skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Remote jobs" may be a larger niche than these discussions seem to assume.

"Remote technical jobs" is a niche that interests me (I found my current remote development job via HN) but "remote jobs" in general makes me think of all the spam email I get to get rich working from home (stuffing envelopes or jebus-knows-what-else). There's a huge difference between the high-powered developer who wants to live someplace beautiful and the out-of-work grocery store clerk who's reading the spam about "make thosandds from the comfort of you're own home" (and the "employers" targeting these people...).

With WheresTheRemote you're possibly shooting yourself in the foot a bit with the name; I wouldn't look to a site seemingly television-related for a technical job (to post one, or to find one). If you're actually looking for remote jobs of the sort that unskilled people can do while watching TV, you'll probably need to make it pretty cheap to post a listing (and regardless, certainly do something to get the ball rolling -- from the text on the front page, it seems like you don't have a single posting).

remote-jobs has some hints on the targeted niche based on the categories on the home page (seems closer to the HN remote listings, though it might help to explain your niche more explicitly).

Another thought on getting the ball rolling (for either site): what you really want is a set of really plum job listings in your niche that you can feature on the front page, and convince job seekers that there are good opportunities here (and job advertisers that they're on a site that is/will be attracting serious prospects). Maybe ask the employers with those great listings to self-select and contact you directly, and you'll post their positions for free?
Having lots of friends who worked in big outsourcing firms in India, and worked myself at a offshore research center for a US company I definitely viewed programmers in the west as better programmers than we were. However, being the US for a couple of years now, I've realized it has a lot more to do with the majority composition of developers in India.

(Of course all of the points below are just what I've seen or felt, and do not apply to everybody.)

New developers working in big outsourcing firms in India:

- Many college graduates who end up in these jobs, are only there because that is the best paying option they found. It is not something they want to do for a long period of time. It's not hard to see that there are not tons of people who are self-motivated to work on piece meal code that belongs to someone else.

- Like in the US, most good developers want some control over the architecture of the code they work on, or want to work on something that they are excited about. This is usually not afforded by the environments in the outsourcing firms. It results in working just for completing the work, and not being very involved in the products.

- Personally I don't think developers in the east are happier just following instructions and not imaginative. Working on different projects every few weeks, without much control over the projects assigned leads many times leads to such behavior. Again, many developers are just looking to do an MBA, move into a project management position, move to the US, or just do something else.

- My friends always talked about those strange people who were content by starting jobs at outsourcing firms. Some of these people really liked development, and were able to handle the lack of control and investment in the result of their work. Others, were more focussed on the money, or external concerns such as loans, marriage etc. These are the people who sometimes are seen as the yes men - working hard, but not smart. However, it's just that their smarts are targeted elsewhere.

- Developers working in outsourcing firms are the ones who come in contact with programmers in the US. The majority of that group, in my opinion, is not really looking to work long time in their position, not interested in development or move away into other areas if they are (or get) better. Only a small portion likes their work, and as mentioned - paid appropriately.

- Thankfully, there is an ecosystem for good developers who want to start their own companies. Also larger companies such as Adobe, Faceboook, Google etc have more equal sharing of responsibility between their US and India centers.

In the bay area most people who work in development roles, really like and want to be doing software development. On the whole, they have more say in the product, architecture and process of development, than developers working in outsourcing firms in India. Also, developers working in companies that value software engineering usually interact with a similar pool of people (which explains the surprise that most 'developers' can't solve FizzBuzz kind questions).
A client's competitor had some strange .edu links. Did some research and they are sold all over, including Fiverr. Here's an example: http://www.fiverr.com/users/originalseo/gigs/20-edu-and-gov-...

P.S.: Don't buy links.
Why does milk at a gas station cost more than at a grocery store?

Because prices for goods are set based on what the market will bear, not on some formula or notion of fairness.
Bootstrapping is accurate and used in many compiler related texts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)
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Alternative viewpoint: CS degree from a prestigious school, but learning a lot that I never would have thought to self-teach myself (and learning in ways different from self teaching).

Some things, like x86 assembly, were just too difficult to self teach (insufficient resources - the existing tutorials just aren't good for a beginner). Others, like compiler design, I just never would have thought to teach myself without the pressure of school.

