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That's a very good point. I made that statement out of my perceived, and very naive, "closeness" to other cultures.
Thank you -- I haven't read that story in a long time, and it is a great reminder.
A company that has 2,999 developers is spending about $450 million per year to keep them employed, now it costs them $450.5 million. As you can see their pricing is a rounding error.

If you pick up the phone and mention Atlassian I'm sure the price will drop to something comparable.
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I hate it, but it is a necessary evil.
I don't have an account.
A strategy that I found works really well to quickly style everything is to create a category on UIView that defines a block property decorated with UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR, then on the setter, invoke the block. Then set the appearance proxy on app startup:

[[UILabel appearance] setStyleBlock:^(id view) {
UILabel *label = view;
label.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
}];

The advantage is that you can style properties that aren't supported by UIAppearance natively, since a block just gets run when the view is ready to be styled. You also can style subviews from the same block (ie. title label inside of a warning view should be red and bold).
Though, for interior design, I think that more humanizing post-modern styles tend to be far more pervasive, but as mentioned the buildings don't work super well - Bauhaus did manufacturability right.
Woah, no one said anything about lawyers that give poor advice. I was talking about lawyers who give solid advice ... to stubborn clients who choose to go against their lawyer's (solid) advice.
I am a non-techie that also believes I ought to learn the technical part to breathe life into my thingamawhop.

I would still love the ability to know if someone could make it right now right now for $500.

If you snip the cocoon by putting it on doitfor500.com, that's on you, right?

Where there's a want, there's a product. I'd post my thingamawhop.
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Another member of the Swrm team here. Thank you for your detailed feedback!

Re: 1) Although we are aware of dribbble, Swrm addresses a fundamentally different issue: Getting an honest, helpful critique of one's work.
While dribbble may be a great platform for showcasing finished design work, it has a natural tendency to promote only works which it considers "best of the best". This is reflected in its feedback system, where comments are most often overly positive. Swrm is built on the realization that good design work is generally the result of a lengthy, iterative process rather than a flash of genius at the hands of an especially "talented" designer. By focusing on the process, we want to enable anyone to continuously improve their work.

Re: 2) Making designers and critiquers "come together" is one of the top items we're working on, especially to encourage critiquers to provide constructive feedback.
I'm not sure whether you considered "lurking" to be one of the "two separate behaviors", but besides encouraging active participation I think this is just a general property of people on the web.

I agree on your remaining points – Thanks again for taking the time.
Oh yay. Another "if you don't do things my way (which I never back up with anything more than hand-waving - I don't even have actual anecdotes), you're doing it wrong" blog post.

Whew, what a mouthful.

Seriously. Even if we don't play the "anecdotes != data" game, this guy makes a lot of large, sweeping claims without even using personal experience to back it up. There's no "this one time I ignored my own advice and ended up getting burned" - no, the entire post is a giant exercise in supposition.

Perhaps more interesting is the fact that the entire rest of his team loved the candidate, and all of their opinions were immediately forfeit because the boss didn't like him. What does this say about the level of confidence and trust that one has in his team when you're so willing to discount their judgment entirely?

But by all means, keep these posts coming, they are forming a valuable mental list of people to not work for.
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Stopped using facebook (and orkut) back in late 2007/early 2008. Never looked back and am much happier for it. However, I've taken some flak from friends for not being visible.
I love the name - doitfor500.com. And it is available... I'm still on the fence.

While I have you engaged, I feel like I posted this in the wrong way - should I have put this on Ask HN?
Stripe does support marketplaces (https://stripe.com/connect), but with a somewhat different model.

Stripe Connect works by having each of your users connect their existing Stripe accounts to your application, or having them create a new one on the spot. It allows you to distance yourself from the flow of funds: the money will automatically route to your users' bank accounts (you can take a cut of it, if you want) and you don't have to worry about any chargeback/fraud liability.

This obviously doesn't cover all cases — for example, if you want to manage the flow of money manually, or you want to escrow funds.

(Disclaimer: I work on Connect at Stripe.)
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I find this video quite relevant for this particular candidate, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L_cGjQSR80
I don't really want to learn. I wish someone could help me zap it into existence. But that hasn't happened so far. And it is looking unlikely.

But my personal situation is neither here nor there. You asked for invalidation. That is my thought: That in spite of the number of times that the value of the "idea" gets pissed on here, there is some internal process that goes on in the founders. Y-combinator is more interested in funding the tight people, not the right initial conceptualization. Building the thing is often part of the growth process for the founders, a process I struggle to articulate adequately. Perhaps you would be killing that process, throwing the baby out with the bath water, so to speak.
It has already been unchecked. But then I found View > Navigation Bar. That's exactly what I was looking for.
Read up on Japanese history and come to your own conclusions. It is a unique country unlike any other in the world.
Liking solitaire doesn't make someone a loser.
Quite the early adopter (in two ways).

