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skadamat

5,837karma·1,157submissions·August 2, 2011
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You should become really good at biology and computer science and go work for something epic like Halcyon molecular! Or Robotex! Check out some of the founders fund companies, http://www.foundersfund…
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Honestly who cares. Based on his Stanford eCorner video, he learned a lot on the side / on weekends. If you look at the MS&E program that he did in Stanford, you do take some basic CS classes and …
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Hmm http://hackingpot.com/search?q=ruby
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Don't get a grad degree just yet. Try a Data Engineering job (or also a software engineering job at a data-centric startup). You'd use a lot of algorithms, machine learning, and math to do all kinds o…
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I'm a business major in a top 10 undergrad b-school now and they still don't teach networking unfortunately. They just throw networking and recruiting info sessions DAILY, but they don't teach you how…
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The main reason that nobody's really hit on is that it's super easy to get a college degree now. Sir Ken Robinson (check out his TED video on creativity) talks about how there's academic inflation. No…
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Such a great read, very interesting person. I love reading about people who life societal expectations and focus on spiritual and existential questions. The game looks pretty interesting, and while I …
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Impossible, the game is perfect
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Damn, this game is a ton of fun!
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double that! Gumroad.com would be ideal for things like this!
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Someone should make a JS framework to easily integrate 'Next page' / 'previous page' and map it to a universal keyboard shortcut that isn't used for other things. It's not as easy as it should be to g…
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Still RSVP! For now we don't have much planned and are literally just trying to get the Austin HN'ers together first, and then we can figure out a POA!
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Please upvote, spread the word , and keep alive!
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People are born creative, sure, but not necessarily as someone who simply applies their creativity to startups / startup ideas. Both idea and product development can be learned over time thankfully. J…
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haha what city are you in / what college do you go to? I know how you feel, I switched into Math from Biz / CS and I like having that Math background (great for ML / NLP stuff) and I feel badass among…
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http://www.amazon.com/Data-Analysis-Open-Source-Tools/dp/059... …
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:)
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Lol $39.99
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