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Ask HN: Finding a startup or tech job after college?
I am graduating next May (2013) with a Bachelors of Science in Applied Computing Technology (CS/Biz hybrid) from Colorado State University. I have 3 years IT & Network Support experience and just about 2.5 years web development experience through Student positions. I've done the whole freelance thing for the last 5 years as a Wordpress theme guy. How do I approach getting a full time job after college?

I've got some experience with startups, I spent almost a full year in startup mode trying to start a social networking company with some friends & we even got some money. Before that tried to start two other companies and I have done a ton of freelancing.

My main interests are:

1. Web Development (lots of jQuery, PHP & Coldfusion)
2. Mobile Development (No experience)
3. Security (No experience)
4. Parellel Programming (No experience)

Beyond course work my internships entirely consisted of web development and IT support, I've done lots with OOP and MVC (building a CMS for the USDA), YII, Coldfusion etc... but I am not sure how I can tailor that to applying for jobs.

My main questions are:

1. How do I find a job before I graduate that will start after I graduate?

2. I'm going on a fantastic honeymoon, and won't be able to start for 1 month after graduation. Will this be a problem? Graduation is around May 10, I won't be able to start until after June 10. Will most employer's care?

3. When do I start applying for jobs?

4. I have lots of experience, lots of people have told me to come talk to them at the career fair when I'm ready to graduate--How do I sell myself to them?

5. I'm looking at Continental United States, but will prioritize companies in Arizona (Phoenix area), Colorado (anywhere), Dallas or Austin or somewhere without beaches or snow. What's the job market like for Web Developers across the country?

6. How hard will it be for me to get a job given 6 years IT/Web experience + a 4 year degree @ 24?

Any tips or advice is greatly welcomed (other then, don't married so soon).
>>So yes, it's not really the architect's fault. And I actually think architects, with the right skill set and organizational support, can be fantastic.

Sorry, this looks like the same line of talk used to defend MBA's. And 'Architect' titled are basically MBA equivalents of the programming world. They want to manage things they can't do or understand too well in deep.

If you can't write code, you basically can't design large software that requires tons of code to be written. Architecture isn't merely black boxes represented as classes interacting with each other.

If you are an architect you should be able to write code which you can use to do prototypes, or demonstrate a proof of concept, or verify what somebody else is trying to show you, or you would like to show them. You should be able to point out bottle necks, pain points in large software code bases and correct them. You should know how to refactor and all other best practices in software world.

UML/Black box diagram only architects, aren't architects.
At Google (& presumably Facebook and other tech companies), people do all that, but they have the title "engineer". Because unless you actually know what's going on in the coding front-lines, you won't be effective at integrating with other systems. And if you don't understand how your company-wide frameworks are being used in actual code, you will build shitty frameworks.

There's a good reason why "engineer", "architect", and "systems integrator" should not be distinct roles.
The hand-wringing over 'steal' that crops up in these threads is hilarious. If the whole piracy thing was as logically tight as the armchair economists would like you to believe, then the misappropriation of terms would not be so offensive. It'd be merely annoying. Instead, we often find vast treatises on semantics.

I'm not saying you pirate (that's your business), more observing the disconnect between the argument ("it doesn't hurt anyone") and the tone ("but DON'T call it stealing!!")
> Dude, no offense, you are really making stuff up.

No. Parent has it essentially correct. Many new results in number theory are obtained by studying automorphic forms, which are the stable waveforms, on various spaces.

Things like the Riemann zeta function arise out of spectral transforms of automorphic forms.
> should the developers be in violation?

Legally? No, copyright law doesn't work that way. The people who own the copyright to a given work have an absolute right to give away the rights copyright law gives them, to conditionally give them away, to sell them, or to share them with others.

Morally? Of course not. We must fight tooth and nail to prevent copyright laws from becoming that insane.
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This is just silly, Apple didn't create the universe. They just gave humans knowledge!
Ok, now I'm unclear again. So if a British author living in England writes a story for us and we pay them $1000, we don't have to withhold anything? To use a better example for HN, if you hire a programmer from Europe to do some work and they permanently live in Europe and do the work in Europe, what are the rules for withholding?
I found the opposite feedback loop. Namely, the more I spend money to avoid low-value tasks, the more my average value goes up, which in turn lets me spend more money.

Example: I hired a personal assistant to take care of several tasks for me. I could have done them slightly faster myself, but this saved me a lot of time and mental energy, which I used to work on activities that earn me more money, which let me raise my rates, which let me outsource pricier stuff.
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I found it interesting. And, I see parallels to Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Both of whom are merciless critics.

Does that make it "HN-worthy"? I dunno. It got voted up. I don't consider that a sure sign of worthiness...memes and jokes would also get voted up if they weren't ruthlessly removed by mods, and they definitely aren't HN-worthy. But, I suspect this has something to teach us...or at least provides interesting conversation fodder in areas that most people here probably previously had none. I studied jazz at a high school for fine arts and in college, and Miles Davis is a huge part of a jazz education; I still feel like this gave me some knowledge about Miles that I didn't quite have before (I knew he was a merciless critic, and extremely forthright, and occasionally an asshole; but I don't think I'd ever read it straight from his mouth...I'd read what his band members had said about him).
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a long time ago, I've stopped using and finding productivity app like this. Just look around when I really have free time.
Instead of playing around with this, completing the most important things, others tasks will take care of themselves.
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Let's not forget that apple really doesn't get the web or the cloud. They are ill equipped to build a Facebook.

