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That caught my eye as well, my interpretation was that it was intentional as Perelman has retired from mathematics and is no longer a professional mathematician. I can't imagine any other reason for the odd phrasing and this being the NYT I'm going to assume some modicum of facility with the english language.
Sorry, but that's a really bad example. Of course a complete beginner is going to be worse than someone with experience. They don't know what to look for in the game.
just wondering about these details: are you located in the united states? and you're two years out of college?
Everything isn't a game, if the word is to have any meaning at all.
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tvtropes _is_ an encyclopedia.

Re: material not suitable for WP - most of it fails the notability clause. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notability_in_Wikipedia
I've been running an Internet marketing firm on 4hrs / week for a year (see: http://maneeshsethi.com/how-to-live-the-digital-nomad-life/) and I'm currently building a marketing plan to sell the software that makes my 4h workweek possible. EPS...it's been done many times before and will be done again.

OPs time as an asset/debt idea is right up with what I believe, since people seem to believe their time is free...I believe it's better off outsourced so I can spend the one resource I'll never get back. Good article.
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And even then, which do you find more convincing, the fact that there is an argument - which you have never read, and have no intention of reading - for which none of the hundred or so errors found so far have proved to be fatal, or the fact that the hypothesis has been verified computationally (and, we shall assume, with total certainty) for 10 trillion cases?

What is more likely, a fatal error in the proof or a bug in the program? Proving (computationally or not) correctness of a program (or a proof) is not easy.
How is "your software makes money" not an "unusual skill"?

Plus, I care. If the business I'm applying to for a job doesn't care, it'll probably reduce my interest in them.

Let me give you a strawman scenario: I walk into an interview at a startup that just landed its Series A round. I'm interviewing for a position as the chief products guy or the CTO or something. The interviewer across the table from me says "You spent a paragraph of your resume talking about the business you built from scratch into a $200k/year revenue source. That's not very interesting; let's talk about this cool IOCCC entry of yours from last year, instead."

I'm going to assume that the interviewer (likely the founder or a co-founder) is probably an idiot for dismissing a significant accomplishment of mine and focusing instead on something that is—relatively speaking—quite trivial, and that his priorities are totally off. My bozo bit's been flipped, and there's not a chance I'm going to want to work with this guy. He's going to spend the next 18 months burning KPCB's million-plus stake on architecture astronaut'ish goals that have nothing to do with solving real problems and making real money. I'm going to shake his hand, say 'no thanks,' walk out the door, and go have a pint. (bear in mind, this is a strawman).

Please note that I'm not a Perl guy, so I can't speak for you or Ingy dot Net or Larry Wall. I'm a 'business guy' who happens to have a Computer Science degree and writes his own code.
they are subtly different but nonetheless ive consolidated both.
My definition of a startup is a company that exist in a new and fairly volatile vertical. Startups are primarily defined by an innovative product, service or business model with an emphasis on scalability.
> were never, ever in risk of people not being able to find excellent reference material on their WM - and isn't that, at the end of the day, what really counts?

"At the end of the day" is the important bit there. In 100 years, will dwm or any of its source still exist? Perhaps. Will Wikipedia still exist? Much more likely. If I'm researching historical window managers of 2010 to get my freshly-unearthed ThinkPad running for the National Museum of Science exhibit, where will I look? What will I find? What won't I find?
Well, it might not belong in its present form—but, since they're compatible and cite each other fairly frequently, it'd be nice if the entirety of other encyclopedias could exist "attached" to Wikipedia somehow, so that any archival efforts going into Wikipedia would bring them along as well. Since wikis are usually "flat" namespaces, perhaps as subgraphs (that is, subdirectories)?

There are so many wikis that are basically "Wikipedia, but for this particular topic that on its own isn't notable enough"—if these could all be merged into Wikipedia this way, the ecosystems of both Wikipedia and its offshoots would probably be a lot better off. The members of each wouldn't be tending only their own own walled gardens, but rather crosslinking and cross-editing more heavily—and putting things where they really belong, instead of trying to justify their inclusion into their own project of residence!

They wouldn't even need to exist "within" wikipedia physically; perhaps Mediawiki could adopt something that works for articles like Trackbacks work for blogs, where all articles from all "public encyclopaedia of [topic] project" Mediawikis show up in one another's indexes?
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If you're actually making average software developer pay, how is it that you don't have money left over at the end of the month to tuck away into savings? You're either spending like crazy or you're being underpaid.

