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Check out the Seattle scene for a large group of people in this area: http://www.seattletechstartups.com/

Also, I suggest job ads in places like seattle20.com and Joel's job board.

Do you already have an idea what you are going to do? It would help to get the general technical area on the table - hackers have their pet areas of interest.
Thanks.

I'm hoping people learn more about PHP-FPM too. It's a deadly combo with nginx.
I have been looking for a while for a second magazine subscription I actually like, the first being The Economist. Still no luck; the closest I have come were Wired and Seed. Any advice?
Maybe, but we run Python :-)
First of all forget the "humble" requirment. Anyone that is senior and has crew knows what his value is and is not going to be impressed with a suit.

Second, if you have a M$FT based idea then you're in the right place. If not you need to look at California. That's where the rest of the talent is.

Lastly, avoid the offshore crowd. They will pick your pocket as sure as if you where there in person. There is no such thing as a $10/hour software engineer
nginx is what I choose to use these days.

Couple of comments:

* Make sure that your init script is actually working. The init script you posted a link to places the pid file in a different location than the default for a source compiled nginx.

* There's an Ubuntu package for php+fpm somewhere on Launchpad. https://launchpad.net/~tarkus/+archive/ppa

* gzip support on older IE versions is iffy. See http://bit.ly/A0CRd for a config that ignores those browsers.
As far as I understand this page, it's actually possible to implement continuations in C:

http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/Computing/continuations.html
I am getting tired of seeing this question every week. There needs to be some sort of Hacker News FAQ.
If the site is difficult to use, then only committed users will remain.
Rather than promote the scene, lists like this make it starkly apparent just how little startup activity there is in AU.

On seeing a headline like this my first reaction is always "there are 100 startups in Australia??", followed upon reading the list by "apparently not".

The rankings of some of those sites are a real worry. A site with an Alexa rank > 1000000 doesn't deserve to be on a top list of anything.

They'd be best to limit it to 50 or even 25.
Blue screen of death at an inoppertune moment - then what? If the equivalent happens in Linux you put in a live CD and get that all important presentation off of it and go on your way. Not to mention that I can install Ubuntu freshly in under and hour, windows takes several times that by the time you install 4 drivers and reboot after each one, install a half dozen apps that aren't included by default etc.

That was pretty much what sold me, I was 30 something hours into a Solidworks project that forced me to use Windows, and the machine BSOD me at 4am the day it was due. If you rely on a machine you have to have faith it will work during crunch time.
Would it be fair to consider Atlassian a startup?
Yes it's overwhelming but that's why I always bring a copy when I fly. Great time killer, because you end up reading stuff you wouldn't read elsewhere. :)
In linux its very rare (never) to have to dig up a floppy drive whenever you need to install onto a motherboard using AHCI.
So based on that hypothesis, Twitter, at $0 in revenue, would be the lowest ranked startup on any list?
So wait, the thing I paid hundreds and hundreds of dollars for over the year won't give me the new fixes unless I fork over more money, but the free one will?

I can see not getting new features put into XP, but fixing BUGS should be free.
As a sidenote, it's amusing to see that working hard == spending much time at work.
Why do you say that? We're all using Lenovo X61's with Ubuntu and its full featured.
From 1993 to 2003 I read the Economist religiously, cover to cover, every week, for the regular reasons. This was from high school through college, grad school and early career.

Then came Iraq and WMD. WMD was so clearly a cover story, such obvious propaganda. I'd open up the Economist, expecting to read some scalding critique of GWB, and instead find them pushing the same damn line. WTF?

I'd beware of it. The corruptive power of intelligent yet intellectually dishonest argument should not be underestimated.
You can put a Linux Live CD in a Windows computer and still get at your data, and I haven't seen Windows crash that often recently.
I'm using Mac and sometimes Linux and have seen Mac OS crash more often that Windows.

I feel more comfortable in Mac OS, though. I've used Ubuntu a few years back and prefer that over Windows as well.
Yes, it would be interesting to see the latter for Aussie web startups. You've got to wonder about a list that excludes Atlassian and Campaign Monitor. It should also list Stateless Systems rather than their products (cushycms, bugmenot, etc)
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You could start by providing your email address so people can contact you.
This is somewhat sad, since hobbyists (look up NUIGroup if you are interested) have gotten better results with a pure glass surface

I think this is what bothers me most about it. There are probably at least a dozen different ways to achieve a display of this type and it seems like this one is compromised in each dimension. This would be entirely reasonable for a hobby project or a Google 20% time style corporate internal project, but it's way short for something with a nearly $20k price tag and tons of very self-flagellating promotion.
After having Apache die to a memory-related config problem again this week, after having to reinstall it from source to fix an issue with PHP's mail() library, I am reminded once again how much I love Nginx's rock-solid performance.

