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Ask HN: Do I let my brother take over as CTO?
So I'm going to start by explaining my experience with coding and/or computers in general before I go on to my question. I've been a Computer Technician for a few years and I've had a computer my entire life, and I've been tinkering with computers in general for as long as I've had any (Kindergarten). I started programming early last year, and I audited a course at UCDavis over the summer (ECS30). I'm currently 15. I learn fairly fast with these things and I've put an enormous amount of time into this idea.

Last night, I finished designing the UI of the idea, and this morning I called my brother because I had a question relating to the class diagram. My brother didn't answer that question, and instead told me he had watched the Social Network last night, and it made him want to work on this with me. I had asked him awhile ago to work on it, and he said no because of school. He had about two weeks off because he had just graduated from UCDavis (with a bachelors in Computer Science and BioTech) and he agreed to work on it with me. At the end of those two weeks he decided not to work on it with me because he had just gotten a job at Autonomy. He knows Java, C, C++, and Python. He now wants to work on it, but under a condition. That condition being he takes care of the technology side of things, mostly because I don't know any other languages than .NET/Mono/Silverlight. This means that I'm going to have to learn Java and PHP, and as he's doing the coding for the project I'm going to be spending the time playing catch-up and as a result end up making considerably less contributions. I personally think that I have more to contribute to this project in the idea itself than he does, but he knows how to code well. I can learn to code well, it will just take more time. My question is should I let him take over as CTO?
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This guy needs to spend a few more years in this industry, he will realize that as long as your résumé doesn't contain typos, nobody cares what it looks like. Hell, I even review résumés that are text files. The faster I can access it and read the important stuff, the happier I am. I couldn't care less if it's using TeX, LaTeX, Word, PDF or HTML, and I will probably even ding you if you brag because you used LaTeX to write it, because you're using tools that are twenty years old.
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"there is some chance of the jobs being created in America"

Wow, so we have to pin our hopes on a chance that American companies will throw us a couple pity jobs in America _maybe_?

We need a term describing the labor equivalent of "regulatory capture"; something that describes our collective misguided hope that corporations will somehow give us back "our jobs".

I think everyone should just try to start a business. Seriously, everyone who is out of work or underutilized in some job they are completely overqualified for should just start any kind of hare-brained scheme or hustle or side-somethingorother. Move if you have to, to some tax-advantaged or microscopic cost-of-living state. Anything has to be better than {un|under}employment or working under the thumb of an employer who not only knows but (perhaps) relishes in the workload they can continue to offload on you because they know you can't leave in this environment.

To heck with getting "our country back", we need our individual (and collective) dignity back.
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Certainly not everyone has the opportunity to be a lawyer.

However, any software engineers with the skill to be employee #1 at a startup has the ability to start a company (perhaps a more modest one than the one they are joining).
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While this does not answer your current question, I guess it could be of some use to you:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2232698
It's the hot-button issue in immigration politics and they would obviously be the biggest beneficiary of an open border policy.
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Sure, they can ask.

Do you background checks the GOOD old-fashioned way, and get some actual results. Or, waste your time in someone's facebook account they set up specifically for you to check for this job interview.
If his résumé is so good, why isn't it available on his web site?

"Contact me by email and let me know a good reason you'd like to see it and I'll be happy to send a copy along to you."

Sure, I will try to convince you that I want to see your résumé because your skills look like a good match for a position I'm trying to fill. Except I don't know your skills because... I don't have access to your résumé.

Talk about some ego.
In many cases the founders have a different type of stock (preferred vs common). In those situations there is no ambiguity about who is a founder.

In other cases, the best definition of the founder is if you joined when there was no company.
I'm uncomfortable with the idea that a government job† should demand a Facebook login, because I generally feel like they (a) should be held to a higher standard, (b) involve the people's relationship with the government, which is inherently adversarial, and (c) have an outsize impact on the standards and practices used in the private sector --- so "if it's ok at the DoC, it must be OK at Bank of America".

On the other hand, in the private sector, I don't see how this is any of our business. Should employer be "allowed" to "ask" for Facebook logins? You mean, should employers be "disallowed" from asking? Of course not. And candidates should say "no" if they don't want to give the login up. Employment in the US is at will, and outside of race, nationality, religion, gender, &c, hiring is totally at the discretion of the company.

†(at least, one that doesn't require clearance)
Citizenship has no bearing on German university entrance requirements. For almost all Bachelor programmes you need German. As an English speaker it's not that hard to learn, I met a med student last month who was accepted provisionally, conditional on acceptable TestDaF results and went from no German to sufficient to study medicine in three months (of 8 hours a day, 5 days a week study.)

