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> you'll never be sending your resume "cold" again.

That's the takeaway. If ten years into your career (baring a situation such as a move to a new area or wanting to work on something completely different from what you're doing now), you're sending in your resume cold to HR you're doing something wrong. You should have made connections in the industry: people who can vouch for you, whom you respect and want to work with. A good resume (with interesting projects as well as companies which do interesting, technically challenging things) can make you a more lucrative target for passive recruiting. However, a resume is a representation of your experience, not the other way around: it gets you in the door, but if you can't pass a technical interview an impressive resume won't save you.

Go where you'll be working with the smartest engineers (you can tell that an interview, based on what questions they ask and how they answer your questions) and the work (specific projects you'll be working on) is the most challenging and interesting. If out of all the places you've talked to, the place that meets that criteria is the a startup, go there; if it's a big company (but with serious technical DNA) go there instead. Don't join a startup for the sake of joining a startup, don't join a big company for the brand-name.
Probably because most people are familiar with online shopping.
We need some way to force paypal to stop defrauding honest people (as well as being faster, but that isn't such a big problem).

Unfortunately there doesn't really exist a good alternative outside the US.

Anybody knows how to start lobbying against paypal?
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duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1553659
I disagree that search is the only answer and that Google with get AppStores right first because that is their expertise. Everyone is on the "better search" bandwagon because we want to find quality products faster in an ecosystem of far too many competitors. That makes immediate sense. But, a superior retail experience can just as easily solve this problem.

The root challenge of app stores is that they break the invisible hand(s) that rule the marketplace, which consumers and retailers all take for granted as an important source of guidance and information. A market flooded with unlimited supplies of unlimited competitors is a wild west of competition. This is great. But, it's also terrible. As long as supplies of products are unlimited and free to stock because retail space is also limitless there are no motives for the retailer to prune it's shelves of unpopular duplicate products.

I think that Apple will continue to allow it's AppStore to grow and for duplicate applications to be produced, but when the competition with Android starts to get fierce they will begin to prune the AppStore of low quality applications. Non-selling apps, particularly with low ratings, will be cut... and insanely great search that can tell you which fart app of the 30 available is the best one won't be so important anymore because the one fart app that exists in the store will be so great it'll make your eyes water.

The trick, of course, is determining how upstarts can compete with more established applications within a problem space. But, that's a discussion for next time.
Same reaction here. The grid method makes so much more intuitive sense to me than the way I was taught. I do it without even thinking about it sometimes.
that being said you can do this for free @ dyndns with only slightly more effort
I don't think there's a good solution to this problem without incorporating some kind of prior distribution, and a statistical model of what paws tend to look like. Heuristics will only take you so far.

edit: come to think of it, something like mean-shift or ICP would probably do very well on this.
extremely this... that takes down a huge barrier to entry for a totally trivial cost
8GB sd cards are cheap, much cheaper than it would cost me to buy 1000 frames of film.
Try "ww".
What about office hours? I was in a lot of big lecture classes too and office hours salvaged my college experience (to an extent).
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I wonder how much money PayPal has made keeping so-called fraudulent money in their coffers.
Everyone says this but there was so much more going on I think it's a bit silly to pretend that "open v closed" is a safe way to summarize "Microsoft v Apple" in the 80's/90's.
> I think you have to look at the individual, their specific fit and how old they are.

Isn't that descriminatory ?
How about Maemo? Flash works fine on my N900.
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@dangrossman I'd like to address your comment:

Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Dan Burkhart, the President of Recurly.

There was a very early pricing change, which was admittedly not handled well. We subsequently reached out to all of our customers twice via email surveys, and personally via telephone to all that indicated that they were willing to speak with us. Our latest pricing went over extremely well, AND we did grandfather any customer to prior pricing if they wanted. (A relatively small percentage chose to be grandfathered, since our new pricing has been favorable for the broad majority).

You can see that our new pricing posted on July 1 went over extremely well. (There was only one comment on the blog post). http://blog.recurly.com/2010/07/new-recurly-pricing/

Our customer base continues to grow rapidly, and since we raised money, we have hired full time customer support. We treat our customers extremely well. I suggest you speak to Retargeter, SlideShare, KissMetrics, Unbounce, WordTracker, SproutSocial, GroupSpaces, GOOD.is, and many others to hear from them how they have been treated, and whether they would recommend Recurly.

