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Why use semicolons to terminate statements in modern JavaScript or ActionScript? | timknauf: Okay, putting all talk of practicality (interpreters, minifiers, convention) aside, let's look at the language itself for a bit; this could lead to some interesting discussion.JavaScript has two ways of designating the end of a statement. Here is (1): ;\n
And here is (2): \n
Now, the semicolon can't help you if you type: return\n
{a:1\n
b:2};\n
because statement end (2) has already kicked in, and so the code will return undefined.So, given that statement end (2) is part of the standard (and doesn't look like leaving it anytime soon), is there any language reason to use statement end (1)? Is it purely a visual signifier? If so, is that useful to a majority of coders? Am I in a minority for considering it visual noise? Remember, we're putting aside practicalities like existing conventions, minifier capabilities and browser implementations for the sake of the exercise. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | epi0Bauqu: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24718http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117658http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85189 |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | lucraft: Banshee, Concatenative, Gtk+, RSpec, Rubinius, Ruby-GNOME2, Vala, YAML |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | davidw: #startups on freenode has a few people from this site. |
why not just use Eclipse? | hapless: I'm told NetBeans has considerably better JRuby support and integration than Eclipse. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | matt1: #rubyonrails on freenode |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | thomasmallen: #cakephp and #python maybe...I prefer mailing lists. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | j0ncc: Web entrepreneur talk @ http://webetalk.com/chat.phpor#webetalk on irc.webetalk.com |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | astrec: #startups, #django, #clojure but to tell you the truth it changes all the time. for me it's not really a social thing - i'm just scanning for the occasional nugget of wisdom, or seeking help. |
why not just use Eclipse? | nittwerp: I really can't stand using an IDE, but I understand why others would. There is just too much going on and it just seems to get in my way. Give me a decent text editor and a couple terminals and I'm ready to go. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | fogus: #clojure, #scala |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | ivanstojic: #startups, #lisp, #php, #dojo on freenode
#java, #c on efnet |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | abstractbill: Speaking of IRC, I realized this weekend I've implemented what I believe is the world's largest IRC network (the Justin.TV chat system).According to searchirc.com QuakeNet peaks at about 170k users, whereas Justin.TV chat has gone up to 188k concurrent users so far.I should write something about how JTV Chat was implemented - there's some interesting stories. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | ideamonk: #ai is good.
#python for help in python
#c++ to help ;) |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | jeremychase-2: #debian, #linode, #lighttpd, #drupal-support, #wordpress, #amateur_radio, and a private channel. On freenode, oftc, and efnet. Colloquy is nice. ;) |
why not just use Eclipse? | neilk: Some IDEs are great. Some text editors are also great.Maybe vim can be made to do it (ctags or whatever they are called?),Don't use ctags. Use cscope. And stop being such a pansy about configuring your tools. If you consider yourself a professional, it is worth learning.Basically, there's no right answer to the question, but there are wrong reasons to choose. If you want to go with IDEs because you don't want to think too hard about your tools, I would say that's a bad reason. Your IDE skills are going to suck if you go in with that attitude. A better reason might be: you want to work with your code at a higher level than mere bytes in a buffer. I know guys who can make Eclipse or IntelliJ do insanely perverted things to their Java code, automatically. Good for them!I prefer vim because I generally work in scripting languages where a refactoring IDE doesn't help much. I like the fact that my editing session can live in a screen, which can be resumed from anywhere in the world. vim+screen is the most rock-solid dev environment you can get. And since vim is so ensconced in the unix way of small tools combined, there are few features of IDEs that I can't at least emulate.Meanwhile, my TextMate-using colleague accidentally searched for the letter 'v' in our entire codebase, and his laptop locked up for 10 minutes. The best part is that he did it AGAIN by accident a few minutes later. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | r00k: Arggh...rooms? Rooms is AOL-speak. :)You mean channels. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | tialys: #nmu on csc.nmu.edu My CS department runs an unofficial server that we all SSH into and screen through IRSSI. We get a lot done that way. Makes planning our ACM/LUG meetings easier too since you can scrollback and see the previous discussions. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | DarkShikari: Freenode: #x264dev, #x264, #avisynth, #ffmpeg, #videolan, #mplayer, #ffmpeg-devel, #mplayerdev, #xvid, #uncovRizon: #darkhold, #cccp |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | tene: freenode: #utah, #lojban, #perl6
irc.perl.org: #parrot
I also hang out in my ISP's IRC channel for convenient occasional tech support. |
Which revision control system? | mhartl: Our products are very-much closed source, so things like Github are of no use to us.For what it's worth, GitHub offers paid repositories for just this case; open-source repositories are free, but you can pay to make your repositories private. Even the biggest plan is only $200/month; see http://github.com/plans for more information. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | unalone: I haven't been able to find an IRC client I like for the Mac, so for the last few months I've been completely clean. |
