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Start with writing a job description for your deal candidate, post on a few boards, and start looking at resumes and portfolios. I would advise not overloading it with irrelevant keywords. you dont necessarily need a designer experienced with java, php, python who can write you iphone and android apps while being able to answer how many marbles can fit in a school bus.

I would try posting your job description to design centric sites. there are a bunch out there. At least you can target your audience. Spend a little money on it if you have to.

Ive posted on CL and other free sites and i'll get back too many resumes with a bunch of overhyped nonsense buzzwords.

Have someone who knows design/ui help you look through portfolios. Ive scoured through hundreds of designer's sites and portfolios over time and i can see their trends, styles, methods. If they do dev, ask them what theyve actually developed, theming, js/jquery, etc.

Things to pay attention to:
- the person's education/background in design. if they're not designers by nature... would you hire them?
- Avoid an engineering centric person too. Engineers are typically not designers. (please dont get mad for that statement)
- take a detailed look at their portfolio. Do you like what you see? do they have a certain "look" that you like? or do their sites look sloppy, too much like some template, etc.
- if you care about ux, does their site provide good experience? is it at least usable, logical and consistent?
- Avoid flash designers. Most flash guys know little about seo. Content management will be difficult too.

I think you'll have a hard time finding a designer who can design, code and do seo. There are smaller web shops out there that can help. Make sure you know what you're buying into and ask for references.

One thing i warn you is to becareful with eye candy. There are a lot of tutorial mongers out there who will run through psdtuts, create some variation and add it to their portfolio.

i agree with andres, use a cms. im a fan of drupal.

k. hope that help.
-jay
Ask HN: What kind of geo-focused APIs would you like to see?
There are already a few services that allow you to pass in a location, and get back "local news" articles. I'd like to see this done much better, so I get news I truly care about.

Also, an API where I pass in location and get back local deals/coupons/discounts. Publishers or bloggers can put the results on articles/pages/posts that are location focused.
Downvotes for comments appear to arrive at 200 (I just saw this effect myself), but downvotes for articles may be limited to a higher karma or to a special class of editors/moderators only (I don't know).
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> locked-down and DRMed, even for developers. That's certainly revolutionary for a consumer PC.

Well that's certainly one way to spin that.
I'm not exactly sure who I'm strawman-ing against.

I know personally from experience in talking to managers that they are very hesistant to try remote collaboration. The prevailing bias is that their workers must be in the office at the same time within earshot of each other. But, I've observed very successful collaborations between workers who leave a skype window open and communicate via audio when necessary.

I also saw people, primarily managers, push-back on outsourcing on answers.onstartups.com: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/8423/outsource-basic...

The objections from coders? I am just guessing based upon personal feelings. When I went to the outsourcing sites, I had a strange feeling in my stomach, wondering if I was undermining the value of programming by paying below domestic market rates.
Oh to be content climbing the ladders built by others.
This strikes me as something that could be revolutionary. Specifically, it stirs up memories of sci-fi novels and movies where advanced races have given up sex and sexual reproduction because it's "Too messy."
Adobe responds to Apple’s issues regarding Flash on the iPhone and the iPad
I don't really get the joke. I don't suppose someone would mind explaining it.
This comment has a bit of truth in it. Institutions look at grant money obtained before anything else when evaluating faculty. And without credentials, the NSF et al have little else to go on for a new researcher.
Well, as a parent, I want to protect my children from seeing the Internet in the raw form. Seriously, look at the content on the Internet. There is an amazing amount of content, not all of it is safe for children to view. Heck sometimes I see stuff that I would rather not. Don't confuse the issue here - it has nothing to do with rights.
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Please. Some people care about their career more than they care about their relationships. How is this any more "sociopathic" than (for example) someone who neglects friends and family because they're working 16 hours a day?
Revolutions aren't by definition a good thing, you know.
I think there's a difference between neglecting people and actively manipulating them by faking friendship.
Isn't always necessarily a good way to stay ahead, either, unless you never guess wrong. If one of those little people you fake-befriended and then got rid of ends up in a position where you need something from them in the future, you're screwed. A lot of people end up in random places you might not expect, and often remember how people treated them when they were "unimportant".
"The PC revolution is slowly being rolled back and that's not revolutionary at all, that's a step back."

