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This is all irrelevant to qeorge's point. Wepay is a company (dealing with financial transactions, of all things). The company has a blog post. This blog post advocates something that illegal. The spirit of the law does not change the above facts.

It's an article that belongs on the founder's personal blog, not the company's blog.
It is easy to trivialize almost any company. E.g if sports is a waste to time so is facebook don't you think? So I guess facebook is a no go in your book? Apple - why even bother with apple product its just eye candy.

I could go on but I hope you get the idea. Word of advice - stop being so negative about stuff in life.
Can't imagine that actually happening

You've been leading a sheltered life. The majority of CVs we received via a recruitment agency at Kuju (game developer) had been changed by the agency, and I'm not just talking about removing the contact details.

Some CVs were so mangled that I'm pretty sure they were a copy & paste job from a PDF into MS Word.

My piece of advice: if you ever have an agency apply for jobs on your behalf, insist on seeing the final version of your CV before they send it. They probably mean well, but they frequently end up misrepresenting you because they just don't understand your job. Yes, this also applies to agencies specialised on the tech sector.
They make quite a bit from unused and expiring gift cards, so I think they'd very much prefer to limit the options there.
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C'mon pg, this isn't that kind of forum. Posts are on the front page for a day at most, mostly a few hours or even minutes. You see a post, maybe read it, then write a comment. By the time I could get to know these companies, this thread will be long gone.

If you like, I'll come sit with you for the next YC evaluations and provide my honest and informed opinions of the companies.

There were only seven minutes for you to have read my long review of them and then compose your thoughts and reply. You put thoughts in my head without knowing me. You don't know what I know or what kinds of predictions I've made. You're doing the same thing to me that you are blasting me for doing to your selections.

This thread has gone way beyond where I wanted. I was just posting a quick comment, man. I didn't want it to blow up like this. It was just an opinion and I don't know how to underail it. Usually, at this point, people tell me to just shut up, so that's what I'll do.
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Yes. I've seen way too many mangled CVs. Stick to PDFs unless the company in question requests a specific format. Beware of agencies deliberately changing your CV regardless of format (see my other comment).
i thought slashdot figured this out like a decade ago.
Submitted page just has one void paragraph and then this image: http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/wp-content/uploads/2010/03...

Bottom of the page says "via Reddit" without linking to the actual source so this is spam, even if it is a "big site".
Hmm... I'm Seeing Interactive and not an "HN'er". Yeah, we're from the Austin area but I challenge you to find a start-up anywhere with 250 newspaper relationships.
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I was also wondering about the source, given the repeated ‘Glassnost Mushtalk's Corner’ watermark.

I have no idea where it all originated, but evidently it’s pretty popular to rip: http://google.com/search?q=%22this+name+was+formed+by+using+...
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Here we go again...

Nobody is requiring people to offer working unpaid

Like I said, these are students looking to fill positions that don't exist. I'm not going to offer you a job, let alone pay you, for something that I don't really want you to do in the first place. Did you read the post? I'm suggesting that if these students really want to work for a startup despite the fact that startups don't want to hire them, then they should basically break down the door and remove any possible objections.
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I expected that there has to be some mechanism to cancel such transactions.
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I remember a conversation here a little while ago with someone from SI. It was many months ago and one of the gentlemen, maybe it was you, maybe your partner -- iirc, both or perhaps it was 2 out of three members of the team at that time participated in the thread, I can't remember the specifics. But you, or he, had been working really hard in the evenings, but it's hard to sell stuff to newspapers in the evenings, and was wondering if he should quit his job and focus on it or keep working on it. There were two of you really involved at that time or maybe two. It was a long time ago, it's kind of fuzzy. I think you were making a few thousand a month at that time and I thought that may be enough to take a chance, but there was a family and a mortgage and credit cards to be concerned with and political capital was running out. You were in the valley of death it seemed and I wanted to get you through it, so you'd keep going.

I remember commenting to someone and then someone else coming in and saying, "I'm the business partner." And your name, Lloyd is very familiar.

Anyway, I suggested to talk to the employer and see if you/he could take a day off a week and focus on sales during business hours and see if you could build up enough revenue.

