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Of course not. Its just fast and in many(mostly trivial and boring) cases the problem is already solved. Lets just say that sometimes its a better idea to just google for something instead of trying to figure it all out and in some cases-reinvent the wheel.
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I charge $100/hr for consulting relating to video encoding and compression. I'm a college student, but I can get away with it because its such a great niche (and there aren't very many of us compressionists out there who aren't covered in dozens of NDAs and noncompete agreements...)

Ironically, I only get paid about half that for my actual coding contracts, which quite honestly are much more work.
Horrible.

That generation, born between 1946 and 1964, had a collective fascination with butt-kicking, entrepreneurial achievement.

Look at where all the "butt-kicking" corporate warriors got us!

So-called millennials, born between mid 1970s and 1990s, have received a radically different message--one captured in part by President-elect Barack Obama's stance on the benefits of "spreading the wealth around."

The author seems to suggest that cleaning up the messes of power's previous custodians, as Barack Obama will have to do, couldn't possibly be preparation for anything useful in the corporate world.

Not that millennials are damaged goods. Corporate recruiters drool over them for their ability to adapt and fit into bureaucratic enterprises. Overachieving, nobody-tells-me-what-to-do entrepreneurial types don't go so gently into that good night.

I thought the complaint about our generation was that we had sharp elbows, demanding to assert our individualism at work and be treated "as colleagues rather than as subordinates".

If any generation is bureaucratically-inclined, it's the Baby Boomers. We've accepted that there's no point in climbing corporate ladders that are going to vanish as we attempt to traverse them.

Rather than seeking to come out on top in zero-sum games, millennials strive for consensus.

Is that a bad thing? Although driven by competition, isn't business supposed to be positive-sum? It's only "zero sum" in stagnant corporations that have given up on measuring and encouraging production and, instead, fall back on political success for allocating rewards.

Dr. Steven Berglas spent 25 years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry. Today he coaches entrepreneurs, executives and other high-achievers.

So he's a professor and a life coach, and he's berating us for our lack of entrepreneurial spirit?
Because most people working in software development aren't doing anything remotely algorithmic. The vast majority of corporate/commercial software does two things: it gets input from somewhere, either a user or another program, and writes it to a database. It gets records from the database and formats a report for a user or sends it to another program. And that's it. That's all most websites do too. If it's XML then the programmer doesn't even need to know parsing. You can - and many people do - work in software and be good at your job, without any theoretical underpinnings at all.

That's not to say that that's a good thing, mind, it's neither good nor bad, but it's a fact that maybe 1 in 10 people employed in the software industry will need to know big-O, perhaps even less than that.
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As I mentioned, it's for people you know (and would be comfortable having that conversation with). I've worked for friends, and I'm clear up front that I'm not free, but I'm also more willing to work with them on price for stuff (as it's usually small and fun). Also, it can help you to determine if the customer is serious (Make me Facebook, $200) or not.

It's not always a great way to approach things, but sometimes (and you'll know when) it is a decent approach.
I also have a history (and now CS) degree. If you want to get into programming, do some programming. Don't worry about what language or what project, just grab something and do something.

That said, I found http://www.processing.org/ to be very useful in my transition. Nothing like a little visual feedback to keep the motivation high :)
Clean syntax, great documentation, active community. Fantastic starter language, a great way to dip your toe in the pool and see if you really want to do programming before you buy a bunch of expensive books. Attempting to use one of the more masochistic languages (c/c++/java) can break your spirit before you even get going.

I expect you'll pick up discrete math pretty easy, and a lot of the analytic skills you developed in history actually will translate pretty well to CS.

I wish I had more time to reply but I have to run, final 2 tips, install linux and write a compiler. Have fun and good luck!
It ended up being a happy, loving marriage. And he still managed to do a lot of work, including "On the Origin of Species" after getting married. So much for not having time!
I was listening to the Long Now seminar on synthetic biology. One of the speakers mentioned you can buy a DNA synthesizer on eBay. I've heard this for years and never believed it, but a 2 second search on ebay actually listed one for sale. No, its not my auction I just thought it was interesting that we are getting to the point where we could have genetic engineering startups in garages in Palo Alto.
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Wow, Karen is an embarrassment to society.
Pretty damn true.

I've done my share of hiring in the last couple of years, allow me to opine on this post.

"Tell me about yourself." Common question, usually my first question with candidates just to let them talk a bit about themselves and let them tell me what they feel is important. It also just breaks the ice even with a (hopefully) easy question. It doesn't mean you're not getting hired.

