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Computing/Biology Resources? | fizx: Thank you so much everyone! |
Any goal setting sites? | ph0rque: http://www.bubbletimer.comdisclaimer: my partner wrote the app. |
What should I do if I suffer from 'pre-optimization syndrome'? | queensnake: Are you depressed? Depression can make it hard to make decisions, which I take the liberty of interpreting (being /able/ to make decisions, rather) as, 'having enough life-force to not sweat the small stuff', which might apply to getting stuck on micro-optimizations too.In which case, exercise, get enough sleep, and tell yourself you can catch what matters in a profiler at the end :) |
How Google Maps works? | mixmax: here is a good walk-through: http://blog.grimpoteuthis.org/2005/02/mapping-google.htmlGood luck with it :-) |
How do you handle NDA'd projects and VCs? | wavesplash: Same as you would anyone else. You tell the VC that you can't discuss the details. If they want details they have to sign the NDA for the 3rd party company. You can always talk about the commitment in general terms (revenue vs. time spent) and if it's strategic to the growth of the company. The rest of the details don't matter much unless the 3rd party is in their portfolio or a competing portfolio. |
Any goal setting sites? | lionheart: http://www.joesgoals.com/ |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | rrhyne: Software patents are evil. |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | mixmax: I've started two companies that took out patents, and thus have seen this up close. My experience is:- The market doesn't care about patents. Whether your product is good or bad a patent makes absolutely no difference to a customer.- Competitors care very little about patents. They know the cost of patent litigation, and that you probably can't afford it. Even if you could they would probably be able to strike a deal.- Investors, on the other hand, do care about patents. The thinking seems to go along the lones of I have no idea which company to invest in, but the ones that have a patent must be the smart ones. So those are the ones I'll invest in. - This is from Denmark, and may be different depending on your meatspace coordinates.- Patents take time and focus. Patenting takes the focus off your product and selling it, and patents don't get you customers.I would say that if you're gunning for investors get a patent, if you're not don't.Hope it helps.Edit: bonusinfo: If you have to go out and get a job at some point later in life a patent definitely helps. Employers are pretty impressed when you can say that you're so smart that you've taken out a patent... |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | lsc: I dono... do you think you can compete better by marshaling lawyers? or by implementing a product better and sooner? How much of an opportunity cost does that money represent? (I mean, do you need that funding to run?)The big thing I see is that it takes money to be a patent troll. I guess if the patent is really strong, you might be able to get your lawyers to work for a cut of the proceeds (maybe ask your lawyer?) but that sounds unlikely to me, not that I know anything about patent trolling. if your resources are like mine, I'd not worry about the patent, and I'd focus on making something that is worth copying.But yeah. I'd argue that patent trolling is a lot like starting fist fights- don't start if you can't win. If you loose, you get nothing. You just get a black eye and look like an asshole. On the other hand, if you build a product and then get crushed by copycat competition with better resources, eh, you still learned something, and you still look good. You created something that was worth copying. At the very least it helps you get your next job.But then, Maybe you have access to cheap lawyer time like I have access to cheap SysAdmin time. that'd change the equation. |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | mikeyur: I don't have any experience personally, but I would say just work on your killer product. If a competitor comes along and you're already established as the leader it won't matter.Save your capital.Just my $0.02 |
how do you discover new music? | light3: If you like classical try youtube and Nathan Milstein, not only a pleasure to listen to but also to watch. |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | shmoo: Some large companies only patent defensively, in order to prevent other companies from patenting their ideas and then suing them. Enforcing patents is difficult. |
How Google Maps works? | davi: this works, I use it, it's open source, maybe a good place to start:http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/demo.shtml |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | volida: well assuming you have a provisional patent and asking here, shouldn't you say what the patent is about? |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | rms: Write it yourself -- the provisional, especially if it was lawyer authored, should be almost good to go. |
How Google Maps works? | jaytee_clone: Actually, it is a collection of images for different zoom level.For example, the lowest zoom level uses one image and the next one uses two, and then four (from what I remembered).You can find this out in the google map API.I imagine vector calculation is just unnecessarily complicated when simply storing the images works well enough.In that case, panning and zooming seems easier to implement, as you are probably just moving the images around and reloading different ones when you zoom. jquery comes to mind for these tasks.Maybe it will take some work to make it run as smoothly as Google does it, maybe not. |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | vaksel: if you can't afford it, forget about it. |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | natch: One patent is not likely to be worth much. If you can put together a small cluster of them, it's much more compelling for an investor/buyer. Depends on what kind of patent, though.'course, this isn't the best time to bet on getting funding, patents or not. Probably better to focus on finding an actual revenue stream.And have you really done a diligent search for both existing patents, and prior art? Don't rely on your lawyer to do this; he/she has a financial disincentive to do anything that would discourage you from attempting to file a patent (I used the word "attempting" for a reason: your lawyer probably has things set up so that even a mere attempt will result in fees, whether that attempt is successful or not).Also know that some patent lawyers file patents just to get the money for filing them. Read carefully, this point is distinct from the one in the previous paragraph. The fact that a patent is filed and eventually granted, does not mean it is a valuable patent. Your lawyer's job is generally not to judge the technical or business merit of the patent, unless you have specifically set up your relationship with him/her to provide an incentive for that. So be aware that your patent might prove to be worthless. While even a worthless patent will grease the skids with some investors, at least go into this with your eyes wide open. |
What can't you do in Excel? | micks56: I have to use old software databases at my engineering job. The only way to get the data out of the system is to show it on the screen 1 at a time or to print it out. I would love for this new spreadsheet to pretend to be a printer and have the data piped directly to my spreadsheet instead of my pdf printer. |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | davo11: I'm in the same boat, my provisional runs out in April, and am wondering what to do. I lodged the provisional myself and save a few $K.Here's my current thinking, over the course of the patent it will cost around $250K or more over 20 years. If I had $250K now would I spend it on my patent? Right now, I'd much rather have the $250K so from the good investment point of view - the answer is no.What about the possibility of someone else patenting it? Well since the provisional has been lodged I don't think that's possible once the product is in the public domain, so from that angle I'm safe.Can someone reverse engineer the patented bit? If they can what investment would they have to make to build a competing product, i.e. are there any other bits that aren't in the patent but are hard / risky. If a competitor has to make a large investment to catch up to you, then they may be better off just buying your company.Will this be the only invention you ever make? If you're young and you've got