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At work where I'm forced to use Windows, I have Cygwin installed. It's great to pop open a terminal and be able to pipe things around as you would on Linux. It makes Windows a little bit more comfortable, although Cygwin still feels like a second-class citizen (especially when it comes to the file system).
"All the numbers you need: 123456789" - I guess zero is optional?
Prior to July: Buenos Aires, Argentina (REMOTE is possible during this period).
After July: Large city in the U.S.

Lead Developer

We are Bungolow, a startup putting the "RAVE" back in "Travel" (that's not actually our tagline, we promise -- just wanted to get your attention). Bungolow is a members-only site featuring curated hotel bookings for the wide-open Latin American market. Check us out at www.bungolow.com.

The reason for the interesting location tag up top is that we are currently participating in a TechStars Network accelerator in Buenos Aires. After the program, we aim to locate in a large U.S. city. This means: a) if you are a U.S. citizen, you have the opportunity to come hang out in an awesome South American city for 3 months then return with us to the U.S. of A; or b) if you are from outside the U.S., we will do everything in our power to get a visa for you to work in the U.S. In both instances, having you with us in BA is preferred but not required.

We're looking for a lead developer to drive the technological direction of the company. This is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a high-potential start-up. The right candidate will be considered part of the founding team.

We're not as concerned about your education background or prior work experience (or for that matter, even the technologies you code in) as we are of seeing evidence of stuff you have shipped. Please send us some links to things you have created online, and make note of your involvement in each.

Send to careers at bungolow dot com.
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Just out of curiosity, what is making you move towards Linux?

The huge appeal of OS X to me is, as someone said on here recently, it's basically *BSD with a fancy window manager and 1-to-1 hardware/software integration.
How long have you been able to write? DANGLING PARTICIPLE!
Raphael is nice. So is the SVG namespace in D3.

I work on a web-based instrumentation and visualization system that uses SVGs.

Here's a paper on it, if your interested: http://www.svgopen.org/2011/papers/72-Integrated_Power_Analy...
To be honest if the majority of users didn't like the polls they'd never make it to the front page... So I don't really see a problem with them.
Thank you Paul for both of your replies, that was exactly the information I was looking for.
Adam Sandler really shines in Reign Over Me.
Is it safer/healthier to run on grass than concrete? I like to run laps on a soccer field near my apartment rather than on city sidewalks so I don't have to deal with traffic. But I seem to be the exception in my neighborhood. I see tons of people running down the streets, but nobody running on grass. I assumed that a softer running surface would create less impact on my joints and prevent injury and reduce wear and tear on my body. But I could be wrong. Just curious.
There's a lot of misconception about tests. If you're interested in how to start unit testing, check out this tutorial on Wednesday: http://j.mp/HPguPs
Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video
It depends. You also can't resell iOS games, but their price point is also an order of magnitude lower than the $50 of console titles.
They don't insist on CCTV but it's a useful tool.

Actually the major source of fraud in most lotteries is the store owner . For small wins the ticket is taken back to the store to scan it to check for a win, the store owner will tell the buyer that it lost, or that it only won a much smaller prize, pay that out of the till and then claim the prize.
Especially in poor/immigrant communities where many player may not speak English or have internet access.

There was a story on here about an analyst for an oil company who worked out the random number sequence for a lottery in Ontario. He also analysed the winning claims and discovered that certain stores where claiming a disproportionate number of middle wins.
Well written piece, as accurate as anything that has been published to date. The title is a bit sensationalist (though I suppose that is what gets readers) -- none of this has been kept secret, it just hasn't been told on a stage the size of Wired before.
From the text below the slider:

> You have A to Z, plus the Norwegian characters Æ Ø & Å, and numbers 0 - 9. All caps.
OneOps, TwoOps … Exploring cloud ops
I found a newspaper clipping recently while going through my dads estate which announced he was teaching a new class at the local college in IBM Assembler in 1967, the year I was born. He introduced me to computing in the 80s. I miss him.
Does anyone think that large organisations will tend to move to Web-browser based business applications over the next few years?