One last point. Understand that Recurly stores credit cards (in a PCI compliant) vault. The benefit to our customers is 1) that as their business scales, we uniquely offer the ability for our customers to easily transition from one payment gateway to another without ANY business interruption. As your business grows, you will surely be able to negotiate more favorable rates with your gateway, and we give you the leverage to do so. 2) We are also able to better address credit card declines and remediate the process by resubmitting additional information to satisfy the reason for the decline. This results in lower customer churn and for businesses doing any kind of transaction volume, this is a very big benefit. (Compare Recurly costs to services like Litle & Co who offer the same service for big $$).

Cheers.

Dan
This is true.

However California is an at will state, you don't have to disclose why you fired someone. And I've been verbally informed at all of my jobs in California that I shouldn't disclose what I make. So in practice it seems that people are strongly encouraged to keep what they make secret.

Furthermore when I worked in New York I was informed that it was a legal requirement that I not disclose. And I have no reason to doubt that that was the law there.
I think he's referring to pre-existing apps, though I'm sure he'd be happy to have suggestions (I know I would.)

In this same vain, Twitter is, effectively, a super simple idea that seems to have at least taken to legs in adoption, though I have absolutely zero idea what they're doing for revenue.
I keep wondering why there isn't a Ycombinator-funded paypal killer.

I'm not a developer/coder/anything close to one, or I would do this myself.

Come on, guys! Get on this!
I would see it as a case of premature optimization.
Bing Instant - instantly appeared a year ago
Other than the servers checking host per other people's comments, this is basically just how dns works... anybody with a domain can point any subdomain or domain they own to any IP they want. I can't see any practical way around this at the dns level.
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Scale matters more than name recognition. If you worked at a 50,000 employee F100, your skills aren't going to be suited for a 10 person startup, and vice versa.
"Don't study the product. Study the distribution mechanism."

I'll do you one better -- study both

It's primarily your example that speaks to the distribution mechanism aspect, but if the product weren't any good, you'd likely end up as a case study for your competitors as they beat you into the ground (just as you posted the screenshot the other day of the horrible bingo app that motivated you).

You can't JUST do one half of it, unless you get very lucky, or have some kind of viral appeal, or are Craig Newmark, or whatever. The key to being best in class AND being perceived as best in class at the same time is to nail every aspect of product, which includes distribution in most cases.
Zooming in is awesome. Default map view is a little weird. Slider could be a tad more responsive.(could be chrome)
Overall much better than your last version.
Windows, Mac, Linux, some Android devices, etc.
Behind the scenes, they work very much in the same way. It's the interface that's different.
It will be small, medium large and everything in between.
I think Chrome OS tablets and netbooks/desktops are more likely to succeed than Android tablets actually. They both run the Linux kernel so for this discussion perhaps the point is moot.
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I do pretty much the same thing.

I was taught traditional long multiplication in school, but its a technique that is designed to be worked out with a pen and paper, and doesn't tell you a lot about why the technique works.

The grid system seems more geared toward mental arithmetic and understanding, and allows one to easily approximate an answer, rather than working it out exactly. This is pretty much exactly what's required in the modern world, and that's probably why lots of people have discovered this technique independently.
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> I think you have to look at the individual, their specific fit and how old they are.

Congratulations on confessing (without a lawyer present) to breaking anti-discrimination law (and being ignorant).
I'm all for this, but "legal and liability reasons" do not require an escort for a 16-year-old on a plane trip across the country.
same happened to me recently - though my balance was under 10k, so it was less scary. I called and asked nicely until I got the restrictions removed.
The point is if you think that being a billionaire will make you happy, it won't. So focus on making enough money to be comfortable and work on figuring out what actually makes you happy. Money is so rewarding a drug it drowns out everything else. This type of research helps remind people to kick the money habit.
Just because Apple has a copyright assignment on file (i.e. saying that they are able to assign copyright to the FSF) does not mean that every piece of code Apple writes--even if it's connected to GCC--is assigned to the FSF.

So Apple can write GCC patches, Apple can release GCC patches, but it does not follow that those patches are assigned. I guess that means they've actively stopped.
I enjoyed my time in college, I even learned and experienced much that I still value. However, to be honest, most of the knowledge that I value has come outside of traditional education. Much of my most useful knowledge in physics, biology, astronomy, language, etc. has come from self-study, from reading old issues of National Geographic, Popular Science, Scientific American during high school and after, from reading text books and non-fiction books on my own. The most important contribution to my intellectual character has probably come from Carl Sagan's Cosmos, above any course or line of study in formal education.

