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Maybe so, but it's not like Joel Spolsky chose some arbitrary new technology and is now desperately looking for good people to use it. It seems to be literally the other way around.
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Agreed. Amazon could use a similar policy rather than having to ship stuff back. For example, I ordered something from Amazon worth $200. A few days later, the price dropped to $100. I already had it unboxed and wired into my setup so I called Amazon and said do a price match. Instead, they wanted me to ship the old one back and reorder the new one. I'm like why? Now, I have to be out $8 shipping it back to them, they are out whatever to ship the new item back and they still give me $100 back. But that was policy and that is what I had to do. Makes no sense. Seems like UPS comes out ahead.
Your comment, even with the edit, takes me about 15 seconds to speed-read (I timed it), and it's short enough to skim-read in about five seconds. And I'm not a particularly good speed-reader. And a lot of people will downvote without reading the whole thing if they feel they've got the gist, though I hope not too many. I think you need to calm down and treat people who disagree with you more respectfully. Your reply is extremely heavy on negative emotion, fairly accusatory and low on solid reason, and that kind of thing does tend to get downvoted here. Hacker News tends to value knowledgeable, factual commentary and reasoning on relevant topics over outrage.

Also, now you're complaining about getting downvoted, which is generally against the rules here and will often lead to further downvotes (because you getting downvoted is always off-topic).

Personally, I think I would find some of what you're saying interesting if you presented it in a way that's more informative and actionable and less angry or defensive. Could this have a negative impact on those neighborhoods? That's an interesting question. I'm not sure if it would (most of the people who travel in the area frequently will already be avoiding them), but it's an interesting question. Unfortunately, rather than exploring this interesting topic, you decided you'd rather hunt racists, which might make you feel all high and mighty but doesn't really advance the conversation.
Looks great, just a few little things:

* "I am Filip Santa, 19 years old designer from Slovakia" sounds a little strange. Maybe something like "I am Filip Santa, a 19 year old designer from Slovakia"

* In your timeline, instead of "Learning what is layer", maybe "Learning about layers"

* Also in the timeline: "Trying first webs & posters", maybe "Designing first web sites & posters"

And, here's my OCD peeking through, the images seem to have a colour profile associated with them, which clashes with mine producing: http://i.imgur.com/6BV6o.png (try making the background transparent)

Best of luck!
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No, meals provided at work for the convenience of the employer are deductible for the employer and tax-free for the employee.

Meals provided for business purposes such as a lunch meeting away from the office are half deductible for the business and tax-free for the recipient.

That's the USA rule (Canada too, I believe). Elsewhere may be different.
Now that the API is 'done', data export will be coming soon.

https://trello.com/card/board/data-export/4d5ea62fd76aa11360...
"in its appropriate usage"

Word meanings are by nature fuzzy, democratic, fluid, subjective, regional and varied. So you may be fighting a losing battle to want "ghetto" to have a fixed "proper" meaning that people should use.
My attempt at Level 1:

class Player
def play_turn(warrior)
warrior.walk!(:right)
end
end

The warrior keeps bumping in to a wall, and the code fails.

This is counter-intuitive, because the exit is to the right of the warrior. I can't endure another N levels of nonintuitive frustration, sorry.
From what I understand, core Nginx decided that supporting ZeroMQ was a non-starter because of the threading model that ZeroMQ uses. I'm not sure if that's just not true anymore, or if the restrictions that this new module places on it (namely, exclusively REQ/REP pairs) make that not apply.
Myself (and a couple others) used JawsJS to do our first Ludum Dare (http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/ ) entry.
It's a great basic framework -- the examples on the site is what sold it for us.
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Note that Durham, NC is home to Relevance, my employer, and by extension, Clojure/core (though the Clojure original gangsta Rich Hickey lives in New York).

We have 20% time and do lots OSS on fridays, amongst other things.
However, just as in programming, you cannot effectively employ the simple solution without first understanding the theory that leads to it.

It's just like the difference between good developers and voodoo coders. One stops to think before acting while the other just throws canned solutions at the problem, hoping one sticks.
I would, if I didn't have to be a FB member for Spotify.
Without moving, look up in the sky!
What a great story. You kept trying out different models until you found something awesome. I have to say when I ran my last company I hated picking up the phone only to hear some "IT recruitment expert" who has never fired up terminal droning on. Conversely, I would love to call you guys up when I start another company. Good luck!
It bugged me as well, but I assumed English wasn't his first language, so it is forgivable in my book.
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My "weekend project" that took a few months...
I had never thought of doing this. Its a great idea. How widespread is this technique?
I was actually semi-serious, and thinking cameras and tear gas, not firearms.