something patentable already then most likely it wont be your last. It's not my first and I know it's not my last, once an inventor - always an inventor.Someone mentioned it's good to have a patent on the resume, from my experience it can scare the hell out of some employers, so that's a bit of a 2 edged sword.Perhaps the bit that get's stuck the most in my craw is that I'd be paying thousands of dollars to some patent guys who sit in a nice office and wear expensive suits and silk ties while I'm busting a gut making a startup, it's petty I know but it really gives me pause. I figure if they have all that money then there is a lot of cream on top of the patent industry.The other thing to consider is how much time it takes to write a patent application. I know for myself it was a few weeks to actually write the provisional (and this was time well spent as I defined what I'd actually invented and found out a few other things along the way). It also takes time to work with the patent guys, don't underestimate this. You have to have meetings, review there work, make changes and so on.I figure if my products successful, then by the time it reaches the point where I had to worry about patent infringements and so on I will have made more than enough money for me and I'll be doing this to grow to the next step.It usually takes about 5 years for a patent to be approved, 5 years is a long time in software.The conclusion I've come to is it's a big boys game, and if you want to play then you have to pony up the cash, either get the cash or get investors who have the cash otherwise do what you can to protect yourself and move on. Of course it depends totally on what you're patenting - if it's a major breakthrough then it may be worth getting investors. If it's incremental then execution probably matters way more than whether or not you have a patent.hth. |
Is it possible to get cerified in PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, etc.? | vaksel: Not really a fan of certificates...seems like a waste. The only time you should get one, is if your company promotes them...i.e. take so and so class and get a bonus or a raise.Personally I think you'd be much better of making a few sample programs in each language, and showing those to the potential employers. Just throw them up on a site, and throw the url into the resume. |
Is it possible to get cerified in PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, etc.? | gaius: You can be a Microsoft Certified Developer if you want, I think that includes Visual C++ or maybe it's all C# now. Oracle does certifications for PL/SQL too. No-one takes either of them terribly seriously. |
How do you deal with alienation? | SwellJoe: I either have to talk all about computers, or all about music, or whatever that they're interested in, but never a mixture of everything. The peer groups I see are all so specialized and serve niche interests; none of them are generally interested in everything.Think on that statement for a little while, and maybe you'll see the source of your trouble. This is kind of a growing up phenomenon. You aren't unique in this regard.You seem to expect your friends to be a perfect clone of you, with the same interests (you have a few things that you're interested in; you are not a "mixture of all things"). The older you get, the more you'll realize that sharing one or two interests with someone is enough, as long as you enjoy each others company. You may find a few "soul mate" type friends in college, who like the same bands you like, who enjoy the same activities, are nerdy, etc. If you go to a school that specializes in nerdy subjects it's actually very likely, whereas if you go to the local party school, it is very unlikely. So, yes, it may get a lot better in college--but then when college is over, you'll still have to be able to build relationships without that forced captivity thing, so you might as well develop the skill now.The best way I know is to get involved in something you like. If it's music, start a band. If it's nerdy stuff, start a group that builds crazy nerdy crap and call it art. If it's theatre, join a local company or take classes. If it's a sport, join a league. If it's drinking heavily, start tailgating at football games.I'm deeply introverted and a loner (and mostly I like it that way), but whenever I've felt the need to expand my social circle I've usually started a band, and right away my circle of friends expands dramatically. I happen to love talking about, listening to, and performing, music...so this works out. If you find that people who only talk about one thing are tedious, this can be a problem...so I guess you'll need to figure out something that you don't mind only talking about for a few hours each week, so that you can do it regularly enough to experience a bond with folks.Where are the truly interesting people in life?I don't know. What do you mean by "truly interesting"? Are you truly interesting? Does everyone in your life have to be truly interesting for you to want them as friends? I'm empathetic to your position on this, as I kinda suck at having and keeping friendships alive, too, and it's partly because I find most people tedious after an hour or two of their company. But, I'm old enough to realize that no one is perfect, including me. Some of the most interesting people I've ever met (including a handful of famously interesting folks) are still not people I would want to spend several hours a day with.There's also something I've learned only in the past couple of years: When a conversation falls flat, it's always as much my fault as it is the person I'm talking to. As dumb or slow or weird or bland as the person I'm talking to may be, there is almost certainly something I can do to make it more interesting for both of us. Maybe it's just telling a joke, and being funny (because being entertaining is as much fun for the entertainer as the entertainee). Maybe it's introducing the person to someone else, and making the pair into a trio or more. pg is hilariously and famously good/bad at this (anyone who's spent more than an hour or two with him has heard the words, "This is the guy you need to talk to!").How do you stop yourself from over-analyzing your current friendships?Do something else. If you find yourself thinking too hard about something dumb, like, "Are my friends smart/interesting enough?" Call them up and go do something that you enjoy with them. That'll answer the question, because they've just shown that they're smart/interesting enough to do whatever it is you enjoy, and it'll take your mind off of the wacky self-analysis. Of course, if they all bail on the idea and don't want to leave the house or something, then it answers the question as well...in the other direction. Find more interesting friends who like to do stuff. Doing stuff is actually a really good cure for a lot of mental blocks. I recommend it. It doesn't even matter what stuff. Ride bikes, go bowling, serve soup at the local homeless shelter, build big art, put on silly clothes and golf, etc. |
How do you deal with alienation? | jwilliams: Where are the truly interesting people in life?If you haven't already - Travel, move overseas, etc - the world is a big place.Sounds trite, but broad horizons help. |
How do you deal with alienation? | unalone: The place where you'll truly find interesting people is the place that places emphasis on talent and skill above everything else. In high school I had the same problem you do; in college I'm finding it even harder, as we haven't had long to sort out into groups, versus the 12 years we had in grade school.I've been three places where I've felt real kinship with the people around me, to varying degrees. I find it when I go to work out; there's a focus amongst everybody in doing something pure and on self-improvement. That's the least I've felt it. I find it among theater people - the real obsessives. Theater is such an odd thing that the people who are drawn to it are very focused on doing as good a job as they can, they're confident enough to have a good time doing so, and they understand how hard it is, so that they welcome most anybody who wants to learn. It was most focused at a summer program I spent a month at, that selected high school students based entirely on talent rather than GPA and resume, and made itself entirely free of charge. I was one of the writers in the program, and everybody in every field was absolutely incredible. Once you get to that sort of group, everybody's interesting and unique and loves everybody else to some degree.So that's the tried-and-true method: find the places that