Unfortunately, the person felt insecure about that idea because lots of concessions had been made by the employer already and it was doubtful that more were available and there was a lot of tension.

So I looked up the company and you had three or four products that you were selling to traditional news papers and you were really passionate about saving local news and I was too and I thought it was good idea and I wanted you to succeed, so congratulations! I think you are on your way! :)

EDIT: Yep, here's the thread. I was just fnid then, but I lost the password: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=916035
> Offering to work unpaid is a hack that gets you in the door.

I'm not sure it's an especially effective hack. Min. wage is what, less than a tenth what you'd expect to pay a technical person. From experience, training a new guy is going to take more than 1/10th of my time, (and I'm overpaid; Min. wage is closer to 1/20th of my bill rate.)

I know I've turned down offers for free work for this reason, and I'm spending my own money (meaning I'm quite a bit more tight fisted than most startups.)
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I realize this has nothing to do with the content of your post, but your blog has the best title of all time.
Likewise, it seems in the UK Infosec industry recruiters send CVs in Word format where possible (and usually track changes), whereas individuals tend to send PDFs generated in Word, OpenOffice or commonly (for technical folk) Latex.

Recruiters hate Latex.
Your CV is often the primary reference point in an interview. So, it makes sense to put a number of "conversational hooks" in it that you are prepared to tell a compelling (true) story about. If you have a series of mini stories prepared in your head, and you've written your CV in such a way that you're likely to get asked about them, then you're well prepared.
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I have neglected that fact in my rush to mock PHPers. Of course, the tone and context set by the submission story (how to contribute in the absence of technical competence) didn't help at all.
Heh, amusing this comes to me right after my rejection to MIT, Caltech, Olin and Harvey Mudd.
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It's just difficult to explain, innit? I'm trying to imagine explaining exactly what crocodoc is to the misses and it's unclear. Usually, when there is this lack of clarity, it will tend to appeal to geeks or people who already want something like that, and not just everyone.

That's what I mean - it will be big within the crowd of people who take time to understand it, but the other people just won't get it.
There are exactly no mainstream browsers that print even fairly basic HTML pages reliably, IME. Typically, the scaling and positioning of page elements ranges from poor to seriously clipped/unreadable once you get beyond the most trivial formatting.
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Speaking as an Engineer (well, if you call a computer janitor an Engineer; most non-technicals do.) who is just now becoming as successful as a businessperson as an Engineer, there are several facets to "business" - if you mean face to face sales (as are required when dealing with investors, etc...) you have a point. Dealing with rich, non-technical people like that is a skill that requires quite a lot of training, as far as I can tell, either that or it requires some innate qualities that I appear to lack.

However, if you run your business as if you were producing commodities, charging slightly more than the cost of production, it's quite easy for an Engineer to handle 'business' as it's all about efficiency. I mean, obviously, you still need a specialist for accounting, but most business people are not accountants. Hell, even some of the higher-margin businesses can be handled by Engineers if you use web sales, A/B testing and the like. (I know some Engineers who handle face to face interaction much like A/B testing a webpage, but that's damn hard to pull off while looking natural.)

Now, obviously, I'm not a really awesome business guy. I mean, I'm still eating ramen so I can buy servers. I'm just saying... there is a part of business that seems pretty easy and clear to me (which is to say, efficiently managing the production of product, acquiring raw material, recruiting technical people, etc...) and another part that I understand so poorly that it looks like magic or fraud. I mean, why do customers tolerate sales teams charging different prices to different companies based on negotiation? I mean, obviously, if I'm, say, buying servers (something I know a thing or two about, both for myself, and for larger clients) I don't understand why many companies will give you a lower rate if you waste a bunch of their salesguys time. I mean, sales people don't work for free, right?

So yeah, clearly there are some parts of "Business" that as one mentor once said: "same planet, different universe"
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Thanks for your responses
> Recruiters hate Latex.

Since when? I've made my PDF CVs using LaTeX (XeLaTeX, actually) for years. I've never had a problem, and I get the occasional comment about how nicely presented the CV is.

Agencies hate PDFs in general, since they can't mess around with them as easily, but that's their problem.
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The biggest winner in this whole thing is Apple.

How is Google going to compete in mobile hardware if it is unable to make deals with Chinese companies?

