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Ask HN: How to transition from film production to project management?
My goal is to transition out of a film/commercial production coordinator position and (eventually) into a project management role within a startup/tech firm. I've spoken with a few friends/colleagues who have made similar transitions and most think it wise to start in an account management role to build up a core competency. I am open to anything that would get me in the door and moving in the right direction. Any recommendations for good starting points?

I hope/believe much of my skill set is transferrable as a film/commercial production shares many (oversimplified, of course) similarities in terms of workflow: development of concept/idea, establishing plan/objectives, resource allocation, facilitating information flow, ensuring project stays on budget/schedule and removing roadblocks/problem solving. Though, I do understand this line of thinking requires a significant leap of faith on behalf of any potential employer, so I am working on a way to market myself effectively. May be tough but I am dying for something with a more linear career path offering stability and more challenging/exciting work.

If anyone has any suggestions or advice I'd really appreciate it. I realize this won't be a direct or even simple transition so I could use all the help I can get. Thank you in advance!
Nitpick: the article doesn't have a byline. Who wrote it?
I am a big fan of Agricola. It is for 2 to 5 players. Our group of friends used to play Settlers of Catan, but we switched to Agricola mostly these days.
I use bitbucket for this and also have it on s3 via Jgit
Well that is super-annoying. I'll tweak the template.
We've never had a breach.
I think the key point is that the Zynga formula was easy to recreate, and so competition entered and started to splinter the market pie up. Basic market economics principle.
If I had to quickly assign numbers to buckets using a hash table would be obvious but I would never have thought of using the same ideas for assigning people to lines.

This reminds me of a joke I once heard - if you want the cold soda you need to get to the one in the back of the fridge. That's what you get for implementing the fridge as a stack.

Data structures are all around us, we just need to recognize it.
But...why aren't most homes painted red, inside and out? Homes have existed for as long as barns. And while many people might want to splurge more for their home, it seems we should still see a relatively high number of red paint schemes in cheaper homes
> REST isn't enough.

> To do it right use the HATEOAS constraint.

The HATEOAS constraint is part of REST; if you aren't using it, you aren't doing REST.
Shows how far a loud voice can carry.
Very simple. Very clean. Kudos for having the right spirit of honesty and transparency. VCs have lately taken to bearing their own attorneys' fees on occasion but I have rarely seen a significant VC deal in which the option pool is not brought in as a back-door way of lowering valuation for the founders. Removing that bit of legerdemain from the valuation equation is really quite stunning.

Of course, the question is whether this will catch on and stick, even during bad times. When markets are sunny for investors, it is not too hard to bend for the founder concerns. When things are tight, though, the pattern has always been one of merciless slaughter of the founder interest, as evidenced by any down round within memory. So too, in bad times such as the dot-bust period, atrocities like participating preferred and multiple-x liquidation preferences frequently reared their heads and would, I think do so again in any new time of debacle. While individual investors such as Mr. Altman may refrain from this sort of thing, I wonder whether such moderation would ever become the norm. I would tend to doubt it.

I also think that even this particular term sheet, though undoubtedly fair to founders in its overall sweep, would need to be adapted to avoid unfairness as it is applied to various cases. If a founder has built large value by the time of Series A, it is very non-standard to require that founder to put the entirety of his stake at risk of forfeiture all over again as a condition to getting funded. That, I assume, would be an obvious point of negotiation and one on which any investor would very likely yield when pressed.

These are mere quibbles, though. It is really the spirit of the thing that counts and not the legalese as such. Just as the best contract in the world will not really protect you if you happen to be dealing with a scoundrel, so too the flimsiest of contracts will likely not cause you too much trouble if you are dealing with someone of honesty and integrity. This term sheet reflects the right values that an investor should bring to a deal and, if you get that as a founder, you are 99% of the way there as long as your business interests can match. In the end, that is what counts most of all.
I don't understand how employees can get screwed with ISOs from a tax liability stand point. ISOs are not taxable until a capital gain is realized i.e. exercise and sale. Are you referring to non-qualified stock options?
As a Canadian, let me just let you know you're going to have to wait a few years for it to stop sucking. Amazon Canada was a joke for most of its existence, and had only gotten close to the American offerings in breadth and pricing in the last year or two.
As bradhe stated, it falls under giving aid to enemies.
If you believe you have what it takes, keep going.
Obviously no graphical tweaks were made on the excel graph.
The demo itself is pretty well made. What framework did you guys use?
Sony Announced The Arrival Of Affordable 4-Inch Xperia M With Dual SIM
I think you're missing the point about homelessness.

In most parts of the US you can get social services if you're willing to (1) deal with horrible bureaucracy, and (2) stop using drugs and alcohol.

Chronically homeless people aren't homeless because they're poor but instead they have mental health issues that leave them disconnected from avenues for help. There are many "homeless" people that don't sleep on the street because they stay with friends or family, or, like William Shatner in the early 70's, live in a car.

