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Personally I prefer a designer who understands code but focuses on design. Designing and coding are both full-time professions when you work at a high level. Focusing on one of them allows you to achieve better results in the field.

A good process can ensure that designers and developers find solutions together that both look great and are reasonable to implement. Main thing, as with many things, is just good communication and an open mind on in all sides.

Same way that a printed designer doesn't own and control the printers that the final designs are printed on. However, they do understand the properties of different types of paper and effects of different printing techniques.
>Perhaps use your time to learn something you know nothing about. CPU design? Compiler design? AI? I spent my spare time learning how to Decode Captcha's because I thought it was interesting and looked like magic until I learnt how. Thats the point of being there.

I'm really starting to like Lisp, which leads to AI. I might look at something along those lines.

>Taking things like Theory of Computation and Algorithms and Data Structures were some of the harder but more satisfying courses I took while a student.

Rest assured, I've been waiting with baited breath to take those courses. It's just that getting to them requires about 3 or 4 boring classes.

Thanks for your advice!
First and most critical piece of advice. Don't drop out if you can financially afford to stay in. You will grow to regret it later.

Second, talk to your professors, adviser, and the dean of the department about your situation. Let them know your skill set so that advanced answers do not come across as cheating.

Third, most major universities allow you to test out. I have completed almost 30 hours towards my degree by testing out of classes and using previous work experience to apply for credit. Testing out usually involves either taking the final exam for the class, doing a major project, or a combination of both. I would highly encourage you to talk to your professor.

Fourth, the classes will get harder and more challenging. Talk to your adviser, professors, and the dean of the department. Determine what your options are for classes and take the most challenging classes as electives.

Fifth, look into a minor that may provide a release from the rut you are in. Even if the minor is something like underwater basketweaving it can provide a break and also provide a way to gain experience in an environment outside your comfort zone.

Finally, see if your school offers any independent study programs or credits for internships. It sounds like you have good skills that could be applied to real-life scenarios while at the same time accomplishing your goal of completing your degree.
Seems like staying too close to the real line was a lot of the problem--spirals and asymmetric structures show up roughly in proportion to how imaginary the region in question is.

That and a lot of time zooming toward what I think are Misiurewicz points--if memory serves me, places on the boundary of the set where multiple "branches" meet, and tend to have very strong self-similarity along the branches and detail shrinking infinitely as the branch point is approached.
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Transfer. Seriously. I'm in a similar situation and that's what I plan on doing.

Go to a better place that you deserve to be at and that will challenge you. Apply for loans if you can't afford it. In ten years, you will be glad that you did.
The issue with that approach is largely a performance one, judging from what I know of flightcaster. If they have to issue a search to twitter for the flight info, the user has to wait on it.

If they constantly poll, then there are thousands of flights and they have to poll them regularly to make sure they have the latest info on the flight.

IIRC, the current algorithms include historical ontime percentages and weather, but I don't remember reading about them using the realtime web or airline's websites to gather it. Of course I don't really know what I'm talking about, it's all conjecture.
Every job I have ever had I have gotten either through personal contacts or by sending my resume to a company that I was interested in. It wasn't that people were doing me favors, its just that it put me in the right place at the right time and that was much more effective than browsing online ads. I have read statistics that say most hires are made through personal contacts, otherwise known as "networking"
Do really well in physics or math and you'll be fine.
It was At-Ease! At least in high school. I believe it could be overridden by holding down the shift key while booting.

The most horrible memories are of making Hypercard presentations. It was required for projects for which it was totally inappropriate because the teachers wanted to incorporate computers in the class room. And the files always got corrupted and had to be totally redone.
I'm only a student, so take my words with a grain of salt.

I don't mean to advertise for StackOverflow, but it struck me that an their job board would be the biggest competitor to a potential HN job board.

I find that jobs.stackoverflow.com is clean and seems to have consistently interesting postings. On the other hand, I'm not sure how many conversions they get, and the UI is rather basic.

They've also recently launched careers.stackoverflow.com, which integrates with StackOverflow accounts. The theory is that employers can scope out an applicant's know-how by glancing at his reputation and postings.