"What are your biggest flaws?" - I don't use this, its a bullshit question and I don't know anyone who does. No one in their right mind is going to tell you the truth. "What are you strengths" is however a decent question, like "tell me about yourself" it allows the interviewee to tell you something about themselves that you may have missed.

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" - Not actually a dumb question, most people don't use it correctly. The answer to this question can be useful from a "goodness of fit" perspective. Do their goals align with how your organization works? This isn't a make or break question but it can get interesting answers.

"Tell me about a time when you..." - Sorry this is the main type of question you should b e asking. This is the opportunity to ask the question "how are you going to solve the problems that we're going to give you?"

"How many gas stations are in the United States?" - Ya crap question, but some engineering managers like them.
"A zero-day (or zero-hour) attack or threat is a computer threat that tries to exploit unknown, undisclosed or patchfree computer application vulnerabilities."

"The term zero-day can also be used to describe warez-group releases of pirated software on or before the release of the software."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-Day_Attack

I think "zero-day attack/exploit" is basically a euphemism for "oh shit, didn't see that one coming"
A word like "calling" sure triggers my hokey-bullshit detector.

Alternately, I might think it's a little blasphemous. Following "the call" means renouncing secular life and swearing an oath to serve god and the church. It doesn't mean finding a job that makes you happy.
It is actually only for YC affiliated companies.
Thanks, I knew it'd be a tough one to monetize, or else I would've done something earlier. Perhaps some sort of donation nag screen on the website would increase the donation rate.
It definitely doesn't take a lot of resources to run, but I just wanted to gather some feedback
Good luck.

My situation is similar: after leaving an i-bank, I've managed to make a living in software (somewhat ironically by selling niche services to brokerages), but it's nothing like what I was making before.

Still, I wouldn't trade (no pun intended) the experience of the last few years, and I'm glad I made the change.
As a developer, I am always learning, but many times I don't care to learn anymore about computers. Those are the times that I look forward to going home, and picking up a book about whatever I'm trying to learn about.
"I love thinking through problems."

"I'm definitely a vision guy. I ask way too many questions, but I'm extremely good at throwing away useless information and working out a way to solve something, to get somewhere, to chose a path that will likely work."

From these quotes alone I can see what "career" you are most likely fit for: an entrepreneur.

Think of a problem, think of how you can solve it, think how solving this problem would lead to benefits (profit).

Now, you don't need to dread the word "execution" because I am not going to use it in relation to you. Rather, think back to what you said:

"It requires someone else to put the solution into effect."

Delegate to others for execution. I work with people who are ultimately much more smarter than me, but what separates me from them is that I can bind together the individual outputs of all members of our group into our unified goal.

Learn the art of the persuasion and negotiation (and this can only be learned by taking place in reality, not in your head). This is the most important thing in the beginning - how are you going to get others to follow you into the unknown?
I think the article makes sense. But I don't see why inner classes would have to go in the face of closures - they are simply a nested version of a existing structure - not really a new structure.
Little known facts about millenials:

* They are younger than the average person reading this article

* They know how to use computers

* They play well with others, except when they don't

* If placed in a well-lit room and given plenty of water, they will blossom (singing to them sometimes helps, too)
Just because some choose Wall St for the wrong reasons doesn't mean it's not a calling for others...
I hope that gmail.com account isn't used for email password recovery for the bankofamerica.com account.
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"You just lost your job. Have a taco!"

Seriously, I find this pretty distasteful.
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Agreed. Yet more alarmist "the next generation sucks!" drivel, backed up by a lot of big claims, and no data.

I am current in college (a few months from graduation), and let me just say that myself and many of my fellow students are all very entrepreneurial. More than a few of us have launched products, sites, and services to make money on the side, and going into business for yourself is a constant topic of conversation.

Yes, millennials are entrepreneurs - sometimes out of necessity. We no longer have the prospect of a cushy pension to look forward to, nor a predictable climb up a corporate ladder. The playing field has changed, and IMHO it now favors the bold.
Jerry Weinberg has a great statement on this: set your price so that you're happy either way.

In other words, set it high enough that if they say yes, you feel good about how much money you're making, and if they say no, it's a relief because you wouldn't have wanted that deal anyway.

I found this helpful because you can answer it yourself (without any market info, which can be hard to get sometimes) and it's optimized for making you feel good.
In major metros in the USA $100/hr is entirely reasonable for someone who gets results directly.

If you're performing a specific task you're very comfortable with, or will be on call, bill the full rate in 15 minute increments.

If you're venturing outside of your comfort zone and/or providing soft consulting such as advice, discount appropriately. Likewise, if they'll be providing you work in bulk (some number of hours per week, or a long project), consider discounting fairly aggressively as well.

