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I created http://devtest.net as a weekend project, and I'm pretty proud of it from a technical and UI standpoint.

The problem is, I've built this by myself in a bit of a vacuum, to "scratch my own itch", and I don't know if this is useful to anyone other than me. I'm also not so hot on the business side and don't really know what I'm doing.

Basically, I'm looking for some advice, now that I've actually launched, what now? One thing that this has shown me is that I'm capable of putting together a pretty decent web application on my own in my spare time. Should I stick with this idea, or should I look for someone more business minded with a better idea to implement and partner with them?
This part sounds dubious:
"For example, we don't pay people outside of Miso when they refer us candidates that we hire."

Any recruiter worth their salt is getting a minimum of 15% on first years salary right now, and many are getting 20%. On a typical $150K Salary that would be $30K if the same candidate comes through a recruiter.

Perhaps it's just the case that Miso doesn't use external recruiters, and so the statement is accurate - but to suggest that bonuses are paid for good referrals as part of "Team Building" and not to get the lead on great talent would not be consistent with current market conditions.
Spanish has its specification open :)
I want to emphasize that I don't really care for the money. It's the ethical implications of their decisions that I want to highlight.
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Hi Amy!

We know that there are some amazing moms out there coding and killing it! And, we love them!

We made two versions of the Mother's Day site:
http://skillcrush.com/mothers-day/

The whole idea is that we want to celebrate moms & encourage more of them to get in the digital game ;)
Thank you for posting this. As a community of entrepreneurs and hackers it helps all of us know what happens behind the scenes. Some people may view it as airing their dirty laundry but I see it as a way to keep people honest.

The fact that you dropped the production database sucks. However you stayed around and fixed it. I can't really say anything more. My bet is we all handle lots of sensitive data around here. Our worst nightmare is to drop that data by accident. Stuff happens...fix it and move on.

I understand we are a litigious society but if your knee jerk reaction is to bring in lawyers something is wrong. My hope is this post will make it around to Somrat and Tim (I've never met either of them) and you two will resolve it amicably. Maybe I am delusional but good character still counts for something.
Actually, my comment on the situation was "My thoughts are with RMS, an important voice and pioneer:”

https://twitter.com/#!/raganwald/status/200664134960939008

I got an earful about him from other people both publicly and privately, and I also recall a thread right here on HN a while back where there were allegations of (and spirited discussion about) his interest in getting young men into his hotel room at conferences.

I’m definitely not criticizing anyone who wishes him well, wishes poorly of him, or just wishes he would step out of the limelight (there seem to be more than a few people who consider him an liability to the open source movement at the moment regardless of past contributions). I was just trying to stick my finger in the wind and ask other people how they feel, not suggest how people are supposed to feel.
I happen to know doctors in the US who would refuse to take care for those who cannot pay.
There's an old joke - field marshal Model is asked the secret of his success as a commander. He says the key is managing the men under you. They are smart or stupid, energetic or lazy. The smart and energetic make excellent field commanders, the smart and lazy make good staff officers, and the lazy and stupid can handle supply. And the lazy and energetic? Transfer them elsewhere.

Adobe isn't lazy. It takes extra work to implement multiple cross platform ui libraries with twenty different slider widgets none of which work quite right.
Honest question - Why do you need API framework for Django? I've created APIs for couple of Django products and never felt a need to use any framework. I felt Django's MVC framework is robust for creating any APIs. May be using some API framework will save some lines of code. But the joy of creating your own stuff can beat that anytime.
> Coincidentally it's the same type of guy who would have told her it was her fault for getting attacked if the man had raped her.

You're way over the line with that one. It's one thing for a man to think, "I don't owe it to women to walk on eggshells around them." That view might be a bit naive, but it is a very different and much less despicable thing than supporting rapists and blaming rape victims for what happened to them.

I thought what he did was poorly considered, but he didn't show any ill intent, so it's very unfair to associate him with men who harm women. Why do I care about this? Because drawing that association actually plays into rapists' common delusion that trying to rape women is a normal and acceptable thing. It is important to draw the line between behavior that is merely inconsiderate and behavior that's actually evil, even if you dislike both.
Silencing dialogue, no matter how repulsive it may seem to you, is never the answer, especially in a "free" and "open" society.
The current plan is to integrate BigCouch into CouchDB.
I was amazed he was so forward and glib. Is The Week known as a "yellow journalism" style of UK publication?
You must be misunderstanding me. There is no dichotomy between market economy and Keynesian economy (which is a market economy).