CONTINUED Basically a private protective service for people that don't have the money to afford live security guards.
I think it's more about adjusting attitudes. If you sent everyone a free AppleTV, they'd probably look at it funny and then toss it in the trash. If, on the other hand, you tell them $99 and you can watch as much EPL as you want, that changes attitudes.

Also, what I find most intriguing about this possibility is that I've heard from a number of people: "I'd ditch cable and go to AppleTV for everything if only I could get live sports."
Thanks for the kind words Richard!
JungeBlaze.com is my weekend project that took a few months to get right. Simple put: It allows anyone to sell digital files online.

Let me know what you think. I can take the abuse... ;-)
In addition to the 3 minimal actions I would also add, to use relevant keywords in each page's content. Often I notice clients creating content without actually using the keywords, by which they want the specific pages to be found. Also check the grammar, especially when creating multi-language content.
I think you're missing one. With SOPA, the website could still get built and maybe it never gets taken down for whatever reason [1]. I'm against SOPA too, but I think the two options you provided in the scenario with SOPA present a false dichotomy. I don't want to see SOPA pass, but fallacies won't sway the opinions of intelligent people.

[1] Could be that the website owner polices their site effectively, or maybe they grease enough palms to keep their site. The reason doesn't matter. The point is, there are other possible outcomes.
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I liked the idea, and had already needed parts of such a library, so I put together some stuff and made a free/open-source version.

https://github.com/codejoust/visitor.js
Thanks, Richard!
I wonder why more of the larger companies don't just do this themselves.

When I got out of college ~13 years ago, I went to work for a large retail corp. Their stuff was all mainframe and COBOL. They had a hard time finding new hires obviously so they had their own internal training program. The interview process was intense, around 4 hours of face to face interviews followed by a 3 hour written test (language independent, all logic and flow charting). If you got accepted, you were brought on and paid a salary for 3 months to go through their mainframe training program. The total cost for them was around 15k per student, which is far less than what I see the big tech companies offering as a signing bonus.
Agreed, but same could be said about github. It fits the trend of focusing in your core business... (its expensive for me though)
she states that the russian administrative code lets you visit the site if it is not surrounded by a fence (which had beed partially ruined before by someone).

i am not sure that that will help her against the prosecution, she must have revealed some secrets of a rocket engine factory.

check the wikileaks case, the guy published the information he didn't steal himself, he had the right to do so but it didn't help much.
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That is the scariest pair of pliers I have ever seen!
Perhaps the downvotes are coming from people who find this whole discussion off-topic. Or perhaps you are getting downvoted for your rigid tone or hyperbole.
If this matters — and the reload feature is for development, so I'm not sure the polling has a noticeable impact — an inotify implementation is also possible.
I'd urge him to consider carefully not only because dropping out of university might not be wise, but because he'll probably end up in the US on an H-1B visa.

An H-1B visa isn't a big deal, but it prevents you from working for a few weeks on contract to try things out, and it makes it quite a bit harder to change companies or quit.

Valley companies tend to overwork and under-compensate, and an H-1B makes it -that much- harder to get out of a terrible situation if you find yourself in one. An American designer in the Valley can say "no thanks" and change careers or move elsewhere with a minimum of effort compared to the issues associated with leaving with an H1B.

EDIT: It turns out I don't know much about visas and it's hard to get an H1B without a degree (thanks HN - learning a lot!). See replies for a wide variety of speculation as to which visa type would work in this situation, and feel free to sub in your choice of visa where I initially said H1B, because I think the danger of a poor working situation is either similar or even more pronounced with another type of visa.
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you seem like kind of a nice guy, and I'm sure you're a great designer. that said, try to not start your resume off with a picture of some boobs.
Some of you might be surprised but MSFT provides some of the best costomer service. A good friend of mine built his PC and once a week it would blue screen. He spent hours trying to figure out which hardware component caused it but gave up and called MSFT. Their CS rep spent 2 hours on the phone with my friend until they figured out what the issue was. The guy gave steps to fix the issue, without having to buy anything and even called the next week to verify that it didn't happen again. They did all that for free. PROPS!
Ah, I was wondering where all the new github watchers were comming from, now I know. JawsJS is very much alive! I've had sort of a pause from development after working _A lot_ on it for a period. I'm always fixing bugs and accepting patches.

I got documentation at http://jawsjs.com/docs/index.html but I know it could be better. I've tried to make up for it with tons of examples.. I know I personally love examples when learning new stuff.

About sound, I would say it's HTML5 weakest point. I think both chrome and ff are working on new sound APIs so this might change.

