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Ask HN: Do startups hire Non-Tech Telecommuters?
Being in a location of the US that isn't anywhere near a hub for technological innovation, the job and internship market for startups in this region (southern FLA) is virtually non-existent, I need some advice.

I do understand the concept that business, marketing, sales, social media, and govt. relations positions are either rare(not needed) or are filled quickly. Being a non-technical entrepreneur with a desire to join a startup (even in an unpaid intern capacity), where should one look for such positions? It seems as if they don't exist? Would it be unprofessional to email a few startups offering my cover letter and resume for consideration?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
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I definitely like the interface and the notion of contact centered email.

I do have some questions though:

- What defines a contact? A person? An email adress?

I ask because I can't seem to give any contact more than one email address.

- For some contacts it is not catching conversations from as recently as 4/25 and 4/29. Does it take a while to catch up?

- Where do I manage contacts? In Gmail or SharePad? What happens if I delete one in SharePad? In Gmail?

Thanks! I look forward to seeing where this goes.
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Yup. After writing Java for Android in IDEA 10 CE for a few months I die a little inside every time I want to rename a function in C or JavaScript in TextMate. I should check if anyone has used js2-mode to write some refactoring functions for JavaScript in Emacs.

What good cross-platform IDEs do people use for C and JavaScript?
Do some research first: find out what type of person is actively using it and why. I may learn about something FB isn't doing... yet.
Cone drip filter. Grinder. (Get a used burr grinder or a good Krups or Braun rotary is good enough.) Whole bean coffee roasted in the past two weeks from a local roaster. Candy thermometer. Pot of boiling water.

If you actually get fresh beans and figure out exactly how much water and how hot it needs to be, the coffee gets really good.
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Domestic bandwidth is expensive because ISPs and data centres don't distinguish between domestic and international packets at the server, but get billed by the international pipes based on traffic. Hence the price for bandwidth consumers -- retail and commercial -- is set at a level that covers that international traffic.

Hence domestic prices are driven by the international component. These conditions should continue for so long as there are a) few competitors and b) most content is located overseas.

I agree that it would be nice to have local CDN POPs, but all that does is transfer the high cost of Australian packets back to the provider ... and they would want to pay that because ...?
Sure, but remember each /64 takes up space in their router's routing table. Assigning every linode a /64 would take up quite a lot of memory, then.
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Some people have different use cases than you. Why do you think high-capacity portable music players are still made?
Also, I am not sure what is supposed to happen when I click on (what I assume) is the contact's photo. Right now, I just see a gray square with a magnifyin glass.

Clicking that seems to temporarily pop up a window on the left side of the screen. However, it goes away in less than a second.

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I know. It drives me crazy, because the only complaint I had was that she didn't get things done and act on her own initiative, and I tried for her to get the idea for a few weeks. I think some people are just socialized that way.
I don't know how much of anything in the brain works, but I bet that something as complex as bonding is tied to more than one thing.
Yes, it will be tough, but you will have time to earn money. Many MIT students work during the school year and in the summer to be able to pay for school. Here are some options for you if you do decide to go to MIT, all of which have been done by MIT students in the past:

1) Take that $100K.
2) Get a summer job: $10K - $15K saved right there (more if you do a hedge fund / finance gig over the summer)
3) Get a job over IAP. Another month's worth of salary.
4) Get a job at MIT. MIT's great about giving opportunities for students. You can get paid to do research through the UROP program. You can get paid be a grader, a lab assistant, a TA, a deskworker in your dorm (i.e., get paid to sit around while you do your psets)
5) Start a business
6) Get a job somewhere else. There's plenty of people willing to hire MIT kids part time, and plenty of those pay very well
7) Start a stock trading operation in your dorm
8) Learn poker
9) You get the point

One other thing you might try is to petition for financial aid and explain your situation. MIT typically lets you petition anything, although I don't know if that applies for financial aid.
In the U.S.? Kidnapping, almost assuredly. Probably depends on the prosecutor. As it should - you kidnapped a kid. Doesn't matter if you knew he was in the backseat; you did it.

In Australia? I haven't the faintest idea.
Employees who actively identify and solve problems are incredibly valuable.

Valuable enough to make co-founders.
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Drop me a line with your resume if you're interested in an internship with FeeFighters. We have real stuff to work on that would be pretty valuable training for the future.

