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Ask HN: How much do you bullshit on a CV/Resume/Interview?
On paper I'm an advanced/senior web programmer (8+ years), and I've got that experience in several aspects of development (php, mysql, html5, css3, javascript etc. by today's standards).

I reckon I have a fair grasp of UX and UI principles and contribute positively to any meetings regarding the front-ending interfaces of all projects I've been involved in.

However, I haven't got any e-commerce experience or much experience with collaborative source control (I've used git for a good few years, but not with other people).

I'm freelancing at the moment but I don't enjoy it anymore. I want to find another job.

How can I go about getting a job without any e-commerce (or proper source control) experience? Should I lie about my abilities and catch up on anything I've not groked, or just try to find something in my experience's range and hope that I'll get some experience that way?
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Looks like they weren't really ready for this. However download times appear to be improving.
If you're stuck, trying pausing and restarting the download.
What typos?

Are they fixed already?
I'm curious if they really are doing that. It could lend some weight to their claims they don't need the music industries permission to launch a music service as they aren't streaming things, the users are accessing their own files.
True, but buying a house now is betting that that tax deduction is going to exist for the next 20 years. The financial situation of the US is insane. The next 20 years aren't going to look anything like the last 40.
How about yume nikki (dream diary)
A game, but one of the most moving and memorable things I've ever seen come from digital art.
I removed the facebook comment/post as my friends replies where showing as well. Couldn't see a way to control that in the facebook permissions.
If you are hacking your exercise routine, dieting/eating patterns, health...etc. Understand the basics and you will go further than if you didn't. Did you check out some of the essays ? Extremely relevant to the today's top killers (heart attack, cancer, stroke, obesity, diabetes...etc).
Who Backs Intellectual Ventures?
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Wow. That is nothing short of amazing. Thank you, your comment motivates me to learn more about biology. For one, I have been labouring under the illusion that the brain holds a monopoly in terms of organizing intelligent behaviour. The immune system is clearly another. Got any more examples?

This suggests that it takes a complex organism to fight disease. Once multicell organisms developed do you think an immune system was the first type of organized intelligence or that foreign invaders and parasites served as a catalyst to ever more complex systems?
What's wrong with being a developer and saying that you "don't do design"? Even in the context of this article, that can very simply mean that, you've never done design and therefore aren't good at it because you haven't worked at it. (This is certainly true for me; even though I'm both a talented coder and musician, I've never spent an hour trying to get better at design and hence don't try to foist my mediocre design skills on anyone.)
"What restrictions have others placed on you?"

Among other things, I have come to the realization that the way that our schools are structured (in the US anyway) promotes this type of thinking you're talking about.

There's a reinforcing feedback loop taking place:

1. You have no natural interest in (say) algebra, possibly due to lack of knowledge about what it is and what it is for. This is never explained to you in a way that makes sense to you.

2. You don't spend time thinking about algebra, and neither does your subconscious.

3. You do your homework, but don't care much, and don't care to learn. Because you don't care, you don't care to understand deeply. You're now stuck learning in a shallow way, or, in other words, memorizing inert knowledge. The knowledge is mostly unusable to you, and the homework and tests are structured in such a way to allow shallow understanding to get by, so you're fine. You mainly care to meet the expectations of the teacher (get a good grade and be viewed favorably), so all is good.

5. Because of the above, you mostly suck at tests, and mostly suck at meeting the teacher's (and peer's) expectations. You suck compared to others in the class.

6. Because you don't fully understand the implications of what you're learning, you continue not to care. Because you are sucking, you care even less.

7. See #1 with the same or other topics.

I'd recommend reading about Carol Dweck's Entity vs. Incremental Self-Theories on Learning. Incredible stuff.

"The amount of skill that you have in a certain area is proportional to the amount of work that you put into it."

Instead of using the word "work", I would say "proportional to the amount of time you and your mind spends on it." One reason people are significantly and seemingly naturally better at certain skills is because they are naturally drawn to it. Things you are naturally drawn to you both consciously AND subconsciously spend time on. In the past I've never spent much time contemplating or trying to understand the intricacies of the stock market, and neither has my mind, and I have never had much interest, and so I'm not a particularly skilled stock broker.
I don't see the problem with this. They host your photos for free and they want to try to make some money out of it. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
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Learning from Shadow of the Colossus Part 2
I would highly recommend that you don't lie. As a person who has hired for several positions and who also has a good BS detector, a discovered lie is always a deal breaker. It puts your entire candidacy into question and you're resume goes straight into the trash can.
I'm not experienced enough to say that you absolutely can, or cannot. I only have some experience to guide me, and I haven't seen it done yet.

That said..., I have an uneasy feeling that trying to do it would end up with a PL/1 type of situation where, depending on your background, you write it with whatever baggage you bring with you, and the language would get large to the point of different types of programmers writing in their own familiar subset of the language.

