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Getting a job with few references? | malbiniak: I'm going into this knowing that it's probably below the level you're applying for, but it's been OK to state "references available upon request" in your cover letter or resume. In my experience, references are generally checked after the first round of interviews, and that gives you the opportunity to tactf... |
Getting a job with few references? | patio11: I would start thinking in terms of how I could make a blog, OSS project, or publicly visible code which would make a case for "Why You Should Hire Me" so strongly that you wouldn't bother contacting my references.We're in an industry which needs to administer FizzBuzz in interviews. How hard do you think it w... |
Getting a job with few references? | jeffmould: I am curious as to why you think you can't ask for a reference simply because the company is small? References are not about the size of the company, but instead ensuring that who you say you are is really true. When I first started in the industry my only references were from high school jobs at fast food p... |
Getting a job with few references? | dustingetz: if your work stands for itself, and you can provide a character/hard worker reference, i doubt it's much of an issue. |
Would you buy datasets of Web authoring methods & the Web's structure? | olalonde: What would be interesting would be to let users hook their own custom functions to your web crawler. In other words, whenever you crawl a link, you feed the link to the developer's script which does whatever it wants with it. I've had plenty of ideas that would involve a web crawler, but I just don't have the... |
Getting a job with few references? | ax0n: In these situations: Getting published or landing a talk at a well-known conference helps. So do certifications and degrees, as much as I hate to say it.A lot of the questions asked of your references are less about what you know and how good you are at a given technical skill, and more about work ethic, how you ... |
Best payment gateway for storing credit cards? | Travis: I use the authorize CIM for this purpose. It works well. It's just an additional monthly fee on top of the other stuff you pay, so it's not any more expensive to charge cards you have stored. |
Getting a job with few references? | tom_b: Or just put your resume out there to jobs that seem like good fits. I recently had a very odd interview experience where despite offering multiple times to provide references (and code samples) I was never asked for either.And got a pretty big offer anyway. The whole deal was atypical in my experience and I'm ... |
Would you buy datasets of Web authoring methods & the Web's structure? | il: Send me an email to ilya [at] unviral.com about this, I would be very interested in talking about applying this for tracking ad campaigns and correlating with some of the data I have been collecting.There's definitely a lucrative market for this if your crawling and data can be targeted enough. |
How do I accept all major credit cards when not based in the US? | marcamillion: By the way...just to update this thread. So I have both a Wachovia and Bank of America account.Apparently Bank of America allows you to order wire transfers online - through their 'transfer' feature. These orders can also be standing orders. I think this will suffice for what I need in the near-term.BOA's... |
How do I accept all major credit cards when not based in the US? | marcamillion: Here is a link to some FAQ's for BOA.https://www.bankofamerica.com/www/en_US/eas-docs/cfc-help/he...Although I can't find the part about the limit of $10K. Maybe it is just for my type of account - free student checking. Will have to upgrade the account some time soon, I imagine. |
Do you understand your operating system? | kbob: There are some things I understand. I've written parts of Unix/Linux virtual memory, network stacks, process management, threads, interrupt handlers, synchronization primitives, TTY line disciplines, various kinds of device drivers. I've debugged parts of block I/O systems, file systems, NFS client and server, ... |
Discovering new music? | Roridge: Not quite what you are looking for perhaps, but I use http://blip.fmI have found that very useful for finding new music by following (like Twitter) users who post songs I like, then then daily I get to hear new songs I haven't heard. I have got into lots of new bands that way. http://blip.fm/MCFlurry |
Would you buy datasets of Web authoring methods & the Web's structure? | coderdude: Update: I created a landing page for the time being: http://webscaled.com/ |
Discovering new music? | zen53: http://hypem.com/#/popular |
Discovering new music? | navjotpawera: + Spotify gives me a lot of flexibility and choice (when I know what I want to listen to, or if I can spend sometime to go through the "related/alike" artists and dig some) It's replaced Itunes almost completely for me.+ Last.fm is not built too well IMO to discover new music+ Been trying to go back to ra... |
