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Definitely! From what I've heard (I was at the graduation on Friday), there's a level of investigation at DBC that goes beyond anything I've seen in other programs like Codeacademy. Which makes sense, I guess, given the much greater time investment and cost.

The thing that strikes me is how negatively a four-year program is seen. It's a matter of pride for some that 1. they got their jobs with a relatively minimal time investment 2. they learned "practical" concepts rather than the "useless" CS theory college grads get.
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Yes, but if they raised only $750,000 how much of that would have been left? Since the things being offered as part of pledges isn't free?
Yes yes, but lets stay positive. There are still 39 more days to go.
My biggest problem with Stephenson's works is that he doesn't really finish his books, he either just stops abruptly (e.g. "Diamond Age" or "Snow Crash") or winds down gently, but anticlimactically (e.g. "Cryptonomicon" or "Anathem").

I still love his books, because they're full of awesomeness and the ending doesn't make the rest of the book crap (unlike what BioWare did to Mass Effect with the original ME3 ending).
Why is the QR code unprofessional?
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I've worked with Railsbridge in San Francisco and this is a great organization - Would love to see more RailsBridge outreach happening in the world.
I highly recommend Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius.
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I couldn't see any concrete distinction between the "bros" in his hypothetical and many things HNers would consider a "real" startup.

Maybe he was also attacking the very lean startup people who only have an email collecting landing page, a funny or inflated title and a blog filled with lessons for entrepreneurs when they come from a geek subculture and you are correct. It seemed more like a perfect NTS because of the "bro" references. Reading it again, I could see either interpretation being correct.
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Not Mars - Titan, moon of two planets out, Saturn.

The one with nitrogen atmosphere, methane lakes, rain and hurricanes.

Way, way more interesting than Mars in some ways.
The threat of potential evil-doers operating a boiler room type operation primarily. The basic problem with regulation of the form "this type of solicitation is ok, but not this" is that the government tends to be behind the curve. Logically this makes sense; the government can only ban certain types of abuse after they have been deemed as such and after they have already happened. If your goal is to protect the 401k of a soccer mom who isn't good with the googles the easiest way to do that is just ban private placement solicitations entirely.
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Yes, there appears to be a lot of shenanigans going on :)

I went to the site and everything was washed out in red.
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"Staying positive" does not mean "ignoring reality".
Interesting post and thought process. In the experience of HN readers, what's the typical salary/options/benefits package you've seen given to first employees of SF startups?
"The rules will also undermine a key advantage of Silicon Valley venture capitalists and “super angel” investors: Dealflow. Since startups haven’t previously been able to broadcast that they are raising money, they must approach potential investors directly, and they tend to reach out only to the biggest names."

Ha ha, good joke - I mean, journalism.
Yep, working on a fix real quick...

Edit: Fixed.
Nevermind that videos like this are completely inaccessible to the deaf.
amazing - https://goput.it/c9l.png
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It just occurred to me that I should have posted this on HN before finishing the negotiation. Would have been great to get this input then.
And what are we supposed to do in order to watch all the exerpts? Follow the entire site? No RSS feed, email subscription, anything? Pass.
I don't know how long it took to get this far but right now it is 31K over goal... and it has 39 more days to go. I would not be surprised if it passed the $1M mark before it is over.
Openness is good. It builds trust.
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What got me to play the game again was doing it on Hardcore mode. In this mode, difficulty is set to hard and when you die your world save gets destroyed and you cannot continue playing.

For me, this works well, as I just play when I really feel like it and no more time that my brain can handle[1], and when there are dangerous situations, you can really feel the stress for survival and preservation of all the "things" built.

[1]: Sometimes with games, after one hour or two, one is just playing the game, but not enjoying it.
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Good point. I'm perhaps generalizing too much from my own experience (which is admittedly of having an advanced degree in mathematics and being a recent Silicon Valley transplant).
Let me just remark that the original O'Reilly _Whole Internet User's Guide_ had no mention of the web--plenty on Gopher and FTP and Usenet, as I recall, but it must have been in press about the time CERN was announcing WWW.
In C++ I implemented a lot of functionality by hand using mostly glibc and stl. In scala there are library's to help with threading and network I/O in my case it was A combination of threading (Akka), Network I/O (again Akka) and HTTPS communication (dispatch-http). So yes this was a combination of a better programing style and better support for libraries (SBT)
You can ask this guys perhaps:
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They managed to do the cards with Bitcoins.
OP here. You're right - it was confusing! I tried to evaluate my offer objectively and wanted to share the tools I used to do that (as well as get feedback on the approach). My relationships with the founders were a key part of the story that I didn't mention until late in the post. I added an intro which hopefully makes it more readable now.
"Tech Bootcamps don't work."

