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Strip I, me etc. Time is of essence (resumes are not read but skimmed).

How about adding some things from business perspective? I mean when you talk about what you've done, it's good to know that you gained experience. But it would be even better if you could show where your efforts led. Like "redesigned shopping cart process, which reduced the number of support calls by XX %"

Watch out for ambiguous text: "the clean UI and weather graphs really made Harvest’s product stand out." It's better to be able to say something solid like "new design led to XX % better user retention" or "new UI was awarded by XX".

I'd also advice against placing your education with the rest of "about me". Some might skip the whole chapter. This will not happen if education has a heading of its own.

I would also place "experience" just after the summary. Best stuff first.
Ignore the article.
I'm an OpenGL developer but I would dearly love to use Direct3D instead - Direct3D has a very nice API and is well supported on all graphics cards, while OpenGL is a mess of extensions and only works well on Nvidia GPUs (and maybe ATI). The only reason we use OpenGL is for independence from Windows.
Yes, I'd like to second that- it's a great reference list that gave me exactly what I needed already quite a few times.
Interesting take on it, though really it's a tale as old as man - a powerful group trying to push aside/enslave/wipe out another, weaker group.

Avatar is quite clearly about the north American Indians, since that is likely what Cameron knows best.
No, I certainly agree that cross-platform compatibility is important (the D3D10 implementation I mentioned in my post was for WinXP, OS X, and Linux, and spawned from a reimplementation of Win32 on OS X/Linux), but this has to be weighed against the costs.

Going with OpenGL, SDL, OpenAL, etc is certainly not the easy route, even with the huge benefits, and for small dev houses it can easily become overwhelming. If your code needs to be cross platform, then OpenGL (or both, but that again is more expensive) is the only way to go. If cross-platform compatibility would simply be icing on the cake, then you need to weigh the development costs of both approaches.
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"and if they aren't you have to implement this yourself."

Either that or offer a slightly degraded gaming experience according to what the OpenGL system exposes.

Nobody cares that much if their phone can't show the same tessellation glory their kid's dual-GPU oil-cooled deskside monster can.
Thank you. If I'm reading your blog, it's because I want to hear what you have to say, not because I want to be pandered to. Write what you want to write, and I'll take it or leave it. Attention-whoring gets you looks, but it builds no real value; writing about what interests you -- while it can be hit or miss -- does.
I think a "sorry, we screwed up" consolation discount would go a long way in helping smooth over all of the bad sentiment I'm seeing toward sparkfun after todays fiasco. Perhaps something along the lines of "If you were unable to get in on this offer, sign up for our newsletter and get a 20% off coupon code that expires in 2 weeks."
Looking at the screenshots, it seems that you place your phone at one corner of your bed as you sleep. I am surprised that this would work. Does anyone here have an opinion? There are quite a few critical reviews that say it doesn't.
What does this do?

'a,'bg/fred/s/dick/joe/igc : VERY USEFUL
Isn't it "Do It Now" ?
Be Wary When Partnering (says column that cites Virgin Mobile and BrandPort
Shocker, the topic of your blog post determines reader interest and demographic. Isn't most writing for public consumption carefully constructed? One of the tenants of a good author is knowing your audience and writing for them.
While we're on the topic, am I the only one who noticed that posts starting like "Am I the only one to think that..." or "I'll probably get downvoted for this but..." tend to get upvoted a lot?

I cringe whenever I see this. Usually, the poster's opinion is somewhat obvious and would definitely not get downvoted if it were just stated. But adding the "lone sane person" spin to it seems to get a lot more upvotes anyway.
Search from LinkedIn if anyone you know knows someone at Google. Secondary connection is better than nothing.
Just a heads up:

I took a demo quiz and it worked fine. Great idea for a product.

However I think I'm too competent for the test because I was able to run something I probably shouldn't have been able too.
That is, if you even knew there was an update. Unlike Windows, your router isn't going to keep popping up little bubbles to tell you to update.

Perhaps the router maker(s) should give you an app that'll do that, seems like a very useful thing to me.
The Right Potential of Link Baiting
Rewritten article, but turly helpful for those who looking for better link building option.
If you didn't know who made Avatar, would you still be so confident about this interpretation?

A major part of art is its ability to be a "reflecting pool" and generate discussion about current topics, even if the resulting analogies go far beyond author's intent.

