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Ask HN: How to look for a programming opportunity
A recent thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176962 about a Giles Bowkett blog post went long on the solicitous nature of the article but ignored the most interesting claims:

Most programmers I know seem to respond to job searches
by learning new programming languages. The logic there is
pretty weak. "I can't get a job with a language I know, so
why don't I see instead if I can get a job with a language
I don't know." Learning new languages is a good thing, but
there's a time and a place for everything. It's never a
matter of your skills being stale; there are still COBOL
jobs out there. If you're good at programming, and you
can't get a job, the skill to improve is not your
programming skill but your job-getting skill. If you've got
a task that requires two skills, and you have one of those
skills down solid, but you suck at the other skill, the
thing to do is not spend even more time perfecting the
skill you already have down solid.

As someone thinking about working in programming after not doing much real programming for a few years, I am interested in whether he's right or not. I am actually planning to dive into learning a new language or relearning C++ with its current set of metaprogramming features and extensive libraries.
What's your presence in India? Do you develop locally?, sell locally?

Is it still an exciting place to be for a software person?
This guy is the editor of cracked.com!

...actually I don't know whether to be impressed or horrified.
Most of queries come from Facebook.
I'm surprised that I can't find any info on the Google Apps Marketplace page about how developers can get their apps into the marketplace.
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/marketplace.html

Also, will google allow developers to bill for these apps?
Looking at this graph, it looks like Google is still rising too while yahoo is not. So Bing is taking market mostly from yahoo.
Does the product solve a problem?

If so, what is the problem?

Does the problem exist for a large enough number of users?

Are those users likely to be paying users (or a sufficient percentage of them)? Or are there other relevant revenue models that exist - hopefully the company is aware of them?

The product isn't really the determination of whether the company is investment-worthy or not; it's whether the problem it is meant to address is inconvenient enough for users to WANT to get the product.
Perhaps the salesperson meant "one client machine" and the programmer assumed that, given the context, meant "one client company." Client can be a rather ambiguous term.
Is there anyway to download that video from mixergy? I would like to save a local copy.

(Heard mixergy is a paid services for older articles)
Bets are that the real story is Yahoo's demise, and the Goog benefited more than Bing. . .
Bearing in mind that there's a good chance that her prospective future employer probably couldn't describe the task even that well, I'd be willing to give her a pass on that one.

If I was the prospective employer, it would actually serve a great purpose for me, it tells me that she has some amount of experience with the technicalities of the Internet, but not a great depth in this kind of area. She seems to be going for writing jobs ideally, not a dev or server admin position or something, so this would not necessarily be a detractor to her overall pitch. And you can tell she's pitching to non-technical people:

"I can even make that div float so that the text doesn’t get all messy. Don’t know what that means? See, you really should hire me."

I quite liked that passage.

She also refers to "software packages like Microsoft Office and Adobe Suite" where I would in any similar situation at least refer to it as "the Adobe Suite" and most likely I'd be a little more specific than that, going into further detail about which apps in the suite I actually have experience with. But again, I give her a pass because the way she's written things up I suspect works for the audience she's targeting.
Why wouldn't they just rip it again? :)

I mean, I think this whole thing is stupid, but if they've shown they'll do it once, what's to stop from doing it again? Why would they hire you after that?

The whole scenario is just weird.
I think that in their last podcast, where they talk about Rework, the guys at 37s say that this book is written with entrepreneurs in mind.

Maybe that's why old "real" enterprisey business persons can't understand it.

http://37signals.com/podcast/#episode9
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I think these numbers are always suspect, and they never match what I see across any of my blogs and websites. The vast majority of search traffic to my websites is from Google to this day.

Here's the numbers for one of them in the last month:

* google (organic) 5,552	73.52%

* yahoo (organic) 872	11.55%

* (direct) ((none)) 618 8.09%

* bing (organic) 200	2.65%
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What problems does this solve? Are internet core routers currently running near peak, or is this just getting ready for what traffic patterns will look like in 2 - 3 years? Will this lower transit costs? Will it lower costs for end-users?

