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The roadster is a NVH nightmare though. Any idiot can build a sports car, but it is a real challenge to build a luxury vehicle. Luxury cars and economy cars are both an order of magnitude harder than sports cars from an engineering perspective. People will forgive rattles, wind noise, and steering nibble in a $100k+ sports car, but not in a $60k luxury car.

The real test will be if they can sell the product to buyers who aren't already sold on the concept.
Yes, however there is something like a commission/bonus that is associated with the work too, so depending on how much my company is working, we get more revenues above the guaranteed level of income.
There's actually a fair amount of old hardware out there even still, but you're right that it won't last forever. Heck, there's an 8088 hiding under my bed, complete with math coprocessor, full RAM, CGA adapter (and monitor) and even a dot-matrix printer.

One of these days, I should find out if it still works or not.
I agreee, refreshing design! I'd focus as well on trying to develop a sharing segment, similar to the newsfeed of the entire community, where people can browse whats being shared. Also, just a thought, the awesome background in the beginning could be switched to an image rotator of pics uploaded by users with a public setting.. And a bottom part with most active public discussions or shares.. Sort of whats trending in the community? It would help the users visitings knowing why they should sign up, or at least me:) Did you do this just for fun or is there a specific issue you want to solve? Suerte.
Guy Kawasaki is also selling something. I'll be seeing him live next month. I'd pay even more to have 15 minutes with PG. (hell I'd even go see John Chow if it was free, lol)
"thieves go where the money is."

I'm sure robbers do risk assessment. If a bakery has half the cash a bank has but no security and a better escape route, they will much rather rob a bakery.

"If you found a large oasis in the middle of a desert, would you pass it by in order to find a smaller one?"

Alright, let's use that analogy. Which is the large oasis, Mac or Windows?

Windows has a larger installed base. However, most Windows computers have virus protection and Microsoft puts a lot of effort into improving security.

Mac OS X has a smaller installed base, but practically no one bothers with virus protection and security doesn't seem to be Apple's number one priority.

That's why I think Mac OS X is a lot more interesting to cyber criminals, it's an enormous oasis. And yet, there haven't been any attacks of scale -- if there had been, it would be front page news. Perhaps OS X is safer than you want to admit?
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Really nice one guys! I'm not a entrepreneur yet but I am a Software Engineer and a recent College Grad. At the same time I'm in the process of discussing a new Hacker Space Venture with other Black Software Engineer. So you now know three black tech's in which one is not as successful as the first two nor an entrepreneur but a successful engineer and on the rise.....
Well, I don't know if I would say it's trivial. Geocentric is fairly easy, topocentric (which is what we want), not so much. Especially when you have to start factoring in local time. And then people start wanting to change the time to a few thousand years in the past and now you have to factor in nutation and drift and ....
Didn't do this at my first company. Did it for my second company.

I agree one million percent.
Oh, pfft. I looked him up and he doesn't even go to MIT. Anyone can cover the freely available material in a year if they did nothing else. However their level of retention would be ridiculously low. Testing would prove this but self study conveniently lacks this.
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This is marketing 101- the issue is why would you work somewhere that you have to continuously market yourself just to keep your job? That's what the interview is for.

Personally in my experience working with startups, everyone at the company knows why I'm there, what I do, and there's no question about the value I bring. What I call myself just doesn't matter. I would wish this type of experience for everyone.
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At the end of the day, your life happiness will not be dominated by your career.

That said, a crappy career can put a serious chokehold on life happiness. You spend close to half your waking hours at it, after all.
> If you're fighting with the JVM this much, why not just use C++? The problems were garbage collection, lack of control over memory layout, and bloated types. Tool for the job, no?

