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Title: what I've found so far:
http://ted.com
http://www.catonmat.net/blog/videos-from-defcon-15-hacker-conference/
http://content.nejm.org/misc/videos.shtml<p>Where's more stuff like that? Interestingness and learning.
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Title: Just interested to know, what do people in this forum think about PHP as a backend language for a website?
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Title: I'm wondering if people have any sense of what consulting gigs are paying these days. I'm sure that the pay rate varies by geography, industry, computer language and technology.<p>My primary interest is in hearing what LAMP, Django and RoR gigs are paying, but I'd also love to hear what DB consultants are makin... | 78 |
Title: Looking for YC advice:<p>I am the non technical co founder of a startup, which has been in development mode for 12 months. I took a $30,000 loan and raised some $160,000 in funding from friends and an angel to develop an idea to the proof of concept stage. I found a Django technical developer 14 months ago, and ... | 129 |
Title: I am currently a college senior who upon gotten rejected by YCombinator (made it past the 1st round, didn't make it beyond the interview), have decided to take on another project. Hey you might have even heard of it, it is called life.<p>The first time I tackled on the project of life was during high school, whe... | 47 |
Title: After reading a recent post here with "best advice" from 13 prominent business people, I was underwhelmed. Now I know why. I'd rather hear from you guys than from them.
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Title: Some interesting remarks on Reddit as well:<p>http://reddit.com/info/6inwx/comments/
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Title: John McCarthy came to my class at Stanford on Wednesday May 7. Here is a VERY rough transcript of the informal interview. It comes from my notes that I was taking/my memory. These are definititely not verbatim quotes from McCarthy.<p>-----Professor's Interview Questions-----<p>Q. Can Computers Think?<p>A. Thi... | 136 |
Title: I have a site, and I would like to know what do you consider it is the least amount I should spend promoting it and where should I spend it? thx
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Title: I spend too much time browsing the web and it's hurting my productivity. There are so many interesting sites online -- hacker news, blogs, friendfeed, facebook, nytimes, etc -- and it's hard for me resist checking them on a daily basis, often multiple times a day. This stuff is really interesting and often usefu... | 44 |
Title: Did you ever launch a project that deserved popularity, but inexplicably failed? Something you still think could have changed the world? Post a link here.
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Title: Have you seen any relationship between the amount of money a YCombinator company spends over the summer/winter and their eventual success?<p>I would guess that it's bad for a startup to blow through their investment money, but how big of a factor is day to day frugality for a startup?
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Title: Question for techies who started a web business with a subscription revenue model: How did you get your first customer?<p>I'm asking because I'm a typical shy coder: cranking out truckloads of Python code is not a problem, but socializing and having a big network of business contacts is. I'm still grooving on D... | 70 |
Title: I have recently finished the design work for a project I am going to be working on this summer and I was having a hard time deciding which framework to implement the project in. A lot of the articles written out there seem to either be dated (so some of the qualms may have been changed in newer versions) or bia... | 70 |
Title: It seems Eliezer Yudkowsky has joined HN:<p>http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eyudkowsky<p>This prompts the following question. Would you be willing to discuss or reveal anything to HN users about your AI box experiments?<p>http://sysopmind.com/essays/aibox.html<p>I've always been curious as to how you managed... | 60 |
Title: I recently learned that my co-founder and I have been offered seed funding from a VC. Our startup is working on a web app (I'm being purposely vague). The terms they are offering are a $25,000 investment with 70% common stock for the two founders, 10% common stock for themselves, and a 20% option pool, and th... | 40 |
Title: I know there is a ton results for a google search, which is precisely my problem. SICP is a 4 letter word that everyone would understand here. Are there any such reputed courses for machine learning that jumps to your mind? Any help is much appreciated.
