Dynamic Mobile Messaging is managed by its co-founders Adam Lepczak and Dustin Smith. Adam is also a founder and operating principal of Computer Fix, an outsourced network IT Company based out of southeast Michigan. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan at Dearborn and a number of industry certifications. Adam drives the technical efforts such as ushering through patent applications, drawing up design schematics, working with industrial designers, driving production plans, and sourcing raw materials.
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Pun taken. To my excuse, it is really late and I am really tired.
Currently there is me and another person involved. We are very motivated and very easy to work with.
This is true. No one really knows how Mr. Miner got his money and from who. You have to be a really savvy business man to make it in Russia that's for sure...Or you have to be very well connected, or you have to give a lot of bribes. I doubt that he made his money in a "clean" way. I wouldn't take the money because most likely they are tainted. But I guess it doesn't matter.
Good luck with your venture. Just stay true to your original intent. Please do not sell out to the giants once you'll make it :) Focus on startups and not on Facebook.
From the space/engineering/scientific point of view the cold war period was actually quite beneficial to both Soviet Union and the United States. Now, the budget of both US and Russian space programs is like a shadow of its former self. These days some folks in the US are shelling millions of dollars to build a wooden replica of Noahs Ark in Kentucky....
http://arkencounter.com/
I want my cold war back!
It may come back to hunt the author down the road. I am not sure why anyone would expose themselves like that in public. Reminds me a story of lifelock service. CEO of lifelock exposed his SSN number to the public only to find it used for fraudulent activities.
LISP is way over my head. The entire recursion based theme of LISP does not click with me, and it is entirely my fault. I tried and I barely passed my LISP class. It was though. I remember having problems writing even the simplest code - like Fibonnaci in LISP...
If you know how to code in LISP, you surely must be an android.
This may be too direct question to ask, but I will anyway to have some points of reference...
1. What do you - at YCombinator consider to be your best example of a successful start-up? If you can name that company, that would be awesome and appreciated.
2. On the other hand, what do you consider to be a flat out failure? An example of an idea that totally did not work? If you could name this venture, it would be appreciated too.
The engineering potential of Google is second to none. Founders of Google are brilliant and morally impeccable persons who have been making a lot of good choices for the company.
Facebook on the other hand, has a CEO who is a autistic semi-retard with a tendencies to screw people over and his luck is about to run out...
It all starts at the people at the top...
Brin and Page >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Zuck
Great idea. Kudos to the creator. I've heard about the game few weeks back, but assumed it is some sort of a viral copy of a Starcraft hack.
Also C64 graphics > New "photo realistic" games...
There is plenty of hacking going up there, as once you on top, you HAVE to fix the problem with whatever components, parts, and tools you have available.
Term hacker is applicable, considering he fixes transmission/radio towers...
From Wikipedia:
1950s: amateur radio enthusiasts defined the term hacking as creatively tinkering to improve performance.
It is kind of sad to see what has happened to Digg. It uses to be a simple site with a simple purpose and an elegant design. They have now morph it into a hybrid of some sort.
I had an honor of being interviewed in Mountain View CA for a basic in-house tech support person, but didn't make it. It was in May 2006. I was one of the finalist, but just not good enough. The experience however was fantastic and a huge ego booster. They flew me over to California for few days and gave me a tour of GooglePlex. I have to say that my interview process was consistent with the article.
My "google question" was:
"How would you fill out exact 4 liters in a Can of 5 liters and another Can of 3 liters, with unlimited supply of water?"
I was able to answer it: Pour the content of the 3L can to the 5L one. Repeat the process again until the 5L can starts overfilling. So now you have 5L can full of water and 1L left in the 3L can.
So now, empty the 5L can, and pour in it that 1L leftover water from the 3L can.
Now you have 1L in the 5L can. Fill 3L can with water and pour it again in the 5L can. So 1L + 3L == 4L :)
Still it wasn't enough for the job as I may have failed the regular expression part of my interview...
I know for sure that all of the Manga style drawings DO NOT look asian, so there was a marketing element to it. Seems like Japanese creators wanted to make Manga universal and appealing to everybody - and of course they were successful at it. So, rather than drawing asian looking characters, they have created a "universally appealing" characters. This is equal to "bigger audience".
I think that this is a warning to all of us. Please, be a respectful and civil net citizen. If you troll around like crazy it may come up in the future and come back to hunt you.
P.S. I have done my share of occasional trolling and silly comments. I don't think that they were offensive though.