Or, I'm completely wrong. =)
The limit between Erlang and OTP is really thin. For example, the code server, the bit of running processes in charge of loading new modules in the VM, is a gen_server, an OTP component. Same with the standard library, kernel and whatnot, which are all OTP applications, loaded with the OTP framework. If you dig deep enough, the dependency becomes rather circular.
The irony of the supposed dichotomy of creative/technical is that both art and programming are incredibly creative fields where one must synthesize with very limited constraints. It is very difficult to excel at either without passion and dedication.
Ask HN: Why is it that my submission only shows up when I'm logged in?
I think someone should just build a tool in html/css. Seems appropriate to me.

Probably an open source project so other webdevelopers can help, I would expect that it would improve fast.
Actually most cash registers start at between $100-$200, and don't do credit card processing, much less SMS receipts, Google-analytics style sales data tracking, etc etc etc... The value of Square + iPad beats the pants off what sort of cash register you can buy for $500.

Not to mention that when the day is over, you have an iPad.
Why would you even consider lying? Don't you have any integrity? Isn't there some sense inside you about behaving in an appropriate manner? A moral compass?

Another greedy and grasping person willing to do anything to serve their own interests.
Communicating objects bidirectionally over simple pipes
Gameloft CFO calls app development 'an ugly scene'
The ability to watch them on mobile and tv. Hulu is not free on any mobile device or any set-top box, but Hulu Plus is available on those.
Why not make the language at least very similar to an existing language? Sure, even if it isnt EXACTLY the same, it at least has a number of people that already write in it, editors that deal with it correctly, etc. Plus you can use general purpose code snippits from such a language, which will help greatly decrease the amount of libraries you will need to make directly before this becomes useful to people.
I find this insulting and generally reinforcing of crappy stereotypes.
The parent was not intimating what you inferred.
Well, if someone wants to give me something for nothing, I'll take it. :D Please don't get me wrong. Donations are definitely accepted!

But I want to create win-win situations with my business relationships. If I am working for a company, they are getting my product, I am getting money (possibly benefits).
If I am not working, e.g., I am dorking around in Mexico for a month on vacation, the company is not netting value out of me, and if they are paying me, that's a drain on their resources. I want my employer to be awesome, because as a member of that company, the awesomeness trickles down. :-)
I recommend you give Invoice Machine a shot, I like it better than Fresh Books.
With all due respect to these continuing amazing achievements, I'm no longer blown away by the ever-decreasing combination of price, size, power consumption against ever-increasing GPU, I/O & arithmetic performance. It seems clear this is just going to keep on at the same amazing rate, for quite a while.

What I wait eagerly to be blown away by is innovative uses[1] for these supercomputers that fit on your thumbnail and could be powered by the kinetic energy you generate when you walk (excuse the hyperbole.) Bring on the applications!

By which I mean applications of technology, not touchscreen apps. Low-power server farms & netbook-/iPad-alikes are fine and all, but I'm excited about what else gets created when excess computing power is essentially throwaway cheap and super portable...

"Ubiquitous computing" has been coming for a while now, I can't wait to actually see it!

</rant> :)

[1] iPads and iPad-derived ideas aside.
I think this is a joke?
To me, this is consistent with Paul Graham's essay "Keep Your Identity Small." If I have strongly identified myself as a "technical person" then I have excluded myself from the possibility of becoming conversant in non-tech things, like good graphic design. Because I'm just a techie!

Then this got me thinking about footnote #2 in the essay - that perhaps it is a net win to call oneself a scientist, which implies that one is not committed to any belief in particular. I was pretty pleased when I read this; "great, I'm a scientist, I must be pretty open-minded!" Easy.

Except that - and this article seems to highlight the point - if you box yourself into being a "scientist" (I will suggest that many of us techies consider ourselves scientists, or at least science-minded) then you run the risk of excluding yourself from non-science things. Things like graphic design. (or marketing, accounting, or musicianship.)

So. I am not a scientist! Not a techie. Not a designer. I am a person who is pretty (darn) good at technology and still has a lot of difficult things, like graphic design, to practice and get better at!
Identifying myself as something of a developer/designer, I'm always interested to see what others are doing. There's no info in your profile, got a blog or something?
The designer, the developer and the devigner
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Creator of China's Great Firewall Pelted With Shoes
If a product is addictive, but embarrassing to share...  
...what sort of viral mechanisms could possibly be embedded to ensure fast organic growth?
Ask HN: Startups and Frameworks that hurt
Everyone is always asking about best startup practices, what startups they spend money on and best frameworks to use.

