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Please rate my startup: ZigzagCloud - A Mobile File Management System.
I'd like to get some early feedback about my new startup, Zigzag Cloud: A Mobile File Management System for Business.
http://zigzagcloud.com/<p>The goal of Zigzag Cloud is to provide a dead simple, and secure way for managers to get company files out to their employees iOS devices (iPads initially).
These files could be Sales Content, Training Material, Board Papers or anything else you want to view on your iPad or iPhone.<p>Our core features are around security, tagging and permissions.<p>Having large "health clients" as foundation clients, security is really important to us; we have end to end encryption and a users & groups permissions structure that ensures that client's files are safe.<p>The app has been designed so that users can sync files to their device for offline use, but must check in to the server once every 5 days to maintain access to their locally stored files.<p>Today we support all the MS Office Documents, iWork, Text Files, Images, Music, Video and of course PDFs.<p>We also can view HTML docs within the app which has lead to some interesting experimentation around HTML5 based apps within Zigzag Cloud.<p>For the techies:
We're running on Rails 3 with nginx and Postgresql. On the client side we've got a talented iOS team which has written the app from scratch.<p>If you feel like telling us about what your dream Mobile File Management System would be like, let us know too, we really want to hear about what our (future) users want!<p>Thanks in advance! Marcus
What I am missing from this analysis is the underhanded methods used by many recruiters.

I've had recruiters publishing our job postings via various job boards in order to intercept potential candidates. I've had a candidate who was told the recruiters posting he responded to was no match for him, when in reality we had simply told the recruiter we had no need for their services. Luckily the candidate managed to Google us. I've had my own CV offered to other companies without my permission. Many a LinkedIn group is set up by recruiters as their own private fishing pool.

What actually surprises me most is the apparent naivety of these recruiters: a lot of these job postings and CVs are easily traced back to the source. Some are very recognizable (it's a small world), most are easily googled.
You're heading in the right direction, but I'd actually recommend a different approach.

Try working for a few places over the next couple years and build yourself a reputation as being good at what you do. Get some products shipped that you can point to. Build some side project stuff that you're proud of. Basically, get yourself employable.

Then go off and start traveling with the laptop.

You see, when you first start out, you're unlikely to find many people willing to pay you $75/hr to work from a Hammock in Laos. Who is this kid and what is he smoking?

But if you're the kid that built X. You know, _X_! And he's available to work for us. I know, he has some silly demands about time off and we won't be able to get him on site, but hey, he built __X___!!! There's no doubt he'll deliver.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents, having built X myself at your age and milked it into 10 years of living on beaches with a laptop. It's all good out here, so I definitely hope to see you on the road some day.

But before you do, I'd recommend putting in the groundwork to make sure you can pull it off.
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Thanks for taking a stand. Trying to write a nice reply without going into a recruiter rant.. I've deleted my response 3 times now :)

One thing you left out was laziness and stupidity. Recruiters that can't understand requirements and blag into an interview you aren't skilled for. Or won't get a JD so you have to go to the interview to find out what the hell the position is about. Wastes everyones time, so many of them are like that as well.

London recruiters generally have a special place in hell :) But if you want a good recruiter story...

I was in London during the end of .com boom and the aftermath. I ended up making good friends with a recruiter who couldn't place me as I was young and times weren't the best.

He had an allowance for smoozing premium clients, several hundred quid a week. So he jacked up my CV, altered my records in the system, and we'd blow that huge recruiter bounty you mentioned on dinner, booze, strip clubs, smoozing other clients. It was awesome (and fraudulent) but still awesome.

Another good story is same guy introduced me to a client, we got drinking at lunch as part of the interview, turned into an all nighter, client broke out the coke stash, partied like the .com bubble was collapsing around us. Best interview of my life.

Next day I got a call saying I couldn't have the position because we got on to well and it wasn't good for boss worker relations... but was I keen to hit the town in the weekend LOL

Ahh.. the good old days, god bless London. But I'll never go back.
I get angry when I realize I will never again be who I've always been before, someone who lived strong and free by the creed that people are essentially good, that if you think optimistically, trust others.

Please don't let them steal this too.

I'm really sorry for your bad experience, but remember:

- You can still live strong and free.
- People are still essentially good.
- You can still think optimistically.
- You can still trust others.

