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1. Meetup Groups; 2. Startup Weekend; 3. Hackerspaces

Any Meetups related to the web -- events for developers, UI/UX, and biz meetups -- are great for networking. I'm a developer who gets emails from designers who want to talk on a big job that requires custom dev. You should be able to do similar -- find people who want to take on a job that requires more design or marketing than they can (or want to) personally do. (This may be a good way to meet people directly who need your services, not just people who will give you referrals.)

Attending a Startup Weekend hosted in your town is a _fantastic_ way to meet people, especially if you can talk shop with them like many HNers can.

It's quite the commitment, but co-founding a hackerspace has worked wonders for me. I meet a lot of smart people -- many of whom aren't web developers -- who then refer people they know to me.

If you're a designer or biz person, wander into a hackerspace near you.
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This discussion is the reason why I'm starting a site to send freelancers better projects. Check out matchist.com...we're going to start the developer beta next week. The idea is to be Hollywood agents for freelance devs. Any feedback is appreciated!
> If Valve did the same thing with their own version of Ubuntu running Steam, they could lower machine prices and also really reshape the PC gaming landscape over the next 10 years, esp. for indie developers who are already porting to Linux.

At that point, why not just release their own console?
Jason looking long term do you see an expansion of the school with satellite campuses. Clearly one of the benefits of the current location is access to the talented resource pool in Chicago. Chicago, Denver and Kansas City are some of the few places in the Midwest that have an ecosystem, though small in comparison to the west coast,to support and encourage budding builders.
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I have prior experience in Programming (C,C++,Objective-C,etc..). The programming part is easy for me. However at the design part i barely know anything. For example I can made a shadow for a image, but it takes me hours digging trough lots of Photoshop tutorials. %80 of my time goes to the design part, and this is to much in comparing to programming.

Is this book suitable for me?
Man, I love 37signals. Read all their books.
The font doesn't help, but I think the big problem is light-on-dark text inside a light site. I'm trying to read the light text, but my eyes are constantly drawn to the enormous light margins instead.
Actually, PC gaming is one of the biggest overlooked markets in the industry. If you account for all available sources of revenue then the market is incredibly large; it's just that some people who tally numbers only count boxes sold over the counter.

Almost every computer sold today with AMD or Intel CPUs have a decent video card built in. It's true they won't run the latest and greatest in high quality graphical games but I bet they'll run 90% or more of the games available on Steam just fine and most of the rest with reduced settings that will match the quality of the consoles. Granted, there are exceptions to this.

Most games that are ports of console games are done cheaply because of lack of focus or budget, not because of hardware. There are several franchises out there that make a ton of cash if made for and marketed to the PC market correctly. Most publishers don't bother with PC gaming any more because they no longer understand the market. What consoles are today is what PC gaming was five to ten years ago and they still get that, it's easy. PC gaming today is different and the expectations are different. Companies like Valve that understand the difference are the people making money. When the expectations of the console market catch up with PCs (possibly the next generation) then the current publishers better adapt quick or they'll suffer.

Most of the larger computer makers have been marketing "game" PCs for years but there have no standard configurations because different customers want different things. I, for one, feel that's to the consumer's advantage but it does require a knowledgeable salesman that help make decisions.

Your thought of an Ubuntu box with Steam is interesting but I can't see it happening any time soon, they need many, many more games to run on Linux for it to happen. It would be interesting if they did though.

If Valve went this direction it would help fix the biggest problem PC gaming has ever had, Microsoft.
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>What ever happened to the PDA stylus?

The market despised the stylus. I tried setting up a wireless office using tablets. No one would use the stylus and actually tried using their fingers.
It's not just the "idea" that matters, but the understanding of how discrete data can be usefully collected, analyzed, and disseminated. Call me skeptical, but I don't think there are many marketers who really understand the admittedly pedantic logistics in this...I don't mean that they need to actually code this, but to understand that there is such a way to parse amorphous tasks and information such that something truly useful can be done.

I think you underestimate marketers. Some of those guys & gals are practically statisticians. Have you ever picked up a "marketing research" textbook and skimmed through it? Serious marketers know a LOT about how to "collect, analyze and disseminate" data.
Working with 37S will easily be the best thing that ever happened to Starter League. Perfect fit, the creators of Rails, Chicago locals... etc. I'd love to see Chicago become the anti-silicon valley. A place for more practical, "get rich slowly" types of tech businesses. 37S is the perfect cornerstone. It just feels right with Chicago's blue collar roots (I am biased -- a Chicago native).

