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I used it without any problems for a number of years. Once the keystrokes make it into your muscle memory, you're off to the races.
The hurdle for this is that to do it well, you need polyphonic pitch detection, which you could say is a little tricky.

However, I worked on the prototype for a music app that does polyphonic pitch detection for a greater effect than page turning. It listens and follows along note by note as you play your (real) guitar and, as you hit the notes properly, actually uses the master tracks of rock songs to give you a very cool sensation of playing the real song. It's called Rock Prodigy: Guitar and is free with per-song IAPs if you want to try it out.
Do higher RPM loading spinners give the impression of faster load times? If the user counts the revolutions, a faster spinner would yield more spins per operation, so the opposite could conceivably be true. More likely, there is a sweet spot. I would think a smooth consistent spinner would be the most important factor.
i was actually looking for a site that has a database of all the phone information.

so for example i can just download a zip file which has 1200 thumbnails and an .sql file that has 1200 phone models linking to those pictures with their descritpion etc.
I imagine any mass protest in the Manhattan business district wouldn't be taken to kindly. Remember that the right to organize and petition for a redress of grievances is directed towards the government. You actually have no right to protest and impede traffic in private areas.
Simply awesome ... looking forward to buy one if shipping price to italy isn't to high

edit:
up to 6 weeks to get one :S ( in italy )
Honestly, never had to deal with any of these. My brother and I would only work for people who had the money and knew what they wanted up front. We were very straightforward (and firm) about our rates, and if someone didn't pay us on time, we'd stop all work on their project until they did. Scope creep was never an issue because we worked hourly ;).

The thing I didn't like most about contracting was having my time split up so much between different projects. I like to work on one thing for days at a time, and this wasn't always realistic with several projects going at once.
I'm impressed that the guy managed to find a wife while working so hard during the earlier years.
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"enterprises"? of what sort? a particular industry? Networking with people in that industry at their events, perhaps even speaking at those events, would do you a world of good, ime.

Find some local networking groups that deal with the industr(y|ies) you target, and start to infiltrate their ranks :)

P.S. "low/no cost marketing" is one of the sessions at http://indieconf.com this year :)
This signature looks like a ribbon/bow to tie the box up above with. i.e. visually it looks like a request to gift wrap.

Sorry, just nit picking, I know this was just a one off.
Infograph your Linkedin Resume with a new Toronto Startup.
I don't know where you are located abotwright, but out here in California, by the time it gets to a termination, the employee has all but stopped coming into the office and burned the place down. From my perspective, taking credit for always firing the right person, is setting the bar really, really low. I'm much more impressed with a manager that manages to fire all the people that should, not that he should have fired the people he did.

For whatever reason, only the bottom 5% ever get fired. Where organizations tend to make the mistakes you are talking about is during layoffs, in which quite often, the wrong person is let go - but, in "theory" layoffs aren't performance related - though, in practice, they almost always are. Top Performers are almost never laid off, despite their role in the organization, and bottom performers somehow always turn out to be redundant. One exception to this is when a company drops a division or location - then it's across the board.
My dad once sent a piece of mail with just two numbers on it: The PO box and the zipcode.

But just the numbers, no words or anything. And it got there, but the post office clerk complained about it to the recipient :) (It was a small town.)

You could probably do that with a regular street address as well if you used zip+4. I.e. just the house number and the zip+4.
Elance got us a lot of ongoing work, believe it or not. It seems like a tool for finding people in Russia to do your work for cheap, but a profile on Elance (at least a few years ago, mind you) got my brother and I two very large, ongoing contracts (which in turn led to more work from others as well).

Also, LinkedIn seems to be a very good tool for self-marketing nowadays, I hear a lot of people get work through it very regularly.
Ditto here. Maybe not 50%. Well... some of the work I do involves state agencies, and I've learned to deal with the pace of the machine. That said, once something's been 'approved' (meaning, an invoice has been approved) it's almost always < 60 days with the state.

I've had some clients I've worked with start off by saying (couple times a bit rudely) "now look here, we can't pay the day you submit an invoice - don't even think that's going to happen - it'll usually be 2-4 weeks before you get a check!". I figured they'd been burned pretty badly by people pestering them for money.

