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The Chegg Story PT 2: The Hacker
I came to Silicon Valley in 06' in pursuit of doing something great. In fact I boarded a flight on one of those low cost air carriers you have never heard of just 4 hours after I finished my final exam from the University of Minnesota to start my new life in a place called Santa Clara.

A guy name Greg Soroka, who was Chegg's first Product Manager was kind enough to pick me up from SFO. I arrived at 10PM, a bit tired, full of hope- thinking to myself is this really happening? Greg, I would come to learn was a habitually late to everything. It was December 15th 2006 and I came to a harsh realization that California weather did not warrant short sleeve shirts year round. To my surprise, I saw a black Honda Civic roll up and a twenty something pop up with a smile and cigarette freshly lit hanging from his mouth greeting me for the first time "Hi, im Greg, are you Ousama."

I threw my suite case, my life belongings in a tattered 1980s Samsonite I stole from the family basement, and jumped in. The ride from 101 South to our familiar Great America parkway exit with filled with awkward moments, ones you would expect when meeting your host for the first time. As we strolled down 101 at 11:30PM I starred out my window at the buildings lining the freeways in awe of companies I had always admired but never seen. It was almost as if a factory of start ups and companies was neatly arranged alongside perfectly manicured palm trees. We finally exited towards Great America Parkway. Greg asked me if I was hungry and recommended I try a "Double, Double, Animal Style with Animal Style Fries." As in Rome do as the Romans I thought, "Sure, sounds good to me."

We pulled through the drive through, with food in hand Greg reaches over and says "Welcome to Silicon Valley...Now let's get to work." A few minutes later we pulled up into a mushroom shaped building on Old Ironsides Dr, the building completely vacant other than a few inoperable cars sitting out front. Greg switched the lights on, pulled out his macbook and started back up where he left off before picking me up from the airport.

That night we debated about new products, how to attract more users and what the coolest internet companies were up to. It was like a fraternity, literally...cans of mountain Dew lined desks, pizza boxes littered the floor, and the smell of dirty laundry aired the room. We worked that night until 5AM, I remember because I was exhausted and coming down with a cold.

We locked up the office and headed out to Greg's apartment where I was given VIP access to his couch, which also served as my bed for the next few weeks. I guess this was my first taste of what it meant to be a hacker, it was more about being open to any situation, rapidly adapting yourself to your surroundings and making things work for the better..
Webapp apps that allow people to use their domain - how to handle email
Morning,

Working on a webapp which effectively can be used for someones website, so they can setup a CNAME or to make it easier for them they can just change their name servers to my server so I can send out the A records. Then by going to their website url it will goto my webapp.

Issue I have though is how to handle the email, people will want 1-2 pop/imap accounts and I don't really want to run my own mail server to support them.

I have had a look and can't find any email hosting service which is just 50c or $1-$2 a month, usually it's min of $10 and that will eat into my profit to much.

My users aren't tech savvy so I can't expect them to edit their own DNS and setup MX records etc - I would do this for them.

Anyone have any clues?
Until quite recently, I would not have understood what you meant. The cost per gigabyte for even really fast SSDs is lower than the cost per gigabyte of RAID cache ram, so I'd have said "what are you on about?"

But, I think I understand what you are on about now.

Most of us (well, speaking for myself, but I think this is true of most SysAdmins) have very strong experience telling us "more read cache is better" - I mean, more read cache, up until you can cache everything the server commonly reads, makes an absolutely huge difference in performance.

So we look for big caches.

The problem is that most of us don't have the same intuitive grasp of where the benefits stop coming when adding more space to the write cache, as most of us don't have a whole lot of experience with large write-cache systems (outside of netapp/emc type boxes, and I personally attribute their superior performance in part to their gigabytes of ram that can be safely used as write-back cache.)

So if write cache works the same way as read cache? yes I will pay the premium for the fastest 32GiB SSD I can find, if I can use it all as write cache.

The thing is, I'm told, that after a few gigabytes, the returns to adding more write cache fall off sharply; and if that's true, then yeah, you are right, 'cause you are wasting most of the SSD.

I mean, the real question here is "how much write-cache do I need before I stop seeing significant benefit to adding more write-cache?" and if that number is much above what you can get in a RAID card, then the zfs/ssd setup starts looking pretty good.
If Turing-completeness is the kind of powerful you're talking about, then Qi's would be more powerful. However, if you're talking about the amount of things the type system can verify, a Turing-complete type system would be subject to the halting problem, and thus is less powerful in that way.

And it looks like Qi's type system is optional. If your only definition of type system power is Turing completeness, then sure, it's powerful, but it can't accomplish the same kinds of verification as Agda, etc.
It's simple : The people you are complaining about set these things up once on their computer and then forget about it. They don't realise how many things they have set up once along the years.