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Title: I launched my startup officially last week (Eureka Science News - http://esciencenews.com - intelligent news aggregator, fully automated, similar to techmeme and Google News, but with full content on the site - check out the /about page if you want to know more). I got amazingly positive feedback from it; got co... | 46 |
Title: I do not remember my parents ever lying to me, and I have tried to always tell my children the truth as well.<p>I never remember my parents swearing at anyone or about anything. They were honest when they were angry or upset, but did not feel it was helpful to get demeaning or curse things or people. I have also... | 58 |
Title: Not eating for 16 hours can help people quickly reset their sleep-wake cycle, according to a study from the Harvard Medical School. This discovery can help people cope with jet lag or adjust to working late shifts. Scientists have long known that our circadian rhythm is regulated by our exposure to light. Now t... | 89 |
Title: I’ve been using this site for a while now, and though I do recognize some usernames, I only have a vague sense of personalities for very few of them (excluding people I’ve actually met in person). I think the problem is that when I’m reading comments I see the username and the comment, but I don’t really associ... | 55 |
Title: The limiting reagent in a few projects I'm working on (or would like to work on) seems to be my knowledge of statistics/probability.<p>Ideally, I'd like something along the lines of Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds that could teach me from the ground up.<p>I have a fairly strong math background in general, but I'v... | 80 |
Title: I need to send out automated emails to users (e.g. invitations, share notices, etc.) and want to guarantee that recipients don't receive them in their spam folder.<p>I can minimize by utilizing SPF/DK/DKIM but it's not a guarantee. Services like Port25 that specialize in outbound MTA is quite expensive.<p>What ... | 54 |
Title: I'm often fascinated by the people in the HN community. I feel a connection with many of them.<p>I recently wrote a letter to my local television station about my experiences in college (I'm graduating in June). In it I talk about my lack of friendships, among other things. I have realized that I really enjoy ta... | 77 |
Title: My personal problem is that I have some good idea's and I can code (php /django) but I have close to no design skills whatsoever. I know what functions should be on the websites of my ideas but when I try to make a design in GIMP it just does'nt look good. I have the impression people can learn how to code to so... | 46 |
Title: Amazingly amazing unix-like shell for Google Services.
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Title: I'm curious to know because I work in Honolulu for a new startup, and there aren't many of us down here. I actually "technically" work for two startups, so that makes it even harder because both of them need 110% percent of me and at this stage in the game its not possible to leave either of them (despite how, i... | 42 |
Title: I have just gotten the book "Programming Collective Intelligence" and having read a few chapters i am wishing that i had gotten the book earlier!. At the same time, it shows how much most web applications being developed today lack deep technology (I am also guilty of this). Whats your take on this?
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Title: Jeff Croft's writeup in response to a recent article by 37Signals' position against the visual mockup. Jeff cites that this may work for 37Signals because of their simple, established products and because they are not working for a client.
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Title: I am a senior in College and studying for finals right now.<p>On thursday(6/5) I returned back to my apartment in the evening and found my roommate dead in his room. The reason for death is still unknown but it is most likely due to an accidental overdose. He had been diagnosed with chronic fatigued. It has been... | 62 |
Title: The last few inquiries I did on HN for Forbes stories had great results. Would love to hear from you guys on this one...<p>I'm writing a story for Forbes about what really happens when your startup company fails. I need to hear from entrepreneurs who have had failing startup companies with an honest explanatio... | 45 |
Title: Congrats Sam and team!
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Title: My first response: wow, this is an amazing device -- geo-location services are finally here! -- can't wait to pick one up.<p>But now I'm just depressed.<p>I'm depressed because people I know who have been working on great products are going to have an impossible time competing with Cupertino - every ajax desktop... | 44 |
Title: I've noticed something that seems like a trend, namely an increased use of the downvote for comments that people mildly disagree with. I pointed it out in this thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214294). I normally try to stay away from the downvote button as much as possible because it seems somewhat... | 41 |
Title: Hello HN. Not to boast, but I've devised a foolproof method to get more karma than you. Given that we're all members of the entrepreneurial community, I thought I'd share this method with my fellow colleagues, in hopes that they may derive some inspiration. So here it goes - my new Instant Karma Plan:<p>1. Subsc... | 50 |
Title: I know many of us are super-busy and absorbed in projects, so I thought I'd post a quick reminder for those who celebrate this holiday.<p>Still have a few days left to think of a way to show your dad your appreciation. I usually can't think of anything and end up getting him some golf balls (lame). This year I t... | 63 |
Title: http://nirmalpatel.com/#hnsplitview<p>HN SplitView is a bookmarklet that adds a link labelled "SPLIT VIEW" to each post on the Hacker News website. This link allows the user to open the post and the discussion page side by side in frames. Simply drag the link for HN SplitView to your toolbar or add it as a favor... | 57 |
Title: Hello,
If you are interested in a hacker position for a hacker company in Kendal Square (very close to MIT) send me your resume. A lot of our software is in Lisp and we have a true hacker culture. Feel free to contact me.<p>My email is mpresh@gmail.com.