Turns about about 1/3rd of my subcontractors pester me the same, and I encouraged it because I used to paypal money the same day or next day after getting an invoice from them. I can do it, but there are times when I'm dealing with a lot of people, and other work, and simply don't have the time to deal with 'paperwork' but maybe once per week. I don't get the rudeness from people as much as the 'hey, i really need this money to buy food this week' stories. Word to the wise - don't pull that on me - it makes me want to find someone else who won't put me in that position.

So... maybe that should be another issue on the list of things you hate about contracting - dealing with subcontractors :)
Web comics, documentation, anything where clicking 'back' should get you to the position you were browsing last without waiting for an ajax call, etc. These all benefit from pagination.
I ain't no SEO expert but patio11 who is an expert mentioned it as the reason for picking 'appointmentreminder.org' for his project.
This was a big one for us too, which is why we did half and half. We contracted enough to get by, but also spent a lot of time working on our own projects on the side. What eventually happened though is the contract work slowly took over most of what we were doing. It's hard to strike a balance here.
Don't give up on sites like Elance. Don't be afraid to ask what you are worth for. If you take the time, find the right clients, and make the right pitch, you will get paid. Pick a niche and go with it.
I see Netflix having a problem on two fronts. The DVD side in having to deal with the USPS crisis and the streaming sides lack of good content while having to pay too much to fix it.

The postal service is itself trying to shut down Saturday delivery and night delivery. My dad is a postal worker. Him and most of his fellow coworkers do not have a problem with this change. They know the service is in trouble so they are willing to make compromises. This means that at least some of the changes are going to go through but they have to be authorized by Congress first. Right now the only reason why it hasn't happened yet is that some Congressmen are scared of how these changes are going to affect rural areas in their district. This change by nature is going to lessen the value of Netflix's DVD service. The question is by how much? You would have to order your movie by Wednesday or you're not going to have anything to watch over the weekend. Netflix really does not have any control over this.

The streaming sides problems are of course that everyone wants a chunk of the action. If Netflix wants to stream newer movies then they are going to have to pay up. Netflix streaming already has a wide assortment of movies but the most popular section of any video store is the new movie section. Its the same with Netflix as well. Hollywood learned the lessons of the music business vs Apple. They do not want to see that game played again. Apple has a stranglehold on the music world right now. Netflix is not going to be afforded the same luxury in doing the same with movies.

The crazy part is that, for me at least, $16 for unlimited streaming and one movie at a time is not a bad value. But it is the jarring way in how they raised the price which had me ready to quit the service all together. The $6 jump felt like a screw you.
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There's also a PHP sample app here: http://code.google.com/p/google-plus-php-starter/
Absolutely not. I was forced to use Jira at a previous job which actually made me actually quit my job and start building my own project management app (which took part in YCS11)!
Oh for sure, networking and word of mouth seems to be 95% how the business works. I was just interested specifically in whether any success had been had with any forms of advertising other than adwords and seo.
re: your last sentence -- agree, but I suspect most people will not need that much power
yah, HTML5 boilerplate if you use it as your boilerplate, you will end up using all of it because it provides everything that you will need to end up providing in some fashion every single time time. This project is just a collection of libraries.
Ha we had one of these once, but a Twitter clone. I kept trying to convince the person to just integrate with twitter instead of rebuilding it with a few tweaks, but to no avail. Sadly, we didn't end up taking the job...
You don't need a third party: https://www.usps.com/webtools/htm/Address-Information-v3-1a....
Each dyno (isolated running process) is given the same type of container to run in and the difference in data storage is trivial (a couple megs of gems).

In this case it's more about making it simple to get started. Rails has a fairly large learning curve, and the asset pipeline in 3.1 has only made it worse.
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Next question: Will Windows 8 tablet apps run on PC hardware?

More specifically, will we be seeing native ARM applications for Windows 8, or will the Win8 tablets run strictly scripts and .net code?