Note that most US high school diplomas will not get you into a German university, you need APs or community college credits. I am guessing that it would get you into a Fachhochschule[1] (again, you would need German) which grants Bachelor degrees, but is more vocational than the Universities.

[1]"University of Applied Sciences" is an abombinable translation, which tells you nothing, but it's the official translation.
This video kind of makes you wonder if people are really saying these things cause they mean it or if they are just being watched and have to act a certain way to reap the benefits of being a firm party supporter. Benefits like living in Pyongyang and actually having food and shelter. I feel that it's probably the latter in like 99% of cases.

My father in communist Poland wasn't able to do the research he wanted at his university at Poland cause he wasn't in the party. He cursed out his professor and called him a communist and got kicked out and had to transfer schools. Calling someone out as a communist was a slur against them because those reaping in party benefits were seen as betraying their own country.

I feel like it's a similar case in NKorea. You have to act that way cause your neighbors will tell the authorities about any signs of disloyalty and the family will disappear (into a re-education camp.) I think that's why these people on the videos when they are interviewed really chose their words carefully and make anything they say an attempt to glorify the dear leader. Their eyes give them away though. I feel like everyone is aware of it -- the conditions in their country vs the west, but they live in fear of expressing their own opinions so they just shut up and go about their lives.
People are over-moralizing this. Why do CEOs get paid so much? Why are salesmen often better paid than engineers? Does a ditch-digger deserve less money than a lawyer? The market is basically amoral. People get what they can get, not what they 'deserve'. Founders get more money because they have ownership, and in a capitalistic system profits accrue to capital. There's no point in constructing an elaborate moral architecture to justify how a social structure developed to maximize financial gain also somehow optimizes for socially-desirable outcomes.
Right, but the desktop web apps typically did not require any access to hardware devices such as the webcam. If they did, Flash solved that problem and we all know what direction that model is heading into.

Mobile apps are interesting because of the access to GPS, camera, accelerometer etc. Until all hardware is accessible through HTML5 providing an excellent UX, the app trend will continue in my view.
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For the exact same reason you might one day need 50 programmers in any language: if your company flourishes.

What makes Clojure so special that you'll never need that many?
I'd like to have an app on my iPhone that gave me the ability to search local store inventory.

Not sure if it's like this everywhere, but one thing I like about the local Borders vs. the local Barnes and Noble is that Borders has kiosks around the store where I can search to see if a book is in-store, and can order it from there if it isn't.
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Does anyone else find the assumption that wage is somehow linearly proportional to 'value' completely ridiculous?
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And while some place great value in "holding a book in their hands" as a way to evaluate it as a good purchase, I've long since found more value in AMZN reviews and links to "related books you might like" (both on the AMZN book pages as well as in customer reviews). These are way more valuable to me than trying to speed read in the store to get a feel for the goodness of a book (this has often proven faulty, at least for me). To say nothing of the terribly limited selection in any retail store...

So I skip B&N and Borders retail stores altogether (even though there is a Borders store 1 block from my workplace, at least for now). AMZN Prime rules! (and I am just a customer).
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Evil?

I just want a book. If they are charging for ambiance they should do it directly. Coffee shops do this well.
Delicious has tagging -- and does automatic tagging -- but Google Bookmarks doesn't. That's a dealbreaker for me. And yes, I tried google bookmarks again because of this import, this feature is still missing. Google Bookmarks has 'labels' based on the folder that I have arranged (a few of) my bookmarks into, but I lose the ability to sort by the tags that Delicious has set.

I agree, Google Bookmarks is clearly a neglected service.
They spend less per capita on university students than on high school students, have something verging on universal access, and, looking at their economy, get approximately similar value out of the education system as the USA for much, much lower expenditure, and that's a disaster?

Sure, university is not as much fun or as luxurious as in the states, but what is actually wrong with the French system for French society? Note, I did not say for French students or French academics.
vb.ly's slogan was “the internet's first and only sex-positive url shortener”

vb.ly was focused was on adult material.

Bit.ly specifically forbids adult material.
This is comparing apples to oranges; you don't lose the possession of software when you share it.
> The smartest woman is way smarter than the smartest man.

> Coke is in fact better than Pepsi.

No no no.
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This is why I restricted my original statement to YC-style startups. A capital intensive startup that someone invests their life savings into at age 45 is entirely different than a software startup founded on a shoestring budget by new college grads. I don't think the latter is particularly risky, which is why there are so many more of them than even 10-15 years ago.
cloudsigma stand out only by their rampant self promotion.