Avatar does very well at this because it's so focused. The focus makes the story simplistic, but also metaphorically powerful. It makes a valid interpretation of the story - any valid one - feel much stronger.
This article was as informative as someone who would write "Getting 60K pageviews by a carefully constructed competition"

It's not hard to get page views.

I have approx 30K page views per post and great discussions around them and re-tweets up the yazoo, but it's based on what I find interesting, what I want to spend my time on. Not on writing content that isn't important to me.

The real metrics you should look for is average time spent on site, number of page views per visit unique visitors, what kind of discussion you can generate around it, if people start contacting you for your input.

That's worth something and it's solid.
The "Near me now" link does not show up on my Android devices.
Repost: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027798
I'm using this application for a few weeks now. The application needs to be calibrated for the first few days, but after that it works really well. I'm pleasantly surprised by the accuracy of the application and the ease of use. The low price ($0.99) makes it easy to try it out too, so if you care about these kind of things, I can recommend it.

One thing I've noticed is that in your sleep, you're sometimes rolling over while being "half awake": you wouldn't remember it if you would fall back asleep, but if you're inside the specific timeframe you've set your alarm to, this application will wake you up, and you indeed do feel more fresh than coming out of a deep sleep.

And the charts are nice too.
Yes, you place the phone on the corner of your mattress. So when you move in bed, it can detect that because your mattress shakes. And how much you move in bed is related to your sleep cycle (it's called Actigraphy).
I tried it last night and i remember i woke up twice and checked the time. The graph produced by the app matches these times. The alarm simply went off at the set time, but it says that the app needs 2 nights to calibrate to your bed and your sleep cycle, so i can't say how well that works.
I read this hoping it would be another really cool use of "dot" to make things easier to visualise, and hence easier to prioritize, and hence easier to do, thus making it useful, and a cool pun.

But it's just a mis-spelling.

Things I use "dot" for include:

- Diagramming links between Paul Graham essays. When I told him about it he suggested I submit it here to HN. That's how I first arrived: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=397408

- My site map. It's a real map, not just a list of pages

- Scheduling. Dependent tasks point to each other, and are set to the same level as the week they're due.

- Visualizing data structures. I've invented a new one and want to see how it evolves through time.

- System connectivity diagrams and data flow.

There are more, but that's enough. Dot and neato are incredibly useful tools.

More useful than yet another "Do It Now" page.
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Analyzing a FriendFeed group with Ruby and R
Makes me think Yelp might regret walking away. Of course, that is if that Google acquisition rumor had any truth at all.
Ask HN: Why I can't upvote on a comment?
I asked this question yesterday in a comment and someone pointed me to read FAQ.

Well, I did. There's something about 'preventing from abuse'. How come all of my up-votes considered as abuse? I mean, I can't upvote any comment here.
Well, Max Klein was also being himself and was posting things he considered interesting. Even though he himself thinks he was manipulating people, I don't actually think he was manipulating anyone but himself.
thats expensive ... i paid 30€ for my version ... new
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1027798

This would've been detected by the method suggested here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215

EDIT: I see in the time it took me to track down the previous submission and the reference to the duplicate testing post, middus got in ahead of me. I'll let this stand anyway.
Hey, just saw this thread in my referral logs -- thanks for the support! :)
Now that's interesting, a social engineer + software developer = new kind of entrepreneur? The plan: outsmart people in the social space (creating a momentum) and then start selling them software (creating long term effect).

The problem here is how actually you create good software
I think the tribal aversion of engineers to marketing is coming out in force here.

Being authentic is wonderful. Of course, we know authenticity is prized by this community (and many others). So if we get up on a soapbox and say "Be authentic!", are we being authentic or are we marketing?

I think the answer is "both".

The prior post rubbed me wrong not because it was "Give people what they want!" and not because it was introspective, but because it seemed to glorify pageviews for the sake of pageviews, as opposed to there being some strategy to actually create value. If folks had perceived value creation, they probably wouldn't have cared if titles were optimized for their interests.

I'm not particularly enthusiastic about personal promotion via scaring people into thinking Facebook exists to out gay people, but at the bottom of that post, there was a brief aside about how you should take the hint if people retitle your post when tweeting it. That is a SOLID piece of concrete, actionable advice about writing good titles, which is a core competency for marketing It also provides value to all parties. There is a reason I don't title my blog posts "Something I thought today."