Anyways, if your passion is web development, then find a web development job. They're not that hard to come across. I personally know of several companies in the bay area that are dying to hire good python web developers, and if you're not in the bay area, consider moving here :)
I'd like you to, then, define what is and isn't considered art, a process to which your exact argument — "everything isn't [art|a game]" — has been applied countless times (see: Duchamp's Readymades).

You could argue that many aspects of life are and always have been games; I think fnid2 has a valid point.
I was just in a similar boat (got an offer not too long ago!) and I think there are 2 important components:

1) Show that you are passionate and driven, which it seems you already have with your experience. Other ways could be get an iPhone or Android app out on their respective marketplaces so you can provide hard numbers (# of downloads, $ made, etc.). Contributing to OSS is always a good way to spend your time as well, but only if you really care about the project.

2) Make connections. This can be rough but a few things I've found can make it a lot easier. I've gotten a few really good leads through Twitter actually. Follow enough people from a company you'd like to work for and eventually one of them will mention something about openings. Another good avenue is going to technical talks (most universities hold a few of these a month, maybe more frequently). Go up and talk intelligently to the speaker and if they are accepting resumes definitely provide your best. The main thing is have someone inside the company turn in your resume for you. This informal referral or recommendation is huge. I read a statistic that only 1 in 20 online applications result in a face to face interview, those aren't great odds and being denied a lot is sure to affect your morale. Getting someone to turn in your resume is a sure-fire way to hear something back from the company.
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i want to knot laugh... but its just hard.
Yeah, I am sure it is good to have. Just not necessary, particularly if mistaking it to be causes failure, stress or paralysis. One should strive to have something up there. If it pays, I guess that is a bonus.

It is not your fault, but overemphasis on "monetization" or whatever the preferred word may be is really unappealing to me here.
The judiciary behaves as though those people are very rare (otherwise this wouldn't be so drastically censored), and they're probably right about that. Voir dire filters out many of the well educated, and I wouldn't expect many of the other jurors to figure out from scratch "hey, if I refuse to convict, they can't actually do anything to me" or bet their freedom on that. I doubt I would have before I read about it....
That is a pretty amazing story, the likes of which I've never read before. I can't even imagine how that situation came to be!
This is actually not a bad start. Someone needs to go all the way and make the "Facebook Game Generator"
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==> take the millions and shove it up your asses.....
Someone needs to read Mr. X.
"Git is hardly the end all be all."

Not sure if that was a typo, but in case it wasn't: git is version control software, and github is a web app that allows you to host and manage git repositories (and open-source repo hosting is free).
"It’s not as slow as it used to be, but it’s still pretty un-optimized. It doesn’t run “close to the metal” like C and assembly does."

While everyone likes to have efficiency, being readable and/or easy to use sometimes trumps it. Would you really write a program like <insert large Java program here> in assembly, just because it would be faster?
We're about to move ahead with Braintree and there's no multi-year contract anymore...the fees are a bit high but so far the integration has been super easy, and I like the lack of needing to deal with PCI-DSS since they do everything on their side (but still within your interface). I figure it's better to move ahead fast with the implementation and optimize fees later once we've proved the model...at least we can get our data out down the road if we need to.
Hey patrick/patio11, there are quite a few things I disagree with you about, but I love that you're a genuine guy. I wish you all the success and happiness in the world now that you're following your dreams full time. I'm very glad you're a hacker; the decisions you make and the thought you put into them always inspire me.

Peace.
I don't think Github solved it. Many open source projects don't use Github. Github has made great leeway in the right direction but its not the end.
Yes, it was a typo.
People don't like advertising? I think it is an unfair generalization. People love free stuff and are willing to endure advertising because they love free stuff.

The charge upfront idea is great for some business but let's be honest: if every website did that and the whole internet was behind a paywall the web would die.
"not true, this stupid bill which will never see a vote or chance of passage, only bans the cooks from adding it. It would put the salt under control of the diner at the table."

Do you even cook? Salt added while cooking brings out the taste of food. Salt added afterwards makes food taste salty. I guess with soups this wouldn't occur, but otherwise it makes a big difference.

There's actually no evidence that eliminating salt lowers blood pressure more than a tiny amount. Sea salt, with its trace minerals, actually lowers blood pressure when it's added to the diet. It's much better for you for other reasons too, well worth the extra money.
Sure, but startups are an unusual case. Very few programming jobs are for startups. Most are for established companies that already have the business side down; where you are going to be too far away from "the business" for your experience to have any use. They need programmers that can add features in such a way as to avoid needing 50 new QA testers and overnight support staff. "Architechture astronautics" are fine; the company has plenty of time and money to invest into better solutions than whatever would put out the fire right now.

