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Looking for a Web Developer/ CTO, Chief Tech Officer/ Technical CoFounder
Looking for a Web Developer/ CTO, Chief Tech Officer/ Technical CoFounder

I have developed a concept that needs to help to get to the next level. I am looking for a CTO to oversee the build/launch.

The vertical industry is corporate finance, with global plans, revenue model will primarily be subscription and finder fee based. The concept is proven and will be revenue generating shortly following launch. We will capitalize on social media associations, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. Bootstraped funding for the project is in place.

Why would I be a great cofounder for you: I am a business guy. I need a tech guy. I am a true entrepreneur, I am and idea guy, a dreamer, a marketing guru, have depth of experience in corporate finance, business development and very good at sales and business development. I hustle and work hard. I can go to my corporate finance network and get further investment when needed.

What am I looking for:

I am not looking for a code monkey. I am looking for a partner. I have a strong bias towards someone based here in Seattle, as being able work in the same room and bouncing ideas and motivations off one another will be very strong benefit for the initial success and launch of the company.

I am looking for someone who can commit some significant time to this project. Someone who is willing to give this project priority, but they could have a full-time job or other freelance projects.

What is the opportunity ? I am offering up to 1/3 equity in the company. The company will have cash and can pay salary, however equity – salary.

Let me know what your experience is, past successes, LinkedIn profile, etc. and we can further discuss Company.

contact me at kevin.worth(at)hotmail(dot)com
Robert Scoble is generally optimistic about new startups. He used mine for 9 months even though he isn't really in the target market. His pessimism about Color does not bode well for them.
HN doesn't seem to have a huge profusion of memes, photoshops, and so on that Reddit seems to embody. If anything, we're turning into Metafilter.
Pretty awesome! I've been working on a couchdb ostatus app for a few months. You guys can use the frontend if you want: http://github.com/maxogden/couchappspora
Yeah that's what I was thinking, no way I would invest in those dudes, w/o any ninjas. Get real bro.
I used for a time period after college when I worked as a landscaper before I got my act together and dealt with some emotional problems I had been ignoring for way too long. Drugs were a kind of release valve for pressures I had no outlet for. It wasn't about pleasure, it was about feeling something different. A stupider version of myself might have resorted to body harm and gotten the same effect.

I have little interest in using again because I no longer feel those pressures, but I wouldn't tell anyone else to make the same decision I have.
Understanding the SSL security breach, preparing for the next one
A dive is a female version of a hustler, of a hustler, of a, of a hustler
Assuming they are mostly interested in preventing protests, I think the correct course of action would be to filter out most citizens.
Ignore the nursing homes.
Ignore calls that involve distance over 100 miles.
Ignore calls to contacts that theycall daily.
And escalate others.
Escalate Urban centers.
Escalate more than 2 phone calls per hour.
etc....
pg should implement image links in comments. Pivot and disrupt.

I'd donate a paycheck to watch that nuclear fallout.
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Companies as ordinary, legal persons
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How not to allow users to unsubscribe to automated emails
You might want to re-read my comment. Nowhere did I say that marketing doesn't matter. Nowhere did I say that you should just build more stuff and not write a resume to market yourself.

On the contrary, my comment began "To write an effective resume..." Translation: the rest of the comment is going to be advice to my fellow HNers about how to market themselves. I'm not sure how you interpreted "showcase your actual work well and present it in the most impressive possible light" as "just create another project on github".

