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I applied as a solo founder with no idea, so I knew a rejection letter was inevitable. In all fairness I am not quite ready to build a company, I just hope my application was read once or twice.

So who am I? Just a guy who started as the online banking help desk at $1B bank. I took the position just to get my foot in the door, and promptly proved my awesomeness with jack-of-all-trades problem solving that revamped their IT department from the ground up. My accomplishments drew c-level attention (walking into the CEO's office and telling him how much money I save him helped) so I'm now the lead sysadmin and further promotions are in sight.

But like many here on HN, developing software is my passion and what I really want to do is start my own tech company.

I'm taking small steps. I've completed 2 bonus projects to build custom web-apps for the bank intranet. Semi-formal contracts between myself and the CIO for the bank to purchase software I built on my own time and maintain my own IP. Yes it is awesome that they let me do this.

From that point of view, I'm already developing and selling software to a small business, I just need to expand. If I had explained myself this way in the application I may have generated some more interest.

Instead I mentioned that the timing wasn't very good and I want to learn some things from gauntlet of challenges ahead in my current job.

Applying to YC was another small step to help push myself in the startup direction. My main goal was just to get my name in front of someone at YC. If my video was watched then I consider it a smashing success.
Thanks, valhallarecords. We're working on implementing a mix of the two designs. As it seems you've noticed, we've worked on pulling together "tracks" which are the lists from the former design along with new course listings. We're iterating based on a lot of this feedback.
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Great to see zds in here actively addressing comments. I was really surprised to find the site redesigned after not having picked it up in about a week (been to busy to walk through the rest of my missing tutorials).

I have to agree with the sentiment currently, the redesign throws way too much in your face all at once and I can only imagine for a beginner that you would easily be pushed away from the site if it was your first time trying to get into it.

For me, I would like to be asked up front which path I would like to take: Are you looking at applications or are you looking at web apps? After that only show me the lessons that relate to that path and pull back the rest of the site design to be as minimalist as possible.

What would also be great is if I didn't have to bring up another tab just to look at the QA section when I get stuck trying to implement a solution.

Finally, would love if the code panels were actually a bit bigger so that when you have a multi-line program you could view all of it at once. I don't know what is the most used resolution when viewing the site but I imagine you do have room to make the console bigger regardless.

Love the product and I am definitely going to keep using it regardless of the design.
The layout was actually designed to facilitate the addition of more courses - we'll iterate based on feedback but also on our longer-term vision. Thanks again, calydon.
You know what we're sure will ruin your future chances of holding down a job, will stunt your development, and might well lead to severe harm or even death?

Going to prison.

Putting people in prison for harming themselves is the height of absurdity.
It seems cool but, and maybe I'm reading something between the lines that's not really there, we have live code editing built into most browsers.

In Chrome or Safari press Ctrl-Shift-J (on OSX Cmd-Option-J) or Ctrl-Shift-K in Firefox and paste this

c = document.createElement("canvas");
document.body.appendChild(c);
ctx = c.getContext("2d");
ctx.translate(150, 75);
ctx.beginPath();
for (var i = 0; i < 60; ++i) {
var a = i * 2;
ctx.lineTo(Math.sin(a) * 75, Math.cos(a) * 75);
}
ctx.stroke();

This is one of the things I love about programming in JavaScript. Being in the browser means I always have a live "listener" where I can manipulate code on the fly.

Anytime I need to check something simple it's just a moment to try it out. If I want to make something easily inspect-able I temporarily assign it to a global.

xxx = someObjectIWantToInspect

And now I can type `xxx` to see it live.

Since I do lots of visualizations and games and other things that re-evaluate live it's easy to just manipulate the settings as they run. For example paste this code.

m = 2;
c = document.createElement("canvas");
document.body.appendChild(c);
ctx = c.getContext("2d");
ctx.translate(150, 75);
setInterval(function() {
var t = +Date.now();
ctx.clearRect(-150, -75, 300, 150);
ctx.beginPath();
for (var i = 0; i < 60; ++i) {
var a = i * m + t;
ctx.lineTo(Math.sin(a) * 75, Math.cos(a) * 75);
}
ctx.stroke();
}, 100);

Then try typing `m = 1` or `m = 9` etc and watching the shape change live.

Yes, I understand the OP is about C# but like I said, I read something between the lines that suggested maybe some people didn't know this. Sorry if it's off topic.
You potentially have the ultimate meetup for musicians... Music is as much about creating as connecting.