are pockets of talent. Those places attract more talent and become really focused. If you can't immediately get there, the method I've found works is to just act like yourself. Don't avoid parts of your personality just because other people find them off-putting. That's uncomfortable. Instead, try and focus on doing what you want to do, and find the sorts of people that gravitate towards you based on who you are. I found, actually, that in my senior year of high school the people doing that all found each other, and while that group broke apart again, we had a few really wonderful months where we were all with people we'd never known really well before, where we liked each other not just for intellect but for personal honesty.That's not as easy a route, depending on what kind of person you are. I'm very sharp-tongued, for instance, and I'm not very interested in most people. That in itself offends some people, or at least makes them indifferent. But the result is that when you are with people, you really value them. I really connected with my roommate - he got me into lifting weights, actually - and a few people on my floor. Some musician/gamer/coder/work-out types. Nobody who's exactly my personality type, but a lot of people who really tolerate each other for who we are. And that's better than pretending friendships and having none.Despite that, I've got phases. I have some periods where I feel outright hateful hostility towards the people who aren't like me. I usually just keep that inside me, and focus the angst that I've got on working. The first major period of it I wrote a book. After that I wrote a few bursts of poetry and designed a web site. I'm half in the middle of one now and it's really keeping me focused on my work. It helps to focus it outwards at something (though, as a warning, I tried to get rid of it by drinking once and as a result half my floor wouldn't speak to me for months).I overanalyze friendships to death, to answer your last question. I overanalyze everything. I think that's a good thing. It implies that you're seeking for something meaningful and lasting. If something's not working, then it doesn't hurt to try and change it. Just don't get off to too drastic a start, or you'll burn bridges that you regret burning later.Hope that helps you! :-) |
How do you deal with alienation? | delano: Interesting people are everywhere and nowhere. You find them one by one.Feeling alienated sucks but you might find that not belonging to just one group is one of your strengths. It can give you a unique perspective because you have a wider range of experiences. It can also increase your tolerance for change and uncertainty. People that stay in groups tend to want things to stay the same and you don't meet interesting people in Berlin or Beijing by staying the same.And you may want to reconsider your thoughts about psychologists. They are a great resource for figuring out how you feel because they're trained listeners and neutral to your situation. Sometimes you need to try out a couple before you find one that you find helpful. |
How do you deal with alienation? | DavidHogan: If I could send my teen self some advice, it would be to relax and simply persue the topics that interest me. All else will fall into place.Hope this helps :) |
How do you deal with alienation? | mdakin: I think the type of friend you want is rare. But there is hope-- these people want to find you as much as you want to find them! Do what it takes to meet and get to know as many people as possible. I don't mean to befriend them all by any means but get to know them, try to understand them etc. Develop an interest in people and in relating to people IN GENERAL. Do not have expectations of amazing connections. Be in the moment. By that I mean you should be putting your full-self into the interaction. And you should be spontaneous and follow the intuitive flow of the situation rather than fixating on preconceived ideas you may have. Just like when you're debugging code. All focus on that person. What they are saying, how they are saying it, etc. Talk and respond. Monitor their feelings and adjust what you're saying and how you're saying it to make things go smoothly and interestingly for all. Monitor your feelings. Is this person making you feel slow, annoyed, sad? Or are they making you feel excited, "CAN!", surprised, etc? Take that information into account when "valuing" people. Someone who has different interests but makes you feel excited and enthusiastic is of much greater value than a carbon copy of yourself. Esp. if you're doing the same thing for them by a different magic mechanism. It's yin-yang. Lookout for that more than anything else. Good luck! And don't worry about feeling like a Holden. Holden's a good guy just a little immature. And being the catcher in the rye is a mighty good plan and one way to realize just what I'm suggesting. Not for everyone of course but helping the good and innocent can yield great satisfaction. |
How do you deal with alienation? | anovaskulk: Unfortunately you can hardly have it both ways. Most people only have one primary interest in their lives, and form groups around it. You don't seem to be like that, which makes you an exception. Of course there are other exceptions like you, but they are by definition hard to come by. So either you get really into one group, or a little bit into many of them, your choice. |
How do you deal with alienation? | jhancock: "Where are the truly interesting people in life?"everywhere. My network of friends includes less than 10% that work in IT. Most are not geeks but are ok with the fact that I am as I accept and don't really define what they are. I just enjoy their company.I had a friend that worked on the documentary series where they interviewed a group of people each year for, well, I forget how long, but a long time. I can't remember the series at the moment. The obvious question I had was "How did you pick the group of people to interview for such a long project? You need to make sure you pick potentially interesting people, right?"My friend told me that my intuition was not correct. It turns out it didn't matter, everyone is interesting. |
How do you deal with alienation? | gojomo: You may want to reexamine potentially self-limiting assumptions:I always feel like the odd one out -- you may be partially imagining this 'odd man out' status; also, others you see as 'close knit' may feel just as tenuously connected as you do.my close friends [are not] a social group... they are all from different groups and aren't friends with each other -- have they met? what if you made them a group around you?I can't [talk on a wide variety of subjects] with anyone I know -- are you sure? what happens if you try? maybe they are so nervous about going off-script they're sticking to safe topics, too, and would welcome a change.The peer groups I see are all so specialized... none of them are generally interested in everything -- are you sampling all peer groups? do you see them in all their expressions? is there a chance you've defined 'peer group' as 'sharing narrow common interests', and thus it's impossible for you to see other kinds of peer groups, even right in front of you?I can recognize the flaws in how I handle friendships -- what if you're misdiagnosing the issues?I don't have much hope in [waiting until college] -- consider the possibility 'everyone' else is right in ther advice, and those people who don't find close friends in the contrived HS environment do find them in college and other non-HS activities.'The map is not the territory'; your analysis may have prematurely converged on counterproductive (but self-reinforcing) conclusions.Stepping away from your exact words: you seem to think of friend groups almost like formal clubs, that preexist, with clear memberships and standards, that have to invite new people in.Try instead the assumption that they are all ad hoc, popping in and out of existence, with ever-changing memberships, and open to anyone who shows up. You belong the moment you decide you belong, and others will assume you're 'in' unless you take explicit steps to opt out. |
To Patent, or Not To Patent | wavesplash: An alternate option is to give up some ownership of the patent for reduced cost and labor. Have you guys talked with IMSciences? They cut you a deal for a portion of the patent ownership and depending on the deal you cut can write most of it for you. (I don't work for them, nor have I filed anything with them but I have heard good things about one of the partners). |