Discovering new music? | amrtn: what about http://www.thesixtyone.com? |
Discovering new music? | aw3c2: http://www.jamendo.comJust be open minded and try a couple of albums each day. You will surely find something that appeals your ears/mind and you won't have to pay a dime. |
Review my Homemade Gift Ideas site | tome: Clickable link: http://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/ |
Discovering new music? | dnsworks: I go to a lot of shows, at least 4-6 per month. 1/2 of them have at least one band I've seen before, the other 1/2 I choose based on logistics and the club. I ask at each merch booth if they have anything available on itunes, if not then I'll buy a CD .. I found an incredible band this way last week, the InCi... |
Discovering new music? | recurser: I don't mean to promote piracy or derail the discussion, but if you're a what.cd member you can usually find interesting new stuff by watching the daily and weekly top 10 lists. Also, searching by tag for your favourite genres and sorting by seeders often reveals stuff you may have missed in the past. |
Discovering new music? | ZeroGravitas: You ask for "new music" but in the longer question you seem to be asking for music that is new to you, two very different things.I'm more interested in finding good music, than new (produced in the last X years) music, in fact I probably have a distinct preference for older music so with that in mind here... |
Collection of UI Examples? | kilian: Here are a couple of good sites on design patterns for various components, with nice examples:http://www.welie.com/patterns/http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/ (obviously)http://ui-patterns.com/ |
Collection of UI Examples? | toni: Check out Chris Messina's extensive collections on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/collections/ |
Discovering new music? | jrnkntl: I like to listen to 22tracks. These are lists in different kinds of genres with selected songs by a number of DJs in Amsterdam. I discover new music this way everyday in genres I'd normally never listen to. http://www.22tracks.com |
Discovering new music? | 1331: South by Southwest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_by_Southwest) is an Austin, Texas music festival which showcases bands that play a wide range of music. Artist bios and MP3s are put on the website (http://sxsw.com/music), and there are also unofficial torrents (http://sites.google.com/site/sxswtorrent/2010... |
Discovering new music? | danparsonson: I can recommend SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com/tracks) |
Discovering new music? | rosejn: Tryout http://kgnu.org if you want to expand your horizons. They have a live stream and a back catalog from the last two weeks of shows. It's a non-profit station in Boulder, Co, and they get hundreds of new CDs a month representing every kind of international music and out-there genre you could imagine. Jaz... |
Collection of UI Examples? | pdebruic: http://patterntap.com/
http://designinformer.com/how-to-drastically-improve-your-de... |
Discovering new music? | meurkens: I'd suggest Twones (http://twones.com). But maybe that's because I work for them. ;-) |
Discovering new music? | MikeW: http://hypem.com is probably my favourite simply because I've learned of so much music I've bought because of that site. I especially love the remixes and mashups.https://old.thesixtyone.com is also a pretty good site for finding interesting music. |
Discovering new music? | WorkerBee: Spotify allows you to make and share playlists. I think last.fm does too. Get playlists from friends (it's like a mix tape, only hi-tech), if you like a track, click through and listen to some more of the band's output.Listen to the radio. (I mean on the internet). My favourite for this is radio paradise. ht... |
Discovering new music? | ndc: It's odd that nobody has mentioned Pandora yet:
http://www.pandora.com/Put one song in, and it will give a set of songs that are similar to your song, with explanation why it thinks they are similar.Too bad it is available only if you are browsing from US IP address. |
Discovering new music? | diN0bot: listen to good radio stations. i recommend local, college ones. |
Discovering new music? | DanielStraight: I like http://www.cdbaby.com and sister site http://www.payplay.fm. |
Discovering new music? | gyardley: I recommend reading some good review blogs over anything algorithmic.I also really like Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist (http://blalocksirp.com/) - a hand-curated torrent with over a hundred songs a month. I go through it while working or exercising, flag anything that I like, and then check those bands out la... |
Discovering new music? | rdtsc: Try listening to internet radio. If you hear a song you like, look up the artist and buy the album.My favorite station is: http://somafm.com.If you like electronic music also try http://www.philosomatika.com.Check out archive.org's live music archive: http://www.archive.org/details/etree.For classical music: ht... |
