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Out of curiosity, do you have an offer from a VC firm? or are you thinking that is a direction you want to go.

If you re thinking you'll have shorter hours, why would that be? I know a former VC fairly well (he went back to starting his own business after 7 or 8 years as a VC), I doubt he would say he had shorter hours as a VC. As far as 'wiggle room', unless you are talking about a Entrepreneur in Residence, I'm not so sure you're right on that one either.

To answer your second question, yes, as my friend did, you can go back to building your own start-up after doing the VC thing.

More important, if you're going into VC thinking you might fail because 'the work is mind-numbing', I'd say you are guaranteeing yourself failure.

Look at PG, Ron Conway, Randy Komisar, Fred Wilson or many others. Do they seem to think being a VC is 'mind-numbing'?

Quite the opposite. They seem thrilled to be part of the action, and understand the needs of a start-up with both capital, and mentorship.
Ah yeah it's been awhile since I took a networking class; more into front end coding these days & start-ups.

I guess even the IP address since it's based by router would not be completely effective, especially in large companies. Though it could gather that there a lot of trolls at one company or organization. Thinking of recent Yahoo/Skype debacle and that guy losing his job over trolls.
Yes. 20+ years now.

<1hr.everyday.

Totally worth it.
Thanks for Ubounce link! Really a cool tool.

Will use for my next project :)
I think I'm in love with your friend.
Did you not put grades when you were graduating out of college?

I think the top recommendations that were made to me about resumes were be specific with your accomplishments, don't lie, play to your strengths and don't have a $%!$ing typo. If you've done anything extraordinary put it on your resume. For instance I was a student senator and had done a lot of mountaineering - that was on my resume. Your job is to sell yourself and standout. So if that means leaving off average or poor grades - that's fine.

Here is my experience coming out of college. My first two jobs were while I was still in school.

My first "real" programming job was doing research on C# and .NET when it was still in beta. I attended OOPSLA that year and met the right people at the right time. Some people from the compilers team offered to keep in contact and I followed up on that to my benefit. I remember one of the guys from the C# compiler team was unemployed when he graduated (previous tech bubble). He wrote a java program to showcase his programming skills and it got him hired at Microsoft on the C# compilers team. Still the "place to be" when he was hired.

My second "real" programming job ended up being my own small business that was momentarily profitable. That was when some friends of mine said I should apply at a startup that they worked at in town. I applied and was hired. I worked there part time and eventually I was making more money doing that than running my business. After I was working full-time they didn't want me to finish my degree because it was getting in the way of work. The lesson there was as soon as your bosses know that they have someone that is competent everything changes.

On paper at the time I don't think there was a chance I would have had anyone choose my resume from a pile and call me up. Luckily I knew a lot of smart programmers that actively recruited me. Most hiring managers will contact you if they have a recommendation and legible resume.

When I interviewed at the startup I was woo'ing them with stories of my small business success more than they were grilling me. I had recently done research for the university and Microsoft in C# and since it was such a new platform I had about as much experience as anyone. When I asked for a salary they offered me $7k over what I asked for. (Ya that was an epic-fail on my part)

My next job was post startup acquisition (no worries I didn't have equity). My degree was a minor point because of all I had accomplished at the startup.

I have a number of friends that have really great traditional resumes. They are now all over the place. If I were looking for a full-time gig I'd start with them. Probably looking to get in on some contract work. Then from there investigate getting hired full-time. I think that is current path to most full-time programming jobs.
There was a great article on medical checklists in the New Yorker a few years back: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...
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Or just do what we do in Cappuccino, and use Base64 encoded data URIs (or MHTML in most versions of IE): http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2009/11/11/just-one-file-with-...

Base64 bloats the size a little bit, but it's recovered as long as you enable Gzip transfer encoding.
Oh, nostalgia. I started coding out of curiosity back when I was in 4th grade (back in 1983). It was a helluva lot less main stream than it is today, so some of the things that I wanted to code back then mostly had to do with whatever I was into at the time.

So, in your case, you sound completely not familiar with programming at all. That's an awesome place to be, believe it or not. You sound like you're into mathematics, so think about hacking something trivial in a field that you're passionate about.

My first thing I programmed was a BBS (bulletin board system) on the Apple IIe computer. Called it Warphactor. Fell in love with the fact that I could make my computer's modem ANSWER a phone call, send and receive data. Just kept on building from there.

