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No, this will be the second time I've hired.

(I would hire my previous developer again but he recently had a kid and started an intense full time job. So he's out.)

Customer audience is sports-related - coaches in particular.

Customer facing insofar that we'll likely want to raise some money and I'd like this person involved in that process. But not necessarily to attend directly to customer inquiries.

In my mind, a reduced rate + equity would be ideal. I don't want anyone going hungry during the ramping up process but at the same time I'd like them to take ownership and be emotionally invested in the project.

I am willing to consider all of options for the right person.
The internet is a mass of people, in which case you will see mob psychology & mentalities arise very quickly.

Mobs aren't noted for their nuanced and leisurely views on the situation.
The wikipedia article on International Atomic Time is worth reading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
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Yeah in the Midwest people tend to hold onto local things a little too much. You don't need to ditch it, but you don't need to make everything Hawkeye this or Husker that or Prairie this.
Here's a link to ask her questions to which the answers are supposed to be coming from the dictionary itself. http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/eve/time However when asked any questions she seems to be under maintenance.
OnApp continues to disrupt a market after another.
Perl - Appeared in 1987

A bit late in the 80s, but still.

[Edit] I read your comment too quickly and hadn't noticed that you said "early 80s". My apologies.
that and the fact that Arch rocks!
I think you're looking at this a bit too seriously.

I mean, they're at WWDC, they want to promote their site so they add it to HN.

Either people complain that there is no video, or they complain that there are no screenshots. Do people really not have enough to do that they complain about everything?
The closest thing is new horizons. However, due to some complications with the department of energy, there no longer exist RTGs (the nuclear-decay power source) of the kind that are used to power Voyager. New Horizons has an RTG, but it's much smaller capacity and will degrade much faster, so it's unlikely that NH will provide the same long term results as V1 & V2.
Keep in mind that Perl4 was the first "big" version of Perl, available in 1991 with the publication of the camel book.

When this was written companies were advertising "Cut and Paste" as a big feature for word processors.
> when the point comes where WP gains a significant enough marketshare where Nokia is able to completely replace the drop in Symbian sales with WP phones (and their new cheap feature phones).

Does anyone outside Redmond really believe this? While I agree pre-Elop Nokia was in bad shape regarding their software projects, betting the company on WP7, a phone OS that was, at the time, demonstrably behind the competition in both features and sales despite the fact it was being sold by other manufacturers, was idiotic beyond reason. The only company that benefited from that announcement was Microsoft.

As for Lumia sales volume, I have to ask: how profitable those phones are? Or is Nokia self immolating to please its masters in Redmond?
> And I don't see how a government could compel a CA in a different legal jurisdiction anyway.

Think Black Hawks and men in black suits.
Depending on the relevant jurisdiction, the legal system might not accept this kind of behaviour, or it could be walking a very fine line.

IIRC this is all based in the US, in which case maybe barratry and SLAPP rules are relevant?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barratry_%28common_law%29#Unite...

I'll leave it to the real lawyers to comment on any details, though.
Look beyond the immediate, contrived example. Text can have meaningful structure beyond lines, which line-oriented tools handle poorly. So much power is available with UNIX command line tools, but often you must abandon them for python, ruby, or whatever. The proposed modest extension would allow the command line to be comfortably used for a larger problem space.
Is a monopoly over a TLD really that different from a monopoly over a normal domain? In the end, there's nothing that special about a Top Level, it's just a shorter domain.
Can a person be identified by just the way they type?
The problem here is simply because when you say "entrepreneur" people automatically assume you're non-technical.

The organisers probably thought "people with ideas" whether technical or non-technical and "people who don't have ideas but wants to work on others' ideas"

Regardless, it is still ambiguous as to whether that was
what they really meant.

Maybe they really meant "Unique snowflake" vs "Cog in the wheel". Who knows.
This is the pattern I go with: https://gist.github.com/2931439

It decouples a little more logic from the template, and I think it adheres very closely with some things Backbone expects (like passing through the entire el to the DOM).
I have a concept and am working on building some very rudimentary wireframes but unfortunately I need help building a working prototype.

Edit: hopefully that won't sink me.
I'd say the latter.
Suggest you fix some of the typos in your screenshots, i.e. discountine = discontinue. Otherwise looks good!
You can communicate with the Skype client over DBus, which allows you to replace a lot (although not all) of the UI with something else. Two examples:

http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/
https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/skyy...

The protocol is incomplete (the "native" Qt UI isn't built on it), but it is at least documented on their dev site.
Sorry I wasn't clear. The guesswork I was referring to was to figure out the most probing question to ask of each startup. If you guess right you just learned something relevant to the decision. But if you guessed wrong, if you could have asked a more probing question, you might end up accepting a startup you shouldn't have.