Feedback on my startup and advice for the big pitch | noelchurchill: The video was entertaining and if your product is similar to the philips livingcolors then it should be very cool! Good luck with your pitch! |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | zitterbewegung: #scheme on freenode. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | tlrobinson: #cappuccino on freenode ;) |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | emmett: #postgresql, #ruby-lang, #python |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | hapless: There are no IRC channels in which I want to admit being involved. |
Which revision control system? | mace: I evaluated Mercurial some months ago and found it very easy to migrate to from Subversion.Here are some benchmarks on the Linux source tree that might be useful:http://laserjock.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/bzr-git-and-hg-per...This blog post is pretty good at summarizing git and mercurial:
http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercur... |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | mst: Most of irc.perl.org - notably #moose is quite good for discussing meta-model type stuff even if not directly in a perl context.Plus a few bits and pieces on freenode. |
Feedback on my startup and advice for the big pitch | lowkey: Thanks everyone for your feedback. Please keep it coming.For those who are curious here is a bit more context:
The company was founded to commercialize technology developed by our founder, an electrical engineer with 15 years of hardware development experience. His first big project at the age of 15 was a pirate radio station he built from scratch in his bedroom. He has been innovating ever since and has developed multiple novel electronics and radiometric products over the course of his career.The other two co-founders have equally impressive backgrounds. One co-founder has over a decade of senior operations and intellectual property expertise. The second co-founder has over ten years experience in sales, marketing, and product development with both Fortune 1000 and several startup ventures. We do not have extensive lighting industry experience but instead have taken a hacker's approach to both the engineering and market challenges.I am looking forward to sharing more about our 'secret sauce' but am limited until our provisionals are filed.We are currently filing our first patents covering improvements in brightness, color rendering, control, thermal management, and cost - significant problems that have so far prevented widespread deployment of LEDs for mainstream lighting.Although our technology can be broadly applied we are focusing on launching a standalone consumer floor or desk lamp and have partnered with leading design partners to develop a simple, affordable, and attractive enclosure. We are not developing an LED light bulb but instead are focusing our resources on launching a lamp with breakthrough price performance to be sold over the internet to eco-friendly, design-savvy, gadget-geeks.It will be as bright as a 100 watt incandescent light bulb but will consume a fraction of the energy, last up to 50x as long and will allow users to control the color temperature of light in addition to brightness. We expect it to sell for under $200US and we will be in Beta by Q1 2009. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | ekpyrotic: Freenode: #physics, #math, #triviaUnderNet: #philosophy, #trivia |
Is there a HN for music? | theoneill: http://thesixtyone.com may be what you're looking for. |
Is there a HN for music? | moxy: While I'm pretty sure this doesn't offer the intellectual discourse you're looking for, http://cherrypeel.com utilizes a very reddit-style voting system to promote underground, independent music. I've discovered some fantastic new artists from this site. |
How do you create an admin part to your site in Rails | qhoxie: I roll my own each time. That is not to say I don't reuse common parts like user management, but I have found that my scenarios are diverse enough to warrant this. |
Is there a HN for music? | zacharye: Music is such a polarizing topic, if there is a place that has managed to put together a community of reasonable people and consistently interesting/civil discussion I will be surprised and impressed. |
Is there a HN for music? | ionrock: There is also http://pandora.com/It doesn't have voting, but for finding music it can be alright. |
Is there a HN for music? | yan: I came here to suggest hypem.com, but you just mentioned it. Maybe follow some blog posts listed there? |
Is there a HN for music? | tricky: Not much discourse, but the guy at http://www.audioindie.com is really up on the indie music scene. |
Who's Hiring? | epi0Bauqu: Not hiring exactly--looking for co-founders who are in the fortunate situation where they can work for no salary indefinitely (and get equity of course). |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | yan: Does the model work? Yes, of course. People pay contractually for things.I don't understand what you're asking. Whether or not people pay for anything you create? That heavily depends on what you're offering and what value it's adding to your customers. It depends much less on the model; much more on your product.And I think 37signals have _way_ more than 2,000 paying users. |
Who's Hiring? | tectonic: Related question: I recently left my previous job and am now looking for consulting work. I have never done consulting before. I have RoR / Ruby / machine learning / startup experience. How should I go about finding clients? |
Is there a HN for music? | inimino: http://rateyourmusic.com/ has a nice rating and recommendation system and is a good way to find new music (and procrastinate).They also have discussion forums, which I haven't tried. |