Your opinion is based on a small group of people you met briefly 10 years ago who had gone through programs in no way related to what is being discussed here.

I'm sorry if I'm being snarky (I admit I am), but I'm so tired of this negativity. HN has a huge anti-beginner bias. Since before I even started this program people have been telling me it will never work, I'm wasting my money, I'm joining a cult, etc. I'm glad I didn't listen.

I hope that you will take the time to learn a little more about what is going on here. If you'd like the real story see my comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4415088
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She forgot to factor in the dealbreaker; the fact that engaging in a startup (or any other intensive work if you ask me) with your significant other is a major risk in itself, and a bet where not only your career is at stake, but also your relationship.
I'm sorry for misunderstanding your role in the spread of the quote. Anyways, it is a nice quote, and I personally empathized with the updated version after my son was born and I saw how hard breast feeding was.
Backblaze does support the optional use of a separate encryption key which they claim to never store, but there's no information about whether it is ever disclosed to them or not. There's little information on their website, but it can be set in Settings > Security in the Backblaze client.
'1. Consulting work is still there if I need to return to a higher salary.'

Couldn't you technically do that same consulting work at your old job, specifically after work or on the weekends?

I agree with your second point though.
EasyMotion is really only good for getting to something you are staring right at on the screen.... I want to go THERE.. not meant as a general search or anything like that... and doesn't help get off the screen, for sure.
It took 5 days to get this far (if I recall correctly).
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Sweet, I need something like this.
I'm in a very similar position currently. Do you have any recommendations on resources/books to study? Actions to take?

I've been in the process of trying to redefine how we talk and show our product, build product flyers, discount flyers, pricing sheets -- all for using at conferences we attend and for attaching to e-mails. In addition, learning about the customer segment is something I've been trying -- but it is HARD!

E.g.:
- How much can you really talk to your existing customers, or potential customers, to gather information before stepping over the line?

Building a great understanding of your customers is absolutely necessary to be an effective marketer. Building that understanding, and having a sense of how tuned-in you are, is hard and something I haven't yet figured out.
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My feelings exactly. Great ideas are fun, but can you wrap it up convincingly? Pull that off and you've got greatness...
Seems to me the missing element from your analysis is simple: Users don't need to have exactly the same experience. Picture a graph where each user is a node. When I freshly arrive at the site, it tells me to pick out a few users to place in my "circle", to use Google terminology. I do this by finding users who write comments I think are good, or by looking at a list of some of the most popular users. I can then set the degrees of Kevin-Bacon controller to set expand my "circles" outward by joining in people that others in my circle trust, multiplied by a reduction factor (farther out means less influence).

Only votes by members of my extended circles count towards my "score" for a given item, weighted by distance. If something is upvoted in my perspective, I can see who and why, and break that connection (remove a person from my circles).

Finally, I can publish a group of users I trust and give it a name, which makes it easy for others to follow well-known groups.

I think it would work. A user has to put in a little effort, to find people they think have good judgement. It's very easy to knock out bad judgments by breaking links.

If I were less tired I'd think this through. The downside to all of this is processing time, of course.
Finster, You have a very good point with the Windows 2000 MCSE bootcamps, though the comparison to Dev Bootcamp is not a perfect analogy. I speak from experience. I spent 10 yrs in the IT Industry. I actually went through the process of getting the Windows 2003 MCSE certification. I did it over a two yr period of working as an IT administrator.

I also just completed the last Dev Bootcamp class last week.

Having an MCSE is supposed to denote a large amount of IT knowledge, if not being an expert. So people that spend a week, get an MCSE and then claim to be experts aren't going to fly very well in a production environment.

At Dev Boot camp we spent 75 hrs a week learning for 10 weeks. The motto here is that we are 'World Class Beginners'. So we spent about 10-15 times longer and then claim to be 'beginners' not experts.

We all spent last Friday meeting 30 companies that want to hire us, being very upfront about our knowledge. In just the last two days I've gotten 8 interviews for companies looking for Jr Developers. I'm going in this week for technical interviews with these companies. They are going to know exactly what I know and what I don't very fast. I'm not alone here, I know many of my classmates are also getting this many interviews.

I've also been told that about 94% of people from the last class got jobs. I've personally met about half of the last class and know they are all working at very respectable places. Actually some are at amazing places.

So with a lot of knowledge on this subject I'm very confident that this program is nothing like an MCSE bootacmp.
You're sad that your 15 minutes of fame only lasted for, well..., 15 minutes?
Frankly I'm glad it's not bound to VIM — that app is already restrictive in scope to those who prefer text-editing, let alone VIM users.

Thanks for a great little application!
Question, do you have children of your own? Have you been through the process of watching a baby learn to breastfeed?