They're just using some off-the-shelf iaas software. there are a few platforms using it and they all have the same features.
I know of two active stackexchange sites for startups: http://startups.com and
http://answers.onstartups.com

To compete I think you'll need a better design and really good content. Just seeing one "test questions" is not a good first impression. Good luck!
Not to mention the performance penalty you'll pay by trying to process that data (camera images, video feeds, accelerometer data) in Javascript.

Some types of apps might work okay as a mobile web app (Facebook comes to mind), but there are definitely many native apps that simply aren't feasible to do in HTML5.

Can you imagine Word Lens being implemented as a web app? Yeah, I didn't think so.
This reminds me a bit of Scientology's policy of collecting and archiving secret information from their members, so that threats of blackmail could be made later on if needed.

I think a good solution to this situation is to in turn request the screener/interviewer's credentials. After all, it's no big deal right?
What do think about the idea of pivoting, and making it a board to display YC/Seedcamp-like questionnaires?
That is pretty much why I said "most". There are some legitimate native apps out there. You named one.
It's too bad that the future of Qt is so uncertain right now, Qt Quick/QML was actually shaping up to be a decent toolset.

It is still quite immature right now: they really need to put together a standardized UI component set ala UIKit, and the documentation is sorely lacking, but there is a lot of potential in QML that I would hate to see wasted.
The Barnes & Noble app does have this feature. I've used it before. You can even reserve the books when it finds them.
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Does this mean all those idle devs will have time to address the Qt/embedded bugs that have been open for 2+ years?

I'm not holding my breath.
37 Signals has followed a "market by sharing" strategy since the beginning.

They have no sales force or advertising and yet manage to create entertaining, educational and valuable content in a variety of formats that gets spread throughout the web and garners them valuable distribution.

The idea is to share everthing that's in and around your domain. For instance, a small web design shop could create content on the following topics:

* How to write a killer proposal
* How to close sales
* Design tips for small businesses
* Mobile strategy for small businesses
* Is Groupon worth it?
* Web site tips
* etc

Most businesses will never achieve the reach that 37 Signals has - for obvious reason. Not all of us could invent Ruby on Rails. However, I think every small business and startup can implement the strategies used by 37 signals - share everything, including your secret sauces and recipes just like chefs do, and you'll increase reach and decrease user acquisition costs.
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I sent a resume in ascii, resume.txt, to a company's HR dept.

They asked me to send them a .doc Word version.

I changed the suffix on my file from .txt to .doc, sent them essentially the exact same file. It opened for them in Word because of the suffix, they were happy and I was then interviewed and hired.

That still makes me smile, these many years gone by.
To answer the question: No.

... That alone isn't going to derail the Facebook juggernaut, but it might slow down people's engagement on the site as they realize maybe a private, unknown email account is a better way of sending sensitive messages.

That isn't going to happen either. It's like saying that because people are aware that smoking is a cause of cancer they'll only smoke half a cigarette.
There's no problem moralising it while keeping in mind that the current system indeed is amoral. I think the point is whether it should be.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that no job worth doing is worth less than any other job, but I recognise there's “some” ways to go before that thought becomes in any way mainstream again…
And WebKit != WebKit. The fragmentation of WebKit versions (and bugs) on different mobile phones is a growing problem:

http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit_mobile.html
Why did Borders Tank and B&N not?
Do you refuse contributions (bug fixes/enhancements) the ownership of which is not explicitly assigned to you? What is the license status of those changes?
In what way do coffee shops do a better job of "directly" charging for their ambiance than bookstores do of charging for the ability to walk in and browse anything in the store? I really can't work out what you're trying to say here.
i think...you have a ways to go.
It's a shame that people are so desperate for jobs and willing to sacrifice privacy for the illusion of security; if it weren't so, things like this would never have a chance to become real problems, because everyone would just walk out of the interview at that point. The interviewers would report to their superiors, "Everyone is running full-speed in the opposite direction when we ask for their Facebook password," and the policy would be changed almost immediately.
Of course it's our business, the difference between fringe cases and common procedure is whether we're willing to put up with the practice. And don't pretend that the prospective employer has no power over the applicant.

Additional nitpick: Employment statuses are generally determined at the state level.
i don't see any problems with "I don't know any other languages than .NET/Mono/Silverlight" if it gets the job done.

Execution matters more than what programming language it is.
Don't switch programming languages to suit somebody else.

