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Clean air, clean water, especially at the most local level, matters a lot more to me than global and theoretical things like CO2, definitely.

Over what time scale? The worst-case scenarios for excess CO2 are situations where the food supply is so disrupted that clean air and water would be low priorities.

That said, I certainly agree that there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit, public-health–wise, in reducing particulates. Climate change amelioration shouldn’t absorb all the money just because it’s the bigger problem in the long term.

Stricter smoking bans would go a long way in the developed world, where smog is not Beijing-like anyway.
Dell is richer than Steve Jobs too btw.
JetBlue to offer inflight Wi-Fi by 2012
Posterous, Twitter and loads of others are great places to work.

Specific opportunities aside, I think the point made here (and elsewhere in this thread) is that there are plenty of RoR jobs in The Bay Area - and if you come out here and hang out you'll be in a job within 2 weeks.

I'm sure most of the bigger/funded startups would support the legal costs of a port on an H1b, if that is what you have.

If you go back to your old employer, which is an option, aside from the pride issue I think you would also out of professionalism owe them 3-6 months before you left again, so consider what you want to do carefully.
Anyone read either of Rand's books? I see a new one just came out last month: http://www.beinggeek.com/

Also thanks to his wikipedia page, I just learned for the first time that the magical software company that Rand describes with smart and attentive managers is Apple.
Twitter to Launch Real-Time Analytics Dashboard, for Free
Is it Possible for Me to Get Hired as an Intern?
So.. here's the deal. I'm 19, live in Vancouver and been programming for ~2.5 yrs. I know, I started a bit late and I truly regret that.

Since I started programming, I fell in love with it and I tried to learn as much as I could (Linux, Windows, C, C++, Java, Python, Git, XHTML, SQL, etc). Your alarms probably went off right there. Thing is, I know a little about a lot of things. If you ask me some basic questions about C like pointers, I can probably answer you. If you ask me what abstract methods, interfaces, etc are in Java and how they work, I can answer that as well.

However, my main problem right now is I don't have any projects that I'm truly proud of to show my employer. I only have small tools (around 100-300) lines of code. Examples of these are (imgur uploader, irc bot built using twisted, multiple todo list with timers, crappy looking review site I built in my web dev class, etc). I would contribute to open source but I'm on a full load right now (7 classes) and it's almost impossible to work on something without depriving myself of sleep.

My question right now is, how can I present myself to an employer (through cover letter and resume) as someone who can solve a few problems here and there and who's truly passionate about software development?
If you really want to drive change, do this:

- Create a very convincing, clearly written and illustrated report on the top 100 visited websites (Amazon, Facebook, etc.) and how they fail on accessibility.

- Film yourself and your daughter struggling with these sites (burn to DVD).

- Contact well known film directors you think might do a documentary on people with disabilities and send them the video and report. Contacting enough people will make a difference.

- Getting a half-hour spot or so on a major U.S. television network wouldn't be too shabby either, so try to make connections there.

- Contact and work with the politicians and others updating the ADA, but be wary of big talk and no results. There is a lot of lobbying power from a lot of industries that don't want to have to spend the money to make their sites and software accessible.

Other than that, I side with the guys that say that as long as providing accessibility is not enforced and there is little or negative financial incentive, it just won't happen. Which is sad.

Very few places I've worked and done web-related and web development for have cared much if any about accessibility. Any effort I put into making a site more accessible was not met with any praise, and usually I felt as if people thought I was wasting effort.

My heart goes out to you and your daughter.
I've used it with rails for a short time now, still trying to dig deeper -- I really don't know if it's more reliable or mature than Mongo, but it was also a relatively pleasant experience. Also, I do know that it integrates very nicely with rails, and that you should use couchrest with it if you're on rails (http://github.com/couchrest/couchrest).

Side comment: learning to write map reduce algos instead of just querying was kind of difficult at first (for document databases in general). The article seems to have neglected to mention it -- it had the steepest learning curve in the overall couch-learning process for me.
2012? Seems a bit far off in the future to be plugging it now.
This is a good example of what copywriting does in the web. The interesting part is that even though the first page says that the site is temporary, in actual fact it's not. It is a complete portfolio. It has everything a CCO needs to know about a hire. It illustrates the author's personality, and as it happens illustrates how commentors here don't get sense appeals. The comment quality and popularity of this submission is so disjointed.

If I am to write a title for this HN submission it'd be:

A CV of a text designer.
Or tell them an evil twin tied you up and decided to try a prank.
What IP ranges? These computers aren't connected to the internet. The article speculates it was spread by a contractor's infected USB drive.