I used to think the same thing for years. I was always for thick clients and the like, but I've seen how ineptly probably 75% of people are at using a PC. Most people can't be sysadmins, and those of us who can don't always want to be. It's not simply a matter of the UI being poor, because even computers with good UI have intractable usability problems.

If we had high speed network access and graphical terminals everywhere we went in the 1960's, there would have been no PC revolution. As it stands, PC's are going to be a niche in the long run. That's probably fine--a stripped down machine like an iPod or Chrome OS or something would actually be helpful even to, for instance, me because I could segregate serious work (which I do on my MacBook) from wasting time on HN and the like (which I could do on a more limited device.)
You should write about Lagrange: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange

I kept running across things named after him or invented by him in different areas (Lagrange points in orbital mechanics, the Lagrange Method in my Calc IV class, variation of parameters in my Diff Equ class.)

He isn't such an obvious choice like Goedel, Euler or Newton, yet he has made contributions of a pretty amazing breadth and depth. That combination could make for a paper that's presents refreshingly new info while also allowing you to talk about a lot of different areas.
> "Saul also had a network of a few locations he frequented where he knew the people and the staff. At any social gathering, Saul would work to navigate the group to these 'safe' territories, where he would then be in control of the situation."

Honestly, if you don't have a list of these places in your back pocket (or your noggin), you're doing it wrong. Having your "regular" place is incredibly valuable when you're trying to make a good impression on new people - not only does is communicate a sense of worth (you know the chef?!) but also because it's a known quantity (you know you can get a table, you know the menu so nobody will be left out awkwardly, etc).
I mostly agree with the author, but I like keeping the smoking out of my office.
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They say that they won't bill you for bandwidth over your limit unless its excessive. They don't give any hard numbers, but I think if you have 500GB and use 550GB, they probably won't bill you. I don't think they ever block you.
If I have closed timelike curves, an oracle for the halting problem, or the ability to perform arbitrary computations on real numbers in my brain, I would certainly like to know how to use them.
edit: Interestingly enough, I'd peg the ipad's chances at being 'revolutionary' a lot higher if apple decided to make it a completely open platform. Just like the web and the PC succeeded because in essence they were open. The fact that the iphone is closed and is a success makes you wonder how big a success it could have been if it were more open. I think that it might have been a lot bigger still.

You just paraphrased my post. To your credit, your version is more succinct and to the point.

btw, multi-touch has been around in one form or another since 1982...

The culture still lags the research labs by decades. See "The computer revolution hasn't happened yet" by Alan Kay.

So by your use of "revolutionary," the Gutenberg press wasn't because movable type predated it and he just used it to replicate Bibles in 2 better, faster way.

This is not an order of magnitude comparison!
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Who are its rivals? Foreign governments? Or "citizens" who want to overthrow the government?

A fully legitimate government protects individual rights (as defined by Rand); foreign governments or local "revolutionaries" are the initiators of force if they attack such a government. Remember that they would be attacking an entity that does not take anything forcibly from anyone (as it would be funded by voluntary contract insurance sold for individual transactions), and exists only to arbitrate between disputes and protect individuals from being deprived of their property.

Governments come at the end of a very long process - people constantly evaluate, adopt and reject philosophical ideas. These ideas, whatever they may be, are the ultimate determinants of history, and they matter. It's not a given that governments will always grow more corrupt, or that they always need to expand unnecessarily. That those things have always happened to every government in the past is really a stain on the political repercussions of altruistic philosophy rather than men (as they could and should be) or the concept of a legitimate government.