Seriously, that process might well outlive me.
It's important to use would instead of could when thinking about these things. If the teenage girl doesn't know about Adium, it's the same no Adium.

It's now more likely that she would Google "MSN for linux" and be successful. That's relatively new. It still leaves her less likely to having the messenger. That likelihood is not 0. Not even on windows. There are plenty of 14 year old girls out there that don't have MSN Messenger on Windows even though they 'couldn't' overcome some sort of hurdle.

http://www.google.com/search?q=msn+for+linux&ie=utf-8...
Wow. With all the MBA bashing lately (more so on reddit), younger programmers like myself really begin to fear them like the plague. This is the first truly convincing argument as to why I would want to work with them. Heck, I couldn't see myself wanting to work without this treatment. Where do I sign up?
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yep and on a global startup ranking google would be listed with all its products, not broken into separate products like feedburner, blogger, gmail etc. BTW I think Atlassian is on the list, though Campaign Monitor appears not to be.
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I don't know how relevant it is for the rest of the world - but for us Indian foss developers, it is good news. And an India-focused site carrying such news is pretty normal too. We have been battling with the problem of being the IT department of the world, and not having enough foss developers to match other countries. The problem is partly economical (IMHO), where we sometimes just can't spare enough time to indulge in giving away our work.

That said, there is a very active foss movement, and conferences like foss.in have been driving the contribution message pretty heavily. The growing number of GSoC applicants means that the message is finally hitting home, and hopefully we can have more active open source contributors in the future (though a lot of students are also attracted by the monetary aspect of GSoC).
Agree on dropping the 'humble' part. Obviously you don't want to work with an egotistical jerk, but you definitely want someone who knows his/her worth and isn't a pushover.

Your tech partner should be a partner, that requires mutual respect.
I was on board until I read this:

"For starters, with mod_php, each request that Apache handles loads PHP - and all of it’s libraries."

No, it doesn't. In fact, that's a distinct advantage of mod_php. Everything is loaded and in memory when the request comes in. Throw APC on top of that and your code is also already compiled.

The only way that would not be true is if you've got MaxRequestsPerChild tuned really low and are restarted Apache children constantly. Some restarting is OK and helps keep memory leaks under control, but it shouldn't be so low that nothing stays cached. It's going to be slow with or without PHP running as a FastCGI.

Of course, I don't know how NGINX handles things, but for Apache he's got it all wrong.
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The Atlantic, Harpers, The New Yorker, EDGE (UK games mag), and The New York Review of Books (technically a newspaper) are good.
I'm looking for Common Lisp programmers with Hunchentoot, SBCL, JavaScript and nginx skills, and also graphic designers who can do excellent corporate branding and identity.

It's for an online targeted ad delivery platform. The personal email is in my profile.

I will try to be for you the boss I never had.
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Exception: a startup that hasn't reached a break-even point, should be excluded from such rankings.
> I am a business guy. I have worked at large companies and managed big businesses. I have started tech and non-tech companies as a founder and an early employee. I have raised money. I have written specs. I have sold stuff to big companies and consumers.I have cut deals with big companies and big brands. Some of these deals have panned out. Some have not. Some of these ventures have been successful. Some have been cluster fucks.

A good co-founding engineer will have done all this and more. You need to give him 35% or more and have a stellar track record to boot.

If that's not the equity ballpark you're playing in, and you can't bring more to the table than "well I've started a couple of businesses and I can do sales", you're looking for the wrong type of person. What you want is a freelance developer that takes $10k and makes a prototype for you. That way you can keep 100% of your equity.

You might think you got lucky if you find some young kid in his early 20s to do most of the work for very little equity and almost no cash, but think about what happens to your business when he decides you're an asshole 6 months later and quits. Just use your imagination to think about how ugly that can get. Especially since he's the one running your entire tech infrastructure.
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vaksel is right. I've seen recommendations on here before about different sites to find tech co-founders and seen the "go to tech meetups" advice. But the real problem is that the programmer you want probably already has his own pet projects. If you want a tech cofounder, you should pay him to develop a prototype.

As a business co-founder you're probably not doing much in the early stages. You come with an idea, which is essentially worthless without the tech guy. So it's only fair that you pay him for the prototype. At that point, both of you will be more comfortable teaming up.

Also, I would make sure you have the tech guy assign any and all IP ahead of time. You'll need this assignment if you want to raise money in the future.
The Economist and The Financial Times are the only two publications I've subscribed to in the last decade.