How do you deal with alienation? | yason: Good friends are hard to come by and therefore finding a whole group of them at once is pretty improbable. On the other hand, there's something interesting and something worthy in each and every person if you only drop your expectations and demands first.Secondly, friends are also like women: you'll find a good one when you've really reached a point of frustration where you find yourself swearing that "This is enough of suffering for me! I do NOT need a friend/girlfriend to be happy and to feel fulfilled. If I have to, I'll go by myself just fine, thank you!" OTOH, nobody wants to befriend someone who really wants a friend, maybe just any friend. You can't seek for friendship, it will seek for you.Third, you should make up your mind about what you want. What do you want from your friends should you become blessed with one? What do you want to talk about with them? What do you want to do with them? Unless you know what you want, you'll just keep bumping into friends or "friends" who want to do their stuff. Nobody is going to come and probe you for subjects that you might want to talk about, everyone just settles for some topic they know you know too. Also, being occasionally brave enough to talk about what YOU want to talk about is a great device to weed out people who can't or won't align with your interests. For example, if you want to talk about life, start doing that and you'll soon find out who will bounce back and who simply can't handle it.Generally, whatever it is that isn't working will just keep happening again and again until you find a way to change yourself, causing different and possibly more desirable things to keep happening. |
How do you deal with alienation? | Russelldb: Firstly, don't feel bad because you feel this way. It is pretty typical for a bright kid to feel this way, often. The thing that is getting you down is the over-analysis and introspection not the relationships.Relationships with people are hugely rewarding and enjoyable but you can't depend on them for happiness (or anything). See people as the oases in your life. Depend on yourself for what you need and enjoy people as you find them.Over analysis and introspection are just a habit of mind. They are not always productive but have their place, especially at certain times (just broken up, just done something shocking, had a profound experience, failed in some way) but prolonged bouts can be destructive.All the advice so far seems to point to finding something else to occupy your mind. Do that and you will find people with different interests a welcome distraction. Of course whatever you find to occupy your time other will do too, so there is your social circle.It seems trite but you need to do stuff. I don't want to make you feel worse but if you spend all your time self absorbed then people will never have the same interests as you and yo won't be that interesting so won't meet life's 'truly interesting' people ( people like me ;) )What do you like to do? |
How do you deal with alienation? | jcs: "I feel like when I talk to my "friends", I either have to talk all about computers, or all about music, or whatever that they're interested in, but never a mixture of everything."Have you actually tried talking about other topics? It sounds like you're making assumptions about what your friends are interested in, but haven't actually tested your hypothesis.I don't think I've met anyone who isn't keen to learn something new or teach me about one of their interests. |
How do you deal with alienation? | rkts: I was thinking of posting a question very similar to this one, though the details of my situation are pretty different.See, I've been alone for most of my life. Alone in the sense that I've only ever had two or three real friends, and I often go for weeks without having a conversation with another person.As a kid I was fine with this. I was the guy who always sat by himself during lunch and recess, and nobody bothered me and I felt fine. I stayed the same until my senior year of high school, when I was struck by a burning need to make friends, meet girls and stop being alone all the damn time. I made some friends that year, but we were high school seniors, so we all moved off to college and I never heard from them again.Now I'm in my third year of college, I have no friends and I can't believe how hard it is to meet people. Though I guess the problem isn't meeting people specifically, but getting the acquaintances I make to turn into friendships. I just don't seem to really click with anyone."You should join an organization for something you're into!" Well, I've looked but 90% of the organizations I see are racial, religious or political, and the rest just don't interest me. If I could find, say, an OCaml or Lisp programmers group, or an early music society, I'd be thrilled, but of course there isn't one. Maybe I'm just a narrow person, I don't know.Hmm... I'm not sure now why I'm posting this, but I typed it so what the hell. submit |
How do you deal with alienation? | numair: Don't try to meet people like you. Instead, become interested in lots of different types of people, how they live, who they are, etc. And don't just become interested, but actually make an attempt to blend into their cultures, social groups, etc. This is what is known as "social hacking." Successfully doing this will allow you to incorporate lots of different points of view in your work and life, which will give you a richer experience. Sticking to people who are all "good" at one thing inevitably leads to dysfunctionality and irrelevance.Oh, and don't try to look for smart people. Half of those people we label as "smart" are actually complete idiots. Just because society currently describes people who can type mathematically-intensive instructions to a machine as "smart" does not mean that they are any more intelligent than the person who has dedicated their time to understanding social nuance and child-rearing, or whatever. A lot of "dumb", "average" people are a lot smarter than you at many things; cooking, talking to girls, changing a flat tire, whatever... Learn to enjoy this.And finally, whatever you do, do NOT attempt to surround yourself with people who consider themselves "interesting." That's the absolute WORST. There's nothing worse than a group of people who sit around and congratulate themselves for being so cool and important - which is exactly why so many people in positions of power, feeling that they have "arrived" and can thus finally mingle with people worthy of their mystical talents, are so utterly impotent at accomplishing anything of significance. But hey, if you really want to smoke pot with Bono on his yacht and pretend you're saving the world, go for it. (That's not a joke, by the way. He really does that.) |
How do you deal with alienation? | moswald: It's not really about friends,it's about growing up. Self reliance and such. The older one gets, the less anyone has in common with anyone else. In a couple of seconds you'll be contemplating retirement and barely remember this question at all.You are learning how to deal with the real world, the world you must navigate to find happiness. Sooner than later you'll fall in love and then even this goes out the window. You think you're confused now? Just wait.Just be thankful you have a place like this, where people want to answer with contemplated gems and not something something... |
Any Tips for Applying to Berkeley or Stanford? | cperciva: Does anyone have any tips for applying to Berkeley or Stanford's mathematics program?Win the Putnam. :-) |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | vidar: I like your idea, I cant help you per se but if it helps your selfdoubt then I think you will do fine, based on your courage to try such an unconventional path. And whatever you do, keep learning on your own time ... that never gets old! |
ASK HN: How did they break in to my Gmail acct? | rarest: Hello
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My last mail from them:
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To Patent, or Not To Patent | dctoedt: One question to ask is whether your product or service is even patentable in the first instance. Ask your lawyer about the court decision in the Bilski case, http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/07-1130.pdf, which put some pretty tough restrictions on the patentability of software. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | satyajit: Are you looking for screencasts or videos of desktop apps of sort? I am not sure what people use for screencast softwares, but the Railscasts guys seem to be creating some neat looking ones. You might want to ask them.