Because the chronically homeless have bad enough problems relating to people they don't need complicated rules coming between them and services they need.
No you aren't. However this happens to many projects/libraries/languages. There's Elixir the language but also the python library for example.
Express is a nice framework and all, but you need to have a pretty deep understanding of Node AND JS to actually do something. Are we just designing? If so, run the command below in the directory of files:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
If you're that hung up on profits you're likely to remain the little guy. It's idiotic to try for profits when you're in growth mode.
People on Facebook are visiting links, posted on Facebook, to external sites.

Those external sites are the sites with the malware.

Very few people block anything; people don't bother blocking flash or javascript or even ads. (Adblock Plus, the most popular ad blocker, only has 15.5million users on Firefox.)
You won't believe this, but we actually have a soda fridge here that has a deque implementation on the door with a note that cold ones will be at the back.

I'll provide a pic if demanded. ;)
..and then we're back to the bad old days where only the largest corporate developers can afford to put a product out.
Do homeless people have a single canonical name that they will use consistently?

Is it fair to request that they structure their day around a hashing algorithm that they don't understand?

There's an arbitrary kind of "command" oriented aspect to this that I'm not crazy about. Sort of a "the algorithm says that you go here at time X" element that is inscrutable and will no doubt inspire a lot of theories about how it's rigged ("Hispanic names always get to go in the morning, did you notice?").

I would suggest colored tokens that are good for certain timeslots: Red might mean "Monday at 9, Tuesday at 10, ...". I don't know if they are persistent or good for one use or both. The tokens can be recollected so you know how many are circulating for a given time/place and can avoid oversubscription.

These could be handed out at random and traded among the clients so they can put together a schedule that suits them. This removes the "arbitrary computer says so" kind of element of the hashing scheme.
There have been quite a few entries into the market like this over the years (I remember interviewing for one during the great dot com bubble in the late 90's). Normally competition is a good thing - it proves there is a viable market. But in this case, it seems none of the competitors survived. That should give one pause...
> But...why aren't most homes painted red, inside and out? Homes have existed for as long as barns. And while many people might want to splurge more for their home, it seems we should still see a relatively high number of red paint schemes in cheaper homes

There are psychological impacts of color schemes which make heavy use of it undesirable for dwellings (its also why it is frequently used in fast food restaurants, because its gets people out the door faster.)
Wish the contest was open to Canadians! I use Bitbucket, and its been great to me.
This is cool but I'm on the @SailsJS bandwagon -

http://sailsjs.org

However Sails wants to add OT's, and add-ons that do Meteor-style syncing. I know this is wishful thinking, but maybe Sails and Derby could find some way to merge, or otherwise work together?

Here's the Sails group - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sailsjs
What does "social aspects" mean? Number of users and/or something else?
This is definitely a "Just So" scientific story. That is, it is an unverifiable account of why things might have happened. They used to be common in evolutionary thought until it became clear they were often wrong.

Just so stories can be thought provoking, but I'd prefer it if people writing them made it clear what they are, since they can often lead to muddled ideas rather than clarity. The tone of this article bugged me a little.

I've also heard this story before, and if you google you will see there are many alternative explanations, for example that red paint was chosen because it is a fungicide rather than because it was most plentiful. Why add any pigment at all, if cost is the issue?
The header's ranges-specifier doesn't specify a syntax, so you can use a docid-based pager just as easily.
Bitbucket offers unlimited collaborators on your repos if you have an education email
Meteor is more mature, but it doesn't do server side rendering or operational transform for document updates. As far as I know, meteor is also limited to a single server. Derby now supports scaling over multiple processes on multiple machines. On http://sink.derbyjs.com/ I get DOMContentLoaded (including all the page content) in 70ms.
I still love Monopoly. One of the classics, it will always be great fun.
> In most parts of the US you can get social services if you're willing to (1) deal with horrible bureaucracy, and (2) stop using drugs and alcohol.

To even have a chance of being loosely correct, the "willing" here needs to change to "willing and able". For both items, that is a pretty big difference from just "willing".
Scientists resolve a 3.5 billion-year-old mystery of life
Love the app. There are a couple of HN apps for the Windows Phone, but I hereby declare that this is the best! (queue sound of trumpets).

Seriously though, nice work :)
More expensive and less features.
Teen Inventor Successfully Tests Homemade Submarine
This is really neat. I probably drew 100 diagrams of submarine designs as a kid. Kudos to him for actually building one (or four for that matter).

I'm curious if the 30ft depth limit is simply a practical safety limit (if you remember back to High School Physics, 33ft of fresh water = 1 atmosphere of pressure) or if he actually worked out the limits of the drainage tubing/joints/skylight/other components. It would be cool if he did a technical writeup.
I use and enjoy using Mercurial for most of my projects.

