Over the past couple months or so we’ve had a number of non-programmers contacting us, looking for hackers to hire for their startup/project/idea/next-Facebook-to-be. The logic goes — and you can almost hear it in their emails — that a university hacker is a good, cheap resource. One particular ad asked us for a candidate with [...] Read More
NUS-Specific Open Source Projects
One of the things we do at NUS Hackers is to encourage contributions to student-initiated open source projects. Sometimes we post links to such projects on the mailing list; other times we quietly fork the repository, contributing our own patches. Here are a couple of projects that we think deserve more love: SoC Print Monitor – is a program that monitors the print queue of all the NUS School of Computing network printers, and displays it on a webpage. It’s one of the most insanely useful things I’ve found all year, and the people I’ve shown it to have grown used to having it around, as well. Improvements: the program currently runs on Hirman (the creator)’s Sunfire account; according to a friend of mine, it’s leaking [...] Read More
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Singapore’s Startup scene – words of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
I was recently linked to Vincent Lauria aka. Vinnie who was in Singapore a few weeks back. A short bio - Vinnie Lauria graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, joined IBM in New York for a few years and then quit his job to move out to Silicon Valley. He joined onto the Meetro [...] Read More
Movies, Documentaries and Videos
There are some pretty good videos on hacking, startups and open-source culture. Here is a list of them that I have been collecting since long. You will definitely enjoy them. Go watch The Social Network first, if you havent and then come back to this list :P I will keep updating this list by any [...] Read More