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by kleinsch 16y ago
Hacker News DC Meetup has had a lot of success bringing the community together. I'd encourage anybody in the DC area to check it out - http://meetup.hackernewsdc.org/ . I see no reason why people shouldn't do it in other cities as well. Ha
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I'm actually working on a blog post about this now, but don't have it done... Having gone through this process twice, if the employer has a decent lawyer at all, they're not going to go along with "fencing of what is theirs and you keeping
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by kleinsch 16y ago
You pay yourself a reasonable living salary, based on location and living expenses. It usually has to be approved by the board, but so long as it's reasonable, you should be OK. The idea is that you're not getting rich off your salary, you
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by kleinsch 16y ago
Running on your heels is the #1 source of running injuries. If you learn proper running technique, you don't need motion control shoes or insoles. For a more technical approach, look up Evolution Running. For a more beginner-focused approac
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I use a ViBook ( http://www.villagetronic.com/vibook/index.html ) at work in order to have two 22-inch monitors hooked up to my MacBook. Performance is surprisingly good, especially for low-intensity tasks like text editing. Watching videos
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by kleinsch 16y ago
I've thought for a while that people need to take hiring advice given by 37Signals and Fog Creek (Joel on Software) in perspective. It's a very different experience hiring when there are thousands of programmers who would die to work on you
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by kleinsch 17y ago
Name brand sites (NewYorkTimes.com, ESPN.com, CNN.com) are rumored to get CPM rates much higher than that. I agree, however, that Gizmodo is probably not getting those rates. In addition, publishers usually get high rates on their direct me
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by kleinsch 17y ago
Yeah, the article was completely pointless. Question some friends and I were discussing today: if this issue were to go to court, what grounds would Adobe have?
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by kleinsch 17y ago
Agreed. I'm working on a game for release in a couple months, and last week had wrapped up a two week project building a nice system for scripting game objects using Lua. I'm now in the process now of scrapping it and going back to C++ for
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by kleinsch 17y ago
Second the vote for OmniFocus. The key for me was synchronization between multiple computers and the iPhone. The iPhone app seems a bit like an afterthought (it's very slow to update, even when using their suggested tweaks), but synching be
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by kleinsch 17y ago
That's a misconception. If you design your schema properly, evolving it isn't a problem. We use protocol buffers (forced to because we're integrating with Google) and in the schema, everything is marked as optional so they can add or remove
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by kleinsch 17y ago
University of Maryland (College Park) - Go Terps!
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by kleinsch 17y ago
I'm sure there are exceptions, but for the most part certifications are useful when applying to bigger companies who use certifications in order to have more uniform hiring standards. For startups, choice of early employees is critical, so
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by kleinsch 17y ago
Aside from the popup on first launch, there's no help screen, so I can't figure out how to arrange things properly. I tried visiting the gallery and it's not sized for an iPhone screen, so I have to scroll around to see the entire picture.
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Startup Engineers: Learning the Core(kleinsch.com)
1 points by kleinsch 17y ago|0 comments
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by kleinsch 17y ago
Check out InfoBright. It has a free version that has most features you're going to need. There are some bugs, but they're working through them pretty quickly.
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by kleinsch 17y ago
The AP is a program for college credit, so they look at what colleges are expecting. The majority of colleges are using Java for their intro computer science classes, so the AP adjusted the class to account for that. The major industrial pl
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by kleinsch 17y ago
This has very little to do with login cookies or site cookies. All major sites will just add more to their terms of service. The real problem is online advertising. I left a comment with more detail on first post about this: http://news.yc
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by kleinsch 17y ago
It doesn't just break behavioral targeting, it breaks conversion tracking. Most campaigns are run with Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) goals, regardless of how they're priced (CPM vs CPC, etc). Figuring out actual CPA depends on being able to ma
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by kleinsch 17y ago
Online advertising uses all kinds of machine learning. When companies are running billions of impressions across multiple ad networks and using different creative variants, it takes serious algorithms to cut through the noise and find the i
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by kleinsch 17y ago
You're right that everything is CPA by proxy. I work for an ad network, and despite selling on a CPM basis, we get evaluated on a CPC or CPA basis frequently. For performance campaigns, everything gets broken down to an eCPA for evaluation
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by kleinsch 17y ago
ReplayTV had the ability to automatically skip commercials on TV 6-7 years ago and I'm sure the same articles were all over the news. It didn't really happen, now did it?
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by kleinsch 17y ago
This is becoming prevalent in the world of game engines, where the engines sell for big money, but companies making under $100K per year can buy for a few thousand (Look up Unity 3D or Torque for more info). It serves as promotion and build
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by kleinsch 17y ago
The green button has inconsistent behavior by application - firefox maximizes to whole screen, safari sizes to the window, iTunes goes back and forth from mini-Player No cut and paste between windows - But I use the command line for most th
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by kleinsch 18y ago
That's extremely helpful. I've been looking for something like this, but haven't found any as comprehensive. Half the articles/TODOs I read are written by people that have founded multiple companies and are missing some of the things that a
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Lawyer/Accountant Advice for Starting a Business
2 points by kleinsch 18y ago|3 comments
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by kleinsch 18y ago
Maybe I just read the wrong blogs, but I've been waiting for someone to say this for a long time. Aside from my techie friends, I know absolutely nobody who uses Twitter, and it's been up for a long time now.
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by kleinsch 18y ago
It's a nice site. I'm glad you have a demo video; that's a Web 2.0 trend that's exceedingly helpful. I like being able to watch a short video to find out what a site can do without having to randomly click through to try to figure it out. H
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by kleinsch 18y ago
Zacharye - Engineer here who might be interested. Send me your email address and we can talk. nick [dot] kleinschmidt [at] gmail.com
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by kleinsch 18y ago
It's tough to start working on something after you just got home from an 8 hour stretch of work. Some of the things I've done are: - In the beginning, start projects on weekends or holidays. If you're not already burned out, you can get a s

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