My point is that this particular resume answers all the wrong questions. All the questions I don't really care about when I'm making a hiring decision. Only at the end does she say "So... What're ya waiting for!?" and link to her portfolio. And her portfolio isn't nearly as well done as all the fluff sections ("I'm vehement about creating kick-ass interactions" and "I never wear high heels"). This is a mistake. The most prominent and polished part of her resume should showcase her actual work. She should answer the question "What have you built?" right away and in impressive fashion. Note that the question isn't "Have you built stuff?"; it's "What have you built?" So, the fact that Stuff Got Built, as you say, isn't very important. I don't care that "clearly, she can build stuff." I care to see what she's built. So, show it to me. In other words "showcase your actual work well and present it in the most impressive possible light."
Where's the option for "all at the same time!" ?
What mistake in Wall Street? They were bailed out. They're even better off than before.
You can also shorten the StackOverflow one:

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/10660

Also a note, HN automatically truncates overly-long URLs so you don't usually need to worry about pre-shortening.
Thanks a lot for checking out Quote Roller. Here are some benefits:
1) Team work on a proposal
2) Ability to track client's activity
3) Ability to interact with a client
4) (in new release) Clients can sign proposal online
5) (in new release) integrations with popular tools [freshbooks, SalesForce, HighRise]
6) (in new release) mobile version

... and just in general... software is going to loose to saas. It is just more convenient to use web based apps.
I would ask the guys at Cool Tools (first result on google) for their ideas. They post cool or unique tools and reviews from users, often with an affiliate link at the bottom (to Amazon for example). Don't force it, but if you find yourself mentioning a product, affiliate link to it. For example, your post about purple carrots had a link to seeds. Use a referral to get a percentage of the sales from people visiting that link.
No caffeine?
This was all a long time ago, I got bored with them real fast. I am practically tea total these days.

Chocolate however is another issue :)
RightJS: a lightweight, modular JavaScript framework
If you are an Emacs user, use magit. Changed my life.
Seems like it's indeed a frontend for DosBox: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxFrontends#Mac_OS_X_Frontend...

Boxer should at least acknowledge DoxBox on their homepage IMO, feels to me a bit like taking DosBox's glory for themselves?
Apowell, Awesome thought, thank you soo much. We tried to minimize quantity of team members and other items in plans so that we have capacity to add them up after application release. Right now all plans are free and there is no limitation on features. I've already added a task to create one more banner that says "Beautiful proposals in minutes. Check what your clients will get" linking to a live example of web based proposal. Again, really appreciate your feedback.
Amazon Appstore an excellent work in progress ... now about that tablet rumor
Care to elaborate? Unlike signed ones, unsigned integral types at least have well-defined behavior on shifting and overflow. (I'm speaking in terms C specifically here, of course.)
Thanks a lot, Max. Scheduled for update.
Winning a Weekend, Quitting a Job, & the $100 Midnight Cheeseburger
Radioecologists Developing Japan-Response Recommendations
I've read Halting State before. This is a secret government operation! The mobile photo social sharing app is just a cover for the Dept. of Homeland Security to prevent terrorists from acquiring our nation's coupons!
True, that has taken me years to shake off. Down to one cup a day now and I am no longer getting the headaches.
I think this is all a talent acquisition strategy.
Where's the option for "None" - I've never used any of those you cite, but equally, I'm not going to condemn them (or their users) out-of-hand.

ADDED IN EDIT: Wow - a drive-by down-vote. Can anyone suggest why I got a downvote for my comment? (Even though it's now been countered by a balancing up-vote - thx)
Because, like pregnancy, businesses can't scale with more people?

It is well established that certain work scales almost linearly with more people. But it is also well known that a lot of other types of work do not at all scale when you throw more people in. Usually it is intellectual tasks, like programming or turning a startup into a profitable business, that don't scale well.

Try reading the mythical man month.
If you ever write anything around a women centered topic, hit me up, I'd like to advertise.
There just has to be something else going on here. Right?
TripAdvisor hacked: Member email list stolen
Could this be any less technical? This seems to barely even qualify as something to be show on hacker news.

It doesn't talk about the exploited service, the vulnerability, if it was known, etc.

Instead they tell us 'signs of spam'.
It's true that a higher inflation regime will not help debtors. But the net effect of an event like QE/QE2 is to help debtors.
Thanks. I have one planned for the day before Mother's Day, how should I best reach you?
No, hypothesis exploration is entirely valid, it's what science is based on.