Clients and hardware - nailed. Cloud and web - not so much.
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IANAL, but those two words "knowingly" and "materially" are extremely huge caveats that should make it very easy to avoid any liability for carefully crafted false takedown notices.
>ethernet is relatively stable, whereas new wireless protocols and upgrades come out all the time

I can't really agree with this line of thought:

802.11a - 1999 (5GHz)

802.11b - 1999 (2.4GHz)

802.11g - 2003 (2.4GHz)

802.11n - 2009 (2.4GHz + 5GHz)

802.11ac - 2012 (5GHz)

The only new standard on the immediate horizon is 802.11ac, and that's targeted strictly at the 5GHz band. Additionally, all the 2.4GHz stuff is backwards compatible all the way back to the old 802.11b standard.

Things certainly change, but it's more in the range of once every 4-5 years than it is all the time. There are good reasons not to include wifi on-board on the pi, but I don't see that as being one of them.
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I've been kicking around a slightly different approach to delivering games over the web.

Broadly, pick a class of game you intend to work with (I was thinking of building one for RTSes) and build an engine targeted at that genre. You can make the engine have good performance since you can write it in native code, so you don't have to fight with the limitations of JavaScript/Actionscript/any other sandboxed language.

Embed a sandboxed Lua interpreter inside this engine. Force all game-specific code to run inside this interpreter, making sure that the engine is complete enough that nothing performance intensive is game-specific.

Then turn this whole thing into a client that users install. Make it easy to have links that automatically open in this client. If you're feeling fancy, make it operate as a browser plug-in, and then technically it will actually run in the browser. :-)

How many people would develop for such a platform if it existed?
...or you could take public transit with your smartphone tethered to your netbook.
> I think tags model all the information you want.

> other tags for documents tagged with databases (subdirectories), and documents with only databases as a tag (members of this directory)

I don't like to tag my items "databases, mysql". I just want to tag them "mysql" and I want the system to know that MySQL is a type of database. Besides, there might be too much noise in the "other tags" list once you have a large number of tags. Just because I bookmarked an article about making TLS connections to MySQL doesn't mean that "tls" belongs to "mysql" just as much as "innodb" does.

Tags don't model all the information I want. Even if it does, I feel like there's a serious impedance mismatch between the tagging model and my mental model. MySQL is a database. Give me all the items that I tagged with (any database + rails) between 20120701 and 20120731. The mountain lion is a big cat. Give me all the items I've tagged with a big cat. Some things in the world naturally fit into categories like that. The world is not a flat namespace in my mental model. A good UI would help narrow the mental gap, but the gap will always be there.

To say that a one-dimensional tagging system can model all the information I want is like saying that a key-value store can model all the information I want. Just because I can stuff my data into it and make basic queries doesn't mean that it's the best way to organize my data.
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> when the economic output they would produce in that time pays for the driver, the car, the fuel, and still leaves profit

Is that really true? From a certain point the economic output is produced regardless of what that guy is doing, he is just setting future directions. Does Tim Cook generate $2.9 million every time he takes a dump? I don't think so.

I have a better explanation: convenience and satisfaction.
He didn't say "buy design" he said "buy design help." He's looking for a contractor, and just doesn't like dealing with the legal/accounting/recruiting issues.
I find it impossible to imagine anybody who can write a perfectly working software in a UML diagram without writing & testing a line of code
I don't think the "male-dominated tech world" would really respect a man for sleeping with the co-founder either.
That's a tough nut to crack when you don't know what assets will be needed before a match starts.

I would just be happy with a game that's smart enough to load the assets for level two in the background while I'm playing level one. All the Flash games I play seem to insist on having everything loaded before I start playing.
If you live in Silicon Valley like I do, public transit is sadly lacking.
Very cool idea! Been wondering if something like this exists.

You say "Professional features coming soon"... a feature that I would pay for is turning an RSS feed (or a group of RSS feeds!) into a podcast. Great way to receive your news every morning.
My sisters and I and later my own kids all loved the Great Brain books. Anybody here with a kid reader in your life who hasn't tried them yet, get them them!

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I think this is taking the value of time concept way too far. So if an employee spends 15 minutes in the toilet he's pulling down the company's future value? Feeling entitled to favors from others (whose time is 'less valuable') is just a peek into where this line of thought heads.

Anyway, I'm not wasting my time discussing this [$640 blog post].
Maybe Zynga and Groupon were tech darlings?
I'm glad it worked out well for the OP. However, it isn't innovative any more. When the original hireme guy did it, it was audacious and innovative. It may still be audacious, but is no longer innovative.
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You have to know your competition and your market, not run from them. As a matter of fact, most people will probably say that if there aren't competitors, there probably isn't a market.

