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charlieconroy

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About charlieconroy

working on a startup in philly

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    Comment #2424464

    Ha!, I think all of us rejected think personally YC made the wrong decision. [Edit] I did not want to seem like a jerk with just leaving a jab. Continue to grow your company and li…

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    Comment #2415714

    This book like no other just makes me smile. I read this right after I graduated and started my "real" learning in programming and math. The intermission page list books on logic a…

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    Comment #2405288

    This article is fodder for those 1000 Thoreau is talking about -- "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Not once did the author…

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    Comment #2399284

    The last paragraph of the article was inspiring. What you say in (2) is nonsense. Look at it this way: there are lots of examples when someone sought out to solve one problem and e…

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    Comment #2371440

    One of the best qualities of SICP was its use of mathematical examples/exercises. But since it is a soft. eng. book and not a comp. sci. book, most of their intended audience proba…

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    Comment #2344063

    "You gave a significant chunk of their profit to Amazon" Are you implying this gives Manning reason for the disdain they showed him? From the rough translation it seems disdainful.…

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    Startup amid other stuff + Schedule

    Having recently quit my job (Software Eng. for Initech) and being rejected by YC, I will continue operate under the assumption of: A "real" startup requires your full time and devo…