Quantitative easing, fractional reserve and stimulus measures are all forms of intervention creating artificial cycles that wouldn't exist otherwise.

Austrian school economics (if that's what you mean by market economy) don't advocate for any sort of counter-cyclical measures.
What’s Burning Man got to do with Udacity?
Do you claim of never having made any mistake?

Last I checked, humans do mistake all the time. Not related to systems, or anything really. It's all about being prepared for those and attempting to make as few as possible.
Stating a fact, and being skeptical of the claims is not the same as advocating for.

If advocating for better understanding of something and simply not buying into the "think of the children" argument can be called advocating for something, well no. That's dishonest and disheartening, and reeks of a vendetta, or at the very least, a petty mind.

It's one thing to support something. It's another thing to be skeptical.

You'd have to have something more than just conjecture from RMS. Nothing I've read or found suggests he is an advocate.

And yes, I realize you are just asking this question.
When you link your bank account with Square, they have to send test deposits first to verify that it is indeed yours. These take up to 5 days, plus the time after that to actually transfer the overdrawn money.

Asking Square to take the money from another account would be no faster than moving it yourself to your primary one, because of this verification stage. Even if you had the foresight to link it ahead of time, Square only supports being associated with one account at a time.
Will we get off our high horses? [On Testing and Startups]
Talking about how testers need to diversify their skills in the world of startups.
Of course, the big question is whether the firmware in the EKG machine was open or not.
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Richard Stallman collapses, ambulance called
i'm talking about communities of different cities ~~
If your threat is to tell your side of the story I don't see a problem with it. Ivehad customers do that with me and it's usually because their experience with my company sucked.
"But, more importantly, there's plenty more academics who think that theory is completely wrong: [cite] [cite] [cite]"

Hmm?
I've been impressed by the number of programming languages they support, especially the less main stream ones like Clojure. These guys also host many tech events in the LA area on all sorts of subjects. Kudos to them.
I think you've misunderstood the concept of a business. You don't need to work at a startup to be a dreamer.
Honestly, the answers that the Miso founders gave seemed very professional and I think am a bit on their side in this one.

If OP had asked for the bonus while still being at Miso, it seems like he would simply have gotten it.
Seeing as a non-contractual bonus is an investment in the employee that the company does in addition to the usual compensation, and seeing as OP quit on his own and doesn't have a compensation anymore, I can see that this would seem like a strange investment.

These informal bonuses shouldn't be seen as something you're entitled to, but rather as a nice extra that might disappear any second. If you really want something, it should be in the contract. If it isn't in the contract, you apparently can also live without it.

edit: Oh, downvotes. I really should stop posting my opinion if it might be controversial.
You can certainly talk to a lawyer for much less than $10k. The lawyer will either (a) tell you to forget about it (b) tell you that it's not worth using a lawyer, but that you might be able to pursue it in small claims court or (c) send a letter, which is probably all this would take, if he has any standing at all.
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> As an engineer in SF, I simply have no interest in living in bumfuck Ohio. You'd have to pay me considerably more than even SF levels of salary for me to make that sacrifice.

I think the point is there are great programmers already living in Ohio, who have family and ties there.
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Requirements:
- Formal Computer Science training
- Have code you wrote running on a live web server, and working properly.
- Proficient in OOP (PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, etc)
- Basic understanding of MVC Frameworks
- Love tackling hard problems.

Bonuses:
- Previous Start-Up experience
- Data Visualization experience
- Machine Learning experience

Compensation and Perks:
- $6k + Equity
- Monthly beach day! (during the summer)

http://redular.com/jobs
PL/coffee - Coffeescript in Postgres
A good site to visit when pre-drinking/pre-gaming
This plus minecraft!
Microsoft finally gets it right with Bing
The CS6 sub offer (50 bucks a month for everything) and preorder for old customer special ($30 bucks a month for everything) are making TONS of people sign up.
These are excellent ideas! We certainly want users to be able to use what they have learned into real products.

Send me an email—would love to hear about what you're building. sasha at codecademy.com
The process maturity index which used NASA/JPL as its exemplar was the big IT management fad of the late 90s (it dovetailed nicely with ISO9000 TQM) before XP and then Agile became popular.

In a sense, the problem with Adobe seems to me to be the alignment of organizational goals with user benefits, and not software process.
The real disrupting tech would be the thing that can kill that 1 strain of bacteria responsible for eating the sugar on your teeth and pooping acid all over them in return.

