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While your advice makes a lot of sense, I think they can definitely get some traction with this idea.

Here is a wrinkle that I think could work. Limit it to everyone that got an interview but didn't get in.
Sorry, here is the link: http://studentcompetitions.com
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The obvious answer is to right-click on a file to open it.

If you mean open a file externally then I suggest you run acme from plan9port, then just run 'plumber' and use the program 'plumb' to send open commands to acme. It is fairly flexible:

$ plumb /path/to/file
$ plumb /path/to/file:35
$ plumb /path/to/file:/NameError

The nice thing is if the file is already open, acme will jump to the right place and highlight what you want.
Our startup's office used to be next door to what is affectionately called a "boiler room". These guys would essentially prey on old people and other vulnerable folks with various schemes related to penny stocks. And we'd hear the stories through the walls in this crappy office, in the elevators, etc. And it generally consisted of someone losing money (the client) and the boiler room scumbags making money.

And so while I'm all for free markets (my own startup's business is sort of predicated on it) and I do think that changes to the SEC rules should be made, I do worry about making this open season because the scumbags out there will find a way to take advantage of the opportunity quickly and at scale. That is what unscrupulous folks do, and they do it well.

Also, when it comes to tech investments in particular, even Fred Wilson says the best VCs bat .300 and the legends bat .400. That means many of the pros also bat .100. I don't know how Joe Public is going to be able to do this well when the professionals cannot.

Sure, we can say the SEC needs to regulate to ensure this doesn't happen, but as evidenced by our last crisis, that wasn't possible to do for multi-billion dollar organizations. I'm not sure they'll be able to do much for Aunt Sally who lost $10k on the Quora for Pets that she was convinced would be huge by some smooth talking cat with a slick PowerPoint.

This comment may go against the ethos of HN (and result in lots of downvotes), but I think there are some downsides if they go too far in opening up the market.
It's just a name by itself for now (for SEO purposes as well). Of course I wouldn't go around to investors and say we're 2nd tier groups that PG didn't want.

Right now, I want to keep it very small. Find out what everybody wants and go from there.
Never been there much (groklaw), but remember how sad I was the day flipcode.com closed :(

Still the archives are there, and I keep reusing things from the code sections...
There's no reason to not start their own group. But you have to stay laser focused.. otherwise too many cooks spoil the food.
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ASK PG/HN: Questions before interview for S11 batch
1. How much time to accept if we get an offer? If PG calls does the answer have to be on the spot or do we have some time to discuss the terms internally?

2. Is DST investing in all the start-ups again? I know that DST has nothing to do with YC but YC has a link on the home page to the techcrunch article from a few months ago and I was wondering if they know what DST is upto. Knowing this is very important for us to be able to make a decision.

3. Has anybody negotiated different terms than what were offered by PG?:)

I think that this thread can useful to others as well who want to ask questions anon.

ps: Anon only because we avoid all publicity abt funding and alerting competition abt status of such things.
That's why I mentined the competition site above - winning a competition against hundredsthousands of other students is quite a substance - in the same way no one can claim they built something that u had shared on your GitHub-account with a timestamp and blogposts long before they claimed that. CVs got ~no substance for the record.
I wonder how many other students in the tech industry are facing the same problem I am: I am not living in or near Silicon Valley or any other major city.

Internships seem to be flooding out of the Bay Area/SF, yet no one will take remotes :(

The nearest major city is Minneapolis/St. Paul by a few hours drive.
To clearify: I rather employ someone based on GitHub code than their CV/resume that is filled with bullshit anyway.
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I've been considering treating each directory as a separate version control target, so that the archive server would never lose anything. I have the same qualms - although so far, Unison has worked perfectly for me, even in cases where in retrospect that surprised me.
FWIW, I got stuck on this too.
> I thought that one ended with Hotmail.

It did, and was reborn with the BlackBerry and iPhone era.

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There's some advertising on Quizlet and a premium version called Quizlet Plus, but I'm not sure (from a user's perspective) if that's bringing in a ton of revenue.
Heck. From what I hear, being a full time student at MIT can be pretty challenging on its own. I only know a couple people at MIT, but they've all talked about how challenging it is (in an enjoyable way).
Amazing that 80 column unstyled ascii text, which is supposed to be the absolutely lowest level of abstraction, able to pass through even the dumbest mail servers without being mangled, able to be read by any computer made in the last 40 years, windows boxes, mac boxes, sun boxes, dumb terminals, propped-up toasters running NetBSD; is finally stymied by the ultimate low end machine: one with a screen that isn't physically large enough for 80 column text.
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1. non-sequitor based on false assumption

