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Having spent many moons looking for work in the _rest_ of the tech industry, I find this post spot on. The startup world is strange, and not the real work in my humble opinion. On the other hand it shares some sucks with the real world.

Cover Letters - This seems to be an excuse for me to gargle something unmentionable, and speak the great praises of myself and my often feigned interest in your company.

Keyword Matching - How I hate thee, so much hate. On the other hand now fully 1/3 of my resume is a skills matrix, which helps the folks in HR who often cant tell a fax machine from a switch.

References - I have an extensive collection of these, please do not ask me for them before you interview me. They could just as easily be bullshit and are not really a guarantee of anything, also, anyone who wants more than two of these should really go away.

Land of Unrealistic expectations: I know I live in Seattle, but there is no way you will find a desktop support person for 13 an hour with 2+ years experience, the last time I made that little money was 8 years ago.

Recruiters - Please read my resume before calling me. Clearly you have it, PLEASE read it. I dont even know what half of the roles are I get sent.

Recruiters from India - See above; please improve your conversational english skills, and or just EMAIL me, also, I dont know what an E-Mail ID is - but I do have an email address.

Online application systems - please dont make me fill out a profile in your system, just let me send a resume, I have no less than 100 of these accounts for one employer or another.

I think thats all of my rant for now.
>no research studies have found any evidence of the reported tolerance

http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil list off 10 different citations for the line "But what does medicine say? It seems to report no euphoria, tolerance, or withdrawal/dependency."
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One of the best life lessons is that labor is a market just like any other, and prices are set based on supply and demand. Whether a CEO creates more value than 100 engineers under him is neither here nor there.[1]

[1] Which is a fact that cuts both ways. It means that CEOs aren't "overpaid" just because they aren't more productive relative to their salary, but it also means that it's non-sensical to use income as a proxy for anything else as is often done.
I stopped reading at "Java security flaws are well-known"
From Wikipedia:

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

"In their 1963 book A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz laid out their case for a different explanation of the Great Depression. Essentially, the Great Depression, in their view, was caused by the fall of the money supply. Friedman and Schwartz write: "From the cyclical peak in August 1929 to a cyclical trough in March 1933, the stock of money fell by over a third." The result was what Friedman calls the "Great Contraction" — a period of falling income, prices, and employment caused by the choking effects of a restricted money supply. Friedman and Schwartz argue that people wanted to hold more money than the Federal Reserve was supplying. As a result people hoarded money by consuming less. This caused a contraction in employment and production since prices were not flexible enough to immediately fall."

Here's a video of Milton Friedman (he won a Nobel Prize for this work) explaining how monetary contraction caused the great depression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7pnjzCuSv8

"By 1933, the quantity of money in the United States had gone down by a third." ... "For every 3 dollars of currency and deposits that people had had in 1929, only 2 dollars were left."

One thing people often forget about deflation is that a general decline in the level of prices also includes labour prices and interest rates. It is characterised by zero interest rates, falling prices, falling wages, and because wages are 'sticky-down', high unemployment. You really do not want to live in a deflationary economy unless you have a large pile of cash. It's miserable.

A second, and in my view, more valid definition of deflation is a contraction of the money supply. Ben Bernanke (current Fed Chairman) is an expert on causes of the great depression, and has been doing everything he can to ensure that the US money supply does not shrink.
I've had a fair bit of experience (though not every day for months on end). From what I've read many people have a similar time, though some may end up with better results.

If you're tired, you can use it as an alertness aid. If before, you would have fallen asleep at your desk from exhaustion, you will instead be able to continue to work (but still be fairly tired). Modafinil will allow you to continue on from the point of exhaustion and be able to function in some reduced capacity (50-60%). You will experience some periods of higher function (almost like waking up and being a bit tired, and then your mind clears a bit), basically you will alternate between tired and fine for a few hours, each period about an hour in duration. Taking modafinil in this manner isn’t especially recommended, but if you just spent all day / night putting out fires and you need to come in the next day to ensure everything is still running smoothly (but hard work isn’t expected), modafinil will do great here. Alternatively, I would recommend using it at the beginning of a normal day after a full night’s rest. This will result in some periods of clear headedness, and generally make it incredibly easy to focus on a task. I wouldn’t say I’m as ‘quick’ on modafinil, but I can certainly refactor code and slowly improve it for hours without feeling bored or getting distracted. I find that it makes me super calm as well. It definitely hampers creativity / big picture thinking, I wouldn’t do system design on modafinil, or even design for a subcomponent, I wouldn’t be at my best and might miss details or produce a subpar design. Basically, if you are just implementing a chunk of code, and have already figured out the details, modafinil will result in a good experience, you’ll make steady progress, your work will be of high quality, and the day will go by fairly quickly.

aaron695 mentioned dose – 2-3 pills a week is fine. Alternating entire weeks on and off is fine. I would only take at most one pill a day, but some people take two and are fine. Tolerance builds up about as quickly as it does for Adderall IR. Definitely don’t go drinking on the drug, but if you typically have a drink with dinner you’ll be fine - just don’t expect to feel any of the effects from the alcohol. I’ve felt the beginnings of depression on other nootropics (specifically piracetam - I generally have a poor diet though, so that may have been my fault) – but haven’t had a problem with modafinil after an extended period of time. It will be difficult to sleep if you take it too late in the day, definitely dose in the morning.