It is not until you appear that it's time for the app to be deployed elsewhere.
You are right pyre. I am considering adding people with gihub/stackoverflow/facebook profiles as well.
This is why discussing issues involving racial or cultural diversity is so hard: indignation temporarily destroys people's reading comprehension and ability to think straight.
HTML5's Canvas element runs just a poorly on mobile devices, if not actually worse.
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Thank you for clarifying that.

FWIW: I tend to attract way too much attention to me instead of my message. I have used that fact as a means to help me learn to express myself differently. That is not intended to blame you. It is intended to empower you: How we present information has a significant impact on how people respond to it.

Best of luck with your situation, whether you stay in Copenhagen or not.
Thanks! Awesome job.
Actually, in context, "the amount you will to be proved" actually fits at least as well as the traditional interpretation of QED. The amount in question is either the golden ratio or 5.
With respect to your first question, I was wondering the same thing. At $150K, federal/state/local tax - not even including property tax - is going to be over 30% unless there's some seriously dodgy accounting involved. Oh, but a lot of that was going untaxed into a 401k? Yeah, about that, the contribution levels mentioned are well above those allowed by law. Either there are some major inaccuracies and omissions in the OP, or the way to retire early is to break the law . . . or both.
Gamers don't know that projects fail all the time even with millions invested in them, that 2,000 donations of $10 each is not a large amount of money, that amateur artists do not on average have habits which resemble teams at megacorps, etc.

Devs don't understand that gamers are the worst customers on the face of the earth, that for the price of an expresso they think you have an obligation to listen to their entitled whining for years, that the community they participate in and value belonging to is frequently a toxic cesspool of humanity, and that being an indie developer is approximately ~10% or so about making video games. (The other 90% is marketing, customer support, community management, marketing, accounting, marketing, taxes, marketing, hiring, marketing, etc. Quite similar to selling bingo cards to elementary schoolteachers.)
This is a great design and idea. I'm always perplexed about trusting a "CMS that will make your life way easier". But, this one seems well done.

Let's say I use html/css from scratch; or integrate some coffeescript in it.. How clients are supposed to edit the text? I.e How the intuitive widgets works to change stuff?
Good Lord.

That's incredible. Of course, I know how bad most C++ programmers really are, so it's particularly hilarious what he's saying.

I wonder if there's a sort of Lake Wobegone World where all the C++ programmers are good, instead of copy/pasting idiots.
offtopic but submitter == author so here it goes:

Your site was nicely readable until the custom font got loaded. It is tiny and a colorful blurry mess (subpixel) on my monitor. The text right above the bottom image is almost unreadable.
Here is my suggestion, but I am not sure it is doable as I never used COBOL in my life: can you write a program that would compile Ruby (or whatever new language you want to learn) into COBOL? If you can pull it off that would save you lots of time. And you can start by programming something to generate small pieces of COBOL for you, and then expand that program...
Actually, no: in this case, the tools were used fairly frequently.
In this regard, and for the purposes of signage, etc. it would be helpful. I'm dealing with blue-green colorblindness right now due to a pretty bad (3+ NS) cataract in my only eye, and while I don't have problems looking at colors on, say, a computer monitor, I often stand in my closet asking myself "Is this shirt blue, or is it green?"

My solution has been to own a lot of grey shirts.
The way I think of it is that I can't live my life in fear of what if I hurt my hands or "what ifs". Just live and do what you feel like doing, be a kid again.
I think a fair response to that is to distinguish between the micro and macro. Choice of font is arguably a micro-level trend; the presentation is dealing with issues on the macro, whole-of-page scale.

The presenter of course has to choose a font, and he can be forgiven for not choosing Times Roman, Courier or Tahoma. What he did choose is a font that, while currently in vogue, is still eminently readable.

As for the drop shadows, they also aid readability within the context of the chosen aesthetic. (And they're definitely not 1px -- probably closer to 5px by the time it's scaled up for a high resolution projector -- the shadows are proportional and appropriate for the weight of the strokes.)
So you need a) business development opportunities, b) learn how to promote via FB, c) learn how to improve user experience, and d) get users.