I know the LearningRails.com guys personally, and they do a great screencast too. There is a free HYperCam for Windows, but result is not all that impressive. Adobe has something called Captivate, which will let you create some FLV/F4Vs I believe. |
How do you deal with alienation? | robfitz: i went to an out-of-state college in a big city nobody else from my high school was going to. it worked well for a reset (not that i had particularly intended to accomplish that).and all the interesting people are in startups ;) |
How do you deal with alienation? | mikeyur: I'm 17 and I have a bunch of good friends, and guess what? None of them share my main interests.I'm geeky, I love my mac, I love podcasts, etc. My friends aren't crazy about computers really. A person I consider my best friend is really into cars, mechanics, etc. I'm really into SEO/marketing/startups.The reason we get along is because we don't have a lot of the same interests. I get along with him because he's a good person, fun to hang out with and compliments me (as cheesy and fruity as this all sounds).Stop looking for that person who is your clone. I have geeky friends that I meet with at local events, coffee shops, etc - but none of these people are my day to day good friends.You also need some good online friends. Some may not agree, but I think having friends online is great. I have about 3 really good friends online who compliment me and who I talk to almost daily about.. whatever. I've known some of them for over 3yrs online. Some I have met in person, some I haven't. You obviously don't want to spend all day online but having a few of these friends and people to talk to is always good in my mind. |
Any service out there for titles/phrases/names/etc. | mooism2: Seed a list from Wiki, then add weightings according to what your users type in? |
Any service out there for titles/phrases/names/etc. | tallanvor: You would have to create a dictionary where you can weight words (by frequency, most likely), and write a matcher that runs as a user types. |
How do you deal with alienation? | zupatol: I think you are giving too much importance to the kind of subjects you discuss with friends. The important thing is that you get along well, not what you are talking about.Part of what you say sounds like the trouble of growing up. There is an age when what interests you automatically interests your friends. When I was a kid, other kids I met were usually open enough to get interested in whatever I was interested in, and we could easily have shared passions. These interests were also more shallow and less complicated than those I developed later. I am 39 now, and at my age everybody seems so specialized that they rarely pick up new interests. This is compensated by the lesser importance interests take in a friendship. I met some of my best friends because they make comics, like me. When I see them nowadays, we almost never speak about comics. I have practically no common interests with my wife, but we get along fine.Maybe you have not found a psychologist that fits you, but a good one could be helpful. Their job is not to tell you what you want to hear, but often they will repeat what you say to make sure they understand you correctly. I went to see a psychologist once when I had a depression. I think what helped me most was to have a relation to someone I could trust. Feeling less lonely could be enough to get rid of some of the problems you mention, like thinking too much about the differences between you and your friends. Building a relationship is something a psychologist should really be good at, and seeing how he does it with you can help you with others. |
RoR/Ruby mainstream yet or still underground? | pclark: mainstream. Where you based? |
How do you produce product demo videos? | ejs: I use XVidCap, edited with KDENlive, then uploaded to youtube and embedded that. All free (using ubuntu) |
How do you deal with alienation? | known: Have you tried Facebook? |
How do you deal with alienation? | zitterbewegung: I really don't give a shit about alienation. I try to talk about anything and analyze the person I talk to using philosophical techniques. (philosophy is good for good conversation). |
How do you deal with alienation? | noahlt: I'm a senior in high school, experienced similar feelings a couple of years ago. SwellJoe says "you seem to expect your friends to be a perfect clone of you", which, at least, is what I felt.Even though you might not find people with the exact same interests as you, if you look hard you will find that interesting people have similar qualities, regardless of their specific interests. Seek out people who are good at what they do, and avoid people who aren't. Academics are a good start—befriend your local valedictorian. Find people in any activity—math, science, music, newspaper—and if they're winning any competitions,As for over-analyzing relationships goes, that shouldn't really be a problem so long as it doesn't stop you from actually executing them. The key to a friendship is to be useful to the other person. Always pay more attention to them than you do to yourself. Figure out things they like/need but don't have, and buy gifts for them.Keep in mind that the social landscape can change drastically in a very short time. Don't assume that a year from now nothing will have changed. It's your job to make sure the change comes out in your favor. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | wesleyd: Yeah, working in close physical proximity to quality people is hard to beat, but you can learn a lot even working remotely on a pre-existing project. So go scratch an open source itch.Also there ain't no such thing as a free lunch^Wprogrammer. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | vicky: A spoonful of medicine to help overcome self-doubt here => http://ub0.cc/0l/12 and here => http://ub0.cc/4J/1j |
How do you produce product demo videos? | apinstein: We use Screenflow. Mac-only, but quite awesome: http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htmHas a/b editing, records lots of things as separate tracks and has a special-purpose video editing interface just for screencasts.Editing interface is a little quirky to get used to but the results are great. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | dan_sim: Don't be afraid to ask for money. Money often means respect and with respect comes self-confidence. If you are free, it means that you consider yourself so bad at programming that people will not even consider you. You'll learn nothing. You'll always be the "free guys" that everyone will laugh at. The one that gets to debug stupid things or have to work on impossible projects. If you don't need that money, give it to a charity but please, ask for money. |
How do you deal with alienation? | time_management: I have no social group of my own and go back and forth between their friend circles.That's a sign that you're an interesting person. It's painful, though.I feel like when I talk to my "friends", I either have to talk all about computers, or all about music, or whatever that they're interested in, but never a mixture of everything.You need to swallow your pride and learn how to make small talk. It's frustrating for intense people like us, not because we're too smart or to good for small talk, but because we frankly don't care about things like sports teams or the weather (or if we do, we care too much and can recite sports/weather statistics and bore people to death). However, it's a skill you'll need to learn, and you might as well do it now.Everyone has told me to wait until college, and then I will find new people, but everyone I know in college generally sticks with the same friend group that they had in high school (hence why I would know), so I don't have much hope in that.College is less cliqueish than high school, but still much more cliqueish than the real world.Most people have "cliques" (which usually emerge from what floors people are on in freshman year) because they are insecure and need a set of people whom, even if they are not close to any of them individually, they recognize as "friends". They rely on their base social group (most of whom are not very close friends) more than on individual friends, and meet dates and new people through this group.The high school cliques break up a bit in college, unless a large number of students from your high school go to the same school.Where are the truly interesting people in life?All over the place, literally and figuratively. Quality people are both rare and common; there are few of them, but they can be found everywhere. Most of my friends in college were international students, but I've met interesting and smart people literally everywhere, of all nationalities, races, and social classes. |