But it has nothing, NOTHING as good as git rebase -i
Sickbeard is for TV shows.

See also (with varying degrees of effectiveness), Headphones (music), Mylar (comics), and CouchPotato (movies)
I don't think it's that obvious. Could be sneakernet, dropbox, etc. Is setting up a lasting direct connect easy?
Labels, repo groupings or something similar is on our mind too. No promises on the release date but it's something we've been thinking about.

Justen - Bitbucket product manager
That, I need to see.
A fair number of homeless have mental conditions, but not nearly all. In any case, the hashing approach doesn't manifest as complicated: What's your name? OK, come at 10:15 on Wednesday. That's all.
Medium is a platform for writers, not readers
The intention is that donations to charity don't have income tax applied to them. When you donate an object like a car it's not really the same - most likely you bought it, got your money's worth from it and now want to be rid of it, so it's not really like you're donating something you paid income tax on.
Web App Challenge Update: The Final Stretch
This is quite similar to way convenience stores work in Japan. You can pay at a convenience store and get Amazon to ship your goods to a convenience store. Japan (similar to India) is still very much a cash based society and I suppose some people prefer to pay in cash at a convenience store instead of paying online.

India also has loads of tiny convenience stores, I think this is an excellent idea. It also simplifies the logistics. The eCommerce company only has to build out a supply chain to the convenience store instead of having to deliver to each customer or rely on the Indian postal service.

(I have lived both in India and Japan)
1. Collect mail door-to-door

2. Scan each page of mail, including envelopes

3. Post scans online

4. Return requested physical mail

5. Charge $4.99 for this service

6. ...

7. Profit?

Looking at their job postings, they have one person per city managing a team of people working probably close to minimum wage going door-to-door. These people most likely scan mail at their homes using a scanner provided by Outbox.

Let's say they pay a City Manager $100,000, or $125,000 after taxes, unemployment insurance, and benefits. An individual can take on 30 customers, is paid above minimum wage (let's say $15 after taxes, etc.), and works 7 hours a day (or 35 hours/week, making them part-time employees). That's roughly $30,000 per worker annually.

At $4.99 per month, none of the economics work. At 30 customers per part-time employee, the break even point is $100 per month per customer. At $4.99 per month each PTE needs to handle around 600 customers each to break even. 100 customers per PTE at $30/month also breaks even. But even 100 per PTE seems unrealistic.

Unless I'm missing something very basic, it just doesn't scale at $4.99 per month. At all. It's not even close.
It falls off very quickly, unless you have some mechanism to get people back into the app (updates, new content, etc..). Even big-name apps will fall off the charts very fast without work. There's nothing passive about it.

I don't think "marketing" is the right word, especially for a small/indie developer. You need to work to build a community around your app.

The gold rush is over, but if you build a nice thing and support it, people will find it.
Is anyone familiar with the legal implications of scraping sites? Just for things that are easily viewable to anyone with a computer, such as Tweets, a stores prices, descriptions of things etc?
Not that I know the guy, but he comes across as the type who just doesn't care.

I respect him for what he did at Napster, what he attempted to do at Plaxo (as some start ups today have, in a way, picked up where he left off), what he helped Facebook become, and what he did at Spotify, but he comes off as incredibly cocky[1] and has a talking style filled with arrogance[2].

Again, nothing but respect for what he accomplished in the business world. But nothing seems to piss people off more than a rich guy who thinks he can do whatever he wants. Especially when it involves the environment...in California...in a National Park. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

1: http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2011/09/21/sean-pa... . The interviewer seemed to convey his tone pretty well.

2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCyMz-u-HcQ . Good interview, and he is obviously incredibly smart, but he comes off in such a way that seems very egotistical. Maybe when you're a billionaire you can get away with that.
I don't think that those two statements are inconsistent. The OP is not disparaging scrum, but rather pointing out that when organizations embrace scrum as a religion they lose sight of the fact that scrum is a tool for engineering - it is not the complete answer to making good products.

Scrum provides a tool that allows you to run your engineering org like a factory production line - it is efficient and (sometimes) predictable. But just having a good production line doesn't mean that you are going to build a product that customers want to buy - only that you will build something faster.
This is not an examination, in the sense that they are not determining the validity, just the meaning of the claims.
Dead voters.
OK, I misremembered, it's a queue, not a deque. Still:
http://imgur.com/a/Yujev#0