I don't think they fully thought through the extent to which their supply chain (and that of their partners) depends on China.

What if China takes a page from the US government's playbook and starts arbitrarily classifying software as "munitions", with Android first in the crosshairs? A simple thing that would suddenly make this "free" operating system totally uncompetitive.

Mobile partners of Google are already leery about being undercut by Google's own phones on the one hand and sued by Apple on the other. Getting the Chinese government on their bad side would absolutely be a dealbreaker.
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Still not used to the fact(?) that Pluto is not a planet anymore. :-/
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I'm unsure of what you're asking.

If you want to find a job with a startup, there's http://startuply.com

If you want to find a co-founder, there's an HN spreadsheet here:
http://CofounderGoogleDocs.com
Other sites include: startuplinkup.com and builditwith.me
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Another "Let's all bow down and worship at the cult of Apple" post.

Apple's return policies are somewhat abysmal, but that's OK, because in the eyes of many, Apple can do no wrong because "At least they're not Microsoft".

The iPhone is the only phone I've ever used that is so poorly designed that it gets destroyed if you sweat a little bit. (Hint .. Heat makes people sweat. The iPhone gets very hot when used.) It's a design flaw that Apple refuses to acknowledge.
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I'm not sure what trends you are looking at, but most consumer startups usually find it unnecessary to look at historical data points past X months. Things (features, users, etc.) change so much that averaging in those data points so far back would misguide you at the present. I would go with a solution that is almost perfect for you if you started today (for example, Mixpanel might be it) -- gives you the best odds for your future analysis. During the couple weeks after switchover, I would just export the Mixpanel data to a local spreadsheet (and run in R as you mentioned) with your other data. After sometime, you won't need it.
Reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1212519 ("Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?")

I've heard it said that comp sci students who get a 2b in honours, do better in their career than those who get a 1st. Makes sense for business (with prominent exceptions like Sergey and Larry.)
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Yeah, it's confusing. I grew up being told it was a planet too. And I'd state it as "still not used to the current definition of planet".
Wait a minute: Do you mean LaTeX source code, or LaTeX generated PDF, or just PDF? And what do you mean by "recruiters"? The guy you will work with? the HR people? Or the agencies?

Most of all, why do "recruiters" hate "Latex"? (This is a real question, whose response might serve me soon.)
This is also a fairly common way to track people down. I used something similar, with an HTML email, to find an SEO shuyster who had defrauded a friend. It helped prove he was in the country (despite his claims). It gave us a good reason to try and setup a sting where instead of meeting a potential customer, he was greeted by a process server.

Also a good reason why to never read HTML emails.
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As is tbrownaw's evidence. Maybe there are relevant statistics somewhere?
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I'm not surprised a lot of successful people are rejected by Harvard and Yale. They reject, what?.. Ninety Percent or so of applicants? and those are self-selected achievers who think they might have a shot getting in, so there are a lot of exceptionally talented individuals in the rejected pool from those schools.

What's that say about Matt Damon and Bill Gates who essentially rejected Harvard? You must respect someone who, at such an early age, is wise enough to know that even Harvard isn't going to make them better off.

Looking back, 18 is so young. Just babies. It'd be really hard at that age to predict who among them will succeed.
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I only head back once a month or so but drop me a line when you're there and I'll buy you a drink if I'm up :-)
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I'd imagine though that once trained this person will derive more value than someone on minimum wage though, assuming that you would pay someone at least 10 times minimum wage.

Although they could also spend most of their time learning and not return even minimum wage value, I guess it's a trade off.
But then, don't do strength training either:
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Twitter's length restrictions were originally based on their compatibility with SMS. I imagine this still matters to them.
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Yeah that's a problem. my guess would be the # of iPhone users doing this is extremely small that the government won't bother.
Must have been before they were bought by Lenovo. Seems like the T61's we have at work are nothing but trouble.

Regarding the new Macbooks, the casing machined from a solid block of aluminum is very robust. Quite a bit more robust than any Thinkpad I've ever had by hands on.
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Welcome to hacker news :).

A part of me still wants to call it a planet, especially since I grew up where Pluto was discovered, in Flagstaff at Lowell observatory.
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