I don't know enough about your situation, and I wasn't implying any judgement either way. I was just trying to put myself in their shoes.
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Guys, Eve isn't a real thing...
That should give me more time to submit a conference paper on June 30.
I think Voyager I is leaving our solar system on an angle that takes it away from the (relatively) flat plane of planetary and asteroid orbits.

http://physics.uoregon.edu/~jimbrau/BrauImNew/Chap06/7th/AT_...
Being devil's advocate here:

Even 5 or 10 years from now, there won't be that many more people shopping for cloud services than there are now. Right now people are talking about a startup bubble, how many more startups will be there 10 years from now? I doubt many more. There is a finite number of people that will start companies each year. Starting companies isn't for everyone.

Fortune 500 companies will probably switch more and more to the cloud, but they don't need a service since they have someone hired to analyze options.

Further, cloud companies will probably be resistant to a service like yours because it will negatively impact their margins. They will do things like bundle with services, etc in an attempt to drive their own margins.

Do I think eventually there will be a hipmunk of cloud service providers? Maybe, but you should be able to do better analysis than: making up a number, multipling it by 10.

Start with the number of startups launched every day, then determine how much you will make from each startup with each transaction. You can pretty much assume you won't get the enterprise users anytime soon.

You can also assume small businesses won't become expert enough to shop for cloud services and they would rather shop for a total service provider i.e. developer who knows the cloud. (that developer might service 20 small businesses, but only give you 1 transaction when they first research cloud providers).
Customer facing insofar that we'll likely want to raise some money and I'd like this person involved in that process

Sounds like the role is more than just as a developer, but someone who desirably is a long term part of the business and its growth.

I think the parameters slightly change for this type of position. In your shoes I would pitch the vision & culture you're trying to nurture as much as the technical challenges and career advancement that would come out of it.
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Go is the best worst language I've used. Most of what I do fits pretty much right in the sweet spot for go, network services and web development. Stuff I would have previously used C and (insert scripting language here) for respectively. Go fits into both of those areas really nicely, and I prefer it over C and scripting language X for these tasks.

But the problem is, I've already tried haskell, which also fits that same area, and is semantically a vastly better language. I just wish go had been more willing to push the envelope and at least try to be somewhat modern and useful instead of being "C with modules, but slow". On the other hand, haskell is a terrible language syntactically, and from a development environment perspective. Go is near enough to perfect in those regards. Having a fast compiler, a simple, working build system, a sane and easily enforced code format all make a huge practical difference. I wish I could use go, as it is much nicer than haskell from a usability perspective. But the language is just too primitive.
A lot of people are finding out that views are the hardest thing to do - especially with Backbone. The problem is that views are tightly coupled to the model so it's hard to build them up. I just wrote http://modernjavascript.blogspot.com/2012/06/v-in-mvc.html for another post but believe that it could be helpful in this situation. You'd need to actually write a Backbone.controller class and move the logic in to there but then you could create a whole lot of Backbone.Views that were generic and could be hooked up through the Control (I'd also like to see a Backbone.MultiView or something that could take several views in and then re-emit the changes and allow people to add in several small component views in to a large view either for a collection or a model.
How is the performance when each row gets its own object instantiated, its own template loaded, and its own events attached? What happens when you have 1000+ rows in a scrollable/sortable/filterable table? I tried nested views approach but the performance was lacking in slower PCs when the row count was high.

What I prefer to do is the following:

class Example.Views.TableView extends Backbone.View

events:
'click td': 'clicked'

rowHtml: ->
x = []
p = $('#person_row').html()
for person in @collection.models
x.push(_.template(p, person))
x.join('')

clicked: (e) ->
id = $(e.target).parents('tr').attr('id')
# handle action for row id

render: ->
# render self view including rowHTML

The template is loaded just once into a variable and filled in each iteration. Only one set of events is attached to the DOM. Only one call is made to DOM to create all the rows, one string merged from HTML array. I still get the benefit of view and subview templates, without the constructor for subview objects being called 1000 times when all I need is the <tr> HTML x 1000.
On Ubuntu the dependencies were already installed by the old version, so I could install this new version without anything else required.
I tend to agree with you, but FYI you sound pretty arrogant when you say it that way.
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Hi guys, I built a site to solve a couple of my problems regarding sleep, and thought you guys might like it too. It's called WakeMyself, and here's the URL: http://www.wakemyself.com

Have you ever overslept despite the alarm and wished "Damn, I wish I could go back in time and tell my stupid sleeping self to snap out of it." That's the basic idea behind WakeMyself. It lets you receive a wakeup call from your yesterday's self. Just leave a message, set an alarm, and you get a call from yesterday's self.

Another problem I had: I really wanted to remember my dreams but always forget to remember. So I added a recording feature to WakeMyself. You just say something after the beep and it will record your voice, and the recording is available on the website when you come back. This way you can capture all your dreams while you still have them in your memory.