Its this acid discharge that dissolves tooth enamel. So, neutralizing that acid (like we try to do with baking soda) on a more _permanent_ basis would be super effective. As would simply targeting the 1 funky bacteria that turns sugar into acid (as opposed to nuking all the 1000s of beneficial bacteria too). It would seriously eat into dentists' coffers.

Can't we engineer viruses on a high level to do stuff like this for us yet? Virus vs Bacteria-- a match for the ages.
The reason there was a huge shitstorm over it was that all he did was to ask -- he didn't do anything else.

And yeah he asked her out in a situation where he wouldn't be humiliated if she turned him down.

And jumping from the conclusion that I support rapists because I think it is okay for men to choose a place that is reasonably private to ask females out -- well I just can't see a productive debate springing from that, so I will refrain from commenting it.
We were excited to try a NoSQL db, having spent too many years using MySQL in ways that the designers of relational databases never imagined.

...

Given that we had experience with MySQL and knew it was adequate for our needs, it was hard to justify any other choice.

Agreed. It seems pretty clear from reading the article why they went with MySQL, which you wouldn't know from all of the Postgres butthurt in the comments.
You may want to consider putting the $10K towards a good cause (if Miso eventually steps up), to show it was never about the money.

Thanks for sharing. Sounds like Miso may have made a business decision, and you are reminding them of the cost side of that equation.
>by flaunting social convention and dressing down

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flouting
Ahem. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3369876.
If you have any questions I'm here on HN :)
They then charge those people least able to pay a higher rate, add interest, and turn it over to a collection agency.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/15/new_york_hospitals_sad...

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/1/7/state_secret_why_are_un...

[somehow Democracy Now seems appropriate for a Stallman discussion]
Don't feel bad about this. The decision to launch without backups was a legitimate business gamble. Blaming an engineer for the outcome of a business decision is plain bad management.
You forgot one: Pixelmator @ http://www.pixelmator.com/

Granted it's only image editing. And it's mac only. But I've pretty much stopped using Photoshop because of it. Though, I've never use any of the advanced Photoshop tools.

Many graphics folk on Photoshop are stuck cause they can't see any other product filling Photoshop's role.
Saw this a while ago and it's a cool thought experiment. The application fails, though, as some HNers have pointed out. It looks like Time covers have simply become darker, independent of the skin tones on each cover.

Someone points out the lack of "image normalization" in his dataset. I'm surprised he didn't take this first step, but this looks like more of a weekend/toy project than something extremely rigorous.
True enough. I have less of a problem with him than I do those who consider him infallible. They're already at work in this thread; your comment was gray when I replied to it, and the same fate is befalling those who reply to you.
That's because it is a Microsoft press release, or more precisely its a coverage on a new feature which covers the things Microsoft wants to get out about their changes.

This isn't a bad thing (and actually I think that Microsoft deserves credit for some nice UI work) it's just the way a company does public relations. They talk to journalists and tell them all about their new thing, and then the journalists turn around and write about that new thing for their readers. Usually it is not some journalist happens to stop by the site and says "Holy crap! Look at all the stuff they did!"
I don't like MySQL either, but they're basically using it as a networked hash table. It's not so bad that it can't do that.
I was surprised at how much of it I understood...a foundation in Latin, and years of watching soccer on Spanish networks I guess.
Me too. We had considered using one of the sites for finding a babysitter, and I was haunted by their ads for months.

Of course, it replaced seeing EVE Online ads everywhere for years (literally).
This looks promising. There are two big questions I didn't see answered in the FAQ:

(1) Who are you?
(2) What do you get out of the program?

P.S. The design of the site is awesome.
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That's not really how it works. If it's in an e-mail, it's a contract.

Me: "Hey, if you do X I'll give you $10k."

You: [Does X.] "Can I have my $10k?"

Me: "Nah, the moment's passed. I'm not really feeling it anymore."

Nope. That's sleazy behavior.
Web site is irritating. I can't tell you how sick I am of waypoints abuse.
I personally feel like search has been broken for a long time. I rarely use Google outside of "site:" searches b/c the results are so bad. For example, last night I flooded my lawn mower engine. I did a search on Google and Bing for "how to fix a flooded lawn mower engine". The first page on both sites were stuffed with results from ehow, ask, answers, etc. I could not find a single good result. I finally gave up a few pages in. I am sure there are good answers out there, but I am convinced that Google and Bing can no longer find them. Both companies should be embarrassed that they have let these cheap content companies game them to the point where search is no longer relevant. Maybe Bing will fix this and my faith will be renewed, but I am not too optimistic.
Nice to see the spread on multiple Iaas.
I wish companies thought beyond this "unprofessional" thing - is it not unprofessional for them to withhold the money that rightfully belongs to him (assuming the story is factually correct)? Sadly, so many times people don't come forward for fear of losing future opportunities, and bad employers take advantage of it.
I believe it. I think that the fact that we can conceive of the concept strongly implies that it's possible, and therefore there's a pretty high probability that that's what our universe is.
In order to avoid mistakes, you have to know they exist. So either they didn't know backups were important or they declined to prioritize and implement them in anticipation of their launch.