Do you think you miss out on any elements of "real life" because you aren't on it?
Can you set the price in BTC rather than USD?
We do, just with a slightly different model. (:

Full answer at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4879633
It's quite true. Losers exist. Don't work for them.
I gave a two hour talk on git, starting from the ground up: https://speakerdeck.com/rmccue/introduction-to-git-plus-usin...

Still working on getting the videos up, but the slides should give a little bit of an introduction, albeit slightly confusing without the speaking.
This may help:Front-end Job Interview Questions(https://github.com/darcyclarke/Front-end-Developer-Interview...)
You make good points, however I have to take issue with the documentation.

> When people complain about it, it's usually because they have mistaken it for a tutorial. It's not. It's documentation.

I don't really see the distinction. Documentation is supposed to explain to you how to use the code. You can call it whatever you want. If it's through a tutorial, then why not. R - and especially the non-standard packages you download through CRAN - have very terse documentation that barely explain how each function works on it's own, and much less how it works in the context of the rest of the package. You can't just tell the user what goes into the black box and what comes out and expect people to be able to use your software.

Sure they're are vignettes (I think that's the term), but they're really inadequate b/c they only scratch the surface of how the package is meant to be used.

Anyways, that's my 2 cents. I've spent soooo many hours fighting with R documentation trying to figure out how to get what I needed done. Sometimes months later I would find out there is a much better way to do something that simply was not explained anywhere. I'm OK at R now, but I went through a lot of pain to get to where I am now. I'd never wish it on anyone else.

My experience with MATLAB on the other hand has always been very pleasant. I spent like 3 hours going over the tutorial on how to use it (much better then R's "Introduction to R") and I hit the ground running. When I needed something a quick search through the help or online always turned up results.
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I agree. Also, the 140 that BB would have made wouldn't have all gone to Techforward anyway, whether it was profit or not. What we'd really have to compare is the 22 million + fees to how much they would have paid Techforward as part of the partnership. Since there are a lot of other costs to a buyback program (e.g. actually buying things back from customers), 22 doesn't sound unreasonable. This was a huge, shortsighted waste on BB's part.
Oh, I'm on Windows... maybe a platform depended bug?
I think it is reasonable to remove the bank username/password requirement. All it does is raise red flags for potential users.
What do you mean? It worked perfectly well for Best Buy; they paid out far less in the judgment than they stole in revenue.
Balanced also does next-day payouts. Using Stripe, it takes 7 days for the merchant to receive the funds
I've always felt like the best way to hire is to think in terms of teams instead of in terms of people. If you team is lacking communication skills, hire someone who have good communication skills, ignoring most other traits such as intelligence. If your team has great communication but is lacking in problem solving ability, then you should focus on hiring a really smart person, ignoring their communication skills. For this reason, I by default disagree with any article that decrees a certain trait that is "un-hirable"

The best team I was every on was a team that was basically hired randomly. The boss had tons of money (rich daddy was investor) and needed to hire 10+ devs pronto. Some people on the team were idiots, some were brilliant, some were communicative, some weren't, etc. No one was perfect individually, but we were all perfect as a whole.
>> "More than two years after the president announced the interim goal of sending humans to an asteroid by 2025, there has been little effort to initiate such a mission," the report said.

It's kind of politically naive to think the West Wing would have drawn any attention to this during the election cycle, especially given the focus on the domestic economy and deficit.

This is relevant: http://news.discovery.com/space/obama-win-nasa-direction-ast...

In terms of the mission itself, it seems suitably dangerous, ambitious, and exciting :)
From my non-techie experience of HN, yeah.

But, there you are on the front page. I'm sure someone building a filter somewhere is insignificantly bothered.
Shouldn't there be a vanilla "I hate it" option? Why must the Facebook-haters of the world have the opinion that it is a necessary evil foisted upon them? :)
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Yeah, but my point is two fold. First: Exterior doors to a building open out, pretty much period.* So, the handle is moot. If people really gave much thought to doors, they would be able to remember that, regardless of the handle.

Second: The reason for the exterior doors to open out is rather obvious (once you've considered the reason). Yet it was not originally in building code. This implicates that many places do it "wrong." Or, at least, they did years ago.

The first claim really just leads to "most people do not pay attention to such every day things." Even if you get it wrong, you only lose a second at a door. The penalty just isn't high.

The second is to say that it isn't like people were making flawless doors in the past. (Though, I particularly dislike "pocket" doors. I think those have fallen out of favour, thankfully.)