Who's Hiring? | nonrecursive: Awhile ago I posted my site, http://www.happyjobsearch.com here for feedback. I hope no one minds my mentioning it here again, but it seems relevant.I wrote the site over a weekend after I got laid off for the second time in 3 months. The first time I was laid off, I took a very haphazard approach to looking for jobs and it caused me a lot of stress. I made Happy Job Search to help get organized. It's like a GTD app just for job hunting. It's optimized for quickly adding jobs to your "inbox", then going through and investigating each job, adding notes, and filing the job under a next action (send email, make call, etc). Finally, it's made to be useful for quickly reviewing a job opportunity before you interview.It takes a little time to actually go through and enter job information, but it really helped me. It's also free. Hopefully others will find it useful as well and won't go through what I did the first time I was laid off :)(ps, LukeG I'd like to email you but your address isn't listed. Mine is daniel@flyingmachinestudios.com. Thanks!) |
Who's Hiring? | brandonkm: Also, posting any internship opportunities would be greatly appreciated as well. |
Who's Hiring? | bkmrkr: I am looking for some machine learning guys for quant work. Email me at greggurevich at gmail.com |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | ryanwaggoner: According to this, Weebly (YC startup) has over 1 million users and "well over 1%" of those are paying users. That might mean 1.1% or it might mean 5%...but apparently they've got at least 10k paying users. Not sure how much their paid plans are...http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/03/weebly-scores-1-million-us... |
Who's Hiring? | mhp: http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/ |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | nuggien: salesforce.com? |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | staunch: I think you really need to go after businesses. Consumers are just plain cheap. I know I am. As an individual I don't really need anything. Certainly I don't really need any web service. Getting me to buy something that is just a luxury is really hard. I'm also very likely to cancel when buyer's remorse sets in.Businesses are different. If they need to solve a problem (to make or save a significant amount of money) and the choice is between paying one of their developers $10k+ in salary to build it or paying you $80/mo to have it instantly there's not much of a decision there. You just need to make sure that you're solving a problem that thousands of businesses have and then push it really hard. A simple formula that's really hard work to actually do, but quite likely to succeed. |
Who's Hiring? | agotterer: We are hiring PHP developers at Connected Ventures (College Humor and Bustedtees). If you are in the New York area (or willing to relocate), send your resume to techjobs [@] connectedventures.com.I will post more details at Startuply next week. |
What IRC rooms do you frequent? | truebosko: #django, #python, #startups on freenode.Most active in #django, can be a pretty fun channel at times |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | MicahWedemeyer: Understand your time frame as well. How long are you willing to wait to get to 5000 paying users? If it's 6 months, quit now. However, if you're willing to wait several years and grow slowly, it's perfectly achievable, assuming your product isn't completely asinine. |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | zzzmarcus: Another example: http://www.cobalt.com/This is a Seattle company that does other stuff, but is at heart mostly a SaaS company and they're doing well. Really well actually, from what I can tell. |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | csavage: The SaaS model works, infact it works really well. This is a great time to be selling SaaS because the TCO (total cost of ownership) tends to be much less than that of standard licensed software. (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_saas_cheaper_than_li...)The question you need to answer is "how big the opportunity is for your application?" The number of paying customers at other SaaS companies is irrelevant unless you're playing in the same market and you expect to steal their customers. Which by the way should be a valid strategy if you believe that your application is going to be better.Figure out what you're replacing, guess the % of that market that you can own and decide if it's big enough for you to survive and thrive in. |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | critke: That's right - you've got to be patient. It will not happen over night. And you've got to target businesses. But from what I see (http://uploadthingy.com) - once they're in there and paying they pretty much keep paying. |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | sahaj: if you have a business and are providing a service that the consumers want, then you will have no problem getting people to pay for that service, given you are staying competitive in the given market space.if you are selling primarily to online companies, there is no doubt that these people will buy your service, as they are used to doing business online (unlike yourself).how old are? if you are under 30, and you feel reluctant to pay for stuff online, then you are a minority. most teens and young adults spend their money online, with growing numbers.right now, the economy is tough, so it's hard to say exactly how your business will fair, given most companies are cutting spending (less trade). |
Who's Hiring? | lennysan: How timely, we're looking for 3 fulltime quality software developers right now!Some requirements: 4+ years experience doing fulltime development, proven UI/UX skills, experience with SaaS oriented development, and desire to continuously improve your skills. And at least 10 points of karama at Hacker News :)You'll be working on projects from conception to launch, contributing to the success of the business in a big way.Preferred: Experience with Perl and Scrum. |
Is there a HN for music? | hhm: I like http://thefeelgood.com/ |
Who's Hiring? | seekely: Habit Industries (YC 07) is :)http://www.fuzzwich.comhttp://www.habitindustries.com/jobs |
Who's Hiring? | streblo: Us college kids are going to need jobs soon too! Anyone looking to add someone to their team come June? |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | webwright: SaaS marketing is expensive. Don't look at 37s or JoelonSoftware as successful models-- they have built in advertising for their exact target market with their blogs/content.Can you spare $500 to find out? If so, do this:1. Get an adwords account.