Is it possible to get cerified in PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, etc.? | physcab: I would agree that certifications are not really important. Develop a solid portfolio of projects, show that users benefited, and then walk your employer through the lessons you learned. |
How do you deal with alienation? | noahlt: Work hard and get into a good college. |
How do you deal with alienation? | rokhayakebe: Believe it or not you seem to be a social butterfly. The best "socialistas" have several friends in every field of life. This is great as it allows you to not get bored and each niche will feed you with more information. Stick to this plan. Expand it. Materialize it. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | nickfox: I use Camtasia (http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp). It costs $299. It is hands down the best. It has a technology called SmartFocus which zooms in to where the mouse cursor is. This is very useful with youtube's limited real estate. Definitely put your product demo on youtube. You get exposure from markets that you may be unaware of. You can see where I've used SmartFocus here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9qS6bAMPU |
How do you produce product demo videos? | chrisconley: There's a great screencast about how to screencast over at peepcode.com ($9) |
How do you produce product demo videos? | rokhayakebe: Email Demogirl.com. She will do the job for you (assuming she likes your application) and get you a few beta users. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | ivankirigin: SnapsProX is pretty good. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | physcab: You should look for small web development firms that might offer internships. Right now I'm doing an unpaid internship. I don't have a car and the place is 10 miles away, so everyday I take the bus for 5 miles, bike the other 5 miles, then do the same thing coming home. It's a ton of work for an unpaid job. The work is stressful. But I'm learning the best practices of coding, how to scale applications accordingly, and my work actually benefits the company. This has been such an ideal opportunity, because before coding was just a hobby and so I hadn't been challenged. But now that I've found a good community of programmers and designers, I learn new lessons everyday and build up confidence in my skills. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | jcl: CamStudio is an open-source capture program for Windows that records to .avi, with the option to convert to .swf. http://camstudio.org/(See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=133349) |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | utnick: WOW, you are selling yourself WAY short.You are more than qualified for an entry level developer job FOR PAY.Its a programmers market out there, if you can communicate half decently and have a java cert from sun, you will be able to find a job no problem. Just delete that webpage and keep sending resumes out. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | mhashim: I was recommended the following service http://www.screentoaster.com/ Didn't try it personally yet, but let me know what you think of it if you end up using it. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | quellhorst: I am willing to hire any and all free coders. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | martian: Aside from all the technology, it's crucial to get a solid, professional voice-over that tells a clear story about your product. My personal experience has been that even the best video production can be quickly tarnished by a voice-over that is casual, meandering, or inconsistent. For our demo video, we first sketched out what points we wanted to make in the video, wrote a draft script, then recorded nearly an hour of screen footage. My colleague then spent a couple of days locked in a room with iMovie and a microphone. We ended up with a five minute video that I think really captured what we were trying to do with our product. We used ffmpeg for conversion to mp4+h264 (and a fallback to flv), and the very respectable JW flash video player. I think Snapz Pro X was used for video capture. |
How do you deal with alienation? | mixmax: Where are the truly interesting people in life? - they are here, among other places.Normal people just want to live a normal life, have their statistically approved 2.1 kids, have sex every wednesday and friday and live their life like everyone else. That is why they are called normal.And then there's this peculiar breed of man that doesn't seem to be satisfied with the acceptance of every rule and to do as he's told but want to question assumptions and discover new things. He is rare, and thus normally has problems finding peers that have the same curiosity towards life as him.I think you're one of those people. Don't feel bad about that, they are the ones that change the world. |
How do you deal with alienation? | Allocator2008: This is a link to a therapist I use all of the time. She is awesome:http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html |
How do you produce product demo videos? | timae: Jing (jingproject.com) is the only free solution I know of. Wasn't exactly what we wanted, so we used Screenflow, which is $99 and Mac only as has been mentioned. It's very easy to use and the editing options are great.Once you have the video, there's obviously still the decision of how to get it onto your site. After trying a couple different methods, I settled on YouTube. My primary objection to this originally was the video quality, however there is a way to force embedded video to play in either "High Quality" which I found acceptable, or in HD, which is great (and what we ended up using). To do this, you append "&ap=%2526fmt%3D22" for HD or "&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" for high quality onto the back of both links in the YouTube embed code. (more here: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/11/20/how-to-embed-and-pl...).Lastly, we used lightwindow to diplay the video (http://www.stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/). Just drop some js and css files into your site and follow the following example code (in the case of HD). Mess with the width and height as appropriate.<a class="lightwindow page-options" title="My Demo" params="lightwindow_width=640,lightwindow_height=385, href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vifE3sBge8k&hl=en&fs=1&...; |
How do you produce product demo videos? | DanielBMarkham: I'm a big Camtasia fan. Like the interface and the capabilities.It's not cheap, but I think you can get it as 30-day trialware. Not sure. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | IanOzsvald: +1 for CamTasia (Windows) and ScreenFlow (Mac), also RecordMyDesktop (Linux). CamStudio (free Win) ok. Online solutions (screencastomatic, screentoaster, jing) also good.