Some more ideas from the music consumer perspective:

1) I've been listening to music on the site for an hour and I've been struck with how much soulful music there is here... Any thought in helping them publish to iTunes and taking a small cut?

2) If love to be able to make a playlist by genre and share it.

3) Maybe there's a way I can give micro payments for all the stuff I like? Another angle for consumers to maybe sign up for a membership to vote with their wallet to the artists you listen to in a month..and my 10/mo is split among the number of listeners I liked in a month?

4) Could there be sponsors for learning materials?

5) What about a digital music streaming service for businesses? Good music, all original, businesses routinely pay $20-40/month and up for this kind. Put the music into genres, let the community rate it and let it self-rank into playlists.

6) Spawn an online radio station exclusively for the music on the site.

I've been around online music and radio for a while..had lots of potential ideas, just didn't have the content. if you want to bounce ideas if love to.

Forgive any typos or grammar, writing from my phone. :)
You keep repeating "MDMA is not old enough..." but MDMA has been around since 1912, and used recreationally since the 60s. While there are certainly risks (mostly due to sourcing issues), negative effects are certainly subtle enough that after 40+ years of fairly widespread use, we haven't seen major epidemiological issues.

Furthermore, these risks must be balanced against the very tangible and easily observable psychological benefits. There's a reason psychotherapists used this drug.
If you have advertising, perhaps try not to compromise the site visually and limit it to below the fold, and keep it relevant.

You could develop a section which creates/collates guides that might interest amateur musicians. Have some basic ones for free, small fee for others. Things that might appeal to amateurs: finding band-mates, splitting meagre proceeds, sticking together, battling stage nerves, inspiration for writing new material. Even up to and beyond getting your first sales online.

Crowdsource content by asking your more experienced users to answer questions. What's worked for them? What challenges have they overcome? What do they wish they could've told themselves 10 years ago? Maybe some content goes into a Guides section, while another goes into Fandalism Stories.

Allow people to flag themselves with badges like: only listening, learner, just jamming, gigging, touring, etc. Maybe charge for badges related to online sales (links to their stores), commissioned music (contact form), etc.

I know you're reluctant to suck amateurs dry, but you could give everyone a random chance at being featured so people don't have to pay, but charge for others to jump the queue and be featured in a different way. e.g., top row of results are promoted. Have a paid option to enhance/theme their page.

You could trade some level of careful promotion on your site with a another in exchange for opportunities to offer your users - that won't make you anything, but it will strengthen your site.
Make is better than SCons if you are not compiling C. Lots of people would use fabric instead. The stock unittest in the stdlib is quite good, especially in python 2.7+.

For mocks, wait until mock (http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/) is in the stdlib or download it yourself.
We had around 2000 users, but we were still rejected by YC.

I wish they would give some kind of note on why people are rejected. This would help budding entrepreneurs a lot more
"I hope one day YC could man up and tell why it was refused rather then giving a "You don't need to get in to create a successful business" bullshit".

It's not a matter of manning up or having respect. Do the math on what it'd take to email 3,000 rejected applicants.
Thanks, zdgman. Really appreciate the in-depth feedback here - it gives us a lot to go on for the future.

We're going to simplify things for beginners and existing users. Many users have chosen their path (Code Year, for instance) so they're seeing different screens than the majority of HN users (depending on their use case). We'll start to show people relevant courses to them over time too.

We're actually in the middle of changing some of the editor features to do what you mention and also to fix QA. Thanks again for your feedback. I'm here to answer questions (and you can reach us via email).
You seem to think it's an intrinsic quality in a person that never changes. How long until the guy #2 turns into guy #1? I'm guessing it's not long after he notices it isn't rewarded by management, and/or isn't worth it relative to being guy #1. Just one of many ways bad management turns gold into crap, if not loses employees of type #1.
I am a frequent visitor of zerhedge.com. It is a fantastic source for dense financial news and has great comments by several libertarian-leaning individuals in the finance community.

The comments have gone down in quality recently but there are still gems. Everyone like a community of like-minded individuals.
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http://michalbures.com/blog/codecademy-how-not-to-do-a-redes...

Michal did a sufficient job of providing examples right there, although I'd caution that very ambitious young man, programmer and designer not to use such an aggressive approach while still an SFSU student, photographer and soon to be entrepreneur (wtf does that mean?).

I call not trolling simply because I agree with the premise that the redesign is half-baked.
Judging by the success of games like Rock Band, everyone wants to play music. Traditional music tuition isn't suited to most people, since you start with pretty dull material, and you don't get results until you've been at it for a while. Most people will give up unless they feel progress straight away (I've spent my life doing this).