Also kinda random since we don't use much Java here. I do like that people debugged it, though.
HEY PPL IN SF...maybe some of you guys can tell me. I remember some service that was like this that would follow the postal carrier and grab the mail and scan it, was that this: outbox?
You can also save a chart 'Template' in excel to apply the same set of transformations to different data sets with a single click.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/reuse-a-favorit...
I tried Raspbmc but the buggy Airplay support forced me to switch to Xbian. Haven't bumped into a problem since.
JIRA seemed to complicated to me. Sure, I could figure it out, but getting my stakeholders to update issues and keep track of things in there did not seem nearly as feasible as it has been in a simpler tool like redmine. Redmine is far from perfect, but a monkey could figure out how to use it, which is important if you have your clients engaged in the project management process (granted, I know not everyone has this requirement).
Hackers don't choose to work in demoralizing environments.
Sickbeard + SABnzbd has been my go-to combination for months now. Sickbeard is regularly updated, and the integration between the two requires a small amount of initial configuration. From there, just make sure the 2 daemons are running and that's it.
30ft may be a good safety limit, but the total pressure is the atmosphere plus 1 atmosphere, due to the water, equaling 2atm.
Hi thanks for the article. Have you actually implemented this system or are in the process of implementing it?

I think the article is much more interesting if it's more than just an in principle idea. Also out would be nice if the article made that clearer in either case
His website is linked from the article, but it's worth looking at because it has video and better images.

(http://www.justinbeckerman.com/Site/Home.html)
Well, if you have data that can be referenced from more than one spot (for example, an object pointer that is a member of multiple lists), you need avoid calling free until the last reference is gone. One way to track that is to use an incrementing and decrementing reference counter, but then you end up leaking memory as soon as you get cyclical references. A garbage collector solves the problem of cyclical references.

In some cases a garbage collector can turn out to be more efficient too, since there is no need to spend time carefully managing reference counts! :)
I think this misses the point entirely. Zynga is not failing because their products are cheap to recreate. Plenty of companies, in tech and beyond, have easily recreatable products but do just fine. Zynga is "failing" (if you can call it that) because they depended on cheap user traffic from Facebook - both through free virality and later cheap ad buys. Facebook is maturing as a business and ad prices are going up. And Facebook realized that all that game spam was just not worth the 30% vig they charged (probably the hard way - through testing for user engagement). Take away those temporary advantages and Zynga is just like any other gaming company.

This is a right sizing of the company and its revenues to reflect the games they own, once you take away the cheap/free traffic.
Well put. I stand corrected.

So why is that junk mail and unwanted mail is so hard to get rid of? Clearly it seems like something people are willing to pay to opt out of.
5/10 junk mail in paper form! My God, such a waste... No way to stop that?
Hi,

This is very awesome stuff! =). The real-time syncing is definitely awesome, can't wait to try this in some of my apps.

Good props on the video tutorial as well.

One thing sorely lacking form DerbyJS is tutorials, or any kind of help for beginners - would be awesome to see them release more of these.

Cheers,
Victor
> Do homeless people have a single canonical name that they will use consistently?

They have an identity.

> Is it fair to request that they structure their day around a hashing algorithm that they don't understand?

It is not fair that they are homeless. It is not fair that the best thing for many of them to do is to stand in line starting at 3AM the previous day to get a bed for a night. It is fair to offer them a fair chance at a shower in a predictable way. Rather than standing in line for hours in hopes of a shower, they can come and maybe get a shower... or not. Unfortunately, rationing is necessary.

The tokens idea is interesting, but the meaning of them is a good bit more abstract than remembering a single time. Also, things get lost, and keeping things is pretty hard when you're homeless - basically everything you hope to keep has to be carried with you at all times.
Is anyone aware if Racer uses OT to sync the model as a whole (OT on a tree structure), or if it is used on a per-leaf basis to merge operations on values? Firebase seems to have solved this issue (with their Firepad project) by using their tree/json sync engine to transmit the OT operation primitives.
Brad Frost talks about this, calling it 'Atomic Design' in this really good talk: http://vimeo.com/67476280
Upvote for Puzzle and Dragons. I looked down on gaming on smartphones before, but its a great game. I hesitate to call it social gaming because there is minimal interaction.
You don't have to pay to win, and there are many videos of people beating the most difficult dungeons with thought out party compositions.
Are you allocating from and deallocating to a heap?

If so, I've heard that can result in non-optimal results, that would also require dynamic analysis to avoid unacceptable worst cases.
Easily the best git GUI on Windows that I've tried.
Hah, nice pseudonym.

I think it's mostly inevitable, to me it's no different than asking group of farmers which make of pickup or tractor is best, or a deliveryman which brand of shoes are best... I'm pretty sure you could come up with at least one analogue for most any vocation.

In programming, we have: language, practice (formatting, documentation, framework, etc.), methodology (testing, planning), development environment (integrated or otherwise), etc. and each of these is a lightning rod for disagreement. I think it just seems to be more prevalent for software engineers due to the fact that a majority of our discourse occurs online.
Lava Mae is not yet operational but I think it's pretty likely that Doniece will use the scheme. If so, I'd be happy to do a follow-up with how it actually worked.