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Ask HN: I want to become a co-founder
I am based in London & want to become a co-founder. I am an experienced developer with the following attributes -

* currently working for a 'big 6' IT consultancy.

* Experienced Agile practitioner.

* Java is my main platform

* .NET is my secondary platform

* I have open sourced software written in Ruby (email me for details)

* Don't class me as an out and out techie, I can explain abstract technical terms to 'non-'techies'.

* I do front-end (originally trained as an industrial designer) as well as backend server development.

* Lots of other tech skills too numerous to list.

* I am passionate about writing quality software.

* I enjoy learning new things.

* The web, Android platform, and Augmented Reality are the areas that interest me the most.

I work pretty damn hard, and rather than work for someone else want to work for myself. Why? - I want to build something worthwhile, be financially independent, channel my energies to solve interesting problems, & have fun doing it. I am an ideas man, and have explored various areas; mainly stuff to scratch my own itch. I like to think I am pragmatic & consider myself to be a Maven.

I am looking to interact with like-minded people who are either a Salesman, Connector or a Maven. I'm not necessarily looking to implement my own ideas, it could be one of yours or a need that we discover, I just need to have belief in it & be passionate about it.

I am NOT looking for another job, I enjoy working for my current employer, & work with some great colleagues, hence why I have asked you to email me for details on what I have open-sourced (email in profile). For something I believe in & am passionate about I will leave my current position.

It doesn't have to be a software startup, I am open to all ideas & have way more to offer than my core software skills.

Is anyone looking for someone like me or can they put me in touch with interested parties? Advice on how best to go about tapping into this space? To get things rolling I am offering my services pro bono to allow both parties to get to know each other - no obligations for either party - get an honest feel on how good a fit it will be. Think of it as a probationary period, at worst you get my services for free!

Please get in touch via email in my profile.

wr1472
Isn't the lolcats guy rich?
It's good to note that Wellington is probably the best connected city in New Zealand.

There is fibre around the Wellington CBD, and it extends outwards to some residential. There's also a cable TV offering.

The rest of the country has to put up with ADSL and Wifi links... though things may have improved in my 2 years away from home.

The entrepreneurs behind it are a good team; I've worked with Rod Drury for a couple of years at his startup, so I know this was something they've pitched national government before.
It will be interesting to see what sort of public help they get with the endeavor.

New Zealand has traditionally been a leader in internet uptake - see the BBC's recent data visualisation http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8552410.stm
The initial uptake was all dialup, however, and we've been left behind in the push to broadband because of a local monopoly/duopoly.

I hope this cable goes through - I may consider returning home one day :)
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The problems with modern schools are manyfold. Highlights:

- it's designed for the slightly-below-average student. Even the average students get bored, but only the very brightest realise they can do their own learning.

- it's currently often treated as somewhere to dump your kids for 14-15 years

It's perfectly possible to work through the system, though, and not work at company X. Some tips (from someone who managed it):

- dont take anything too seriously

- university is for fun, learning is incidental (assuming your competent enough to get a degree) [seriously: treat it like this and you will learn a lot more]

- ignore recruiters

And finally: it's fine to buck the trend. You either end up being a bit radical and rebellious (yeh!) or certain people just roll their eyes at you. Neither hurts too much (the first one just gets you laid more).

Quitting Uni to do a startup etc. is fine and make that choice if uni isn't for you. However I'd seriously consider it - you develop a lot during the next few years. You'll make contacts, learn a lot about how people interact and probably make some really important friends. Most importantly your getting away from "home" and fending for yourself.

Even if you end up doing the same thing in 4 years as you would do now (if quitting) it's not always a waste of time :)
Please get in touch via email in my profile.

The email field in profiles is private (pg can see it, but not us normal people). Try putting your contact details in the "about:" section.
This is an unchanged repost of a ReadWriteWeb post, which in turn only summarises the original article by Jan Ozer which is discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181452
Articles such as these illustrate why I think humankind has hope. Wresting signal from noise. The triumph of will and intellect over chaos.
In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway.
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They're not kittens, they're kitten pimps. Subtle but important distinction.

Also, I don't think they're "Google Bought Me Out And Then Killed My Project!" rich.