I've worked at small and large companies, and this has always been the case. The business was already well-established and does not really need help from the programming team. The programmers just need to craft extensible and clean solutions that solve the current problems and the anticipated future problems.

Startup experience wouldn't count against you, but neither would being able to run a marathon. The reality is that neither skill will be particularly useful. Being able to prove that you've written software, however, is a useful skill.

(People on HN seem to think that "good software" == "software that makes money", but that's not necessarily true. Good software products made money because of good marketing, good customer support, and general good business skills. The actual code quality varies. Ever use Windows? Yeah.)

Also remember that the OP is applying for a "junior developer" position, and I am answering with respect to that. CTO is very different from "junior developer".
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Advice for the future:
1) Chase your passion! I'm currently unemployed as well, but I've spent the last decade mostly getting paid to do the things I like to do. For me, that's Information Security.

2) Lock down your facebook profile and don't mistake co-workers for "friends" on social networks. I might let a few "cool" co-workers befriend me online, but in Facebook, I put all my co-workers in a list, and they don't see things that might be used against me later.

3) It sounds like you posted stuff on Facebook while at work, and maybe even worked on your side project on company time. Stop that. It's bad for everyone involved.

4) Be a tad more frugal with your funds once money starts coming in again.

5) If you're near a major city here in the US, there are pantries that will give you free food if you're unemployed. It might be expired (or nearly so) but it's edible.

Good luck, mate! It's tough out here.
What do you mean by long before? The paper was published in June of 2006, but an abstract came out in April of 2006. Also in the beginning of June of 2006 Yau made some statements minimizing Perelman's contribution to the solution.

Perelman got the Fields medal in May 2006 and finally refused it in June 2006 when a team of mathematicians came to his home to visit him.

So Perelman was most likely aware of the paper before he was even awarded the medal and was definitely aware of the controversy when he finally refused it.

Your other statements are attempts to dive deep into semantics in order to change the meaning of the cited article. You make it sound like his decision to refuse the medal and quit mathematics were completely separate, and based on different reasons, but the persons that interviewed him reported differently: "The prospect of being awarded a Fields Medal had forced him to make a complete break with his profession."

Regarding his comments about lack of integrity in mathematics, it is true that he kept his comments general, but that does not mean that they had nothing to do with his work on Poincare. Since Poincare was the last big thing he worked on and he worked on it for about ten years, finishing only a couple of years before the interview, and since it is by far the most important thing to happen to his career thus far, one might think that his comments on the field of mathematics might have had at least something to do with his work on Poincare.
I remember writing some thing like this for CairoPlot. I don't think the patch was excepted. If graphs involve programmers power of 2 numbers are also good numbers to use not only 0 and 5. Some questions that the algorithm does not answer what is a good number of ticks to put on a segment of X pixels? Also i am sure having phi some place in there would make it more pleasing. Has any one else though at length on the problem?
First things First: If there's a life lesson to be learned here it's "make sure you clarify how the company feels about personal projects when you're interviewing for a job". Many companies don't care while others take a hard line (and depending on what contract you sign they could even claim your personal project belongs to them).

That said I think you're over reacting a little. It sounds to me like you're just going to get yelled at. Even if you are fired you have to understand there's never been a better time to be unemployed. I mean, it's not a good situation under any circumstances but with so many others unemployed the social safety net in just about every country in the world has been extended greatly. So your life style will have to change but you aren't going to starve or be homeless.

Beyond that you should do what you said. Work on your personal projects, interview for jobs and check out the freelance sites for short jobs that can give you domain buying money.
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Pirate Farm actually sounds like it has potential.
I'm cheap so I would simply use it for an embarrassingly parallel problem. I'd personally have the most fun with ray tracing or brute force cracking.
Why not start a startup?
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> Code is 10% of the business

Is pretty obvious to anybody that's ever had or worked in a business.

The other two are common sense. But that doesn't mean that it isn't good to re-iterate these things every now and then, but if you fell off your chair because of any of those three sentences then you do not have much - or even any - business experience, and likely are not quite ready to make the jump.

There are some much deeper insights in that piece than those:

- I started this business to make an extra $200 so I could spend it on video games without feeling guilty

That's a really good one, it shows you that no matter what goal you have when you start out your business you are not going to be even near it (in a positive or a negative sense) when you're a couple of years down the line. After all, why didn't he stop when he made his goal? Why all the extra work? Clearly we set our goals, then the goal becomes the new 'base', and we set another goal. If I can make $200, how about $400...