Here's why. Compare these two:

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot/jdk/file/9b8c96f96a0... <-- Doug Lea's java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue

https://github.com/afeinberg/lockfree/blob/master/src/lockfr... <-- my port of above to C++0x

https://github.com/afeinberg/lockfree/blob/master/src/hazard... <-- essentially an implementation of garbage collection that's needed to to work around the ABA problem

tl;dr Shared memory concurrency is surprisingly hard with manual memory management. Not impossible, not infeasible, not impractical. Just hard.

C++ is still a valid choice for many products: JVM isolates you from the underlying OS, the VM subsystem, and there are cases where the cost of garbage collection is prohibitive.

However, I'll argue that vast majority of a site like Twitter (or LinkedIn, another high-scale JVM powered property) is best served by runtime like the JVM or CLR. Erlang is another great option, but it's more of something you'll have _along with_ JVM/CLR and C/C++: Erlang's model is (highly efficient, well abstracted) concurrency with message passing -- which is awesome, but not a full substitute for shared memory concurrency -- i.e., it's a great tool for some jobs, but not others.

C++ makes more sense for things like a B+Tree implementation: I've been using a pure Java B+Tree implementation -- BerkeleyDB Java Edition, and can certainly mention the negatives of that approach.

On the other hand, look at something like the routing layer of Voldemort, multi-Paxos implementation in ZooKeeper, or (as an example of another high scale, Java based service) the modified Paxos implementation in Google's MegaStore, non-storage parts of Amazon's SimpleDB (written at Java at one point, in Erlang at another -- not sure what it's written in now).

I'll also argue that I'd rather use a less verbose and more functional language than Java -- and honestly, in some cases C++ far outdoes Java in terms of expressiveness. Go, Scala, languages in the ML family and Erlang (especially with tools like dialyzer and quick check, to get around the dynamic typing) are the right way forward for building highly concurrent user-land "systems-y" software (think more databases or distributed middleware than an OS) -- the parts where memory layout is critical and which tend to produce a lot of garbage can always be implemented in C/C++.

tl;dr Programming language choice involves trade offs, Java is too verbose, but garbage collected languages/runtimes have their role in building highly scalable applications or service
You should get out in the real world more and especially talk to people who are not in software development.

What you call a code monkey is what the rest of the world considers a programmer.
Build It With Me (http://builditwith.me/) is similar to this, and I rather like it. I've found that asking someone about their idea is a great conversation starter (i.e. networking technique).
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I'm sure this service would also be an awesome way to make friends. Everyone's a stranger before you get to know them. So maybe it's worth meeting up before getting into a cross-country car ride with them.
> if we get this codec to run as fast as a native one

Native ones have chunks written in hand-tuned assembly language, offload parts to specialized hardware, and other such tricks not available to ECMAScript. I'm not even sure why "as fast" is being considered a possibility.
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Even when you find them in the Valley? If so, why?

(Note: I am from New York, so I actually don't know the answer)
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Yes in fact that is all...when I say awesome I do mean applications that create real value for people.No bullshit...just good products that people will love to use.

You are right.If you have a family and dont really have a million saved,it is not in your best interests to quit your job and jump into the risky world of independent app development.But you can over a period of a year or two (by building up your codebase) get to a point where you are making more money than your corporate job.It is at that point that I recommend you fully jump ship.

Agreed that initially you'll have trouble understanding the market and finding applications that people really want.But once you learn to gauge the market, build awesome apps and then market them effectively to people you will lead a much better life than some 9-5 engineering manager at xyz corp filing TPS reports and sucking up to your boss for a promotion.

Judging by the current growth of smartphone market even a good calculator app is bound to make you a lot of money in the long run if you can market it effectively.

