >> Dear Autodesk Shareholder, >> This is the time to ne
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by vlad 18y ago
I apologize if I'm mistaken (I'm sure if I was right somebody would have also noticed this by now), but isn't this a letter to the shareholders of the company, telling them they need to help out, even relocating to their office for a month,
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by vlad 18y ago
I believe they work in groups to develop their own application. Also, I don't think there's a prerequisite of programming knowledge before taking this class, thus making it a great way for any 19-year-old student to collaborate on developi
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by vlad 18y ago
There's a different way of thinking about effort that takes into account both direction and magnitude. What could you be doing right now that would make you $10,000 an hour? This way, you will focus on the right tasks, and the right inten
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by vlad 18y ago
I'm taking a Comp Sci class in flash animation and graphic design. Not only does it not count towards the major, but nor for any elective, either (of the ones I have remaining to fulfill). But I wanted to take it... and it's been worth it
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by vlad 18y ago
Looks like they've decided to make a 10 Euro "gold" version of the coin as well. http://en.knm.nl/domains/knm/content/arch10_2008s.jpg
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by vlad 18y ago
That's what I decided to do a week ago in one of my classes. I have to write three analyses of other people's work every week on Blackboard, so I will create 4x3x2=24 insightful posts, then post one at a time from a nearby computer lab on
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by vlad 18y ago
Here is what makes this new: 1) Seems to "eat" many plants including wood pulp, not just sugar cane and corn. Also eats leftovers of sugar cane and corn that microbes used in existing technologies leave behind. 2) Performs the conversion i
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UMass Researcher's start up looking for $20M to use new microbe to convert sugar to ethanol in one step(bostonmagazine.com)
3 points by vlad 18y ago|2 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
More comments from the last time this was submitted to YCN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=163083
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by vlad 18y ago
1) He mentioned releasing a new version of the software at the same time. It is almost a rule that announcing new releases in blogs or sending customers a newsletter always makes a noticeable increase in visits to your page, including down
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by vlad 18y ago
No problem! Thanks for the reply.
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by vlad 18y ago
Thanks for the clarification. It sounds like your example is somebody who is older, with family and kids to support, a mortgage or other startup debt to pay off, and going through the dot com bomb, as a counterpoint to my statement. Again,
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by vlad 18y ago
Thanks for your reply. You will note that I was specifically writing about software entrepreneurs who learn and prove knowledge of the latest technologies and latest languages. They will never have a tough time finding a job if they neede
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by vlad 18y ago
In the long term, working on your own projects using the latest technologies and latest editions of popular languages, and having projects to show for it, will give you much more experience and credibility than working at a company for the
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by vlad 18y ago
Thanks! Nice find! I actually recalled this from reading about Google in some article four or five years ago, but it's nice to have a link to the information straight from the horse's mouth.
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by vlad 18y ago
Here's some background history, but I don't recall the source. Google used to receive anonymous e-mails containing nothing but a number. Eventually, they figured out what this hint meant. Google made a sparse homepage a part of their iden
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by vlad 18y ago
Go to godaddy.com and unlock all of your domain names. Make sure you have access to the administrative e-mail specified in each of your domains. Sign up at dynadot.com and pre-pay $500 to get bulk pricing, e.g. .coms for $7.75. Highlight a
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by vlad 18y ago
Bodybuilding came to my mind. People say they don't have good genes (I would say some percentage of professional athletes do have far better genes than anyone else, but not most professional or college athletes). However, unless they try

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