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What was your first book?
'Programming Collective Intelligence' http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=210132 Thanks Toby. Awesome book.
I second that.
Ask YC: What are you working on these days?
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Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?
#82Just started a video blog about stock options. Pretty fun so far. www.investingwithoptions.com
Do you know Zecco? They're always looking for good content, and I'm happy to put you in touch with someone there if you're interested.
Disclaimer: didn't [listen] to your videos cause the I/O board on my MBP is fried and audio output doesn't work.
Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?
#83Working on Job Alchemist (meetings, Startuply, JobSyndicate, fundraising(??)). Trying to figure out how to get smart kids to work for startups and cool companies in general rather than for the man. Thankfully, the Wall Street meltdown will help, especially as it works its way into consulting. Get a real job, squares (or "suits," as fallentimes would say).
'Bout to lease some space at a pretty rad SoMa office loft, to be joined by Eddie of Picwing - what's his HN name?
Realizing it's way more fun when the odds are stacked against you.
Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?
#84Wow, pretty cool to see other people have a lot of irons in the fire too. Working on a (yet another) better financial management tool, raising a newborn, and the day job :).
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#85Working as a researcher on the DARPA URGENT project.
How can I get to do something similar? DARPA has all of the amazing stuff coming out of it...
I'm not sure DARPA is that hot these days. Having worked on a DARPA project and talked to (and gone drinking with) a lot of people in academia and industry that work on DARPA projects, it seems they're suffering from focusing too hard on yearly "deliverables".
In my experience, that makes it difficult to get anything too interesting done as people (due to budgetary constraints, particularly at the industrial research labs) focusing on getting the minimum deliverables done, instead of trying new things. The downside here is pretty obvious: if a DARPA program manager could specify 3 years in advance what should be achieved, then it isn't really research, more like engineering.
I guess that's why most savvy researchers only write DARPA/NSF proposals for things they've already done (but not published on); gives them money to work on the _next_ big thing :-)
Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?
#86Working on a P2P app for LAN/VPN. See http://p300.eu/
It is a "project" though and not a "startup" or "company". :)
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#87* Still trying to improve the http://mediawombat.com crawler * Working on better pre-caching scripts/SQL for http://mediawombat.com search results * Working on how to charge a company that wants to use the http://mediawombat.com API * Coming up with ideas for a back-end for a new auction-based concept that my friend and co-founder has come up with * Coming up with ideas for mixing/matching data when Google releases t…
Dude what's your website? You should include a link to it so we know what it is :^).
Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?
#88* Working on my second book for O'Reilly * Speaking about, and generally pushing for more interest in Open Data * Putting my entire life in a semantic graph: http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=73 * Trying to figure out what programmers can do about risk management failures
And what will your second one be?
Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?
#89Working on my startup, http://taskgravy.com . A project management / collaboration suite that doesn't neglect the analytical side of project management. And also looking for a permanent gig, because I just got laid off. :]
Best. Name. Ever.
Re: Ask YC: What are you working on these days?
#90Great question :) Mostly working on Stitcho.com ( http://stitcho.com ) Stitcho is a desktop notification widget for your website, with support for Windows and Mac. Add desktop alerts to your web app in less than 30 minutes. Also, trying to build an Erlang community in the DC area (search for Erlang on meetup.com) Finally, putting together a presentation for BarCampDC this Saturday.
cool - horrible from my personal perspective - perfect for one of my projects