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Hey again-- I've actually made a response on the related reddit posting to a similar question. I typed out a fairly in-depth response, so I'm going to paste it below.

I hope this clears things up.

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Basically--we partner with telephone companies who colocate our equipment (servers, etc.) which we use to run our software. We purchase phone lines from these telcos (to support incoming calls), and then provide free services for public consumption to make money off the termination cost.

Imagine that you have a T-Mobile cell phone, and your friend has a Verizon cell phone. When your friend calls you, Verizon pays T-Mobile a small amount of money for every minute that your call lasts (this fee is to pay for the physical infrastructure that T-Mobile invests in--telephone polls, switches, service monitoring, etc.). That's why cell phone plans cost money and aren't free.

We operate the same way, except we partner with telephone companies (like T-Mobile in my example above), and split the termination fees with them.

So the more people use our services, the more we can profit from it.

Hopefully this clears it up. There's been a lot of discussion in the internet recently about traffic pumping and companies attempting to get fraudulent traffic to make money. We are by no means doing anything illegal or illegitimate here.

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Also: our motivation for building confnow is to basically to make conference calling as simple as humanly possible. I've personally used the other sites out there (namely: freeconferencecall.com), and nothing is more frustrating to me (as a user) to want to make a quick call and have to go through hoops (setting up accounts, waiting for verification, listening to ads, etc.) when you just want to get into a room as quick as possible and move on with your life.
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So hows the audition project work? Do you guys just hire the person on as a consultant for a week, or what? I'm curious, because I've never heard of this before.
It's surprising that you can open a customer bank account over mail given the Know-Your-Customer (KYC) laws which I thought included a physical presence check. Something to Google on a rainy day...
I remember you. You were trying to convince me to take the offer from Yahoo. Seems like things have changed for you as well.
I’m going to go ahead and say yes, that seems to be blatant sarcasm, or at least, reference to placebo effect / being a sucker.
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My experience has been more big data management and analytics. Less on the startup angle. There are a lot of hidden costs associated with maintaining your own dedicated hardware. Our projects here invested quite a bit into several internally maintained clusters, and it hasn't been perfect. There is a lot of opportunity cost wasted in having developers forced to constantly flex their sysadmin muscles. My time is best served solving problems that leverage the cloud, not tuning and maintaining it. The context switching can be very distracting.

It's actually faster for me to use EC2 whenever I have major calculations than our internal cluster. I get on demand scaling up with the fine tune control I need to micromanage when necessary.
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"introverted, seasoned professionals"

There's probably a fair amount of "introverted, seasoned professionals" that stop by HN from time to time. But then they reply with something that pisses the clique off, get down voted and never return.
Also worth reading: http://www.deserettechnology.com/journal/writing-a-good-job-..., by HN's very own cookiecaper.
Autotrading will still get you banned. But yeah what you describe sounds like it's from back in the day. Nowadays there are three modes with the standard pftp: autotrade, autotrade only while at computer (redundant, I know), and manual trade.

But chaining with FXP is just fine now (virtually all courier groups do it with the exception of 0day). When I was a courier our pftp coordinated with the other ones in the group and chained them via country, ranking, and by 3-4 other factors I can get into if you'd like.
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Once you have a good checklist, you can turn it into a library so that the code can check the things on the checklist for you, or change the code so that the things you had on the checklist to avoid are impossible, and the things you had on the checklist happen automatically. Then you can stop checking the things on that checklist and start on a different checklist.

What you're describing is people doing work that can be automated. That can happen in software, but only in incompetent development teams, or under very special circumstances.

Surgery is different from programming because it's manual labor, and it still exists as a human activity because we don't yet have a feasible way to automate it.
I actually do think the web is a good place to start, especially with a backend in python or ruby. You get to quickly see the results of what your doing, which will spur you to learn more.

I definitely do not think that books, tutorials or classes are the way to learn programming at first. The thrill of discovering the concept of recursion on my own really hooked me onto coding. I remember googling "a function calling itself" semi-hoping that no one else knew about this yet...

I did Neuroscience and BME undergrad, so I only had taken the 1 required class of Java (which I couldn't stand at the time, it was just too messy). I'm glad I didn't take more CS in college, it might have turned me off for good. Yes, once you get to where your fluent, I think classes (or books if your self-motivated) in algorithms, data structures and other hard CS are essential. But to get to that point, think of a creative project and try to build it, you'll really fall in love with the language you use, and you'll understand the real reason why people program: because it makes you feel like god.
Could you share a bit more how you do it? Thanks.
Probably because you couldn't come up with the actual study you mention.
One thing I've really struggled with since coming to San Francisco is that every company seems happy to take extensive time out of a programmer for an interview, including an audition project.