Re: your question - it can't hurt to email your coverletter/resume around but we get a lot of unsolicited ones that we generally trash.
I agree. I'd suggest looking for a place to work while still at your day job. If it takes 3 months to find a job, at least you may have passed the point of needing to pay back the bonus, and you'll be able to jump ship right away.
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And thirdly, and probably most importantly, because piracy is so convenient it's usually my first port of call when I'm wondering what an artist sounds like. I can spend less than a minute typing a search into $COOL_PRIVATE_TRACKER, and in a few minutes be listening to high quality mp3's in my choice of media player.

It's only after I actually decide that I like (and will ever listen to) the music that I would wish to give some money to the artist.
They cover the "why Linq?" question in one of their podcasts... and it basically boils down to if you're drinking the Microsoft cool-aid anyway, might as well drink the whole cup.

I think there was an implicit assumption that everything Microsoft does is great, and Microsoft would never lie to you. Oh, and the next version will be even betterer! Honest!

Basically the fix boils down to replacing a slow ORM with a faster ORM, and using indexes. Well of course indexes are faster - Duh!

HOWEVER this is where if I was them, I would start to get worried, because every SQL Server horror story I've been told basically starts with "And then the indexes became randomly corrupted" and goes rapidly downhill from there.
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Then you learn a painful lesson about fixing your systems. But in that case, you're at fault, and are on the hook yourself.

Here? Not so much.
In photography school we defined photography as just the act of capturing a scene in a photograph. We tend to define the purpose of that capture through the various sub-genres of photography.

For instance, I'm a "fine art photographer" in that I take photos which I set up in a studio that are meant to have artistic merit. They happen to have no bearing on reality (but that's not a prerequisite for them being fine art.) There are many examples of "realistic" fine art photos (some of Lauren Greenfield's work for instance[1]).

Photojournalism is generally defined to be an attempt to tell a story through a photograph. Whether "reality" is reflected or not can be a component of any type of photography, I don't think it's a category unto itself.

Although welcome to having a discussion about art, where no one is right.

[1] http://www.laurengreenfield.com/
They likely did. Electricity was pretty much nonexistent in rural areas until the 1930s when the Rural Electrification Administration provided loans to cooperatives to bring electric utility service to areas too sparsely populated to justify the costs for a traditional utility.
Fair enough on both points - but regarding the first one, will those users actually read these comments? Not particularly likely, I don't think.
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Such a story may or may not make it to HN front page, but it sure is a risk that one has to take. And as pointed out, the offers from Microsoft et al are not going away for smart people. Of course, tonnes of smart folks would have taken the offer and lived happily ever after, so I do admire Tom's guts.
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From an article back in 09 when Miguel joined Microsoft's Open Source Foundation:

"That’s just what I was saying Linux needed the other day: more Silverlight applications. In fact, I was discussing how promoting Silverlight development in no way whatsoever helps Microsoft lock-in, and quite the contrary actually encourages the spread of software freedom under every definition known to mankind. Because it is Microsoft that is internationally recognized for leverging its considerable power to promote user freedom and interoperability through its file formats and development technologies we absolutely need more of that being produced in the Linux world, which tends to use proprietary and obscured formats and languages"
$499 is a lot in a developing country.. I'm not against this approach, I'm just adding a different perspective.
On Hacker News, but not a Hacker? This may be the startup job for you...
As a non-engineer, it's hard to break into a high-growth startup. Sound familiar? This opportunity may be for you.

Topguest has more inbound client requests than our current team can handle effectively, and we're seeking a relentlessly resourceful 'ethical hustler' to work closely with myself (co-founder & CEO) on sales. This is a unique opportunity for someone with natural sales talent to join a fast-moving startup, even if you have limited experience. It's also an excellent entry-point into the SF Bay startup community. Prove yourself in this role, and I'll bring my network to bear and personally commit to ensuring this is a "Startup Career-making" role for you that sets you up for a killer next move.
But there's a killer app for fast bandwidth - high definition, low latency videos. What Netflix is talking about. When consumers see that, they'll want it and they'll pay for it in a way that they would not pay for a supersonic jet flight.
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As a non-engineer, it's hard to break into a high-growth startup. Sound familiar? This opportunity may be for you.

Topguest has more inbound client requests than our current team can handle effectively, and we're seeking a relentlessly resourceful 'ethical hustler' to work closely with myself (co-founder & CEO) on sales. This is a unique opportunity for someone with natural sales talent to join a fast-moving startup, even if you have limited experience. It's also an excellent entry-point into the SF Bay startup community. Prove yourself in this role, and I'll bring my network to bear and personally commit to ensuring this is a "Startup Career-making" role for you that sets you up for a killer next move.
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As long as they don't get far behind on security fixes, particularly those that could lead to information leaks.
The astrophysics version of the joke is funnier, but perhaps only if you're an astrophysicist.