Ideas matter. Anyone who wants to live happy, fulfilling life needs to take philosophy seriously. When a majority of the populace doesn't do this for a long stretch of time, tyranny results, no matter what the government or its laws may have been.
One is neglect and the other is active manipulation for the purpose of using people as if they were hammers and screwdrivers.
Maybe. Or maybe I just have a different preference.
That's true -- I forgot about that. The one caveat to that is that it is primarily targeted by the XenServer product: Xen, KVM, and QEMU tend to use the qcow or raw formats. I'm also worried about new features coming out from one or the other VMMs that aren't supported by the current format. Without an established way for anyone to adapt the format, I'm not sure it will provide a long term solution. I do have a specific feature in mind, but unfortunately you will have to wait for the colleague's PhD thesis to find out about it ;)
Should I learn SQL alone first?
Women could actually outgrow their "need" for men in reproducing. Its kind of scary.
At last - been waiting for this. Will rewrite LEPL's regexp engine as soon as I can get the current release out...

If you haven't read the previous articles, they are classics and really worth the effort (linked at start of this one).
I took a week off from working on our app bc of a client project (we're a for-hire firm trying to create an app). We had hits on our demo from the SF Bay area and some hits on the video. maybe a good sign?

Either way, we'll be building our app and launching this summer. We applied to YC for the advice and mentoring opportunities - we don't absolutely need the money to launch (it would definitely be nice, but we can manage without it).
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> One issue I had with the article though, is the overuse of hyperbole. There is no indication of how much of it was fact, and how much was embellishments and exaggerations.

That is, in fact, a good summary of the public persona niche occupied by the author!
You can prosecute someone for fraud for claiming falsified or unaccredited credentials without requiring the government itself to accredit. Also, it's hard to justify why florists need to be formally accredited.
> 1) sandboxed apps. Concept isn't new, but consumer PCs have never had sandboxes. A game or word processor you install shouldn't have access to your tax returns. With the iPad nasty apps can't do much damage.

Sandboxes as a concept aren't new, and so are not revolutionary. Consumer PC's have had sandboxes every since you've been able to run a java programs within a browser.

> 2) backup app installations, settings and documents by syncing with iTunes. iPad breaks or gets stolen? Buy a new one and plug it back in and you're back in business.

That's a neat feature, but not a 'make-or-break' thing. Nice to have, not revolutionary.

> 3) App Store. Now only used for "gimmick" software on the iPhone, but the potential is enormous. Only apt-get comes close, but apt-get doesn't have an easy payment model. And it has this dependecy-hell and installing updates can wreck havoc.

Apt-gets strength is that there is no payment model, access to lots of high quality software for the sum of $0. That's not a weakness, that's a strength. Iphone apps in general are trivial, with the occasional exception. There is an enormous body of real world, non-trivial software in the apt-get (and yum) repositories.

The potential is there to re-ignite a new closed source era, and that's definitely not revolutionary.

> 4) computer with built-in GPS & accelerometer and 3G internet. How many laptops have that?

My netbook has all those except for the accelerometer, it runs Ubuntu notebook remix and works pretty good. It also has access to the above mentioned apt-get repositories.

> 5) locked-down and DRMed, even for developers. That's certainly revolutionary for a consumer PC.

That's a complete loss, not revolutionary. Trusted computing through the backdoor. If microsoft were to do something like this there would be shrunken heads on stakes. We definitely wouldn't call it revolutionary.

> 6) No tree based filesystem. No /home/[user]/Documents, no c:\Users\[user]\AppData. Your files are just "there".

I can see how that would be useful if you only have a relatively small number of files. But here on my collective drives there are literally 10's of millions of files. Just being worried about namespace collisions as well as forgetting what a file is named, I usually can find it because my directory structure is organized. I can see how tagging would go a long way towards mitigating that, but the 'tree' based file system works quite well because that happens to be how we normally organize documents.