My bet is that Microsoft is going to try to nip further compatibility problems in the bud, and not allow native applications on Windows/ARM. We shall see.
I don't use the iHackerNews API for news:yc. It seemed too unreliable to use a third party service that seemed to keep having issues, and I didn't want user data to go through a third party. But I think it's cool to easily create a HN app without rewriting the scraping.
Except that it's often more like 80 minutes vs. 80 hours, or the inexperienced---although it's more often the less ... skilled---simply can't solve the problem at all. In my other comment I mentioned debugging; my ability to recognize the ... pattern/smell/whatever of a bug will often let me heuristically narrow the search to an amazing degree. What once would take me hours or days became minutes.
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This is interesting to me. Budget isn't something the conversation leads with?
hey all, thanks for the positive discussion. Apologies that my blog is terribly slow. I didn't notice that it spiked because, well, it was between 4:30 and 7:30 ;)

I'm working in my spare time to get it all off of wordpress and onto Jekyll so i can just host it out of S3 and get rid of the EC2 instance its running on.
> bittorrent HUGE amount of content, although I've never done it, the virus risk

For being such a tech-savvy group of people, I'm rather disappointed to have heard this line so often from HNers. When was the last time there was an exploit found in the codecs for popular formats such as XViD or x264?
... or drop it altogether and use some form of infinite scroll? There was a great solution to this at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
I recall the shitstorm I brewed when I made the same suggestion as your last one (auto-login links in email) some time ago on HN.

Glad to see Quora is doing it now, too.
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I get what you're saying. Though more is not necessarily better, I have no doubt that someone with abilities similar to myself without a family could put in more effective hours and outperform me.

Like so many things in engineering, I have analyzed the situation and made the tradeoffs that i think provide the best solution to my particular situation.
Cool, thanks for the inside scoop!
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http://memolane.com/site/ seems to have done a great job and will possibly only get better.
Software engineers aren't making widgets, and its hard to measure output quantitatively. I can assure you that your ability to make good decisions isn't as good after 18 hours of working as it is during the first 6. In engineering, good decision making can save you tons of time in the long run.
LOL. I'm lucky, that's very true. She is a saint.
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Absent the context it really came off as "People I like use it, you should too."

This raises the question of how to engage a reader who has never seen your site and has followed a link to specific post, with no idea if it is part of some larger narrative.

It could get tedious to have to preface every post with, "As you may recall, I previously [link], [link] ..."

I wonder if there's some way to automate that?

If you've been thinking through the ins and outs of getting a community for your site it might be interesting to read a more comprehensive post, something that pulls together the various things you've looked at and done.

I had been looking at different commenting tools for a site of mine, ruby-doc.org. Finally decided on Disqus, partly because I'd some experience with it but more because I knew that a few worthwhile Ruby sites were using it, so I likely posters would also likely have a Disqus account.

If you know that readers of your site are already likely to have an account or something (OpenID perhaps) that works with this or that discussion tool that could be an important factor.
That's really touching.

In a happier version of this, I was at a wedding rehearsal dinner where the bridesmaids got up and read a similar narrative, stitched together from their own chat histories with the bride.

It went from "I met someone last night! :)" to "I'm excited about our date" to "I think things are getting serious" to "Oooh I'm so pissed at him right now" to "We got engaged!"
In many cases it is expected or at least the cultural norm. However, I think that there is a growing body of research that shows how unhealthy it can be.
Cool, do you scrape with your own tool then? If so, what do you use?
When I got this email it reminded me I still had a Delicious account as I had stopped using it last November when the news first broke. Makes me think I don't need to save as many bookmarks as I use to since I never did find a replacement. Thanks Yahoo, you simplified my life.
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So I have a 3 year old website that averages 7000 uniques day and a user database of around 200,000 people, 100,000 of whom have signed up to receive newsletters etc.

i've heard from people that you can sell an advertising in a newletter anywhere from $0.10-$0.20 per email. is this true? if so, where can i go to find a solid sales person to find me customers for that kind of advertising and also to sell advertisement on my website for me.
Ask HN: Interview advice
Hello HN,

I have recently completed my bachelors degree and have started interviewing, however, I am having a hard time with phone interviews that require you to code.

I seem to get very flustered and cannot think properly and therefore under perform greatly during the phone interview+coding stage of the interview process. I get stuck on a question with a mental block and after the interview is often I immediately think of the perfect solution. I'm not use to having what feels like someone breathing behind my back watching me code.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
>I want to do a version of that which begins with the credit card types desaturated and then colors the one that matches the number entered (for which there are Free js libs)

This is similar to the way PayPal does it, which I've always thought is a great, subtle way of confirming the card type.
The list of valid cities in the US is likely huge -- having an auto complete list that matched anything would likely make it harder as the users has to scroll past a lot of close but not the right ones.

Populating the auto-complete list with the 100 biggest cities and accepting any input would probably give a better compromise.