Technically you're right, breastfeeding must be learned. And breastfeeding is in large part the skill of assisting and teaching babies how to nurse effectively. The fact that they need that teaching says that the skill is not intuitive.

Admittedly they do come armed with reflexes to make them more easily trainable. But the training is needed.
Well, since the pledges are being paid directly to the not-for-profit organization, I actually think TheOatmeal is paying for the rewards out of pocket (hence all the limits).
Right, by incompetence I was referring to the parent's comment towards the guy not being able to build a quality product because he left an apostrophe out of a word.
It's self-signed, expired more than 1 year ago. It could be the reason for the warnings. Any plans to fix that? And there is also the other domain to consider, universityofreddit.com
I can see it if you go out a lot, but for groceries it's fairly hard for me to spend more than $200/mo. I don't have a car, so just physically carrying $500/mo of groceries to my apartment would be quite an effort! I can't imagine how I'd do that unless I bought mainly stuff with a really high price:weight ratio, like steak or something, which I do occasionally, but don't eat as a staple food.

Today, for example, I carried what seemed like an uncomfortably heavy set of bags, yet it only came out to about $30, and will probably last me the rest of the week: 2 lbs pork tenderloin (2x $5), 5 lbs potatoes ($3), 2 lbs tomatoes ($4), 1 lb lentils ($3), 2 lbs onions ($2), 1 head broccoli ($1), 12x eggs ($3), 2 lbs nectarines ($3).

I think I more often run into the problem of buying way more than I can carry/eat, and it still doesn't cost much. I mean, I like nectarines, but 2 pounds of nectarines is a lot to finish before they get overripe, so some of that might get wasted. But since they cost me damn near nothing, that's alright.
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Yup. Less creepy more magical =)
Of course we've thought of this (and a number of other hypotheticals). And of course we've discussed it, openly amongst the entire team as well as behind closed doors with our board and counsel. It does complicate things. In the end we felt like the positives (having Michelle on the team so we can take advantage of her strengths) outweigh the potential negatives. It could absolutely turn out badly. As with almost everything else in startups, we're making a hedged bet. And you're free to think we've made a mistake, of course, as long as you don't leave believing we haven't thought a ton about this. :)

It would be different if we were inserting Michelle into some rigid organization structure, especially if she was reporting to somebody other than our CEO. We don't have that kind of structure, though, and even if we did, we would never tell a frontline manager to hire somebody based on nepotism. That's a sure-fire way to kill a company in my book.
A website is to a software startup as a bicycle is to a courier. Nobody invests in a bicycle; they invest in a profit-generating courier service. Similarly, nobody invests in a website; they invest in profit-generating online products or services.

This guy may have conveyed this lesson in an abrasive manner but it is valuable advice.
You're right, you'd have to wait 2 years:

have made at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 together with his or her spouse if married) and have the expectation to make the same amount this year."[1] This rule came into effect in 1933 by way of the Securities Act of 1933.[citation needed]

You wouldn't for my "even better" option.
Other studios would come and offer jobs to the one affected...
Pre-Internet we were information-bound, now we are attention-bound.

From that observation you can deduce a number of consequences.

Information (software, encyclopaedias) was expensive. Your intellectual life depended much more than now on where you grew up (as opposed to, say, your character), see for example Lisp in US vs Prolog in Europe. It was harder to be distracted but also easier to find yourself reinventing the wheel.

Instead of reading blog posts about time management and the seven most important traits of whatever, you had mildly interesting newsletters, documentation to photocopy, and complaints about the choice of books in the local library. Back then you were more concerned about gathering resources, now you are more preoccupied by where to put your attention and efforts. So, in that sense, we have all followed the same trajectory as Bill Gates.
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The article discussed all people in that age group, not just the people that you consider sluggish, vacant, vapid, etc. Please read and comprehend articles before commenting on them.
Na, not trying to take anything away from anyone. Just want to know how this works in all honesty. Thought it was exponentially effected by time. Does anyone know the actual algorithm?

Plus I am totally cool with them yanking the tickets. If they would have said not to do it I would have removed them myself.
-- If you’re using Metro apps, there is no clock

Probably one of the most glaring omissions.
Ahh, yikes. Sorry. I should've been clearer.

I didn't mean (though it certainly sounded that way) that it's necessary for the reader to know your gender. Looking back, in fact, I realize that I weakened my position by even mentioning it (especially in the vague, imprecise way that I did).

I brought up gender because it was confusing (and I, along with other readers here, felt misled) when you – very casually, I might add – mentioned you were engaged to the CEO, up until which point I'd been under the false impression that you were a man.

