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Ask Career HN: Go back to employer or start fresh?

Dear Hackernews, I need some career advice from people that would know: After High School I interned at a small startup, at that time it was just me and the three founders. About a year later I went to College, but continued to do work for them, mostly dumb copy&paste HTML stuff, rarely more complex and time sensitive design work.Fast forward six years: I am about to finish my M.Sc., I am...

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Re:Ask HN: Hotel API's on Saturday September 18, 2010 @11:25AM (#1704322)
If I remember correctly, it was quite easy to get access to booking.com and here's the documentation for their webservice http://xml.booking.com/

If you had 5 months of time to experiment/research something, what would you do?

... in terms of technological concepts, not so much business ideas.Background: I am CS Master in search of a subject for my thesis. The problem with the propositions I come up with is that I think in business ideas (similar to those http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190974) for useful purposes which (understandably) do not suffice the academic/scientific requirements. However, my department...

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