Essentially it’s a stronger, better version of caffeine (increased alertness, focus, can be used to increase performance with acute use, but with regular use tolerance builds and productivity decreases).
> Then again, (...) [o]ver 70% [of Americans] believe in "God, Heaven, the resurrection of Christ, survival of the soul after death, miracles, the virgin birth, the devil and hell". If blindness to the way the world really works is so overwhelming with these fantasies, (...)

There is a way to phrase this sentiment without alienating quite as many decent people. Try to find it next time.

(I, too, am an atheist; but I don't see a need to enforce atheism on HN.)
I'm not sure how exactly this blew your mind, but strutting an entitled attitude was never the goal of this post, I apologize if it seemed so. Merely an alternate view that perhaps some employers will find useful, if not that's perfectly fine. I'm not sure humility (or arrogance) is appropriate here or anywhere for that matter.

I don't feel I asked for an ideal environment. In fact I didn't ask for anything. Any employer can have any attitude he/she feels is appropriate with his/her goals. I merely provided my take on the matter after reading the other thread (which certainly brings about some good points). Like I said, I'm not asking for anything, everyone is free to act as he/she sees fit, I will however tend to avoid them in the future. I'm sure there are others that do the same, and perhaps it can provide some employers with a bit of insight why they have trouble attracting good hires.

Also, I'm not sure that and "ideal environment for my internship hunt simply because I exist" (notice entitlement here, albeit probably unintended) is constituted by a simple reply to my cover letter or understanding that there are also poor employers out there and that even the time of the college kid that wrote you an e-mail is important. Like I said multiple times, no one owes me anything.

As for the account, it was made specifically for this post. Some employers could have identified themselves in what I wrote, which was not my intention at all. Though I believe this is of less relevance, I'm simply trying to provide my personal viewpoint as a job seeker. The only thing I advocated for was an equitable exchange of time.
Careful with reading bias into what I have written.

I have not said deflation is good, or said that it is not bad.

I have merely stated it creates winners and losers, and that inflation isn't automatically better. The same as a 'high' or 'low' currency - the goodness or badness depends on the reference frame.

The assumption that inflation is automatically better is 'common knowledge' based on theories of economics developed that classify savings as bad, and spending as good, based on the assumption that deflation will cause consumption to be postponed, but which hand-waves away the problem of inflation bringing forward consumption with the trite statement of 'in the long run we are all dead'.

My point is that deflation isn't the bogeyman many have been trained to believe it is. Spending-based assumptions of economics have led the world down a garden path of unsustainable debt in the name of endless 'stimulus' and inflationary policies. Periods of mild deflation and creative destruction would have served the world better than endless shots of new cheap money.
Sanity check fail: 10mg is an implausibly small dose, so small you'd have to grind the pills and measure tiny quantities of powder. Are you sure you're not thinking of a different drug, or off an order of magnitude?
>I'm sorry to be the one to pull on the yarn and unravel your sweater, but the belief that the pursuit of wealth is in some way meritorious or beneficial is in itself an ideology.

And I'm sorry to surprise you, but I also believe that. I'm not a liberal or in favor of the "free market" at all.

But, see, while the belief that the "pursuit of wealth is in some way meritorious or beneficial" is an ideology, mere pursuit of wealth is not an ideology.

With all this said, I can clarify my original comment.

My reasoning is, entities with one narrow and well understood goal (money) are easier to reason and deal with than entities dealing on ideology.
>It takes a LOT of time to put contact info into Word, change around your cover letter template, save, and attach.

Why are people writing their cover letters in Word? Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, the cover letter should be in the body of the email. (http://jobsearch.about.com/cs/coverletters/qt/emailcover.htm)
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I agree. If you're posting on HN, you can do a lot better then what you typically see in the ""Who Hiring" every month. There is a larger issue outside of HN with recruiters and the hiring process at most companies, including startups. That could be thread of its own.
I'd like what you say about fair use to be true, but why would the court volunteer its opinion if the technicalities are already sufficient permission for Aereo? Can they do that? An "... and even if ..." coda?
On the contrary, I think this dynamic (combined with strong human rights) is a great blessing to humanity. In a market economy, 'as expensively as possible' tends to mean 'not very expensively', and 'make things as cheap as possible' means 'make your processes more efficient'. And efficiency is the reason why we can have nice things.
It's not not necessarily irrational, it just seems that way because the hypothetical is artificially simplified. In the real world, relative wealth imbalances lead to power imbalances, which have global ramifications.