I code in a bunch of different languages (for recreation and profession) not because I'm some genius, but for two reasons. First, different types of projects demand different languages or platforms. Second, once you've been programming for a while, you realize that there's a LOT of crossover between languages. So don't get too hung up on one language, because once you start doing this stuff in the real world, you'll be pretty flexible and able to pick up new languages without much effort.

Don't run out and buy a bunch of books. You'll find plenty of resources online to learn concepts, and my favorite, BY EXAMPLE. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Most importantly, if you feel like there are concepts that you just can't wrap your head around -- POWER THROUGH until you understand them.

There's always someone out there that has explained it better than the resource you currently have in hand.

One neat resource that, in my opinion, stands above its contemporaries, is stackoverflow.com. Stuck? Compose a well written question, get some very well written answers.

Good luck!
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At first I didn't know what kind of "Card" you were referring to. I was thinking this was for credit cards to start with...

You should change your "we take the "buy a card" off your to do list"

to > "we take the "buy a (birthday, holiday, etc) card" off your to do list"

Then you don't need the top text either. I would also include some pictures in the step 1-3 as well.
I would suggest you do your best to just gloss over it without lying. I spent a LOT of time very ill. I was too ill to work right after getting my Certificate in GIS. My resume had a 50% call back rate but I was doped to the gills on prescription medication and tanked in every interview. During that time, I was very upfront about my medical crisis. I didn't get a single job offer. I can't prove that was why, but I can't help but suspect it either. The first interview I went to where I did not mention my medical situation got me a job. I just told them I was a former homemaker going through a divorce and did not elaborate on any additional details concerning my lack of prior work experience.

Since you have a Masters, it is more recent and will generally be weighted more in their mind. Lots of folks screw off during college when they first leave home and don't make the best grades. I would be inclined to offer no explanation whatsoever for the poor grades the first time around. If your performance later was better, let that speak for itself -- unless, of course, you are asked point blank. Then be honest.

I think mentioning your medical problem up front is problematic because it implies that it is still a concern. If it is in your past, then leave it there. Honestly admitting to a medical crisis in an interview if asked about the grades seems to me less likely to be problematic. Just answer honestly but minimally. Talking at length about it suggests it still weighs heavily on your mind and I think this implies that it could still interfere with your ability to work. If that is not true, then don't give it a lot of emphasis. LOTS of people have medical conditions. It generally doesn't merit mentioning on the resume.

Good luck with this.
This is a pretty poor article on the whole. These "reasons" aren't supported by anything other than conjecture. Should be titled "10 reasons why I think it could be that some people suck at programming, based on my personal biases on the topic and on no actual data."

On top of that, the writing is loose, the ideas aren't really thought through. Basically, it's just someone's spontaneous, unrefined brain fart on the topic.

Sorry if the author is reading this, but it's honest feedback. You can do better than this piece of linkbaiting trash.
"Join Waiting List" is not very inviting wording.
I accept a fairly high volume of payments and intentionally don't accept Paypal. Here's why:

1. 99.9% of my paying customers have a credit card <---this is #1 for a reason

2. I've only had ~3 customers ever complain about my lack of Paypal. I made a special arrangement for 1. She ended up canceling.

3. Paypal doesn't allow the custom flows (upsells, cross-sells) that I can do with my shopping cart

4. Paypal doesn't integrate as nicely with my backend analytics, and I prefer to have all my sales centralized

5. Hearing bad bad horror stories about Paypal is just another, distant reason why I feel no urge to use them

Hope this helps.
Of course we'd all love to have 100% correct, documented libraries, specs which are unambiguous, properly designed code that will stay at version [4.x] and with same API forever...

Qt 4.
I think you missed my point which was that publishers will never make an initial investment if they feel it has no protection (or at least they will make less investment for less protection, which will eventually feedback to the artists investing less of their time for less reward). Furthermore, scouting for talent is one of the primary ways in which publishing businesses 'freely compete.'
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This is the normal way that I write code. But sometimes I feel really confident and write a couple hundred lines without compiling. Then it's always fun to find out - did everything "just work" or did I omit something?
I clicked the comments thread for this link because I felt this way about the article and I wanted someone to speak my thoughts. Thanks.
"What kind of meditation do you do?"

The mindfulness variety. I got started with it as a part of my explorations of ACT: (see http://thehappinesstrap.com/)

"How long/frequently?"

Most days, once or twice a day for about 1/2 hour at a time.

"What benefits have you experienced?"