2. Research keywords with their keyword research tool. Are people searching for what you're building? How much advertiser competition is there? This will give you some idea of demand (this part is free-- or $5 for the account setup).
3. Build a landing page that explains your value prop as best you can and your pricing. Have a sign-up button that is BIG at the bottom that goes to a "we're in private beta right now" page with a "give us your email address to get an exclusive invite".
4. measure how many people click on the ad. Then measure what percentage click on the signup button. That's a pretty good indication of demand and pricing sensitivity. The email is a bonus-- if you dash someone's hopes and they still are eager enough that they give you an email addy, then there might be some classic "hair on fire" problems that your purporting to solve.Oh, and +1 for businesses. I've heard 37s say that the vast majority of their revenue comes from biz accounts. |
Who's Hiring? | champion: The 10-person startup I work for, SnapMyLife, is looking for a Rails developer outside of Boston (Needham). Check it out:http://www.snapmylife.com/static/jobs#rre |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | markessien: Frankly, if you need money fast, then don't sell subscriptions. People pay much quicker and faster if it's a one time fee than if it is a subscription - what you then have to do is that once a year, you bring out something so compelling, that the users are willing to purchase another 'chunk' one time.After trying the subscription model, and noting the pains the users would go through to NOT have to pay a subscription fee, I switched to a fixed one-time fee.It makes you work harder to have something new each time, so that the users go through the upgrade cycle. |
Who's Hiring? | mgatny: We are always looking for top-notch developers in Chicago. We build trading systems on a variety of platforms, including C++, C#, Java, Ruby, and RoR on Windows and Linux. Full-time positions and internships doing agile, test-driven development. Send your resume to my HN username at connamara dot com. |
Who's Hiring? | bjoernlasse: We are happy to take some angry laid off rails developers )))http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/blog/ |
Who's Hiring? | bscofield: As a consulting firm (Viget Labs, http://www.viget.com/careers), we have a slightly different relationship with the economy (some companies are more likely to come to us, some are less so). As a result, it hasn't really affected our hiring priorities at all. We're looking most actively for a senior-level Ruby/Rails person, a front-end developer, and some marketing folks... |
How has the current economic situation affected your startup? | cperciva: So far the only effect the recent market turmoil has has on tarsnap is that one customer lost most of his savings due to icesave, and decided as a result that he couldn't afford to use tarsnap.As far as I know, at least; there may be lots of potential customers I don't know about who are potential rather than actual due to the market conditions. |
Who's Hiring? | bhb: We're looking for a Ruby rock star here at Devver.net (http://devver.net). We're a small venture-funded startup that focuses on cloud-based developer tools. We're based in Boulder, CO, but we're comfortable working with a distributed team. If you are interested, contact us at contact@devver.net for more details. |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | geoffc: Saas is a great business model as long as you can handle the deferred revenue part of it, essentially you are financing your customers purchase of the software. This can be painful when you are cashflow negative but once you go positive it is terrific as you have a steady and predictable cash flow stream.I think the biggest benefit of Saas is that it matches the incentives of the vendor and customer far more closely than traditional packaged software. Rather than the sell and run approach of packaged business process software you focus on getting successful deployments and making sure the customer stays happy and around for a long time i.e. low churn rate. |
Who's Hiring? | alanlewis: We are (Ning): http://about.ning.com/jobs.phpSoftware developers (front end PHP focused and backend distrubuted Java focused) and QA engineers are especially needed. |
Who's Hiring? | sokoloff: Here's a related question: I'll posit that there is a higher density of "very desirable" top-notch hackers being thrown into the job market than at any other time in my 15-year career. You know the people: the ones that rarely hit the normal job market because with one or two emails, they can line up their next gig in an afternoon throught their network or friends-of-friends.For those of us who are hiring, what strategies can we use to ensure that we in-person interview more of those candidates (with whom we can generally sell them) and spend less time on the "perma job seekers" that seem to form the bulk of the job applicant population. I don't mean to sound overly elitist, but if I've only got 1 spot open, I want to take a shot at selling the very best candidates, and spend as little time interviewing the also-rans as possible. (This is in regards to professional hires; our college-level recruiting program is in good shape, and there's less change from last year there than in the landscape for professional hires) |