I'm not completely convinced people are uninterested though. Before we met, my wife wouldn't have given the Economist a second glance. Now she's a more regular reader than I am. Often you just have to give people a chance.
my guess would probably be not wanting to develop a tolerance, potentially because it isn't prescribed and is then probably expensive...
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FOSS has many benefits, but I had always considered the fact that you can "fix it yourself" not to be one. Do any of you fix random bugs in your desktop applications? (Firefox, for example).
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Any vehicle would probably by much heavier than 1 ton. A 747 weighs about 400 metric tons. But still 400 gallons of gas (in bulk) only costs about $750 which is nothing.

Although that assumes you got perfect efficiency from it, which you won't.

I concede your point - and you should have gotten more mod points for it.
My anecdotal impression is that one of two things happens. Either they build up enough that they'd rather retire than continue building it, or they run into an up-or-out policy at the company.
Congrats for Foodzie (YC-backed) guys!

I also liked Aster Data Systems and SkyDrive.
Way to go Kabir Shahani of Appature Inc. Founded w/ $4,000 in cash. Amazing what can be done with little to no cash!
You make software engineers sound like children. We're adults. You embarrass me.
I dont' understand why they are using smarty?
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Maybe I'm a bit too cynical, I think the message is awesome, but what is his motivation?
anigbrowl:

If you're an industry social media analyst, then you're one sloppy SOB and you need to tidy up your essays.

but,

If you're not paid full time to do social media research, or if you're not doing a PhD on the subject, then please accept my humble "WTF", for you are one smart SOB. What you have produced is the meeting of the American Mathematical Society and 4Chan: an epic lore of the interwebs and a testament to your eternal pwning of intellectual rigor. You the (wo?)man, Sensei!
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Some of us are bootstrapping our startups (no investors, no customers yet), while trying to maintain a full time day job. We work hard at your normal job, meeting deadlines and getting things done, but our personal projects fall behind.

One remedy is:
Create Self-Imposed Deadlines. With Punishment for Failure.
I just finished Jaunty; the out-of-the-box support was remarkable, but it still falls short of Vista.

Vista is really a "tablet-aware" OS; when you pick up the pen, all the penabled functions come alive. When you hold down the secondary button, an indicator appears. And you have the screen rotation buttons, on screen keyboard, excellent handwriting recognition, and the journal app, which, despite it's lame (non-svg) format, does a decent job.

Jaunty was awesome up until the point of dual head. My video card is partly to blame, because on xorg I can't set two screens of different resolution, so my second monitor looks terrible, not to mention the logout required. In terms of tablet functions, you have to readjust the coordinates after you add the second monitor. On Vista, everything works with close to no intervention, and plugging in another monitor, everything still works as you expect.

That's not to say Jaunty wasn't hella impressive; it was. But I'm talking about built-in features, and in this respect Vista is still ahead. Anyhow, back to ubuntu on the VM.
Same here.

I freely admit my first creations were hardly anything of art; but keep in mind, this was back in the day when Classmates.com was charging for functionality that wasn't even close to what Facebook offers now. As a result, my classmates from CEGEP (pre-college) were able to keep up with each other, and we could even share some pictures.

I have some shared hosting I use for my personal projects nowadays, but Geocities served me well back when I didn't have a credit card, and didn't have any money.
We're all adults, but many of us start in the industry as professionally child-like. I started hacking out of high school.

By the time we mature, we probably wont fall for an enthusiastic "business guy"; we know both computing and business better than anyone. I wasn't out to embarrass you, all I wanted was to help your younger self, or others its age.
In MS's defense these new methods for multi-touch were not known (or even invented) when the Surface was in the initial design stages - the multitouch field is evolving radically month-to-month, it's impossible for a commercial product to keep up.

The most interesting sensing method IMHO right now is the combined emitter-receiver package, where light reflected from touches induce back voltages on the LEDs serving as backlights themselves. This is pretty elegant, and would allow us to use far superior display technology like plasmas and LCDs, not to mention allow the whole thing to finally approach flat screen TV thickness.

It's pretty expensive though - imagine an array of pure-white LEDs big enough to cover your 65" plasma TV... and the electronics to process all of this data.
What? I find their logic/reason driven analysis refreshing when it comes to emotional topics such as war.
Can't blame the user? Blame the user community
I suppose I'll just say it: you should learn MVC
How about somebody build it and register the domain name hnfaq.com. We can just post the link to it every time someone asks a common question. The hnfaq.com site would list the commonly asked questions, and give links to threads addressing the topic.

(I assume PG is not interested in this, otherwise it would exist already.)
If languages are designed "by men for men" then I suppose we need some women-designed languages to embody 'horizontal thinking' and all that.
I work far too much and far too hard, yet not quite enough or quite hard enough.