* Of course, I look at my house door and remember that residence entrances open in. Maybe that fundamental inconsistency is the true culprit here... :) I realize there is a good reason to keep the hinges internal to a house. So... not sure what to say about that.
This program, the buyback program they got sued over, was almost all "pure profit". Kinda like the extended warranty they try to sell you. It's 300% profit margin business. The court documents talk about it Best Buy expecting it to be a cash machine and driving instant profits to the Best Buy bottom line, and that TechForward would have made about $20MM per year just from the licensing deal.

Best Buy still made "tons of cash" from this. The punitive damages of only $5MM are a shame. This was wilful theft of IP.
Question: what's the story with the processes Best Buy developed that were pirated from TechForward? Does this mean they can't use them? Or can they? How does one prevent Best Buy from re-developing something similar going forward? After all, it won't take long for BB to make back their $27 million "investment."
They discontinued the program after 18 months.
I rarely use it unless someone from my family posts a message and I get an email about it. Other than that it's all noise from "friends" from high school and college I really don't care about and I don't want to take the time to put people into categories.
Either you hate it but use it anyway ("I hate it, but it is a necessary evil."), or you hate it and don't use it ("I don't have an account."). What other option did you want?
I don't get this author's reasoning here. Maybe the candidate partied all through school but got his career together after graduating. Maybe the candidate went through school and never really figured out what he wanted to do in life until after he graduated. Maybe three years into college the candidate realized he actually hated English but got the degree because he wanted to graduate in four years. The list goes on...

Just because someone didn't really do much with their life 5 years ago does not mean they're a useless loser today.

I noticed that the author is a "failed investment banker." Maybe there wouldn't be much the author could say about that job either - filling out spreadsheets and formatting Powerpoints are totally fascinating activities.
Why are select elements not as wide as other form elements?
Evidence shows that the track record of hosted bitcoin accounts is a bit disappointing.

But the evidence seems to show that the track record of bitcoin accounts kept by individuals is significantly worse. For instance, http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/78-percent-of-bit... and I think I am safe in concluding that a significant portion of those "non-circulating" bitcoins are actually lost.

So my financial advice would be that you are better off trusting an exchange than trusting your own storage and backup procedures.
Not really. I have a close-knit group of friends that I keep up with via email or phone. Same with family. Its somewhat amusing to see all the negative news about social-networks and realize it does not affect me (directly anyways). The big annoyance is when I see sites/services that require a FB/twitter login.
Bike thieves often strip the bike to the frame. Through dumb luck, I got back a bike that was almost nothing but a frame by that point. Reflectors and seats are easy to remove, something dropped into the frame would be really difficult to remove and bike thieves don't bother doing something like that.

This is a good idea, actually. Just taking email addresses for an idea might well still be sketchy but that's as may be. Someone should do this even if that someone doesn't my email in the meantime.
Idiot assholes hiring people based on 'clever' interview techniques exist. Don't work for them.
So who should hire the "losers", then?

The creative, ambitious, energetic people have a lot of leadership potential and can do great work if motivated properly, but also fall down on the undignified grunt work that's at least half of what most companies need to have done (or think they need).

If you're hiring for a company like Valve that expects people to work at a high creative level, then these interview questions are good, because you need to select the people who will do well in a high-autonomy environment. If you're just looking to get grunt work done without complaint, you're probably better off favoring a person with a bland personality who can get the job done.

Much of the trouble that companies create for themselves is in hiring the most appealing people and then putting them on mediocre work.
Don't be scared, homie!
Great app. It's a little buggy, but my four year old caught on quickly and made it through the first 5-6 levels before I had to take it away so she could go to bed. As a developer, this made me a very proud daddy!
Exactly this.

He's hiring someone to do account management. The candidate has experience in account management, the rest of the team thought he'd be able to do it.

The autor vetoed hiring for a customer facing position because the candidate spent more time with people than books during college.

With the information provided I'm pretty sure the hypothetical alternate hire, who does have a favorite century of literature and who does have favorite poems at the top of his mind turns out to be a worse hire.

"Snobs exist. Don't let them make hiring decisions"
He calls someone a loser because he or she may not be a good fit for a job.

I dislike much of what PD is putting out lately (apparently old people are "dangerous" - http://pandodaily.com/2012/12/04/hiring-old-people-the-dange...) but I didn't get that from this article. Instead, he's suggesting that people who can't show any passion or interest for anything or hold a decent conversation are probably worth avoiding.. which seems like stating the obvious to me, if anything.