Discovering new music? | pstinnett: A couple of weeks ago I launched Pitchforked, which creates a random playlist of tracks from Pitchfork.com's Best New Music section. http://www.pitchforked.com. |
Discovering new music? | matrix: One approach that works for me: search for play lists on grooveshark.com that have songs that you like. Sometimes people put together play lists with other interesting songs on them (and sometimes they're rubbish, but such is the nature of exploration). |
Discovering new music? | larrywright: I discover a lot of new music from people I follow on Twitter, many of whom link to Youtube videos or Last.fm tracks. VC Fred Wilson (familiar to most here, I would imagine) is a good example of someone who tweets about what he's listening to regularly. I've discovered a number of new artists and sub-genre... |
Designing a Database | fragmede: Make sure you've read Wikipedia's article on normalizing databases.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization |
Are there any Chrome extensions to hide HN stories? | gchucky: At http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1085721 it looks like some people wrote a Greasemonkey script to remove iPad stories. Maybe you could adapt that JS to your liking? |
Are there any Chrome extensions to hide HN stories? | michael_dorfman: Is it really necesary to hide posts? Is it such a distraction to just skip over the stories that are not interesting to you?I ask because on a good day, I'm interested in maybe half of the stories on the front page, and it's always been that way for me. I thought it was the same for everyone... |
Are there any Chrome extensions to hide HN stories? | raganwald: p.s. Sorry about the whining. I haven't finished my first coffee of the day :-( |
Discovering new music? | jriddycuz: Read about the development and individuals involved with the history of different types of music. I suggest this because you probably won't instantly like styles of music that are significantly different from what you already listen to. For example, if you're not familiar with jazz, listening to an acclaimed... |
Are there any Chrome extensions to hide HN stories? | pook: A naive bookmarklet isn't what you really want.What you ideally want is a personal karma filter. A way to track your interests client-side in addition to the HN sieve. "Clickety on the Ignore button and goodbye human interest stories involving douche*"How to make one securely, though, can be a bit of a problem. |
Discovering new music? | abyssknight: Pandora.com and thesixtyone are pretty much it for me. I have the Pandora One subscription, and I have that running almost 40 hours a week. If I hear something I like, I create a station for it.Last.fm had a sweet obscurity filter that would give you crazy indie band music, which was a nice feature. |
Are there any Chrome extensions to hide HN stories? | bgraves: We just need 24 hours of pure <insert obscure, fringe technology here> stories.I think we've used Erlang in the past (no offense to the Erlangers, obviously) |
Designing a Database | tom_b: Do you need your system to be transaction-oriented (think ATMs and banking) or analytic (for doing slice and dice reporting of data)? You'll do well to check out normalization for the first and understand star schemas for the second.It's awesome you are thinking about db design upfront, just think about what yo... |
Getting a job with few references? | abyssknight: Honestly, you shouldn't have a problem. For your references, usually personal relationships and contacts are fine for early in your career. If they ask if they can call your current employer say no, and explain that they don't know you are looking. Most employers will understand that, and will be fine with... |
Do you sneak workouts in at work? | wushupork: Just to start something, I try to sneak in stuff in the elevator, sometimes I stretch. I figure if people can take smoking breaks, I should be able to get up and walk around or stretch out a bit. |
Discovering new music? | Roridge: Someone just posted this on HN
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1161919
http://audiomap.tuneglue.net/It might help you find some new music branching off bands you already like... it's pretty cool. |
Do you sneak workouts in at work? | roedog: I schedule a "meeting" in my calendar in the middle of the day. Then I use that time to leave the office and exercise at the gym. This also tends to prevent someone from inviting me to a meeting at that time. I find it really perks me up in the middle of the afternoon when I tend to drag.At the large company ... |
Are there any Chrome extensions to hide HN stories? | dhrasmus: You could try using Yahoo Pipes with some keywords to filter out stories you won't be interested in. That'll create another RSS (or ATOM?) feed that you can share with others of similar taste. |
Do you sneak workouts in at work? | lhorie: This is not technically "at" work, but I recently started walking to work instead of taking the subway |
Please Review my Web App: DealFan.com | pedalpete: decently clean, and super easy to understand.
