mgenzel

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Few Days Hack to Show Off for StartupBus: Save Your Fingers(enterless.com)
2 points by mgenzel 15y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing Voice: listen to the map of American feelings about Obama & jobs(americanvoice.saygent.com)
7 points by mgenzel 15y ago|0 comments
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Contemporary twist on a classic geek test(say.gg)
2 points by mgenzel 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Are our geek questions geeky?
5 points by mgenzel 15y ago|0 comments
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by mgenzel 15y ago
You should really also add another axis of "Are you happy with this split?" :)
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by mgenzel 16y ago
Who am I to question the Dropbox CEO, but... Even if the solution is new, if you're solving a real problem that people have (and if you're not, what's wrong?), can't you use the search terms around that? E.g., "how to recover lost files", o
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Dropbox CEO: Why search advertising failed us(venturebeat.com)
7 points by mgenzel 16y ago|5 comments
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by mgenzel 16y ago
I'll strike a somewhat contrarian view: having children doesn't really have to change who you are. You can still enjoy most of the things you enjoy, except you get to bring your children into it, and enjoy it on a new, cool level. We enjoy
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by mgenzel 16y ago
Ok, I'll add my anecdote too. Hacking != Having a personal computer. I started programming on my 3rd grade (required-to-have) programmable calculator (that had 10 steps & comparison to 0 only). Then, my father showed me Pascal on his co
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Programming Language For Youngest Kids
11 points by mgenzel 17y ago|5 comments
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by mgenzel 17y ago
As a busy-busy-busy parent, I find Facebook to be pretty easy & fast way to share photos with family. I had my own script a while back, but Facebook just completely took over that: it's easy to do, almost everyone who may want to see th
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by mgenzel 17y ago
But are there really all that many undergrad programs that prepare people to go straight into the associated careers? Why hold CS to a different standard? Maybe we just should have a programming school a la medical school :)
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Also see a sci-fi story by Robert F. Young called "Thirty Days Has September".
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Because highly successful people are not necessarily those who can teach (and also, are 'human teachers' anyway). Teaching is inspiration, empathy, enthusiasm, wit, patience. You could be a Nobel Prize laureate and have none of these, and y
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Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt(nytimes.com)
2 points by mgenzel 17y ago|1 comments
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Also don't dismiss significant used books market. I hardly ever buy books over $5. Right now, digital books are priced like brand new books, and you can't resell them. There's some price discrimination in terms of how much time elapsed sinc
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Many people have said similar things before and nothing happened, neither to the web nor to their reputation. I think it's because it's one of those things that seems to be a good idea in a certain light, or at least based on good intention
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by mgenzel 17y ago
A few points: a) by asking people to sign an NDA before beta testing, you're slamming a door in the face of the overwhelming majority of potential testers. If you want to ensure a purely CYA legal policy, just stick in TOS as they sign in t
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by mgenzel 17y ago
As a historical sidenote: large chunks of medical progress were made by rural and war doctors ie precisely those with few resources at their disposal (hence innovation).
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Is that in fact how that happens though? Complete and flawless the first time around? I'm not that familiar with embedded sort of software, but my assumption was that they try to do a good job, but then use simulators to get the software sh
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by mgenzel 17y ago
For the people who have downvoted my comment, it would be helpful to me to know why you did that. It wasn't an ad hominem attack, and my question wasn't all that rhetorical. I thought downvotes were only for being nasty.
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I'm sorry, what? The guy lost me at the supposedly lost art of gathering and packaging software requirements. When was this golden age of the not almost-instantly-outdated packaged requirements? Maybe only when the success of software was j
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Batle of neandertals vs modern humans shows how at the times of great upheavals even small advantages can spell difference between survival and success.
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Sorry. Common problem in these kinds of forums, not entirely sure how to solve redundancy of content. I search before posting, but obviously it's harder to catch when it's similar but not identical. Thoughts?
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Creative Business Cards(webdesignerdepot.com)
3 points by mgenzel 17y ago|2 comments
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Must say that many companies outsource email campaigns and it may not be the company's fault (directly). Just sayin' :)
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Startup CTO mistakes I'd rather not repeat...(blog.carlschmidt.ca)
30 points by mgenzel 17y ago|13 comments
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I also didn't really enjoy Calculus in high school, only learning to love it in hindsight, when I took Real Analysis in college. Then again, I was always interested in theoretical mathematics (poetry, abstraction, & all that) rather tha
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by mgenzel 17y ago
Was my favorite subject as well, precisely for those reasons. Not sure how to teach the beauty of mathematics to those who are uninitiated though. I think it really should come in at the elementary school level, when you can show really coo
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by mgenzel 17y ago
I think I speak for everyone when I say: "hindsight is 20/20"

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