stevenameyer

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by stevenameyer 13y ago
Computer science ultimately boils down to the study of how to efficiently compute a solution to a given problem. From here the field has a bunch of different areas that investigate aspects of this including things such as how difficult a pr
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
They need to keep the number of companies to a reasonable amount in order to give the companies that do get significant value out of the program. So until they manage to figure out a way to scale the YC program to be able to accommodate mor
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
Hardware has functionality in and of itself, for example a flop-flop is a circuit that can store a voltage (ie. a one for an arbitrary voltage or a zero for a different arbitrary voltage), an adder is a circuit which adds to sets of values
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
Full disclosure: I am an upper year UWaterloo Student so my opinion is likely biased. If you are looking to work in tech in Canada, Kitchener/Waterloo is the place to be in my opinion. It has: 1. A fast growing Startup community that h
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VC-backed startup pivots to focus on Kik’s HTML5 platform(thenextweb.com)
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Inspiring entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston (Kik)(thenextweb.com)
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Netflix not happy with Candian ISPs(gigaom.com)
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Ken Levine: I won't give Zach Braff one dime(kenlevine.blogspot.ca)
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
As a fellow young professional, in my opinion the only way to improve decision making is to increase the amount of information and experience that you have to draw from to make the decision. This can be first hand information and experience
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
I would be interested to see how prevalent this is at top institutions around the world. I can be fairly confident that my program does not do this as my class is very far from diverse. (the large majority of students being asian males) I h
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
As much as I have a personal dislike for Jobs, I think this is advice that a lot of people fail to see value in. Having people who care standing up for their opinion and taking whatever comes out on top will often lead to the best product.
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
The one thing I would give as a benefit to setting a deadline is that it can help prevent feature creep for a specific version.[0] The amount of times that I have had a manager come to me just prior to a version being ready to ship and ask
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
I'm not disagreeing with the fact that taking a different approach to a mobile OS could be successful, simply that there is a certain expectation that people have about mobile and if you are not following that then you will have to convince
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Ask HN: How do you make the most of talent?
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
True, but there is an argument that could be made that mobile ecosystems have become heavily relient on a strong third party development community which is likely to be almost non-existent on a new OS. As well expectation have been raised a
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
My personal selection would be based first and foremost on the team. If the team is really solid then I would look for a company that I believe in as far as what they are trying to do. My personal opinion is that if you are looking to hit i
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
Mobile apps have the same problems to over come as pretty much any other business. You need to get people to use it and figure out some sort of way to make money off people using it. There are many techniques out there for accomplishing the
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
I do believe that a good romance game could be very successful and I would be interested in seeing one made, but the issue would be making one that is a quality game in and of it's self. When you look at a lot of the latest successful games
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
I agree the Canada is suffering from brain drain, but I don't agree that the big issue is that we are not educating people well enough. The University of Waterloo has one of the most respected CS/Software Engineering/Computer Engineering pr
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
A similar technique was used to identify suspects in the 2011 Stanley Cup Riot in Vancouver, Canada.[0] With people using the footage and pictures of the riot and submitting identities to the police. I'd be interested in seeing similar tech
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
First of all I am a Canadian, living in Canada and have no association with the actions of the US Government. Secondly I do not condone killing of innocent people in any situation, and just because there are other instances of this happenin
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
It's horrific to see this happen. I hope that people make it out of this ok, and they get to bottom of who did this. Seeing these kinds of senseless attacks on the innocent is just disgusting.
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
Some interesting links. There definitely is a point to a lot of weak ties, and I'm sure it works really well for some people. However I do tend to opt more towards a smaller close knit network, probably just my personality but I find that w
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
I couldn't agree more with this. Personally I would much rather have 1 person that I have fostered a very strong relationship then 10 people who I have weak connections with. I think that quality beats out quantity just about every time. Ju
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
I believe that argument is that the current system is difficult to learn. But I personally feel this notation gives up way to much in order to try and be easier to learn. (which I still don't think is not a good enough reason to create a ne
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
In my opinion while this notation may be easier to learn (I have my doubts about this, but as someone who is familiar with standard notation I'm going to reserve judgement on this), the notation misses a lot of nuances and details that woul
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Panel Discussion about eSports (SSAC 2012)(sloansportsconference.com)
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
Completely agree. If I am going to pay an ongoing fee I need to feel like I'm getting ongoing value for the money. I don't like the dynamic of having to continue to pay for something that I already have in my possession in it's entirety, it
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Ask HN: What work environment helps you produce your best work?
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by stevenameyer 13y ago
My personal view is that passion is completely independent of knowledge. Now normally people who are passionate people do have strong knowledge because they seek it out. But there are a lot of people who have a lot of knowledge who are not

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