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2911.
by wheels 19y ago
Sure. A lot of stuff is structured and some standardization may happen there. But let's say that somebody posts a really good comment here that becomes an authoritative source on something or another. You're not going to get the sort of
2912.
by wheels 19y ago
I agree. I wouldn't be surprised to see RDF creep into a niche of the web where hard-semantic data is already a requirement (and this would just be standardizing it), but I feel like in both psychology and web structure, meaning is somethi
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by wheels 19y ago
So, here's a question: Who's the competition? How did readers who didn't go through Y-Combinator get off of the ground? How'd you first get in contact with angel investors? Or incubators or seed funding or whatever... As much startup rhe
2914.
by wheels 19y ago
Freenode is still one of the primary hubs for a lot of open source action, so for those of us that are linked up to open source communities, an IRC channel is similarly convenient.
2915.
by wheels 19y ago
Easy enough. I'm in.
2916.
by wheels 19y ago
In English, "America" is the correct short for for the United States of America, and "Americans" for the residents. That's not true in other languages languages (Spanish, for example). I assume your moniker is less than accurate as in Ger
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by wheels 19y ago
This seems pretty obvious to me (as a european resident). The amount of stuff you have to figure out to reach the US market is a lot less than the amount of stuff you have to figure out to reach the european market. That's a lot of the im
2918.
by wheels 19y ago
I live in Germany, where college, with a very few exceptions is free across the board. On the one hand that's wonderful and part of me wants to love a system that offers free educational access to all. On the other hand, you see the influ
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by wheels 19y ago
I think it's more like having a first kid. We know we've got 3-6 months before it starts breathing and there's a tendency to over-prepare because We Want Everything To Be Right. We're still not to the point of no-return (haven't quit our
2920.
by wheels 19y ago
As I said in another recent comment, most OSS coders start off bad; it's being part of the community over time that makes them good. So get a couple sets of asbestos underwear for when the first flames roll in and start small. Find someth
2921.
by wheels 19y ago
The major points that I'd mention, reacting to what you said are: - It's not as open as it looks. Once projects grow over a certain size, either formally or informally a lot of the decisions are made behind closed doors. - There's a lot of
2922.
by wheels 19y ago
Well, I've been on the inside of that for years (in the KDE project) and could write volumes about what I've seen working and not working. But a lot of it doesn't work on the same plane; in most of the larger projects the drive to market t
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Ask YC: The business process sweet spot
8 points by wheels 19y ago|11 comments
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by wheels 19y ago
Some people are wired to do art. They have to to be happy. If you're one of those people, by all means, do art. But it sounds like what you're debating here is not doing art vs. not doing art, but taking art as a career path. All that I'
2925.
by wheels 19y ago
I've gone back and forth between working in the arts and working in software, and now work at the line between the two. The thing is, usually making ends meet working in the arts isn't very sexy. I taught bass, played at business parties,
2926.
by wheels 19y ago
It takes a long time to deeply learn your tools. Switching means starting over. One of the hardest things in any trade is knowing when upgrading your tools is worth throwing away that experience and how much better they have to be to comp
2927.
by wheels 19y ago
Similar question I'd been thinking of posting (I'll start a new thread if it doesn't get enough traction here): How about Boston / Cambridge? Potential requirements would be: at least two separate rooms, which can be tiny (basically a bed
2928.
by wheels 19y ago
- Introduction to Algorithms (MIT Press). This is the only one of my computer science textbooks that I consistently refer back to. It's elegant and timeless and covers a lot of ground. - Design Patterns . Dry, boring, useful. You can
2929.
by wheels 19y ago
I personally just dig that they've got some great talks that are up with Creative Commons licenses. I appreciate the conference even if only for the fact that I think they've got some important ideas that are being preserved in an open for
2930.
by wheels 19y ago
I really do see where you're coming from, partly because I believed the same when I was in college. I kept looking around and thinking, "There has to be a place where everybody's better than this, right?" I'll go ahead and put out a few th
2931.
by wheels 19y ago
You can learn (or incidentally, not learn) CS at most decent colleges. What I think is a lot more interesting about college is everything else that you'll learn there along the way and learning to get along and have fun with other smart pe
2932.
by wheels 19y ago
It really depends on what you're working on. One thing that I've figured out is that you don't learn software engineering in college at all. Even if you took a bunch of courses in it. However, a knowledge of algorithms can be invaluable.