It's true, you will never be who you've always been. But you can be almost the same person, still optimistic and trusting, just a little less naive. You many not realize it now, but the time will come when you may actually appreciate this as a learning experience.

There are bad people out there and some of them will want to hurt you. You don't have to sacrifice who you really are because of them. You just have to live a little bit differently.

Don't let them take away you really are. Believe it or not, that would be much worse than what they've already done.

Lots of well wishes for your quick recovery.
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I'm almost sure there is a market for it because there are a couple of competitors in the english-speaking market. I intend to make better marketing than existing competitors, that's how I see the differenciation as of now. But I'm not sure exactly which feature is the most important to build at the beginning, so in that sense it might be useful to talk to customers beforehand.
That's probably the right answer, since they have the power to do this. But of course it is disturbing and unacceptable that they would violate someone's personal property with no crime or even a suspected crime having been committed (or even if there had been a crime committed). Unfortunately the only practical way to change this that I see is to wait for the US government to collapse due to its unsustainable financial policies.
Alternative to Paypal "Buy buttons" for European-based companies?
Paypal is the clear leader in the "Buy button" field...it's easy, quick, and it just works. And also, you can use it if your company is based in Europe (mine is).

But the company's policies and reputation makes me wonder if I really want to work with them as a partner. Paypal seems to have a history of freezing accounts without much of a reason. I don't want to face this situation, no matter how small or big my business account balance happens to be.

Dear HN fellows, do you know/use/run a service that provides "Buy buttons", that can be used by non-US companies ? Thanks in advance.
Good point. There are a few more I could add to that list that are a bit more controversial which I'll address in a week or two with a new blog post.

As for the ones you've mentioned, let me at least try and explain the method behind the madness.

I've had recruiters publishing our job postings via various job boards in order to intercept potential candidates

This happens all the time and I bet the recruiters version has a slightly higher salary too right? The bottom line is that this is actually an illegal practice, at least in the UK but it isn't policed. It's against the law to advertise a vacancy that doesn't exist or duplicate a vacancy that you are not recruiting directly for. Why do they do it? Like you said, they want the candidates to come to them first so they can then claim them and introduce them to you for a fee.

I had a candidate who was told the recruiters posting he responded to was no match for him, when in reality we had simply told the recruiter we had no need for their services.

This is just pure laziness. Most recruiters hardly bother to give negative feedback in the first place as there is nothing they can personally gain from it. I think all feedback is useful personally.

I've had my own CV offered to other companies without my permission.

Another ridiculously common tactic. The idea is to test out the CV, generate interest and if they get any bites they will then call you and try and get you on board. Lazy recruitment again.
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This is truly hilarious. Banks (private businesses) have a little practice called the 5% reserve rule. They basically make money out of thin air, and legally may loan out all the money they care to create as long as they have at least 5% in real assests somewhere.

Newsflash republican dimwits: Our government does the same thing, except we tell it what to fund and we have no 5% requirement. If we want to go on creating money, we dam well will. Bankers do it every day. They just HATE it that we can do the same via our government.
Sure, but the whole premise is that you're traveling. Going to unknown territories.

If I'm going traveling, I'm sure as hell in "untrusting" mode since I don't have a clue what the locals are like.

There's strangers as in "local resident I see each day but don't know", and there's strangers as in "I've just traveled to a completely different country and have no clue who this person is"

Wanting to trust everyone and believing majority of people are good is a nice hippy dream. There's some nasty horrible people out there.
Kev, I could definitely do this on less CPU, less RAM, less power, and possibly less money (some of the parts for the custom small atom boards are more expensive, pound-for-pound, than their mainstream desktop counterparts). But the moment I hit any extra task, my spec would be all out of whack and I'd have to rebuild the box. No thanks, I'll accept a higher initial spend and a less-than-optimal running cost as insurance against the time and effort I spend keeping an infrastructure box up and running over that time period.