(I agree that the hyperbole is a bit much, though)
Seconded - an awesome documentary - trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8jtAASYdLw
but you have to exit the browser
Why Alyssa Milano is Good at Twitter
It's a nice idea and worth asking but many employers are loathed to give critical feedback these days for fear of being sued (and even more so if they rescinded the offer and so the individual might have a case for damages)
Non-profits take forever to make decisions. Don't waste your time with them.
Personally, networking in the local area and a bit of craigslist has been what's worked for me the past 3 years.

First year (second round of being indie) was rough, but connections made then have blossomed in to new opps over the past two years. Not sure I can stress that enough - work came to me 2 months ago from someone I met 9 months ago during a meeting with someone else I did work 16 months ago met via Craigslist. I met someone at a conference and 8 months later he called asking if I wanted some ongoing part time work. My own experience is that these things take time, but are eventually worth it.

Not sure if there's a way to go grab the 3 figure hourly rate gigs without personal referrals (I'm sure it's possible, but not been something I've found much). You may want to aggressively let your immediate circle know you're looking for some extra short term / part-time gigs.

Craigslist connections made about 40% of my income in 2008 - it's gone down some since then, but connections made via Craigslist still bring in revenue now and then.

Personal advice - do what you're doing - trim living expenses, shed some excess baggage (unnecessary cars, etc), build up a runway of savings (X months, whatever you're comfortable with) for when you go fulltime on the startup idea. Like many out there, I've got a few of my own 'startup' ideas I may pursue, but want to have a comfortable runway to allow me to focus on the idea rather than cave and start having to do project work midway through the project. Also, just to give myself a bit of breathing space - something I haven't had in many years (though do now, a bit).

http://indieconf.com was set up to bring people together to network and help address these sorts of questions. Virtuality of HN is great, but some face to face to address the realities of freelancing is good too :)

Good luck - ping me at mgkimsal@gmail.com if you care to chat directly.
Thanks, it could work! I will give it a shot!
It really does feel like Minecraft has made a new genre of game here, something that genuinely deserves the name "sandbox" because other than the bedrock way down below every single piece of the world can be dug up and manipulated.

It manages to tweak every single one of my addicting-game buttons, and even if no new features get added I'd happily rate it my Indie Game of the Year or possibly even Game of the Year.
I'm getting this detail secondhand and have probably mangled it. Please know: I am not a Stuxnet expert.
Good faith is usually an adequate defense to that, otherwise changing circumstances of any kind, in any situation would turn into legal liabilities universally, which is clearly untenable.
By "in 2001" he actually means the 2001 Super Bowl, so the 2000 season. The 2001 season was a Super Bowl winning season for the Patriots.
What I think is interesting about the free-to-play period (due to website collapse) is that it may actually be a massive boost, because it gets the game client onto a lot of machines. That doesn't sound like much, but here's where it gets interesting: the client auto-updates itself, bringing in new content and features as they are built. To continue to get updates (AFAIK) you must log in with your paid credentials. You can continue to play the 'free weekend' version without doing so, but you won't get any updates. Thus people can continue to play and be addicted, and that 'Register' link is there waiting on the main menu when the urge for the new hotness overcomes them.

Also, kudos to Notch for supporting Mac and Linux. I guess we're getting to a point where, for indie games at least, a very compelling experience can be built using a less-than-optimal platform (in this case being Java, which heretofore hasn't been used for games a whole lot).

By the way, it has even had TV coverage here in Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/goodgame/video/default.htm?pres=201...
Actually it really looks as though the wings only provide lift and that acceleration provided by the car could not be achieved otherwise and the forward movement could not be achieved therefore making it rather unlikely that the plane would lift off the ground on its own.

Still rather amazing and a very beautiful machine.
Yes, he should, after he sorts out his more immediate dilemma.
You got downvoted, but I think this is exactly right: very low chance of decisive success, maximal chance of embarrassing international incident. Not a good way to attack a rival regional power.
If we're not boozing and cracking jokes it's a "meeting", and I've got better things to do.

> where you get a pulse of each other ... find out whether your report is happy

Mature adults want a business relationship at work, not a psychotherapist. Everybody does their job and gets paid, the end.

This whole idea sounds like those "Please rate our service" surveys you get from businesses. I'll rate your service with my wallet, thanks. If you can't figure out how to make sure things are running smoothly that's your failure, and I'm positive survey results won't help. It really shouldn't be that hard.