This is the heart of the current American malaise. Americans don't feel wronged because their standard of living is so terrible (it's not). They feel wronged because they feel that the rich have leveraged their wealth in a way that captures a disproportionate share of new wealth creation--wealth their labor is ultimately responsible for creating.
Sad thing with Julia: when I took a look at it as a language for ML/AI, I loved it (beside the 1-indexing, but one can get used to it...), but all the libs I cared about were in Python!

...now I take a look at Julia for webdev and, again, everything I am familiar with or care about for webdev is in ...Python. And being a high performance language, it actually steps in to the territory of Go here.

Julia is gonna have a very hard time displacing Python (or Go), since they are kinda targeting the same niche, but I really, really want to see Julia winning more ground! Now don't get me wrong, I understand that most normal-minded people (including Julia's creators) never saw it as a competitor for Python or Go, but this is how I want to see it.

...a homo-iconic language, with hygienic macros and no crippling anti-features like statements/expressions dichotomy or one-line-only lambdas, and all of this without giving up on syntax and going the parenthesized way (take that Lisp!), what more could one wish for, really!?
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Try reading '90 minute sleep program' http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-90-Minute-Baby-Sleep-Program/dp/...

S/he talks a lot about the 90 minute cycles on babies, we used it on our child and its amazing how well it matches.

And yes, as a parent, those 90 minutes cycle naps with your kid are amazing :)
"Rich people don't get that way without providing something people want."

Well, to be precise, some ancestor of the rich person at one time provided something (some) people wanted. Not all rich people are "self made", even if you accept that silly phrase at face value.

For that matter, what about successful criminals? There have definitely been people who got rich through fraud, or extortion.
What's there to fix? The tag says "you cannot zoom this site to levels less than 1.0 or more than 1.0", the browser complies. I'm not proud of it, but I've used this very approach to fix a stupid bug in iOS Safari - rotating the device without this zoom lock changed the zoom in ridiculous ways.
>if this were the optimal brain wiring, we'd be there already

Evolution isn't an "optimal" process. It is very random. And very slow.
I just discovered "Julia" thanks to this article. It looks like a wonderfully thought out programming language. Unfortunately, I am having trouble installing the language on my dated OS. Apparently, I need Ubuntu 13 to run it!
"It was like walking around on a winter day when it just snowed."

Reading that made me want to move back to the East Coast. Not take Modafinil, which is probably a good sign.
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The "Outliers" argument. The only way for a meritocratic system to work is by creating an absolutely level starting plane for all competitors. Which is in itself somewhat ironic because meritocracy reminds of capitalism (indirectly, I admit) while the level playing field requirement suggests a socialistic-ish system.
Alternative hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_theory
This situation is very acute in "top tier" firms such as the management consulting big 4. The hiring process is designed to avoid false positives at all costs, even the cost of rejecting extremely good candidates.
And antidepressants tend to cause increase depression when you aren't taking them. So that seems perfectly normal.
A curious retelling of history.

The Weimar Republic intentionally inflated their currency to reduce the WW1 reparations payments, which got out of control and reduced the value of the Mark to nothing.

Inflationary policies collapsed the tax base due to destroying the ability of the economy to function normally, not the other way around.

This is easily shown by the fact that as soon as the Weimar Republic re-introduced an asset-backed stable currency, the economic problems improved greatly, though there were deflationary periods after that caused by the massive economic upheaval.
Yes its my opinion.

Karma works because people judge what is fair based on their opinion and not on facts, simply because too many facts are unknown to take a decision.

>>And other times people are crushed by the ugliness in this world.

Yes this is true, but if you are going to keep talking why you will fail regardless how hard you work. You will always find enough reasons why you shouldn't try because you will fail anyway. Thereby you will never try, somebody else sure will. And by the virtue of merely being there will win. And then thereby simply going into this deeper cycle of victim hood.
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It comes in 100mg pills, and I take between 1/4 and 1/6 of one. Higher doses don't seem to have much more of the beneficial effects on concentration and memory, just make me more jittery.
The S&P 500 (which you can easily buy with Vanguard Mutual Funds or SPY ETFs) has approximately the same volatility index as Gold right now.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^VIX
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^GVZ

VIX for the S&P 500 is 13.58, while Gold VIX is 13.13. Stocks are both holding their buying power as well as Gold, and still offering better returns right now.