Yes. We're upgrading (slowly but certainly) JDE and it gets rid of all the fat / skinny clients in favor of Web. Which has been the trend in ERP for a few years now.

I don't know if it's a good idea or not - people (coughmanagement*) seem to underestimate the amount of resources ops needs to maintain large farms of web servers in the enterprise.

On the other hand, for a few years I was responsible for a bar-code server, which had it's own client to install and that was a white-line nightmare, let me tell you. I don't miss it at all.
This is why I probably won't go to another YC Demo Day--on the off chance I get invited back.

Why say this? This post is fine explaining the preference to get to know entrepreneurs well and the apparent mistake entrepreneurs are making by approaching investors whom don't know the entrepreneur at all. But it seems to me that Demo Day is just another opportunity to hear an angle on a product as well as getting to know the entrepreneurs behind it.

And why was he having a conversation with Christina from USV if he wants to get to know entrepreneurs better? Then, why let the entrepreneur finish? Put on the Tom Hagen face and tell him "Now, wait just a minute" and start grilling the entrepreneur with questions to get to know him better. Maybe there is something I'm missing about why as an investor you wouldn't play this to your advantage. (As for the point about learning whether the investor is an asshole, this is Y Combinator: don't be an asshole or it is unlikely you'll have the opportunity to invest again.)

The investor is usually the veteran, the entrepreneur is usually the freshman. School him. That's the duty of the veterans in the game.
Why I love OS X.

I remember using Terminal to change every single .string string to "LOL" on one of the school macs. Good times indeed...
How JC Penney's plans to take over the world....and Apple is leading the way.
The three laptops I had before my MBP were all from different companies, ASUS, Gateway, Dell, and I hated the hardware on all of them. There was always something going on. The case didn't close right, the battery life sucked, the trackpads were awful and so itty bitty, the wifi cut in and out, the power cord needed to be jiggled just right to charge, or wouldn't charge at all unless held in place with tape just so... between the three laptops and six years there was always SOMETHING going wrong. So you could say that I originally purchased my MBP because of the hardware. I expected to install Windows on it (didn't, but that's a different story).

I swallowed the extra cost when I did the math. I use my laptop about 3000 hours a year. Day in, day out, I'm on it in some way. They usually last me 2 years or so before I get the itch to upgrade or they fail. I did the math and found that the ~$1000 laptops I bought cost me $0.003 per minute over the course of those two years. A $1300 MBP cost me $0.004 per minute. I decided that I would rather pay $0.001 more per minute to enjoy the hardware I used. I'd rather be in a rage over the fact that my code isn't doing what I want than if my battery isn't taking a charge again.

An added side benefit has been how much tougher the MBP is. I've had it for two years now and it shows no signs of needing replacement. I probably won't upgrade until I see how Apple's Retina display transitions to their laptop line. The upgrade then will probably be out of lust than necessity.

We're talking about the primary tool of our trade. I make my living using this device. If I was repairing cars again I'd be buying Snap-On. Yeah, it's expensive. But goddamnit if I break a wrench they replace it for free. The guy drives to my house and gives me demos. I don't need my tools giving me grief, I need to get work done with them.

Just my thoughts on the 'Apple tax'.
Wi-Fi patent case results in $229M payment to Australian government
We use FreeBSD. Seriously, any linux server operators out there give it a go. It has a steeper learning curve and can be quite tedious to set up, but seriously its very hard to knock over. We have a box with 4 years up time (and before the kernel upgrade requiring a reboot, it was 2).
I choose Solaris because Joyent's SmartOS is the only way to get CPU bursting on their cloud service (my only gripe with them).
Real-time JavaScript scratchpad, inspects as you type
Evaluate your JavaScript functions in real-time _while_ editing.

