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Ask HN: How to make myself marketable?
I'm out of college this past year and six months into my first job. It's a steady career path with good benefits at a multi-billion dollar company, and I'd probably do well for myself if I stuck around.

It's fantastically unsuited for me.

I don't have any good horror stories yet about the company culture, but I have seen enough to know that this is not the environment and the challenges that I want.

In the last year, I've also discovered Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and a whole slew of new languages, paradigms, ideas, and possibilities. I've liked programming for a long time, but this is the first time I've been passionate about it, and my passion is growing. Now I want to find the kind of job that I'm thrilled about, not just satisfied with. Maybe the answer is to start my own business. Maybe it's simply to join a software-focused one that feels the same way I do. Maybe it's none of the above (indie/OSS development?). I only know that I need to keep moving.

I'm not in that great a hurry to leave my current job, and I'm told that such a quick exit isn't good future-planning, anyway. At the same time, I feel anxious to do more than read and tinker. I'm getting ready to start a blog. I'm busily polishing up my first app for release. I bounce my thoughts off anyone who will listen. I know I'm going to work on something on my own time, and I want to make sure it's something that will prepare me to get the best possible job for myself. So:

- How make myself most marketable to software-focused companies with the best cultures?

- How do I know which companies those are, and what makes them good?

- Should I start networking? What is the best way to do that?
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I understand you but DSLs allows to reduce number of used languages/tools in a web-projects.

For example NodeJs allows to use same JavaScript for both client and server and if we will have smth like http://lispyscript.com/docs/#templates we can also seamless export business logic into templates (without need to create special template tags, filters, syntax, etc).

Single language for almost everything can be big performance boost IMO.
Not to be a pessimist but, I can do without more versions of log4j.

The pain and annoyance of fighting version conflicts from multiple dependencies and the desire of some to include slf4j directly in their jar files gives me FAR more pain than anything syntactic related to how the logger actually works. If you want to truly improve logging, find a way to avoid this mess.
I meant the source of what you mentioned, not the source code :) Like are there any articles or papers?
Either you're seeing an argument that I'm not making, or you're replying to the wrong comment..?
They will be stored until they're not downloaded for a year or so. We'll calibrate the parameters along the journey, so I really can't say right now, but we'll definately let you guys know!
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When I worked on ultimatecoupons.com, we wanted users to leave within a few seconds, because they clicked affiliate links. Maybe they got the info they needed in 10 seconds?
I think it might have something to do with the readonly="readonly" attribute. I'll check it out!
The title of the Article misses the real innovation. The real gem of the article is telling the story of how manufacturers now go direct to public via the internet, thereby cutting out he middlemen.

I am an advisor to a company that enables this very model, and it works very, very well. Essentially we provide the website, marketing, customer service, and logistics from manufacturer-to-customer.

It appears that is what American Giant has found as well. Good for them.
Nice to see a groups-like feature make it to Google+ at last.

One of the best features of G+ has always been communicating with people you don't know in person, and I think this will facilitate that more around common interests. I can also see this as being useful for groups of friends or family who always want to post content to each other.
I really wish the script would be made available to potential backers. If I liked the writing I might be inclined to contribute to the project.

What would be the downside of publishing the script for a film that is trying to get social funding like this? The script is copyrighted, registered with script guild, etc. is there something to worry about?
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Looking at the files I can see a lot of weird looking numbers in paths and a lot of 'NaN'.

This kind of thing:

<path d="M185 NaNl-190 NaN 212 NaN-212 NaN 7.239 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaNz" fill-opacity="0" stroke="#000"/>

and

<path d="M425 499h-28c-1.105 0-2-.896-2-2v-28c0-1.105 .895-2 2-2h28c1.105 0 2 .895 2 2v28c0 1.104-.895 2-2 2z" fill-opacity="0" stroke="#FF0064"/>

Hope this helps.
This has been a very common theme through my undergraduate stats education.
Not sure if disgusted with creative grammar / neologisms.
I hear you man. I'm writing this on a cheap 5 year old netbook. Haven't replaced so much as a key. It was 250GBP then and has seen plenty of use.
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> I don't like these kinds of posts, because they suggest that happiness is something just within our grasp, if only we did the exact right thing to grasp it.

Also, it is written by somebody who purports to understand happiness for a sizable fraction of people.

At least he causes happiness in a large number of people who laugh heartily at such a self-centered approach.
As was found via a reddit user, McAfee posted as "Stuffmonger" on a drug forum called http://www.bluelight.ru about his use ( with pictures and detials) of MDPV.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylenedioxypyrovalerone

Here is his thread: http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/541627-Hello-and-an-MDPV-...