Lets turn this around and learn from the other shoe, what startups are not worth your money and what frameworks are bound to kill you..... thoughts ?
You submission has been marked "dead". This means nobody can see it unless they have "showdead" turned on in their profile options. Logged out users cannot see "dead" links. Unless i am recalling incorrectly, you cannot see when your own links have been marked dead.
Looks like it is still ongoing: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/massachusetts/madce/1:2009c... reports news from Nov 2010. Can't decode the legal language.
Is this it? http://www.uvm.edu/~cmplxsys/newsevents/pdfs/2010/nowak2010a...
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Group_selection for the prevailing view.
Me too. Flagging the linkbait articles that practice the technique to help stop it.
The Chili Singularity (Internet of Peppers)
I love my X201 tablet. It's the first laptop I've been physically attracted to. It's my first ThinkPad, and Lenovo totally won me over. At $2000 retail, I was hoping they'd keep such a professional work tablet going. But alas, no, the X220 tablet is a massive loss:

- Glossy screens (choose between touch and reflections, or less reflections but no touch)
- Loss of 32 pixels vertically, for even wider display. No thanks.
- Wider body. The keyboard was already full-size, a wider body helps nothing.
- New battery that pops the laptop up in the back, instead of the nice flush battery that gave you a spine to grab onto in tablet mode.
- Loses backcompat with the X201 UltraBase docking station
- And still no HDMI.

And yet, if I want Sandy Bridge (instant gain of 20% clock speed), what're my options?

I was really looking forward to buying an X220 when they came out. Now, I'll sit and wait for some other vendor to get a proper lightweight work tablet out.
I would've thought it actually came down to how much you lied. But regarding the question that was given out there...

Yeah, I've considered lying, but not necessarily to deceive. I'd be up to date with all necessary API's within less than a week, but my point is that because I've not had any real-world experience, would it be bad to say a white lie in an industry that relies so massively on past-experience?

And has anyone else lied? Or am I the only one who would consider lying about something small in order to achieve something better?
As well as a pretty sick CSS3 turntable hack he has demoed a few times. http://www.flickr.com/photos/52201706@N04/5573063518/in/phot...
Why Are We Still Consuming News Like It’s 1899?
Reminds me of the loudness wars...and then I become sad.
And just because someone has a mental illness that causes strife in their personal life, it doesn't make their work inherently irrational.
What year/model MacBook Pro is that?
I can understand if I was caught out. I have had experience (but no real-world experience) in ecommerce.

I'd be able to answer all your questions, deliver results, learn anything I didn't know in a few days.

Would it be that bad in this case?
Also, if anything, considering this, I regard myself to have a high integrity because I'm in a dilemma as to whether to lie or not. At least I'm asking for opinions...
Mobile Billboards
Mobile billboard Advertising is a commercializing use of pushing on the side of a motor truck or trailer that is generally mobile. Mobile Billboard Advertising Sydney provides those kinds of information & advantages.
And why are submissions marked as being dead by default? I find it hard to believe someone is marking it dead - even this question - within less than three seconds.

I'd rather prefer to be banned instead of wasting my time.
I missed that in my first read, but I [mistakenly] thought that first sale only applied to consumers, not business licensing agreements.
Diabetic Signs – Is Diabetes A Disease, Juices For Weight Loss
Is diabetes a disease? Diabetic signs can be alleviated with juices for weight loss. Most diabetes is related to obesity so it is important to watch the calories. A great way of doing that and still getting good nutrition is through the drinking of juice.
This project is a great way to introduce designers and artists to programming. Processing is great but requires a lot of overhead to get started. DesignBlocks simplifies the commands and makes coding more intuitive, especially for visual projects.
Ruby on Rails for the backend, HTML5/CSS3/JS for the front-end. Runs on heroku's and pusherapp's (html5 webhooks api) free plan so hosting it costs $0 and it's pretty fast. Immediately.

It's built on open source technology (rails) but the app itself is closed source.
What i have always found fascinating is how the biology of macroscopically large beings is so intimately intertwined at so many levels with that of the microscopic. For instance, the average human contains/carries 10x more nonhuman cells than human ones.
I haven't worked in C (or C++) heavily in about 6 years, since I shut down my prior company and stopped working on Squid or having to look at kernel code. But, these errors are simply beautiful, and make me have vague longings to work on C projects again (I'm sure I'll get over those longings soon).

These are the kinds of mistakes I made all the time when working in C, and the kind of thing that made coding extremely tedious...it feels like magic when the compiler catches them with such clear and concise warnings. For whatever reason, I didn't use lint very much back then, as I guess I always assumed I knew what I was doing and that the compiler would catch mistakes. Having this capability in the compiler is pretty cool and brings C/C++ a small step closer to working in higher level languages, is what I think I'm trying to say here.
TVs have much larger pixel sizes than laptops, so it may not work on a laptop.
This blog post reads like a thinly veiled anti-immigration rant to me.