Inspect objects or DOM elements manipulated during execution, figure out the code path taken inside the function, directly jump to errors...

Cut the feedback loop to the minimum, conversational programming style! :)
ZX Spectrum in 1986, but couldn't understand the manual as my English was too poor when I was 11.
Atari 800XL in 1988 where I started with Basic.
Then C64 in 1990 with more Basic.
A500 in 1991 and A1200 in 93 where I did Amos and 68000 Asm.
Then university took over with x86 asm, Pascal, C, Java, C++, Prolog, ML and my first experience with Linux.
GNU/Linux for everything (CentOS).
When you walk into the living room to watch Mad Men, the TV should know it and adjust the in-screen Twitter feed accordingly.

No thank you. This product you describe is abhorrent to me.

No man should ever watch a commercial for feminine hygiene again. No woman should watch a beer commercial that objectifies women again.

The Taliban would approve of that. Except for the part about the beer.
I think this is a community that likes to see things in a variety of data formats. Having a poll now and again isn't so bad.
I can't comment on that. I don't develop anything that requires a GUI on the machine. I just ssh into the machine and do my thing there. All editing/browser viewing is done on the host.
I'm the opposite. Linux at work. Windows at home. Windows is a gaming and HTPC with Netflix support platform for me.
I think this one just tipped the balance. Otherwise it was fine :)
I'd be interested to know this as well - are you experiencing decent batt life dual booting into Linux on your macbooks/airs?
I'm not against rest. The click and discover mechanics doesn't really make sense on native clients
I have the same feeling, the most annoying thing is that i expect a specific amount of text.

When i see the scrollbar, i think this will take 2 minutes and the topic OS/2 is worth 2 minutes of time, but not 20 minutes. I feel cheated because i don't want to read it all and the first part was somewhat useless because i didn't get the whole story.
OS X is not really that locked down. There is quite a lot you can go through and change and customise and tinker until your heart is content.
You're just making excuses
How does your hiring process handle drop outs?
How To Avoid Hating People
Wouldn't it have to have extensive support Win32 and DirectX APIs?

That would mean support from Microsoft (which would make it basically an Xbox) or Transgaming.
me ( code ) , and my friend ( design ) developed a very basic app, which got downloaded 5k times ( 3 months) . money through ads is almost NIL ( 10-20 $ over a period of 3 months ).
Ditto on both counts!

Started out on an XT (I think) writing Basic. It's been 20 fascinating years.
> nor of special interest to "hackers"

I don't see the need for your criticism here. Hackers have a wide range of interests. Critique should be directed to content, not topic.

If it doesn't interest you, then hey, move on.
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Writing a Profiler
Over the past year I've gotten between 500 and 1000 downloads per month on a very niche application that I built in December 2010. I haven't updated it or advertised it since a month after the initial launch. I want to believe it makes money, but I do not have any tracking installed whatsoever and cannot distinguish revenue made from the app and revenue made from its companion website. I would estimate it probably makes $100 - $200 a month, but that is really just a shot in the dark!
> Is it just me or is it a cheap way to flood the front page for a bit of karma?

It's just you. As soon as somebody determines why HN karma is worth a damn, then it's a problem.
Irony. I get it.
The free version of Cognicube HD has received ~500 downloads per month for the last two months, and ~1400/mo for the two before that on the Android Market. It has been in-market since mid-November. I've sold 5 copies on Market, 6 on Amazon, and 106 on the Nook.

http://appsforartists.com/get_app/cognicube/

It's currently being featured by Sony on their Tablet line:

http://app.sel.sony.com/sonytablet/us/s/en/#cat-games-2/item...

Think of it as an experiment. If you make money, cool. If not, you created something people hopefully enjoy and have real data to explore the economics of the app economy.
So I will give you a little breakdown of my experience from the past couple months from my side project android releases.