We are in a similar situation, and except (b) above this is what we've decided to do.

a) We have decided to ignore this for now, build the MVP without relationships and get data on the user side, then take this data to large comapnies and make our case.

c) Build, get data, get user feedback, and improve. This is how anyone would tell you to do it anyway.

d) There are a few ways to do this. i) find out where your users hang out online and offline, ii) find out what they read, iii) develop a good feedback loop with them so you improve fast, respond quick, and keep a relationship with them. I can think of many other way, but I will tell you launch now, learn and improve and see how many things that takes care of.
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I'm always curious to see what these lists have to offer, to see if there's anything new. Having read many of them over the years, I've reached the following conclusion:

If you want to look, feel and perform better in nearly any aspect (physically, emotionally, intellectually, sexually), there is nothing better than improving your eating, sleeping and exercise habits. Nothing. Unfortunately, I haven't established the discipline to practice what I preach.
It doesn't. But that doesn't stop lawsuits from being filed.
If you haven't decided, it's a great way to try it out.

I'm an opscode customer, but before that, I was playing around with their free plan.
Somebody has to write the deployment scripts, choose a cloud platform, and update the platform. If a cheaper cloud platform comes out, somebody has to figure out which platform is cheaper. You may have automated error logging, but someone has to go through the logging and see what went wrong. Somebody should also look over how reliable the platform is.

If your business only requires a standard Rails site, there may standard tools. However, when you develop new technology, someone has to deal with deployment and scalability issues. This may be more of a developer job, but there are significant sysadmin issues.
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ouch, thank you very much. I'll definitely think about dropping it
About once every hour.
patio11 is always gold. Too bad I missed him when he came to Coloft a few weeks ago.
why can't we just fix the standards?
Ask HN: What (technical) skills would you recommend to your younger self?
What languages, skills, or just general ideas/topics would you recommend your younger self focus more on, develop and work with. What things do you find yourself using every day, and similarly, what things could you have comfortably survived not slogging away on. Not limited to computing or technology (e.g. public speaking, networking etc).
It is a common and popular observation, so it gets mentioned in virtually every book (or a documentary) on design.
This is just silly. You will need dedicated sysadmins when your organization gets large enough to support 5-10 nontechies.
I was brought to the valley by a guy who came to my University (Harvey Mudd in Southern California) and paid the aide in my freshman Java course to give him the names of the most promising students. He then offered us $80,000 sight unseen because he was so desperate for coders (and I was making $120,000 6 months later).

Bottom line: There has always been and will always be a talent shortage in tech. start-ups. You just have to factor it in (and as my story demonstrates maybe get a little creative in your recruiting)
This is a great idea.. and something I've been wanting to do for a while! The reason I didn't do it was because of a competitor that pretty nailed it. I've been trying to find the website.. it's done in node.js with "robots". Basically, it takes care of uploading your file and then you tell robots what to do with it (Compress it? Store it on Amazon, etc.)

Anyhow, great job doing it. Depending of the pricing, I'd surely use it.

I've seen that you make your widget code open source. I guess this handle the flash hack / html5 version for all different versions of browser? Hopefully so because that's the most annoying part of getting the ajax upload working. But then, if that's free, I'd probably take these widgets and just manually code the amazon part.. The only reason I'd use the service is if the pricing is a very little more than what amazon would cost me.

However, that's just for me. Other startups or bigger company might be willing to pay the big price it can save them hours of coding.

And, to everyone you've never done the ajax upload.. trust me that it's a pain. So many browsers and hack.. compressing the images, storing them, limiting the size, etc etc etc. It seems like a trivial task and the first thing you know is that it's been a week you're working on that and then, once you think everything is done, you receive weird message like it doesn't work on IE9 for some reasons, or whatever.
> I'd love to know what colours were used all over these slides.

#1F282D, #F1F399, #BE4B14, #0164C9, #229214, plus a curious smattering of #FFFFFF and #000000.
I'll suggest an improved title for your submission:

"PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization" (2005)
touche'.
Oh! Sorry, forgot that one.

border-radius will work on Firefox and Webkit (but you'd best include the -moz and -webkit versions as well, for older versions that don't pay attention to the plain attribute).

It's a bit tougher with IE. IE7 and IE8 don't support border-radius, but support can be faked with something like http://css3pie.com/ or http://fetchak.com/ie-css3/
I so understand this http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/bea... way better than clojure. What matters? number of lines or readability? and I am sure the Clojure implementation would be better understood by people who understand lisp. Ofcourse I haven't played with clojure or any lisp dialects and the main reason for that is when I see a lisp code I see only "(" and ")". I still don't know how to get out of that.
But then you'd have to move all the bottom navigation to the top (or side) or you'd never be able to see them :)
Also, Gwern Branwen has an excellent, very detailed article about it:

http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition
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Are you referring to http://transloadit.com?
What would you rather have him use? Papyrus? :) And 1px drop shadow is there for contrast to improve legibility of light on bright, not because it's trendy.
Im at startup weekend puerto rico right now (Im one of the judges) so its cool to see this on HN. Overall, I have been insanely impressed with whats happening in the startup community here. I have been to a number of these events in the US, but I think this one might take the cake in terms of quality.
As amazing as it is, it gets far more dizzyingly complex once you look at the biology underneath it.
I had a very large negative net worth when I finished grad school and started working on startups 12 months ago. It was risky, but you have to have a taste for risk to be an entrepreneur.
Unfortunately there are still too many good traditional designers (who hopefully understand this observation) that are unskilled at interface design, and too many good interface designers unexposed to the history of design theory.
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This is just typical Techcrunch kingmaking, no different than any other popular news source leveraging its position of influence.
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
> Papyrus?