So I find that the greatest utility of school is forcing me to learn things that I never would have learned before.
Mathematics. Computer science is my second favorite branch of mathematics, though.
and scala, where they also represent symbols
What motivates an early employee to work at a startup?
Stay with a fellow HNer for SXSW
Impressive work and thanks for sharing this. You just made a huge leap with CamanJS. Now, I think I'll focus on writing extensions for it. Funny thing is I was attempting to solve canvas layering and Photoshop-like blend modes, but haven't had time recently to work on it. Excited to see this.
That's a good question.

If you look back in time, you'll definitely find a bunch of non-technical people looking to start technical businesses. Some of them have good track records of churning success out of it too.

Among these "non-technical" people, you'll find that some aren't entirely non-technical and they do understand what it takes to lure their target audience into using/buying what their business sells. For example: I have a cousin, a mechanical engineer, who's always looking to do mobile apps. He doesn't have the skill to develop them himself, but does have sufficient knowledge required to deal with any technical guy and reads a lot (possibilities on the specific platform, understands technical terms like 'Activity' understands that web services called 'APIs' are available for use, etc).

But again there are exceptions, and I guess we've all come across people who just blindly want to develop a GroupOn or Facebook clone, because the original ones were successful. These are the ones I would clearly stay away from by just politely giving them a good reason or try pushing some real business questions into their mind (like "do you have something different to offer?").
I am only familiar with this because a bunch of my friends in college were gay. It is the first thing I thought of when I read "Phrot."
I've been all over the place programming language wise. It's no longer meaningful for me to list them off other than to say what my current specialty is. (Web app dev)

I grew up fairly poor, but my Dad built the computers using parts he begged/borrowed/haggled. Eventually I started working (My first full-time job was at age 13) and taking care of my own hardware since I'd been building with my Dad long enough.
"Feedback Drill Sergeant" perhaps?
Duh, the name has historical name value up the yin yang, and the site gets all sorts of traffic -- especially overseas! A failure to capitalize on this, by re-introducing the name within the industry that it garnered it's success would be a monumental waste of an asset. My suggestion, build an asset behind the name (for Sh*ts sake!).
Day trading, and poker playing. Both require you to be of a type of person that makes one a good entrepreneur - willing to put in long hours and withstand a lot of pain.
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I explored the example subjects you mention without ever having spent a measurable amount of time in post-secondary.

School improves the median quality, and odds of exposure of the candidates.

It's not necessary for that kind of exposure though.
The amazing part of this anecdote is that she didn't declare this to you in person.
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I can SO relate to that one.
The simple answer is that they're going to print them out, so the images should have a sufficient resolution as to not be blurry when they're printed out on sheets of printer paper.
UCLA B.S. in Computer Science. What schools are the other CS majors from?
Almost a business information systems. Half a semester left!
Loved the Anandtech review of the Xoom:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4191/motorola-xoom-review-firs...

He always goes into great detail about display quality, performance and geeky stuff like that. In rendering webpages the Xoom really kicks the iPad's ass. The must be using the latest JavaScript engine from Chrome, together with the dual core CPU, it's amazing how much faster it is. iPad 2 will need some upgraded software and hardware to compete on that front. Altogether a solid device!
This is a blogging platform, not a "hacker-news-like" site.
Common enough that my first reaction to the name was thinking it was some kind of early April fools day joke.
Based the throttling on that exact post.
Awesome things about Smalltalk:

Refactorings which have unlimited "Undo" and "Redo." There's also the "Change Log" which is like a DB transaction log for your code state. You don't even need to think to check in a new branch. (Mostly, you save images when you're done for now, or you want to save log-replay time.)
The degree I got was in Computational Science, not Computer Science. It was focused more on the principles of computation, rather than the electronic implementation of those principles. A few years after I graduated (in '96), it was renamed to Computer Science, to avoid confusing people.
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Why do you want to disable the locking of the exterior doors of your apartment building at night? You still can't legitimately enter your apartment without keys, but observant criminals can come in and force your interior door without worrying nearly as much about passersby.
I'll bite

... what's your favorite?
Great post.

One question I had is whether it ever makes sense to agree to a "no shopping" clause in a letter of intent. This seems to be a big disadvantage because if company A you're dealing with passes or plays hardball, then companies B and C you were previously talking to will assume they passed for a good reason. Is there any reason you can't have multiple parties still competing during a period of due diligence?
It seems to me it would be a lot easier to use EC2 than to setup all the machines in the basement.
Sure - I think the concern applies to any browser becoming seriously dominant and being controlled by a single corporation. We've seen what an effect even a neglected dominant browser can have. Clearly an actively developed one would have an even greater effect.