Or why not just ask for zip code first and auto-populate the rest?
Following an existing score should be a lot easier than de novo polyphonic transcription. For example, you could almost just track the beat while ignoring all the pitches.
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I disagree. The form is really poorly designed. One big specific issue is the Submit button is red, it should be green, this violates a design 101 principle. Thanks.
Cool! Reminds me of a Chrome Experiment that Ryan Alexander did: http://onecm.com/projects/canopy/
It varies by state. She has a track record of employment, and her most recent termination was involuntary and not for cause, which is generally enough to qualify.
This, but more specifically for me, writing code for features that you find utterly repugnant.
Sorry. That sounds like something meant for C++. Most of this sounds like pretty key stuff like the timer. Didn't anyone do a basic proof of concept first to flush this stuff out? Just curious.
A long shot, but: Do you happen to remember the title of the article? Or at least where you read it?
Last time I used it, Wireshark required X11 and had a typical ugly X11 GUI .. I'm sure lots of Mac users would love a polished interface designed for the Mac. That said, this doesn't look like it has near the same functionality yet, and it would take a long time to duplicate all of it.
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Who misinterpreted this originally? I didn't see anyone who did. Who in the tech industry thought that Sinofsky was saying that you could run native x86 apps on ARM?
Production costs for big budget films with a lot of effects are skyrocketing, not plummeting.
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I think a .com name is important, but I can't back that up with any real evidence.

I know of a little anecdotal evidence: A .org I know of used to routinely have to remind people it was .org, not .com. The owner of another .org I know of once stated bluntly they "farked up" by not buying the .com version as well, which was bought at some point by a company (using the same name, if I recall correctly -- physically located elsewhere). And, of course, there is the infamous whitehouse .com to take advantage of the fact that even for .gov sites, people mentally default to the .com mode.

No formal studies or anything (that I know of), but there is some anecdotal evidence that it makes a difference of some sort.
It's just the opposite but you may find it interesting:

http://plusfeed.frosas.net/
If you watch the talks you'll see that Metro supports native apps for x86 and ARM. Native requires a recompile, .NET and HTML don't.
There's Flash on plenty of ARM tablets and phones right now. Firefox and Chrome could ship ARM versions with Flash for Windows 8 on ARM too.
Practice!

Coding in an interview is unlike any kind of programming you have probably done so it's only natural to freak out a little. Personally the whole exercise of writing code not on a computer is bizarre enough on its own!

Find some problems that you might expect to be asked and then actually code them up on a white board or at least with a pen and paper. Bonus points for getting a friend to ask you questions.

here's a nice looooong blog post basically saying the same thing: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
My only gripe with http://ihackernews.com is the clickability. My oversized thumbs doesn't play well with the small click target.
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Can a venture capitalist add value beyond money?
You need to get 50% payment upfront.

Or work in blocks of money on account (eg for a $50k job, you have the client send you $10k in advance and when that is near depleted you have them wire you the next $10k, etc)
It should work on Mango.
Good point. What if I emphasize the "signature line" concept and insert a line to emphasize the "these two are separate" concept?

As in: http://olekbeluga.com/targetgiftbox2.png
No, they won't.

But compare their response with what you see in DC.
Maybe not the people "in the tech industry", but a lot of people online did, thinking Windows tablets will be "real tablets" with full-fledged apps. If you look at the comments in that article, they still can't believe this is true. If you read the article it even says Microsoft contradicted Intel earlier this year when they said x86 apps won't run on the ARM-based Windows 8, saying Intel's statement is "misleading and inaccurate".

But now everyone will realize that on tablets, Microsoft is starting from scratch, meaning they are behind even Honeycomb in app support, where besides the tablet-specialized apps, most other phone apps work, too, and scale up pretty well.
I agree. I think what anyone needs for success or change (both personal and professional) is hope and grit. It takes hope to take the first steps in any positive direction. It takes both hope and grit to continue taking steps, even through tough times.

Inspiration matters because it creates hope.
I'm a consultant and I get this a lot but I actually agree with it, esp where the client is a larger firm with numerous employees.

When I was on the other side of the table, and an employee working in a dev team that also consisted of contractors, the only reason I didn't quit and demand to be rehired as a contractor on 200% of my salary is because the firm only used contractors for grind work. I knew that all of the work that would be interesting and furthering would be farmed out to the employees out of loyalty.