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DallaRosa | 14 years ago | on: GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.

From 3 days ago:

"What I want you to see in that thread I mentioned is the way the core team perceives this. You are not discovering anything unknown, we already know this stuff and we like attr protection to work the way it is."

(https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5228#issuecomment-4292...)

After reading for how long he tried to bring attention to this and only got a top guy to say that kind of stuff. The guy who hacked is not right in any way but I don't even have words to describe the person who wrote the above line.

DallaRosa | 14 years ago | on: Iris Is (Sort Of) Siri For Android

Android has a great voice recognition technology.It works like a dream. Also it's pretty easy to integrate voice-to-text into your applications and again it's very easy to launch apps/do google searchs/open a map/etc in Android with Intents. I've been playing with command voices and writing emails etc since maybe more than a year ago and if you have a little training in NLP (or even if you don't) you realize it's pretty easy to get your Android device to return wikipedia data in a pretty layout or get a few simple "natural language"-like commands working.

But what's amazing in Apple's system is not sending an email by saying "email to...". The really cool and difficult part is how the handle paraphrasing and uncertainty. Paraphrasing ("how's the weather today?" x “What is the weather like today?”) and ambiguity resolution ("What's up next" -> shows your next appointments) are still very difficult problems in NLP and even though research has improved lots[1][2] it's still totally non-trivial. The way they got it to work in the phone is in a total different level from what those guys working 8 hours achieved.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/tac/2011/RTE/index.html

[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3747

DallaRosa | 14 years ago | on: I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.

It doesnt matter what others say you did the right thing. Just because your first try didnt work it doesnt mean nothing else. Take advices in the other comments. Get a part time job and go study arts or whatever you wanted to in your other post. Get a part time and try to start your own business not with freelancing but something else like builiding your own product. You still have a lot of time and no need to panic. Leaving slavery(your old job) did give you freedom yiu just gotta find out what to do with it. So no more feeling like a loser. Find something to give you some money to live and tha gives you the flexibility to find what you want do it! We're rooting for you!

DallaRosa | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Successful startups that didn't come from top-tier Universities

Thanks for the answers!

I always felt that top-tiers had an advantage because of their networking (with those same finance guys who can easily introduce them to a Ron Conway or a Peter Thiel)

I know it might sound like a silly question but sometimes you need to hear that other people that didn't come from the top also got there so you can keep on moving on. Again, thanks everyone for the answers!

DallaRosa | 14 years ago | on: How to attract a top hacker... (NOT)

I honestly think he screwed up by hedging his play in the end. If he decides to go down that path he should say something like "dont worry, you'll get paid" on a first contact email or even during an interview only. He started with something that could have been bold but in the end looked like windows 8: look we have this super cool new interface totally redogned from ground up (but dont worry we still have all the bloatware somewhere in there)
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