Separately, I love the fact that the name has been changed (CodeCademy conflict was awful), but The Starter League doesn't have the same instant semantic meaning as Code Academy did. Sounds almost like a startup incubator at first.
Had the same problem. Use Safari's Reader feature.
This brings up some interesting thoughts. What if the layout of the keys on touch-tone phones were copyrighted? What about keyboard layouts? What about the notion of a folding computer (laptop)?

I never quite thought about it like that before, but copyrights like this completely stifle future developments. Sorry, just showing up late to the party.
I have worked with several startups in Chicago in non-technical roles. This is a great way for me to learn some of the basics.

Will be there be any sort of scholarships for The Starter League?
"It is rare to see an accomplished programmer who started writing any code in Java" are you serious? I know a lot [here in DC]. I personally started with Pascal->C->Java->(all the scripts)->C#
Yes, In the book itself I talk a lot about best practices and iOS design principles, but don't cover a lot of specific code. In the resources I include video tutorials of actually designing and implementing the case studies. I think you will really like it.
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How is The Starter League different from DevBootcamp?

DevBootcamp:
http://devbootcamp.com/
http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/dev-boot-camp-is-a-ruby-s...
He makes some great points, here. I like his quote, "When you sit at the trading terminal you look for the sucker. When you don’t see one, it’s you. In this case it was me." Interesting how he puts more blame on the buyer.

Also, sort of off topic (more related to just Mark Cuban), but I'm surprised he made that "SharkTank" reference. I've always wondered how he viewed his presence on that show. I figured he saw it more of a "charity case" because of his fame. I never realized he actually referenced it and promoted it.
Can you say anything more about this or provide a link? I'm not familiar with this aspect of Windows Phone.
Negative datapoints are nearly completely useless in this scenario, as we only have ~8% of the leaked UDIDs.

Think about it this way: there are more than 250m iOS devices in the world[1]. I think 300m is a good, conservative estimate.

12m (~4%) of the world's UDIDs have leaked. 1m of those (~.33% of the total, 8% of the dump) have leaked.

A data point saying "my iOS device is in the dump" represents 1/1m of its group. Pretty significant, relative to 300m devices!

A data point saying "my iOS device isn't in the dump" has two possibilities; a 96% chance it isn't in the dump and a 3.66% chance it is but wasn't leaked.

As one of the 99.66% of iOS users, your data point represents just 1/299m of its group, and is thus ~300x less powerful than a positive data point.

[1]: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/apple-250-million-ios-dev...
Today's Warcraft Transmogrification: Silverline - Circle Of Cenarius
Not too poignant. When was living ever free?
Great move by both of these companies. I had dinner with Mike McGee (one of the co-founders) a couple of months ago, and could hardly believe my ears when I heard his story of bootstrapping Code Academy. These guys generated serious revenue with nothing more than a static website, then figured it out from there.
Does anyone know of a good comparison between different schooling systems in the world? I don't mean about their quality, but about stuff like ed asked. Is kindergarten or preschools are mandatory, How many years of schooling are required, are different schools are allowed to change the curriculum when they see fit (teach other subjects), and general "facts" like that.

Of course I can find all about it in Wikipedia, but that would take hours (for different countries around the world) and I wanted to save some time if possible. Thanks!
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Unless teaching programming or some web design work is taking a huge amount of time each week, there's no reason cooking or first-aid can't be taught as well. However, cooking is one thing that is not likely to be taught; the use of knives or even a single shared oven is a disaster waiting to happen, at least according to my brother (he's a primary school teacher).

My main concern would be having the teachers trained to be able to provide such an education themselves. Often primary school teachers tend to be older and female; for whatever reasons, this is not a demographic that would be particularly capable of learning 'enough' programming to teach it effectively, even at a primary school level.

However, as an Estonian citizen I think it's pretty cool idea. There is a big push here to make the country IT-focused, so it's no surprise this filters down to the lower levels of education.
No plans to expand outside of Chicago right now. We’re focused on quality and nailing the learning and teaching experience. One location makes that possible. We're interested in quality over growth. Expansion is dilution, not concentration.

People from all over the world are coming to Chicago to attend The Starter League. So far people from 25 states and 12 countries have made the investment in themselves to learn what it is The Starter League teaches.
Nice work! One minor thing I noticed... dictionary.has_key is deprecated, use the 'in' keyword instead: http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.5/whatsnew/3.0.html#built...
The headline implies Twitter, but the McKinsey report appears to specify social tools like "internal networks, wikis, and real-time chat". Better internal collaboration tools may save that kind of money, but I can't see Twitter being used in this way.
A rose by any other name...

Do you believe there are short dev projects which make meaningful, compounding improvements in core areas of concern for the business? If so, holy cow, right? That is really, really, REALLY important to how you'd conduct your business ("do them") and how you'd arrange a career as a dev (at the margin, why work on anything else?)