And finally if you know how to search effectively on github you will realize that most of the required classes are already built and open sourced by some hacker out there.And if not maybe you can build it and open source it for your fellow hackers.
Gracias! And very interesting ideas (thank you for them! I like way you think.) -- I definitely need to make it more active mainly for new users since it's still very small for a social network (675 users and counting... almost 3 days in though!) and it can seem a little quiet at first. Well, to be honest I got inspired to make this when Facebook started with the changes... I don't want to put in a cliche phrase about being the next big thing, but I just saw a lot of my friends and the general public pissed off and hating Facebooks changes, which led me to think you know what might as well really test my skills and see what I can do. I attempted a social network before myself (this is my second attempt) but that was about a year ago and It's stupid how much I've learned since then.
No, it was disturbing 20+ years ago when the possibility was first raised of these kinds of attacks. Today it's just expected. And depressing.

The sectors that need to understand information security the most are the ones that have absolutely no grasp of it.

I see no sign of that changing. Every time an improvement is made to the security of one system, somebody pops up with a new one that has utterly failed to learn the lessons of the last one.
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I was under the impression that the roadster was more about developing and perfecting the tech rather than immediately scaling up production. As redwood noted, the sedan is leading into the mass production phase.
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This is not true -- pay is not based on project.
Whenever a question on salary negotiation appears on HN, I am reminded of this old comment from mahmud : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1475678
For serious college advice I would highly recommend Cal Newport's blog Study Hacks. He is currently a postdoc at MIT and has three books on high-school/college advice published.

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Yes I think so too.I think this option was simply not available to Patrick when he started figuring his way out of his corporate soul-crushing job.The path that he took was probably the best under those circumstances.

But now (thanks to services like Parse,Twilio,Github and so many others) I think a good hacker has a decent chance of making it to financial independence completely on his own.
I typically answer with a range where the lower end is the amount of money I'm hoping to make and the high end is $5k to $10k above that. Then I add on, "but I'm getting great benefits, so that would have to be factored in as well." My current salary doesn't really figure into my answer.
The title is "Most Technical Interviews Suck". The content is about how what a series of interviews at one specific company sucked, and the interviews didn't sound all that technical. Bad day, sure. But definitely not supporting the title.
I've never heard of people restarting the JVM to avoid GC pauses. Usually scheduled JVM restarts are to avoid "instability", which is usually a memory leak someone can't find or doesn't understand.
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As somebody who has done numerous technical interviews, as well as given some, I have to disagree with some of the points he makes.

1) "I don't code out loud": neither do I, nor as an interviewer would I honestly want you too in a 'real' work environment. What I do want to know (or attempt to know) is how you think. If you can articulate your thought process as you solve a question, it shows me that a) you can think logically under pressure, and b) you can convey your thoughts and ideas to somebody who might be a fellow team mate.

2) Talking about a project you have done is cool, but I personally don't care what technologies or hacks you used. I want to know if you can code. If you can't code, then it doesn't matter what you know since I can't use you on my team. If you can code, then I'll use what I learn from (1) to determine if you have the ability to choose the right algorithm/tool/technique/etc for a job.

One might retort that (2) can be easily solved by showing them project code. Unless its a github account, I don't really care, because I can't tell what you did versus somebody else and it is far to easy to control what the interviewer sees (as you showed when discussing your "team motivation" skills).

At the same time, TSC definitely made some simple mistakes in the types of questions they asked you, especially for an on-site. A proper technical question (IMO) is one that can tell me easily if it's not a fit, but has enough different solutions that let me gauge just how good a candidate is. A question that is a no if you get it wrong, but not a yes if you get it correct (hex CSS colors) would be a wast of both our time (and would probably get me kicked off the interviewing team).
MTV blew up because of a very specific set of circumstances.

First, radio stations were dying. They were being sucked up into nationwide conglomerates and changing from independent DJs with free reign to play whatever they thought was interesting to being forced into playing whatever generated the most revenue at the least cost with the least risk while cramming as many commercials into every hour as possible. In short, becoming soulless, disenfranchising people with interest in niche or innovative music, and most especially abdicating their former prominent role of being a place where people found new music.