Anyway, as someone seeking employment, I echo your interest in finding a good solution. Good post.
I share the frustration. We've been looking for people since roughly September. I've probably done 50 or so interviews and gone through five times as many resumes. Where is everybody? And why is there such a reluctance to structure data in communities like this? If people at least put their names, e-mail addresses, web sites, and skills or interests in their profiles, it would be a huge help.
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Due to the recognizable design of macs, and the macs vs. everything else paradigm, it can definitely appear that macs have a much larger market share than they actually do, leading people to believe they are more popular than they are.

I was in a cafe and my father made a comment about how many people had macs, and maybe he should get one. there were about 10 people on computers. 3 had macs, but they all looked the same. of course the other 7 were all different brands (actually 2 dells and two lenovo), but they all looked so different that they didn't seem like the people using them were part of a team or movement.

This can also be a way of 'training' people to consider mac...just look how many people have switched - though it may not be as much as you think.

But how can it be 'a nice fashion piece that sets you apart from the other students', if as the author states, they are all using macs?
As for me, I ALWAYS start with TextEdit when I want to type something out - only because it loads up very quickly (and without a big flast-screen).

Word gets opened up afterwards when I know that the doc is going to get much larger and complex.
As a coding designer, there's a two-edged sword here.

1) Considering the costs of implementation limits the space of possible designs thus reducing originality.

2) Considering the costs of implementation limits the space of possible designs thus inspiring creation.

Which is just an obnoxious way to say that sometimes it's pretty damn useful to design things that are hard to implement. If you're too tied to the CSS, you won't try dumb enough things often enough and that's a direct line to insipid design.
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Unless this is recent, the bottom of the gmail page there is a button to 'turn off buzz' just like you can for chat.

I don't recall it notifying me of any changes to my profile.
Somehow "Dubai security services" sounds like a joke instead of a beacon of Arabic intelligence to this mid-eastern ears of mine. Thus I think this whole thing ended up as a Best of Mossad episode.
I know you're being sarcastic but some notebook manufacturers can't even get the USB ports right side up. Most of them cut corners all over the place, and unless you spend an amount equivalent to the price of a MacBook ($1500+) you won't find a notebook that can equal it on the market. I hesitate to say this but from what I have seen personally no one puts as much thought or care into every last detail of a machine as Apple - from hardware to software they pore over little things that all add up to make me happy.

Macs have long had 2 volume settings for headphones and speaker audio outputs (so you don't blast your ears by mistake, or play something out loud you meant to play quietly), and similarly iPods pause the audio when the headphones are unplugged. Simple details that most companies would never think of on their own, but that give you a warm fuzzy feeling when you discover them.
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While all of that may be true, I just think you and bugs are looking far too into the details of paint:painter::word processor:writer. I was basically just trying to simplify what I thought the author of the piece was trying to say.

It never hurts to understand how your tools are made and how they function. In fact, it most likely helps you create better work in the long run. At least, that is my interpretation.
A couple of years ago I spent a lot of time looking at job boards and craigslist, and the experience was not a delightful one. Finally I found a company that hadn't posted any listings but that I really liked, and just knocked on their door. I actually still work there.

Recently I got How to get the tech job you love by Andy Lester (pragmatic bookshelf). It's a great read whether or not you have a job.
Sarcasm. Whoosh.
Just letting you know, hiring managers can already target this audience:

http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
I once was asked to help a designer make her own webpage. She made everything circular... and the menu rotated. sigh
I really wasn't trying to say it would save you money in the end or that it would help sell software as you seem to think.

I think you might be missing the point here. If it does not in fact save significant money or help sell software--he's not interested.

I have a (currently underused) slicehost account. In my opinion these guys have historically been known for awesome customer service. They need to continue to do that, and not try to compete on price. I am not optimistic about their ability to deliver amazing service after the Rackspace acquisition, though.
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"A..B" here just means the closest common ancestor of A and B, which could be branches or arbitrary commits.

You might use this if you have a branch from someone else and you just want to know how long ago it diverged from your own branch. Or you might rewind to the common ancestor of two temporary branches before doing something like squashing the commits from each branch onto the ancestor, one after the other.
Finding a development job online is great. Its just the job sites which suck. One of these things is not like the other.

Most hiring decisions are made through the informal networks. That has, historically, been one of the great benefits of going to a really good school, because you get to make weak ties with folks who will eventually probably be in a position to help you out (and vice versa). Participation online is a staggeringly good way to make weak ties.

