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If you have the mindset that everything that is copyrighted should be controlled by you, than you would see the internet as a threat, because it is the ultimate copying machine.

I think the RIAA would lose 10 dollars and make 1 dollars back in order to stop piracy. They don't have this concept of working with the internet to make even more money. It's either the highway or their way.

Frankly, I don't care much about the whole creative industry going away or not going away. Actually it's getting bigger. I wouldn't notice, because there's so much games out there and people who are willing to produce arts, musics, and games for free just because. Even if they stop producing games, I wouldn't notice. I would never be able to enjoy all these things in my lifetime anyway.

What people should be doing is finding good old stuff to read or improve on existing works, which is kinda prohibited by copyright laws in the first place.

It seems that we are too biased to "new stuff" even though there are a bunch of old stuff we missed.

I mean, WW2 shooters are just the same old, same old. Yet we buy them years after years. Now it's modern wartime. I am sure in 30 years time, it will be WW2 again.
Large format plotters are common place in oil & gas companies. No other industry builds projects as large, complex, and expensive as oil & gas and plotters are the most effective solution anyone has found for being able to visualize the massive scale of things (short of a few cool VR nick-nacks that sit empty). I don't think they're such a bad option either. Until someone starts manufacturing "retina" displays at 4 ft. tall by 10 ft. long everything else is a waste of time.
The Months at the top stay in the middle no matter how far you scroll, as long as some days of the month is visible. I'd rather it try to stay around the 15th (or whatever day is middle of the month), and if the 15th is not visible, just have the name of the month at the side of the chart. This way the month would be a quick summary indicator of how much of the month is currently visible on the chart, because right now you have to look both at the day and the month.
But if they're that big and growing that much, they can't be that stealth…

Unless the "stealth" part is the fact that they're a YC company. By that I mean that it could be a company/product that is well known but it's unknown that the company joined YC last summer. Though I'm not sure if a secret like that could be kept easily… (e.g. TurnTable.fm could fit the bill of some of the details: NY, music-based, Facebook API, game dynamics, crowdsourced content, VC-funded… but they're not part of YC AFAICT)

Another example is COLOURLovers which was big long before joining YCombinator. (so much so that I was very surprised that they did)

NB: if it turns out, I'm right about TurnTable.fm, remember that you've read it here first :)
> The only thing is, I want to move west for a nicer home life and standard of living, I just don't want to leave city life altogether. That's why I'm thinking of living in Oakland or Berkeley, and working in SF.

A "nicer home"... in Oakland or Berkeley, that's the hills. Expect about $1MM or so: http://www.redfin.com/CA/Berkeley/938-Spruce-St-94707/home/1...

I hear you can get a fixer in Oakland's hills for around $500k though, an old coworker did that. You might consider going further east to Pleasant Hill or Concord -- PH if safety/schools are a concern (more $), Concord if you can deal with the hoodrats and older homes (less $). Both are fairly inexpensive in comparison to anything closer to the City, and both are on the BART line... ~45 min on the train to SF.

Don't count out south SF too, for example a pretty nice place in Daly City for $600k: http://www.redfin.com/CA/Daly-City/392-Bay-Ridge-Dr-94014/ho...

Personally I've found that commuting drains a lot of the get-er'-done energy from me. If I had the dough, I'd live closer to the City or the valley. YMMV. San Jose has lots of nice areas, but it's an urban wasteland... block after unending block of houses and strip malls in many areas. The nicer areas are $$$$$.

When I was working at a startup fresh out of college, I got a 400 sqft studio in the middle of the city, which was perfect. It was an ungodly $1k/month, but I walked nearly everywhere and spent all day coworking or at a cafe anywhere. If you're unattached, I'd highly recommend a setup like that, since proximity to the things you need (people like you, cafes, etc) is more important than living quarters. If you've got a family... well... I hope your savings account is large.
Housing in Oakland is probably the cheapest you can get, at least within the proper bay area. If you are trying to "leave the city life, while not leaving the city life", unless you are aiming for the Berkeley or Oakland hills, you will still find yourself in fairly urbanized environs.

If you don't mind the fog, think about SF's sunset district. It's cheap(er) and a little out of the way, but still within earshot of SF proper.
I never used Yelp until I moved to Los Angeles. It has saved me many times and helped me learn more about the city very quickly. I've also faced some of the problems the author has faced, though, and hope the Yelp team can keep improving their product.
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Wow, lots of doom and gloom on here. As someone who doesn't use AdBlock Plus (not particularly to support websites, but that does factor in) I think this is move should be applauded. They continue to serve their customers with the same product they always have (an adblock list manager) and might be able to pull in some money from it as well.