Hope you guys like it. I would love lots of feedback. Thanks!
:D http://rubyfiddle.com/riddles/ab901
What have you written in Go that you'd wished you'd written in Haskell?
1) Don't really have a defense for that. Then again, not everyone who uses an IDE and claims they know OOP had had experience with Smalltalk.

2) I have encountered people who used UML/SQL schema diagrams in a cargo-cultish way to prove to themselves and (especially) others that what they were doing was well thought-out when in fact the opposite was the case.

3) That reads more like an argument in favor of Vim/Emacs as superior editors. Also, it seems silly to blame lack of refactoring on editor when it's more of an issue of whether the programmer has a sense of code elegance and clarity or not.

4) I guess hubris is not exclusive to either side.
What if amazon bought book.com and then sold subdomains? So harrypotter.book.com?
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> microsoft sees itself as next Apple

Thanks, There is coffee all over my keyboard now. Can the SEC do something when the CEO and board become obviously delusional?
ICANN haz support for the new gTLDs
The best Laptop I ever used for development was one with a keyboard, monitor, trackpad, and internet connection.

I would VNC into my work machine (using a two-factor authentication), and do development on my work machine.

It had all of my work already saved on it, it could compile faster than any laptop of similar price, and if my laptop was stolen from me, I would not lose any of my work - and none of my intellectual property (trade secret, or otherwise) was compromised.

Every now and then, internet connectivity was an issue, and that sucked.

I can't imagine losing full control over my intellectual property, though, so that's a trade I was totally comfortable with.

It had a small SSD so it would boot quickly, because that's all it really needed to do.
Yea I agree. People take location very defensively, but people can be offensive about it, too. I'm a local of the internet, more than anything.
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Everything, and the same in reverse. That's the problem. Using haskell, I wish I was using go because the downsides of haskell bother me. But when I am using go, I wish I was using haskell because the downsides of go bother me.
I'd rather run Skype inside its own virtual machine, with ads blocked by restricting network access. Since a full Linux distribution can be obtained for free, this could help enable that.
It's very different in one significant regard: it's very easy to write your own acceptably performant and deterministic malloc and free, compared to the effort it takes to write a GC that would fit in to those constraints.
I've been using Go exclusively in my personal projects for the last 8 months now, am in love with the simplicitly and fun of writing it (and goroutines), but this is a horrid way of introducing the language. To anyone who doesn't appreciate the Go syntax style, this is an instant turn off. There is a reason there is an idiomatic style used by... every single Go project I've ever seen.

Further, these examples are so trivial that one doesn't see an advantage over C and so this comment thread is like every other. Those who've written "Hello World" dismiss it as neither C nor Haskell and most others seem to be generally happy with it.
Fragments of the Web
Sorry you lost your developer. That sucks. I take it that was for an old project (since you said that language and tech were open, I'm assuming no existing code base.)

That said, the only thing I'd really advise against are things like oDesk and their ilk. You might find good talent there, and I know people have had good success, but in every success story I hear, they all start with "Well, I had to fire 8 guys before I found this one."

As for hiring, there are of course the monthly "Looking to hire / Looking for freelancer" threads on here that are generally gold for getting qualified candidates.

Where are you located? Do you need your person to be close? Are you in a tech hub (like SF, NYC, vs. say, Des Moines [I assume?]) If so, craigslist might work as a way to get the resumes to start coming in.

Ideally, you'd want to look for someone with previous startup experience.

Uhhh, there's more, but my mind just blanked. I'll come back as I think of anything else relevant.
Yeah, that must have been it. When I unban someone who was only recently banned, I often unkill the stuff that got killed while they were banned.
It's like calling private methods on a class ;) Not easily accessible but once you figure out how to do it you can accomplish certain feats that may have seemed impossible beforehand. Alas, with great power comes great responsibility. Ever seen Limitless?
The armory that this lawyer has is sending out these letters, going to court, suing people. The armory that the internet dweller has harassment.

Both are defending what they believe in, with the powers that they have.

There is a case to be made that this legal harassment is destroying our society, and the internet dwellers are fighting against this the only way they know how.
Ah the quest for the perfect mix of everything. I sympathize but I've generally found that there are some things that are better solved in Haskell and others in Go and have found a generally pleasant balance.
ask her about cats, she goes on for a few pages.
The "asteroid belt" is unimaginably sparsely populated. Nothing like you see in Star Wars with spaceships dodging and weaving around dense fields of rocks. Asteroids are separated by a million kilometers. The chance of hitting anything at all on a random trajectory is extremely low, on the order of one in a million.

http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/26712/what-is-the...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average_distance_betwe...
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We're lucky that Voyager made it there in the first place. At one point Congress killed the Grand Tour idea in favor of a Jupiter-Saturn flyby. However management responded by adding piecemeal upgrades like a bigger power source and reprogrammable computer that would allow the Grand Tour idea to proceed. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter11.html
That's right. 5 cookies, so that someone could take the 4th cookie without feeling too guilty about taking the last one. I guess the last cookie usually went uneaten.
I'm moving to Detroit next spring. I'm excited to see what kind of opportunities are around the city. Lots of neat stuff going on and Dan Gilbert is doing a great job.
Isn't coloring supposed to train fine motor skills in children? Just using a 'tap and fill' functionality takes that completely away from them :(
Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back did some horrible things to a lot of people's conceptions about asteroid belts.