My issue is that he proceeds to draw very strongly worded conclusions (using the phrase "beyond doubt") based on very weak evidence and presenting the experiment in a way which both fails to highlight the inherent flaws and indeed hides them behind a veil of pseudo-scientific and statistical language.

Yes explore hypotheses, present anecdotal evidence, but make it clear that's what you're doing and explain why. The next step here isn't to try 5 and 6 leg stands, it's to try it with people who don't understand what is being tested and remove the worst of the flaws in the methodology.

As for being hung up on "proof", yes guilty as charged, but that's really not my issue which is don't claim proof when you don't have it. Which in claiming things "beyond any doubt" (which he does) this is what he is doing.
I use drugs because, umm, why not? I did worse things under internally produced adrenalin, serotonin or something than I ever did under alcohol or cannabis or something.

Being madly in love beats cocaine by high margin every time, but you can't be madly in love whenever you want. Also, cocaine is probably safer.
Yes, this demo what I'm referring to - there's no confirmation anywhere that it was used anywhere yet.
It's a classic b-school aphorism. He's not really trying to defend an analogy. He's saying, "it is not necessarily true that more money will scale this faster; there are probably other limiting factors". Don't be so quick to jump on him.
Chief scientist?
It's a site with a lookup table and a 301 redirect

In that case since I'm resposnible for locking the door at night here then I'm officially "superhero ninja defender of intergalctic freedom"
Thanks for the mention Dan. Yeah, one day that is something I want to do more of... but still growing my subscriber list now. Getting subscribers, even with great content, has been the biggest surprise to me running a newsletter. You have done a great job getting to 3,500... that is no easy feat!
OOO AutoReply: Here is To Managers and Their Institutionalized Ineptitude
Superstition ends where new action begins
N20? lol :) (pun intended)
Anyway, would've been interesting to add nootropics to the list also ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootropic )
App Store Sales, good idea? (Real Data and comments)
> I´m going to make a generalization and categorize you all as "intelligent people" and ask you to vote for the drugs that you have taken as I am curious about what drugs "intelligent people" likes.

But you asked which drugs the people here have used - not which ones they liked..
At the bottom of the pages in question, after the last numbered link.
Creatine, Ephedera, Caffeine, Morphine, Hydrocodine, Oxycotin...
Modern preemptive multitasking operating systems send the CPU to sleep when there's no work to be done. In DOS, the currently running app or game usually just used every available cycle (aside from interrupts handled by the BIOS or DOS) for its own purposes. I don't know if Dosbox has some kind of limiter in place, but if not, the game/app will eat every single cycle it can unless it's specifically designed to wait for the vsync interrupt.
There must be a way to overload the system. A protest named like verb maybe?
This is interesting and I'll have a look at them, though in this case my issue isn't with n=1, it's with the wider design of the experiment and the failure to be clear about it's limitations.
Marijuana about five times in my life, and moderate alcohol about once a week.

Mostly just to fit in. I've sometimes gotten home and thought "today was a long day; I'll have a beer", but I don't think I've ever finished that beer. I just lose interest in it about a third of the way through it.
8 Minute Grails Contact Manager
Disappointed they didn't mention the country code of their domain...
how about just making people pay for the newsletter?

http://tinyletter.com/?pay

Might lose some people, but if all 3500 stay, you only need each person to pay .015 per month. Of course this is just hypothetical. Maybe its $1/month.
Verizon Lowers Price of WiFi iPad 1 to $299
I'm not sure that I follow.
Why Rubyists Should Focus On ChromeOS
Some of these aren't drugs (n2o) but yeah. I just like recreational drugs. They can be taken safely.
That's the opposite direction of where I'd like to go :)
That's a good way to create a generation that utterly hates Java ;-)
I see a business opportunity here!
Meet The Founders Of Startup Guild
Nitpick: there's a big difference between an app crashing (which is what this sounds like) and an app crashing your phone (rendering it unusable or forcing a reboot).
Drug-free, except caffeine, for 20 years.
Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So
Ask HN: Anyone want to help build an open source Zaarly like app in node.js?
I want to use Zaarly. But I know it won’t come to Australia any time soon.