When a musician friend helps you learn a song, you get an instant rush of gratification. That's what all learning should be like. It fits the $2 impulsive-app-purchase model pretty well, and it works for any skill level.
Don't forget JS+HTML. That's a first-class option in WinRT.

Disclaimer: MSFT employee, yadda yadda
It is written down, in 800 years of case law and legal decisions.

It's just a little more complicated than a few cliches about "all men being equal" written by slave owners
I worked for chumby industries as a developer and won't even disagree with you about the device being a bit of a disappointment. I never quite bought into the company's vision of "channels" of Flash apps (even though I wrote quite a few of them!).

But I wouldn't say the capabilities of the device are limited in terms of hackability. You can easily flash your own bootloader, your own kernel and your own rootfs on to the device and do more or less whatever your heart desires with it. For ~$25 for one of these you get something pretty close to the imx233 developer board kits that Freescale sells for 400 bucks and up.

excuse-me does have a point, though, in that there is less likely to be vibrant chumby hacking community moving forward, though on the flip side of that there's tons of documentation already existing on how to set up a toolchain, how to get your own openembedded OS build up on the device, etc, whereas that sort of knowledge is going to take a while to build up for the Pi, especially if it remains difficult to actually buy one.
Glad to hear it zds. Would be nice if you guys published a blog post in terms of where your road map was going.

I know you all are probably buried under it in terms of work but even giving people a little bit of detail helps?

Seems like you need a community manager to get the word out / gauge the performance for you guys:)
Since you asked: When using the product, I see:

"That's correct! Next Exercise" often.

"Next Exercise" should probably look more like a button. It is not obvious that it is clickable, especially to the 6% of males who are color blind.
I'm sorry, but $2,500 a month to run this site just seems high...I'm not sure what technology pud used to create the site, but it'd be interesting to know. I'd love to see my own sites get this much traffic, but damned if I could really afford to carry the success for too many months. This is where I really think the whole Rails (not saying he used rails...just using it as an example) argument of cheaper development costs but higher server costs breaks down. For the single entrepreneur, and app implemented in Rails versus one in a much faster/resource-friendy (PHP? Java?) framework/language could mean real, significant, insurmountable costs.

Of course, I could be wrong, and I'm sure someone will throw out the rails-is-not-the-bottleneck-the-database-is argument, but I recall reading an article about the gentleman who wrote plentyoffish.com in an unorthodox fashion with C#, and was able to run it for some time successfully on his home machine, then on one physical server. I think this would likely be impossible with rails.

And I say this as a rails fan/developer...
Experienced this exact thing after the Django 1.4 release, however, it makes sense now and it is not much of a nuisance any longer.
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Fear is not equal to facts. I'm sure your mother is a fine scientist, but just because she is afraid of something doesn't equate to facts. Link to a published study of hers? I doubt such exists though. I'd gladly accept a scientific consensus, if one existed, saying that MDMA was harmful, however there is no such consensus. All you are doing is spreading FUD.
Reminds me of the .com bubble, people were openly having discussions about building businesses based on exit strategy alone, where monetisation was something that would be the responsibility of whoever was running the show after the founders had cashed out.
I don't think they x-ray every single package, that's just impossible, and who would look at all the x-rays.

So even if they do it,

1) your chances of getting caught are extremely low

2) i don't think you're liable for receiving a package (though you may be for keeping and not reporting it).
Thanks for this. Added it as an issue in GitHub and we'll start working on it soon!
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This is all well and good, but unfortunately #2 type of work is much less rewarding. Unless the #2 programmer has immense fortitude, he will burn out more quickly and either become much less productive or switch to #1 type of work. You might be able to get some of the benefits of each by mixing up the two types of work.
Dropbox had a bug where anyone could impersonate anyone else and admin or delete anyone's files. That's the bar Google fails to meet?
Wouldn't be enforceable, I'm guessing, as per the protections for reverse engineering that the DMCA codified in 17 USC ss. 1201(f):

. . .a person who has lawfully obtained the right to use a copy of a computer program may circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a particular portion of that program for the sole purpose of identifying and analyzing those elements of the program that are necessary to achieve interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs. . .
Are you guys annoyed by Youtube's new Ad format?
Does it get in the way of your music listening habits?
Site is not loading, which seems apt given the topic. :-)
I hope Mark and a few other billionaires invest a billion or two in SpaceX and Tesla in a few years.
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If you're a WordPress developer, shouldn't you already know some PHP?