Who's Hiring? | aneel99: I'm QA & looking for a job any ideas? |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | grahamr: As others have mentioned, the key distinction is whether you're targeting individuals or businesses.Typically you'll have a tough time convincing individuals to part with $20 per month and typically there's a free alternative.It's much easier to convince businesses to spend the same amount and, as a bonus, many will be suspicious of free offerings. In fact, others will subscript to a higher premium tier purely to "buy the best for my business."I always refer people to this StartupSchool talk by DHH of 37signals which outlines their business model, and explains their focus on small businesses:
http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/david-heinemeier-hans... |
Who's Hiring? | jgrahamc: Me: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/11/i-am-hiring-in-london.html |
Is there a HN for music? | wastedbrains: voting and such just like reddit, HN, or DIGG but with embeddable songs to listen to...http://cherrypeel.com/ |
Who's Hiring? | brianr: We're hiring! Looking for exceptional, detail-oriented engineers and product managers to help us take over the social world. We're profitable, too.Jobs page here: http://www.lolapps.com/jobs.html (sorry for the lame-ish job descriptions). Drop me a line if interested (email in my profile). |
Is there a HN for music? | rms: The forums at www.waffles.fm -- I have never seen a place better to make a post "I like such and such obscure bands/types of music; please give me recommendations." I've also discovered a great amount of new music by watching the internal top10 lists.Email me, I have some invites... |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | callmeed: Yes, it works. How well it works really depends on a lot of things. It does take patience and you do need to know your market.I actually think you don't need to be in a huge market to be hugely successful. We serve a niche market (professional photographers) and, by most accounts, are successful with strong growth.We have 2 main products/services that have a monthly fee. The first isn't a true SaaS (it's more Saas+web hosting), but we have several thousand customers paying monthly.Our most recent product (nextproof.com) is a true SaaS and is also doing well. We launched in June and should hit the 1,000 account mark early next year.The thing I like about being in a smaller/niche market is that it's easier to find and present to your target market. If you're product is good, it will sell–you just need to make them aware.Here's some things I would suggest based on experience:* Find some "connectors" in your market and partner with them. Give them free accounts and VIP treatment in exchange for referrals
* If you need some cash up front, consider selling a limited amount of "lifetime" accounts. They pay $500 (or whatever) and get an account for life. We've done this and people jumped all over it.
* Explore the possibility of tweaking your app for even a smaller niche market.I've got lots more ideas ... but that's where I'd start. But, yes, I'm a firm believer that it can work. |
Review my startup | grahamr: First impressions: I really like the overall look & feel of the site: approachable, modern, clean, and not needlessly "web 2.0"I have trouble knowing from your messaging who your target audience is, and whether I'm in it. E.g. needs for someone who travels casually and who is accruing miles towards a particular vacation would be very different for someone who travels for a living and has dozens of accounts to keep track of.For me, I've mostly standardized on United Mileage Plus and therefore make sure that any reward programs I participate in are compatible with United's program. Therefore, United's site serves as the aggregator for all my mileage/reward programs.I'll sign up and see how it goes. |
Who's Hiring? | dell9000: Me: http://www.ingamenow.com
developers, designers, business folks and content producershttp://quantcast.com/ingamenow.com |
Who's Hiring? | justin: Justin.tv is hiring the best and the brightest to hack on our awesome live video site. In fact, we have almost as many graduate degrees as we do college drop outs!If you're a sysadmin, network engineer, or programmer, you can find work here: http://www.justin.tv/jobs |
Who's Hiring? | byrneseyeview: I have some clients who are hiring; if you like working on client sites and know event-processing systems, I can definitely help out. byrne@hunter-green.com |
Who's Hiring? | loumf: Atalasoft is hiring:http://www.atalasoft.com/company/careers/#aspnetarchitect |
Review my startup | vaksel: your valid XHTML image doesn't seem to loadon the design note, those are some really good images...did you make them yourselves? Also very clean overall designAlso...kudos on the short sign up page |