Also, they were as surprised about it as anyone else.
Well, not all of us elevate humanity above the other life on this planet; indeed, some of the important problems we humans face today are a direct result of the kind of attitude that one human being is worth at least 150,000 trees - that is, that we feel freely able to take as much other life as we deem necessary for our survival.

This planet is indeed dangerous, but consider how much of that danger is caused by us and threatens both humans and other species. One of the things we could do to help change that would be to learn to see equivalent beauty and value in other life beyond our own.
As an emacs user, you may find Distel very useful for Erlang. It connects to a running node and leverages the code reflection capabilities in Erlang, so you get who_calls, symbolic debugging, process listing, M-., etc..
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I'm a female entrepreneur aged 32, happily unmarried. Yes, there are women out there 'who aren't married by 30 because they haven't met someone they want to marry yet and are totally OK with that.' - I'm one of them.
But this kind of article is the reason why it's sometimes hard - because no-one will ever believe you if you claim that you are not set on getting married and you're not keen on having kids. I've even heard the theory that I founded two startups because I didn't find the right guy to marry and have kids with.
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When someone says ok, you can have one-wish, most people will immediately think of the obvious, fame, fortune, peace etc… but hey wait for a moment and take a step back. Think to yourself you are being granted one-wish, what should I really wish for?
Ask HN: Job Titles for Sole Operators?
I am rebranding my business at the moment, and trying to decide what job title (if any) I should put on a business card.

I am a sole operator, I do web design,coding, hosting, but am trying to focus more on the music industry, working with bands to promote them through the web via websites, facebook, twitter etc. Ideas are welcome :)

Also, as sole operators, what titles do you use?
Just you wait till the ecologists get in power, and we'll see exactly how many human beings equate to a tree.
Oh just the typical stuff. I'm old school so...

Your favourite text editor(I use vim) or you can be a bit more fancy and go with something like Netbeans or Eclipse(although I always go back to an editor). And firebug for debugging.

You can add a bunch of stuff to the mix, but that's all I need really.

(Oh, you might also want to throw in a mini-fier for when you're done.)
Now if somebody just plugged this into Emacs, or just got me an extensible (Lisp-based) bubble system with SLIME so that I can connect to a Clojure environment and inspect my code…
Did this vaguely remind anyone else of Hugh Jackman's virus writing "IDE" in Swordfish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUJFOuHIS4Q

And on that note, how come all academic screencasts are so monotonous?
I don't know how much more plain it could be:

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We can use the command SET to store the value "fido" at key "server:name":

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I can cut and paste just fine.
"I realize that I do not want to give up the independence I have; to have to compromise anything"

But you are compromising: your compromise is that you can't experience marriage.
that is pretty useless, but my vote is still for Chatroulette
Having some ecological sensitivity doesn't imply valuing trees (even 150'000 of them) more than human beings. On the contrary: the only value of those 150'000 trees is to enable us to live better, happier lives in a more human-friendly world.

Extreme statement: If there was a way to replace every single tree in the world with a plastic equivalent that looked and felt the same, and performed the same functions as a real tree (oxygen generation, soil processing, biological niche, etc).. if there was a way to do this and save a single human life, I would do it.
Unless like most companies they pay suppliers after 30 to 90 days. (Net 30 or Net 90.)

I think CPUs sell quickly enough that this delay will catch the check before it's sent.

I wonder if the supplier was in on it - they might not have been.

I really hope someone follows the money trail right down to the bottom. I have a feeling newegg won't - it costs too much for it to be worth it to them. But I hope Intel does it.
$4+ million per year revenues for i can has cheezburger network.
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Girls at a technology university? Then I'm envious of you, the m/f ratio at mine is like 20-1.
I like to think of it as him giving away our money to charities.
Still, I don't think cute and fun is such a bad combo for business. Hello Kitty, Harry Potter, Cabbage Patch Kids, the Olson Twins, etc. A bus full of nerds working on "stalkbox.com" in the desert seems like the opposite of cute and fun.
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The blue window above is a Ruby prompt. Type a line of Ruby code, hit Enter and watch it run!