Another gem:

- The 'time as debt' view. That's a very interesting way of looking at time, and I think that if it is an original then that alone is a huge contribution to running a small business. It also says in no uncertain terms that if you want to run a small business, any small business, you should learn how to do some minimal automation.

There is lots of other good stuff in there, but those two stand out for me.

One really good thing too, is that in spite of doing this for years, Patrick never quit his job or skimped on it. He waited until the right moment, probably constrained by the $-in-the-bank as well as the amount of money made on a daily basis by the job vs the project.
I'm sorry you find it distasteful, but it's important to me, and likely to you too. Monetization comes in many forms, including the paychecks you might collect every two weeks, or the grad student stipend you might collect at the beginning of the term, or in many other forms.

Paying rent and being able to eat are nice, and they're the direct result of monetizing something
It's weird to criticize Java for being slow. These days it's pretty much As Fast as C, unless you have a huge amount to gain from unboxed arrays of non-primitive types, or manual memory management. (Possible, but not terribly likely.)
The JVM has never been 1000x slower than native code. Fourteen years ago it was occasionally as much as 10x slower. What's the penalty these days, maybe 10%? And in return we don't risk undefined behavior if anyone who worked on the project ever made a single mistake? Java is a mediocre language at best, it truly epitomizes everything pg said about Blub, but I'm still glad we didn't use C.

And assembly? Seriously? All but the tiniest processors are superscalar now, and the performance of code depends on obscure details about how instruction scheduling fits into pipelines. The way I hear it, there are only a handful of people in the world who can actually do that better than their compiler, and I'm not going to become one of them. There are too many other things to learn that I can keep using over more time.
Wait till you get a kid or two. Then it becomes bloody obvious that your time is your most valuable asset.

:)
Very true. TV advertising is more geared towards evoking recall at a later time, since for most products the purchase (or conversion) decision isn't immediate (after all, the viewer is in the middle of watching something). This works well for someone like Pepsi, since they want to be remembered the next time you're at the supermarket, but not so well for something that would demand an immediate response.
Posting a question to Ask HN suggests a predisposition towards startups.

I've worked at small and large companies as well, and I've always been well-rewarded in job interviews and in the positions themselves for exactly what I'm describing. It's good to hear that two very different people can succeed in this business, just don't try to call BS on what I've found to actually work. I'll agree to refrain from the same.
I wonder if you could use Google Sets to make a name generator generator. I'm still looking for a use for that thing.
I think what you are seeking is technology start-ups founded by non-technical founders -- not just start-ups in general.
eh, I think people tip at min. wage places for two reasons:

1. to look generous/wealthy in front of peers (and to feel generous/wealthy)

2. in the hope that staff will be more friendly/helpful/ won't spit in your coffee.

I think you could apply 1 on line by letting people give you a name to credit publicly for the donation. (let people give you a name; some people don't want to see their real names online)

Applying 2 generally means implementing logins and some sort of 'freemium' model.
Start another project.

If you can do this one on average at 5 hours per week, theoretically after the initial burst you could sustain 8 such jobs in parallel.
You're paying about $1.30 per visitor at that rate. This could work well demonstrating an actual product positioned to the paranoid crowd. I think that the ad might have done better if it was done a little differently. If there was an implied benefit of action, they might have seen visitor numbers closer to 1% of viewers.
"I guess the question is, are the administrators applying the rules fairly and consistently"

The answer to that is pretty much no. But it's against WP policy to point out inconsistencies.
Like chat roulette but with 8 random people at once and less wieners
A pretty cool chatroulette clone testing some new technologies like Adobe Stratus and Node.js.
The anti-GC part of this rant is especially hard to take. I've had the misfortune of having to debug various memory allocation problems in C. That's something I don't miss at all. To bag GC for performance without mentioning reliability is just wrong.
Posting a question to Ask HN suggests a predisposition towards startups.

Why? I am a pretty well-known contributer to HN, and I have approximately 0 interest in startups. Since the word "startup" was never mentioned by the OP, I have no reason to assume he is interested.
"Game" has two meanings, and they're both very explicit. One comes from "game theory"—a game is a triple of a set of players, a set of moves, and a function mapping (player, move) tuples to payoffs. The other comes from "fun theory"—a game is a subset of human experience which is optimal in providing choices that are on the edge of being predicted by our instincts, allowing us to get into "the zone" as we follow different paths to try and find rewards.

Life itself conforms to the second definition—our instincts evolved specifically so that life would be the "best" game; games are, thus, microcosms or reimplementations of life (see, for example, The Sims, or WoW, but even an RPG with inventory management will reflect this clearly.)
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