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by vlad 18y ago
Respectfully, I'm not going to go through your comments; I'm just going by what I remember reading over the past year. (By the way, I don't think that mentioning your company as often as possible is necessarily a bad thing, as I had allude
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by vlad 18y ago
I've written a shareware app with a good GUI. I am not interested in working on it or any desktop app. Xobni is the only YC company I've heard of where the primary product or solution is a desktop app, so I think YCombinator also prefers
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A Day in the Life of a Stanford Professor(daily.stanford.edu)
3 points by vlad 18y ago|0 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
Apple makes available pre-release versions of their iPhone operating system to developers. I believe this is what they will still cover under NDA.
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Essential Math for Games Programmers - One Day Tutorial(essentialmath.com)
4 points by vlad 18y ago|0 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
Bodybuilders and weightlifters know that muscle grows in one's sleep. I think the key to working on anything into the night is following up with lots of sleep. That way, one gets the benefit of both sleep and sleep deprivation. Every once
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by vlad 18y ago
People should get the degree because it's easier (and probably more fun) to get it now, as young as possible, than wait. It also gives you options to study advanced topics or do research in the form of a graduate degree.
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by vlad 18y ago
Working at a corporation for a year. I guess it was worth it to know what it is like, but a terrible long term financial, educational, and health risk--not because of the company, but the domestication of relying on someone else over many
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by vlad 18y ago
I've asked a ycnews user who was one of six Stanford students who were working together at the start of 2007 to create a startup where students from different colleges would record video tours of their schools, to comment. I think they had
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Wikipedia deletes entry on PBWiki, the biggest hosted competitor with 550,000 wikis(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by vlad 18y ago|16 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
That working on tough problems burns calories has already been known.
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by vlad 18y ago
Thank you for posting. It was great meeting you earlier this year and I hope we're both crazy successful the next time we meet. It's all about little steps, though. :)
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by vlad 18y ago
Thank you, Omar! And thank you for posting! See you at next year's Startup School. :) It is always fun.
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by vlad 18y ago
Seconded.
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by vlad 18y ago
Thanks! I can look it up; it's turned out that it amounts to an independent study/project (one isn't taught anything.) However, having time to create my own app on my own terms is one of the reasons I quit my job, and this way, I'll get o
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One week since I quit a Fortune 100 IT Job--and I'm loving it
14 points by vlad 18y ago|10 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
I disagree with almost every point. Palm had flash memory, color screens, and wireless before, or with, everyone else. (I do concede that they made incremental hardware "improvements" with every new Treo, instead of researching and adding
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by vlad 18y ago
I believe the human tendency to evaluate a person based on one's physical fitness, posture, and looks is relevant to society, assuming other credentials of a certain job or role have been or will be satisfied as familiarity with the person
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by vlad 18y ago
I disagree. Genetics have very little influence over one's physique as long as other more important factors are considered, such as the person's activity level, amount of sleep, eating patterns, and work out routine. For a given person, t
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by vlad 18y ago
And rejected from YC the first time, if I remember correctly.
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by vlad 18y ago
Not genetics. Diet, Regular Workouts, and Sleep will lead to similar results for a given age group. There is nothing in genetics that will make you inept, except of course genetic mutations that are sometimes bad and sometimes good. But
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by vlad 18y ago
There were rumors Apple patented this a year or so ago.
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by vlad 18y ago
I don't think PG wrote this app the way it is today. He used iterative development and listened to suggestions from his users. Even on days he did not make changes, he might have thought certain things were fine. Over time, different pai
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by vlad 18y ago
"Electronic paper" is designed this way.
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by vlad 18y ago
The most important feature of exercise is that the participant is not doing something unhealthy in place of it. For example, slowly walking around the neighborhood over a period of two hours is awesome--even if it's low-impact. Slow, low
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by vlad 18y ago
"Our findings are quite contrary to expectations. We do not find any evidence that left-handed individuals earn less, as might be suggested by the literature referred to above which generally finds that left-handed people tend to suffer m
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Study: Left-Handed Males Earn 15% More Than Right-Handed Males (All College Educated)(econ.jhu.edu)
8 points by vlad 18y ago|14 comments
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by vlad 18y ago
Writing games with graphics in QuickBasic 6.5, and learning Visual Basic 4 at the start of high school. Acing AP Computer Science twice in my last two years, since I wanted to learn both curriculums: C++ in Codewarrior in 11th grade, and J
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by vlad 18y ago
Voted up. The exact idea I hyped to everyone (and wrote on my name tag) at YCombinator's Startup School and reception in April, so I know it has potential. And registered at Dynadot 3 days ago, the domain registrar I introduced News.YC to
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Sage: Free Open Source Python Alternative to Mathematica / MatLab(sagemath.org)
19 points by vlad 18y ago|4 comments

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