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I'd be pretty pissed if I got shot in the face every time I checked my email.
Don't you also need an EC2 instance?
Something I want to add. When prototyping there are different prototyping methods, each with its pros and cons depending on your goal. Depending on the purpose of the prototype: aesthetics or functionality (stress testing) is which method you select and the company you choose. They will have information on their website also the reps are pretty helpful.
I like it crispy.
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this site is blocked at my company, btw. thanks company! no idea why and not sure what software my company uses.
I understand FF 4 beta 6 is crashing like mad on me :(

I've had to use chrome for most of my browsing because 3 is too slow now that I've tried 4 but every time my laptop goes to sleep and also randomly throughout the day it crashes.

I'm a pretty heavy user though I keep 30 - 40+ tabs open on the regular
I don't want to sound like I am defending your employer, but I just want to provide another perspective with the sincere wish to help you:

* Unfortunately internship does not reflect real work environment. In a "real job" there's always that 20% of stuff we hate to do but it needs to get done (this is also true in start-ups), while 80% is moderate-to-cool stuff. In an internship pretty much 100% sucks, but maybe you were expecting a lot more of cool stuff to do?

* It sounds like your supervisor didn't have enough time to handle/train you. Assigning work to new employees (not only interns) always require a certain amount of internal training. The job of an intern is not to complete work, but to learn. It looks like he asked you to see other employees so you could learn from them first, before getting more work. This is a common practice, it's called "shadowing". Did you learn anything from the employees you observed?

* The clothing and stuff... It's stupid but sometimes it's necessary to follow certain rituals so you "fit in" (that's also true for start-ups or any other social structure). Eventually you will earn the "privilege" to dress-up as you wish.
What is the single best result you have had applying your techniques. I don't care about who it was, but would love to know details about how much of an impact this type of work has in the real world.
Nice! That's a pretty interesting story, and there can potentially be some parallels to my situation.

I am going to do exactly what you suggested.

I am going to recommend, starting next month, we record everything. All the revenues for all the items (there are more than 60), and all the expenses. Then, from there we see if the 80/20 Pareto principle applies (to both costs and revenues) - I suspect it does.

Then from there, figure out how to allocate costs (because I don't think it is being done properly now).

Then we will see how it goes from there.

Would you mind if I reached out to you via email, if I had any additional questions? I promise not to badger you too much :) If not...no worries.
Hi Danielle,

Hacker News is mostly for startup/hacking related topics and probably isn't going to be a good resource for hardware support questions. I would recommend Google-ing for 'windows support forums' and try asking there. Good luck!
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I spent this morning reading and trying to personally apply the feedback given to kabuks from bloggergirl (re http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1836538)

I am passively working on a web app in my travel time and have been lurking on hacker news forever. Like many of you probably, I can't design, don't know how to market, don't know how to critically analyze my work - bloggergirl's insight helped me attack my web app from a new angle yesterday and round out some rough edges that now don't have to see the light of day.

I'm reading about all these great interesting 'specialties' that I'd really like to see the outcome of. Maybe in the form of a few blog posts or a follow up HN post so that we can all benefit from the initiative.
I like your healthy cynicism, but if that's the case, then why isn't the fee something like $2000? That's still trivial for YouTube, but pretty steep for some independent forum site.
There's been a lot of speculation on the condition of the US bond market in the recent years. For PIMCO and Bill Gross to come straight out and call a spade a spade confirms the speculation.

The US is caught in currents that lead in two general directions: one, a slow recovery with a soft landing; two, a slow recovery with a very hard landing. There's nothing positive to look forward to.
Pretty much anything - Python's a multi-paradigm language. Web development, system admin, desktop apps, games, console programs - it doesn't really matter.

Some of your workflow or setup might be a little different, eg. Django vs. PHP, but not so much that you'll be completely lost.
It would be very helpful if you could document the process while you help someone (sort of like a case-study or maybe even a diary/blog?)
The article charges that at HP, Fiorina maximized shareholder value at the expense of a great intellectual & humanitarian legacy. You can deplore that or not depending on your economics. But it's not a reason to paint her as a bumbler or willful destroyer. The market approved her strategy at Lucent and most of her time at HP.
HP was a tech industry icon? This is a genuine question. Everyone here seems to have fond memories of HP. I thought HP was a big boring company that made good printers and some decent polish notation graphing calculators and a few crappy PCs. I've never wanted to buy anything from them in the last ... 15 years. Its never struck me as interesting -- especially from the point of view of a software developer interested in startups.
Eh, no tool is great for everything.