Gold's "stability" is a myth. It is no more stable than any other investment. Bonds offer a conservative, stable investment platform. Gold does not.
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7k for an internship ? I'm a bit confused is this the take home amount or pre-tax ? Because if it's after tax that's around 120k$/year. Can someone, clarify that ?
Something seems wrong with that number. Unless Glassdoor and other salary sites are complete off, engineers aren't making that much.

Apple for example for 1-3 years experience.

http://www.glassdoor.com/GD/Salary/Apple-Software-Engineer-S...
I come from the medical apps field, so I find the idea of possibly not being able to talk about my work frightening.

Sex (any reference to the existence of sex, to crib from This American Life), not okay. Religion or politics, okay. Odd.
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So a few months ago, Borden ordered a three-week supply by mail. (“It was a piece of cake,” he says.)

Can one really just order prescription medicine through the mail or internet like that?

I thought most of thus online pharmacy was just a scam. I guess there would be no way of telling if the pills one got was the real deal or some fake ones containing possibly poisonous ingredients...
> I have guns

> worried about theft when I'm not home.

Wow, true U.S. citizen's problems. I wouldn't even think about crime rates or the need to carry a gun when looking for a place to stay. Come to Europe, it's better.
The purpose of this post is to help some employers understand that some people expect a minimum of courtesy. I truly understand that I may not be what a company is looking for. However, it takes literally 5 seconds to tell me that.

Pretty sure most server fires are dealt with by Amazon and the likes (intentional ignorance, yes I understand startup founders are busy. So am I). If their team is not important to them, then that's probably not a place where I (or a lot of other people) would want to work. I'm specifically not talking about HR recruiters, but founders/co-founders/engineers that do hiring. I don't find anything more frustrating than having 10 emails back and forth, and then suddenly silence. I'm sorry, but I think this is utter lack of respect.

As for contacting the founders personally, that's why I ceased sending e-mails to generic jobs@foo.bar. Sure, sometimes that works, but I've found much better success by e-mailing people directly.

Asking my friends if they know any startups isn't really the point (besides, that wouldn't open up a large enough network). I'm talking more about HN posters specifically, because it's much easier to find an interesting startup, one that matches my skills and interests, from the larger selection base on HN. I'm wasn't looking for just any startup just because it's a startup. I was more trying to find one that matches my interests. I won't get into the passion argument again. At least, that's my philosophy regarding job search.
I long ago stopped replying to posts and comments that anger me for their negativity and bullshit, but none has made me as furious as this one.

Disclaimer: After reaching out to him cold, Jeff Miller was an informal advisor to me for over a year providing valuable insights and advice, not to mention moral support, as we built our company. He did this for no reason other than his dedication to helping a fellow entrepreneur. Over dozens of email exchanges and in-person get togethers, he proved hands down, to be one of the most helpful, friendly, altruistic people I've met in the valley. After a year building up this friendship and trust, he invested in our company, and he is consistently one of the first people I reach out to when I have real founder issues to discuss.

The OP has literally ZERO idea what reasons Jeff has for his decisions about the data on his site, not the least of which could be legal restrictions of the acquisition. They provided, what looks like, ZERO background on why they wanted to talk to someone who was incredibly busy transitioning a startup into the hands of a new parent company. Jeff was as polite as he needed to be when he responded to a completely context-less request for a call with, "I'm sorry I can't right now." The OP does not know, beyond building a startup worth acquiring, and transitioning it, what else someone might have on their plate that would prevent them from having time to chat with someone who failed to provide any reason for their request. Then, when Jeff asked point blank whether the OP was scraping data from his site, they responded with an ambiguous, "not trying to do anything uncool. Still super eager to talk more. Happy to do so anytime."

The OP apparently does not have to try to do something uncool. This entire situation is unbelievably uncool, from the beginning of the communication, to their actions in between, to this post. The only thing more shocking than the sense of entitlement displayed here, is that they, or anybody here, thinks this post documents anything other than a pure display of arrogance and entitlement by the OP. They approached this whole situation with such a stark lack of professionalism that it would be laughable if they hadn't also decided to smear one of the nicest people I know in the process.

This post reflects an attitude that is a shining example of so many things wrong in the startup community, from the sense of entitlement, to the lack of common courtesy, to the manipulation of a situation for personal gain at the expense of others. It is so unreal how easily people seek to tear down others, and worse, how quickly smart people jump on the bullshit bandwagon.

This post is a joke. Nobody owes you anything because they built a site you enjoyed. If anybody owes anybody anything, the OP owes Jeff Miller an apology for this time wasting bullshit.
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