I am not a recruiter, I work for ITA and
follow hacker ne... | 40 |
Title: I just spent the last half hour trying to downgrade my account from business to personal, after discovering a recurring charge which I hadn't realized was going to be recurring. There are plenty of buttons and obvious links for how I can upgrade my account - but not a single one for downgrading. I considered c... | 60 |
Title: They have a plan
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Title: Posts now appear with a flag link. Anyone care to explain its proper use?
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Title: I already know how to do most css+html+js voodoo necessary to get a site up and running, but always with a crude and smelly design. Any pointers on books/blogs where one can get some tips?
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Title: My Facebook profile was disabled for the second, and what seems the last time ("We will not be able to reactivate your account, nor will you be able to recover any content within the account. This decision is final.") on Sunday. The reason, too much "activity"?!?! Over the year and a half I have had my profile, ... | 50 |
Title: I am a single founder who has put a lot of work into the product that I have.<p>Joining up with a YC type system wasn't going to happen for me for various reasons so I instead sought after some small investment money from individuals and that has worked for me. I am about to close another round and I wanted to ... | 66 |
Title: "I’ve made a lot of these career mistakes myself, and it’s hard for me to admit my failures. But in the interest of helping others avoid some of the mistakes I’ve made, I’ve decided to go ahead and create a list of the major career mistakes that I’ve made or that I’ve seen other people in IT make."
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Title: There's a new field in your profile called delay. It's the time delay in minutes between when you create a comment and when it becomes visible to other people. I added this so that when there are rss feeds for comments, users can, if they want, have some time to edit them before they go out in the feed. Many u... | 47 |
Title: I'm sure you're aware that its been announced that Google and Yahoo will now be indexing Flash content.<p>Our idea for a startup was to create a search engine for Flash content. For quite some time now we've been crawling and indexing Flash content and we were getting ready to release a beta version of our site... | 86 |
Title: I've just become 24 and I've been working with computers since I was 12, got my own when I was 14. I've been programming for more then 10 years now and I was capable of spending days behind my computer screen. But since I started working things have changed for me. I don't have any personal projects anymore, not... | 52 |
Title: For all of you ladies who may or may not be flirting with the idea of dating a startup programmer, you should know exactly what you’re getting yourself into.
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Title: We recently released a new version that uses constant urls for vote arrows and reply links on comments. This should make "expired link" messages less common, because the supply of closure ids won't run out so fast.<p>The new code is gross, as I feared it would be.
In other applications you might be able to post... | 61 |
Title: I'm a college student with well managed debt (I saved fairly well and have manged to keep my debts well within range for paying off within 2 years of graduating) and I'm considering taking some of my paycheck and investing it as opposed to saving it. This includes both retirement funds as well as general stocks... | 65 |
Title: I've had an idea that's been eating me up for 18 months. What's your position on 'older' founders and startups?
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Title: As a recovering Marketing / Biz Dev guy currently considering taking the plunge and starting a company, I find myself seriously lacking with regards to engineer contacts. I'm in the NYC area (yes, I'm going to try to hit the meet) and I know there are plenty of great minds here; I just don't know them.<p>In brai... | 42 |
Title: Hey guys, I've just launched my new site (mixturtle.com). It's a music search engine and player. It uses Ajax for the interface so you can search and play music simulataneously. Playlists are created automatically and you can access it by right click mouse. (thank you jQuery!) Any comments appreciated.<p>Thanks
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Title: I vividly remember writing that. Glad to see someone else felt strongly enough about it to include it on their site.<p>The links are pretty good, including some to pg and dhh. Pretty good company, I'd say.
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Title: So someone mentioned to me the option of working full-time for a period of time on a very exciting project. The cost benefits would simply yield supplementary income, nothing super spectacular, so not getting the gig doesn't immediately mean I'll be shit out of luck with money.<p>But then I saw the job post and... | 72 |
Title: And now TechCrunch:<p>http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/27/google-beats-cuil-hands-down-in-size-and-relevance-but-that-isnt-the-whole-story/
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Title: Tired of trying to keep up with the 100+ YC companies, I've plugged in the RSS feeds for all their dev blogs.
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Title: We had a good screenshot thread over 9 months ago. It's always interesting to see how wizards perfect their craft.<p>Show us how you hack!
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Title: Alternate link - http://dob.posterous.com/the-404-test-wildly-brilliant<p>Apparently the DNS may not have propagated fully. But it's quite ironic that the link is leading to a 404 for some people.
