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Yes, the gold standard is employee referrals. Pretty much every company we've spoken to has told us they're the best source of people, but they don't get enough of them.

Part of what makes them so good is that the person making the recommendation (i.e., the employee) knows both parties well. I think we have a good start to solving half this problem, since we're developing real relationships with the companies and being selective about whom we work with. The other half -- actually getting to know the people applying -- is probably the biggest challenge we face (next to meeting/finding people in the first place).
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I work in healthcare and while I might be incorrect, this is my understanding of the situation.

Medicare is the largest payer of insurance claims by far. Medicare also has a lot of rules. One of these rules is that, in order to prevent providers from shortchanging Medicare, they have to charge everyone the same price (otherwise medicare would be overpaying....). Medicare will then pay 80% of the indicated amount and the rest is covered by medigap insurance, Medicaid, or by the patient.

As you might imagine, the lack of ability to price discriminate, even to patients, hugely distorts the market.
However, private insurers have gotten around this (how I don't totally understand), by using what is called the contractually "allowed amount". This is an agreement that the provider will write off the variance between the allowed amount and the billed amount. This results in de facto price discrimination for large insurers while getting around the medicare law. Patient's don't have this kind of gig.

Of course, there are tons of other corruptions and inefficiencies in the system. I could tell you a story about a friend who once worked for NY Medicaid who was actively prevented from working to prevent the state from going bankrupt by paying claims.

I don't have the answers, but there is serious distortion of the market ATM.
I worked in R&D for one of the largest agricultural seed producers in the world for 3.5 years and I'd like you to know that there is no need to worry about food. Using hybrid breeding techniques, corn has gone from an average of 40 bushels/acre to 180 bushels/acre in the past 60 years. And the bulk of that gain was simply from traditional breeding techniques - they've just barely cracked the door on using genetic data to make better/more informed seed selection and advancement. The industry is currently averaging a gain of 4 bushels/acre per year and that is only going to accelerate with the massive amount of money that is being plowed into marker analysis.

And it isn't going to stop with corn either. Big-Ag is expanding BIG into Asia, South America and to a lesser degree Africa and a lot of awesome work is being done on Rice, Canola, Sunflower and Sorghum. Those crops will be making some major gains in the next 10 years.

Don't let the Malthusians scare you, everything is going to be alright.
I also have U-verse here in Austin. It isn't great, and the DVR is pretty sad compared to Tivo, but it beats the PANTS off Time Warner cable. The ability to record 4 shows simultaneously is killer.
Apparently the local police do their bidding. Perhaps you heard about:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20003446-37.html

Widely denounced as unjust.
If you could allow me to receive fax with the same kind of pricing, that'd be awesome.

Whenever someone ask me for my fax number, I start sweating. It rarely happens, but when it happens, I'm stuck.

Let me buy a "disposable" fax number for 12-24 hours for $2. I don't want to pay monthly for something that I rarely use, but I'd be happy to pay a flat fee to receive a document.
Hm. What I was referring to was how current US Social Security benefits are paid for by current workers, and, generally, how insurance is based precisely on the notion that there are healthy young people paying into a system that they don't use to its extents. Not sure if the OP was saying that or not.
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That's known as "Mock Tudor" around here.
They certainly have in parts of California.
I love to get feedback from peers to help improve or position the business concept. But the fist 10-100 clients will be the best feedback. Go get them.
I always tend to think of LISP as following a Von Neumann architecture where there is no difference between code and data and non-LISP derived languages as Harvard architecture where there are distinct differences between code and data.
If anyone wants to set it up, get in touch.

I write a free auction/marketplace WordPress plugin (called Prospress) that could be used to set up a working prototype in a couple of hours.
Yeah, I definitely understand that point of view as it makes a lot of sense.
Well, if you "follow" PG (read latest essays + other interviews, watch Startup School videos, etc.) then you have a pretty decent idea of what changed. The only major thing I can think of is that the investment landscape is now more in the favor of the founders rather than investors. The other thing that changed is the lower bound on the age. That essay says "23", and I think that changed to "as soon as you can enter contracts on your own".
Actually I used to use my cell even when I had a watch.

