caw

88 ms·

721.
by caw 15y ago
I agree with this. I already had a few of these buzzwords on my list for job postings to avoid. "Work hard play hard" - Yep, the author's right "Significant Equity" - I guess I've read too much HN to know that that's nothing "Pre-revenue" -
722.
by caw 15y ago
Actually a friend of mine interviewed for a "startup" that's in the same position. The company has little fear of going under from bankruptcy, but they have the startup feel with the random basketball hoop, video games, snacks, etc that bi
723.
by caw 15y ago
I've been a sysadmin for a few years in a Linux environment. I had never touched Linux prior to that. I would like to say that the quickest way is to break things. When you break it and have to fix it, you learn the subject better. Obvious
724.
by caw 15y ago
My girlfriend (non-coder, but she's done Matlab before) tried out Ray's free tutorial when you sign up for the newsletter because she wanted to try making an iPhone game. She really enjoyed the tutorial, and it had everything that she neede
725.
by caw 15y ago
Try posting at the local college (flyer or email) or the co-op/internship office. If you email though it's best to go through the school rather than try to obtain a list of emails and send it yourself. I know I tend to delete those without
726.
by caw 15y ago
>I know who are likely to just say "yeah we'd use it" so they can make me happy. I believe in this casey you're supposed to show 3 products that could potentially solve the problem. Pick 3 axes that you think could be important. For g
727.
by caw 15y ago
My guess is that you'd find a connection that works your particular area to validate the problem. If it's a first level connection that's great, easier to ask :). Otherwise, find a second level connection and get introduced to them. Say th
728.
by caw 15y ago
Absolutely. The first thing you want to do is ask someone in the domain about the problem. Is it really a problem or is this a solution without a problem? At that point you can start figuring out how you're going to solve this problem, an
729.
by caw 15y ago
If you know about how much memory you'll need and don't care about I/O cycles there are a lot of low-end VPS for only a few bucks (<$10/month). Low end box features a lot of them and specials. Of course there are also monthly posts abo
730.
by caw 15y ago
Is there a way we can get a mailing list or some other kind of group set up to manage this rather than posting repeatedly on this thread? I don't typically do group meetups so I'm not sure what is appropriate.
731.
by caw 15y ago
There's an open source Pomodoro app. It's on the (mac) app store for $1.99ish but if you search on the developer's website there's a github link where you can download the app if you want to compile it yourself.
732.
by caw 15y ago
I was actually going to search for this later tonight because I recently moved to Austin. I'd be game for a meetup.
733.
by caw 15y ago
Not for BestBuy, probably for a few reasons What would you change it to? UPC codes? One of my games has a UPC code of 000888834625. Try reading that quickly on a product tag. Short hashes like jKghH3? How do you convey that it's case s
734.
by caw 15y ago
Bestbuy has QR codes next to their items in store. It takes you directly to the product's page so you can read reviews and whatnot. I think that's an effective use for them if you've looked at the BB URLs lately.
735.
by caw 15y ago
Right before I left my last job they were looking for interns, and I interviewed a few of them. I was absolutely looking for all 3 of those qualities, not any particular skills. If you had existing skills that was a bonus, but we were pri
736.
by caw 15y ago
I agree with the expertise statement. I think the money was somewhat covered tangentially with the Weight Watcher's comment. Basically it's WW (points, prepackaged meals, guides) for body building. What I didn't feel was a connection to y
737.
by caw 15y ago
I agree with you on this. If I was starting something in a space with regulations I would love to buy something that's guaranteed rather than figuring it out myself. It would allow me to work on my product rather than compliance.
738.
by caw 15y ago
Anecdote: A friend of my runs a consulting business. He does webapps, but generally has to set up the webserver if he doesn't have to provide hosting. He's a fantastic programmer. I came to find out that he hadn't disallowed root SSH yet
739.
by caw 15y ago
As people have suggested, on some people they probably make money off prime (the small time users), and on others they make it up in quantity of stuff purchased. For instance, Amazon Prime (Student) was free for a year last year, now it's
740.
by caw 15y ago
I code Perl at my day job and I use print statements. I'm in a terminal coding, and I've never really learned how to use the Perl CLI debugger. Normally I suspect what's broken and I just need the print statements to verify. In Xcode I use
741.
by caw 15y ago
While that's possible I would say that's extremely unlikely, so you're better off getting the feedback. Think of this way, on the spectrum of loathing to loving your idea, they have to be on the top end and have either the resources or tech
742.
by caw 15y ago
I also turned off overdraft on my account, but I did this when I got my Wachovia debit card in the mail. It has as a $5000 per DAY limit of transactions. I called to get it lowered, to say $500 but they couldn't do it on my blue debit ca
743.
by caw 15y ago
I wouldn't say that's completely unheard of when I went to college. If he's watching it because he doesn't trust you to manage your own money that's one thing, but there are other reasons for being able to manage an account. For instance, i
744.
by caw 15y ago
I agree with this. If they want you and not a person who can code, they'll work with you on your school schedule. Either part time or remote work or flex hours. At the beginning of every semester, probably about 2 weeks in you sit down and
745.
by caw 15y ago
>why don't CS degrees teach you much technical skills? Seems more theory than anything else! Because the theory lasts a heck of a lot longer than the technical skills. They're giving you the tools to learn anything rather than teach yo
746.
by caw 15y ago
Zabbix was also pretty simple to set up and it comes with a bunch of monitoring tool out of the box if you have the client agent. My last job was considering it instead of trying to update and practically re-write our Nagios configs that w
747.
by caw 15y ago
Funny enough; it's sitting next to me right now. I started reading the book right before my new job but stopped because of moving and stuff. I was going to pick it back up today. I've got the new version. You can definitely tell what's upd
748.
by caw 15y ago
Speaking as a sysadmin (hi /.), is this something that people might be interested in on a wider scale? I'm thinking either a book with the mile high overview of several technologies (ie here's your generic chef,cfengine,puppet configuratio
749.
by caw 15y ago
I took a course with a professor who is an entrepreneur. Some tidbits of what he said: If you have an idea stop right now. Find a problem. Ask pointed questions, but if you get too specific you'll only cheat yourself. Example (to steal so
750.
by caw 15y ago
I use clickpass; I didn't know how to make an account otherwise. If you keep allowing me to log in from Google I'd be cool with ditching clickpass specifically.

More ›