Meanwhile, the "Send out a hundred resumes and then wait by the phone" is jobseeking for the truly clueless (and, sadly relatedly, the entry level -- I swear, there should be a class on this at college). It virtually guarantees that any company putting up a job will get a hundred resumes for it, most of them from people who have no capability to actually do the job. Additionally, all the people who are poor candidates on day N will probably still need jobs on day N+1, and they'll probably still be sending resumes. It doesn't take a genius to predict what this does to your applicant pool after iterating for a while.

I think if you're really good your jobseeking process is less likely to involve seeking out companies and more likely to involve saying "I am available for work" in a semi-public fashion, but that is another discussion altogether.
I will pay money to post my job openings on a Hacker News job board. Are there any YComb job companies? If not, I'd pitch one fast for the next round. Seems like an easy path towards distribution.
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Sorry, no. Theora is better than H.263, which YouTube currently uses for compatibility with older Flash players. This does mean that Chris DiBona was wrong, but Theora is still worse than H.264 (which YouTube uses for all but the lowest quality clips).

http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo7.html

Check out the last graph on the page. As they point out, PSNR isn't a 100% unbiased way to compare codecs. However, the graph, made by the theora developers themselves running the bleeding edge encoder on content of their choosing, clearly shows that Theora requires 50% larger files to produce the same PSNR as H.264.
I got my first job online.

I was looking for a junior web developer job so I replied to a number of ads on a job board and got several interviews and a really good job at a startup. All my friends there which were on their first job (they weren't many though) did just as I did too.

Then, after I quit to work on my own startup, I got invited several times by those contacts I made while I worked there so I'd say networking is really good for everyone else not looking for a first job.
I would say coders should design, too.

Sure, they don't have to be great designers (much like designers don't need to know anything more than HTML and CSS).

However, a good programmer can create really bad software if they don't know anything about design. Many of the same "reasons" from this article can be applied to programmers designing, too.
I'd certainly be interested in this. I'm currently looking for work, and my normal connections aren't turning up much of anything.

(My profile has a link to a post I wrote up about looking for work, if anyone's looking for a contractor. </shameless-plug>)
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What happens when the servers get hit with a DDoS attack the first week of release?
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That's only for YC-funded companies; no one else can post jobs there.
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I'm not buying it. This is from Nov. 2009:

> Shoppers and list-makers may be interested to learn that Asus and Toshiba notebooks had three-year failure rates below 16 percent. Sony placed third, with a 16.8 percent three-year failure rate, followed by Apple (17.4 percent), Dell (18.3 percent) and Lenovo (21.5). Acer and Gateway came in just under 24 percent, and Hewlett-Packard, which is the world’s largest producer of PCs, came in last, with a 25.6 percent failure rate over three years.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Asus-Toshiba...

Apple may not be the best but I really want to know how you can stretch the phrases "plenty" and "much lower" to claim that "plenty of PC manufacturers have much lower rates of failure than Apple".

2.5% less failures at the absolute best, by 2 companies. Apple makes decent products and in many ways is leading the industry. It's not the same Apple we knew in the 90s.

-- (personal experiences below, you may not care)

My 2006 MacBook is going strong, and I managed to pour a glass of chocolate milk on it in 2007^. The 2005 Mac mini I owned before that is still going strong at my friend's house. My iPod 5G w/ video from 2005 and shuffle from 2007 are going strong. My 2006 AirPort express works flawlessly.

^ I had to replace my MacBook's keyboard which had sticky keys and battery which couldn't hold much charge, but the motherboard and CPU were fine after drying out and being cleaned.

(I know I come off as a bit of an Apple fanatic but I've only been a customer for 5 years. Before that I had only used Windows and Linux. I still use Linux on servers of course. I'm not religious about Apple at all, they just make good products. iPhone/iPad are too locked down for my taste, but still good.)
In terms of the Apple acquisition of NeXT, Steve Jobs is not an outlier.

Founders leaving big companies, often in groups, to found starups that are later acquired by big companies - often one they previously worked for, is common.