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Title: Hello All,<p>I would appreciate very frank advice on what I should do with my start up, Anaphoric Systems
(http://www.anaphoric.com).<p>The whole effort started as a research project several years ago, but when I was informed that I actually owned the system, I entered a business plan competition and then start... | 49 |
Title: About 6 months ago I decided to learn either Python or Ruby because I wanted a language to write webapps and simple computergames fast.<p>I kind of tried both for a while and Python gave the better impression in every way, readability, ease of use, libraries, documentation, expressiveness etc.<p>But there are so... | 66 |
Title: note that hyphenated commands are now officiall discouraged/deprecated<p>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/72874
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Title: Hey,<p>Come by Hacker News Coffee and have that caffeine-infused drink that we all love with other fellow hackers.<p>Tuesday morning at 8:30am.<p><pre><code> Hobee's Restaurant
4224 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306
</code></pre>
Google Maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hob... | 47 |
Title: Although the article calls it Twitter for comments I think it is more a Google for Comments.
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Title: The article is a good summary, but you should really read the entire ruling. Really important stuff for any company that takes advantage of the DMCA safe harbor.
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Title: From time to time I have wanted a downmod button. Today there was some linkbait on the front page--something about real programmers not using abstractions or what-not--and my first thought was that the best thing to do is to ignore these posts.<p>And then it hit me: downmodding is not ignoring. Neither is upmodd... | 74 |
Title: I like the rational, smart tone of discussion on HN. What other websites do you go to for these kinds of discussions, particularly on non-hacker topics? Like most people here I'm interested in various areas -- technology, economics, politics, psychology, and mathematical modeling of all kinds -- and enjoy discu... | 44 |
Title: This is so deliciously brilliant I can't stop geeking happily over it:<p><i>When Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck into aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting soluti... | 85 |
Title: Congrats to nickb on passing 20,000 points, and thanks.
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Title: Its day 2 and i still see 3/10 posts on HN are someway related to Chrome.<p>With Chrome Google follows suit with Apple. Awe everyone even before the launch such that for a long time even after the launch people think twice to put a negative comment or point at a limitation. These ones just feel out of the place ... | 41 |
Title: I'm going on vacation soon and I'd like to visit some
intact medieval towns. I'm looking for places like
Toledo, Venice, and Siena that were important towns in
1200 but backwaters by 1700, and thus weren't overwritten.
Can anyone suggest more like that?<p>(Even though this is a personal request, I feel ok... | 44 |
Title: Credits should go to whatusername, who suggested someone post this, but was worried it was not hacker newsworthy. I disagree because it is of interest to hackers.
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Title: I've been programming since I was 12 or 13, all self-taught, but I went to college for Business. I've been a full-time freelance developer for a little over a year now, and I've been inspired by a lot of the deep technical stuff I've read here on HN. I've always really enjoyed math and programming, and delving... | 40 |
Title: Many people work on their startup ideas while still having their day job. What tips do HN have for people who try to do this?
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Title: I'm one of the co-founders of Media Wombat ( flash search engine at http://mediawombat.com ) and we're a startup that's about 8 months old. We have no funding except what we can afford to do ourselves, no investors and very little spare hardware.<p>Our site is a search engine - like google, but for flash conten... | 140 |
Title: First, I want to say <i>thank you</i> to each of you. Everyone in the Hacker News community has contributed to the creation of this incredible venue for exchanging ideas, and you deserve a lot of credit for it.<p>Friday will be my last day at my corporate job. In the past, I've mentioned that as soon as I'd sa... | 164 |
Title: In case any of you haven't already heard.
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Title: Sometimes, I get a little frustrated accidentally trying to scroll down past the bottom of a HN comments page. There is no marker to indicate the end of the comments. I never make this mistake at Reddit because they have some footer stuff. Maybe if the orange top bar were repeated at the bottom like a book end, ... | 59 |
Title: Last week was a <i>black swan</i>, and hence everyone wanted to know what was going on with the economy and Wall St., understandable.<p>Can we now get back to our regular programming and cease from submitting financial & political news? Thanks very much!<p>The fine folks at reddit, have 3 great sub-reddits i... | 221 |
Title: Hack a healthy, yet not expensive, meal. I know most entrepreneurs are money-constrained, but I believe that an entrepreneur should eat healthy meals. It affects your brain over the long term. So can you advise healthy meals that are still within the 2-guy-in-a-garage budget? Thanks.
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Title: The invention is based on a neat concept but can this $2500 device stack up to a bag of ice? This may be a case of over-engineering a solution.