Second, MTV happened to be launched at a time when there were very few music videos. Since they had no budget for any other programming they had to play a very eclectic mix of music, they couldn't afford to pick and choose much. They thus became one of the most avant garde radio stations in the entire US and became one of the only conduits between a lot of innovate new music (metal, punk, etc.) and a ravenous demographic (teens) who were otherwise cut off from that music due to the diminution of radio.

Once MTV had significant revenue they fell into the trap of thinking they needed "real" programming instead of just music videos, and that thinking persisted until almost all of their music content was driven away. MTV is now about as relevant as the average irrelevant pseudo-local radio station.
I mentioned at the end that I do acknowledge this is a specific case, however, it is just an example followed by a conclusion. What I wanted to say is simply that technical interviews in general tend to focus on the question itself more than the person being interviewed.
I've worked in local tv production for a long time actually, so I completely get what you're saying. But I honestly feared it would be a lame partnering with existing channels to share old product. But then, I'm something of a pessimist.

That said, sorry to hear about that guy. I often wish I had camera presence, just to make one-man-banding a reasonable option. Then again, now that I have time, it's funny how the ideas don't flow as easy. I'm sure once I lose time/resources they'll start back up. Ain't that always the way?
Search around on HN.You will find a lot threads with Single Founder success stories in recent times.Probably more than Startup Success stories.Two names that come to mind are Instapaper and BigNoggins productions.
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Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. 2 With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.

3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? 4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

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It's been a long time since I was in graduate school, but, at least in chemistry, there were at least 20 highly qualified and ambitious people waiting for a shot at any seat in a top lab. There was no chance in hell of just walking in there and working for free. The time it would take people already in the lab to bring you up to speed wouldn't be worth it.
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For example, consider an internal travel expense reporting form. Across a company with 2,000 employees, that might save 5,000 man-hours a year (at an average fully-loaded cost of $50 an hour) versus handling expenses on paper, for a savings of $250,000 a year.

I should have demanded a bonus for the in-house purchase req system I wrote to replace the antiquated, pen & paper system we had been using for years. I feel better about the salary I was drawing with this in mind.
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I've updated my question to make it more precise. Either way, it would contradict what I've heard.
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The invective comes because he flouts the way scientists normally go about announcing and proving major scientific discoveries. And that matters because the scientific approach is evolved to be very different than what scam artists and loons gets up to.

One reason many people are unwilling to be patient and open-minded is that they've already done that in the past, and had their patience worn thin by said scam artists and loons. Another is that they respect (or have worked hard to become) actual scientists who put forth the extra time and effort to properly demonstrate and document novel findings.
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Thanks for pointing out this from the point of view of someone who conducts interviews. However, let me address your points:

1) I absolutely understand that "thinking out loud" is just a way for the interviewer to know how I think. The problem with that, however, (at least for me) is that now I have two tasks a) to write code and b) to tell what I am thinking without saying anything wrong. I know that it is ok to say something wrong, at the end, you don't get the answer immediately but I am under pressure to show you my best and that what comes to mind.

2) Maybe I didn't show that clearly in the post but I do think it is ok to ask technical questions, I just think you need to also give the interviewee a chance to tell you more about who they are, what projects they worked on, and what kind of technologies they applied. This is essential for many reasons including a) it gives me the confidence before the technical question, b) it tells you a little bit more about what I am able to do, and c) it gives you a better understanding of the interviewee since the question you just asked doesn't tell you enough about me or my talents (in my opinion)

That has been said, you raise some good points. Thanks for taking the time to reply!
I don't have a huge interest in social networking, but the landing page doesn't give me any compelling reason to sign up or learn more (other than knowing you're an HN'er).

I might not be the target demographic (somebody without a Facebook account), but it's not immediately clear to me what your network does or why I should want to use it.
In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.

I wish more HR/recruiting people understood this.
I think you're vastly overestimating how easy this is. According to a number of studies I've seen, your odds of even making more than four figures a year are ridiculously low. If you're not in the top 10%, you basically won't make crap.