Its the most common pattern among successful startups. Its happened since day one of silicon valley, 110 years ago. This pattern is the basis of most of the wealth in the area.
All I want is to be able to use home-directory notation (like ~bdr/.gitignore) in my .gitconfig, so I can use the same config across different machines. Does anyone know how to do this?
Am I eating crazy pills? I have a jobs board in my menu bar..

and i think there's some website where you can pitch a job idea and they'll give you $ to start a company.
That's limited to job postings by YC companies.
The simple public karma system used by Reddit/HN is pretty bad. HN even lump comment and submit karma contexts.

I think an algorithm like PageRank would be better. Each user has an authority rank and voting up or down content produced by another user confers authority to the other user.

Of course you also need to detect people gaming the system through things like link farms, but there are years of experience on how to do that from search engines. The incentive to have top karma is also worth much less money, so users wouldn't spend too much time gaming it.
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I sure hope so, because it's the only way past the current HTML5 video impasse. Has anyone proposed any other plausible reason why Google would buy On2?
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High fives for AquaSoft and for Paras.

Guys, you can totally do this. It works. It is repeatable. Stupid little things like button designs and calls to action and shopping cart layouts really freaking matter, despite taking 1/1000th as much time to address as adding that next feature you're guessing some users might actually want.
I've been feeling like that a lot lately. I might look into it, but from what I gather transferring into nice schools is even more painful than applying normally.
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Hi everyone,
I just launched a new service.
I'd really appreciate your feedback guys.

It's a widget that you can launch on a web page and it will automatically replace all shortened URLs on that page with the original ones so you can see them before you click.

I know there are a few other services in various forms that expand shortened URLs, but I couldn't find anything that does it in a convenient enough way for me.
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1) Find some research with a professor. Look at their websites, see what interests you and talk to the professor. Make sure you understand their papers and have intelligent questions for them. Make them feel that you'll be useful.

2) Look into some of the theory. Its probably quite different from what you've done in high school. There is some fascinating CS theory out there. Algorithms, turing machines, graph theory, etc... are beautiful fields.

3) Find a crazy minor. By crazy, I mean non-technical. Film, english, political science, etc... You'll branch out, be more useful to any employer, be challenged and have fun.

4) Talk to your dean (someone else said this, but I think its a great idea). Let them know your background and tell them what you want to do.

Good luck.
Okay, how on EARTH does a pirate server work? That must take an INCREDIBLE amount of reverse engineering/packet monitoring..

Or they stole a copy of the server sw?
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Not all things that need to be done need to be "startupified".
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And even if that wasn't the case Tesla Motors is followed closely by quite a few people here.
To be honest it's like game manufacturers (Ubisoft in particular) are trying to make piracy the better option.

Look guys. I have decent money, want to support creators and don't feel like fucking around trying to pirate a $50 game and making sure that it doesn't have viruses or anything along with it. Stop making me feel like a moron for actually giving you my money.
I hated his architecture analogy and I commented on that post as well:

A real architect can build his design. An architect has to learn to build before she learns to design.

I just think that's a profoundly different thing
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Also, I don't understand why he emails companies asking for discounts on web apps when he's bringing in 20k/month in revenue.
The first question on our interview form is "do you use stack overflow, and if so what’s your profile".

Yet, I never knew they had a job board, til now <smacks forehead>

Great tip, thank you.
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You should stop worrying about it when you've exhausted all the avenues that you can possibly think of in improving it.

As for the 1%, Patrick already states it's a bogus statistic based on a small sample, here are some more reasons:

- conversion rates tend to cluster by industry

- the majority of public e-commerce figures pertain to the adult industry, which has notoriously low conversion rates

- conversion rate is a function of how well you manage to pre-select your customers through the use of text found on sites linking to you and how much your visitors are in a 'buying mood' when they finally reach your site. If you get a lot of flak traffic that automatically reduces your conversion rate, but I wouldn't worry about it, the number to maximize is the number of people you sell to in an absolute sense. So better to sell to 1% of 1,000,000 people than 100% of 50.

- A friend of mine has a relatively small site but sells to - and this is not a joke - a full 75% of his visitors. Plenty of them become repeat buyers, and his whole online store fits in a shoebox. There are always outliers to statistics such as these.
I learned to code before I took up the design end. I always keep in mind in how to code the site when I design, and it makes an over all trouble-free experience when I get to work on the code. But I learn all the time that a simple design aspect can be a bear to code, something that I wouldn't think about if I didn't have to code it.