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Title: In order to help alleviate the perceived problem of off-topic posts here, I've created a slinkset at http://nonhackernews.com . (And yes, I realize this post is contributing to the problem, but I promise it will be the only one.)<p>Despite the name being the opposite of this site's you are all very welcome there... | 68 |
Title: I recently installed emacs since a lot of people (yes - yc users) seem to think it is the best code editor around. I read that it has a steep learning curve, but that it would be worth the effort. I accepted that and started using it as my primary editor to get my hands dirty. After 2 weeks of use I'm still not ... | 50 |
Title: I saw your top requirement for recruits:<p>* BS / MS / PhD in Computer Science or related disciplines from a top CS school (Stanford, Berkeley, UIUC, CMU, etc.)<p>I went to etc. and graduated top of my class. Can I work for you? No? We'll, it's back to my job flipping burgers, I guess... :(<p>http://news.ycom... | 63 |
Title: "The computer is more interesting than most people. I love to spend time with my computer. It is fun to write programs for it, play games on it, and to build new parts for it. It is fascinating to try to figure out what part of the program it is in by the way the lights flicker or the radio buzzes.<p>"...The ... | 70 |
Title: The Boulder tech scene is growing like crazy. Twenty of our top tech startups (you can see a few in the sidebar) have banded together to fly in one hundred top software developers, programmers and engineers from across the country, all expenses paid. You can apply to be one of the hundred at the boulder.me site.... | 53 |
Title: I too "wasted" most of my teens writing "pointless" programs - games in Basic that I never finished, assembly language programs optimized for old computers 20 years obsolete, and C++ programs with extensible architectures that no one else will ever extend.<p>My father always warned me that one day I would wake u... | 65 |
Title: By reading this site, it looks like you're all getting rich by building web sites. OK, not everyone is getting rich, but everyone assumes that there is a chance that it will happen to them.<p>But what about shareware? In 2008, is it too late to start writing software, actual installable software, and sell it on ... | 46 |
Title: Can't access it for hours.
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Title: Reading good python code must be an enjoyable learning experience, any suggestion?
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Title: I was just watching Obama live in Ohio and he said he was going to put forward a bill to eliminate all capital gains taxes for anyone investing in startups. This essentially means that entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will pay no taxes at all. This is craziness, what's going on here.
Upvote: | 82 |
Title: Too many entrepreneurs waste time observing/analyzing the actions of others. In boom times, this creates me-too companies; in bust times, this creates ridiculous hysteria (such as that which we are seeing now). Do your own thing. And quit submitting these stupid link-bait articles.
Upvote: | 48 |
Title: My mentor was the CEO and co-founder of a hundred-strong successful (not-so-tech) company when a strong recession hit. He explored all the options, talked with his top clients and creditors, and did an accurate forecast of the business for the following years. The outlook wasn't good at all.<p>He spoke with all ... | 117 |
Title: What are you working on these days?<p>I just met my co-founder, and we are working out the concept for this product idea I've had for a while, to help with email overload. Lots of fun!
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Title: “If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it” ~ Einstein<p>So, I was reading Matt's post about VC, which saw me following this link:<p>http://weblog.raganwald.com/2005/03/are-you-thinking-of-working-for-start.html<p>Raganwald States:<p>"A VC is having a good year when one in five investment... | 55 |
Title: I want my web app to look less like Google and more like Vimeo.<p>Have you been able to pull good talent from local colleges, Craigslist, or other websites, and how did you narrow down the field? (I am reluctantly moving forward with eLance, but I'd rather find someone local.)
Upvote: | 55 |
Title: I've been reading a lot about how wonderful Erlang is. So I'd like to learn Erlang properly from scratch.<p>Any books/websites/docs/whatever is greatly appreciated. I've started reading the official documentation but it's not very friendly. I want something that starts from the basics, through to the syntax thro... | 41 |
Title: I'm a nobody around these parts, but someone I've emailed back and forth with on here asked me a couple weeks ago where I've been. I'm finally at a point where I can take a breath so I thought I'd post something in the hopes that it helps someone else.<p>My "day" job is a 1 man IT consulting shop. This started... | 61 |
Title: One bit of good news about the economy: would-be startup founders don't seem to have been deterred by it, yet at least. YC got more applications this time than ever, and by a large margin: 10%. The number usually goes up, but rarely so sharply.<p>It wasn't due to the essay I just wrote about starting a startup... | 79 |
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