Yet if you ask this of a designer, you get shot down immediately for soliciting spec work.
In Cambridge, MA alone we have Nokia Research Center (NRC), Microsoft NERD (no really, New England Research and Development Center, but they've dropped the C in the last year or two :-) Disney Research... up until a couple of years back we had Orange/France Telecom, too. (BITD there was a "$foo Cambridge Research Labs" for most computer/tech values of $foo; these days all the new buildings, and a lot of the old, are biotech instead.)
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A practical outcome of the bound (that the PageRank change for a new link is bounded by the PageRank of the source of the link) was the WordPress link selling affair from a few years ago.

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Hmm... presumably an application can act in read-only mode in the absence of a transactor. That's an interesting thought :-)
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Yeah definitely. I've had this issue a few times with some of the sites I manage. Its usually lifted quick once someone submits the proper info but yeah this can't be good for their customers. bummer.
stop being so paranoid about what you think you can't hear, and enjoy the damn music.

I'm a composer who works in film/games. I can assure you this is exactly what I'd like people to do when they listen to my music. I spend 99% of my time trying to create good musical ideas, and I spend 1% of my time getting the mix down. I get criticized (rightly) for this quite a bit, but it is hard to care about someone sitting in a >$10,000 labyrinth of sound equipment when I'd rather write a catchy tune.

Then again, when I write sheet music I have to endure some of the most soul-crushingly awful midi sequencing in order to check my work, so perhaps I'm too tolerant to terrible sound quality. Still, I'd rather people listened to the music, not the sound of it.
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We try to only run GPS when your next calendar event is coming up.

That could be a problem. Perhaps you want to run it near the last appointment? This is a complicated problem.

Right now we have an application-wide setting that says, "Add X minutes to my travel time." We're hoping people will use that to accommodate the fact that they have to walk to their car, find parking, etc. Eventually we'll make this configurable for each event.

Some things are better done earlier than later. In "new development" cities, this is okay, but in more complicated locations it will be a serious per-appointment issue. In a time when people say the first mover advantage is an illusion, getting ahead of the UX game could mean everything.

Yeah, traffic estimates aren't 100% accurate, but they're better than crossing your fingers and hopping in the car.

Just remember to err on the side of early. ;-)
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My advice to you younger guys is to keep the windows rolled up while driving. I have no other explanation why my left ear is much worse than my right.
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First of all, whether you accept it or not, global warming is an accepted part of the scientific consensus. It is not ridiculous for me to include it as an example.

Secondly, whether you think creationism is ridiculous or not, 3 out of 4 of the current Republican candidates have stated that they do not believe in evolution. Creationism is a mainstream belief among Republicans, and (according to polls) widespread among Americans in general. (But Creationists tend to vote Republican.)

Thirdly, I gave an example where Democrats do not accept what standard economics has to say about the effects of government regulation of various kinds of prices, including rents. This is literally economics 101, supply/demand curves show that price regulation results in reduced supply and the creation of a much more expensive black market. The inability to accept facts that do not agree with our world views does not just happen on one side or the other.

And last, as someone else pointed out, you've demonstrated my point. A person with knowledge of, and respect for, the facts we have the most evidence for will be unelectable. Even if you accepted that person's knowledge and ability (which you won't necessarily), you wouldn't want them to be in charge.
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So, I was rescuing an MS Access application that imperfectly synched from a MySQL instance powering the Rails app from which it got data, that had been exported to MS SQL that was running (surprisingly well) inside a Windows XP VM I was accessing via Remote Desktop Connection.

So: I have no idea. I totally forget. It was some really-complicated-looking MS tool that allowed me to look at the table row by row and run some queries :). The guy I was working for set it up; my excuse is I stopped using windows back in 2004.
He's also optimized around his current setup and think that would carry over 1:1 to another platform. He has 24 unicorn workers now, so he thinks he needs 24 dynos on Heroku.

Whenever I've moved an app between platforms or server setups, I benchmark an individual instance and figure out your needs that way.