I think it would be REALLY nice to have categories, as browsing all deals can get a bit much.Really nice start Kris.I assume you'll be adding a way for people to sign-up/sign-in and vote up the deals? I don't see that on the site right now.This may be a good plac... |
Now that Joel and Yegge have quit blogging, who are you reading? | spooneybarger: some stuff i always did as i never really read either one of them. i'm not interested in the opinions of celebrities in the non-tech world and i'm not interested in the tech world.from time to time i've read a joel or yegge or pg post but i don't religiously seek them out. |
Assassination Robots | Semiapies: I think your premise is wrong - constant surveillance did jack-all to prevent this assassination and will continue to be little deterrent. Surveillance doesn't often detect crimes/attacks before or even during their commission. It's primarily good for piecing events together after-the-fact.Until behavior-a... |
Possible for Non-hacker to learn iPhone dev? | mbrubeck: It's as good a place as any to start. All real programming is complex, and at least the iPhone has good development tools and documentation. Having a goal in mind is the most important part, and you've got that. |
Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup) | johns: Working on a Chrome extension? |
Please Review my Web App: DealFan.com | kadder: nice n simple UI. But i cant post a deal i found somewhere ? or create my own deal |
Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup) | marksbren: This looks useful for hardcore fantasy sports fans. However, I have always felt like Fantasy Sports need a lower barrier to entry for fans, not tools to make hardcore fantasy players better. As a casual sports fan I can definitely see the appeal of Fantasy Sports, but whenever I enter a league with friends I... |
Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup) | ironblunt: i see that you take our credentials for yahoo and you take us to the url to add a player. Can you actually, post the transaction for us as well? Or are you giving the users the chance to review the change before submitting? |
Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup) | jpalmer: I like this a lot. I built a much less polished version of this for my use last year which only supported ESPN fantasy mashed up with footballguys.com ranking data. I didn't immediately see but are you planning on charging for this? |
Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup) | imp: Congrats on the launch. I saw the presentation for this at the FSTA conference and thought it was a great demo. I'm glad to see that the add-on is as good as it looked on stage. |
Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup) | baran: Really like the idea. Will be a great additional to cheat sheet sites like http://www.fftoolbox.com (I know the owners, which is why I use this particular link).I cant tell you how many hours I've spend going through Waiver Wire lists to check and see if they are available in my leagues. Will definitely be usi... |
Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup) | andrewcooke: maybe the one place where you really shouldn't follow a strict grid is when you are using overlays. the darker box that contains the video is seen as being "on top" of the main title area. but the top of the video is aligned with the end of the title area. that makes the lower edge of the title area "ca... |
Do you sneak workouts in at work? | Poiesis: I bike to work. I highly recommend it. It takes me about 10 minutes longer in the morning, 5 in the afternoon. The difference is a bit more with low traffic, less (or even favoring the bicycle) with high traffic. For those 15 extra minutes daily, I get 2x25 minutes of high-intensity, low impact aerobic wor... |
Worth the risk to accept volunteer contributions to for profit business? | dryicerx: Have the volunteer release his work/part under MIT license, then you can use it for whatever you want (open source or within closed source proprietary stuff). Another option is simply paying him a small sum, just so it would have been compensated work. |
Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup) | jsm386: Love the idea. A mobile version would be killer.Some SEO suggestions. Turn your primary text into text. What are you: 'The ultimate fantasy sports assistant.' That should be your H1 text. All your subheaders should be H2s - or whatever, but not multiple H1 tags.If you can, all that text up there should be text ... |
Now that Joel and Yegge have quit blogging, who are you reading? | mbrubeck: See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159352 |
Please review my startup (fantasy sports mashup) | jolie: Facebook Connect, anyone?It'd eliminate the account creation hurdle and allow you to get more users involved right off the bat through discriminating sharing of data on users' Walls/Profiles. |
Possible for Non-hacker to learn iPhone dev? | khelloworld: I suggest you start here:http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Objective-C-2-0-Stephen-Ko...Perhaps you can move to the book you have after you are reasonably comfortable with objective-c (and a little bit of cocoa).Good luck. |
Now that Joel and Yegge have quit blogging, who are you reading? | joeycfan: Oh boy, a chance to upgrade my ass-sucking skills!Why, I'm reading Hacker News on ycombinator, of course! And boy, is it ever great!I shall go far in this world.... |
Do you sneak workouts in at work? | Maven911: we have a gym at work, so I just go to the gym at work during lunch. Its a really nice perk to have. |
Reliable International SMS gateway with API (other than Clickatell)? | dkersten: The company I work for ocasionally does SMS campaigns (eg text-in competitions) and they recently switched from Clickatell to TynTec[1].[1] http://www.tyntec.com/ |
Can a very skilled quitter make good money? | BobbyH: pg and others have repeatedly said that persistence is a vital trait for a successful founder to have: http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html.My own experience is that persistence is extremely important. If I were to give you (I mean, your friend) advice, I would say that he needs to work his way up to being per... |