I'm a professional screencaster (http://procasts.co.uk) - if you want to crib examples, see my Examples page, they all reflect live use of screencasts that make users happier, convert more visitors, reduce support costs etc.
Definitely get a good mic - I prefer pro audio equipment but you'll go a long way with a decent USB mic (not 3.5mm jacks, they get electrical noise from the motherboard).
If you can't do good audio yourself then see something like voices.com for outsourcing but melding the video+audio can be problematic. You do need good audio, as others have said the easiest way to kill your presentation is muffled, noisy, volume-changing hard-to-understand audio.
Expect 1 day to do a first reasonable video of a few minutes, several days if you want a perfect cut with great audio, a bit more if you want to add effects (captions, fades, highlights, scrolls).
Look at ShowMeDo for 800+ examples of screencasts made by many users on different OSs with different tools.
Jolt Magazine has three useful articles: http://joltmagazine.com/2008/10/08/lets-make-a-screencast-th... http://joltmagazine.com/2008/09/23/lets-make-a-screencast-pa... http://joltmagazine.com/2008/09/17/screencasting-an-expert-r...
See LongTail video player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/) to embed flv/mp4 result, they have great plugins, it works with thickbox/lightbox, stats tracking possible, lots of features, I use it for all my work. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | sh1mmer: I'd actually recommend Captivate from Adobe (it was a Marcomedia product). The reason being is it's awesome for mastering videos. It seems to run acceptably in VMWare fusion too.I've used iShowU to capture video on my Mac but then mastered it into Flash files. You can add pauses, description, etc.Screenflow also seems really bad ass from my limited experience with it if you are happy with doing 100% Mac demos. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | vaksel: if you want to work for free...why not find something simple and do a startup around that? Then release more and more apps as you learn more skills |
Y Combinator Wiki? | jaydub: Check out epi0Bauqu's site http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/ |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | lacker: Don't work for free.Try finding a smaller software company (like under 10 people, perhaps a startup) and working for them in any capacity they need people. Running ad campaigns, managing forums, tech support, whatever. Once you have a job with the company, you can then start helping out with programming to whatever degree you are able. |
Is it possible to get cerified in PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, etc.? | lacker: From the resumes I've seen, most people list far more languages on their resume than you could expect them to be very proficient with. I wouldn't worry about it - there are a lot more important qualities for a software engineer than "knowing the languages well".One friend of mine did like to ask interviewees questions like "So, you say you are skilled in Prolog. Could you write some Prolog code to reverse a linked list?" |
How do you produce product demo videos? | shimon: I'm a freelance developer, but a couple of months ago, one of my customers asked me to make some screencasts of the product we're building.I tried Camtasia and Adobe Captivate on Windows. Camtasia has been best to work with, although it has a couple of pretty horrendous bugs that require nonobvious workarounds that took me a while to learn. On the bright side, it has a great set of online video tutorials (duh) and it's easy to do transition effects and record from Powerpoint.The other commenters are right -- the hardest thing to do well is the voice-over. You need a good mic -- USB digital mics are probably best, but I've gotten by OK with a good headset. You also want a quiet place -- digital "noise removal" post-processing makes me sound like the Predator. One day when I was at a shared office, I spent the morning standing in the bathroom, recording audio to my laptop.It's also vital, of course, to have an engaging script and a product that's interesting to watch. Writing and filming the screencast will force you to concentrate on these things from the perspective of a new user, and you should take that opportunity to ferret out any needless distractions. |
How do you deal with alienation? | mattmaroon: Ah yes, ask a bunch of people who aren't qualified to give psychological advice a psychological question. This is the same as asking legal questions here.Go get help. You don't sound suicidal or anything (though if you are, run to the nearest psychiatrist) but you do sound like you've got something other than teenage angst (in my highly unqualified opinion) so you should at least run your problem by a psychologist. What could it hurt? |
How do you deal with alienation? | jmatt: Wow, this sounds soo familiar. I remember having similar thoughts when I was in high school. I'll try to give some useful advice.I have no social group of my own and go back and forth between their friend circles.I'd ignore social groups entirely. Seriously, just forget any of these artificial groups of friends. I know that's not actually possible but in general don't worry about it. When I look back at the stratification of my high school social order it seems like it was straight out of "lord of the flies". Interact with the people who are doing interesting things. People who you find interesting or enjoy spending time with. Don't join any friend groups, that's an entirely isolating situation. Right now you can freely "group" with whoever you want.Everyone has told me to wait until college, and then I will find new people, but everyone I know in college generally sticks with the same friend group that they had in high school (hence why I would know), so I don't have much hope in that.Don't go to college where everyone else is going to college. Get away from all this. I did, and it was one of the best decisions I made when I was a teenager. Everyone in high school will likely think you are crazy for not going to the usual schools, but who cares.I think the single best thing you can do is just get out and... do things. This is surprisingly simple but will really make a difference. I think it's been echoed here already by a number of other people. Pickup a new sport, go see a movie, go to clubs, take classes at the community college, go on a road trip (gas is affordable again!), see a concert you would otherwise not see, play cards, go to a house party, study with people you usually wouldn't study with, volunteer somewhere, go to a museum, get an unusual part-time job, do something that no one else is doing. Go buy a copy of Make magazine and pick a project (http://www.makezine.com/). Before you know it, you'll be the interesting person that other people will want to spend time with.And of course read PG's take on high school and nerds: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html Somehow this hasn't been linked to in the post. I know it represents my high school experiences very well and he gives great advice. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | rjprins: Hmm, I'll be 27 in a few months.. And I thought I was stil young!Geez, now I think I'm old too.. |