JawsJS now support basic playing of sounds through the Audio()-element. Last time I checked in safari there was a delay though, making it slightly sucky for shooting-sounds and so on.
If you want my advice get an old JP8 Sony, so something like the K850, fast Java machine that only has some issues with optional apis and you can provision just the JAR via its USB cable or Bluetooth really easily. If you do get something running you can be semi confident it runs on the other JP8s
> I was told via phone about an apparently unwritten rule that I was violating: auto-renewing subscriptions can only be used for apps that deliver “new content” during each renewal period, like magazines. Charging a monthly price for an ongoing service is not allowed.

That's nice. I worked on a auto-renewing service app, and I received a rejection phone call from Apple too. They didn't tell me anything useful, they just said that "your kind of app isn't appropriate for this type of in-app purchase". When I pressed for details and talked about alternative options, the person at Apple admitted to me that she'd never actually used our app!

I can't get over how terrible Apple are at communicating with developers. It's bad enough that there are these unwritten rules, but having to deal with Chinese whispers internal to Apple as well is ridiculous.
Just a bit. The basics of control flow, algorithmic thinking, etc. You should be comfortable writing and running code. Honestly, the most important thing is how fast you learn and how much you love programming. In previous batches we've accepted people who've known very little over people who know more because we think they're more enthusiastic about coding and more likely to do well.
Bit of shame to see a potentially entertaining opinion piece marred by female care-giver stereotypes.
You mean the same youtube where the Viacom sued them for videos uploaded by employees of Viacom [1]?

[1] http://consumerist.com/2010/03/viacom-youtube-throw-legal-pu...
Wow! This sounds incredible! Exactly the kind of thing that would be perfect for someone like me. A little background...

I'm one of those rare programming animals with a foot in each world.

I have written over a million lines of code and implemented many fairly sophisticated applications in over 90 different companies. So I have a great deal of confidence in my ability to build stuff. But here's the rub: most of the technologies I know so well are old (some may even say obsolete). So I have done what any self-respecting programmer would have done: I have taken upon myself to learn new technologies on my own and implement what I can where I can.

But there is so much demand for my services in the "old" technologies, it's hard to throw the switch. After spending all day on a client's project, it's tough to get enough momentum on my own stuff.

Also, I feel like I can really hold my own in areas in which I'm proficient. But technologies change so quickly, there are so many important things I feel weak in. Too weak to use on a client's work yet important enough to use when building new stuff. Also, I have never had any formal computer science education; I've learned everything I know in the school of hard knocks.

The idea of spending 3 months full time in the company of like-minded souls building cool stuff with new technologies and learning together is practically orgasmic for someone like me. (I know, I'm pathetic.) This would be the opportunity to "catch up" in all the things I've been wanting to do in an intense 3 month period. I can already think of a dozen projects I'd like to try in the class.

A few questions:

- How hard would it be to maintain a 30 to 40 hour client workload while going through the program? (And still have the energy to get all I want out of it.) I already work remotely and pretty much set my own hours. I do not want to stop my current work because people depend on me and I like the steady income.

- Do I sound like the kind of person who would do well in your program or are you seeking a more junior demographic?

- How hard would it be to get a reasonable room in NYC while maintaining a home elsewhere? (February 13 is way too soon for someone like me to relocate.)

- When will the next (after the Feb 13) session be? (That may be the best answer to my first 2 questions.)

It sounds like you guys are doing a great thing. Off the top of my head, I can think of dozens of my contempories that would blossom in a program like this. Best wishes for great success!
I think I saw this exact same model a few days ago... forgot the name though.
I'm not sure how well adopted mongrel2 has been. There ain't many commits by Zed these days and I don't see blog posts about using it. I don't know why though.
Yes, that's my impression as well.

I wanted something minimalistic and clean, without any dependencies. And I didn't want yet another "classes for JS"-pattern forced on me.

JawsJS is really picking up speed now, I know quite some ppl that used it for the last Ludum Dare.
It stopped being its own OS long ago. Now the dual-screen computer is a standard Windows PC with a pretty case and fancy keyboard, and the terminal software is just a win32 .exe.
Commits to Mongrel2 are happening near daily. It's in the development branch.

https://github.com/zedshaw/mongrel2/commits/develop
I think its an awesome idea, really. I had an almost identical idea after wading through interviewing potential candidates where I work. 90% of people recruiters send to you are barely screened, unprepared and underqualified. It seemed to me that if a recruiter would just sit people down for a few weeks and teach some relavent job skills, they'd have a much higher success rate.
I guess I'm confused.