Looking at my watch is a little too obvious, but I can pull my phone out to quickly -- I could be looking at the time, or expecting an urgent message from a family member, or maybe something really important was said during the meeting that I want to write a quick note ...
I left 19 behind a long time ago; I haven't worn a wrist watch in years, and hated wearing one for many years before that.
We have vaguely similar, but smaller versions, of the system you are talking about in the US. They are called "self insured entities" and are typically companies that bankroll their employees directly. They typically hire a professional insurance company as a "Third Party Administrator" to handle administering claims. I am unsure as to their efficacy, although scale certainly affects their performance.
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Yes, a thousand times, yes. This is great, I hate having to dig up a fax machine when I want to fax something. Unless I can find one at an office, I have to go to Kinkos, because I don't even have a phone line.
Hey, email me at dbeyer@chart.io and I'll hook you up :)

Cheers,

David
I think PG is already the agent that hacker-preneurs want representing them. His role reminds me a lot of Scott Boras in baseball.
Marco’s analysis is sane & pursuasive. It's a much better response than the Readability team’s rant.

Clear heads will win this fight.
Hah, that would be awesome. I would love an agent.
If I don't like someone's indenting I just reflow the piece of code. No biggie. These kind of rules are what turns me off of corporate gigs. It eventually leads to having to type .equals() instead of = (or == if you use an imperative language). Or the banning of the ternary operator.
It's time for wristwatches to get dumber..'cause they are just fashion accessories.
the hiring business of engineers is big money. This isn't anything new and its sad to such good engineers chase theall mighty dollar instead of building something of real value.
Meh, watches are jewellery unless you're a pro athlete, or SEAL, or something. Touch-screen diamond earings make about as much sense to me.
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Please explain the difference between 'real value' and that which someone is willing to pay money for? In my world 'real value' is when people pay you.
If only doctors were as easy to grow as carrots...
That is subjective. You can feel it is bloated, but I would call it handy and expressive.
The "IT'S SO DAMN LONG NOBODY CAN UNDERSTAND IT AND THEY SHOVED IT DOWN OUR THROATS SO FAST" is just a tactic to try and sway people who haven't been following in detail to be against it.

Yeah, well what you said is just a tactic to try and sway people to think what you believe. See where that line of reasoning goes?

I do engineering for government contracts. The spec for the system I work on covers thousands of pages. I've read about 6" thick worth of it

I've read and implemented big specs too and I know how much work they take to produce. And I know darn well it wasn't some committee of smart and well-intentioned elected representatives that wrote it.

then they drill down into exactly what kind of thread you can have on a fastener and exactly how you are allowed to stress a weld for the next 1,000 pages. But it stems from previous experiences and errors, and it leads to a better product (though a more expensive one).

Are you seriously claiming the health care bill is so big because it's a precise engineering document which "stems from previous experiences and errors, and it leads to a better product"?

If so, how much does 10,000 pages of high-quality engineering documentation cost to produce?

Who do you think paid for it?

I think you're just imagining that it's what you want it to be.
Cool, but this won't stop these fanatics.
In 2005, after seeing this map in the NY Times, I tried to figure out a way and asked everyone I knew:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/06/15/business/arm3...

My excuse was: it wasn't clear how to, there's always a timing issue (it's not necessarily enough to know it's inevitable, you gotta know when), and it's hard when you don't have a lot of other people's money to play with.

The answer to how it was done is in Michael Lewis's book, The Big Short. After learning how that guy did it, I don't feel so bad for not figuring it out.
People expect to have root access to their computers. That has always been the standard and Apple can't change it. People don't generally expect to have root access to their phones. Apple is largely responsible for establishing that standard.
I think it highly depends on the delivery. I've mentioned this in another comment lower in the thread. Basically, had he contacted Valve and informed them about security the flaws and then shared the source code with Valve to show/prove the potential danger (instead of the guy who leaked it,) I don't think it's totally unreasonable for Valve to hire him on to the security team after he truly demonstrates skill and passion for the company.
Might this offer be extended to other HNers? :)
I've generally found that competitive compensation packages overcome these issues. Especially if you post the numbers in the job description. (This isn't meant personally just a reflection of what I've seen in the industry)

Also, if you're hiring put it in your profile. I see lots of jobs on catch.com but nothing in your HN profile.

As well...
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sof?query=catch.com&s...