Can a very skilled quitter make good money? | gizmo: As you know this is a very common problem, so there's nothing really new or insightful we can offer as advice.As the saying goes: "Thought leads to action, action leads to habit, and habits lead to character". So whenever you want to make any kind of change (however insubstantial ) you have to change your habits... |
I created a landing page to find potential customers. Any tips? | pedalpete: I'm actually at the same stage, so I can't offer too much advice, a few quick things.1) I like your design, company name, branding, etc. well done2) I'd re-write 'marketplace for datasets of the Web's structure, like the entire link graph (in chunks, of course)'. You didn't describe it that way in this post,... |
Can a very skilled quitter make good money? | MaysonL: IPhone apps, iPad apps, Android apps. |
Question about startup salary | kqr2: Read this recent thread/article and reexamine your equity position:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1151743Also, read this:http://www.tonywright.com/2008/a-newbies-guide-to-startup-co...What is your % stake in the company? If you aren't getting a good piece of equity then I would push for a market rate salary ... |
Question about startup salary | starkfist: No, that is not a reasonable offer. It is a typical offer, though. |
Chrome Can't Make Attachments in GMail? | sorbus: Chromium 4.0.249.78 (36714), Arch linux, installed a week or two ago (so pretty much the latest)Works perfectly; it's just you.Have you tried sending just a plain text file of maybe a KB max to yourself? Perhaps google is blocking whatever you're trying to send; have you done the same in firefox? Or on a differ... |
Question about startup salary | ismarc: Something else to remember is that when they get acquired, depending on where you moved to as they grew, you're left with a crappy payout and either get eliminated by the buying company or you're stuck with a well below market rate salary stuck at the company's "max annual increase" which usually tops out at 10... |
I created a landing page to find potential customers. Any tips? | il: If I hadn't read your previous HN post, I would have no idea what your site does. It needs more descriptive content to clarify the immediate benefits of your app.If you're running it on Adwords, unless you want your campaign slapped in a few days, you need:
1. More text on page
2. Privacy policy/ contact us on bott... |
Question about startup salary | csspixel: 75k is not bad, considering "abt 4 years of experience". I would say make sure to enjoy working there before anything else. |
Worth the risk to accept volunteer contributions to for profit business? | xasper8: I worked at a for profit company as an unpaid intern in college, just for experience. The experience/letter of recommendation was my compensation - legally or morally would there be a difference in your case? |
Looking for interns / entry level? | rads: I'm a freshman majoring in CS at Wisconsin-Madison looking for an internship this summer. I'm experienced in Ruby/Rails and PHP, and I have some experience in Clojure and Java. Location isn't too important. My email is rjsmith9@wisc.edu |
Is it legal/easy for a foreigner to open a bank account in the US? | foldr: You certainly don't need to be a US citizen to have a US bank account, but they would want you to show ID and give a US address if you want to open an account in the normal way. Not sure what other options there are. |
Is it legal/easy for a foreigner to open a bank account in the US? | sliverstorm: From what I've read, you need to present a SSN, or present yourself face-to-face to open an account. As I presume you can do neither of these...Perhaps, if you have a very trusted operative living in the US they could take responsibility for the transfers? Although, sadly your email might read much like ... |
Is it legal/easy for a foreigner to open a bank account in the US? | patio11: Legal and easy.http://www.kalzumeus.com/2007/08/15/banking-for-the-uisv/ |
Is it legal/easy for a foreigner to open a bank account in the US? | petercooper: In many countries you can get accounts that are denominated in other currencies. For example, Citibank does an account in the UK that's denominated in US Dollars - http://www.citibank.co.uk/personal/banking/international/eur... - this would resolve the rate conversion issue.However I lose a lot of money tr... |
Please review my new site | guiseppecalzone: The moderate and diet sliding scales aren't totally clear to me. But, I really, really like the "I ate something" / "I did something" buttons.I'd also make it more clear that you can edit the weight, goal weight, and age.The question marks with text are helpful. But, ideally, no text explanation would ... |
What is the best FTP client for OS X? | eapen: Transmit! Or you can try free Filezilla |
Top HN articles a day via SMS/Twitter | eapen: Or it would be nice to set a threshold that I want to see articles with more than X upvotes or Y comments.I used to be a fan of Digg when it first started but once the content got overloaded, I stopped visiting except for my friend's Diggs. |
simple affiliate tracking software? | laktek: We were also planning to introduce an affiliate program for CurdBee, which also had very similar flow to your context (with delayed tracking). Existing apps were no match for this need and we decided this is something worth to be addressed from the scratch.Initially we'll try integrating it with CurdBee. Then,... |
YC S10 applications almost due. How excited are you? | patio11: I'm tempted to write "Best of luck to all of you who are applying" but I've never really believed in luck so, while it sounds more awkward, "May your applications speak accurately and positively about the extent of your ability to create a successful business."One wee little suggestion: mentioning your age is ... |
Top HN articles a day via SMS/Twitter | niyazpk: Check this out: http://hnsort.com/ |
Anybody else using "noprocrast"? | nostrademons: I used to, but I turned it off and then found I didn't really need it. It seems much more effective to have a job that you enjoy more than Hacker News, than to just block HN. Otherwise, you'll quickly find other distractions. |
What to do with two unused domains? | coryl: Do they get traffic? If so, monetize it by parking with a service or whip up a little site and stick some Adsense on. If they don't get traffic, then either get rid of it or develop it.You can try selling them, but I'm not sure they're worth much. |
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