2. see above

I never said it would take one wash, it could take 5. I'm just saying giving out a shirt that's larger makes more sense than one that is too small, seeing as how clothing only shrinks once you own it.
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What makes this story interesting to me is that as the standard of living rises in China it's only a matter of time until factories that are elsewhere undercut them with cheaper labor costs.
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How far will anyone make it through watching them, before they all start showing "Available until a date two weeks from now", like 20% of my queue almost always does?
When I was growing up my father had dubbed copies of Star Trek: The Original Series. I watched every fuzzy episode dozens of times. Eventually enjoying TNG/DS9/Voyager/Enterprise as well. One of biggest hopes in life was to own every single episode of each Star Trek series on VHS so I could enjoy them at will. The boxed VHS sets were always way too expensive for me then.

It's strange to think back because now I have all of them sitting on a tiny little corner of a 1TB drive.

I still often watch them to this day while I program. I'll go through a dozen episodes (playing on a second monitor) in a day.

Kids growing up today have it so damn good.
`gosh` is already the name of the Gauche Scheme interpreter. Just in case anyone gets a repl :-)
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Dissociated from YC could totally work!!! Also find mentors to answer questions at the dinner, and have each team do a 5 minute quick presentation regarding their progress that week. Also, don't judge people on any other criteria outside of a) launch date (to be sure you're all planning on lunching something substantial around the same time) and b) potential to become profitable soon.
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I loved this one. Maybe the best example yet of a great idea being necessary but totally insufficient for a great outcome.
In MS-DOS, you don't need an octal-to-binary conversion program, assuming you're content writing your next program in decimal instead of binary, because you can type any 8-bit byte with Alt and the numeric keypad. You can also write useful 8086 machine code using only printable ASCII, but that's probably making things hard on yourself unnecessarily.

Did 1982 MS-DOS have I/O redirection? You're right that that would help quite a bit.

I think one of my first programs in that environment would be some kind of editor. Maybe a hex or octal editor rather than a text editor, but an editor nonetheless. Typing programs more than a few dozen bytes with no ability to see or fix typos gets old fast.

I don't know how much harder the job really gets if you bootstrap directly from machine code instead of Python. I don't think it's that much.
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PH is the standard undergrad text for an arch course in much the same way as Wakerly is the standard for digital logic/components.
Lots of home computers from 30 years ago couldn't fit 80 columns on the TV screen.
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They will be streamable for at least two years, under the deal.
Tubalr, YouTube without all the bullshit.
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I actually thought the same thing about the internship cycle last year. At the school I went to, almost every engineer I knew had accepted an internship by December and many had by October. I was actually really surprised to see that many great students from schools that don't have a heavy GOOG/MSFT/AMZN, etc. recruiting presence were looking for internships up through the end of April. Also, we saw a lot of sophomores applying around this time as well.

Startups tend to be less picky about year of graduation and more interested in the capabilities of the student. The best intern I've had was a sophomore who within a month was contributing like a regular member of the team. We had him stay on part-time through the next school year.

I'm pretty confident we'll find good students again this year even in April. If this experiment goes well, we'll probably try another push in the fall to help startups edge in on big company recruiting territory.
Thanks for the recommendation! iDevRecipes is my blog. I welcome any feedback.
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Looks similar to the AP Computer Science Exam and not like a contest such as the IOI. The test is simply testing whether one knows the language syntax and not Computer Science in general.

This is a 'Programming' exam and not a 'Computer Science' exam.
#7. Advertise: It's only $25 to play the game and your ability to target users is amazing as you use their interests as keywords.
Other fun ideas:

1) Redirect all of his traffic to your site

2) Put an iframe with his site in it. His hosting company would probably shut him down very quickly.

3) Put goatse / tubgirl on all pages (for his scraper only).
Same as most other posts defending one technology choice versus others. It's what I know best...I like the tools...can't we all get along...

The only interesting point is also the vaguest...The AI that's already available in .NET (and, by the way it's stated, apparently not in others).