Simply being able to copy it after the fact wouldn't change the fact that Google would be in control - not forgetting that everyone gets upgraded silently to the latest version whether they like it or not. Just copying features later wouldn't enable anyone to displace it. We are already seeing Google give preferential support for their own browser in their services. Surely this trend will only continue. Moreover what's to stop Google from having a head start taking advantage of browser features they haven't even released yet?

Why would a standards body even be relevant at that point?

I think history shows us quite clearly that a dominant browser has a massive effect on what other people can do with the web. For Microsoft it served their interests in keeping their OS relevant for longer. Why wouldn't Google use that position to serve their own interests?
The elements and everything used during the scroll checks is in fact cached (which you'll be able to verify by looking at those internals you mention) and throttled per my comment below. As another commenter pointed out, the project page itself is full of drop shadows, text shadows, and css3 gradients, and opacity. Those are probably slowing you down way more than the plugin. Do you see the same performance problem from the relatively unstyled examples?
Hi BDClimber - my name is Alex (http://www.about.me/AlexLawrence) and I'm a partner at FundingUniverse. We've actually been on TechCrunch again - here is the link (http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/lendio-helps-small-business...). You'll note from the article we've changed our business model and are called Lendio as a result. You can go to FundingUniverse.com and read about the change too (or follow us on Twitter @Lendio). I'm sorry you had a negative experience - even though we didn't do anything for you. I'm a bit confused what that means, but I'd like to learn more. Would you mind emailing me? Alex@Lendio.com will do the trick. We've tracked $240M+ loans (that we know of, the number is much higher since we didn't use Lendio technology to track loans before). We have hundreds and hundreds of testimonials and thousands of customer feedback forms. We aren't perfect, but only a small percentage of our customers are unhappy. Unfortunately, they are the ones that usually voice complaints online - but just like this one, we communicate directly and openly to see if we can help. I'll watch for your email and hope we can fix any negativity you personally experienced.
If it does take off, I'd be happy to begin subdividing the site into categories in order to help it scale better. By subdividing, there would always be a manageable stream of content within those categories for discovery.

Regarding your point about this not completely eliminating the promotional aspect of gaining a followship, that's not what Phrot is ultimately about. I agree if you really want a followship, you do have to work hard to build it up, and if you're publishing content on a daily basis, that's not what Phrot is for, you can use a wordpress blog or something similar for that. I should also make it clear that we're all about promoting and rewarding good content that wouldn't otherwise be discovered, not giving a chance in the spotlight to everything that gets submitted regardless of how good or bad it is.
As I write this, CS degree is at 103 and Self-taught is the 2nd largest at 53. For the self-taught, would there be a market for courses that cover the entire breadth of a CS degree, but slim it down to the stuff one commonly uses as a programming professional? This would be presented as a web app and as webinars, not for free, but at very low cost. (Perhaps have some sample lessons for free.) I know it's all out there for free, but it takes some gathering to put it all together, and it's material that's best presented in a cohesive way. (Some degree programs don't do that, though.)

Also, as someone with a CS degree, I still picked up stuff on the job, years after getting out of school.
Self taught programmer - 8 or 9 I started BASIC and was doing Borland C and C++ by the age of 14. By then I was into Web development and pivoted over to Javascript, php, and later Java and Objective C.

I have no degree whatsoever and no qualifications in maths or CS.

I've been in the business 12 years, although I do less development these days. I'll be honest - I couldn't tell you how you would design a compiler, or an OS (not at the 'hardcore' level you are talking about).

If you asked me these questions in an interview I'd say as much. I'd also say that for web development I don't think it really matters and I don't feel I'm missing out on much. I'm certainly not going to go to university to learn them at the age of 29. I'm also not going to get a job at Google (not as an engineer anyway) but that frankly doesn't concern me.

I don't feel it has hurt me in terms of my career although granted there are areas of the business I'm never going to cut it in (that's the case for all of us, however).
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Switched from CS to CIS. It's nice to have the business knowledge but I think it's easier to pickup business skills than CS skills. Either way I'm happy.
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Self-taught as well with a strong emphasis on the liberal arts and a special focus on Mathematics. I make it a habit to learn new languages often, particularly esoteric languages (I'm also learning Greek in the natural languages). The self-educational path is more involved than some people tend to think; it really is a replacement for going to college, for me. I've created my own curriculum, read the classics, write essays - proofread them over and over (in lieu of being graded) - do a lot of projects that are relevant to the material I'm studying, etc...