I can see how real estate owners and mortgage companies have relationships with each other. (A lot of small owners have investments from family and friends and use a single mortgage financing company with experience closing tough initial investment deals)

What I don't understand is how the social network analysis led to a conviction. What does the connection mean? Can someone else explain it?
There are others out there that do this. The most direct competitor is http://gumroad.com But any site that allows selling files such as digital river is really a competitor.
Ye, github, the source and the examples is where it's at. The homepage has become less relevant. Thanks for reminding me to remove that line.
Ah, apologies, I didn't mean to advocate for coding tests as an all-or-nothing negative filter, though I see now that the thread I'm in may suggest that. It can be a good negative filter, but nobody should be disqualified by a single poor answer. Good questions are designed to reveal problem solving skills, so the path taken even to a very poor answer should be illuminating and lead the interviewer to another question.
WIP limits shouldn't be rigidly enforced. Instead a warning should show when you are over WIP, and some stats gathered in the background. If your team goes over WIP occasionally, it's usually fine. If you go over WIP a lot, your process is broken somehow. How, when, who and where you went over WIP can give you a lot of info on where your bottlenecks are and how to improve your process.

I've been on a Kanban team for the past year now and I can say with confidence that if our tool didn't track WIP, we would be less effective as a team.
What makes you think that piracy (and counterfeiting, etc) would cease without middlemen?
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He edited "shithead executives" down to just "executives." I was responding to the original text.

And yes, some labels make money off of the backs of artists, some are really great and make money with artists. Just like some streaming services work out licensing deals before launching a service and others don't.
It has been done since forever.
but because he'll probably end up in the US on an H-1B visa.

Actually, getting an H1B visa without a college education is near-to-impossible. I have a college education that isn't in computing, and I've had to provide evidence of six years of work experience as an alternative. I doubt our 19 year old friend will be able to do that.

Plus he can't "work for food for two months"- in fact, just that being on his site would probably be a giant red flag for immigration. You have to be paid a prevailing wage.

The easy answer here is to do internships. I'm not sure what the visa situation around them is exactly, but I'm sure it's easier than getting an H1B.
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I'll respectfully disagree. Theory is useful for designing algorithms, but has nothing to do with being a good programmer. Perhaps you mean understanding design (of tools, languages etc)? If that's the case, then yes, you need to understand your tools before using them. I'm not suggesting otherwise.

The easiest way of getting better at negotiations, like programming, is actually just about practice.
Quick salary tip for hiring software engineers: go easy on the low-balling.

Once the software engineer realizes they are getting paid significantly lower than what they could get paid in the market, you may have just incentivized them to leave the company. Depending on the personality of the software engineer, they may not come to you and re-negotiate, they may simply look for a better offer elsewhere.

So make sure you don't undermine your ability to retain talent.
"I would love to join to your team in Palo Alto, California"

You may want to broaden that statement - Palo Alto is a very small piece of the Silicon Valley pie
If you think that thinking x3c's comment is not productive makes somebody a Klan member, then I think HN is not the community for you.
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They do it because many people and most cybercafes around the world have their language configured incorrectly in their browsers. Most of the time, for novice users, the geo targeting is more accurate than browser settings.

I agree, it's hugely annoying.
My buddy works there. He says Woz' main contribution is marketing :P
Thanks for the kind words!

How hard would it be to maintain a 30 to 40 hour client workload while going through the program? (And still have the energy to get all I want out of it.)

I think this would be extremely hard (at least, I know it would be for me). We've had couple people hold down substantial client work (more on the order of 20-30 hours a week, I think) while doing Hacker School and make it work (and still get a ton out of it), but we've also had a couple that tried this and quickly realized they had to leave the program.

How hard would it be to get a reasonable room in NYC while maintaining a home elsewhere?

This is perfectly doable logistically. The biggest obstacle is the financial burden of paying two rents (or rent + mortgage). You can get a room in the city for ~$600-900/month. NYC has a crazy housing market but there are so many people here there's always stuff opening up and turning over, so it's easier to find a sublet for a few months here than, say, in Mountain View (I tried doing that and it was a mess).

When will the next (after the Feb 13) session be? (That may be the best answer to my first 2 questions.)

We take about a month off between batches, so it will start in late May or early June.

Thanks for the best wishes!
Hrm. Didn't notice boobs, wondering if Filip is really smart and knows it will lure men in... very good sales pitch, IMHO.
Yep, I was just thinking the same thing. A lot of the "hot" startups are actually in San Francisco itself so may want to take that into account. Beyond Silicon Valley proper there are companies scattered throughout the Bay Area region also.