That doesn't actually answer your question, but it is something you should think about.
Of course I can imagine Word Lens being implemented as a web app. Perhaps not at this moment, but within 5 years? And what about technologies like NaCl? It is shortsighted to take such a view of applications that exist within a browser.
I think that a large part of your reaction may be that since you are away from home, you only have exposure to the more sensational / noteworthy news, which will tend to not reflect great things about what's going on.

I also found that when I was in China for a while in 2009, the 12 hour time different made America feel very, very far away, and things seemed even stranger and weirder as a result - but maybe that was just me. It made things seem feel out of touch not only by distance, but time as well.

These caveats aside, there are plenty of awful things going on in the USA right now, and huge systemic problems which are unfortunately not being approached in serious fashions. This being said, it's level of 'broken-ness' is probably not particularly greater than it was, say, last year, or the year before.
I've used Office too, and currently use 2010. I've also used OOo, and I'm sorry but it's really not competitive. If you haven't used Office since 97 (three or four versions ago) then I don't know how you can justify having an opinion how OOo/LO compare.
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Huh? I've never been in a coffee shop that 'charged for ambiance' "directly" as you put it. They charge me $4 for a cup of coffee that probably costs about $1, plus a few minutes of someone's time to make it. They let me sit in their trendy digs and drink said coffee.

Bookstores - they give you the convenience of getting it right then as opposed to ordering from online and waiting. You're paying for the convenience.

You obviously wanted/needed the book right then, so pay the $1.50 extra. You wasted a hell of a lot more than $1.50 of fuels between you driving back to the store and Amazon shipping it probably halfway across the country to your doorstep.

WTF.

edit: "I just want a book." No... you wanted a cheaper price on a book but you also wanted it right now. You can't have both (unless perhaps you want to pick up the latest Sarah Palin bestseller from WalMart). Pick which is more important to you - price or speed. Buy accordingly. Don't abuse the retail store. And don't give me the "they have a policy in place to return stuff." Policies like that are getting changed/eliminated/reduced because of people like you. You want to save 8% on your purchase? Buy from Amazon and wait 2-3 days.
> My question is should I let him take over as CTO?

I say remove the word "CTO" or any other 3-letter acronym that starts with C from your lexicon for now. Can he be your partner -- that is, can you depend on him and be open and honest with him?

> told me he had watched the Social Network last night, and it made him want to work on this with me

Yikes.
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This seems a little naive to me. Google requires you to be logged into a Google account to access the OS. Given that fact they'll have access to everything the user does. So the opportunities to make a profit are endless to the point of being terrifying. They'll be able to datamine your entire Computing experience and they'll have the computing power to combine that with data from other people. "Hey Ford, want to sell some cars? By looking at people's browsing history and calendar appointments we can tell you the hightest concentration of people who need cars will be in these locations at these times"

In that context fees like the $50 a year for Google Apps seem insignificant
I completely agree that the group-specific discussion is pretty useful.

I slightly disagree about crossposting not being a problem. On major issues that populate multiple Reddits, it gets cumbersome to see the same headline used on multiple Reddits, such as say Reddit.com/WorldNews/News. It's the only way to get around the lack of a tagging system. How does one choose which discussion to follow? It's easier for me to look at comments in one 'thread' about one incident or specific story rather than four or more, especially when the same arguments/observations are made.

On AskReddit, people post a lot of questions that should be in other subreddits but it's still upvoted anyway. Some do this because the applicable subreddit's aren't discoverable and so they don't know they exist. Others do it because AskReddit has such a vast number of subscribers more than the related sub-reddits.

With tagging, it's also easier to discover new communities/tags. How do I discover a new Reddit outside of hearing some person in the comments talk about something? With tagging it's clear as day.
Great... Listening on my iPad to the podcast on Craps and then I look at comments and see it is serving up malware?

BTW, longest podcast intro music ever and the guy speaking sounds like Seth Rogen
I completely agree but I haven't done any real underlying code yet. I've completely designed all of the UI in Silverlight, and there are somethings I don't like about that, i.e all users have to have Silverlight installed, and even with a roughly 50% install base that still leaves the other 50% to install it, which some people won't want to do and overall just reduces the maximum number of users. But I didn't want to go ahead and jump on the bandwagon to learn PHP or ASP.NET because I think Silverlight is better than all of those. It has almost everything this needs out of the box and I can develop for it for free with DreamSpark. My real main issue with my brother working with me on this is that we completely disagree on what to use to code it. I do agree that a normal website would be nice but to get the same level of power and clean user-interface would be a huge amount of work and time.
I don't think your analogy works. Sure, half a cig doesn't make sense, but you can have a facebook account without handing over trusted information.
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