I think if people perceived the posts as "creating more value than they captured", they would have no problem whatsoever with optimizing the execution of them.
Pogue on Reader's Responses to his Review of Google Nexus One
"I think I may have accidentally unearthed a whole new untapped population online: the Android Army. Reader feedback about my review of Google’s new cellphone yesterday was unusually voluminous and, in some sectors, vitriolic. Where I had written, 'The Nexus One is an excellent app phone, fast and powerful but marred by some glitches,' some readers seemed to read, 'You are a pathetic loser, your religion is bogus and your mother wears Army boots'".
The post URLs form is responsive generally compared to delicious' form which at times is totally unresponsive.
I use SleepCycle. Can't tell you if it is a sham or not-- it seems to work and seems to reflect my subjective assessments of my nights sleep
"I think I may have accidentally unearthed a whole new untapped population online: the Android Army. Reader feedback about my review of Google’s new cellphone yesterday was unusually voluminous and, in some sectors, vitriolic. Where I had written, “The Nexus One is an excellent app phone, fast and powerful but marred by some glitches,” some readers seemed to read, “You are a pathetic loser, your religion is bogus and your mother wears Army boots.”"
Hey congrats scott. that is brilliant news
It's interesting because ruby is designed to be easy to read, and in my experience it's the programming language where I have less syntax errors compared to other languages like c, clojure, lisp, etc (which can be prevented 99% of times with an editor)
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In the extreme it actually works better than the opposite "build that and they will come" approach. Though I think the better one is as usual a balance of two
I didn't mean edition as in revision. It might be the exact same book, the barcode might be different or whatever. Amazon lists them the same way if you do a regular search.
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>> "Attention-whoring gets you looks, but it builds no real value;"

Huh? 37signals and similar do pretty well out of it.
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Couldn't be said better
Very nice product. Much-needed quantification in tech recruiting. Maybe consider marketing it to the stackoverflow people. They have been running a job board with much fanfare since recently. (94 points for me in 7 mins, yay)
The point here is to be able to reproduce it on will
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According Duncan Watts' research[1] the crucial factor in spreading a trend is how susceptible the population is to persuasion, not how persuasive the first person to start it is.

You chose themes that your chosen population was already very susceptible to passing on.

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point...
You quickly graduate into writing PApplets in Java. However, even as you do so - the ability to sketch ideas and algorithms in the sketchpad interface is still a huge help.

In practice, Processing is by far the best thing going for creating interactive ad hoc visualizations. Fluency in processing imparts enormous viz power. It is really liberating. I pretty much only write Java when I do Processing (and some Pig stuff), and I don't mind it at all - despite not loving Java.

Using a JVM is a huge advantage because you can embed your applets in web pages and interact with the rest of the page via JS. Jython would be cool.

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Amen. Processing gets out of your way and lets you do great viz.
Glad to hear you're finding the service useful. Beside eliminating spam and keeping growth manageable, the 'every user is a paying user' model is a very effective motivator for providing prompt response to customer feedback, bug reports, feature requests, etc.
At the bottom of the Google Mobile homepage, Settings -> Allow use of device location
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It doesn't look any easier to read that any other language to me. Looks harder to read than many. So if it is indeed 'designed to be easy to read', I think the failed.
This is BS. A relative of mine has many rent-homes in the Fremont/Newark area, 3-4 bedrooms, nice homes in nice areas, for around $2k a month, including utilities. You don't have to live in Palo Alto or SF just because you work there.

Places like Fremont/Newark/Hayward are 45 minutes to everywhere. 45 mins with BART to SF, less than 45 mins (w/ traffic) to Mtn View/Palo Alto/Sunnyvale, and 45 minutes to San Jose. That's a perfectly reasonable commute.

If you really want to raise a family of 5 in the Haight, than that's awesome, but don't cry when your 140K household income isn't enough to give each kid a room AND still have a covered spot to park the M3. Moving to the Sunset is just kidding yourself, since the commute to downtown is going to be just as it would be if you moved to the 'burbs.
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Dell also claims that this happens to be the first ever "ultra mobile gaming laptop". According to Dell, the M11x is capable of playing games and videos at 720p.
I've tried it for a week or so; didn't work for me. The accelerometer did pick up on my movements, though.

Also, I think putting my iPhone at the corner of my bed is a little risky. When sleepily reaching for your phone in the corner of the bed it's easy to drop it, scratch it against the wall, etc. Even when you're generally a careful person; it's going to wake you up 300 days a year, and it has to go wrong only once.