I also have to counterpoint that ASP.NET MVC is "conceptually" the same as Rails/Django. Conceptual similarities are pretty meaningless. My RC plane is conceptually similar to a fighter jet because it relies on the same four forces. Actual coding-wise, ASP.NET MVC is closer to WebForms than Rails.
PH or HP? My intro course used Computer Organization and Design, and the senior course used Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (both are by the same authors).
This $49 development kit from Arrow is a good place to start if you are new to FPGA development but have a programming background: http://www.altera.com/b/nios-bemicro-evaluation-kit.html . There is a step-by-step tutorial included that shows you how to program the FPGA and how to set up an embedded processor on the FPGA that you can program in C.
yea, freemium plus ads is a classic rev model but usually doesn't work for niche markets. Licensing their engine to third parties is an option they could explore too...
When did hacker become a synonym for programmer?
During all those years Groklie never once criticized IBM for any of its wrongdoings. In connection with IBM's software patent threat letter to TurboHercules, Groklie even said in a headline that IBM was "free to sue the pants off TurboHercules". Seriously, which free software advocate would ever cheer a patent aggressor on?
Wow I cant believe this little post made it all the way to HN. TBH I do believe in most of what I said but the post was intentionally over the top. It was a bit of rantbait. The irony which sadly only one commenter seemed to figure out was that it was a post on how whitehat doesnt work which demonstrated it does. That post got tons of links in a very short time.

That being said my real point was don't limit yourself or the client because you believe google guidelines somehow translate to ethics. Instead do an honest evaluation of the clients expectations, budget, and risk tolerance.

Provide service based on that information. Google is in it for google. SEOs should be in it for the client. Even if that sometimes means bending googles rules.
Looking at this it's shocking to me how Google who became famous for their "less is more" approach to interface design have turned YouTube into a cluttered mess which reminds me of MySpace.
We've had our share of surprised faces when we told people our company is based on .Net as well. There were a lot of reasons for us to use the Microsoft stack. One of them was also existing expertise. My CoFounder and I previously worked as C# developers for years before working on IActionable.com full-time. And yes, Visual Studio is that awesome.

"AppHarbor - It's Heroku for .NET. You simply can't beat it."

I agree with most things in the article except for this. Its definitely my personal opinion, but I don't think AppHarbor is quite 'there' yet for a lot of companies. At least it wasn't for our company's specific needs. The .Net community is very unique and has very different expectations from other service providers. We typically eat what Microsoft feeds us and trust it. Microsoft is definitely putting a lot of weight behind Azure and it made sense for us to use their platform. I saw the level of support behind Azure first hand when our company was invited to Redmond to meet the dev teams as part of an early adopter program.
The big battles are now about software patents, not copyright, and particularly take place in connection with mobile devices:
http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/2770688

I never intended for my FOSS Patents blog to be a discussion community like Groklaw, but I do cover those issues and try to help a broader audience understand the strategic battlelines, such as with the visualizations available in the above folder.
some of the stuff you listed there is VERY grey. The medium to lighter versions are more like self created links. Example registering at 50-60 different web 2.0 sites and link dropping. Doing mass article submissions for the purpose of links. Creating mini-nets (or link wheels if your brave lol).

Basically its like this. The big G says all links should be naturally attracted and editorial in nature. So if you are pounding the ground creating links yourself technically thats "grey".
I remember him announcing Quizlet on the short-lived TechCrunch Forums. I was impressed then and I am impressed now.
I agree that communication skills are a great skill to have as a programmer. I'd probably even rank it higher than raw programming ability, personally. (BTW, not all of these startups are only looking to hire developers--a student looking for a marketing internship would probably do very well posting a video.)

I don't think, though, that a cover letter is a great test of these skills. Cover letter templates are abundant and it's very easy for someone to basically copy and paste one in their application. Our team has read every cover letter sent through our site and we noticed some interesting patterns with them. Initially, most students didn't really know what to put in a cover letter and they basically looked like form letters. We created a few resources to educate students on what to write and placed links to them in the application flow. This helped immensely (a lot more than I expected, honestly) and the quality improved.

Still, though, as an employer looking at the resumés and cover letters of students, it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between candidates before doing a phone screen. They have limited experience and skills to highlight. We're trying the blog post / think-of-something-creative application process basically as an experiment to see what students come up with. It's possible that by removing the constraints that students normally perceive on cover letters that something interesting will shake out. You may think it a waste of your time, but you also aren't on the list of companies looking at these candidates :-) Companies participating can opt-in with this expectation in mind.
In my opinion this is probably the most exciting thing being done with Javascript currently; I can't wait to see where this goes.
> Actual coding-wise, ASP.NET MVC is closer to WebForms than Rails.

How so?

I've never worked with WebForms, but I have done a few Rails projects. I don't see any real differences except for ActiveRecord, which does have a .NET port: http://www.castleproject.org/activerecord/

Also, I wasn't trying to start a fight (really!). I just think that more .NET hackers should be motivated to do startups. IMHO, I think this is the year that .NET startups begin to take off. All the pieces are in place, it's just about motivating the community.
curl -O <URL> writes the file to the local disk, and then what? bash <file> right to run it?