The obtrusiveness of the ads they let through will directly affect the number of users they have, so their interests are still aligned with their users. But they are simply more aligned with the 75% who don't blanket oppose all ads.
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I don't see the arrogance, and I'm very sensitive to douchespeak.

Here I read a posting by a person who's confident in their company's direction, knows what they're looking for, and assumes the potential hire knows the drill after reading a bunch of these job ads after awhile. They're also pretty clear on what the product is and why a given engineer might enjoy working on it.

This was nice, too, as flexibility is anything but arrogant: "Preferably NYC, but we’re flexible."

Arrogance would be "we're in NYC. If you're not, don't bother writing." Or some such.

Dunno, man, with the clarity of language and the refreshing brevity, this is one of the better specimens, to my mind.
I acknowledge that they could indeed be that successful, but I still maintain that I have no reason to believe their claims until they provide me with something more solid than that ad.
You might want to give the following a read:

http://www.paulgraham.com/hubs.html
Sounds like it was written by someone in a hurry. Or maybe by someone who had made the observation that the time invested in crafting a thorough job posting does not correlate significantly with the quality of applicants to said ad?
In any case, I didn't strike me as that arrogant.
I live in Berkeley and work in SF. To make this work you'll probably want to live near the BART and work somewhere on Market, or if you're OK with a little more transit time, in SoMa.

BART from Downtown Berkeley to Montgomery Street is 20 minutes in ideal conditions, but around 30 more typically due to waiting or a transfer at MacArthur. Expect to add to that 5-10 minutes for somewhere on Market and 10-15 minutes for somewhere in SoMa
I'm 99% sure it's Rap Genius now. That same dropbox ID appears on an old Facebook post by their account. They're YC S11.
turntable isn't a ycombinator company
Maybe its an 'East Coast' delivery but I appreciate the candor, particularly if its an up and coming high profile company. The only lasting sentiment is that they're in it to win it and may take the highest close out offer sooner rather than later. Not a bad deal for a Ruby Genius, really.
But if they're that big and growing that much, they can't be that stealth…

Hence the ironic-quotes.

You do have an interesting theory though. Not that I totally understand why somebody would want to hide the fact that they're a YC alumni...
The time has come for software liability laws.
If you're going from the East Bay to the South Bay every day, the trip will make you insane. I did this for far too long, and it was a terrible idea.

Even in the best of circumstances, it takes half an hour to get from Oakland or Berkeley into San Francisco, making it unlikely that you will go to anything without advance planning.

Oakland has some bright spots (particularly Rockridge) but you are still unlikely to have serendipitous encounters with anyone. I've never lived in Downtown Berkeley, but it is the one place in the East Bay where the streets are full of people.
It's funny how little press Austin gets, considering the size of the tech community out there.
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Not really a new bill, since it's just the Senate equivalent of the House's HR2930: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.02930:
Timothee has an interesting theory about that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3346641
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Ugh, live in San Jose? Never. Statistically, Oakland may be dangerous, but it's also physically a large city. If you are in the right parts, you'll certainly be as safe as if you lived in Berkeley, and safer then a lot of parts of SF. Just stay in the nice parts of the City.

I haven't actually ever lived in Oakland though, but I've lived in Berkeley for 5 years, live in SF now, and have many close friends who live in Oakland. Parts of it are very nice!
In the US there are a wide variety of laws at both state and federal level affecting employment discrimination, but all of the laws I am familiar with have a "small business exception". See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_i...

On the other hand, state and local laws may add additional restrictions beyond federal laws and as I've mentioned... I am not a lawyer. And I don't condone people being dicks.

EDIT: In California, the "magic number" of employees below which you can be an open bigot is apparently five. See:

http://ag.ca.gov/publications/civilrights/01CRhandbook/chapt...
SOPA up for final committee vote/'markup' on Thursday
> great synergy

you don't work for verizon by any chance, do you?
So you think that a YC-funded company posting a job posting on news.ycombinator.com is... _lying_?

Perhaps I have more faith in PG's judgement than I ought, but that strikes me as excessively cynical.

I'm guessing you didn't like the post (note, it's not really an 'ad' as you stated) for some reason and are coloring the entirety of their claims with the same brush.

I'm guessing that, bravado aside (and I didn't personally find anything particularly braggadocious in the post to take offense to,) I would wager real money that their claims were at least truthful.
So I take it you've never tried Ness (http://www.likeness.com/)?