So, to answer your question: no, you wouldn't have needed to inform the reader of your gender if you had an ambiguous name because what's really important here is not that you're a woman but that you're engaged to the CEO. Whether you're a man or a woman is irrelevant: all that is relevant is that you have a close personal history with the guy you're negotiating with, a fact which, again, completely skews the context of the article.
Conversely I now have just reached the six month experience milestone with HN. I am coming to the conclusion that I may have picked all of the low hanging fruit I will find here, and should now spend my time exclusively learning more math to progress in life. I have slowly phased out all my time sinks and introduced playing with Discrete (for now) branches as my only hobby (we have a constant amount of the "happiness chemical" and so should direct it for the largest payoff - but I must say I have possibly found my first love).

This site and it's many life changing articles have given me the overview that I craved of the tech world/ my level/ etcetera (CS Student in Ireland - nothing concrete here to normalize towards) and so from my experience I think it's great (atleast for this use case) but maybe it was better..
I don't know PopCap's specific circumstances but I've worked in the video games industry for 18 years and it's routine to do a 'cull' of 'dead wood' in the guise of a 'restructuring/repositioning'.

Part of it is that you hire people that are crap and it's easier to do this than fire them. Part of it is that you've hired people that are good but no longer need and it's easier to do this than pay redundancy.

Again, I don't know what their situation is but you hear about this every six months or so in the industry.
Typo. I searched for "tcp-over-dns", the first sentence of my comment said TCP-over-DNS, and tcp-over-dns is what several other comments on this thread are describing.
Good job on building something.

However, after trying out numerous task tracking/todo apps, the best and most effective for me turned out to be a fountain pen (for added coolness) and a Leuchtturm pocket notebook. Nothing has worked better.
"Installing Windows 8 on your old PC could turn it into Greased Lightning"
There isn't much of a choice in the tablet or phone markets, but there's a ton of choice when it comes to laptops. If you want a modular laptop you can take your pick among a ton, but people still buy Apple's in large numbers.
I rather have 10k monthly from a blog than headaches and stress that will give me nothing in return besides telling my friends I am a serial entrepreneur.
$2180 a month, $3000 deductible. Did your founders meet at a cancer remission support group? Or is it just that hard to negotiate for a small group policy where you are?
Interesting, it would be instructive to compare the transition Sun went through from Workstations to Servers to Services to see if Dell's trajectory is in the same ballpark timewise, they are much bigger revenue wise than Sun was at the Workstation/Server inflection point.
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Interesting to note that two people (companies) ponied up the max of $33,333.

> If you donate $33,333 I will write a blog post about you, your company, or your product on TheOatmeal.com. My site averages 7 million unique visitors and 30 million page views. In the three years TheOatmeal.com has been online it's been read by over 100 million people and received nearly one billion page views.
The title is misleading. They've raised enough money that with NY's matching funds they could perhaps pay for the property and preserve it as a historic site, but it won't be a museum anymore than my bathroom is a YMCA. They need millions more.
Since it's described as "Task tracking for nerds" I think it would be nice if the export were compatible with Emacs org-mode [1]. These days, it feels like a lot of apps try to implement some of the features that org-mode has provided for a very long time, but it always seems as though they miss key features.

Then it would be even more fantastic if you could import a .org file.

[1] http://orgmode.org/
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Completely agree. My favorite 'startup' that's 'just a website', handsdown: Slickdeals. That forum probably pulls in more revenue than 99% of startups.
You might not do particularly well (or you might!), but diving into a Kaggle competition is one of the better ways to learn a lot about machine learning very quickly.
Yes, HN is censored. This post will be demoted as fast as your first one.

Nobody expects a HN censorship. Their main weapon is speed. And surprise. Speed and surprise. And fear. Amongst the HN main censorship techniques are speed, surprise and fear ... and ruthless efficiency and a fanatical devotion to the pope.
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It is worth noting that Arrington had a history of investing in the very companies that he was covering. And had personal connections with many of the other investors who might invest.

Thus improved access to tech blogs can be considered one of the benefits of having well-connected investors.
I was waiting for that. I'm a longtime HN frequenter and didn't want to post under my real account so I used a username generator and low & behold the first suggestion wasn't taken - what luck... Debated on it's appropriateness but figured I had to use it since it wasn't taken.
Are you going to tell these guys to stop taking pictures of my property, then?: https://maps.google.com/
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1 is the big uphill thing? 6 is the scary one (down the hill)
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I started my computing journey back in the days of BBS dial up porn,
DOS & Windows 3.1.

Network protocols were wildly divergent. (anyone remember NetWare?)

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was the best!

Plug & play was unheard of.
DMA & IRQ conflicts whenever new devices were added to a system was the norm.

Castle Wolfenstein3D was the coolest game ever.