Freelance hours (1099) are different than employee hours (W-2) from a tax perspective, so be sure that your income is equivalent to what you'd want to have as an employee at least.
The auto industry is fine, it's doing quite good. It's the American auto industry that has a problem - and this is a business problem, not really a technology problem.

If there were some dude making some way advanced beepers right now, what he has is not a technology problem, it's a business problem.
Many places will interview you anyway, just so they can justify to themselves that they really were thorough.

My first job out of college, they made me an offer at the beginning of the interview process, because I'd interned with them before and they had a fairly good idea what I could do. The rest of the interviews were basically get-to-know-the-people-hired-after-your-internship.

Also, at bigger companies, your referral may not be from the group or specialty you'll actually be working with, and so you'll have to go through the interview process itself to make sure they can stand you. My Google application process was like this, and my IBM one would've been had I pursued it. It's still a big positive, that someone in the company is willing to vouch for you.
I agree that a lifelong commitment to learning can be a source of ongoing enjoyment. I didn't mean to imply that he should focus all of his learning activities on his job, or job related topics. What I had meant to convey was that learning was normally a component of most jobs. I also agree that taking a break from the computer and work related topics by reading a book is a great way to recharge and learn something new.
It will cost you $30 to do this on rentacoder, if you are going to need so much thought for a small decision like this, how long will you require for the big decisions?

Just do it and learn for yourself if it works for you or not. What worked for random_yc_user_99 may not work for you.
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I would've liked to have seen some admission of culpability. While times are tough, Yahoo's main miseries come from the fact that they have been directionless for a long time, building products that nobody wants, or simply have no revenue potential. This is all under the leadership of Yang.

Personally I would have expected at least a small admission of guilt.
Yes, but lists of jQuery plugins are apparently for Hacker News: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22jquery+plugin%22+site%3Ane...
Learn CSS/HTML. I have been through this route a few times and this weekend I said FUCK IT MAN, PAY NO MASS. It may take you a few weeks to be nearly decent enough, but you will be glad you can do it yourself instead of asking "Why S/He doesn't get it"?
Hmmm. Two Tims disagree.
The idea that new land will become available at a perfect replacement rate is a little bit up in the air.

Anyway, even if this does happen, the adjustment period could starve 2 billion people over several decades or more.

Large scale grain production is pretty optimised. That means it's very sensitive to any changes in the environment. Even if melted Siberian permafrost did provide a wheat growing hectare for every hectare lost down hear in Australia, it could take decades to shift production, optimise methods, industries & crop varieties.

BTW, this may be another downside of GM. A kind of 'more of the same' to monocropping.
You may not get many comments. These seem to be elementary questions (unless I missread).

1. You'll get varied experiences through an elance or psdtohtml service. The advise from this board will likely be learn to do it yourself.

2. No need to reinvent the wheel. include an external script in your html/php, then make changes to the external script.
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Hi skmurphy. I didn't disagree. Just adding my 2 cents to it.
I've never read such a crock of shit since the last time I read something like this.

I'm sorry, because we don't subscribe to the model of "Grab all you can and fuck the other guy", somehow we're going to be useless entrepreneurs and crap at starting The Business of Tomorrow?

Fuck you, sir, and the boat you sailed in on. I and many others like me, have a great drive, but not for our own self-gratification, but for the betterment of many and I think that's a far greater thing than wanting to create the next IBM or Wells Fargo or whatever the hell.
If you replace "perfect woman" with "ideal startup co-founder" it sounds about right.
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We definitely don't need any more lists. Any new and/or unique plugins posted individually I think would be good.
First, I question the veracity of the article/site. Is it a hoax?

Second, assuming it's true, the article says this guy has two years and 14000GBP in this robot so far. For the money and the time investment, it's actually quite impressive.

Is it obscene to ask a robot if you can see its source code? As someone who has a high-level interest in component electronics/robotics/AI, if there was technical information on the robot I'd love to know more.
I hate to break it to you but the current record for hydrogen powered cars is over 5000km/litre and for combustion engines it's over 1200km/litre.

The auto industry has some of the best engineers in the world and are more than capable of offering high efficiency vehicles but it's not in their best interests to do so. Frequent vehicle replacements and high energy consumption are in the industies favour.

http://www.canadiandriver.com/thenews/2008/04/13/fuel-econom...

http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/102185/
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Great post. I have been asked the same questions in many of my interviews before.
Do you have links to the mockups or can u give some idea whats going on underneath? I think the price demanded will be somewhat proportional to the complexity of the project. It could take 2 hours or 2 weeks.
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A bit late for the comment, but, if the containers are sealed, then isn't cooling required after all?
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The innovation will come from somewhere, and it probably won't be from us because we're so busy defending our father/mother/aunt/uncle/cousin who worked at one of the Big Three that we don't care about innovation right now, we want our comfortable pensions, dammit!
I disagree, I think you are incorrect to seperate "marketing from distribution." First, you mean differentiate between 'promotion' & distribution.'