Time can be tough to find when I do this - in general I have a "part time" schedule at night after I'm done working (I've cofounded a startup); I have a history of going through self-education "phases" that usually mean I stop working for a period of months and focus full-time on my study material and personal projects...

Rigor, though, can be an issue sometimes. I'm still working on intensifying my studying in the time that I spend on it.
very nice. the best programmers I've worked with almost all had conservatory degree's :)
Yep. And Haskell shouldn't be compared to anything :P
Not really. Extensions can be part of web apps. They are just code from the web that can run even when you aren't navigated to their origin site.
I hacked up something similar the other day with Smoothie Charts: http://kedge.loggly.com/. I was inspired by Hummingbird though - glad to see it working again!
It's almost as old as me!

But linux is as old as me!
Select CS. I haven't actually finished mine yet either.
What's the deal with all lowercase? Totally unreadable.
I've been using http://Browserling.com for interactive cross browser testing, and I love it. They don't really focus on A/B testing, so it's a different market than optimizely, but I haven't seen anything better for walking through how my site looks than Browserling.
Huh. @koush had this idea a few days ago: http://twitter.com/#!/koush/status/39435576788647936
Haha, wow I get it now. Thank you! I just requested that he answer my question on Quora. Long shot that anything would come of it, I know, but worth trying.
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I can understand all the complains about the facebook api, and they're all very valid, but my use of the facebook javascript API's have been relatively easy, to be honest. The documentation is far from ideal, and you have to figure stuff out by reading the actual response codes instead of trusting the documentation, but in general it all seems to work.

I am just wall posting and uploading photos though, and not doing any real data retrieval. Maybe facebook is more focussed on API's that put stuff in instead of taking things out? ;)
Ars Digita. http://aduni.org/

Lecture videos, homework pdfs.. It's a little more coherent than opencourseware due to the nature of the program.

"ADU was a one-year, intensive post-baccalaureate program in Computer Science based on the undergraduate course of study at MIT."
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Looking forward to check all this out over the weekend.
Interestingly, the psychometric profiles for music and engineering share quite a few characteristics. It's common for engineers to be polymaths, esp with music.
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BFA in Digital Arts. Went in for filmmaking. Bumbled around learning graphic design and slipcasting. Learned to program a microcontroller and write CSS/JS in my last year of school.
Maybe written by a cockroach?
It's around the same age as Java.

According to wiki, both appeared in 1995.
I believe historically faxes were as low as 100dpi but now are 200dpi or more. So 200dpi should be safe... But your scanning software may have presets/suggestions for 'fax/b&w document' that would also be a safe choice.
1. From friends, meetups, intros.

2. Review previous work, ask friends who are technical to review his/her previous work.

3. You could do a non-compete, but would be expensive to enforce. So really, you can't. But if he can just take your idea and execute it better, why can't competitors anyway?

4. Depends (are you funded? is there a salary involved?), but I'd suggest just 50/50.
Perhaps this has been answered elsewhere and I'm being lazy, but... What's the licensing for Cappuccino and Objective-J? Are people who build on these tools beholden to Motorola?

Edit: I Googled "Objective-J license" to answer my own question -- the answer was LGPL. Awesome!
And sorry to those of you outside the US--I've recentered the map so that you can now see more of the world by default.
I put in "CS" and "Other" because my degree was Software Engineering (and we actually did learn engineering)
Ask HN and pg: Show subdomains for *.stackexchange.com?
Stack Exchange uses subdomains for many of it's beta QA communities, and we somewhat regularly get posts from them -- but, because HN only shows the domain itself, telling which community it's from requires clicking the link.

Any chance it could be added to a list of sites to show subdomains as well for?
Thanks, I appreciate that. Surprised I didn't find the double meaning before I launched though. That's the last time I impulsively buy a 5 letter domain just because it's available and "sounds good".
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Well, for example:

* It's fun. It really is. Even the part about the Parkinson, after you get over it.
* You're pretty much subsidizing a new industry.
* There is a chance you can actually use this. Either if you actually
have a rare disease gene, or if you're a carrier.

In any case, I intend to take a printout to my next medical visit.