If you don't believe that that set of projects exists or can be reliably identified in advance, then huge levels of disdain would be warranted... if you're very confident that you're right. The evidence is not in your favor.
Skype as far as I know was started by a swede and a Dane. The Estonian connection I think comes from having a large engineering office there.
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That's a data source I considered adding for LangPop, but back in the day, was too much of a Ruby hangout. I think these days it's probably suitable.
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Considering the shape of these headphones, I can't imagine needing a physically-etched L/R label in order to figure out which ear they need to go in. It would be less embarrassing to need labels to figure out which foot each shoe goes on.
Err... I said that, didn't I?
GF took time to assemble staff of herding in Diablo 3. Then this happened.
Always a favorite.

Comments are closed on these previous submissions, so this is the best place to start a new discussion about this brilliant talk. You may want to read some of the previous discussions, so here are earlier submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=68918

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92542

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122989

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150863

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152311 <- 7 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626380

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827107

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359174 <- 21 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3744125 <- 5 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245680

Also, here's the PDF of the talk:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf

http://www.brics.dk/~hosc/local/HOSC-12-3-pp221-236.pdf
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Adding new terms to the lexicon can be handy and is, obviously, required on occasion. I'm still a bit skeptical that "growth hacker" really adds any value though, especially since it seems to be somewhat amorphously defined, and it's a label that anyone can anoint themselves with - much like "Social Media Expert" or "SEO Expert."

Get the industry to stabilize on a clear, consistent, meaningful definition of what a "growth hacker" really is and some criteria for being one and maybe it becomes useful.

I mean, Growth Hacker is a shorter phrase than "marketing specialist who can code, with specialized knowledge in product management, viral growth strategies, and data analysis." But is that really what it means?
Isn't this largely similar to another post that was up here about a week ago?
I am very happy for Neal and his team and, of course, 37signals. This is a great partnership and will lead to some great work.
Didn't Valve previously say something about wristbands and how they would be the future of computer interaction?

That seems very vague to me and I'm having difficulty visualising exactly what that might mean.

Perhaps an accelerometer attached to your wrist would essentially allow you to use any object as a makeshift mouse/keyboard?
FYI - I didn't write this, but I think it's a great "drop shipping 101" for people interested in getting into this kind of thing.

I found the video in particular of value... since one of the most diffficult things about drop shipping is finding the right wholesaler.

Hope you guys find this useful.

-Mike
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We've discussed this, but we don't have a definitive answer right now.

One thing we believe is that it's important for people to make some sacrifices to be here. We want totally committed students. Figuring out how to pay is a great test to see how committed someone is.
This is great! But it also sounds suspiciously like a 37 Signals incubator. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, that would be awesome. There is room for incubators that are not investing to "get out" but to "stay in" and help build cash-flow profitable businesses.
Hey Marcus & Ata

Ich finde es persönlich sehr schade, dass connex.io eingestellt wird - war es doch einmal eines dieser vielversprechenden & breitergestreuten Schweizer-Startups. Für die Zukunft wünsche ich euch beiden viel Erfolg mit hoffentlich anderen Projekten - lasst die HN-Community doch wissen, was so bei euch als nächstes ansteht.

Grüsse aus Bern
Fabian
FACEBOOK? If I had to bet on any company I would bet on Facebook as the main/top source of this data. Where else can you easily be profiled so easily by liking or sharing content the Big Bro would deem as subversive. Followed by phone carriers since they have already been working with Big Bro, then apple and google. Combine these and you should be able to know everything you want. Govs probably won't deal with smaller companies lest increasing chances of leakage, etc.
+1 If it did, that'd be really, really helpful.

The spec is pretty simple, I don't know why SSL implementations leave it off. :(
> 10x longer is not a poor programmer, that's an incompetent programmer. If someone needs ten days to code something that can be done in one day something is very seriously wrong.

