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Book Review: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience(wanttt.com)
3 points by ziadbc 16y ago|0 comments
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by ziadbc 16y ago
If he is talking about computer science, then there probably will be more powerful abstractions discovered. If he is talking about software engineering, I think it will be a challenge. Just as there is not theoretically perfect design for
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Maybe steve should just start twittering with a verified account. Also, in my day we didn't get so mad at rumor sites for being right or wrong. If these guys want to be journalists rather than muckrakers thats fine. But if you're whole b
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Not to mention dropping the realtime buzzword.
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Erlang: The Movie(wanttt.com)
2 points by ziadbc 16y ago|2 comments
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Well it depends. There are many things you could simply install and would work similarly. If you want to do this as an exercise in learning to create web applications I suggest http://www.buildingwebapps.com/learningrails
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Most of the feedback here is focused on what are the ends of this program. The important part is the means. The world has unlimited space for great innovators. Ycombinator is a great program but no program has unlimited resources. These s
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Why Ideas are Important(wanttt.com)
7 points by ziadbc 16y ago|1 comments
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by ziadbc 16y ago
At some point, and it is happening already to a small degree, this problem will no longer exist. Top universities are catching onto the success of YC and will begin to offer programs of lesser magnitude, but similar intent. Once one of th
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by ziadbc 16y ago
http://www.giveforward.org/ was created for this purpose. They are now an excellerate labs company also.
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Writing Real Time Games for Android(wanttt.com)
2 points by ziadbc 16y ago|0 comments
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Esther Dyson on Investing in Startups in Russia(wanttt.com)
13 points by ziadbc 16y ago|2 comments
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by ziadbc 16y ago
I do agree that these features are 'inspired' by other apps. Had they launched these in 2006 it'd be a copycat move. At this point, these are features that I think many users expect in something like digg. Facebook features have also bee
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by ziadbc 16y ago
There is a framework for these kind of stuff. Don't know how widely adopted it is http://www.cloudstack.com/
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Other than the outliers, things like like Yahoo or Amazon that were created during .com days, I can't see how you wouldn't do better today then back then. In my opinion, having something like heroku exist as a resource to your startup is l
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Thanks guys. How did your interview on NPR go?
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by ziadbc 16y ago
I think this debate can be summed up as: Flakes are often Job Hoppers. Not all Job Hoppers are Flakes. Correlation, not causation. Also, I'd like to see some objective stats here like "do companies with lots of job hoppers do better or wors
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Well, Palm is a publicly traded company. Their valuation is fairly objective. HP actually paying more than the market cap of 784 M. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=palm&d=t Groupon doesn't have that litmus test, and valuations and cas
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by ziadbc 16y ago
Not sure what the industry analysis of this will be, but I like the idea of HP having its own platform to present to the world. It reminds me of the 80s where the was lots of diversity in the platforms. The good news here is WebOS apps are
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by ziadbc 17y ago
If you're big on visualization check out Harvard's www.CS171.org. I'm enrolled in the class right now and it's been very enriching. I think it is also available as opencourseware. Books: http://www.cs171.org/syllabus.html Resources htt
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by ziadbc 17y ago
Maybe instead of a business plan, it should be a business journal. Keep a log of what you know, and a long of what you know you don't know.
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by ziadbc 17y ago
I think the biggest reason you don't see a hypercard clone take off is that html/javascript was inspired by hypercard in the first place, and the barrier to learning basic web development isn't much higher than hypercard-like tools. A begi
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Altair (The First PC) Inventor and inspiration for Microsoft Passes Away(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by ziadbc 17y ago|0 comments
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by ziadbc 17y ago
Are you guys gonna be at the HN meetup tonight?
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by ziadbc 17y ago
What do you think of this model andrew? I have a prototype of a similar app that is a little less blatant.
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by ziadbc 17y ago
From my experience YC is sort of like the state of Missouri. Show me don't tell me. The ideas on this list might not be pie in the sky, but they are most likely something people can get their head around, and are fairly polished. This make
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by ziadbc 17y ago
The name of the company is Data Marketplace i.e. a marketplace for multiple vendors. I think their goal is going to be to aggregate the various providers of data and through competition, quality should be relatively stable and hopefully im
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by ziadbc 17y ago
It does say at the end of the post "Sometimes" design doesn't matter. I don't think the point of the article was to say "Design Never Matters." My takeaway was more that sometimes a fancy facade is no substitute for a great product.
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by ziadbc 17y ago
This reminds me of times I've heard non techie people say that one reason Google got popular because "it just had a weird name." There are tons of weird named websites, but once one gets popular then people think the name sounds nice, fami
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by ziadbc 17y ago
Wow, you read my mind.

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