For example, try typing some math. Like: 2 + 6

See http://tryruby.org/ before talking further, please.
Since point two has already been debunked enough, (though there's plenty of room for more), I would not that Tian'anmen is "correct in untone official pinyin" that of course is used by almost no one, inside or outside of china.

As for your third point, since you can read chines you know that there is extensive information on the page talking about other commonly used names, many of which include the Tiananmen phrase. In fact, the first section of the chinese article goes into a fair bit of detail about that. Furthermore, seeing as wikipedia is hardly democratic, or used under "free conditions in China", I see no reason to use it as the baseline for determining what is common, or the common usage of certain terms, especially a term that connotes an event that the majority (or a substantial percentage) of chinese people under say, age 30, have never heard of.

As for the "needlessly sarcastic", when did the internet become a place where sarcasm eternally brought about the wrath of other commenters? Is the problem the "needless"　sarcasm, as opposed to the sarcasm in general? Doesn't personality mean anything? And if it's the "needless" part, let's be honest, is hackernews really "needed" at all?
"aren't married by 30 because they haven't met someone they want to marry yet"

It seems to become more difficult with age, though. Easy for you to be annoyed, if you are still in your twenties. What if you are 40? A lot of things will look different by then, I think so much is safe to assume.
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Yeah, Jeri Ellsworth has her own Wikipedia entry by the way.
Very prolific engineer, with sometimes odd sense of humor.
See also my article on the topic:

http://danieltenner.com/posts/0004-college-vs-startup.html
Well, it was the last of a group of trees that grew there in the middle of a desert. It held meaning to those that passed it by in a trek across a desert to a point of superstition. It may have breathed the same air with animals that are no longer with us. I think that's pretty unique.

It's not that I don't think ~150,000 people dying is sad in its own way, I don't know that any random one of them are in the same unique position as being the last of something. Perhaps, sometimes, we get someone that dies who's the last speaker of a dying language, or the last in a lineage of a tribe. I'd say that's sad, in the way the last tree dying is sad.

Take any random 150,000 people dying, it too is sad, but not in the same way.

Of course, it's easier for us to sympathize with humans than it is with trees, because we too are human. It's also easier for us to think that human endeavors are also more important than non-human ones.
It's not that they are more protected; market economy simply works that way: MS/Apple/Google/Facebook/etc are competing for employers, the best way to get good ones is from good interns.
Although I still did not build any web app, for my software I'm using FastSpring and, if I'm not mistaken, they should be usefull also for subscription based web apps.

Very good support and very good interface. It works very well.
"In ﬁve to ten years that amount should pay for much larger constructs, perhaps a brand-new viral or microbial genome."

I first read that as "brand new viral or microbioal game". Now there is something to think about, programming biological games with genes ("spread the flu" doesn't count).
I really like this, although is views seem to lend themselves very much to functional programming as the bubbles in the demo only show the methods of a class and obtaining a view of a class as a whole does not seem to be inherent to the IDE. With functional programming you only care about the functions so maybe that would be an ideal target for this IDE
How about 'Without Title' ?

Good conversation starter and unique.
Ask HN: How do you like the new design on NXdom?
www.nxdom.com is my brainstorming tool for short available domain names. I'm trying to eliminate scrolling and show similar names together. How do you like the condensed display format with several names on each line?

Also, do you prefer the basic or advanced sort options on the left side?

Thanks in advance, I really appreciate your feedback.
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Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, OK Go, they all already have established fanbases because they signed with a major label. We still have a long way to go until an artist can establish a significant fanbase without the help of a label.
The funny thing is, it is humans that made the tree special.

We measured the distance to it, we compared that distance to other trees, we invented photography and the internet so it could be looked at, we talk about it.
There are two reasons I work primarily with textmate rather than emacs.

One is the triplicate evil of emacs lisp, the PITA it is to get els to work, and the inconvenience of no pkg management for the aforementioned.

The other is that the 'power' of emacs is well-hidden compared to textmate.
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But he didn't build it in 48 hours and in a bus..

Though I would love to be proved wrong, I can bet these startups wont exist 3 months from now. Even if they exist, their "founders" will have moved on to another exciting project
What's with NYT anti HTML5 agenda?
Interesting idea, I did consider "Your Web Guy"
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To be fair, there are a few options out there (see http://www.pluggd.in/review-of-payment-gateways-in-india-297...) but from the quick research I did, they have really high transaction rates (upwards of 6%).