I want to learn node.js. But to really learn it, I have to build something in it.

Anyone else in a similar position want to build it with me?
We should go all-out FYAD style and have one weekend where CSS and flash embedding is allowed. Then on sunday night, run a script to clean the place up, and permanently delete the accounts of those who abused their temporary privileges. The definition of "abuse" should be an arbitrary, seemingly random one.

Then we will never speak of it again.
I tried it and I think this needs a lot more work. Overall, this does not feel like it "just works." I realize you are still adding new features, though. You also need to have an English native write your default text. A few nitpicks follow...

-Welcome page is confusing. What am I supposed to do? I just glazed over the explanatory image with the callouts -- it has all the information on the dashboard plus more in the callouts, and everything is the same size.

-The profile page needs to be reworked. Everything is in the wrong order.

-I don't like being forced to add e-mail addresses for the company I am quoting. Are you going to send them an e-mail? It's not clear.

-When I saved the new company and came back, the Project Name field had been cleared.

-The review section is actually a very important section to fill out and should be renamed. At the least, if you want it to be treated as a review, you need to preview the whole proposal on one page instead of showing one section at a time.

-Your default text in the overview should fill in the names of my company and the company I'm quoting.

-Generate PDF has some character issues. The emdashes in your default text come out as â€“.

-Generate PDF is confusing…if I check the box and then hit send, is it going to generate a PDF and also e-mail it?

-I see the e-mail body has some form fields. Give us a way to preview those. If I make a mistake the e-mail is going to say ::client name:, etc., but I won't know until it's too late. Also, what is the e-mail from: field going to look like? Update: just sent and received my test, and it comes from "Quote Roller Team." You have to change that.
20 percent time spent coding in the clouds
1st take your costs down. If you start at $-50 per month it's going to be more difficult.
I tried to counteract your downvote but I guess my votes don't work.

Have you never tried anything really, not even the legal things like alcohol?

I've only ever had alcohol and caffeine (since someone else mentioned it) and the alcohol I only have once or twice a month in like 1 beer quantities but other than that I've never even tried anything.

Growing up I was asked if I wanted to try other things plenty of times but never pushed by friends or anything so I guess that is a big reason I haven't ever done any other drugs.

If we are counting caffeine I have a cup of black tea almost every day.
making this list remind me how much crap i grubbed inside my body... i'm glad i don't tak any of these sh* anymore (except occasional beer)...
Part of it is that it's simply difficult to keep track of what's public and what's not. My various Google apps are full of as-yet-unreleased features, all on their own schedules. Unless I track the external blogs carefully, it's hard to know what I can talk about. When I really need to know, I'll search and see if something is mentioned on the web...
I second your thought. Nguyen has a crazy track record.

He sold OneBox in 2000 for $850M (I realize that's insane-o bubble money), then started Seven (which is used by pretty much every carrier I can think of), and then sold LaLa to Apple for $80M.
Ah, if that's the case, then it never appeared in my RSS feed. I'm not sure how the RSS feed is composed (i.e. which submissions show up in it), but perhaps it's more selective than I'd thought. (I was already getting a hundred links each day!)

Interesting post though: I think there was a similar discussion in Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley (Good book).
I was too young to experience the job market post the first dot-com bubble but I would argue that if you're in a job that is going to suffer from the collapse of this current bubble, you're most likely currently benefiting from the bubble already. If not, the collateral damage should be relatively low. Would a 37signals, patio11's BCC really be affected by a crash of this current investment bubble? Probably not.
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I think you should have included a category for opioids or prescription painkillers, given their present popularity.
Michael Sebastian: The most overused words in press releases
Not really great examples. As you state duct tape already does the job for the battery door, and those clips are mass produced in china and can be bought for a dollar.

