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Yes, given a history of testing. I don't want to be the guinea pig, but the simple fact that it's nukuler isn't an issue.

60K seems like good money for an entry-level game programming job. I wouldn't count on any profit sharing or equity to be worth anything. If it is, great, but don't count on it. Th…

"Love your work" is often just a way for startups and other small companies to extract unreasonable hours from you, with little payback. I've done the startup thing. I've worked 9-…

They have regional interests, and they need to make sure they can counter any hegemonist's power-projection in the their region.

Nice. Rocky's Boots for the Apple ][ taught me pretty much everything I needed to know to pass my first digital electronics course.

Nice. Just got two. One for me, one for my Dad. He's 75, and still writing Mathematica notebooks and software to try to help educate people in developing countries. Rock on dad, th…

Er, why do you care? Make sure you do lots of extra-curricular work that you enjoy, and that's difficult. If your grades aren't great, you can show off projects to get jobs. If you…

Not very. Marks anywhere from 40% to 85%. I started when I was fifteen and failed out in my fourth (last) year. Went back part-time about 5 years later, and failed a compilers cour…

removes news.ycombinator.com from marketing plan

Yeah, it's better to trust a liar than a "geezer". What is this, the freaking Cultural Revolution? P.S. That was something that happened before 1985.

Feasible, no. Terrorism, no. Immoral, yes. Desireable, maybe.

Actually software is so much easier than any other kind of physical engineering, that ridiculously small and inexperienced teams try to solve fiendishly complex problems. That's wh…

A pointer dereference can make all the difference in an inner loop. As usual, the answer is to profile, then to optimize. No other dogma really applies.

You have to pay to visit a doctor? That's insane! I mean, prescriptions, elective treatment I can understand. But are you saying that you actually need to pay just to walk into an …

Wow, TV is stupid.

I have a lot of respect for people who get college degrees. An MBA is barely a college degree. Compare how much you learn in engineering, or the sciences, to what you learn in an M…

Ooooh, unfortunate name. My wife deals with a lot of pharmaceutical names, so we've come up with the 13-year-old boy test for product names. If your product / service / company nam…

What does this even mean? It sounds like something for the Enterprise Market.

Isn't that a bad thing?

This reminds me of the business card scene from American Psycho. God, I love that movie!

So are we going to go back to the days where startups are judged based on how fast they burn through their cash? This seems like an extraordinary amount of money.

I think it depends on what you want to do. This is a great place for film / video. It's getting better for games, and of course there's financial services. There also seem to be a …

You've just listed everything you want out of the future (financially), which is a different question. Remember, this is for a 3 month investment of time. So, it's good that you kn…

Hehe. The snow in my back yard's almost completely melted. Looks like the raccoons and cats left me some "presents". Mmm.

So, who's in TO? Anyone want to chat, or meet (at a pub, say)? Going to the original startup school, and watching the YC dinner on Justin.TV has re-inforced how important it is to …