Really, if a manager can't see what's what with who just from the day-to-day, then I assure you the place is screwed up and some stupid weekly meeting will be useless.
First, 19 is still young. If you have some real-world experience and have either completed, or are in the process of getting an education/training to back it up, you can certainly position yourself for a paid internship. I was able to hold down a great internship in design with just some photoshop work I did when I was 16. It's definitely about your passion and true potential. Just show that you have a roadmap to bring value to the company, while being able to learn from them as well, and you'll do fine.
Oh, okay. So they're just going to try to take over everyone else's phone.
Dave has been watching too much of The Wire
Google Working To Remove A Big Barrier To Chrome Frame: Administrator Rights
More accurately, we (for there are many of us) realized that we could go solve much more interesting problems elsewhere -- and in a much better environment besides. Why would anyone wish to suffer at a technically mediocre company when there are so many interesting problems yet to solve?
Yes. But make that ALL entrepreneurs are slightly deluded. Success is not part of the delusion.
How interested do you think Facebook would really be in that partnership? I have absolutely no faith that an MS phone is going to go anywhere, or be pleasurable to develop for.
I am interested. There are several other members of #startups who would likely check it out as well.
Good question - HN doesn't usually go all weak at the knees for 3 paragraphs.
I strongly disagree.

Whether or not to actually go with this approach is up for debate, but the terms of his engagement with his new employer are not in any way, shape or form his old employer's business. There's a reason so many laws exist to protect the confidentiality of such information.
I interview plenty of people, for fulltime positions and internships, and, basically, yes, you can definitely be hired.

It sounds like you're starting your 2nd year of college now, and most of your peers have pretty thin resumes, too. The fact that you have pursued personal projects beyond classwork already puts you ahead of the vast majority of candidates. Be sure to provide links to the source code for the projects you hacked together in your resume. Even though you don't think they're perfect, they show your passion, and that's what people are looking for.

In the cover letter, talk about how you discovered programming, how much you've learned in just 2.5 years, how much you want to learn still. I didn't start coding, really, until halfway into my freshman year, and I was still able to find internships.

Once your resume is strong enough (and providing links to good code that you wrote will look very good, for a college student), it's just the interview, and it doesn't seem like you're asking about that.

P.S.

Another way of doing things is getting to know some professors well (TA for them, ask them lots of questions, talk to them after class, etc.), and asking them to help you find an internship. A lot of companies trust professors' opinions of their students a lot more than resumes when deciding who to interview.
I spent 12 years waiting for Starcraft II. I bought the collectors edition. I played to Diamond rank and beyond. But the day I started Minecraft was the last day I played Starcraft II.

This game is really good.
> a chance for you (the managed) to express yourself

As it is I'll walk into my manager's office whenever I feel like it and literally tell him he's "being a shithead" about something. Don't see the point of him wasting a half hour of my time a week.
I bet Steve wishes he hadn't ditched all that stock in the 80s. Not like it really matters; obviously he has total say over the company and is surely more than comfortable enough financially.

And, we'll see what happens in 10 years, huh? Facebook might be worth 20 times as much, or 1/20th. Apple is pretty stable at this point and not likely to go anywhere but steadily up, in my opinion.

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Ha! Please, wise HN users, explain to me why you downvoted this. I'm interested in hearing the rationale.
Zuck, like Gates before him, has realized that the only way to gain the respect of polite society is by wasting millions on hopeless progressive projects. Vietnamese students with a fraction of the educational budget easily outscore Newark's pupils on international assessments. Who really thinks Newark will be changed by this?
Do what you said you can't. Get code into Github, etc. Focus on one project that you're interested in, and do it well. As people have stated recently, go to bed earlier, wake up earlier so you work on it first thing for a few hours each day. Don't develop all of it and then contribute it- come up with the idea and as soon as you have something- anything- worth sharing, put it up there. Then start adding to that. Once it is up, you'll be less timid about contributing more.

Spend adequate time on beefing up your resume to look like the best resumes you find on the web (in your opinion). Spend time on interviewing technique, but realize that the people interviewing don't like evasiveness and are just looking for someone that knows what they are talking about (not someone trying to show that they know) and that is a good culture fit and wants the job (and says at the end that they want it). Don't mention money or benefits until they make an offer.
Ummmm...

I have had a number of conversations with Google employees that have told me that they've been prevented from working on outside projects because of this.

Whether Google is on the right side of the law, or not, that's another conversation entirely, but what I'm telling you is from GOOG employees venting to me about work. YMMV
Zuckerberg obviously still retains a large portion of his founding shares (whatever he hasn't sold for FU money and hasn't been diluted). I imagine Steve Jobs lost and/or sold a good majority of his Apple stock after he was ousted and now only has what has been awarded to him since his return.
Huh? Why would he want to subject anyone else to the same thing he was subjected to? By not naming them, he just screws over the next guy.
> if I start a boycott of something (colluding to pay $0)

http://j.mp/dividedby0

(Unless of course you actually get them to give it to you for nothing, which is generally not the point of a boycott…)
What I mean is base salary.
Wow I didn't realize Zuckerberg was that liquid.
I have a medical handicap and two special needs sons. I got a job about 4 years ago. My first full-time paid job. Almost everyone at work that I have talked to for any length of time has some kind of medical problem. Some of the ones I know of at the company I work for:

Quadraplegia
MS
Fibromyalgia
Cancer
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Diabetes
Asthma
Allergies
Insomnia

I have to manage my condition and finally getting a diagnosis late in life was very empowering in that regard. Based on some of the comments here (and general life experience), one of the things you might do well to address is that a) most folks have some kind of limitation, even if they don't self-identify as "the disabled" and b) accessibility = ease of use, and that = both larger potential user base and likely higher traction.