All of the news coverage I've heard is that 'this thing makes the net faster', but no opinions from the people who will actually work with these things.
Interesting paper on this subject, mentioned in the article: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/ignoring.pdf
So posting someones work you did not pay for in public and using for promotion is ok, complaining about that in public is not ok?
Strange world, indeed.
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I'm not a runner, but I would assume that unless you're already pretty physically fit or have running experience you can't start from scratch and run an ultra-marathon in six months. Full marathon practice sessions weekly for two months! I would reckon being able to recover between those that quickly is a skill developed over years, even if not necessarily from running.

FWIW, I think the point was that even if the kid took 2 months of "moive time", the audience perceived that time to be only a few minutes. Two months of solid work is a lot, and I don't think a few minutes of film can do justice to that.
It could have even been smaller if he'd left out the 'clear screen' functionality ;-)
"rather than stable, sustainable job."

Those seem to be a vanishing species, these days.
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Our office is in Chennai, where we have over 1000 employees. All our software development is in Chennai.

Is India an exciting place to be for a software person? Yes, absolutely!
the actual source: http://bigthink.com/noamchomsky (with more of his videos)
You can get the audio as a podcast. http://feeds.feedburner.com/Mixergy-main-podcast

Also: http://mixergy.com/wp-content/audio/Mixergy-ZOHO-Sridhar-Vem...
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Mozilla also recorded and released a lengthy video tutorial portraying and promoting the product, which entirely uses MetaLab's design, with absolutely no indication that the design is only an internal mock-up.

(They have since made the video "private" on Vimeo, though it is still on all of their promotional material.)
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"but remember that by compressing that timeframe into the span of one upbeat song it doesn't seem like they spent two months of hard, dedicated training forsaking almost all else."

No, they dramatically sold the effort he put in very well with how pissed off Daniel is about all the time he spent painting, waxing, and polishing, without learning any "real karate." And every time he thought he finished something, Miyagi-san would ask something like "both sides?" and Daniel would drag himself back to work.

In other words, they did about as good a job at portraying two months of working hard at something as you could reasonably expect in a two hour movie.
Apples and oranges. Plurk's entire UI, code and all, was stolen and launched as a competing product.
Ask HN: How much should I pay a mediator?
I believe I am about to sell my small consulting firm.

A senior manager in the buyer company he's the one which introduced me to that company few years ago, and the one which talked with the CEO recently convincing him that it would be better to buy me all instead of subcontracting our services, which become a critical element in the production process in that department which I served.

I wonder what in your opinion, would be a nice and generous stake for this kind of mediation.

thanks in advance for your replies.
Er, it's blatantly clear that there is only one number in front of the comma separating the thousands. It looks like $6,000 to me.
This was posted a while ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013563 I don't know how helpful it is though.
I also see different numbers, GA says for my blog:
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bing 1.52%
yahoo 0.50%
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You're giving the sales guy far too much credit.
How do you hire engineers? I have heard that you hire kids from schools in Chennai/Madras itself and teach them programming and basically equip them to create practical solutions.

Also, how come we hardly get to hear about some Zoho engineers leaving the company to create their own startup. What's the secret that engineers are so happy working with you?
There's a similar scene in the basketball manga Slam Dunk, where the coach takes a kid who has never played basketball in his life but can jump out of the gym, and has him make 10,000 jump shots while the rest of the team is away at a tournament. In his first game after that training, he promptly shoots the ball the first time it is passed to him, and misses everything.

After watching Karate Kid recently, and having read the Slam Dunk series in Japan many years ago, I was thinking that Sakaragi-kun is the Bizarro Karate Kid.
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And if nothing was said, do you think that Mozilla would have made their own design up or simply continued with the stolen one?
Only problem with that theory is that the images were uploaded by the project lead on Mozilla's part, not some random intern.
Why do you need mediation? You can't negotiate for yourself?
Agreed, and just like schools a good idea is to apply to as many as you can. If you don't get into the program that you want, you can still have an amazing experience connecting with others and building your company at another incubator.
I may be downvoted for this, but...