Paste.is

The first one was a test to see how viable the service was and if it was usable. I setup a quick site (half finished) at https://paste.is and built an Android app at:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uroborus.p...

The idea itself was supposed to be a "real-time syncing paste board" across all of you devices. Pretty much pastebin but in real-time, with more personal saving features. So on an os, level, a copy from my desktop would be pasted to the paste board of all of my devices. So far, I only implemented a web interface and an Android app. I also wrote a quick command line script (that I use when I am ssh'ed into a machine and would love an easy way to retrieve output). If anyone wanted to join up and work on this project, email me. I would consider starting working on it again (I think it is still a viable idea). I have not marketed this product at all (mostly due to moving on to game development) and here are the rough stats:

- 14 Total Devices Installs

- 3 Active Installs (probably my devices)

- Total Income: $0 (released it for free)

My First Game Release

So, I have been working on game dev lately and released my first game titled "The Rum Runner". Basically, you pirate a ship through the bermuda triangle and transport rum while defending your ship from sea monsters. About halfway through I realized the gameplay was just mediocre, but pushed through just so it wasn't all a waste. First I released a paid version:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uroborus.r...

- 4 Total Devices Installs

- 2 Active Installs (probably my devices)

- Total Income: $4 (minus google's cut)

After realizing the game wasn't going so well, I went to free with ads:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uroborus.r...

- 36 Total Devices Installs

- 14 Active Installs (probably my devices)

- Total Income: $0.15 from ad's

I quickly blogged before what I learned from the experience, but when it comes down to it, you need to promote the hell out of your apps, no matter what genre. You need to give people a reason to want to use your app.

http://blog.uroboruslabs.com/post/19365449240/lessons-learne...

So I have yet to even make money back from the original developer fee, but I have learned a lot from the experience. I plan to keep pushing forward with it all.
Good :
Yes, if it's your hobby. If you need to get something done (time = money) but have to stop to fix something in your free operating system then it is no longer "free" (as in money) I'm not talking about the openness of the system in relation to code etc..
Breaking the Ice at Networking Events
This ties back to the being a visionary side of things - solving a problem before people realize they have a problem.

Or more usually termed as a quote about Ford: "If Ford asked people what they wanted, he'd build a quicker horse."
Thanks, I had the same idea!
I'd be uncomfortable relying only on isolation tests, as they won't add much confidence that the application is in a working state.

For any project that's important, I'd really encourage even just one or two full-stack smoke tests that take a stroll through the system (as a separate build on CI). Most full-stack tests only become unbearably slow when they attempt to exhaustively cover everything in the application.
I like the polls. The thing is you don't get karma/points when someone votes. Someone has to upvote it to have it stay on the front page. If you don't like the poll or polls in general then you shouldn't up vote them.
Fun with Rock, Paper, Scissors
Everything Wrong With Exceptions
Qbasic 4.5. 10 years old. Good times. :-)
Snoopy,the View-source bookmarklet for iOS devices
This may be purely anecdotal, but as a runner I was injured for 5 months (Sep - Feb) with illiotibial band syndrome. I was running in traditional running shoes. I'd had no problems in the few years up until that point.

I've been re-habilitating myself by stretching & foam rollering, but also by adopting barefoot running, paying strict attention to my running form. I use Vibram five fingers for the most part, but I've also some of my runs totally barefoot. Aside from one little incident with a small bit of glass, running on asphalt felt fine, almost as nice as sand.

I'm not saying that barefoot running alone cured my ITBS, I'm sure it has something to do with the stretching and rolling, but it is contibuting to injury free running.

It also feels amazing.
Bending the rules? By modifying the environment so you would win? Sure, it's fun to get back at those cheaters but you were just cheating on a whole new level... And how did you get the competition to use your environment jar?
When the Android effort started at Google, neither Apple nor Microsoft were remotely near to being a force in the mobile market (more like Nokia and RIM).

The target was much more obvious than that: the carriers.