That's just not true, it's all relative. Linus Torvalds supposedly coded git to the point where it was self-hosted in 1 day. Even a very good programmer could take more than 10 days to do that, an average (but not incompetent) programmer could take months.
So, somebody was flying a war plane in Vietnam so that you could sleep safe and sound in California?
You are partly right, but in Facebook's case the stock price is important for a few reasons: (1) public perception: FB is a media/advertisement related company, and it is not good to be viewed by the public as a sinking ship; (2) employee retention: tech companies rely on stock grants to attract talent. With a stock price that is getting lower by the day, there is less incentive for employees to join the company.
This focus on quality and keeping it small is the right thing to do. What does the acceptance rate look like though? I think after this affiliation there's going to be a lot more applicants and therefore the acceptance rate is going to go down. Maybe its a question for Neal and Mike, but what's the process for selecting applicants?
This isn't an incubator. We're not making investments in the companies that might come out of The Starter League. Also, starting a company isn't required to attend The Starter League. You just have to want to learn how to build and ship software. You could use these skills in your existing job, get a new job, or, if you want, go out on your own. It's entirely up to you.
This is great, exactly when I need it.
At least one other commenter picked up on for health. It wasn't something people wrote down back in those days, (I don't have a citation) many people then considered complete sexual abstinence unhealthy. So Franklin is saying you should engage often enough to maintain health; and Franklin was no prude, his oldest son was illegitimate, and so was that son's son, William Temple, who Franklin more or less adopted, and who returned the favor by collecting and publishing Franklin's papers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Temple_Franklin
It is fine to express a distaste for a growth hacker by what he or she does, seems silly to dislike them for their title.

I would say exactly the opposite. I expect the average HN reader has tremendous respect for what "growth hackers" DO. But I also think that a lot of the kickback against the term is the perception (justified or not) that it's an unnecessary, vacuous term that (ironically) is "just marketing". Or, IOW, a fluffy title that some people have adopted to make themselves sound more interesting.

If these folks were routinely being called Marketing Strategists or something, I doubt there would be all this discussion about it.
Facebook...is the mostlikley source
Spreading disinformation? Hardly. The same could be said to the OP.
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If someone cracks your WEP, are you responsible for what they do over your connection?

If someone steals your car, are you responsible if they use it as the getaway car for a bank robbery?
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>> I bought and sold FB shares as a TRADE, not an investment. I lost money. When the stock didn’t bounce as I thought/hoped it would, I realized I was wrong and got out. It wasn’t the fault of the FB CFO that I lost money. It was my fault. I know that no one sells me shares of stock because they expect the price of the stock to go up. So someone saw me coming and they sold me the stock. That is the way the stock market works. When you sit at the trading terminal you look for the sucker. When you don’t see one, it’s you. In this case it was me.

That was probably my favorite part of the article. He screwed up and took responsibility for it! I'm not sure whether I should be impressed that he did or surprised that that taking responsibility for your behavior is so rare when everyone is always looking for someone to blame.
You might be interested in Blossom, it's derived from SproutCore and has a fully canvas-based view layer.

https://github.com/fohr/blossom
Cuban always struck me as an attention whore. As always it's both. He can help a charity while putting his name out there.
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But did he invented something to slay vampires?

Seriously, I'm amazed at the width of his accomplishments. Maybe, tt would be difficult for someone today to significantly contribute to so many fields. Even in a relatively new profession like CS, we tend to specialize.
Nowadays, what's the difference between a standardized PC running a custom/customized OS and your hypothetical console?

Now, if Valve actually moved backwards to a day when consoles were simple devices that didn't require OS updates, installation of the games, game updates, and a whole slew of other crap from the PC industry that makes it easier for vendors and harder for users, then they'd have a real 'console' that wasn't a PC.

Otherwise, modern consoles are just PCs.
I believe Code Academy was around before DevBootcamp, since they've been around for a couple of years now. They teach more than just Ruby, they have a co-working space and are based in Chicago.
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Perhaps the term "growth hacker" has arisen because "marketing" has gotten a bad rep.

It only has a "bad rap" among people who are fairly clueless about what marketing actually is, and/or people who hasty assessments based on limited data points. So, a hacker worked for a startup where the "marketing guy" was seen as evil, and now "marketing has a bad rap" seems to be the meme here. And that would be silly.

Marketing is damn interesting stuff and it's absolutely crucial to a successful business. And good marketers, like good developers, are talented, skilled and hardworking. And, also like good developers, they're hard to find.
Every interaction that it makes to the network is controllable via user preferences and is documented. It does not send data unless you allow it to. Each application is fully isolated from others so applications cannot read from each other by design as well.

Nice video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzviQLCPCG4

An application can read the unique ID of the device (which is used for session persistence between service calls) but not access any other information unless allowed to.

Effectively there is no way for it to steal all the data in that list unless you physically tell it that it's ok to do it.

It's the mobile platform that scares the shit out of me the least. They did good here.
Can I get an explanation as to how the OP is making the claim that these are IN FACT these kind of knots? I mean I cannot see how this image is of sufficient resolution to support this.
Thanks for the heads up on the typo. Got that fixed.

As far as the decorator syntax, I absolutely agree. That's definitely a thing we should have. I ticketed it up at: https://github.com/PolicyStat/jobtastic/issues/11

Thanks so much for the suggestion.