Anyway, the app store is not simply a distribution channel. It's a market. A price driven one. Sure it's not in a vacuum. You can promote outside of it. But it is a pretty self contained market.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with a price driven market.
Yes but only one of them gets email from Jerry :P
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I assume you're posting this one because of the reddit article. I've probably had as many (or half as many -- anyway, on the big-O) reads of that article in the past day due to reddit as in the previous two years, <i>probably because of the reddit title</i>.

Yes, titlebaiting is a problem. But titlecrappiness is too, and I definitely have that, and you have propagated it ;-) The article is about slime, the emacs lisp mode, in a particular context -- a concept that is poorly conveyed by the title.

Mostly my fault, but marginally yours also for not having the decency to give it a more appropriate title ;-)
The interview process, or some sort of skills assessment process, is still necessary even after the referral. Otherwise, you run the risk of hiring someone akin to the boss' nephew who claims web programming skills, but has never been in the same room as someone who has those skills. Relying on friends and colleagues for advice on who to hire is good, but it can turn bad if that is the only data point you rely on.
So there are articles saying "millennials" can't just smoothly blend into the corporate environment (and are a problem for corporate recruiters) - because they've been coddled and want to do "their own thing" - and there are articles saying "millennials" can only blend into the corporate environment (and are great for corporate recruiters) because they've been "coddled".

All of these articles appear in magazines of similar bent like WSJ and Forbes.

Logically, they're saying

"Millennial" implies "Coddled" ;

"Coddled" AND "in corporate hierarchy" implies "can't succeed" ;

"Coddled" AND NOT "in corporate hierarchy" implies "can't succeed" ;

So either they're (WSJ, Forbes) claiming A) millennials MUST fail in any environment (whether corporate or not) or B) these people (writers for WSJ, Forbes) are being emotional and not logically consistent.

If A is true they need to have statistics that all things being equal millennials (and I assume those possesing a BA/BS degree from a university and coming from a middle class background, i.e. "coddled" ones) are more likely to be unemployed (while not being enrolled in education or training) than their peers from other generation. I don't seem to find this to be true...
if your clients think your rate is "fair", doesn't that suggest you're undercharging?

i would guess when a client subjectively feels your rate is "a little on the high side" then it's probably fair. they prefer low rates.
Flex SDK is also free and open source, (Flex Builder is the $$$) , anyone can just download and start building Flex applications (well except the Charting components). You can also use Intellij IDE for Flex development(cheaper).
We used FAME development in my previous startup and there is a big difference in development in Fame and in Flex - I prefer Flex.
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"Life coaches" almost always smack of quackery to me. That's why I really hate seeing the motivational/psycho-babble articles on top of News.YC and (earlier) reddit.
There's a lot of emotion, but not a lot of data (in the original article, or in our discussion).

The sole data point I can think of to support his point is Richard Branson. Check out how he was raised (an extreme amount of independence/autonomy) in his biography.

That said, there are 2 serious issues in this article:

1) He assumes that millennials are more coddled than other generations. How can he prove this?

2) How can he prove that there is an inverse correlation between the amount of coddling and entrepreneurial outcomes?

Until he provides hard data, he ends up sounding like a typical social 'scientist'.

Anyways, the article provided at least one benefit for me in that it raised the question: are there things we can do as parents to help our children become more entrepreneurial?
From your story, it seems you do disagree.

You're problem with Apple was that you saw your 'deal' with Apple beign: 'We make an app,' 'You promote & distribute it. If it sells, we split it 30/70.'

Now you feel conned because you didn't get the implied exposure. You didn't get a fair shot at grabbing a couple of those who 'happened to be browsing,' get the appropriate number of comments, etc.

You imply that your deal with Apple is: 'We do the product & price it. You do the promotion & distribution.'

BTW, I think you are correct & this is your deal with them. But I think this puts you on the same side as the letter writer & on the opposite side to jfarmer.
As per the prize rule, they are under the obligation to describe and publish their mode (as they did last time). I really wish someone would release an open source recommender package, coded in C, with PHP bindings, based on the latest / greatest algorithms, or any algorithm (just plain SVD if anything).

Interesting links (from the winning team(s) websites about their latest research) : http://public.research.att.com/~volinsky/netflix/kdd08koren....
http://www.commendo.at/index.php?lang=0&_0=2&_1=3