If no better options exist, this might be an opportunity for an entrepreneur, though figuring out and complying around the laws might take some doing.
Equally extreme statement: I would go to war to stop you.
I call myself "Founder" in the context of my current solo project, even if that project is not really a "startup" or "company".

As the legal term I use "Sole Proprietor": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sole_proprietorship
Sweet. I'll be looking forward to the slides, or if there's a video of the talk. I feel like I don't know enough at all about security.
Nice to see Digg pouring effort into making Cassandra itself better for everyone.
That would be like saying that "my compromise is that I couldn't experience prison."
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I'm not sure if my situation is comparable since I'm a lot younger then you are and I haven't married yet.
but I can relate to the feelings you describe.
I settled when my ego bursted into shiny balls of flame and I really needed someone I could trust 100%.
shifting your ambition away from relationships and learning to compromise is the hardest part.
It is good news but I'm not sure they have the cash. Tindell (520m) and Morgan (250m) combined have approximately 770m (using 2007 rich list numbers which could be way off, but for arguments sake...) This falls quite short of the 900m they are estimating - even if they both pushed their whole stack.

My guess - scare some incumbents (you reckon Telecom wouldn't stump up coin to own part of their only competitor when they're trying to raise cash?), get some money from Govt because of their names, and then chip some in personally along with some of their friends cash.

Not saying I don't wish this would happen - just saying what they're trying to achieve will be hard and they will need A LOT of help.
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Seconded, you need a PhD to get funding. Actually the chief purpose of PhD(or any other type of degree) now (in my views, anyway) is just to put you on the map. So you can prove to people that you can do what you already did. Gone are the days when people actually did a PhD or degree courses to learn something new. Most of the times, specially in undergraduate studies, people could as well study on there own and just pay the fees to enjoy the university culture.
I found this fascinating link about Lori Gottlieb:

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Well, out of 4 siblings in my family there are two divorces. Except that only one sibling has been divorced : twice.

Divorce statistics are very much a case of lies, damn lies and statistics and are of no use in assessing the likelihood of a successful marriage.

For the record, the 'love' concept of marriage is very much a modern day invention. For most of human history it's been a partly arranged affair to provide a solid foundation with which to bring up children. It's still mostly that (about bringing up children) though the wedding industry likes to convince you it's all about finding the right person and having a romantic time.
That's pretty cool. But I would like to see what TLD is available.

Perhaps allow to only pick up .com or .net, or maybe have a grouping feature.

I like the minimalistic nature too. (Oh and advanced options on the left is good.)
Edit: I just select "without dashes" and the top option had a dash.
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You're not alone, unfortunately. It's people like you, who value trees more than human beings, who are going to bring about the next variant of human oppression that will ruin millions of lives for no reason other than a false sense of "something more important than people", and be regarded as a dark chapter in human history.
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Java must be the best example I know of a technology that is so solid that it has survived every kind of adversity and ill-conceived marketing, eventually finding a niche anywhere but where it was intended to go.

Paul's, and most other criticisms, tend to address everything but Java the language: the hype, the enterprise technology stack, the suited masses of consultants and 'architects', the bandwagon effect.

It is a strong testament to Gosling's work, that something that was primarily intended for embedded systems and browser objects, then co-opted for enterprise sales to fat cat corporate clients, all the while trying and failing to be a desktop platform, eventually found success as a server-side language for web applications and playing host to a plethora of hip scripting engines running off the VM.

You know you have a strong product when not even the people who own it can kill it off despite their best efforts.
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They dont want to have to recode all that flash they use
There are other factors to consider here besides performance. Security for one.
Why does it have to be an "anti HTML5 agenda"?
Whew, I wouldn't want to be THAT kid growing up. The one for whom all the trees in the world were killed.

You seem to elevate human life above all else. Religious reasons? Consciousness being inherently superior? I'd be interested to know the premises that leads to your conclusion.
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You exist; you are exactly within the "secondary demographic" I mentioned.
Because it's not saying what everyone wants to hear aka flash is doomed!!!!