...
Wozniak was talking about huge, semester-long projects, and most of those don't really fit that profile.
I wish I could understand why you feel Asp.Net MVC is closer to WebForms than Rails. Unfortunately I have barely any Rails experience. But as a developer who did WebForms for years and made the switch to MVC, I will never go back.

Edit - I also see you're the founder of badg.ly? I remember checking out your site not too long ago. We seem to be some-what in the same space with our startup http://www.IActionable.com. I'd love to learn more about how that's going for you.
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.NET is great. It's fast, clean, and the framework libs are incredibly good. C#, IronPython, and F# are amazing.

I still haven't found an IDE that compares to VS in terms of productivity and usability.

Despite all the things going for it, it's decidely un-trendy and people hate on it. I'm guessing it's primarily because it's from Microsoft.

Software trends are silly.
As far as I can tell the author's reasons for deciding to use C# can be summed up as "I'm used to it from previous work, and some useful libraries related to my project are available."

Those are perfectly valid reasons, but they aren't really much use to anyone who doesn't share those circumstances, and don't really have anything to do with upsides and downsides of the language itself. That would have been far more relevant to us outsiders.

Also, "I'm buying a MBP" translates to "I'm serious about startups"? Who says image isn't everything? Besides, everyone knows serious hackers use IBM-era Thinkpads!
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I like how you approach your problems with Basecamp as usability issues and not as feature-set limitations. I think Basecamp is at a sweet-spot with features, but has a lot of room for improvement in how users interface with it. The application really hasn't changed much since it was launched. With the mountains of data on how its used, I would think 37signals would refine the app to be the most usable interface in the world.
Fair enough. I changed the link to the "don't hire .NET programmers" article.

I stand by the rest of the references, though. All the guys I mention in my last point are as much hackers as anyone I've ever met or worked with.
Don't forget the dark side of Groklaw -- censorship:
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Ask HN: What is a good price for software that you license to schools?
I have an idea for a piece of software that could be utilized by middle and high schools. The software would be run on my server. Basically I would charge each school a fee to let all of their students use the software. I was thinking of charging them a monthly or annual fee, what do you think a reasonable price would be?

I really have no idea how much companies charge for this sort of thing.
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Ask HN: About To Finish High School, What Next?
Dear HNers,

I reach out to all of you for advise and general thoughts
on my situation. I'm currently a senior in high school graduating
in May. I have many passions, but the past two years has been
more or less solidifing in my mind that I very much want to pursue
technology, and business (surprise!). Before we begin let
me tell you a bit about myself.

I grew up (still live in) a very technology "savvy" home. My father
is a control systems engineer and always insistled technical
knowlegde on both my brother (who works in the medical IT field)
and I. I spent most of my time outside of school working on my
local FIRST Robotics Competition team (Google it, its awesome).
Last summer (Summer 2010) I was fortunate enough to use my
experience from FIRST (plus having contacts) to land a programming
internship at a logistics firm about a hour north of where I live.
After the summer I'd proven myself valuable enough (mostly writing
cucumber/selenium tests) to a small agile team that
they hired me on part time while I work through school.

But over the last year I've grown a large itch toward starting my own company...and its tough to let go of it. I have some ideas I've tossed around, but I've never really
had long periods of time to crank them out.

So at this point my natuaral progression from high school would be
to move on and pursue a computer science degree. Although, due to
financial, and academic issues moving into a four-year collage
right out of high school isn't looking too bright.

So the question is whether I pursue going to a two year technical school with the plan on transfering to a four school for computer science? Or do I skip school for a year and pursue developing my ideas into potential companies?
I haven't used Pivotal, although I understand Pivotal is more of an agile project management tool. It measures burn down rates, velocity etc... even if it does do issue tracking as part of that, it's probably not reasonable to compare.

A like-for-like issue tracker would be Jira or Lighthouse
Then, this would disqualify the author of this post because he didn't get an interview.
Also, I think the free offering is extremely robust to the point where the paid version is mostly a purchase to help support the company rather than for actual features.
> I have literally sent hundreds of DMCA. It almost never works.

Are these US-based hosting providers?
I have several years of experience in ASP.net webforms, MVC, and Rails, and I also don't see the argument that webforms is closer to .net MVC than Rails. Sure, the syntax is more similar because both can be C#. I'm guessing this is what you mean, but the philosophy and architecture of MVC presents such a dramatic difference from webforms that I would argue it is strikingly different.