If the lack of something is revolutionary then I invite you to store all your files in the root directory of your harddrive.
Apple is a famous company. But this doesn't mean that they deserve credit for all of this awesome stuff. They're building on the shoulders of giants and to deny that is a pretty bold thing.

1) Should is a very subjective term. What if I track my taxes in my Word Processor?

2) Doesn't Dropbox do this? And isn't this what git/hg do for developers?

3) The Internet is a much bigger and better app store.

4) So if I made a computer with built-in GPS, accelerometer, 3G Internet, AND a CD drive, would that be "revolutionary" too? I think not. Adding more a more features that already exist make not an idea revolutionary.

5) Since when did Orwellian DRMs become revolutionary?

6) Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Because the iPad most definitely has a filesystem.
No problem, the news at the time was pretty slanted and I was too burned out to go correct it. Better late than never I suppose.

Have fun with Git, other than cruddy rename support, it's a nice system. Frigging fast, I gotta hand that one to Linus, it's faster than BK on some stuff.
I wish this site spent more time on issues than on rhetoric. "Amazon tax", the "left-wing" bogeyman, the "lap-dog" liberal media bogeyman, etc.
I forget the details of the arrest, but there are plenty of reasons possessing a gun is illegal. Don't immediately assume he was innocent and rule out the possibilities that concealment laws or registration laws didn't come into play. Maybe he didn't violate any laws after all, but that wasn't his defense so it seems irrelevant to the topic.

I am not being smug or judgemental, and I wouldn't have batted an eye or cared in the least, if he hadn't tried to play the racism card. Maybe it's foolish of me, but let me try to illustrate with a more extreme example.

Suppose a black man was to commit some heinous crime, and we had irrefutable proof he was completely guilty (just suppose, bear with me). Normally, he'd be tried and put away. But what if this black man's defense was 'well, I was being profiled- if it wasn't for the stereotype that blacks are more violent and commit more crimes, I wouldn't have been caught so clearly this is unfair. I should go free.'

IMHO, you can file complaints and suits and get all the damages you like for being unfairly profiled, and I'll generally back you up, but as soon as you're guilty of what they profiled you for, you loose all my support and earn my disgust. He may be right, maybe through racism we catch more guilty blacks than whites or something, but either way the hypothetical man is guilty. The way to fix that flaw is not let him go but start catching the whites too.

re: double standards and corrupt law enforcement, I'll give you that.
I worked as a developer on Chickenfoot for about 6 months going into my sophomore year at MIT. It does share a lot of similarities with GreaseMonkey, but I've found it to be a much more powerful tool for writing quick scripts to perform simple interactions with web sites. This is largely assisted by its API of commonly used operations (some of which I wrote).

The ability to quickly package your Chickenfoot scripts into Firefox extensions also holds a lot of value.
Red herring: libertarians and objectivists are not identical.

Try harder next time.
Reads more like a fantasy than an account of actual events
HN isn't the type of place where you should share every thought that crosses your mind. If someone does submit a fart joke you should just flag it.
> One issue I had with the article though, is the overuse of hyperbole. There is no indication of how much of it was fact, and how much was embellishments and exaggerations.

No, I didn't notice that it was by Jeremy Clarkson to start with, either.

For the benefit of the non-Brits, that's just sort of what he does. Seeing him on HN actually makes me feel a bit queasy.
Communism is not consistent with man's requirements for survival. (Unlike animals, man's essential and unique method of survival requires the use of his mind. For anyone that doubts that Communism deprived men of the full use of their minds, see the sordid history regarding Lysenkoism, or the way photocopiers were guarded behind bars in Soviet Russia.)