This is often sold as "bath salts" or "incense" but is illgal and as you can see from the stuffmonger thread not user super user friendly unless your a chemist.
Did sign up ... and did NOT get 25GB - just the regular 5.
Thank you!

I removed the readonly attributes - Try and see if it works now! :)
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Your second point is almost exactly what we're looking to impliment in version 2! We want to give the designs you make a "life", so you can see the process and progress towards the final product. You can imagine this evolving into a sort of "portfolio timeline" view, where you and other users can see your progress and improvements over both one single design, as well as all of your designs.

In terms of other incentives, we are looking into that now, and we would love some suggestions if you have any!
You probably want to run this on a single static page, not requiring PHP, MySQL or Wordpress. That will help avoid the completely broken state it's in now.
So, you've seen the hand-curated fake HN. Now see the randomly-generated fake HN I did for a laugh a couple of months ago.

http://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/

Some of the examples look curiously close to actual news, but they're all random. Really.
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I wasn't taking a side. I already expressed worry about it. I answered the question the best I could. Nowhere do I seek to dispel concern about Apple becoming more closed, in fact, that was kind of my lead in...
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I don't think we disagree that many of the people who are termed fan boys add little but noise, but my problem is in accurately identifying them and in particular in then ascribing a single common world view and set of motivations to them as was being done in the thread above.

Plus being an apologist doesn't mean that you can't make a good point. Gruber could often be accurately described as an Apple apologist but I'd strongly take issue with the idea that he couldn't add to a debate on Apple. Similarly RMS when it comes to open source/freedom and others across the spectrum.

As with anything, argue with the point being made, not with the person, at least until you're absolutely sure you know them and where they're coming from far better than you're likely to through occasional interact on an internet message board.

And that's before we even get into the pejorative nature of the phrase "fan boy" and how you might as well just call someone a dick for the reaction you're likely to provoke.

Yes it's an interesting phenomenon but in terms of dealing with people who I may think are fan boys, I see no reason why there should be any reason why I should treat fan boys differently than I'd try to treat anyone else - that is take what they say at face value and engage them on that basis, or ignore them completely.
Also similar is Hipster Ipsum: http://hipsteripsum.me
The standard logger in JDK is entirely serviceable.
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I'm willing to bet that the thermometer wasn't mercury anyway. You haven't been able to buy a mercury thermometer for home use in 10 years or more. Most moderm thermometers with what looks like mercury in them usually contain Galinstan, which is non-toxic.
I also like how Swype also allows you easily add words to your dictionary while you're typing. As far as I know Stock android requires you going to the settings screen and adding them there.
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The real innovation was getting Slate to run the infomercial.
I believe that the way we perceive our lives depend on our conception of death. I've always believed that once we die, it's over and we are as unconscious as we were before our birth. Unfortunately, this belief made me see everything pointless to some extent. Regardless of how successful I am, in the end, there's nothing left. Regardless of the sacrifices I do, in the end, there's nothing left. I know that my life might change other people's life, but if in the end, if it doesn't matter for me, it doesn't matter for others either; a sum of 0s returns 0.

Since it is not a feeling I enjoy, I ended up living on a daily basis; Have I enjoyed my day, Did I really wanted to do that, What should I do to enjoy my time? I lived mostly in the present for several years, doing a job I enjoyed at the time, and enjoying my time outside as well. Anything that I didn't want to do right away wasn't worth doing. It got to the point where I was pushing away feelings just because I didn't like them, such as regrets or stress from late tasks.

It didn't pay that well. After a while, I had a lot of late bills (not that I couldn't pay, I just didn't want to do it right now), I wasn't looking forward to know what to do with my future, etc. The good thing I learned from that is looking forward for good feelings and investing myself in what I enjoy.-Turns out I had a promotion at my job, and I liked my new tasks, and since then, I've been studying at night to build a career from it.-I also learned to fix things up in time because when every thing works out well, when you have nothing due to anyone, you feel better, you feel freed from those responsabilities for the time being.

I also believe in balance, in the meaning that if you only have good things happening to you, they aren't actual good things, they are normal neutral things. You need sadness, bad things, to enjoy even more the good things happening. Just like peace doesn't mean anything to someone that doesn't know its counterpart.

Put this altogether, you end up with a range from the worst feeling you can have, to a middle, to the greatest feeling you can have. I chose to be near the middle. I don't enjoy having bad feelings, and I prefer to have a neutral life, with good enough feelings. I doesn't mean that I don't want to suffer, to go through rough times, it only means I know to which extent I can go on this range, at which point it's not worth it.

