Elite

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by Elite 16y ago
>this process will be overseen by David Kappos, the current director of the USPTO and formerly an attorney at IBM in charge of their heavy-handed patent strategy. Looks like the deck is already stacked. Are there any companies or elect
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by Elite 16y ago
Well you can't get divorced if you can't find a wife! I kid. I kid. But engineers strike a good balance of time at home and financial compensation. If you're making much more than a decent engineer, you're probably a senior exec, lawyer,
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by Elite 16y ago
I don't see the problem here.
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by Elite 16y ago
For a while I thought Google would be sweeping this under the rug. Great call on Khan Academy. But the $1M spent on schweeb could have done more good elsewhere. Nobody wants to go pedaling upside down on a suspended monorail. The bicycle h
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by Elite 16y ago
Your argument holds weight in general but Google is a special case. I'm sure they knowingly turn away bright & competent engineers simply due to the large size of the applicant pool. Smaller companies would be wise to heed your advise t
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by Elite 16y ago
Well people like him and I love to spoil the fun for everyone else. By the way: Bruce Willis is dead. Soylent green is people Kaiser Soze is Kevin Spacey. It's been 2 and a half years since the end of the wire. I don't think he owes you a
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by Elite 16y ago
Yes. Yes I would.
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by Elite 16y ago
Out of curiosity: If the FBI or NSA REALLY wanted to get the data on your hard drive, is Truecrypt enough to keep them out?
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by Elite 16y ago
Quite a bit of it has to do with YC and the tech community buzz and implicit validation. The founder of HipMunk mentioned that CNN contacted him out of the blue within a day after they launched. If it was the same product done outside YC I
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by Elite 16y ago
The concept doesn't translate for maps. An address as entered from left-to-right goes from the very specific to the general. Therefore all the api calls and screen updating you make are completely irrelevant until I type in my city half -w
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by Elite 16y ago
There's no getting around understanding what the value of your technology to your customers is. The starting point is to find out the raw ROI. So if they use your technology, how much money will they make or save? How does this compare to
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by Elite 16y ago
There was an article that was linked to here where a French tech guy (speaking in English though) gave a pretty good video blog analysis of how much the average mobile app developer makes (not much). Can't remember his name or site though.
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by Elite 16y ago
Of course not Ender. It's just a game. Just a game.
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by Elite 16y ago
The ACM abstract gave a good overview of what the site was supposed to do, but when I went to the actual site, it was horriblyi designed with no clear description of what the service was supposed to do. Maybe if the OP Gave a very well desi
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by Elite 16y ago
I'm watching one of the 2 hours videos from the Stanford professor. He looks like a college freshman! No offense intended. Do you have any resources on how to use these tools (especially the python library), and examples of implementation
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by Elite 16y ago
Their business model assumes most of their investment doesn't take off, with a few rock stars that make up for the losses. Incidentally, which is one reason cash flow positive startups should really think before accepting VC money. VC's ar
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by Elite 16y ago
Sounds like an excellent thesis for an economics grad student. I'd love to see this data in an easy to read format for a variety of goods and industries
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by Elite 16y ago
I'm no fan of excessive taxing, but if you shifted the source of all current tax revenue to consumption based transactions, this would cripple the poor and middle class. For much of the lower/middle class, a significant, sometimes 100% of
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by Elite 16y ago
This is a pretty big flaw. I would highly recommend the developer add a simple voice recognition functionality. Even something as simple as "next" & "back" which scrolls the screen would improve the usefulness of this app.
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by Elite 16y ago
I read the esquire articles and the chow.com, and neither of these authors really perfected the art. Although the self-titled $20 millionaire occassionally got serviced, he was often punked because he had no style, no swagger. And when he
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by Elite 16y ago
How'd you get paulg?
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by Elite 16y ago
How did they find you?
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Why aren't U.S. engineers politicians? Does it matter?
2 points by Elite 16y ago|4 comments
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Blockbuster is going bankrupt.The U.S. falling victim to a similar complacency?
2 points by Elite 16y ago|1 comments
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by Elite 16y ago
To the OP, since you say you're great at front end, I would find 3-5k and hire a recommended East European hacker to build a minimum viable product. Put in a lot of sweat equity on your end to make sure the product is well polished. Then u
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by Elite 16y ago
I would have a cogent answer to where you see the company going. You need to be able to convey a realistic vision of the company's goal and the path to getting there. And that destination needs to be large enough and lucrative enough to j
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by Elite 16y ago
If you're looking for new business ideas, reviewing the Inc5000 is a great way to get started. It's ranked by 3-year percent revenue growth, which is good way to identify industries and sub-niches currently being disrupted.
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by Elite 16y ago
It's a perfectly reasonable question to ask. As we learn more about science we are able to unravel layers of mystery from physical phenomena and explain observations that were previously taken to be axioms. Although the statement "mass cur
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by Elite 16y ago
And why does the mass curve spacetime?
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by Elite 16y ago
If you're son already understands the distinction between a description and an explanation I'd say he's off to an excellent start. That being said, I'm not a physicist, but my understanding is that no one know exactly what gravity is. We u

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