Who's Hiring? | centraldesktop: We are hiring developers, php, js, ui, etc...:
http://jobs.centraldesktop.com |
Who's Hiring? | bdr: At Disqus, we're looking for a front-end hero* . The candidate should be good at everything from visual and UI design to Javascript optimization. Email jobs@disqus.com.*hero is the new rockstar |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | mixmax: SAAS works very well for a lot of companies, besides it's bound to get a lot bigger in the years ahead.I wrote a bit about SAAS and the design decisions you should take into account here: http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2007/01/moving-applications-to-w... |
Review my web application | tannerburson: I've been developing this site on and off for a few months. It's developed to the point that I'm able to use it daily without an issue. But I'd love any opinions/thoughts/concerns from the HN crowd! |
Who's Hiring? | dhouston: we're hiring a couple badass engineers at dropbox (python/c++; client/desktop app dev experience preferred).we're backed by yc and sequoia... shoot me an email at drew AT getdropbox.com |
Is there a HN for music? | Wesmax27: If anyone is interested in chiming in further while we are here, I'd be really curious to know the top ways people are discovering new music right now.For me it is: Sirius XM U (formerly Left of Center); Hype Machine; Pitchfork; Songkick (for finding shows in my area); URB Magazine; Fader Magazine; OHHLA Top 25 |
Who's Hiring? | mc: OpenRain out in Mesa, AZ (Phoenix East Valley) is also hiring like crazy too.Generally speaking, we're always on the look out for software engineers who write solid code with Ruby and JavaScript. If you're looking for a challenging position in software, I'd be happy to hear from you. We also have open PM and sales positions.http://openrain.com/about/jobs |
Who's Hiring? | jfornear: Is it a bad time to be looking for an internship? |
Who's Hiring? | mpk: I put up a list of relevant job listing sites on my page a few months ago, mostly to point people to a starting page. They all still seem to be pretty active.http://www.moondust.dds.nl/jobs.htmlDisclaimer : I've posted it here before, there are no ads, it's not for-profit, only marginally relevant to this thread, yadayadayada, etc. |
Does the SaaS model really work? Really? | blender: I think there is always a market for business apps that deliver value. We're a startup ourselves and pay for Basecamp and Highrise - sure there are free alternatives but BC and HR are intuitive and easy to setup and when you have non-techies included in your business those things are important.Someone mentioned Salesforce - also check out Netsuite.You should determine if you're 100% pay (with maybe a 30-day free trial) and primarily directed towards SMBs or freemium model directed to users and businesses. If freemium you can expect a 1-5% uptake on the paid services.Cheers |
Review my startup | siong1987: Remove the valid XHTML image. It has no impact at your customers at all as long as you make sure that the layout is correct in every possible browsers.Anyway, nice and clean layout. |
Who's Hiring? | chrchr: I work at Rentrak Corporation, and we're rapidly growing. We're a stable, 20+ year-old company, and we're working on sexy, technically challenging problems. In particular, the group I work in is building a database that's expected to grow by more than eight terabytes per year.More info here: http://rentrak.com/section/corporate/careers/software_develo... |
Review my startup | adamdoupe: On Firefox 1.5 on Linux (It's what they make us use at school), the "points or pay" text extends beyond the tab.http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20k3o0z&s=4But beyond that, I agree with the comments so far, excellent design and I wish you the best of luck. |
Is there a HN for music? | unalone: "HN for music?" What does that mean?Hacker News is a place for people who are passionate about a subject to talk. The equivalent would most likely be a forum discussing classical music, or a form of music that requires similar dedication. |
Is there a HN for music? | brightscreamer: You're looking for I Love Music. Seriously. www.ilxor.com |
Who's Hiring? | flashgordon: On a similar note, can you folks offer advice on how to "form" a team and apply for the summer round of YC if you are applying from overseas? I am from Sydney and am looking to form/join a team with those in the valley or otherwise (as long as they are willing to move to YC ofcourse).I know it sounds silly and absurd. I have been desperate to apply to YC for ages. Only thing that has stopped me were my studies (which I am almost done with) and my mortgage (I can still take a few months for something as challenging and important as YC).In case I wasnt clear, I am keen to jump across the ocean for YC.Any advice? Any takers? Please contact me for more details if you would like to gauge my experience and skills. |
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