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PDF - https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkxqv1zcgrg28m4/The%20Swift%20Prog...

It'd be interesting to paste a typical cover letter in the app and see how much crap one has to write nowadays to get to the interview stage. :)

I would be curious to find out why he chose $40M as the benchmark.

Opinions like this make me happy that I accepted a graduate job at an investment bank (with the hope that I will be able to develop something on the side) instead of going for a startup after finishing university.

This looks great, love the design work! How did you decide to go into that direction?

Is that for Android only? Yesterday my friend and I tried it (I have an iPhone, he has a Samsung), because I was curious if I will be able to take a screenshot while holding my finger on the image and it worked. He received no notification about the screenshot, though.

I can easily buy it, but is Google going to like the fact that I have a domain which is just a skeleton for a tumblr website?

Yeah, we realize that. As for the US version - the template is applicable to any country as long as the game rules stay unchained. Of course, we would need to check that.

I agree with you! My guess was that there's probably a very small number of stickers with very high demand, too. But really, we wanted to create something that people could potentially be helpful to people while not feeling bad that we are not revising :)

Hi everyone! A fellow classmate and I have exams approaching, so we thought that the best way to procrastinate will be to build something. That's why we hacked Monopoly Exchange quickly (in about 2 days) to allow people to exchange stickers in the McDonald's Monopoly game and we are interested in your opinion!

Great job! I love that strategy, you could either pay for it or if you know how - fork it on Github.

Whatever NK's plans are, I think they are very unlikely to be affected by anything like this.

While I don't disagree with this opinion, I believe that there is also a positive side of the problem and I have expressed my opinion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5447184

I like some of the reasons the OP has listed (great skill set, intellectually curious) and because of those I was planning on doing a PhD after I finish my BSc (4th year now).

However, after careful consideration, I realized that: 1. I am not entirely sure if my enthusiasm will be enough to push me through a PhD 2. You can obtain a great skill set, meet loads of smart people and work on intellectually stimulating problems in industry, too.

That's why I plan to work for some time and then re-evaluate my situation and maybe apply for a PhD, who knows.

Exactly, the whole presentation looked artificial to me. Like they were forcing themselves to be liked, instead of just being natural.

W.r.t the device - as I said, some nice features but I am not a big fan of plastic phones. It might sound funny, but I like that I can 'feel' my iPhone when I'm holding it.

I liked some of the features of the new Galaxy S4, but this show put me off so much. They were trying SO hard to make it 'cool', but it was getting more and more awkward with every new scene. That's why at some point I just couldn't take any more of their 'humour' and turned it off.

I don't like Galaxy's look but I quite like some of its features and I think they should re-think their next presentation very carefully and try make it look less cheap.

I used to be a Firefox user a couple of years ago and then when I switched to Chrome I noticed a BIG difference in the performance. Chrome was faster and more stable.

Now, similar to the OP I keep having issues with Chrome, the biggest of which is its memory usage.

"Memory usage is off the charts and I frequently have tabs become completely unresponsive."

In my case, it not only eats 2GB of my RAM, but also takes a bit proportion of my hard-disk. I did a quick experiment yesterday and measured my FREE HDD space before closing Chrome and after that.

Before: 800 MB free. After: 10.9 GB free :)

It's true I keep a lot of tabs open (>70), but 10GB.. I think that's too much. Now, I'm considering switching back to Firefox, too.

I think I get the idea of the product, but with the information you have provided - I can never be 100% sure.

First, I would suggest adding a demo video on the front page. If you like your page to have as little content as possible - that's fine, but unless you add something small that tells a lot (like a video), I suggest many people will just give up very early on.

Second, the "used by" section. I think that if you manage to get testimonials from individuals, it will look better and feel more personal.

"SYNCED PRESENTATIONS TO ALL DEVICES" - I don't get why this is formatted this way? I'd put it in the center with another smaller sentence underneath that briefly summarises the product.

I think what you offer is pretty neat (if I have managed to understand it correctly) but I feel you should do a bit more work re: selling it better.

The website looks great! When I opened it, for some reason, I instinctively looked for a short video explaining what the website does and how it works. Maybe that could be something you might want to consider? Also, I had to check the comments here in order to find a demo product page - I would recommend you add a demo product page link on the front page, so people can see how it looks like in practice.

Not sure. http://askubuntu.com/questions/343/alternative-for-mac-os-x-... maybe ?

Great idea! Never knew about the Automator. That got me inspired to create a HN Search service for myself: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331370

Same here, tried reproducing the issue without any success. Also, I can express the same feelings towards my 13" 2012 MBA - best machine I've ever had.

Right, makes a bit more sense now. Thanks for the thourough explanation. Also, I would too be interested in a post which gives more insight into Wingtip as it sounds quite interesting.

Any ideas on what prevents them from getting the rest of the data?

Agreed. I can easily see this interface + NLP capabilities working perfectly with an API from Skyscanner.

Great website, love the idea! One thing I still don't get is why exactly it is slow? How come you can pre-load some data, but not other? The first thing that comes to mind is caching, but I guess I am not understanding the problem correctly.

Side note: 2 weeks ago there was a hackathon at our university (Edinburgh) and in the Travel category one of the teams tried to do exactly the same thing. However, they only implemented the NLP part as they were using data via Skyscanner's API. Our entry[1] had a similar flavour, but rather than typing, one could select their cities and we did the planning for them.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ir7XrlC0aw

Hi everyone,

As part of a university course, I wrote a blog post on why scripting languages should be encouraged by the university professors for courseworks and how this will help students learn more.

What is your opinion on the topic?

There was a post about how clever their marketing strategy is - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5185004

I just received my 5% email too by the way.

Good luck with that! Question: How do you go about classifying the sentiment - are you doing anything interesting or?