Is it possible to get cerified in PHP, Perl, Python, C/C++, etc.? | ideamonk: I just hope I don't get to see a day when certificates for C/C++, Python, PHP! start to exist and people start cashing on it! Some things are meant to be free from certifications, projects and work speaks of better quality than a certificate. Where ever money and tag starts coming into picture, there corruption too starts sneaking in... thats evident when I see my colleagues clearing CCNA papers and Sun certifications with help of google. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | iamelgringo: I have been an ER/Critical Care nurse for the past 15 years. I went to nursing school right out of high school, because it was "a good steady job and you can help people." I administered narcotics to a patient before I could drink legally.I had always wanted to be an engineer, but I believed people that told me I wasn't smart enough.I remember writing QBasic when I was 9 years old. I begged my father for a modem for our computer for two full years. And, finally, when I was 14, he got me a 2400 baud Hayes smartmodem. After weeks of mucking about with the configuration and connection settings, I was at long last able to connect to my first BBS. I thought I was in heaven.I mucked around a bit on that BBS for an hour or so, only to have my father try and make a phone call while the modem was connected. That's when it all came crashing down. He was furious and forbade me from ever using the modem again. I still don't know why it upset him so much. I think it had something to do with the movie War Games that had come out a few years earlier. I think Dad was scared I was going to hack into NORAD or something.So, for years, I gave up on computers. I'd day-dream about being an engineer, only to have people around me tell me I'd regret it, that I would hate it, that I was too much of a "people person" and that my life would be a complete waste if I spent it in front of a computer screen.But, when I was 30, I finally decided to get back in touch with my inner geek. I went back to school two classes a semester for 5 years. My work schedule as a nurse constantly changed from nights, to days, to evenings, to weekends, which forced me to go to school online. I kept plugging away at it and after 5 long years, I finished the engineering program at the University of Maryland this past May. I still have some General Ed. credits to take, but I finally finished the classes I'd need for their CMIS/software engineering degree.This June I started to pick up web development and Django. For several months, I thought I really sucked at, and I thought it all might have been a huge mistake, because I could never get things to work right with Django. It wasn't until 3 months later, when I went to DjangoCon, that I learned that the release of Django that I had been working with for 3 months had been broken in the lead-up to the 1.0 release.Eight weeks ago, I cut down to part-time at work, so I could focus on boot-strapping startups. If all goes well, I plan to release my first web app in a couple of weeks. My plan is to keep bootstrapping startup after startup until something takes off.It's been a long, hard road, and I still have a long, long way to go and a lot to learn. I've thought many times that I wasn't smart enough, or too old. Things never really go according to plan. I get discouraged and frustrated a bunch. But, the only thing that can really stop me from chasing my dreams is my deciding to give them up for dead. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | biohacker42: Self doubt is healthy.Getting depressed and/or discouraged because of self doubt is not.And your situation is by no means unique.
It is VERY hard to catch your first break as a professional programmer.That is just how the industry is, the best way to get around that, is to do what you're doing.You don't HAVE to work for free but if there's no other way it's OK.Work, produce code, make it open source, bring a sample of of your code to your next interview. |
How do you deal with alienation? | charlesju: Here is a concept.Your friends don't need to share the same interests as you and you can still be friends. |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | cchooper: I got my first paid programming job at 25. I've never found age to be a problem. |
Extending desktop to 2nd monitor on Ubuntu (for non-techie)? | icey: http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=dual+monitors+ubuntu |
How do you produce product demo videos? | dhimes: If you find the other recommendations here a bit more than you were looking for, have a look at Wink:http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ |
Ask HN:Finding a Break | spoiledtechie: I will hire you for free.Ill give you experience to work in the real world and work with you.A few months down the road after the projects we have worked on together start making money, you will then become a paid programmer.If this is a serious inquiry, get in contact with me. We can work something out. I only work in asp.net and C# and will accept vb.net so you have to want to learn...I am a one man team with the help of one other guy working on a few websites ideas I have. |
How do you deal with alienation? | dustineichler: It's commendable that you post this in the open. That takes a lot of guts. You aren't alone, in fact like you mentioned... this is why Catcher In the Rye is so popular, so identifiable.1. Take others advice with a grain of salt. 2. Dig down and get tough otherwise this beat you up. 3. Standards are worth having.Not the best advice, but in reality you'll ultimately do whatever you decide and not what we tell you. Good luck. |
How do you produce product demo videos? | apstuff: Blue SnowBall (usb mic) + Audacity + Camtasia.Start with the written dialogue, record it meticulously then do the visual.The Blue Snowball referral came from Scott Chacon at GitCasts.
Great piece of equipment. Thanks Scott. |
How do you deal with alienation? | Spyckie: When I was in this situation, I somewhat wanted advice, but really I wanted someone to just take the time to talk to me.If you feel that way, I'm free to talk - send me an email or aim me - Spyckie (at) gmail or Spyckie on aim. |
How do you deal with alienation? | xenophanes: > Where are the truly interesting people in life?www.curi.us |
Any tips for using Python Interactively? | marcher: Up should work. If you want it to persist across sessions you'll have to enable readline history.You might find my pythonrc useful: http://bitbucket.org/brodie/dotfiles/src/tip/.pythonrc.py - be sure to run export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc.py.My script does the following:1. Enables readline tab completion.
2. Makes tab insert four spaces.
3. Persists command history (~/.pyhistory). You can disable it by running NOHIST= python.
4. Changes the print hook on functions to include their signature, as well as their documentation.
5. Changes the print hook to use pprint for everything else, also taking into account the terminal width.
6. Colorizes exceptions if Pygments is available.
7. Adds a source() function that shows you the source code of a function, class, or module in your pager. Code is syntax highlighted if Pygments is available. This function works on zipped eggs as well.Also, enabling readline means all your ~/.inputrc bindings will work. So for example you can hit ^R to search back in history for a snippet you wrote. |
Any tips for using Python Interactively? | utnick: hmmm... up arrow gets the last command for me on ubuntu with putty and python 2.5.1what other frustrating things are you finding? |
How do you produce product demo videos? | timcederman: Camstudio is great and completely free. http://camstudio.org/ |
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