There are areas where it's an obviously better/cheaper solution than the alternatives. The best example I've seen recently was the Pixar 3D zoetrope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPtmXK--bA

Each item is unique in the world, they only need 1 of each (per zoetrope), they already have 3D models in the computer. Another niche I heard about was classic car owners printing out moulds to cast replacement parts for their cars. Or the guys that prototyped the glif stand for iPad. These are the things that these will be used for first.

I wonder what laser printers were first used for when they were tens of thousands of dollars to purchase? And if anyone's graphed the decline in price and increase in availability/usage over time and compared it with 3D printing's progress to guess when we'll all have one to print out our kids latest 3D model and display it proudly on top of the fridge.
We don't know. If it was, do you really think it would be their only operation? Who else would have both the capability to massively MITM SSL within a geographical area? I'm not suggesting it was the Iranian government (to clarify, neither was my post above), but for someone to go after the certs it would be expected they'd want to have somewhere (or at least someone) to MITM in mind.

How many Iranians use Yahoo Mail? How many people of interest outside of Iran use Yahoo Mail?
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I have caffeine (hence my comment about those cited) but I have never had alcohol. (Long story, not very interesting, I wouldn't bother asking)
I've smoked pot a few times, but it was never that enjoyable. I drink moderately throughout a month (maybe like 4-5 chill at home beers), and generally get drunk like 1-2 times a month on weekends or special occasions. I like the taste of beer and whiskey, though, so it's something I'll always do. Nitrous was just a fun little 30 second laugh fest that has popped up at hippie shows I go to. The only drug I'd ever really advocate and the only one I'll do with any regularity are mushrooms. It's certainly not for everybody, but given the right circumstances, atmosphere, etc, mushrooms have really led to some of the best experiences I've ever had and really opened my mind to a lot of new things. That being said, it's been a few years since I've dabbled, but I plan to do some soon. It's always an eye opener.
Different parts are sold to different parties, but I would bet on Ericcson.

They bought major assets of Nortel legacy.
I'm fairly successful - top 10 school, developer at a Fortune 500 company, involved in a number of very in depth hobbies.

I've used everything on the list except mescaline, meth, opium, and PCP (mostly for lack of access).

Most of these were just a handful of times, but I smoke weed 3-4 times a week. I adore psychedelics but limit that to once every 2-3 months. Coke is fun every now and then, but I keep that very infrequent for obvious reasons.

Started at probably 15, so over a "career" of about 8 years.

Only thing I've ever come close to having a problem with is amphetamine, since the productivity boost is amazing (at first). Which is a problem, because it's easy to fool yourself into thinking it's actually beneficial. At therapeutic doses maybe, but believe me, after day 2 of borderline recreational dosages, it's not. It's the only one I really steer well clear of.

For what that's worth..
I don't get it.

I've installed the app and still don't get it.

I have no idea what problem does it solve?

I've seen http://view.io during SXSW - didn't work that well (not many people were using it). Concept was very similar - pictures of interesting things near you taken by other people with some descriptions. Nobody was declaring this app the next google.

Social network for mobile phones that is the next big thing???? I'm sorry but I don't buy this.
Facebook will clone this using their location service + photo sharing functionality and there you go. 41mlnUSD down the drain.
freemium.
I've used various drugs for various reasons. I no longer use illegal drugs because of my job, but I've used quite a bit in the past.

Cannabis is great for unwinding when you just cant force yourself to stop thinking about work or other worries. It's also just plain fun.

I enjoyed LSD the most. Aside from the hallucinations and euphoria (both of which were good enough reasons to use it) the drug causes a lot of introspection. You wander down some corridors of the mind you would normally never visit. I feel like I know myself better because of it. My first trip alone caused me to make some life changes afterward which have greatly improved my life today.

Much has been said about the therapeutic value of mdma, but that as not been my experience. It's a lot of fun, you do feel closer to those around you, but I don't think I took much away from it. I've mainly done this at clubs, so perhaps it would be different in another setting.

For reference: 29 Male, software developer. More or less successful (married with a house and all that)