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Re:We Don’t Like Our Underground House on Thursday September 17, 2020 @09:16AM (#24504214)
Adjacent related:

This guy bought an underground rocket silo and is documenting the repair process: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd50A5qLv8FemVufSvDgkCQ

*I remember hearing about it on HN in a similar discussion some time ago and thought it might be relevant for some of the people in this thread.

Everything is an opinion, isn't?
Deleted / I made my point in the original article
Re:Two big sunspots are staring directly at Earth on Sunday July 17, 2016 @04:01PM (#12111543)
what does this mean? is there any context? Thanks!
It´s really the draft of an idea but I´d be curious hearing opinions and feedback. Let me know :-)
Re:This Tech Bubble Is Bursting on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:09PM (#11614510)
If we think about the future of technologies, I am pretty sure there is a bubble:

https://medium.com/@tbsmartens/is-iot-the-end-of-rocket-inte...

It´s all about singularity: How many services do you need that all do the same? Not too many, not too many - and this realisations will hit everybody, from ad-tech to server technologies to consumer services.

Re:BUSY.VC – Glassdoor for Venture Capital on Monday April 25, 2016 @04:12PM (#11566963)
Hi, thanks for your comment - I have heard about thefunded.com, but even now looking at it (I forget it indeed) I honestly not quite getting it - the UI is terrible. I think busy VC should focus on response times. The faster a VC responds, the more likely they are to see more deals.

BUSY.VC – Glassdoor for Venture Capital

One more idea*In Europe many founders report that fundraising takes too long. While in San Fransisco you run into VC after VC, the decentralised nature of Europe makes fundraising much more of a remote process. In survey entrepreneurs often note, that the biggest problems are (i) that they don´t know where in the process they are, (ii) what their probabilities “odds” are, and (iii) what else...

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Apply HN: Internet in children´s language

More then 3.5 Bn. people are going online within the next 5 years. Unlike early adopter communities, these are demographics who have never been online before and now have to learn each and every online service. This people struggle remembering apps - users know today less then 4,7 services on average. Their problem: To abstract between service concepts and digital brands. We help this users by...

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday on Sunday April 13, 2014 @06:44PM (#7583446)
Hey everybody, and maybe something in particular for the Berliners: We started a meetup exactly about that "IDEATALKS" - this Thursday we are hosting the next event, feel warmly invited to join at

www.techpeople.eventbrite.com

(use fullofideas for a free ticket)

Re:Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It on Sunday November 03, 2013 @08:14AM (#6663082)
very cool stuff - I would love to learn this way "standard expressions" in coding language, i.e. per level you programme a specific function or so....(off the top of my head)

A wiki like wiki.ubc.ca

http://wiki.ubc.ca

Hi, I am totally amazed how ubc.ca integrated mediawiki and wordpress - I wonder, is there anywhere a fork of the whole? Or any better alternatives? Either way - I think this is a great demo of what is possible with open source software / technologies

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