Also find it interesting how his current setup is all on a single server. So his entire service is one massive SPOF. On Heroku, he'd be highly available and horizontally scalable. How much does downtime cost him?
That's really cool. I wonder if those guys read RFS5?
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Jeff's suggestion - perhaps not followed by everyone who does an "audition project" - is that the project be paid. (Spec work, of course, isn't guaranteed to be).
I'm with you on that. I detest the time wasted waiting to place an order. And even more I detest the time wasted waiting to pay and making payment. For some reason restaurants really like to drag the latter out as much as possible.

I'm fine with people adding value. Adding in unpredictable delays for them to carry paper between me and the cooks or me and a credit card machine is not value.
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My personal favorite: How to interview a candidate/programmer http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-interview-ca...
Once you work at a few places and go through this process many times you get sick of it and create your own startup :P
I was about to scream about #5 until I saw this:

"This should be a regular consulting gig with an hourly rate, and a clearly defined project mission statement."

I interviewed with a YC company about a year ago and was asked to do #5 except without pay. It's a long story, but in short I let my guard down because it was a YC company only to find myself having wasted a week. The part that really pissed me off is that they came back _months_ later and pretended that no time had passed at all (obviously their hire didn't work out) and asked me to jump through more interviewing hoops. When I rightfully just told them to put money where mouth is they actually insulted me and the free work I had done (written in an email no less).

The point I'm making is that if you need this many hoops for a candidate to jump through you shouldn't be the one hiring. Find someone else with a business-tuned intuition and ability to judge character. If you act like you're the world's greatest company which people will waste hours and even days trying to impress you're going to miss the best people out there.

Also #2:

"Show me a Stack Overflow profile where I can see what kind of communicator and problem solver you are. Link me to an open-source code repository of your stuff."

Kinda cheesy for Jeff to say the first part. I absolutely agree with supporting both info sharing sites and open source. But as a self-taught programmer that ships products and does very well financially, I can tell you that there are effective people out there that don't rely on SO to get things done and therefore probably don't contribute to it.

I do absolutely support open source software but I also don't have a lot of free time. I've written a raster to vector conversion library that I'd love to clean up a bit and open source. But I literally don't have time to do so. Does that make me a second class programmer? Having hired many people over the years I know that I would look very seriously at someone who has shipped a lot of products but doesn't follow programmer community trends like SO. I guess it could mean they're truly horrible programmers with no knowledge to share. It could also mean they're too busy meeting their own (or some company's) targets. It could also mean they like to unplug once in a while and lead a normal life.

I understand why companies like Google take a hardline approach to hiring. They just deal with too many people. But if you're reading Jeff's essay on hiring you're not running Google. If you're a small company you need to look at the outliers first since that where you're likely to find overlooked talent. That's where you're going to find the people who don't jump through hoops but who actually get shit done on a daily basis.
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I understand, and applaud Jeff for that, but most companies don't pay for their interview process, many of which can be multiple full day affairs.

I can't imagine a company not getting backlash holding a design competition to 'interview' designers.
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It's really not a good gameplay mechanism at all. Also, the game crashed with a Java (!) stacktrace for me.
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I'll blog about this later this week, but you'd be surprised how unalike geeks and customers are on this one. Geeks perceive value from playing with software. Many customers perceive negative value from having to interact with software.

At the risk of stating the obvious, no HNer will ever buy ShopLocket, for somewhat hyperbolic values of "no". Optimizing for the trialing preferences of HNers, who consume many free trials but pay for fairly little in general (and near nothing in terms of hosted shopping carts for non-technical sell-atoms businesses), is directly against your interests for optimizing the first use experience of people who trial very little software but have a hair-on-fire problem in their non-technical sell-atoms business.

There's a related sell-the-sizzle-not-the-steak issue where someone is not buying the particular CSS/JS of the shopping cart but rather the ability to improve their life by selling things online. You do not necessarily need to show them a shopping cart to tell that story.

Again, further comments later this week at length.
Why do an audition project when you can fire candidates who do not work out within the first three months?

My advice is to trust yourself and hire people you like. Take a leap of faith. If things do not work out - be quick to pull the trigger.
Good luck hiring someone who is merely unhappy in their current job.

If someone is in a full-time job, it is hard enough to find time to go to interview. Good luck finding a free week to do a side project for you. They will self-select out of your selection pool, yet they are very valuable possibilities. Ditto for a probation period, why would someone with a job go work for 3 months for the possibility of maybe getting a different job?

Yet that said, I don't think this is bad advice. A company will see many candidates that could have worked out, the challenge is making sure you don't wind up with a promising looking dud. A high rate of false negatives are OK, so long as you don't get a false positive.

But it also isn't the only good way to do it.
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