Objectivism holds that it is not enough to think about something in isolation to determine its validity. It is equally important to compare ideas with observable facts, and throw out those that are not factually supported as false. ("The true in theory is the successful in practice.")
This describes how someone got ahead within a big company. It's not surprising you have to do perverse things to win in an environment dominated by politics. But that is not the only playing field. The most successful startup founders all seem to be pretty genuine-- tough, definitely, but not jerks.
Great way to create many, many enemies.

Anyway, I suspect, sooner or later he'll show other negative traits.
Developers can communicate with each other. It is not hard to write email to developer, which email address is written in source header.

If developers unable to communicate, they will use copy-paste. They will create copy of broken code, rename, refactor and fix it, and will use it in their own code only. I SAW that.

Good code quality is achieved through review system. Someone must just block bad code, until he will burn out.
My thoughts exactly. This guy isn't aiming high at all. My role models aren't mid-level VPs.
I totally don't understand Toyota now. Why are they complaining about this, drawing attention to the problem? ABC comes back and says "yes, we had to fake the shot, because when the accelerator is jammed down the car starts to shake dramatically and it's so terrifying that we couldn't get a good camera shot". PR fail.

Why aren't Toyota simply saying 'if a Toyota - or any other make of car - accelerates as if the accelerator was jammed, you can simply stop it with the brakes, or by putting the car into neutral, or by turning the key in the ignition'?

I wrote a blog post about this the other day: http://justinsb.posterous.com/what-is-toyota-doing
Also, render and clear are dangerously close together.
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That is definitely an interesting point, although I assume it was taken into account when companies and the government did their comparison with hydroelectric storage. Larger caverns should reduce the amount of energy lost due to heat.
Yeah, Distel's one of those things I keep bragging about to my vi-using coworkers, and have yet to actually try out myself. ;).

Thanks for the tip.
So Long Polygons.  It's been a blast.
Unlimited Detail is a new technology for making realtime 3D graphics. Unlimited Detail is different from existing 3D graphics systems because it can process unlimited point cloud data in real time, giving the highest level of geometry ever seen.
Whereas some enjoy it for that very reason.
> You just paraphrased my post.

Apologies, I had completely failed to spot that, you are absolutely right.

> So by your use of "revolutionary," the Gutenberg press wasn't because movable type predated it and he just used it to replicate Bibles in 2 better, faster way.

No, te Gutenberg press was revolutionary because it opened up books to the masses.

On a technical level it was a relatively minor improvement over movable type, but the fact that the social consequences were enormous is what makes it revolutionary.

Technology is only revolutionary when it has large effects in the real world.

By that yardstick the laser was revolutionary, even if at the time it was invented we couldn't foresee any of the changes that it would bring. In fact, for the longest time it was called a solution in search of a problem.

I simply take exception to calling the ipad revolutionary before it has had a chance to prove itself. It's hype, and hype leads to over-expectations which almost always lead to disappointment.

Let's just wait and see, what this ipad thing is when you finally get your hands on it, let's see what kinds of uses people will put it to.

Then give it 5 to 10 years, and then we'll be in a position to judge whether or not it was revolutionary.

Remember the Osborne-1 ? that was revolutionary. But only because it made people think that computers didn't have to be stuck in one spot.

http://teeksaphoto.org/Archive/DigitalTimeline/NewTimelineIm...

(I think that pre-dated the trs-80 portable models, but I'm not 100% sure).
You totally missed the point I was trying to make. The iPad is the embodiment of the form factor revolution presaged by Alan Kay's Dynabook. It's simply one evolutionary step toward ubiquitous computing, of which the iPhone, Palm Pilot, 2nd tablet PCs were a part.

I talk about the greater utility of my Jailbroken as a mark against Apple and the iPad. As more and more platforms combine the attributes required to compete with the iPad, its lack of openness will become more and more apparent.

People want walled gardens. They just don't want it with a fascist homeowner's association.

Or: they want scheduled maintenance with their car, but without the GPS data going to the dealer and a breathalyzer interlock as required equipment.

Unfortunately, there are also those who don't mind the above.
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