-If you're on a Mac, navigate to the page using Safari.
-Start playing the video
-Open the Activity window (shortcut: command + option + a)
-You should see a large file being downloaded into your cache.
(In this case, it'll be from Wistia CDN).
-Hold the option key down and double click on the file.
-The file will now download to your downloads folder
as a .flv which can be opened by VLC.

This will work for most video sites on the web: Youtube, etc.
A big part of what video cards do is not focused on models. It's focused on lighting and shading. That's what gives games realism, something completely lacking in these demo scenes.

Make a tech demo that blows Crysis out of the water that runs in software on commodity hardware and we'll talk.

Hire some fucking artists if you need to. Saying "this is just programmer art" is a copout. It's like a slacker student who says "I could get straight As if I studied more and did my homework".

I'm not unwilling to entertain radical ideas but you need to show something more than flythroughs with lighting reminiscent of Quake II.
There are lots of very nice examples, yes, but they seem to have hired YouTube commenters to provide ... um ... expert commentary.
I think the claimed point is valid. If you are a good programmer, you can improve your chances of finding a job much more by polishing up your resume, writing awesome cover letters, networking, etc. than you can by learning new programming languages.

It's all about bang for the buck. If you spend 100 hours learning, your programming skills and hence your ability to find a job might improve by a few percent; if you spend 100 hours on marketing yourself better, your programming skills stay the same but your chances of finding a job will improve greatly. It's like a lot of software... once the internals are good enough, it's much better to make the UI good than to keep the UI crappy while making the back end a little better.

Also, anecdotally, every good company that I've interviewed with has said that if I am the right person for the job, then they will give me the benefit of the doubt that I can pick up whatever technologies are necessary.
I think the key phrase in this post, and what other commenters seem to be missing, and what the hard part of making any changes will be, is "without loopholes". That is the reason the tax code is hard. It's also a small reason(1) wealthy people can manipulate the tax code to their advantage. I don't think it has anything to do with a graduated rate. Granted, a flat tax would allow employers to pay the tax and employees wouldn't have to file taxes, but if there were no loopholes in our current graduated tax system, the government could provide an online form that could have you fill out your taxes in < 5 minutes.

(1) I said a small way because if we really want to get the super wealthy to pay more in taxes, a big way could change things is by making capital gains count as income. This is the reason someone like warren buffet pays 17% of his 46 million income, because it's all capital gains taxed at 15% (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ec...). I would be interested in seeing stats how most of the super wealthy (top .1%) make their money, but I would bet it's almost all capital gains.
Fascinating comment thread on the first TC write up of Zoho:

http://techcrunch.com/2005/10/02/zoho-writers-ajax-word-proc...

The first comment (from Jason Fried): That’s a total rip of Backpack. I’d think twice about covering such blatant rips like this — it hurts your credibility to support these sorts of businesses and ventures.

Zoho is yet another example of why competition is not something to avoid!
"You DIDN'T work hard enough!"

Isn't that the sole point of the article?
Not particularly related to this but I am amazed how people here and on the blog are surprised that she is willing to work for $12/hr while at the same time web app startups are afraid to charge even $10/month from their users. What an irony!

PS: I know scale v/s no-scale argument, but still one should charge for your web app (no matter how trivial is it)?
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Aside from the rights and wrongs done by both companies, ^^ this sentiment is the one that really makes me mad.
Mozilla gets notification from a company that they screwed up. Mozilla begins removing the objectionable material without delay. Mozilla gets flamed for "burying evidence".

I imagine this flame can't hurt as bad as the alternate one where people say Mozilla is just flaunting their wrongdoing by not taking the material down, but sheesh!
Blue collar workers have a hard time surviving and there is a massive problem of low/low-middle class flight in SF. This predominantly affects minorities, who have to live in less safe neighborhoods like the Tenderloin or Bayview/Hunter's Point, or move to cheaper places like Oakland.

SF prides itself on its diversity, but every year it gets whiter and whiter.
I love Metalabs site design as much as the next guy, but I don't think that this is what Picasso meant when he said - "Good artists copy, great artists steal."