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* Personalizes like Netflix

* Shiny mobile app

(Disclaimer: The CEO is a good friend of mine)
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First, there is nothing to be ashamed about for being an enterprise programmer. So, you've been working as an assembler. Now is the time to look at the tools themselves.

First, go back and review the basics of web programming. https://code.google.com/edu/submissions/html-css-javascript/... is a good start. It is probably below your level, but do it anyway. Get some confidence. :) Do the same with a decent book on your programming language. Get an understanding from the ground up. Make sure you can program 100 lines without looking anywhere.

Next, start learning your tools. Were you using jQuery? Oracle? Start delving into what those tools really are. Watch screencasts and follow along, typing the exact code in as you go. Make a basic to-do application in the technologies that are on your resume. Don't be afraid to look on the internet, but there's one rule.

No copy and paste.

No, every time you find an answer, you're going to type it in directly. Every line you type in, you're going to think about what each thing means, and if you don't know, you look it up in the documentation.

Learn how to write a login page, how to connect to a random single signon. How to logoff. How to write each piece of the app. You will soon have a simple application. It's not much, but it's yours. Write unit tests and integration tests. If you think code looks messy, clean it up. This is your template.

Now, add some ajax. See how others are doing it, but again type it in yourself. Put in all the features you want to learn. Keep updating the tests, both front end and back end.

Now, try implementing the front end in backbone and jQuery, or whatever front end technology you want to try first. Keep the back end the way it is, and keep the look of the front end how it is. Just port the code over.

Now choose a back end you're interested in. Port the back end. You know how to make the simple case already, it's just a matter of learning how the new one works. THEN you take your todo app and start making things from that, now that you know how everything works basically.

Now, for interviews, take a month off and do all this. (Block reddit and use aggressive noprocrast on HN.) Then go back and interview for mid level positions. Many coders you are competing against are in the same position as you are, but you've gone back and taken the time to really learn your set of tools.

I really believe the difference between a bad and mediocre web programmer, in many cases, is about 100 hours of dedicated training about how the web works, and how their programming language works. The difference between a mediocre and a B- programmer is being able to rattle off the basics really quickly and knowing their toolset.

Getting to the A level, that takes more time. But you can do that as you have a job. :)
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A lot of people can be very creative and able to execute projects, but still not have what it takes to run a startup. Consider all the regular Joes and Janes being highly creative and structured in leading World of Warcraft guilds, for instance.

What is needed is some kind of gamified meta-startup, a giant sandbox for economic activity to take place with the low-level stuff of startups abstracted away. The day MMORPGs start to have real economic effects (outside of currency exchange) is the day the economic system will be radically transformed.

For the record, I didn't think of this myself. Credit goes to John Robb: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/robb20100318
It could be, I don't really know RapGenius. And I agree with your other comment: the growth graph doesn't match what I'd imagine for TurnTable.fm. I'd see a huge spike around May-June and a cliff after that.
Most of the tech companies are in the South Bay or on the peninsula. If you need city living, I suggest you look to SF or San Jose.
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Reminder: Reasonable people often disagree. The Consumer Electronics Association has found an expert who thinks that SOPA is unconstitutional; I'm sure the MPAA can find an equally reputable expert who thinks that SOPA is not unconstitutional.

Unless you interview a random sample of experts ("80% of constitutional law professors say...") or find some privileged experts ("the Supreme Court says...") relying on expert opinions really doesn't get you anywhere useful.
It is difficult to argue with the sums of money thrown around in the USA.

I remember your original post was kind of condescending to talented people from other parts of the world, implying that the rest of the world only shuffles around a single MySQL table and the only real talent can be found in SV.

And now you prove the point by saying the US is sophisticated because it imports the most talent of all countries.

(Also don't think all or even most talent ends up in the US; some of us simply don't like to move, or don't want to live in the US because they don't like the immigration procedures or political landscape. I've had several offers, but I'd at most telecommute for an US company)
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"Depressed because I feel worthless compared to all the amazing hackers of the HN community"

Someone is lying to you inside your head. They are saying, you are a worthless human being because you are mediocre/sucked/failed at x. "You aren't good enough" is a tool used by Satan to destroy good men.

I recommend you read "Wild at Heart" by John Eldridge. I'll send you my copy if you'd like. I was going through a very similar time, only I felt worthless because I wasn't a successful entrepreneur like take-your-pick-from-Tech-Crunch. That book set me on a new path that has made my life so much richer and has freed me from the depression of failure, and allowed me to enjoy what I do again.