I feel I am more aware of things in general and I do feel I struggle less with negative thoughts and emotions as I am learning to take a step back from them and see that they are just the output of an active mind.
Been there, it's really cool but impractical in many respects and no real performance gain. It's also a bitch if you update code on a regular basis.
Yes. The book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" details a significant number of cases dating as far back as the Statute of Anne and as recently as modern developing nations.

In every single case, the evidence shows that the absence of Copyright has spurred more creativity and cultural expression than its presence. Moreover, the shorter the Copyright, the greater the quantity of expression.
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051493
great approach. if you can't find 10 people or even 5 that would pay for the product, there's no point.

and if you can't even get yourself to go look, there definitely no point
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I believe Google does what you are talking about - http://www.seodenver.com/googles-sprite-image-is-a-thing-of-...
Yeah, I have to concur. It's sloppy writing. If the author had focused on, say, three thoughtful ideas on why programming is hard for beginners, along with some remedies, he might have turned out something of value. Instead, the stretch for hitting the magic linkbait number of 10 gets us a fairly mediocre exploration of an important, interesting topic.

Incidentally, the comment thread here turned up some great discussion on why programming is so hard for beginners, so gg, HN.
For privacy purposes, we do not traditionally track the location of the client. Your location is used anonymously in requests to determine what is around you and provide you with relevant data. When you attach to a Presence (a user controlled location/object) then your location at the time you interact with that Presence is shared, while still anonymizing your PI, to provide proximity information to the Presence owner. This is helpful to Presence service providers in that they may want to discriminate services based on proximity to their location. Stay tuned for an update on both the web site and application.
I started to learn how to program while I was 13. The language I started with was Java. My first real program I tried to make was a Simcity clone in Java.

I failed, but even in failure, I learned a lot. The important thing is once you have learned the basics of a language, try and build stuff yourself. You won't learn much by copy/pasting or slightly modifying or retyping examples.

One thing to look out for is a project you can do to start. If you are doing a web language, code a basic blog once you've done the basics to put together what you've learnt.

Another common starter project nowadays is a Twitter client. This used to be a good idea, but it's gotten a bit harder now, and I wouldn't recommend trying to figure out OAuth for your first program.

Another important point is learning different languages. Don't go "I've learned Ruby" then stop. Despite it being my first language, I hardly ever use Java anymore. Different languages lend themselves to different problems, and knowing more languages helps you look at programming problems from a wider perspective. I strongly suggest that you try at least one static language, one dynamically typed language, and one functional language at some point.

A final point is that it can be quite helpful to read blogs o.n programming. I can't suggest any ATM, because the two I always read are more or less at an end.
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Amazing how clueless the MIT guys can be sometimes.

While compensation and work product are great metrics for economists to argue about, they aren't the only factor driving people. In fact, I think in most instances work output has no correlation to compensation.

People instinctively do things for seemingly intangible reasons that apply in various circumstances. They figure that the best workers are more likely to get promoted, will get the best shifts, want to help their coworkers, are less likely to get laid off and have personal standards.

Think of it this way... soliders, even conscripted soldiers, commit acts of bravery that are above and beyond the call of duty in combat. Instead of staying out of the line of fire, they charge machine guns, throw back hand grenades, and rescue wounded comrades. To an economist, these things are completely irrational or crazy, because all of economics is focused on studying or manipulating a datapoint on a supply/demand curve.

Life is more that supply/demand. Economics influences life, but doesn't consume it.
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I'm praying 5 times a day.
About 5-10 minutes in each session.
It helps me to forget everything and focus on my pray and urge me to follow praying time. My mind become more fresh after each pray.
Makes sense.

What do you use instead of Paypal? Authorize.net?

Also, what shopping cart do you use?

I'm currently using e-junkie, but curious as to what else is out there that works well.

Thanks, Ramit.
Whatever that process is, it's totally outside of the developer's control, and is maintained and optimized by Apple. I trust that the developers of the OS have a better sense for how to maximize their device's battery life than I do.
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Sure its possible. The stories written about this seemed credible enough to show that something very wrong was happening.

It's also possible that the US Attorney concluded that the admin at the school was incompetent, but not intentionally acting in a criminal way.
Also check this out: http://apps.facebook.com/kembrel/

As far as we know, we are the first to have a private sales store running inside Facebook
But publishers, prior to local Copyright laws, were more than willing to make hefty investments, even without protection. In fact, they competed to make the best offer to artists and authors.