However, I sense you're taking issue with my "bad mistake worse" comment. I don't think anybody is going to argue that dropping a production database is a real mistake. Mistakes happen, and companies (i.e. management) should work to ensure that all the bases are covered, which weren't in this case.
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And the submitter's name is "railsjedi"....jedi...
Public computer. 5 websites. Entire day.
What would be your choices?

By 5 websites I mean you cannot link to any external pages.
I was floored by this quote. As technical founder, one of my chief priorities operationally is ensuring that a) our systems are up and b) our data is consistent. I've dabbled in NoSQL (a la friendfeed) a bit and my head exploded when I wanted to migrate meta-schemas on multiple machines (potentially writing to the same data) with minimal concurrent alternate code paths. I need to be able to speak with 100% confidence that every object in our database is consistent and valid and without a schema on a database level this is really hard to enforce because anyone (including a bug) could accidentally throw a borked bag of properties into a key value store.

A lot of the excitement over schema-less data stores (I think) really comes down to instant DDL changes, which is why you should really just use Postgres instead of MySQL.
I would think very few startups use recruiters -- who has that much extra cash laying around?
It's not that constructors/destructors can fail, it's about the conscious decision when you make them to. If you choose not to use exceptions at all, you can prevent improper state before object construction, just like you would in C's init_foobar().
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You can also implement sampling in your client/site since you are unlikely to need every detail from every session. For example in my use cases there is a percentage probability that the session events will be dispatched. That starts out at 100% on initial deployment and then goes down over time as the user base builds up. We also mark some serious events as always dispatched.

You can amuse yourself by looking at Google's pricing. They have a choice of free or $150k per year!

At my startup we would gladly pay Mixpanel's prices. Unfortunately we found the functionality to be poor, and support to be rather bizarre (every response was a bunch of platitudes).
Hmm. I disagree. It's a small community built on trust. The cautionary tails I read on HN have changed the way I do business. I don't see anything unprofessional about going public. Think of it as a bug report :-)

If there's a code of silence about this, what levers do employees have? Are lawyers the only recourse? If anything, I think it's admirable to go public; the ecosystem is hurt without honest reporting. And the author pays the cost, of course, because future employers will have a look at this...
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Unfortunately, that "law" has failed to play out in real life. Also, why is the company hiring if the net benefit to them from the intern's labor is nothing?

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/114/31740564320cb174fabflz1...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42041000/gif/_42041256...

http://www.realitysandwich.com/fantasy_finance

http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2004/el20...
There are a few issues with this article

1) The author never understood that he has to keep some sort of balance to cover chargebacks. Square may need to better communicate this since they are targeting people who may have never dealt with credit card processors. The automated chargebacks themselves may be regulated by the government and if not are standard practice to prevent fraud.

2) Square needs to upgrade its customer service division. The division is obviously not able to respond in a timely manner at this moment. The first thing they should do is change their policy to reflect that it's more likely to be 24-48 hours before a response. Their response was factual and ok for a big bank. However since Square promised to be different they should be aspiring to be like Charles Schwaub's credit card service where you can get someone on the phone at any hour and have them explain what's going on and why and what you can do about it. That's the kind of service that most people who use Square expect and should get. And specifically they should be available by telephone.
what are the plans for demo day? how will it be marketed to investors?
Tough call. I have to think would I hire somebody who did something like this - probably on a case by case basis.

In this case, it does seem (from his side of the story) that he was in the right & gave Miso plenty of time/warning.

All that being said, though, I would probably have to do the due diligence were I to know this about a candidate, that by itself is a negative regardless of the merits of the issue.

OTOH, an incident such as this might actually be a positive in a candidate where you are looking for someone who isn't a pushover.

So (IMO) it is hard to characterize it as objectively good or bad to a potential employer, at least this one, other than it is a flag that may need to be checked. It certainly is a good point of departure for getting a candidate to talk about himself.

In general, before going public w/something like this, one always has to consider "Never argue with an idiot because the people watching may not be able to tell the difference".