"A farmer is having trouble with the milk production of his cows, and winds up engaging an astrophysicist to write a report. Three weeks later, he opens the report to find it begins: 'Let us consider a spherically symmetric cow, emitting milk equally in all directions..."
This still doesn't change the fact that I have to plug my iPod in to get this setup (my iPod currently never leaves my car) and it still means some of my music is always inaccessible. Both of those things discourage me from buying new music.
Because how is something better when "better" is just an adjective and not something you created, tested and executed ? Going to the moon is an idea, executing the moon landing is a million ideas all put together in the correct order. Different is not always better. One bad idea, 999 999 good ideas and then you explode and die, consistently.
I considered Poly as well. I chose MIT. My best friend went to Poly. Aside from not being next door to my best friend for four years, I can honestly say that going to MIT was, by far, one of the best decisions of my life.

You'll make the money back. Once out of school, you'll make far more money (by default, and whether this is "right" or not is arguable, but that doesn't make it any less true) coming from MIT than from Poly. Your yearly salary will be higher, as there will be more competition for your "talent." This all, of course, presumes you do _well_ at MIT, but if you were admitted I suspect that you would.

If you haven't already contacted the MIT Financial Aid office, do it now; I presume you have. Send me a personal email (email in my profile) and I can try to put you in touch with some people.

Having had my best friend go to Poly, we basically went through school together; talking almost daily. The classes he had were significantly easier, and far less interesting. Whether this is a plus is arguable, but I certainly don't think it is. While I was learning about Red-Black Trees, he was learning about binary search; shit at MIT just moved faster.

The people you meet (again, having met people at both places) at MIT are also going to challenge you more; though not necessarily more intelligent, they are more self-selected to be self-starters and curious/inquisitive minds. They _will_ challenge you and you'll have more fun.

My $.02: You should go to MIT if you can. Think of it as giving up a little bit of equity in your life; life is short, if you come out better for it in the end (i.e. had more fun, learned more, opened up more opportunities, whatever you choose your metric to be) it'll be well worth it.
TextMate takes some good ideas in Emacs and improves them (from the user's perspective), like pressing Option to start a rectangular selection so you can see the selection as you make it.

Emacs is far more consistent in that basically everything is a command invoked either by keyboard shortcut or M-x, but in this case I think it hurts usability. It seems modes of any kind are not Emacs' thing, even tiny ones like rectangle selection. It could be though and that is a great strength. If someone wants it enough they can write it.
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Sometimes table scans happen even when you think you know what you're doing. If someone adds a column and doesn't think anyone will be filtered on that column then it can easily happen. I usually ask people:

- how big is this table getting?
- how are you querying on it?

That usually fixes most problems before they happen. Not sure it's my job to specify a join type though. A nested loop join isn't a bad thing or even a sign of a bad thing happening necessarily.
Currently I give all new users 3 - 5 invites each week. Though only a fraction of them are handed out.
Immortality = an eternity of learning. If you love to learn, the benefit is obvious.

However, I think a lot of the arguments "against" immortality are perhaps expressed out of subconscious fears of what damage immortality, presumably acquired via money or privilege, would do to society. If everyone had it that's one thing (and still a problem but at least everyone has the same stakes). But what about the more likely scenario that not everyone has it? What if only minority have it?
Before I clicked the "about me" link I guessed this was written by someone in his 20s. I was right.
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I am sure I'd have more users signed up if anyone could sign up. But I wonder about the quality of those users. Invited users feel they've earned something I hope. So they in theory should be more likely to fill out their profiles and participate in the site. Making the site invite-only also solves a lot of issues, spam links chief among those.
What you're saying implies that they have a single routing entry for all their /128s currently, otherwise that would be the same number of routing entries. So, why can't they just have a single routing entry that aggregates all the /64s?
I used a quote from this article during our Demo Day pitch. The problem I have with these particular demands is, what if one of the companies the industry cripples and destroys was actually on track to breathe a little life back into the recording industry? I haven't bought this much new music in a long time and it feels awesome. What if they prohibit features that would cause a 10% increase in purchases because Amazon refuses to be strong armed into paying $30M to overcome legal technicalities? Amazon doesn't make nearly what the labels do off of the music, so $30M might be enough to stop them from doing something that drives $1B in growth for the labels. And all of this to stop people from stealing who are not buying anything no matter what you do. It's just bad business.
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Facebook should enforce that something along the lines of

document.addEventListener('copy', function(e){/javascript:/.test(document.getSelection()+'') && e.preventDefault();}, true)

be added to every facebook page (via the fbml sandbox or something to prevent users from copying bookmarklets as they are profoundly dangerous and do much more harm than good on a social networking site. (Note, that the above code is just a prototype, it's quite incomplete in that it doesn't support IE and probably leaves a gaping hole for someone to use clipboardData.setText)
BTW, it's easy to save the original - just toggle it in the settings: http://www.flickr.com/photos/antidaily/5686046414/in/photost...
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I guess I've been too brief in my reply, but no one has addressed the elephant in the room.