Yeah, it's a paradox, but anyone else building a company, working a regular job, and going to school will understand.
Foodzie is Techstars. Foodoro is YC'09.
I recent was assigned a problem. My boss made a suggestion that I didn't fully understand and left town for a week, with no suggestion that I had to do much work on the problem in the meantime. I, however, didn't like the idea that I couldn't figure out the problem on my own and coded a long part of a possible solution. My boss comes back, shows me how his solution will shorten things tremendously and I get to throw away my work.

I hate to admit it but it seem like I like coding. It's not even a good habit but it's now one I can see clearly. I like working on a problem, even if work isn't what the problem needs.

So I think the mindset of "liking coding" is real.
It's almost cliche to say that we need more females in tech. Most of the time, these kinds of arguments center around the disproportionate male/female ratios and talk about how we might correct them. They never really say /why/ we need more females in tech.

The speaker in the video presents a real and compelling argument. The female way of looking at technology, at how interactions occur, at how tech shapes the world and how the future will happen, all of this is different from the male perspective. And it's a valuable perspective. Having females in the tech workplace isn't just a matter of being politically correct. It's a matter of not dismissing a fascinating and helpful way of looking at the world.
The first link I clicked revealed an animated gif depicting a woman breaking a water balloon over her very well-endowed chest in slow motion.

At the risk of being redundant, I would say that your startup shows a great deal of promise.
I doubt that model would hold considering the fact that ad-blockers are too cheap to subscribe to a service like that, but why not just pay the magazine a little more in subscription fees?

The aura of anti-advertising among the tech crowd is somewhat sad. The ads are on consumers' side in terms of keeping the price of content down. That being said, I too use Adblock. :) Advertisers need to bring the annoyance level down a notch (especially with those automatic-popout-video-player-banner-deals-with-broken-mute-buttons).
a large majority of those ship with a AAAish title (I guess in part eating your own dogfood) - think Lawrence World or Basecamp for the Web framework discussion... We're talking games like Quake X, Unreal (Tournament) Y, etc

So they probably hit the same kind of crunch as well.
UBNT, as another poster mentioned, makes some good wifi products. I know someone who's used a pair of Nanostations ( http://metrix.net/ubiquiti-nanostation-2-p-110.html ) to do about five miles, crossing a bay beach-to-beach. I'm sure that a mile won't be a great problem for these units. I've got one myself, they're quite worth it.

I'm sure you can figure out some sort of mount that'll fit, for example using some double-sided tape on the inside of a window.
I highly recommend you try not taking Adderall. In my experience (I've had plenty of experience), it only screws with your priorities (you think you can do anything while you're on it) and makes you completely useless when you're not taking it.
I was prescribed it myself for several years, and only recently went off. I've replaced Adderall with a little bit of caffeine, and lots of exercise.
And yes, Adderall has a bunch of negative side effects. Try it once if you want, but don't make a habit out of it--you'll regret it long term.
I agree that JS-only links are a not a good approach. This forces the user to relinquish control over how they explore the information space.

It is perfectly feasible to have a hyperlink to an actual page (i.e. a 'normal' hyperlink) and then run some JS on the click event to achieve the current behaviour.

This will ensure your links work when there is no JS and when people just want to right- or middle-click a link. A normal left-click on the link will activate the JS as is currently the case. Best of both worlds.
"cofounder" and "first employee" are very different roles. Cofounder takes risks, participates in the whole company development, etc.

What you're talking about is a first employee that is also paid with equity.

And, by the way, there is a way to offer an equity right from the beginning — stock options that vest over time.
That's because Apple generally don't innovate, What they do is do existing things that never went mainstream, and implement them far better than anyone else ever did.

USB, wireless, backlit LCDs, webcams, silly picture making software, music composition, DTP (iWork's layout engine), installable apps on phones, touch phones, etc, etc.
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Stupid question - does HN have ads? I've never looked at it without Adblock!
Few things on my mind as i look at it. You need:

1. Tagline - Make people understand what you're doing within 1 - 2 seconds. Most people don't read at all.

2. Better call to action - I generally prefer to have one priority over another. Making it blue and red communicate the same priority, and remember Barry's paradox of choices? It made me not clicking both. I learned call to action a lot from here: http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/good-call-to-action-buttons/

Good luck!
You do not understand a very basic fact about pensions; namely that they are an obligation that the company has.

Your statement makes as much sense as saying that the company is in financial trouble because they have paid loans back in years past.

For the company to default on the pensions that they owe is just as bad if not worse as if they were to default on their line of credit with a bank.