The reason why most American kids won't be attending Ivy League schools (which the author focuses on) despite having the appropriate grades is because their parents don't have the financial means to pay for the high tuition fees. Not because some foreign student beat them to a place.

The post reads as if the "American dream" is being denied to these kids because of 'internationalism' when really its because of good ol' American capitalism.

written by a foreigner living in US who never went to university anyway
I've been learning mandarin as a second language for the past couple of years and I came across subtitle translations of English movies to mandarin (so, you could burn a DVD with these subtitle files and be able to see the Mandarin). This has helped me in the learning process.

Many of the subtitle sites have been taken down by the MPAA. I love the idea of your site, but I think if it gets big enough, they will eventually take you to court.
Microsoft Wants to Rule the White Spaces
That seems to be the goal of http://whosay.com/

ex:

http://www.whosay.com/rihanna/
http://www.whosay.com/50cent
Well you could hire this hooded guy that i know that stands on the street corner and calls himself Dave...
BOMB BANK Desktop LED Digital Alarm Clock
Want to buy BOMB BANK Desktop LED Digital Alarm Clock? Come to TOMTOP, there is a creative clock, bomb shape and bank function, maybe you will like.
People forget that AOT can only get you so far. JIT not only has all the info the AOT mechanism has, but also has real runtime fact based data, and can do wonders with it.
Phaxio: The First JSON Enabled Fax API
I think people do know the difference but reviews offer them a very public way to complain.

I don’t think there are easily discoverable and public review sections for the services Amazon and other online retailers provide†. Are there gaps in the selection of products? Are prices appropriate? Is the shipping slow? Is the packaging inappropriate? Are you given inaccurate information about the arrival of you orders? Are songs slow to download? Is the user interface wonky?

There is no place for consumers to publicly review online retailers on their own websites. That sucks. It makes product reviews less useful because they are riddled with all that noise that is in no way related to the actual product. It also doesn’t allow consumers to review online retailers in a way that’s accessible to other consumers. This is a failing of the online retailer, not consumers.

I think online retailers are quite happy that all the talk about their services is spread around in all the product reviews and not in any central place. They can even delete criticism of their service with the justification that the review in question is off-topic.

It’s not even as though this is a hard problem. You would just have to ask the reviewer what he wants to write about (the product or the service).

†Amazon’s review guidelines (http://www.amazon.com/gp/community-help/customer-reviews-gui...), for example, do not even allow users to publicly share information about or criticize Amazon’s service in reviews. You are asked to use the feedback form which is not public. Quote: “What’s not allowed: […] Feedback on the seller, your shipment experience or the packaging (you can do that at www.amazon.com/feedback and www.amazon.com/packaging)”
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lol, From your vauge description it sounds like you made a porn site with "share this" buttons that no one is using.
I don't care what the aspect ratio is, I can't move back from 1200 vertical lines. Dell offers some nice laptops in the 1920x1200, but they are expensive.
Twitter acquires TweetDeck
Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation
So it's about acceptable lies and unacceptable lies. I suppose it is all a matter of opinion which lies are acceptable and which are not.

Santa Claus for example is a well accepted lie which is okay to propagate.
Seemed to be challenging to find the offer on Amazon. Here is the direct link http://tinyurl.com/3lkrosr Worked fine for me. 1-click purchase + download from cloud.
I think technologies like this are going to really take off in the medium/long term. The ability of modern radio technologies to mitigate/minimize interference is at the point where regulatory spectrum management is no longer necessary, except perhaps from a high level, general rule of "don't be an asshole".

Once legacy equipment starts to fall off (boundless optimism here), we will be looking at some very exciting technologies that can possibly have multi kilometer ranges, huge bandwidth and purchasable/deployable by anyone.

This could be the final blow to the last mile that major ISPs in america have a stranglehold on.
Top 5 Web Tools for Social Media Gamification
I see somebody was at #sllconf, or watching the simulcast...

This was an incredible presentation by @sgblank... if other VCs start to buy into this, it could totally transform the startup scene. Like somebody said... "@sgblank should have just dropped the mike and walked off stage, because he killed it." :-)
Instead of doing that do some SEO on your resume, write down every piece of software you've ever touched. Then spam it out to all the job hunting boards. If you've used git then put that, if it comes up in the interview tell them the truth.

If you were interviewing for a build engineering position knowledge of git-hooks and all the features would probably be important, what most companies are looking for is the ability to commit / push. Even if you had never used it I don't think it would be a deal breaker, it takes about 10 minutes to figure out git anyway.
Depending on what your kids want to do, it may not really matter. It is especially likely that they can find a path to a good career without going to any of these ivy league schools. Regardless, if there is a demand for more schools, and likely more specialized schools, they will pop up.
It was quite speedy for me just now. No complaints.
I dunno i really like the glass screen on my macbook pro. I dont mind the gloss at all. I would say I prefer it even. Offering a choice would be nice though.