I think python applies broadly, but it isn't great for building an OS. :)
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Thinkpad X100e. It's got an 11.6" screen with a 1366x768 panel. Nice keyboard and runs Ubuntu well. Should set you back about $500.
Thank you for this!

One side project I'd like to get back to is my fork of JSettlers. Here's a screenshot of the game screen: http://imgur.com/aAokt.png

So far, I haven't given the UI any love, but hopefully your comments will inspire me.
Just to add to this; Seems My____ (the site formerly known as MySpace) ripped off a stealth start-up called pintrist.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/27/myspace-pinterest/

This goes a bit beyond what you're talking about as it's not just checking it out but blatantly imitating. That said, the fallout is likely to come down on My_____, at least amongst the technorati.
This is a great list and a must read for anyone doing WP7 development.

In my opinion, you will always be better off using the bare minimum amount of XAML. XAML is completely unnecessary and is a huge barrier to adoption of WPF/SL. You've been better off avoiding XAML this Since SL2; heck you've been better off since WPF beta. That means no databinding, avoid converters, and do the layouts in C#. I.e., not the way the documentation tells you to do it. In fact, much of the list boils down to the above advice.
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You would think they could have done more with $20 Million and 3 years. I am not knocking their work, but when it comes to the smart phone space, what they have shown feels a few years too late.

There are some interesting things they showed but as a whole it is lackluster and ugly in some circumstances. Probably the only feature I would want is the context option for names. Otherwise the interface doesn't seem intuitive (even worse than 1.6 Android) and is a step back from the advancements Google has made in the last year or so.
Dude. Lost is so 2010.
I've never used foam before but I do know the material and they can't be prototyped the same way plastic parts can. What you're going to have to likely do is have them milled which will raise the cost considerable. Look for a local shop in your area, they are all over the place. If you don't have a time constraint you should be able to negotiate a lower price.

When you say 'small run' how many units? Part size? How many variations. If the quantity is large enough you can have an single mold produced with each part variation. While you will have extras it'll drastically drop the per unit cost. Most of the cost is the mold and setup (fixed costs), the materials cost next to nothing (couple dollars/pound).
I'm doing around 8 hours + side project. I'm still standing, fortunately!
I already had taken a programming languages course in college, so had a fair grasp of different approaches. I've dev'd professionally in a fair number:
http://mytechne.com/user/jdunck/programming-languages/

So, learning Python was sort of just picking from the menu; DiP was perfect in this regard, as it related python's features to other langs you might know.

Given your different context, I think it might be helpful to just see some examples and play in the shell, though.
for javascript in the browser jQuery is a godsend.

if you like functional programming check out underscore.js

jquery ui is a jQuery plugin that eases many ui tasks, but be careful - it's easy to go overboard.
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All the integrated apps seem like a cool idea. The big Ad on the right is a huge turnoff though. Just what I want in email, American Express spam... just like snail mail...

It looks like they could make better use of the blank space in the inbox area. There are no columns after the flag.

There are little things that are off in the UI as well, like the mouse icon turns in to a hand when you hover over the inbox, even if you're not hovering over an email. Small things like that irk me.

Anyway, looks like they're at least trying.
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The likelihood of rejection might not be as dire as I previously stated but you can judge for yourself:

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/msg/...
Seems like forcing yourself to fall in love with a girl/boy may possibly put you in even less of an enjoyable situation. You can't choose to fall in love when it's convenient... it's an organic process.
the primary way that people are doing this is using the css3 text-shadow property. for example:

h1 {
text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #ccc;
}

the syntax here is:

text-shadow: x-offset y-offset blur-radius shadow-color;
True. During my latest interview, Heroku asked me to design a billing/invoice system. I won the position and my first assignment was to work on the billing / invoice system. When I have the opportunity of conducting an interview, I will most certainly use this approach.
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I agree, I try to look at languages as tools in the toolbox. If you compare django to symfony or rails. Then I think the difference is preference. However if I'm trying to write a game for the pc then I wouldn't use php (or maybe I would [evil laugh]). So that's why I was curious what applications you would normally use it for?
I don't want to steal your thunder stealing but I am so excited to see this that if either sanswork or KoZen get swamped or if anyone wants a third set of eyes I would happily offer my critique. I am an educator in the US. I teach our department's professional practices course. In graduate school I gave a seminar to the graduate college on CV development. I ran a small company for someone for 3 years and did all the CV/resume reviewing. My area of training is as a visual artist. Prior to my university work I did a lot of freelance design work for museums, galleries, art agencies and artists. I managed CV's for artists and galleries. I actually advised one gentleman who had a 91 page CV. My professional experience here at the university has been in the development of curriculum that address visual organization of information. This is all by way of saying I can best offer a critique from this perspective. I'm not tech illiterate. I do work with HTML and CSS regularly. I started learning PHP this year as a new years resolution. I started teaching myself AppleScript 11 years ago and I'm proficient with it. But, I'm not offering to review these from the same perspective as sanswork or KoZen, but from another professional who has a lot of experience with this.

As a caveat for those who might think I'm looking for teaching examples for free, I promise I'm not. Just really want to help out. Same disclaimer about time. I've already done some mark up on rdamico's CV on crocodoc if you want to take a look at some of my quick remarks on his.
authors blog post:
http://dhruvbird.blogspot.com/2010/09/very-fast-approach-to-...

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So, in how many years do you think copyright-trolls and patent-trolls will finally kill the internet?
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I find learning new programming languages stimulating. Or re-learning old ones.
Thanks everyone for your emails, I've gotten 150+ people emailing me so far. I'm trying to work my way through them as fast as I can, but it may be a day or two before I respond to you. I'm seeing some interesting patterns emerge, I'll post a lessons learned type thing in a few days.
I wish laptops would go back to 4:3 aspect ratio. The trend for widescreen leaves me wanting for more vertical space. 800px or 900px vertical is too short and requires more scrolling. Yet, it's not wide enough to really fit 2 application windows side by side.

It's only really good for movies. Certainly not good for web browsing unless you want to read long sentences across the screen.
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You're wrong.

>>Silicon Valley can be just as nasty as Hollywood, but that's not everyone.

Hollywood's not everyone. There are thriving filmmaking communities in just about every large city on earth. They don't all have the same mass appeal as Hollywood vehicles, just as small town startups rarely have the same appeal as Silicon Valley companies, but they're there, and they're vibrant. Furthermore, the very definition of avant-garde cinema is, to some degree, "let's do this just do this just to do it".

>>There isn't exactly a large and thriving open source film making movement out there.

It's called independent film, and the number of participants has skyrocketed in the last decade. Sure, they fantasize about it becoming a major hit like Paranormal Activity, just as every startup founder and his iguana fantasizes about being Google. But that doesn't mean they aren't making movies just cos they like making them.
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Wow. This is an amazing offer of service. A SaaS company I just launched (https://www.seqcentral.com) could use some UX/UI help on the internal application pages. To see the internal pages, you can simply create a free account. The jobs/dbs/collabs pages are all similar and a common layout/theme would help immensely. Send me an email if you need more info.
You're no longer the center of your own universe. It's really fun 85% of the time. You will have your patience tried in ways you can't possibly imagine (for example, you haven't yet experienced 18 months of sleep deprivation, and no, college and/or your startup isn't the same thing). If you're doing it with a significant other, it will seriously test the strength of that relationship.
I've been thinking about that lately. Consider the companies that the article compares them to in the consumer market: Google, Facebook, and Apple.

Google and Facebook identify individuals, track personal details of their lives to a degree beyond what most individuals can imagine, and then generate revenue by using those personal details. Apple on the other hand, as a hardware company generates revenue through planned obsolescence (and Apple is moving more and more toward consumer data collection as a major source of revenue).

For each of them one might argue that there is a misalignment between the revenue model and important long term interests of consumer. The problem for consumer oriented companies is that the easiest source of increased profits is simply raising the price of your products (reduced operating expenses are bounded by zero, increasing market share in mature markets is expensive, and creating new markets is very high risk).

