sidman

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by sidman 13y ago
I quit my job just over 1 year ago to work for myself, to do some consulting work and improve on a website that I had knocked up with a mate over 2 weekends and see where it would take us and we are doing OK. I felt I got the same treatment
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by sidman 14y ago
Yes I remember the 90's and how scary it was (the idea of contracting HIV). I wonder how children born in the 90's see it and whether they still view it as we did when we learnt about HIV and Aids in the 90's. I also remember as a kid the n
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by sidman 14y ago
May I ask, i felt the same way but I myself am not much of a facebooker who likes t share his life, post on twitter or post on pinterest. Maybe its just me but all those ideas are the same arn't they ? They just need enough people to partic
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by sidman 14y ago
Don't like the title, should probably be more like "Be flexible with your consistency" You can't be inconsistent and learn say a language (programming or otherwise), or even learn how to be a good entrepreneur, you got to be consistent and
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by sidman 14y ago
> but if you want the next Facebook, you're not going to get it by investing in, say, Codecademy, which, as laudable as its goals are, only appeals to newbie coders, who are a tiny slice of the population Well you would just never know.
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by sidman 14y ago
If you could pull that off without discrimination that would be an awesome idea. It may cause somewhat of a North/South Korea kind of thing but if it can be done it would be a great data collection exercise that investors, founders can real
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by sidman 14y ago
So it seems for investors, the big winners are simply based on luck, there is no logical factor that you can easily pick out that will give you a better chance of winning accept for possibly experience over a number of years that allows you
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by sidman 14y ago
Im not sure if you can find many places where they have both in great detal as most machine learning material assume some knowledge in the specific math but you could always write down the terms that you dont understand from any ML material
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by sidman 14y ago
Aus not doing so well either
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by sidman 14y ago
As mentioned probabilities is something you want to get into very early. Its easy to understand at the start and its practical uses in many different computing areas along with many other things in life is priceless. Good place to start wou
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by sidman 14y ago
i somewhat feel this is facebook trying to justify the massive IPO money and hence expanding into other areas that will make use of this money. Its the typical scenario were a company gets more funding then they probably need and in turn le
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by sidman 14y ago
In the same boat as you, quit my job around the same time you did (august of 2011), built an iPhone app and have some affiliate marketing. Turned over a bit more then 10 bucks a day (average about $70) but still in the ball park of can do m
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by sidman 14y ago
I have always seen education as the most important gift that one can give because once its given excluding fatal accidents its something that can never be taken away or lost and is useful throughout you whole life, whether at a job or simpl
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by sidman 14y ago
> Ouch. It's one thing to have your idea panned, but to say "nobody gives a shit about your team"? That's harsh. Thats the sentence that got me too. It shouldn't be personal and that was very personal. Harsh comments about the idea, the
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by sidman 14y ago
I searched a few things, one being the project im working on now and i discovered very interesting things that lead me to book mark the results. One of the results even made me laugh and one lead me to some information i had no idea about !
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by sidman 14y ago
Yeh, i was looking/playing the puts and it was traded very thinly as well, took ages to get bites so didn't try again after i did it once.
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by sidman 14y ago
Is it possible that the dodgy side of groupon was seen earlier and predicted earlier by the google MnA team and it wasn't Andrew Mason that said "No" ? Im sure if nothing has changed since the early days of groupon till now, the skeletons
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by sidman 14y ago
Yeh thats true, but i think the key is (as you suggested) he had many differences/oddities from the beginning (a very young age), you being a good father didnt tell him to change or fit the normal mold but encouraged that differences in th
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by sidman 14y ago
In the text it states that " Genius often comes from finding a new perspective that no one else has taken ". I think this is clear and people not even considered geniuses can also perform this feat. The defining part is that geniuses seem t
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by sidman 14y ago
Great post dude and i think i can relate to many of the situations you found yourself in. Hell every time i finish a module or feature on my current project i am always like ... What the hell ... It actually works. I do this because i remem
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by sidman 14y ago
Thats because there is a hell of a lot of coding in mech eng degree now. I actually did a few programming courses in my comp sci degree as an elective that were titled mech302 mech326 and didnt have the equivalent in the comp-sci department
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by sidman 14y ago
Depends what you are doing. I did quite a bit of work from indonesia, philippines and singapore. Singapore no problems , indonesia & philippines it depends on what you do. If your main data consumption is video then it can get annoying,
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by sidman 14y ago
I dont know what to say ! i get angry when i see a domain name that i want being parked on and going to absolute waste, but on the other hand the business this guy has created and the money he has made could be viewed as a smart hack in som
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by sidman 14y ago
This is so true. I met people during the course of my life whom i sometimes think back on and say, why didn't i just do what s/he said and i wouldn't be in this mess. It was only after i screwed something up, lost money or ended up not exac
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by sidman 14y ago
It all comes down to the development you like to do. There was a time when i really didnt like paying extra cash for a macbook (that at the time) seemed like it was more expensive then the equivalent spec'd windows laptop for no reason. How
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by sidman 14y ago
No one is asking for a prediction, just getting input from people who are experts and have real life experience pre and post bubble.
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by sidman 14y ago
> ALL of these people are at the greatest risk - what will happen if this bubble bursts. We will be FUCKED I have the same thoughts exactly. I was a junior at university when the last bubble burst so i have no idea what it was like. C
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by sidman 14y ago
there isn't. Not in the foreseeable future, hence microsoft, a power ONCE to be reckoned with , once king of the technology mountain will have to sit on the sidelines and prepare for the next "big thing" in technology ... whatever that may
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Financial pundits view on Instagram acquisition and web 2.0(finance.yahoo.com)
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by sidman 14y ago
I am a GSD metric guy as well. I have two laptops , one mac for apple development (iPhone etc) and a windows machine to do blackberry development. When im doing multimedia stuff , say using progs like xtranormal i have to use my windows bec

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