Trajan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87QKdOJNv8
Inspriational videos about marketing technology
The housing market is quite competitive in Norway's bigger cities. Oslo in particular is crazy and expensive; as a student you basically can't afford your own flat, and almost everyone ends up sharing with several other people. I don't know what the situation is like in Sweden and Denmark at the moment.
If you can explain SQL optimization to a developer, you're doing yourself a huge disservice by saying that you're a "sysadmin".
1. I understand that, and have heard that from you guys several times. The issue is the deserialization from JSON. The monkey patch solution I've see so far stores less data, essentially white listing the attributes for search. It sort of destroys the value of search.

2. I should be more specific. Generally chef relies on the information that ohai provides, not with information enumerated by the administrator. There is a general assumption that the systems are properly configured, and chef is only furthering that, since the hosts provide most of the configuration details. (Yes, you could do stuff with data bags to address this issue.)

3. Thanks for the links. I've not seen those projects previously. I've solved the issue for myself using a much lighter weight solution.
SEO attempts.
I'd really like to see more activity around creating, publishing and refining Puppet, Chef, Fabric, etc scripts that are usable in various projects. For example, publicly available scripts that approximate what is provided by Heroku and DotCloud.
I'm convinced money grew on trees in the 90's... Too bad I missed out. Maybe it's just beacuse OP highlights what went right, I'd be much more interested in hearing what went wrong w/ his plans.
This is pretty cool. But seeing myself show up so high is really embarassing. Definitely don't deserve to be among those people.
Cydia is famous. I didn't know the name behind it. Nice to meet you.
I disliked "As a politician, I have other concerns than sound engineering and profitable businesses. It is my job — it is my damn responsibility — to take a larger view and look ahead, decades ahead, generations ahead".

He's describing the job of a science fiction writer, not the job of a politician.
The beginning shot at "Ben Bernanke dollars" really turned me off, as inflation is at a historical nadir now (to the detriment of the country). Interesting article, though, if you can look past Forbes' political Tourette's.
It very much is about the terms. 20-25 years ago a sysadmin was expected to be able to fix C bugs, and have skills not that far removed from programming in assembly (i.e., sendmail.cf files :-).

About ten years ago I remember talking to some old timers who were surprised that a lot of the younger sysadmins no longer even did any perl progamming, but rather did things like program Cisco rounters and set up Oracle servers.

At Google we don't have sysadmins at all, but rather "Site Reliability Engineers", and they are expected to be able to answer some fairly deep C/C++ data structure and algorithms questions. All of those skills are necessary to run a Google-sized infrastructure, and it's quite a far cry from the sysadmins that don't even write perl scripts any more -- and yet feel perfectly free to call themselves "sysadmins".

When I first started, I both wore a pager and wrote C programs --- including the 'ninit' program that was described in the Unix haters handbook. The fact that I was one of the people who might be woken up at 3am when the mail server melted down due to named core dumping informed how I wrote my C programs (i.e., very defensively), and is a prime example of the dev/ops concept.
You'll work with a template language to define what parts of the page the client should be able to edit.

Webpop lets you work with structured content, pull the content into your templates and define exactly the HTML used to present the content.

The system then automatically detects what part of your site is dynamic content that the client should be able to edit and what's design. The client then get a simple on-site editor for updating his contents.

There's a video of it all in action here:

http://www.webpop.com/blog/videos/on-site-editing-the-easies...
I totally get that — just curious about what kind of precautions you take, or if you've had any issues / avoided any. Thanks!
I wouldn't be surprised if displaying data as a gauge on a website is patented.
They have "the cloud" too! - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3117017
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I think its because Quora is a tight-knit community that is not (well) aimed at a wide public audience. Increasing status can lead to tangible benefits. If you are popular within the community, its essentially networking which can lead to investment, job and other valuable opportunities.

SO on the other hand, is more oriented at helping people coming in through search engines. (I would like to say it has better answers because its a more hacker oriented community that reflects open-source communities, but that would probably be an over-generalization. probably...)