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by devmonk 16y ago
Similar situation, but I don't live in NYC. There is somewhat of a salary ceiling from what I've seen for the average developer (where "senior" is as far as most typically get). However, I have known a few devs that do multiple jobs (typica
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by devmonk 16y ago
I worked at a place where the original investors got royally screwed over time due to dilution. Basically, as was learned in the early 2000's, don't take a job for the options. And as an investor, assume that you might not always have the c
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by devmonk 16y ago
The thing that I find really strange is that development is becoming more about putting the pieces together and writing code to make small changes than it is about really writing much code. Between the many available jars, gems, plugins, et
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by devmonk 16y ago
Wikipedia is destined to be renamed "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" at this rate. Someone should add "mostly harmless" to that page.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Privacy is almost non-existant. When you can be video/audiorecorded anywhere and that information posted up on Youtube without question to share with the world, how is there privacy? When all of your bank's data, your government records, an
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by devmonk 16y ago
Should we push for much more limited copyright terms, so that any sold publication or data after 20 years would become public property? It just keeps getting longer and longer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_term
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by devmonk 16y ago
Thanks! You have some good thoughts on it, and your plan to get input is great. But, I think you need to continue thinking outside of the box on this. What you are saying you want it to do is the cliche of existing sites out there that do s
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by devmonk 16y ago
Some thoughts: - Domain/name sounds somewhat awkward, which is not good for a place to get news. - favicon looks rough. - The front page is unfortunately a wreck, UI/UE-wise. -- Don't use scrollover/hover to highlight part of main page name
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by devmonk 16y ago
What I don't understand is why businesses like this feel guilty for not being able to turn up supply and distribution at the tip of a hat. Should you do the research, make the contacts, and be ready to handle it as much as possible? Sure. B
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Ask HN: How do you maintain a good balance between a high and low-tech life?
22 points by devmonk 16y ago|18 comments
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by devmonk 16y ago
"Pop quiz: If you are making a lot of money with 5% market share, how much money will you be making with 10% market share? That’s right, twice as much." No, that's a misunderstanding. Double market share != same product/service at same pric
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by devmonk 16y ago
Game Room ( http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-us/games/pages/gameroom.as... ) could have easily been a prototype of something they might be planning to do with a future gaming experience. For example, when the console comes on, you could
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by devmonk 16y ago
The trick is that books are outdated as soon as they are written. There are a number of great books on design, but you can learn just as much if not more by just searching around. Assuming you mean site design (learn the golden ratio, learn
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by devmonk 16y ago
I'm not interested in Z, so I won't see this flick. But I hope that more successful companies get positive movies made about them. Too many people down on capitalism, imo, and I find information on how people went from startup to large corp
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by devmonk 16y ago
I don't have a pair yet, but check out the Panasonic RP-HC55-S. Not too expensive, won't get in the way of glasses, and won't make your ears hot. If you really want serious noise cancellation, you need over the ear ones, and get a nice (exp
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by devmonk 16y ago
I think the answer is that they don't want a crappy-looking, buggy product/service that doesn't do much. Keeping it simple is great, and suggested, but making it useful and nice looking is also very important. Are you sure that it failed be
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by devmonk 16y ago
Sure I was being sarcastic, but why a downvote? It is a legitimate issue. If it is jailbroken and you put apps written for iOS on it, how you would perform pinches and swipes type commands via remote? I'm not saying that iOS was the wrong c
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by devmonk 16y ago
But can you (reverse-)pinch to zoom and swipe to scroll?
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by devmonk 16y ago
Facebook beat Gmail? Every time I log into Facebook I see spam on the right side of it.
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by devmonk 16y ago
But did you write it using the Pomodoro technique?
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by devmonk 16y ago
I agree that if it worked, it would be useful.
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by devmonk 16y ago
Sell it and buy an island. I'm sure there are good people working there. Have an independent firm hire some top notch developers and efficiency experts to come in, identify them, then split off a company with those people in it and call it
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by devmonk 16y ago
I heard this story on NPR. The guy said that even though there were results to the study, they didn't have a way to measure group intelligence effectively yet. So the first part of the statement, 'The "intelligence" of a group can be meas
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by devmonk 16y ago
I never would have thought of "Find out where they recruit talent". At first I thought that might be a good question. But your interviewers could namedrop contracting agencies or say they go to the UG meetings and other meetups, and the pla
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by devmonk 16y ago
What is a good use of an Android-based webserver?
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by devmonk 16y ago
Not gullibility. Blind greed. People don't want to miss the bandwagon when they see others making money. They may be the most untrusting people in the world, but they turn that distrust towards the naysayers if they think there is money to
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by devmonk 16y ago
Just don't tell our sun. Seriously, another star could just come out of nowhere to join it, and we'd all be fried.
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by devmonk 16y ago
"Solid technical background and development experience with JavaScript, along with experience with UI AJAX frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, and scriptaculous and server frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and PHP;" Interesting. I understand nee
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by devmonk 16y ago
So what's the difference then? Slumming it in Bermuda vs. Boracay for holiday? I think it is great when the high profile guy takes one for the team, but do we really need to know? We all know Windows mobile ain't doing so hot now, but it is
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by devmonk 16y ago
Nexus is prob best (for Android hacking, not Linux). Gave up on linux mobile device search a while back: http://www.google.com/phone/detail/nexus-one or ebay: http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=google+nexus+-case+-battery...

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