(That being said, being boring or interesting are highly subjective, but "boring" isn't a protected category so I'm guessing employers can use this as a cause for rejection if they wish.)
Any innovation from regular car companies will be the result of intrapreneurship. Tesla was built to do things differently.

It will take a massive company-wide change in philosophy for these other car companies to compete with Tesla, but even then they will be dealing with an entire workforce that is used to the old way of doing things. They might not intentionally resist the change-it may just be an issue of being able to adapt to it.
Are you serious? Apple defines the market.
Really wonder about people who see this and still click through

Agreed. Its crazy how many times I've passed up on using what I assume is otherwise a great app or service because I wasn't happy with accepting any of those permissions.
YES DEFINITELY LETS HAVE THIS "DEBATE"

I just wanted to make a point about comparing P/E ratios. You know, from my Macbook.
Author is definitely a winner. He founded Bleacher Report. Disclaimer: I work there.

It's fine to disagree, but it's a pretty lame attack him based on a selected portion of his bio.
You beat me to the punch. This article says more about the author than it does about the candidate.

Obviously, the candidate didn't want to talk about his English major, but the author kept hammering away from every angle anyway. Then, when the author doesn't get any meaty info on the English studies (AKA doesn't get his way), he takes his ball and goes home.

He tries to rationalize his way out of passing on the candidate, that the actual sales team enthusiastically approved: we eventually did find someone for that position, with a lot less relevant experience. But she learned the job in about six weeks, and her upside enabled her to take on a lot of the unforeseen — and valuable — tasks that the previous candidate would have stumbled around.
Having lived inside London for the past year and a half, the M25 is a decent psychological barrier between London and the rest of the country but seeing it as a pretty distinct glowing line was something else.
My comment was taken out of context. My point was most musicians who get to the top of the charts these days take what they have for granted, it's all a show and they aren't real musicians. Of course there will always be people like your son who do what they do because they love music, not because they have hopes of being famous. Don't be confused, I wasn't refering to everyone who plays an instrument, just those considered to have "made it".
It's the legacy of the national surveying system begun by the Land Ordinance of 1785. [0]

Except for the thirteen original states, almost the entire country was surveyed and platted into square "townships" [1] of six miles a side. These were subdivided into square-mile "sections", and roads were built along section lines. Where there were no major rivers, towns were generally established at the intersections of these roads.

For more historical color (and stereotypes), try "Why the Midwest is Square" [2].

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey_township

2. http://www.surveyhistory.org/why_the_midwest_is_square1.htm
None of the above. What I feel is a sense of deep personal sadness.

Most of my friends on FB are from college (when FB first launched), and most of them still live on the East Coast. Since I moved to SV, I have not added many new friends on FB (mostly because most SV-type people are not prone to use it that much).

So, when I launch my FB news feed, I am bombarded by news and stories and pictures from friends of old that I haven't kept up with, and I start to feel sadness and regret. I usually last about two minutes before I close the tab. I visit maybe once a week. =/
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Not really the core of the person, it's more like the FizzBuzz to verify that they have some kind of basic personality and the ability to talk about things.

That's fine, but hardly groundbreaking. I haven't done many job interviews in my life, but the kind of questions he suggests seem common enough.
I agree this is a huge problem today. A classic symptom of wanting to see short-term gains (a jump in sign ups when auto-posting is pushed live) with no regard for long-term effect of a bad user experience.

Luckily good sites don't do this and I do like that social media permissions are evolving. For example, usually when I authorize an app with Facebook, I can separately choose to connect and who sees anything they post (which I have defaulting to no one). I hope that trend continues on all fronts.
"I hate it, but it is a necessary evil." when I saw this I knew it'd win
I'm a full time remote employee in a company where 90% of the staff work in office. And I do miss out on a lot.

Fortunately I have a few close friends I've made there who keep me filled in on the dirt.

As a side note. Product management often throws me time sensitive projects and are amazed at how fast they are done with a high degree of quality and complain about how long it would have taken to get done through the proper engineering work flow. I attribute this to being away from a lot of the shit that goes on in any office that just wastes developers time.
Also, offering an NDA before working with a person can be a difficult issue and can slow things down; presenting one before working with a large corporation is simply standard practice (if you have a reasonable NDA) and will not affect the relationship at all.
I've implemented versions of ROWE in two different companies and the results have been excellent. Not sure what your experience has been, but mine is most definitely different.
doesn't using the url status.github.com imply the status and main website share a DNS service?

No, but in this case they do.

would a DNS problem that affected github.com also affect status.github.com?

Yes, but DNS is very easy to harden against outages, it's redundant by design.

Also Github seems to rent their nameservers from dyn.com who have a pretty good track record of not screwing up.