It's free so why not put post an ad? Or is SF the place where they charge for that? (I'm in Vancouver so it's free to post a job ad in CL here)
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No, but if you can make it back to the UK you'd be covered, but you'd still have to pay for any sort of treatment you had abroad. You'd be broadly covered within Europe if you're from the UK.
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I upvoted you, but that won't let others know which part of your comment I liked (the "Goodbye Fax Machine, HelloFax!" part), hence this reply.
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Every time someone asks me to fax I have this same problem. Though it is normally a paper form someone has given me to fax, and without a scanner I would still be stuck.
"All developers use only iStore for any end user transaction"

This isn't the case. The only state that you must offer the ability to buy in the app and they get 30% of that charge. You can still collect payment outside of the app on your website as well.
FWIW, I went to the Web site that Massachusetts residents use to find affordable health-care programs. For someone of my age and zip code buying insurance for just myself, the premiums started at $272. (In Massachusetts just about everyone must have health insurance and insurers may not discriminate based on pre-existing conditions. Households making less than triple the Federal poverty rate get subsidized plans.)

https://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/site/connector/
Is this the start of a Mac-lash?
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it would be disappointing if these companies don't stand together and stand firm. If everyone moves over to the other platforms, people will come.
The US government spends $793B on medicare & medicaid, and give $215B in tax deductions for health insurance. This total $1.008 trillion/yr on healthcare costs, which totals $3272/per capita/yr.

Japan spends $2249/per capita on healthcare. The UK spends $2317/per capita on healthcare. Sweden spends $2745/per capita/yr on healtchare. You get the idea.

You are already paying the government for healthcare. You pay higher taxes to offset the loses for the health insurance deduction. The IRS collects medicare along with the Social Security.

However, you don't get the healthcare you pay for. Instead, you have to pay again to actually get healthcare. In some countries, they call this a bribe. However, America has institutionalized it.
Anyone remember the boat duplication bug in Ultima II? I had hundred of ships that I made to make bridges all across the world and would retreat to the ships when fighting as well.

I cant recall though, how I made the dupe ships....
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People should be be happy with their jobs. In our experience, this is frequently not the case, even for great engineers. We want to change that.

We're specifically being selective about the companies we work with. This keeps us honest, since we'll never be in a position where it's in our best (short-term) interest to recommend that someone takes a lousy job.

And, of course, we would like to someday stop living off our savings.
It's not, I do all work in a separate space.
Price-fixed health care may be a bad idea, but I don’t think it would be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court retreated from that whole line of interpretation during the New Deal; in the early 1970s, wage and price controls were instituted by that notorious socialist, President Richard M. Nixon.
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From your phrasing, I assume you're talking about the physical postures (asanas) when you say yoga. The physical postures are a part of yoga, but yoga is a more complete system including meditation and other practices. Of course everyone has their own ideas about what constitutes yoga, if you ask 10 different people, you'll probably get 10 different answers, but I think it's important to understand that yoga is a whole system of interdependent practices designed and tuned over a very long period of time. In my opinion, the meditation practices are the main or major vehicle of yoga with the rest of the practices providing the necessary support to be able to attain a "higher" or "deeper" level of meditation.

That's not to say you can't focus on one part, and if you feel you're benefiting from just the postures, then more power to you and good luck.

My point isn't to say my definition of yoga is the correct view, but I think it's a shame that many people misunderstand yoga as being simply a form of physical postures.
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Since it was my meta-comment that spawned this sub-thread, I'd like to clarify that I don't think your comment was derisive or snide or bad. My point was that the original comment was more informative than your reply, and at that point your reply was more upvoted than the original comment.
This isn't a good summary of the law as it is, and it isn't a good summary of how the law should be.
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There is massive debate still going about the Taubes' arguments against 'calories in - calories out'. There is a lot of evidence in support of 'calories in - calories out' and it is way too early to conclude that if Taubes said so, it must be right.
So when do they actually do CS?
Is it interesting timing that in-app subscription rollout is happening as Steve Jobs is taking a step back? I wonder if this says anything about the potential PR fallout to happen that Steve would handle better than most others just as he did when the iPhone prices were lowered.
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Most of the other comments already voice my reaction to this post. I will only add that a "heads will roll" attitude towards motivating devs on the part of management would prompt me to switch to some other place very fast. Simply saying "you have to do X as well as Y or heads will roll" just sounds like trying to save money on QA and squeezing more work out of devs - who could be putting that time and effort to much better use improving the product.
You could monetize this by charging to see if your SO has used the site
Getting people into the right positions is building something of real value.

Think of how much better our software would be if people were excited about their jobs and genuinely enjoyed the work they're doing, instead of just putting in their 40 hours in a cube farm.
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Best of luck. I have a feeling the incentives for hiring are out of whack and need a correction.