"Revolutions" in Libya and Egypt we saw recently aren't frequent occurrences.

Many dictators in history have stayed in power until the day they died. Yet, they are some of the people most able to afford "immortality".

Previously, if you had a very evil and capable dictator, the populace suffers his rule for at most half a dozen decades.
As an MIT alum I have to comment on how valuable an MIT education is. Whether you're from a public school in the middle of nowhere (like me) or from an awesome tech school, there's something of value for everyone. Not only did I finally learn physics with calculus, though I'm not an engineer, but learned a great deal about things out of my major (some of which I'm now starting a company with).

I always say MIT was the best place for me, and I can honestly say I wouldn't have been as happy anywhere else. I got to explore anything and everything under the sun, from D1 rowing and cognitive vision, to understanding hash tables and how to write malicious scripts. ;)

Looking at the finances, contact MIT financial aid if you haven't yet. There are also plenty of great opportunities on and off campus to work during all times of the year. Your education is an investment and you've got a pot of gold lying in your lap. Find some way to keep it.

Tl;dr go to MIT. You won't regret it.

If you have any questions or need any help feel free to email (see my hn profile), and good luck! :)
> I hate the term "first-world problems".

It is not meant to be dismissive of arguments as much as self deprecating satire. Cheer up mate.
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> What happens to your data? Is it stored on the device, or is the backend hosted somewhere?

That would be good to know since the data on the hard drives of POS systems are a target for thieves to the point of ignoring the cash and just taking the hard drive.

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/blog/2010/03/the-proper-way-to...
I would assume right, bug free code.
... There are some great poetry professors at MIT, but valid.
One of the best and cheapest things they can do is seed the expectation of lots of bandwidth in as many people as possible so that they then put pressure on the telecoms.
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I don't know why there is hate in the comments. Just because the word "color" is involved, doesn't mean these guys don't actually deserve the -- much more reasonable -- funding.

As a non-designer, I can testify that colourlovers is solving a problem for me. If they give me an even better crutch when it comes to design, I can easily see paying for it.

Somebody mentioned Kuler. Kuler is actually not very good. It's flash based, lacks the polish, and I find myself incredibly frustrated every time I sit down to use it. Colourlovers, on the other hand, leaves me with positive emotions every single time. In my mind, the two are not comparable.
Because everyone is afraid to die. :)
> (if you’re interested they’re targeting hires in Portland — Monsef describes the hiring market in San Francisco as “pretty nutty”...

A bit unrelated but does anybody else feel frustrated when a closing bracket is omitted in an article? Perhaps it is too much lisp exposure but I always keep scanning the text for that closing braket looking to find the end of the "scope" of the bracketed sentence.
Very this.

I was just working today with a coagulation test machine (Coag-A-Mate: http://www.gmi-inc.com/BioMerieux-Coag-A-Mate-2210.html) that can draw samples and reagents from an array of loaded vials. A "liquid-sipping robot" would actually be a VERY accurate description.
Head First books are usually pretty goos for beginners, with a lot of pictures to accompany the explanations.
If you understand English, you can write documentation.

The bar is a lot higher than that. You have to understand English and understand the functions themselves. Sometimes even getting bullet-point list of functionality out of devs is like pulling teeth - leaving you with nothing to document in the first place. Similarly an understanding of why something was designed a certain way helps angle the documentation more accurately.

Clean documentation is hard, and doubly so if you're not the person who wrote X module for OpenFoo.
Awesome looking house Nick! I'm trying to decide whether to go, already have a conference booked during same time. Congrats for getting this off the ground, I remember exchanging travel/tech ideas at SXSW.

I've been working with Chelsea on launching Startup Abroad - http://startupabroad.org - this September, which is also about bringing founders together in an awesome place abroad.
This has motivated me to somehow contribute to Python now. Although I have been Python/Perl programmer for a while. Other projects need this sort of stuff to attract contributors.

Will be nice if Perl can also do this. This will help Perl 6 efforts a lot.