To give you some math back, my time on salary comes to a net of (approximately) €20/hr (and yes, it'd be far higher if I was contracting, thanks). Lets say a hard drive goes because I bought a different PSU which was closely matched to the spec but it's a friday model so the 12V line was kinda struggling. Now I have to buy the new hard drive, have it shipped, install it and rebuild it; that's going to come to 1-2 hours of my time in total on repairs, and probably three to four days where I don't have my infrastructure here which comes to around 24 hours of my time where I'm being put out because of a hardware failure. That's €480 worth of my time, against about $163/yr in running costs (because I really doubt this will be pulling 250W continously). Think of it as health insurance - yeah, odds are you'll never get back services equal to what you paid for, but that's not really the point...
I hope that one will emerge similarly to how Thawte was created to avoid cryptography export restrictions. And the founder could get very rich too and spend the money on something as cool as Ubuntu, too.
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Isn't SEO the reason they don't link in the body of their content? I recall reading that Engadget only links to itself for this reason a while back.
I remember this site from the beginning of the Internet - nice to see it still going!
Technically this is LulzSec, which isn't really exactly the same as Anonymous since it has a -name-.

And 'real activism'? Why do you get to judge what is 'real' or not? The protests they've been staging have been very effective at opening eyes. They have clearly gotten their point across. And they continue to do so.
No, I'm suggesting that Opera shouldn't offer options that overwrite web APIs.
Yeah I find getting work hard now, not because I can't get the jobs, but because I don't want to work in a lot of places. Getting old I suppose, lost the drive.

You have to take those jobs to find your niche sometimes. Thats why I put the disclaimer at the top, its my point of view, everyone has to find there own, find what makes them happy. Some people need there egos stroked, some people love high pressure, everyones different.

Having the courage to quit is a big thing, I remember the first time I quit I almost vomited, my last job I was yelling at a director of the company. I had the courage to stand up for myself and faith, but you have to earn that, most people aren't born with it.

Networking has always been the best for me, every big break I've had has been over a drink at the pub. Which is easy for me as I'm an extrovert and have a good sense of humor, so people take a liking to me.

But theres way to network if you're not extroverted, I attended programming groups and go to presentations, heaps of my friends don't leave the house except for those meetings.

Theres heaps of tips about helping in community projects (even just testing), twitter, a blog.

Infact friend of mine got head hunted for £300,000 because he ran a blog and had become a subject matter expert on security and identity, so ads aren't the only way.

For the love of good don't let me put you off applying just because Im bitter and jaded ;)
You could give coinb.in a go if you wanted to accept via bitcoins rather than USD or EUR.

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I think he is calling Republicans "rogue elephants" because they have split into dysfunctional elements is reasonable. When significant portions of their party are not willing to make any deal they lose their majority standing in the house and are forced to act as a minority party in both the house and senate.

PS: A basic functional strategy would be to block any Democratic bill in the senate and then pass a poison pill in the house which they can then present as the "only option to avoid default". Instead their only option is compromising in the Senate so they can get enough Dem support in the House to pass something. However, they are still acting like they can pass something in the House and blocking legislation in the Senate.
>If you currently engage a recruiter and they fit the description of the above to the letter then congratulations. What you have found is an individual rarer than a quark.

Rarer than a quark?
A change in the algorithm for the search in the Android market is literally killing top applications, making them very difficult to discover.

It's paradoxical that this comes from the #1 search engine.
The last is also illegal in the UK.
That are good news for Travis.
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A DDOS is not necessarily a crime

Under what circumstances or alternative definition? (Without referring to a physical analogy.)
But that's pretty much only because of the UK. There are a few countries that are supposed to be in the schengen area but aren't, a few countries that got in because it would have been impractical to keep them out, and the EU countries except the UK and Ireland (who are only out because of the UK).
Cui bono?

Hotels.

It seems likely that this "mysterious" crime was paid for by an organization serving the interests of hotels.
And just like that my plans to by the 13 inch MBA have been thrown into dissaray
You've written this in such a way that any reader will either think he or she is familiar with the your ideas or have no clue what your ideas are. Could you elaborate?
In the US, I'd definitely be going with newegg, craigs and other places kev; but in Ireland, well, places like scan are about as good as it gets. Ebay is an option as well, but the build takes longer; I have a week's vacation to get this done in for various personal reasons - so having the parts here now is worth the 10% I'd save on average if I spent a month hunting down bits on ebay and shipping them seperately.