What is your fee structure like? Do you take 25% of what an engineer would make their first year like other recruiters? How will you avoid becoming corrupt like most other recruiters?
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The last time I bought a house we had to fax the contracts back & forth (with the estate agent as middleman, of course) until we agreed. It's not like any of us want to use faxes, but sometimes you have to. And if we hadn't had a fax machine at work, I'd have paid a few dollars for a temporary fax number.

Looks like a promising start. Hope things go well.
Looking back, of course it isn't a lot of money, especially when you consider how well justin.tv is doing and that we have raised millions in VC since then. However, consider that we were thinking we would get nothing initially and would have been happy to get 50k. And that the whole thing jumped 200k in the course of a few hours. I think you'd be excited too ;)
Time to flog my half-bakery link once more, this one for a cell phone or handset integrated into something like the Griffin iSlap:

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Slap_20Bracelet_20Cell_20Phon...

For smartphone use, it probably makes more sense if the thing is a bluetooth handset (possibly with a dialpad) rather than an entire phone.

Advantages:

- You can keep your phone tucked in a bag, so it's less of a theft magnet and isn't microwaving the boys all day.
- The motion you use to take the thing off your wrist leaves it nicely positioned for talking in your dominant hand.
- You avoid both "douchebag with a headset" and "crazy person talking to themselves" syndromes.
- It could display the time, incoming caller ID (somewhere where you can actually read it rather than next to your ear), and with proper device support, incoming emails and text messages.
I hope this goes beyond the software engineering field eventually.
How do all of these DSLs interact in close proximity? Ruby seems to do DSLs via a lenient lexer, rather than an explicit "quoting" mechanism, which means there isn't a way to locally specify a context for its idioms.
Great attitude, almost civil-disobediencesque.
With regard to side projects, the most important category for me is a "the work is challenging" and "time is budgeted for ideas and thoughts". If I'm going to take up a side project, it's not going to be for money. I'd rather learn a new skill or get better at something I already do.
If you reflow the code, what are you going to do when you check it back in to version control?

Are you going to check it in as you've reflown it, with your own indenting? If you do, and the reflowing substantially changed the indents, that could make the change you made harder to diff against (and possibly piss off the guy who's code you've re-indented).

Alternatively, you could indent it back to the way it was before you checked out the code.. that's kind of a pain in the butt, though (even with automatic indenting tools, which don't always get quite everything right).
Hey guys, I love how each page has a clear goal. I'd suggest to add a call to action at the end of this page: http://www.hellofax.com/content/learnMore
Not to mention the world moving with its feet to Android.

A lot of tech people seem to be in love with the iPhone and the press made it seem like the only smartphone in town for a few years there. But realistically I don't think it's ever had more than a minority market share of high end phones.

Apple has historically been very comfortable with a minority share of the market, but I doubt their stockholders will have infinite patience to sit and watch Android eat up its market share _and_ developer mindshare _and_ all the top-brand content provider deals.
mbox.com.au had a great casual plan (pre-paid $10 and then just use as required)

I think they got acquired - I'm not sure what happened to the pre-paid deal... might be still there
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Oh! So it was real? I remember downloading a file called "HL2 Source Code.rar", long time ago, from eDonkey network. Never payed enough attention to it, thinking it was a fake!
You're correct - it was all one big experiment so we threw way more technologies at it than we had to.

http://isitbeerti.me was another experiment of ours on the .NET platform
This will get you 80% of the way there, but some status codes require certain response headers too. We return these too.
Nice! :)

Mostly, we wanted to play with some tech and we came across the domain name httpstat.us which we just thought was cool.
We can't compete with the likes of Facebook when it comes to compensation. There are some crazy stories out there of what they areoffering people.

Isn't a more interesting pitch telling folks that they can reach millions of users with a team that is solving interesting technical problems using pretty bad ass technology?
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+1 We got a chance to use HelloFax very early on, and we never actually sent any taxes - we were using it to sign documents: vastly superior to my old way of scan&convert to PNG, open in Gimp, paste my signature, merge layers, convert to PDF... Ughh. So it's not just about faxing.
You're still getting a 418 response there, just not the right status description.

Varnish is certainly stuffing us up a bit. There's a note about this at the bottom of the page.

If I did this again, I wouldn't deploy it to Heroku for this reason.