I'm hoping sleepmate does a better job.
also thought this was nice after trying it out.

one thing i missed, though, was the ability to write and run my own tests. perhaps a "scratchpad" that evaluates code and returns a result would be a nice addition?
I think Max Klein's posts are more about "learn the tricks how to get 50000 page views on will", as opposed to "write good posts and they'll come"

Edit: studying at school also doesn't create value by itself, and many people never get much value from their studies, but these who know for what they learn get the most
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Nicely done overall.

You might want to lock down functions like glob() and readfile() in PHP -- they effectively give the coder read access to your file system.
Very good idea, but I don't program that way. I use a competent IDE to tell me syntax errors and obvious programming mistakes while I write. If I can't debug my algorithm with trial & error I write a test first and modify my algorithm until it complies with the test.
To think that a programmer will always come up with the exact and most optimal solution to any given problem is a bit naïve. In my 10 years as a programmer I have never seen one wonder-kid that is able to do that. The real wonder kid assets in a team also tend to be those that are more creative than syntax-anal compared to those that can write syntax-error-free-code with pen and pencil and remember large parts of a phonebook...
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That's not how I think personally.
I'm curious to see how this plays out myself.

Wait, are you trying to social engineer readers here into thinking Max is a con man?
Trading compute? The future of computing??
Has anyone else read @ruv's article on cloud computing and the potential it has for trading? It's here: http://bit.ly/6luDpF

I wrote something similar in This Week in SaaS #6- http://bit.ly/88D5fa

About the only major news this week was Amazon’s Spot Pricing for EC2- you can now bid for resources in a Adwords style auction- the highest prices bid get the available resources until higher bids are received. This enables Amazon to increase the utilisation of their compute without compromising their core business. This is fantastic news for people who have batch processing needs and threatens to significantly reduce the cost of compute. I wonder if Amazon would open up a marketplace for compute- now that would be amazing!

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between (book)mark a and b find fred then search the line and replace any occurrence of dick with joe with a confirmation. there a couple of modifiers on there I don't know but I think that's pretty much it.
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The title sucks... any moderators out there?

The link is fairly interesting... about an offshoot of Google SketchUp intended for autistic people, called Spectrum.

Maybe the title could be something like "Google SketchUp Helps Autistic People Express Themselves"
Well, that's one more reason you should like Codility - you can run test compilations (the VERIFY button) which will show you syntax errors. And in bottom left corner you can apply your test data sets. In other words - you work like in your every day environment. Check it out and let me know what you think.
The only part of this I didn't really grok is that the blog says pvg was a co-founder of del.icio.us. I always thought the co-founders were @joshu and Pete Frietas.
Bottom left corner. It's obviously not visible enough :)
I think you mean techcrunch, right?
It's blocked elsewhere in the system, so no worries :)
Feature point #1, "spare user interface" should be "sparse user interface"?
I have no idea. How do they tax Microsoft for having Windows packaged in Mexico ?
They are up again now
This would be kind of cool simply as a brainteaser site with problems taken from Project Euler.
I'm reading it and OP answers two questions, one of which says how he/she recently graduated w/o an MBA and the other is a fairly generic answer about things we all already knew (except maybe that the Facebook programmers are "incestuous"). What is it that OP posted that was "too much information"?
Read the first article - I think there is more actionable and useful stuff in there that people just starting out can use.

But I think I overshot my targets and my attempt at exposure is leading to a backlash. I'll just stop talking now and go off and write my next article, which will be more 'me'.
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Wow, beautiful design.

That said: Jesus I must still suck, or maybe Math simply isn't my strong suite.
Isn't it a hackers' website? Also, isn't there a question on the YC application form asking how one hacked something non-computer?
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It's a user interface, not a matrix.
This is 24hrs too late, but I must comment that I've been consistently impressed with Randall's commitment to his readers. We were at one event on the book tour, the Silicon Valley stop at Anybots, until at least 2am so that he could have healthy conversations with everyone who stuck it out in line. As if there weren't already a ton of reasons to heart xkcd, his appreciation of his readers is just one more attribute to add to the list.

(full disclosure: I started breadpig, which publishes the xkcd book, but everything I've written is 100% true regardless of that fact)
I think this highlights a subtle point: real time search needs real time data sources. Tweets can do only so much and I hope data providers start thinking about how they can improve their live feeds.
How long before mattresses with the built-in accelerometers start producing? I actually don't move that much, so for it'd be safer bet to have the accelerometers in many places.