Read the book "Against Intellectual Monopoly." It details cases like this and more. See also links posted by others here, which detail similar cases.
Did I seriously get down nodded for a constructive comment? Or is someone a little green sensitive?
I email it to myself and label it for perusal. Every once in a while I go through my idea folder and apply it to current situations.
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(Concerning the comments) Amazing how subjective people can be about this stuff. I thought the response from Stuart Halloway was well considered and fact based.
The fact is, we need systems like this. We need to know what the superficial people are talking about, in order to understand how people really think about the world, and what they are all talking about lately. It helps us get greater understanding of the world. Much easier to look at trends and graphs, than it is to actually listen to any of these people.
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It's neat but not that unusual, people have been writing and decoding these tapes for fun or because they wanted to recover things from them for years and years. This one is also quite recent and in the other direction - but it recovers an interesting nerdhistorical artifact -

http://www.pagetable.com/?p=32
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Your illness doesn't matter. Telling an employer cannot help you. You only need to convince someone you are the best person moving forward. Easiest way to avoid bringing the question is to leave GPA off resume. No employe should ask about health. If they ask about GPA, just tell them you had to balance abnormally tough family issues that are resolved and no longer a factor.
My goal is a 20-minute sit in the morning and a 20-minute sit in the evening. The morning sit happens more frequently than the evening sit these days!

I do centering prayer, which is a very simple and receptive practice that involves the use of a sacred word to bring the mind to a state of concensual awareness. ("When thoughts arise, return ever so gently to the sacred word..")

The benefits have been many; some I was initially unaware of. I asked my wife once if she had seen any change, and she said I am not as angry a person as I once was. This was slightly off-putting initially, because I had had no idea that people viewed me as an angry person.

There appears to be developing body of science on the various effects of meditation. One is that the amygdala (a gland in the brain that is involved with fear, "fight or flight" reflexes, etc.) is calmed down.

The extent to which highly charged emotions and fears have shaped my thoughts, actions, and reactions has been substantially reduced. Instead of spending all day reacting tactically to short-term crises, I find it easier to calmly consider the big picture.

An example of this is in how I approach writing code (I am a software developer). There is a crisis-driven frame of mind, when I anxiously bang out a chunk of code in a hurry. Alternatively, there is a calm, aware, "outside of time" frame of mind, when I reflect on the cleanest, simplest, most gentle and easy-to-understand way to go about a piece of work. I am free to redo a piece of work a couple of times if needed to get it so that it really feels right.

Needless to say, returning to code written in the latter frame of mind is a much better experience than returning to code written in the former frame of mind! The former results in an accumulation of technical debt that begins to compound, and productivity, code correctness etc. eventually grind to a stand-still. The latter results in code that is a pleasure to return to, and generally moves the codebase incrementally in the direction of sanity, quality, and trustworthiness.
You over-complicate.

1. School officials take pictures of students at home without their knowledge.

2. Investigation occurs.

3. No charges, because no "criminal intent"

Sure looks like a reasonable conclusion is that the spying is not illegal in the absence of "criminal intent".
How long 'til China is #1?
Thanks for the suggestion - changes have been made.
A Twitter client is interesting. I might just try that. I haven't really settled on any language. I have books on Python and Ruby, and I've recently become interested in Haskell. But it seems like you can do almost anything with any language (maybe not efficiently). I figure I'll learn the mindset of programming, and then concentrate on different languages.
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Unless the parent was being ironic e.g. "its raining on me - well by pure chance they invented this amazing invention called the umbrella" (I suspect not as knowing Readability exists is not expected, though this ironic use is probably where the convergence of the terms began).
Interesting. What are your experiences with handling the disadvantages of using data URIs? [1] The biggest disadvantage that I see is:

Data URIs are not separately cached from their containing documents (e.g. CSS or HTML files) so data is downloaded every time the containing documents are redownloaded.
Content must be re-encoded and re-embedded every time a change is made.

Based on this, it seems like this would still work well for images specified in your stylesheet, but not so much for images that are specified directly in your HTML, because it would bloat HTML file size, and unless the user's browser caches the HTML file itself, they'll have to re-download the large HTML file over and over again.

Also, according to Wikipedia, base64 encoding makes the file size 33% larger than the binary file, and compressing it (as with gzip) only shaves off 2-3% of the base64 file size. Is this accurate? If so, it seems gzip encoding the transfer doesn't really recover the file size bloat you mentioned.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme#Disadvantages

EDIT: Now that I think about it, if you base64 encode all the images in your stylesheet, won't that make your website look like ass for as long as it takes to download that stylesheet? Usually, this isn't a big deal because a text stylesheet gets downloaded pretty quickly, but now it will be larger in file size than the total sum of all the images that were specified in the stylesheet.
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