I'll be praying for you brother, God bless.
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Right, I think the issue at hand is the pendulum has swung too far the other way. People are going so far out of the way to display that they are not just another corp gig that the message can come off as unprofessional, amateur and even suspect of deceit.

I look at these post as the rock-star and ninja posts that used to have flooding the boards a few years ago. Me personally, if I was going to post an ad, I would post one explaining why we love the technology we use and some highlights about how team members where empowered to do great things. Something along the line of "Jim joined us and built out an entire REST facade in Node", "We like Node because it is event driven", "if you know Node we would love to talk to you". Give people a personal connection with the company and the people they will be involved with, most else comes off as corporate, gimmicky, or worst yet arrogant.
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I'll agree that most job postings make me puke a little bit and are typically very poorly done across the industry. This certainly isn't all that great but it gets much much worse. One of my favorites was a job posting that started off bragging about what kind of cars everyone drives on the team. It literally had a long paragraph listing the types of cars everyone on the team drove (BMW, etc., etc.) before any of the job requirements. I personally would be more enticed by an ad that says everyone is required to roller blade to work.
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I have a feeling this comment thread is going to be really productive and insightful.
"...than you would see the internet as a threat, because it is the ultimate copying machine."

Not so. The Internet copies nothing. It's the ultimate (and not centrally controlled) _distribution_ machine.

Piracy was going on well before the Internet came along. And distribution too, but then it was via BBS's, not the Internet. Passing this law will do absolutely nothing to stop copying, or distribution. It will just have a huge chilling effect.
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Been working with this for the last couple of days. Great stuff. Going to save my team and I hundreds of hours. Thought people might be interested in my impressions and a couple of small tidbits I picked up.
I don't really know the feeling of what is like to create something.

Take a cooking class.

I'm absolutely serious about this. You learn to build things by building things, and you build things by following recipes, recipes that are very slightly above your skill level, but no more. Go get some recipes, and use the techniques they tell you to use, and build some pancakes, and eat them. [1] Then you will "know the feeling of what it is like to create something." Something tasty.

I can hear you already: "My pancakes are just pancakes! They are not amazing and original pancakes." This is true. You need to get over that. Trying to amaze yourself is generally a waste of time. You can't do it consistently – that's what "amazing" means: something that doesn't happen every day. If what you want to do is create things, lots of things, every day, you've got to realize that it's not going to feel amazing while you're doing it. It's going to feel normal.

But: It will be tasty. Oh, there are worse fates than being so good at making pancakes that you can make them without even thinking. For one thing, other people will eventually start talking about your amazing pancakes, and even though you'll know in your heart that they're flattering you - hey, they're just the same pancakes that you've made a hundred times, from a recipe, with only a minor tweak or two - it will still be gratifying.

And maybe in thirty years you'll be the next Anthony Bourdain, and you'll be out drinking one night and suddenly you'll look at yourself and your own life and be amazed: You remember starting off with the pancakes, and you just kept trying a little more every day, and then there was the day you got a job cranking out those pancakes on the line, and man was that an educational experience, but now it's years later and you're shocked to find that you're some kind of breakfast legend, people line up for your amazing cooking, and at that moment you'll actually be amazed at yourself for everything you have accomplished. You'll be amazed for at least five minutes, maybe even ten minutes, depending on how much you've been drinking. [2]

Then you'll wake up the next morning and go back to work, just like we all do.

Anyway, programming. Throw SICP away and try something like Zed Shaw's Learn Python the Hard Way, something with a lot of exercises. Do all the exercises. Then do some of those programming-contest-type problems. Do little problems, ten-minute problems, thirty-minute problems. Practice the art of small victories.

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[1] No, do not use a pancake mix. That's like copy-and-paste.

[2] Incidentally, alcohol is a depressant, so don't think I'm seriously recommending it to someone who is already depressed. Coffee! I meant coffee!
So you think that a YC-funded company posting a job posting on news.ycombinator.com is... _lying_?

No. Rather, I have no information that I trust to convince me one way or the other as to their honesty, so I choose to ignore that data.

I had not, however, considered that they have already been vetted by PG and YC. Perhaps I have a small reason to trust their claims. Even so, I'd give it the same weight in decision making as known hyperbole, at best. I'll only completely trust the claim if I have verifiable sources.
My concern troll alarm is going off. Do you have an alternate plan to kill SOPA?
Does anyone know of any sites that are positioned to take advantage of the investing aspect should the legality of it change? Are their any players in the space standing on G waiting on O so to speak.