That being said, there have been some substantial and crucial bits of knowledge I likely would not have acquired outside of school. Calculus and advanced mathematics, most especially the rigor of formal proofs that has proven immensely useful and practical to me and yet came of a degree course I chose essential by accident. And the experience of chemistry laboratory courses, using equipment that I would not have had access to outside of college, is something I would be sorry to have missed.

Overall, I'd say that college can still be a valuable experience but the increasing reliance on college as the sole route to education is troublesome and problematic.
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Ok so this is a binary distribution of Illumos. Cool
The Founding Fathers were aware of this. In fact John Adams saw it as an aspiration:

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
What is the (craziest, stupidest, silliest) thing a client/boss asked you to do?
I don't use clojure, but this seems totally solid to me. I sent in a small donation because it seems like such a good idea.
Well you counted Facebook as a big success in terms of advertising, but they aren't exactly raking in cash. To me that puts it similar to Hulu and Demand--making significant revenue, but the real money comes from an IPO.

For the most part we're not talking public companies, so it's hard to be completely accurate. But I think it's safe to say that there are a lot of online advertising funded businesses who are providing strong returns to their partners/investors.
"But who cares about 'Fart' apps?, you may ask. Lots of people do - kids, especially, of course."

Yes, but nobody is going to buy a different phone to get a fart app.
You say it's so trivial yet you didn't include a link to the one you just set up to prove your point :p So not quite that trivial, and that is often enough.

Quite often it is useful to be able to do something easily and quickly that you could have done before with more effort.
What you need to do is, learn to calculate in other bases. It works exactly as well as doing it in base 10, and of course is yards quicker.
Mike Rowe spoke on this during his TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...
I like this quote from the article, "In other words, the reason why some people see their work as a calling might have little to do with the work itself, and a lot to do with how the person approaches the work. "

I think that one thing entrepreneurs do is find a calling in what others might dismiss as ordinary.
Well, maybe not, but I wouldn't ask him to travel alone, anyway – if anything unfortunate happened, I wouldn't be able to forgive myself. In any case, I've never done anything like this before, so I was trying to be careful. Of course, IANAL.
Some of my thoughts about Quora:

1. Quora has a slick realtime UI. But I doubt it will work at large scale - think about Facebook Chat scale.

2. Quora rely heavily on moderators. This will not work at large scale. I can understand Google's algorithmic-only approach, but Quora's human-based approach is just too chaotic.

3. Their topic approach to question categorization is just too simplistic. In essence they are just tags, i.e. folksonomy. No fancy Semantic Web techniques here.

4. Quora has no concept of NPOV - Neutral Point of View. It has a MPOV - Moderator Point of View. They should learn a lot from Wikipedia.

5. Quora has a lot of privacy issues. They also have inconsistent rules about anonymity.
You required to register with your real name. You have a choice of answering with you real name or as anon, but you must comment with your real name. You also can't see the name of the person, asking the question, who apparently can add anon comments ...

I can't delete my comments, my questions, my answers and my account at all, since they locked my account, after I added comments about some inappropriate and offensive questions.

You say Facebook has privacy issues? At least Facebook has no moderators.

6. Most of the questions on Quora are just UGC junk, like: "Why Asian girls don't date Black guys?",
"Why White girls don't date Asian guys?", etc.

Then there are some pseudo-political questions, like:
"Who will stop Israel?" and "Does the State of Israel have a right to exist? Why or why not?", etc.

A lot of questions are so called "Questions containing assertions", i.e. a troll questions asked by anons. If they want quality questions, they shouldn't allow anon. questions.

Some people try to ask a technical/programming questions, but they better go to StackOverflow.com and like, if they want a quality answer.

The only quality answers are on topics related to startups, entrepreneurs, angels and VCs.

So in short: Quora is a glorified forum software and a niche social network for Silicon Valley professionals (i.e. investors and entrepreneurs).
I think it would relieve a lot of stress if meaningless homework were eliminated in elementary school. I can see the value of math and writing homework, but social studies drills are worthless but take as much time as English. It seems that every teacher feels the need to assign an hour a day.
I never realized how easy it was to setup a merchant account / processor until paypal scared me into doing it.
That is seriously wrong, calling somebody who talks to a kid a child abductor. Does it happen to men only? Both of my two brothers have been saved by strangers multiple times when they were lost. In a place where people are so afraid of strangers interacting with kids there is a non negligible chance that one of them would be dead now (got lost on a dangerous road next to a river, he was walking the wrong way, but fortunately a man noticed him and brought him back to the camping).
Well, the first thing I'd say is to work on your deployment model. While nothing is ever bullet-proof, you should definitely be ironing out deployment kinks before go-live anyway.