The asteroid belt is so unbelievably sparse, you would never even know you are flying through it. Absolutely no concern was given to the prospect of a collision.

To give you some perspective, as a test they flew one of the pioneer spacecraft through the rings of saturn, even the rings of saturn are so sparse that the spacecraft flew through completely untouched.
Anyone who bought a Windows PC 4 years ago would have IE7 on it, since IE8 didn't come out till March 19, 2009.
And most of Europe does "rue Blah 1600"
It would be more accurate to say seemingly instead of apparently. The nuance is that the description in the download list implies that only the old distros are supported, but actually at least on F17, the F16 package still works. Why on earth they would release a 32-bit package but not a 64-bit package in this day and age, however, is a mystery.
Yep -- when you're dealing with large numbers of DOM elements, you absolutely don't want to have an individual View for each element. At the other extreme, you don't want to have a single View for your entire application. Find a balance that makes sense, and represents a logical chunk of UI.

For a bit more, see the FAQ, particularly the bottom of: http://backbonejs.org/#FAQ-tim-toady
Yes the Indy was a very cool machine. There was also another one that was a cube... cannot remember what it was.
It -is- how it works. In algebra at least.
You may want to see a doctor.
On Dec 21, 2012, Voyager I will officially leave the solar system and the heliosphere. It will instantly smack into a holographic sheet wrapped around us by the aliens who visited the Mayans. This sheet is the false projection of the rest of the universe. They show everything as distant and empty so we won't investigate. But Voyager I defeats their ruse. And so, the aliens decide we know too much and wipe us out before creating a new solar system rat maze for the next species in line.
Since Skype is one of the slipperiest applications out there in terms of network access, I'd imagine ads could be served by any node in the network.
Sure, but it is a little insulting to be thought of as a resource.
My old amd64 version do not require that much dependencies only coupe of packages... and thats it..

Here list of my dependencies for skype 4:

bluez-alsa:i386 glib-networking:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 gstreamer0.10-x:i386 gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386
gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 ia32-libs ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 ibus-gtk:i386 lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 libaa1:i386 libaio1:i386 libao4:i386 libatk1.0-0:i386
libaudiofile1:i386 libavc1394-0:i386 libc6-i386 libcaca0:i386 libcairo-gobject2:i386 libcairo2:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386 libcanberra-gtk0:i386
libcanberra0:i386 libcap2:i386 libcroco3:i386 libcupsimage2:i386 libcurl3:i386 libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 libdv4:i386 libesd0:i386 libgail-common:i386 libgail18:i386
libgconf-2-4:i386 libgdbm3:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libgettextpo0:i386 libgnome-keyring0:i386 libgomp1:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libgudev-1.0-0:i386
libibus-1.0-0:i386 libidn11:i386 libiec61883-0:i386 libjasper1:i386 libmad0:i386 libmikmod2:i386 libnspr4:i386 libnss3:i386 libodbc1:i386 libpango1.0-0:i386
libpixman-1-0:i386 libproxy1:i386 libpulse-mainloop-glib0:i386 libpulsedsp:i386 libqt4-designer:i386 libqt4-opengl:i386 libqt4-qt3support:i386
libqt4-scripttools:i386 libqt4-svg:i386 libqt4-test:i386 libqtwebkit4:i386 libraw1394-11:i386 librsvg2-2:i386 librsvg2-common:i386 librtmp0:i386
libsdl-image1.2:i386 libsdl-mixer1.2:i386 libsdl-net1.2:i386 libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386 libsdl1.2debian:i386 libshout3:i386 libsoup-gnome2.4-1:i386 libsoup2.4-1:i386
libspeex1:i386 libssl0.9.8:i386 libstdc++5:i386 libtag1-vanilla:i386 libtag1c2a:i386 libtdb1:i386 libunistring0:i386 libvorbisfile3:i386 libwavpack1:i386
libxaw7:i386 libxcb-render0:i386 libxcb-shm0:i386 libxft2:i386 libxmu6:i386 libxp6:i386 libxtst6:i386 odbcinst1debian2:i386 xaw3dg:i386
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"Whoa there nellie. Complexity ahoy."

Mixing metaphors? Is it a horse or a ship you are riding?

It's really hard to read the rest of your technical reasoning (which makes sense) with opening statements like that.
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