Larry Page was tired of carriers dictating device models and data plans to users, so he decided to do something about it.
Agreed on the hardware. This is why I bought a MacBook and installed Windows on it. I still hate the damned keyboard, but I hate all non Model M keyboards, so I've learned to live with it.
OS/2 is still in use in NYC's subway MetroCard system... shocking.
The city is probably being squeezed out of tons of money to maintain technology that is ancient.
Great Timing is No Accident
Articles like these citing the Golden Ratio probably sound silly to non-designers, but to designers like myself, that's just how we instinctually see the world. We don't sit down and explicitly use a particular math equation or say we're going to apply the Golden Ratio. Some layouts simply look more "right" than others even if we can't explain why.

Which is why there is something really off-putting about Microsoft's Metro design style. Can't place my finger on it, but the layouts and proportions just feel all "wrong".
The focus of the government there right now is to dig rocks up and sell them for profit, its going to work for the next 40-50+ years at least...which is more than I can say for social media, so i kind of get what they're up to.

While the startup life is great (i'm part of it, Australia, but in Toronto Canada), funding small companies is something that a government is more interested to do when unemployment is high, which in Australia it is not.

Australia tends to expect the government to solve the problems, i think the right thing to do is make it happen for yourself. Dont expect the government to fund your startup, make the rules startup friendly or even care that you exist. They have their priorities, and if your idea is good enough...you dont need them to help you.
Re: 1:

That actually makes the actions of a serious predatory trader even more dangerous, since the total pool of available bitcoins is smaller due to the number of people just sitting on their bitcoins. In fact, it could be worse, especially if the trader causes the market to drop, which could make the investors bail out of the market, lowering the price of bitcoins even further. The trader then buys up the bitcoins for a song and a dance.

Now, if people weren't hoarding bitcoins, it would be much less of a problem. If the majority of the currency was liquid and actually flowing, it's much harder to corner the market on it.

Re: 2:

This isn't necessarily HFT-specific. HFT is constrained by a lot of rules-both regulatory and exchange-specific-that attempt to stop this kind of damage(for example, NASDAQ has the right to void any trade chain that takes place if they deem it necessary), as well as a massive amount of competition from other players in the market. With Bitcoins, there aren't any of these rules, either on the exchange level or regulatory. There is not anything to stop a trader, either using HFT algorithms or just manually executing the trades, from applying these techniques.
You're right. 2 years and 6 months of gaps by the looks of it
Field studies for product designers
Subtle patterns is a great resource - stylish, modern, free - I get background patters from there all the time.
I sure thought I was smarter than all the adults when I was 15. I still have no idea if I was right or not.
I'm not sure I understand what you said :-/
Many musicians say this because Windows systems can, for a variety of reasons from hardware drivers (certain Firewire chipsets and motherboards) to bloatware, become very glitchy and finicky when it comes to low-latency recording. It's very difficult to predict if new hardware will work or not and it can be very time intensive to troubleshoot when the problems arise. Unless you buy from a music PC specialist, you're unlikely to encounter sympathy from support desks.

Alternatively, every Mac comes with Garageband and is built from the ground up for reliable recording - if you buy a system and you hear glitching in recordings (which I've never heard of), you can take it to the Apple store and have a technician troubleshoot the problem.

I don't think most PCs face this problem (although prevalent hardware like HDMI ports is often problematic for smooth audio recording), but musicians tend to recommend Macs because the certainty that it will work out of the box has a lot of value.
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Sorry I just thought it was funny that the slide only gave 1-9 after making that statement.

Nice looking font - thanks for posting it.
Seems really nice, just waiting for the swedish characters :) åäöÅÄÖ
Problem with doing that is recruiters are lazy and you are giving them an extra step to go through.
They probably like to just have a folder full of .docs for each posting.

A few times I've sent applications in PDF format just to be auto rejected.
And would love to have your reviews for it !
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