nikkidurkin

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by nikkidurkin 4y ago
I'm the author of the piece, and this has been my passion project for many years now. I'd love to hear thoughts from the community :-)
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How to reverse-engineer the universe using 3 lines of code (feat. DALL·E 2)(gameism.com)
1 points by nikkidurkin 4y ago|2 comments
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by nikkidurkin 9y ago
Unfortunately you need Minecraft for Mac/PC: Java Edition to use mods, so modding won't work on the education edition.
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by nikkidurkin 9y ago
This looks great! I run after-school coding lessons for Australian kids aged 8-12, teaching them to code Minecraft mods using scratch-like code blocks (if you're interested, its https://codemakers.com.au ). I've been lo
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by nikkidurkin 11y ago
Tim Ferris
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by nikkidurkin 12y ago
No, that's not it. I actually ended up talking about it my mixergy interview
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by nikkidurkin 12y ago
Just telling it like it is. I could have lied, but how does that help anyone? I'm a firm believer that with gender issues you can either whine about it, or you can find the positives in it. If your whole startup depended on you getting
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by nikkidurkin 12y ago
5 full time staff, an office, flights, marketing expenses - that all ads up. Apparently we were burning a third of what a startup at our stage normally is with our team size, and I even thought that was a lot.
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by nikkidurkin 12y ago
Thanks! Will look into it. I want to sell the assets if I can, but I think I'm just ready to move on and take a break.
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by nikkidurkin 12y ago
At the end of the day, I am the CEO of the company. It was my leadership that got us here. Even if something wasn't executed right by one person on the team, that is still my responsibility. Furthermore, we were killed because we ran o
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by nikkidurkin 12y ago
Just a few points: 1. Even though I'd already spent 2 years on the startup, the first co-founder I bought on had the same equity as me. He wanted it, and I wanted someone fully committed. 2. I was off fundraising for 2 months, and my m
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by nikkidurkin 12y ago
I think it was a combination of bad luck, timing, and some bad decisions on my behalf. I learned a lot from the experience. Actually, we had a team of 5 working on this. Running operations is really intense and time consuming. There is lots
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by nikkidurkin 12y ago
There are only 23 million people in Australia, and its a small population spread over a huge area. That means shipping is expensive, which isn't great for trading low value second hand fast fashion items. An item that can get shipped f
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by nikkidurkin 12y ago
Hey Andrew, I actually glossed over that out of respect for the 2 guys. My purpose was not to bitch about them, and many people who will read this post in my network will know who I'm talking about. There were mistakes made on both sid
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99dresses (YC W12) is looking for an iOS developer in Sydney, Australia or NYC
1 points by nikkidurkin 14y ago
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by nikkidurkin 14y ago
Congrats Jesse and Brad! Smashing it!
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by nikkidurkin 15y ago
I totally related with this article. I started my company when I was 18 in Australia and now, at 20, I've come to silicon valley and I can't even legally go to a bar for a drink. I once got halfway to a super-relevant networking event full