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An approachable book on algorithms(cs.berkeley.edu)
3 points by ziadbc 16y ago|1 comments
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by ziadbc 16y ago
One comment I would have on this is that theory is often not framed by many professors in the context of practice or application. The converse is also true. Math theory is a beautiful thing, but if no context is provided (this can be merel
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by ziadbc 16y ago
I agree with you wholeheartedly, and I would hybridize what you said a bit. There are always amazing things being studied in computer science, and those are a huge opportunity of things to be monetized. Just as things like the web browser a
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Just as Google has gone into markets that are far beyond search engines (like phones), Facebook will. I think there is a high likelyhood that five years from now people will look back at this time and realize now was just the beginning for
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Learning to program is a function of interest, need and willpower. It is fun to dabble and be curious, but curiosity will not get you through some of the minutia that it takes to build a real app, and thats when need and willpower get you t
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by ziadbc 16y ago
These two services have similarities, but someone could just have well written an article that says "Wordpress leaves Tumblr and Posterous in the dust." I like the idea of a YC company taking on an existing one head on once in awhile, rathe
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22 Part Video Series with Jason Fried of 37signals(youtube.com)
2 points by ziadbc 16y ago|0 comments
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by ziadbc 16y ago
I agree with your premise that one does not need to try something to know it is not for them. However, you are making an apples and oranges comparison here. You don't apply to the military. You volunteer for service, and it is compulsory
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by ziadbc 16y ago
People get caught up on this "I don't need 20k." YC is like the best university in the world paying you to go to it. Secondly, people make all kinds of assumptions about "I don't fit their model." The best way to determine if you fit thei
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by ziadbc 16y ago
My prediction: Technology ends up making universities more money than ever. I just don't buy the idea that somehow the people who invented this tech (MIT media lab and others) are going to be obsoleted by their own creation (the internet).
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by ziadbc 16y ago
If you are building a tech company, and you plan on remaining 'non technical' it is almost quite literally a non starter. You don't have to be an engineer, but you have to curate that part of your brain at least some. Google "Victoria Ranso
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Get a domain name, put up a description of the product, start collecting emails on that page. Interview potential users/customers of the product. Collect information (primary research) to show that the idea has legs. Show this info to pot
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Programming Explained In Five Minutes(wanttt.com)
3 points by ziadbc 16y ago|1 comments
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by ziadbc 16y ago
I have a firm inner conviction that this test is wrong, regardless of external evidence to the contrary.
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Was going well. However, one of my 'misses' had a logical flaw in it. I previously responded that it is ok to believe something spiritually based on a firm inner conviction, without external evidence. It then posed that a person raped so
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Don't get caught up in a scam mentality. Instead think of ethical pivots on things that would otherwise be shady. For example, Google 'scrapes' the entire web, but no one would consider that unethical, its a search engine. On the other h
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Thanks for the info. I originally posted my request (half serious, half jokingly) when not many explanations in the thread were there to respond to the validity of the paper. Thanks for your insight.
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Can someone call Knuth? If he gives it the thumbs up then I'll believe it.
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by ziadbc 16y ago
The easiest thing I've found to get over the internet addiction is to have a critical amount of shit that is more mentally engaging around. I have a bunch of MIT lectures on my iPhone, and I have several highly interesting books around. I
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by ziadbc 16y ago
I think Apple sees this as more of a successor to HyperCard. http://mobiforge.com/developing/story/build-web-apps-iphone-...
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by ziadbc 16y ago
PG is a bona fide philosopher. Just as we had the epicureans and the stoics, and their houses, we now how the house of ycombinator. AFAIK PG doesn't necessarily want it to get cultish, but its not cultish if its based in reason. And base
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by ziadbc 16y ago
It is kind of interesting how there is some kind of karma in the whole privacy debate here. All of his info is being aired out in public. So far its been fairly benign, but it looks like it might get dirty here pretty soon.
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by ziadbc 16y ago
One issue is that you probably created something that had a discrete 'idea' behind it. I find if you just start coding 'the project' but aren't constrained by a specific idea, but remaining in the same codebase, it is liberating and allows
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Are they unsupportive of you doing a startup, or are they unsupportive of the startup you are currently doing?
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The History of the Weblog(rebeccablood.net)
1 points by ziadbc 16y ago|0 comments
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by ziadbc 16y ago
I think they made some minute changes possibly? For some reason I remember going to cnn.com and seeing info about my friends right on the front page. Now you have to login. Also, I think the takeaway is that FB should just figure out a
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by ziadbc 16y ago
I like that you call a mini startup. Works pretty good, but the layout is kind of all over the place
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Does this foreshadow what having true AI would be like? It seems it's better to be in the business of automating being human than being an actual one.
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Reddit is very loyal to its userbase, but isn't moderating them too much. Thus, it is becoming hard to market toward them because there isn't an easy in for someone offering products. Either they need to shape their audience more, or figu
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by ziadbc 16y ago
If people like this, they can do it for other metrics based services, and then just make one bigass report.

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