Ultimately, living by default or not is, in my vision and understanding, at which point you are ready to sacrifice things to maybe get better things on the other side. Am I ready to sacrifice my marriage to maybe find a better women? Am I ready to dump friendship to maybe get better? I like the place where I live enough, it could be better but do I really want to go through all this work to maybe find something better? I really don't mind living by default, as long as I don't suffer from it, and I currently don't. Maybe I'll have regrets later on, but regrets are not worth having, so I'll chase them away as good as I can.
Very nice and simple. But that's quite an expensive tld you've got there. That's going to add up over the years. Unless you're using a much cheaper registrar .st domains are about $75/year I think.
This is probably a better question for StackOverflow.
In the article, they mention:

> But there is really no comparison between American Giant’s hoodie and the competition. It looks better and feels substantially more durable—Winthrop says it will last a lifetime.

But I don't know if that's a legally binding statement of any kind. (Though I imagine that if I bought one, and it fell apart, and I made a big-enough stink on a blog, they'd send me a new one just to shut me up.)
There's a unix utility called "surfraw" that does this. I don't know if it support DDG yet, but it's very cool.
Hint: Marketable assets means liquid assets. If they need to spend the LTMS they can do it in a matter of days, hence the term "cash".
> When you wear this hoodie, you’ll wonder why all other clothes aren’t made this well.

And then I'll realize that it's because I'm not going to pay $80 for every piece of clothing I own.
I kind of disagree. I think that, once you start using a crutch, you're almost certainly never going to stop, especially in a perceived-risk-high situation like public speaking. "Info-dump slides worked last time. I'll go with what works again, rather than adding risk by trying to be more minimal," repeat ad infinitum.

It's better to recognize that you just didn't prepare enough (didn't practice sufficiently; didn't know your subject well enough; didn't anticipate questions and concerns; etc.) and prepare better next time.

It might be a little different in a teacher-student environment where direct guidance is possible and disasters can be coddled and mitigated and explained away as "this is a learning environment; screwing up is okay". Just... don't grade it.
The only way I can see this making sense is if it is an assembly plant rather than a real chips-to-finished-product factory.

Why?

The advantage you have in these cities (almost literally) in China dedicated to manufacturing is that almost the entire supply chain is local and very finely tuned. This is particularly true for operations that might do work for companies like Apple.

The PCB manufacturers, assemblers, chip makers, connector manufacturers, LED manufacturers, display manufactures, plastics and sheet-metal manufacturers and more, are all centrally located. If not, they are within the proximal geographic regions.

The same is true of qualified workers. Need 100,000 assemblers in a hurry? No problem. Technicians, engineers, managers, etc. Lots of them and easy to hire within days of your requirement.

In sharp contrast to this, the supply chain anywhere in the US is most-definitely not localized and highly fragmented. Virtually nothing you are going to use in electronics manufacturing is made in the US. That means that rather than your LEDs being a few hours away by truck they are three weeks away by boat --from China.

In terms of mechanical components, such as screws, well, yes, they are available in the US, of course. The problem is that they will cost more. No question about it. Because our industry, due to the need to survive, has had to focus on market segments that can pay a premium (military, medical, etc.) you can pay through your teeth to get anything made here. That's just the truth.

In terms of machining and bending metal or injecting plastics, well, it depends. If you are dealing with a unionized operation, forget it. Costs will be ridiculous. Plastics, in very large quantities, can be reasonable here. Punching and bending metal or machining metal could be plausible at a very large scale and with a very finely tuned factory.

Let's not add regulatory and tax issues to the pile.

Because of all of this and a few more data points from first-hand experience manufacturing in the US, my guess is that Apple is going to simply import pre-fabricated modules assemblies and parts. They'll have US workers bolt them together and test the finished product. You can slap a "Assembled in the US" (and maybe even "Made in the US" sticker on it and feel good about it.

Remember what Steve Jobs told Obama about manufacturing jobs coming back to the US. I don't think anything significant enough has changed since then to invalidate his statement.
The thing that no one's mentioning in these press releases that should be discussed: robotics.

Moving a plant here doesn't equate to moving manufacturing jobs here. The traditional fear of manufacturing in the USA has been high cost of labor including possible strikes.

If plants are able to replace bulk labor with robots, and have the rest of their labor be engineering-type roles, they'll have no problem moving here.