Conversely, to a large degree, Microsoft makes products and provide services which contribute to their business customer's bottom line. This puts them in an entirely different position in relation to the consumer market, because their sales increase as with the economic expansion of their customers (a unique advantage of B2B sales over consumer sales).

Unlike Chrome, Microsoft doesn't send every keystroke in the IE address bar back to a server to be analyzed with the intent of targeting their customer. When you register your copy of Office, you're not encouraged to list your children with their ages and to post pictures of them on the web. And you can load up your copy of Office 97 in a Win95 virtual machine on a new Windows 7 system. Their B2B revenue model requirement that Microsoft align its interests with the long term interests of its customers carries over to their consumer markets.

I see Microsoft in the unique position to differentiate itself as "the company which protects consumer privacy." The requirements are not all that difficult, some changes to Bing, a realignment of Internet Explorer toward user anonymity, and proper positioning of WinPhone7. What's more, all these are things which are in the interest of many of their B2B customers and none would have meaningful negative impact on Microsoft's bottom line.
A little off-topic here, but it kind of puzzles me why MongoDB gets so much attention and the other half of FourSquare's stack: Scala/Lift, that scales just fine, and has not given them problems at all gets hardly any attention.
How can I get a job in Japan?
Hi!

I study marketing in Mexico and I'll be done with college in 2 years. For the most part I've worked doing marketing for tech-startups (I think it's amazing how much I learned on startups than on big companies). My goal is to get a job doing marketing in Japan (not teaching english nor spanish) in two years.

I'm half japanese so I have the citizenship but I'm still learning the language.

So what should I do these two years to achieve my goal?
Web dev, GIS, scientific, networking, machine learning, maybe some games. I agree on similar libraries in various langs, though I think community culture counts for a lot. I think the various runtimes for python is a particular strength.
I know you only have a limited amount of time to help others learn, so you can't take on any more pupils. Would you be willing to document your instruction and work it in to a syllabus of some sort for the rest of us? I'm gonna start with the reading you recommended. Thanks!
Given the "web-scale" and SaaS trend, I'm actually surprised that you don't have more comments here (or maybe you just got a lot of emails). Anyhow, I would be happy to have a second-opinion of my "MP" portion now that my company (https://www.seqcentral.com) has launched.
Worth reading, thanks. But it faults her for Lucent's strategy of pushing new products into the market by financing small companies to buy and operate them. Not only was it approved by the market, it was a sound strategy.

Lucent was continually developing new networking equipment with a particular service model in mind, but AT&T was sluggish in deploying them. So they found ambitious small companies and hooked them up with equipment on time payment plans. Generally they ran the service better than the telcos would have, and it created lots of great companies.
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Use the only Richard Stallman approved computer, which also happens to be a netbook! http://www.lemote.com/en/products/Notebook/2010/0310/112.htm...

See: http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/
I just bought the latest asus netbook, its an intel duo core, they have just been released two months ago(i think). It has 250gb and 1gb ram. I run a dual partition ubuntu/windows 7 and i run netbeans to do some programming. I really love it and forget to log onto my home laptop when i get home, also the 1 gig ram seems fine so far but i will upgrade it this week to 2gigs. I actually debated between an ipad and a netbook and after playing around with a friends ipad i chose this netbook for $350.
I'm glad MBP17 is wide. 1920x1200, ticks all the boxes. No, it's not too big or heavy, remember that the MBP15 is 15.4".

All Mac users should also do themselves a favour and set their Dock to auto-hide.
I have a HP mini 5102, and spend 3 hours a day on it doing web dev - I find it awesome.
Resolution is 1366x768 so you don't get too squashed in.
It has 3G built in as well and the battery life is safe for probably 5 hours (meant to be 8 maybe)
The keyboard is almost natural size, and it has enough grunt to keep a few things open (lets not kid ourselves, but it does better than I expected).
I use an Asus Eee PC 1005HA, it's inexpensive and very lightweight, perfect for working from anywhere. Great autonomy too!

With a resolution of 1024x600 the screen is not very big but I use xmonad (a tiling window manager written in Haskell) which maximize the available surface. I also only use command line apps and it makes everything extremely fast.

xmonad + vim make me very productive and if I want more power I just log on another computer by ssh and it's completely transparent!