And buying an older system on ebay and shipping it... er, no, I wouldn't be doing that locally in Ireland. I'd get an overpriced, heavily kicked system unless I was very lucky, and to quote a google sysop, hope is not an acceptable plan :D
Giving oponents a reasonable percentage of irrational behaviour is actually a normal thing in game theory. Game theory doesn't stop to apply because someone on this planet acts irrational to gain an advantage. I like to think more in terms of finding the rationale behind the "irrational behaviour". That the truthfully out of mind elephant acts this way because the cost of a failure really doesn't matter to him at that moment. If u don't care about the losses, maximising the win percantage actually is quite rational. And in a game of chicken the best chances of winning are of course if you really don't stop, ever. The only reason why most people stop before the crash, is that they worry about the cost of a failure might be bigger to them then the possible win of a success.
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We've had a decrease in the number of downloads since 1st July of 50%. Our app cannot be found by its name. This is incredible.
The situation isn't symmetric - the President will just invoke the 14th Amendment and bump up the debt ceiling next week if needs be. It's just that the Democrats seem to have decided to use this issue to demonstrate to the voting public just how unreasonable the Republicans have become in negotiations, by trying to negotiate when they don't even need to. Looking at recent polling results, the strategy seems to be working.
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I think he means a boson.
Niels, the PSU in this build actually does operate most efficiently in the 40%-60% load region according to its specs; it wasn't just a rule-of-thumb.

Also, the lower you load it, the easier it gets to cool, according to its own specs. Which I take as a nice bonus.
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Cleve Moller has now weighed in on the G+ thread:
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Or people outright lying for revenge. Or bad drivers blaming other people.
No? It's built on. Controlling the communication is about avoiding "20% discount if you pay me in cash up front" scams, and yes, about protecting AirBnBs revenue stream.

It's a trade-off: This process enhances trust since you know your host doesn't get your money until you've checked in and found everything to be in order - and the host knows that the money is held and that he won't have to deal with late or no payment.

I don't get this focus on the personal contact issue. What exactly could the victim gain from having exchanged personal contact information prior to the booking, that he was unable to do after he got the contact information? He admits he didn't even catch that the guest misspelled his own name?
The Times of London is behind a paywall and doing everything right, but still can't pay the bills. Producing quality news content is expensive and people seem largely unwilling to pay for it.

The newspapers that seem to be hanging on all appear to be cost-cutting like mad, moving from reportage to opinion and chasing the lowest common denominator.

The most successful news website in the UK (and second in the world behind the NYT) is The Daily Mail. Their web content is completely different to their print content. Offline, they're a populist rag specialising in paranoid scare stories about gypsies, muslims and cancer. Online, they rely heavily on linkbaity celebrity gossip and pictures of Pippa Middleton's arse. They've worked out that what drives traffic is different to what sells papers. "Quality" is the least important aspect of a news operation, at least in terms of profit.
I assume the author is making reference to the fact that the elephant is the Republican mascot: http://media.nowpublic.net/images/3d/5/3d5c7422c1c56dc249ed9...

Of course, it doesn't justify the claim, but it might trick people into believing it if they aren't paying attention.
One thing that surprised me in the interview was the fact that Patrick went with a sole-proprietorship model. When I started my B2B service as a side project, I went crazy looking at all the possible angles (a business suing you for a bug causing them loss of revenue, not being able to have a merchant account without a proper LLC etc) and back then it made a lot of sense to stick with the LLC model to create that shield in case something happened. Heck, one lawyer I consulted with even suggested I buy insurance.

Either, I have too much to loose and I am not a risk taker or there is something wrong with the advice I have paid for/read online :)

But the lesson is learned, from this point on, I will go with a sole-proprietorship model and avoid paying over ~$1K for the LLC..
Poll: What about brown-nosing at work?
I'm curious to see what everyone thinks about this common workplace phenomenon. At the very least I'm trying to figure out why this happens. Have you used it knowingly and successfully? Do you not care? Do you hate anyone that does it? Let's find out.
I have never and will never do it and despise those that do.
I selectively do it when I can gain something from it.
You would think I do but I am genuinely a bubbly person.
I do it as much as possible to no effect.
I do it as much as possible and have benefited from it.
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Just to set the record straight: a game developer didn't come up with the concept of Finlandization. The term was long used by scholars in geopolitics to refer to the situation of Finland, which although internally free, had aspects of its foreign policy more or less dictated by the Soviet Union.
Not many opportunistic thieves would pay to rent a target which they haven't cased, right? And meet whoever handed over the keys. Seems pretty bizarre.
Very useful - thanks for the link!
Just out of curiosity, why didn't the victim post any pictures of the damage?