But it won't bring thousands of jobs, maybe hundreds, although they will be better paid.
Here's the problem I think "-3.05176e-005":

<path d="M 185,-3.05176e-005L 207,-3.05176e-005C 209.761,-3.05176e-005 212,2.23853 212,4.99997L 212,27C 212,29.7614 209.761,32 207,32L 185,32C 182.239,32 180,29.7614 180,27L 180,4.99997C 180,2.23853 182.239,-3.05176e-005 185,-3.05176e-005 Z " fill-rule="nonzero" fill-opacity="0" stroke="#000000" stroke-opacity="1" stroke-width="1" />

Now this could well be an error in my SVG exporter (these files are converted from XAML files). However these files do render OK and they have been fed through the SVG validator and passed.

According to the spec (See DataTypeNumber) it's perfectly OK to have an 'e' in a number.

I've added an issue:
https://github.com/svg/svgo/issues/63
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It works when the speaker has built a rapport with you. It doesn't work when it's an orphaned slide on a web page.
Hi,

I teach a presentation design class at a business school and have developed a tool called the Lean Presenter's Canvas. It is v0.1 (literally released this week) and is based off years of teaching this MBA class as well as working with business professionals on their presentations. It is intended to be a guide to map out a presentation in one page before spending too much time in slideware.

Take a look: http://ow.ly/fKxGB [.pdf]

You can learn more and stay up-to-date at: http://leanpresenter.com

We'll post revisions based on usage and feedback as well as offering more tools to help craft and design a presentation (all licensed under Creative Commons).

Since we're following a lean approach - feedback is welcome!

Cheers,
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I can disable Windows updates, I can even say don't even bother checking for them.

There have been a few instances of bugs that ignored the settings but that's not by design, that's by accident.
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Shipping an iMac cost nothing -- yes the boats guzzle up fuel like crazy, but 400 20' containers can take a massive load. The cost on an individual computer, shoe or pillow is essentially nothing.
Both lightning talks and posters can serve this purpose.
I'll confirmation that.
http://youtu.be/dF1NUposXVQ
Well, it depends how much you care that your talk was a disaster.

For people who are not practised at speaking, there is almost no amount of preparation which will get you to the point of needing no crutch. Not knowing your subject well enough is not excusable, but many people who can happily explain a topic in a one-on-one situation have great difficulties in front of crowd.

Of course, there is only one way to get better a public speaking, which is to do as much of it as you can.

I don't understand your 'teacher-student environment' comment. Are you suggesting 'coddling' encourages, or discourages, giving talks with less crutches?
You are probably thinking of the Poster Session: https://us.pycon.org/2013/posters/

Proposals are being accepted through January 16th. I had a poster in it last year and had some really good talks with people. It's a pretty cool environment.
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That doesn't fix anything.

Examples:

One dep want log4j-api 1.6.4 one wants 1.4, this doesn't matter to the client but I have to make sure to override one in maven to make sure the API version matches the back end version. When your project has 20 dependencies all using log4j, its a pain in the ass and makes your POM quite ugly.

Two deps stupid enough to include slf4j in their JAR files, now my build process consists of pulling the deps from maven, then running a script to manually strip out the slf4j files from the jar. Yes this is the authors fault but a logger that would allow 2 versions on the classpath would be amazing, granted it would require some trickery with the class loader to make work.
In Sparrow you just need to setup aliases for your account, you'll than have the same feature...
Unfortunately outside of a long vacation visit, its really hard to get a first hand feel for this. Before I moved to the SF several years back, I came to visit and living here vs visiting (for a week) was a day and night contrast. You might feel some of it but you won't really be immerse in it unless you spend some time here.

Everything is vastly different. Mindset, behaviors, the people, the way things work, etc.. Its incredibly hard to explain to others outside of the cliche everyone states. Its one of those things that is best felt personally to see if the way things here best fits YOU.
I have been trying to increase the amount of practice students get. Irritatingly, many students get very annoyed when asked to give talks for which they will not be graded, which makes it hard to give students the chance to practice in a risk-free (by which I mean mark-free) environment.
Something I tend to emphasize is the question of confidence. People always complain about not being confident enough to do a good presentation. I've responded to this by explaining that confidence is built: you know your subject matter, you know where you got your results from, you know your audience, and so on. Experience and chutzpah let you fill in holes, but all of your actual confidence comes from knowing how the communication is going to work.
To clarify - this is a tool meant for understanding your audience and structuring your story before designing any supporting visuals. I have found that when you have the story ironed out, any supporting visuals are much easier to create.