Since the backend for WordPress runs on PHP, it would make sense to learn at least a little about the language.

I'm also of the opinion that you should learn as much as you can, especially if you're curious.
Interesting. I'm also in Tokyo. How can I contact you? Or, can you send me an email?
Which is what many of them do. This graph gives people an idea of what happens:

http://sciblogs.co.nz/griffins-gadgets/2010/11/02/your-scien...

The next question is whether it's worth doing a PhD for the 2/3 people who don't work in Academia. Perhaps it is.
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I applied as a solo founder with no idea, so I knew a rejection letter was inevitable. In all fairness I am not quite ready to build a company but I took the opportunity to apply with no idea anyway.

I currently work as a sysadmin for a 1bn bank, but developing software is my passion and what I really want to do is start my own tech company.

I'm taking small steps. I've completed 2 bonus projects for my bank to build useful web-apps. I work on my own time & maintain IP ownership to my software so you could say I just need to start selling to other businesses.

Applying to YC is another small step to help push myself in the startup direction. My goal for the application was just to get my name in front of someone at YC. If my video was watched then I consider it a smashing success.
The power of working on open source projects for building job prospects is all in networking. You are increasing your luck surface area by expanding your network. The more seeds you plant, the better chance you have of one of those seeds bearing fruit right when you need it.

Your efforts might not help when you are applying for a job which is disconnected from that web which you have built. Expecting that a recruiter or HR person is going to be impressed by open source work you have done is like expecting that your months long study of Spanish will help you better communicate with people on your trip to Japan.

A college degree isn't enough by itself to guarantee you a job and neither is anything else most people could put on a resume or cover letter. Figure out the type of work that you would like to be doing and come up with a strategy for that area. For some areas, open source work just might not be very important. Be adaptable!
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For me, the site design is a small matter after the jarringly cacophonous name.
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Hushmail has been known to be open to law enforcement for years, they even talk about it in "Kingpin", http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/hushmail-to-war/

Amazing they would choose to communicate over it.
Careful now, that might be patented.

[edit] I was intending sillyness, but then thought to go check if putting a bag of corn in a microwave was patented. Turns out it depends on how you fold the bag. - http://www.google.com/patents/US5200590
This is one dumb article.

Firstly it's only 1800 people. And secondly of course more people are going to renounce citizenship when the economy is bad versus 2008/9/10 when it was notably better.
I didn't read the grandparent as saying we are really close to real-time path tracing; I read it more as real-time rasterization is getting rapidly closer to looking like path tracing both in the quality of the scenes and the types of scenes it can represent.

Also FLOPS has been increasing much faster than resolutions. 1920x1200 is about 3x the pixels of 1024x768. Graphics FLOPS has increased way more than 3x since 1024x768 was considered a high-resolution screen.
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we're a 8-month old company called the sharing engine (http://thesharingengine.com). we have a few paying customers, and are working hard on automating as much as possible.

the biggest challenge we're facing is learning how to scale all elements of our business - demand/lead generation, sales closing, and launch.

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I know enough to output dynamic content. I'd probably say that's the current extent of my PHP skills but that seems like a fairly limited scope.

Learning as much as I can sounds good to me! It's just a concern that I keep seeing PHP getting bad press.
Orbital also recently blew up several payloads [1] and is currently delaying another by months (a delay costing NASA millions).

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builtwith.com is showing fandalism to be running on IIS. It was quite a rant you had about rails before even checking.

You can write a resource hog application in any language just like you can write an efficient app in any language. Don't blame the tools. This isn't to say different languages are all the same with performance levels, I just think it's negligible compared to the different performance levels of developers.
At that point it might be worth it to go back to a full time job :).
Reuters.com pulled it off.
Or Dropbox could press for a US antitrust investigation as Google enters yet another market to dump free product financed by its search and web ad business.
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As far as I know, neither Percona nor any of the others have picked up our changes or anything like them. However we'll be working with them to get something that makes sense in a generally available release.
I think tons of people in developing nations will want something more, like payments. I suspect many would jump at the chance to do those things on an iPhone.
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I would love to see the reverse, DCPU-16 in Minecraft.
You know the ToS, it is the new unified simplified privacy policy that says everything you ever touch is part of your advertising profile.
I think the idea is great, and there is probably a way to make it work. I also just think that it'll end up being more complicated then we imagine in order to build it in a stable manner.