One of the things I've done in the past is standing up an additional VM to deploy things to -- sandbox changes occur on my PC alone, those changes are pushed to 'dev', wherein I ensure that the base functionality works. In the process of updating dev, I script or document every change that I had to make to migrate it to current -- I then test those scripts and procedures to the new instance ('qa') and run unit tests against them before believing that it will work in production.

Even still, you can't guarantee that production won't contain some data or user content that could break things, but it should at least get you more up to speed in double and triple checking your deployment strategies.

Another idea you might try is to just set up a 'stable' site on either another domain or sub-domain, and make absolutely sure that doesn't change (or at least doesn't change nearly as often) at something like stable.yourdomain.com, and point reviewers to that, with the advice that it may not be 'current'.
You should say a few things about yourself as well, not only the things you want in your co-founder. Try to show why you're a good catch.
I told my kids to do exactly as much homework as needed to get the idea; then stop.

Worse than weeknight homework: weekend homework. I absolutely reject this idea; I plan my family time, NOT the lazy teacher.
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Then when you are asked about your work as a programmer for ___.com, do you entirely neglect to mention you were the founder?
They do sometimes get sued, though nobody's been hugely successful yet. Someone filed a class-action suit a few months ago over the holds issue, but I haven't been able to find any follow-up (e.g. whether it got certified as a class-action, dismissed, etc.): http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/cab/abn/y10/m06/i08/s02

They were also sued in 2002 over the same issue, and settled in 2004 for the rather small sum of $9m, though they did also agree to modify their hold policy as part of the settlement (whether they've followed the terms of that agreement, I don't know): http://www.settlement4onlinepayments.com/injunctive.pdf
You should spend some time reading about what ISOs are, how they are taxed, and in particular, if an 83 (b) election is an option, it is probably something you want to do. There are pretty good explanations at http://fairmark.com/execcomp/index.htm
I think this is awesome. If you could allow me to zoom in and out via the scroll-wheel on the mouse (or maybe double-clicking in an area) that would be really great! I will definitely be using this for all my future ticket needs!
Hey, you can't post a link to Hacker News starting with "Brooks:" when it's not Fred Brooks. Seriously! Who is this David?
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Whoa...oh, sorry.

I donated. I too am a native Alabamian. Go Rayne!
If you would like to read a fantastic book about the history of Fiber Optics, I would suggest this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195162552

I found it fascinating and shows the development from first concept through research phases to practical/commercial uses. It's a few years old now, but should be good for a lot of information anyway.
Apple already has something like that - for MacOSX, of course.

Click on the Apple when the focus is on Finder, and Right under Software Update is "Mac OS X Software", which directs to http://www.apple.com/downloads/- essentially the App Store for desktops. It doesn't go through the wretched iTunes interface, though, and I don't believe applications are for sale, only free download.

I'm sure a paid download and sales model is in the works, or of course they've at least thought of it.
I left off a rant about "good enough" destroying the market for power-user software, because I was getting too much off topic.

But roughly: Yes. The cloud may win over the hearts and minds of a younger generation, and they may be happy using one of the many application suites online.

And then they become tied to having a constant $50-$100/month data plan so they can actually use their computer anywhere but at home.

I'm waiting for unlimited/anywhere wireless plans to come down to closer to the $10/month level before I allow my computing to be based in the cloud.
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Note that their email template has a bug: it says " following the guidelines of our ."! Cannot they fix their email templates? They are dealing with f..ing real money! The Viagra spam that I get has less bugs in their email templates!
Why has no one mentioned WePay.com?
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>needing to memorize the IP address

Really?
I used to be a developer at Ticketmaster, and all I can say is kudos, great job!

It took TM/LN an absolutely ridiculous amount of time to build their own half-assed interactive seating charts, and yours beats all the big guys. Don't worry about them shamelessly copying your version—they literally won't be able to, even if they wanted to copy it wholesale, trust me(complicated data issues). :P

Incidentally, where'd you get your venue data? I always thought venue seating maps should be publicly available, like open street data.