Shame on you Mozilla, shame on you.
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"The material was used in both the launch announcement and video for the product, but the design has since been changed. Mozilla have apologised. A follow-up post from MetaLab is promised for tomorrow."
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I negotiate myself, the mediator pushed it from the inside.

This company has more than 12K of employees! It is a giant one. This had to be going through the corporates' management pipeline and bubble up in the hierarchy until we have got to the negotiation point.
Yes.

(By which I mean that a settlement offer along the lines suggested is part of how to avoid the kind of tangle you describe.)
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Apparently, they had already ditched the design. [http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/09/metalab-accuses-mozilla-of-...]
Your site's demographic might not represent bing's demographic.
In any case, a more meaningful data could be the trend of the data - is bing heading up or down in your site?
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I want to know what you think is the right RevShare. I launched with a 50% split but feedback has indicated it should be much less.

What's a fair split?
But I don't think either Rocky or the Karate Kid greatly misrepresent the amount of effort it would take for an exceptionally talented individual, with a great trainer, to make the leaps they did.

The studies on experts found that even those who seemed at first glance to be exceptionally talented still had needed to put in at least 10,000 hours to become an expert. There do not appear to be any shortcuts.
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(which brags about being home to “one of the most senior
readerships of any business title”) disapproves?
That sounds about right.

For the record, I loved that point from Matt, and I like 37S' style - it suits you guys well. Most sensible people understand that "Meetings are toxic" doesn't mean "Never ever communicate" or anything silly - if anything, I'd say don't tone it down. People who like 37S like it because you turn the volume up and say it like it is and are not afraid of being casually outrageous at times. So please don't go excessively mainstream-friendly! Cheers and thanks for all the good work and free value you guys have distributed into the world, I'll be picking up a copy of Rework once I thin my reading list out a little.
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Try "The Perils of Java schools" for the classic. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...
Clearly your website stats paint a clearer picture of what's going on than the combined stats of many websites.
It is definitely not always true.

Some history is illuminating. The first important lawsuit that Apple filed was against the Franklin Ace. This was in the early 80s. Heard about the Franklin Ace recently?

No matter how many times people tell Steve Jobs otherwise, he's been here before. And the very first time he did it, he won an important victory.
Did you read his conclusion?
The book is rescued by a thread of ideas that focus on one theme - that less ambitious, more straightforward products can often beat 'better' products. And, this time, they give good examples - of the recent uptake of simple fixed-gear bikes, and the popularity of the flip phone
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And being college teams, their ratings can change drastically over the course of more than a year or two...
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I think it would be unethical for the "senior manager" to get any compensation from you.

He is being paid a salary by his company (i.e. the buyer company) and he should act in the best interests of his employer.

If you pay him money for helping you sell your company to his employer, that introduces a significant conflict of interest for him
This is a pretty good take on the subject. The basic problem is that the science of psychiatry, like most sciences, can give you facts, not make normative judgments. If you want to know why one person is like one thing, and another person is like something else, science might be able to find out. But there is no scientific test to distinguish characteristics that are "normal" from those that are "illness", as the shifting classification of homosexuality makes painfully clear. It's a philosophical question, at root. The fact that we don't actually do the philosophizing, and instead "resolve" it by holding committee votes in the APA, is a bit of a problem, though.
Have you looked into running those ads actually in the game? I don't know how they manage or outsource those ads though.
$6580 / 47 = $140. Sounds about right.
What are your user agent stats? I bet they skew heavily toward Firefox, Chrome, and Safari with IE a minority. Tech sites attract tech audiences, and techs tend to favor more modern browsers and google. Your stats say nothing about the popularity of Bing amongst the general internet using populace.
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"After going back to the drawing board, Gerald came up with another idea: configure the firewall proxy server on the client’s side to add a custom HTTP header (X-Forwarded-For) that included the original IP address. That idea went over just about as well: HTTP headers could be forged, and a malicious employee inside of the company could hack in too easily."

I believe this is a perfectly acceptable solution, except they should strip any existing X-Forwarded-For headers sent by a client and only auto-login users originating from the NAT.

Problem solved... I think?
If the claims you were making were true you might have a point. Unfortunately, it does not appear the facts are on your side.