I don't know much about web design, but the target market for two of my websites is people who tend to have both physical limitations and financial limitations (rooted in their physical limitations, which can be expensive and also inhibit earning capacity). Those financial limitations frequently translate into hardware and software limitations. So I keep those issues in mind when thinking about what to do with my sites.

Good luck with this. It's important stuff.
In this case it most certainly WAS good for them.
That's you. But for many people, that style of interaction just doesn't mesh with their personality. Some people are more meek, and won't tell you about an issue until you ask them straight out "what's up?" in a setting where they know that's their time to speak up. If you don't have a scheduled recurring 1:1 with those people, they won't schedule a time to meet with you. Until they schedule a "here's my 2 weeks notice" meeting with you.
I read a lot of books, but tend to forget most of them as well.
This. I am sick of it coming up on here and on reddit. A lot of people seem to have made their judgements and moved on, but when the report came out that last.fm actually did leak data, these same assholes ignored it (and it still comes up today!)
Unscatter.com does tabs for you (too)
could just mean that Javascript is finally considered ubiquitous in browsers. I like this page a lot, it's an efficient way to see what Google is pushing.
In a bank or hedge fund ... everyone is a VP ... Of course if he had the boss's ear - he was probably a special employee ...
Holy. Shitballs.

My hat's off to this man. Perhaps the thing I envy most here is the fact that this guy's achieved this doing what he loves. According to his personal page, he's been building games for many, many years, and has entered dozens of small competitions. He seems to genuinely love building games, and would almost certainly continue doing it regardless of money.
When you look at how Jobs quit Apple and sold his shares, the fact that he's even a billionaire is pretty impressive. He made all the money from NeXTSTEP and Pixar.
The free weekend was horrific for the community.

I run the (I think) main public server in Australia: the server ended up being a war ground, with impersonators causing havoc. Only now is the normal community of users reappearing, the normal fun state of affairs being restored: the "free" users wouldn't have had a fun experience :/
"get together in a bar but omit one of the regulars"

MA isn't an angel investor and isn't one of the regulars. My guess is that when they saw him they knew that he would report anything he sees/hears - hence their silence.
If you are in Australia, try simplicity.classexception.com :)
Jobs actually sold himself down to 1 share of Apple soon after NeXT was acquired, which triggered the ouster of Gil Amelio and the appointment of Jobs as interim CEO. The stock that he sold was all given to him by Apple as part of the Next acquisition--he had no stock (aside from perhaps one share, again for sentimental reasons) between when he left Apple and when Next was acquired, and after coming back he only got stock in later years when the board gave him stock and options.
I think it was established yesterday on Quora that McClure was actually Arrington's source on where the meeting took place, and judging by the language in Arrington's post - that same source was also one of his post-meeting sources, so it might be him again.

McClure was in the TC office right before this dinner took place.
Some people will question him no matter what he does, when it happens, or what else is going on at the time. Same thing happened (and continues to happen) with Gates. How do you know he's not just being generous? If you don't, then why the negative speculation by default?
Might be enough to get me back into SMP. I haven't played in a few updates, but I usually get intimidated by a long-running server that already has a lot of large scale construction projects finished (not to mention frustrated at trying to find a good build site for myself).
IIRC Steve Jobs sold all his Apple shares when he was ousted by John Sculley. All Steve Jobs has right now are options granted during last 14 years plus what he received from acquisition of Next Inc.
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From the article: "All of the senior people at Sun got screwed compensation-wise. Their job titles may have been the same, but their ability to decide anything was just gone."

It need not have come to that if they had used their "ability to decide" in managing Sun properly. You cannot hang your hat for very long on "we made good software but were unable to sell it".
I think that his formalization here helps as the framework will consider the global implication rather than local optimal. "Go for it, you only live once" symbolized a greedy solution that only optimized for the current satisfaction whereas the "regret minimization framework" tends to optimize for the whole consequences of different choices.
For a start, you could publicize the name of the faithless company and give them some bad press (and prevent others here at HN from potentially encountering the same problem).
On paper. Facebook owns a lot of eyeballs. Apple owns a lot of people. (It's time versus cult following.)

People > eyeballs
But did Jobs ever say he was going to F&#@ his users in their ears?
That's pretty aggressive. I hope nobody beats them to it.