But, if you still can't shake your depression over not having an original idea, go out and get a job, 'cuz you're not quite yet cut out for entrepreneurship.
1. The user is not ever made aware that their registration attempt will involve sending out information over the Internet. The application is therefore surreptitiously phoning home.

It's 2012. This should be assumed. Mentioning it explicitly is nice to do, but at this point it feels like it should be taken for granted that a registration key will be checked against an auth server. There's not really anything that you can categorize in good faith as "surreptitious" about it. It reads more like you just want to harsh on the guy.

2. There is no reason to keep logs such as the OP currently has -- the kind that enables him to segregate people into buckets like "honest", "pirate", "converted" and then crow about it online.

Why not? Should a developer not keep track of the number of times a key (valid or not) is active? Why? It's his software. It's his business. I can't think of an argument why it wouldn't be his job to keep that data.
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There is no way I'll believe getting good performance out of nvidia cards on Linux was easy.
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I had the same thoughts. It seems like a small case of lunacy to build an ambitious state-of-the-art platform for high-performance multiplayer gaming, while also trying to run inside the browser. They won't even have access to UDP sockets, which is a huge setback for this kind of work. No vsyncing, no tight control over input handling, restricted multithreading, and more. If they manage to write the best code possible, they will only end up with an experience that's totally mediocre compared to native code.

Speed of light is the least problem. Artillery Games, I hearby disallow you from joking about speed of light until you are running on a platform that allows UDP sockets. Sorry, rules are rules.
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The Seventh Impossible Problem - How would your QA team fully test that game?

Btw, I've outlined some of my experience working on a streaming game here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2574946

It was in response to some critique of Second Life:
http://bbot.org/blog/archives/2011/05/22/the_failure_of_seco...
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I probably wasn't the only one proposing it, but I have no way to know who else might have done so.
I'm on an actual computer and I can't find one either.

Maybe it's a hiring filter? Figure out our email address to get a chance to interview? :-)
Prepare to be harassed by governments (including US) for releasing this. As soon as some activist uses this they will come after you. As soon as a criminal uses it, they will have a smear campaign ready to denounce this effort as 'aiding terrorist' or 'child abusers'.

See what they did and do with Jacob Appelbaum
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OT: I found it frustrating that using my vertical scroll wheel scrolled that graph horizontally, rather than the more commonly used zoom.
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And there's no problem with that, if they took their engineers and had them create new media distribution platforms or new efficient encodings or any other of the huge amount of highly technical things that can improve media distribution and consumption.
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Welcome to the next level. Its one of those things like comparative advantage [1] that you need to internalize so that decisions you make take them into account. It goes along with understanding that 'money' when you give out equity for it, costs 10x what it does if you earn it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
Is this possible to dynamically start rooms? Say, two people on my website want to connect to each other... so they start a room together?
Lord help us if everything unscientific is useless.
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Well said. I think it's true of any field really- when you start to get good, its frustrating to see/hear the missed opportunities and shortcomings in other's work. I wonder if the primary driving force behind any creative endeavor is really just "I want this", and there is no other way to get it than to make it.
To quote Chelsea Handler (who doesn't get mentioned enough here on HN I think), G+ is a hot mess. It takes forever to load, it's confusing and opaque, and it simply doesn't, and probably won't, ever have the reach to be relevant.
While most of the comments here are talking about the fact that this is the posters "discovery" of opportunity cost, there's another point to be made here. There are several reasons why, as a startup founder, getting that $660 laptop instead of the $700 one benefits your company other than the $40 that stays in your bank account.

Frugality breeds more frugality: if you set an example, others will follow and compound the financial savings. Frugality can result in camaraderie, since you are all in the rickety boat together eating ramen. Frugality can prevent resentment and walls going up between employees and decision makers, since even the CEO has to cut back on everyday luxuries and lives the same way employees do. Frugality can express your values by giving you an opportunity to "splurge": if you spring for a $500 chair for all the engineers but never fly first class yourself, it shows that you understand how important a good working environment is compared to other things that are perceived to be frivolous. Frugality can serve as a reminder of risk: if you're surrounded by luxuries you can forget you are actually a startup fighting to stay alive. Frugality can maintain a good relationship with investors even when the going gets tough, since it shows you're trying your best to avoid blowing their investment. Frugality can motivate employees and reward them for success, since you'll only add perks when the company can afford them, and when you do, the team made it happen not the VCs. The list goes on.
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I would absolutely pay for this also.
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The software sends registration codes to the server for verification. Same as many other software packages, including every modern Microsoft product. As far as I know (I don't work on Blurity, but know the author well) there is no personally identifiable information sent to the server.
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Love this part - Marc Andreessen thinks you need to fire over 10K people. He’s probably right. I would start with anyone with the title ‘Architect’ or ‘Program Manager’ in their title. HR is probably another good place to look too
I see your point, yes. If you can't remember the name of the general tag, yes, you need to browse. Assuming the general tag is used somewhat often though, some services allow you to filter tags based on how often they're used (Pinboard does this).
How do Meetings.io make money? I am always reluctant to use a service I don't pay for. It makes me sceptical that they will bring in pricing once I am committed already or that they sell my data, etc.