vlad

49 ms·

421.
by vlad 18y ago
To people who wonder how a company like this might happen, here's my take. A developer constantly talks about his company (that also happens to cater to software developers/hackers) under the pretenses of how well a small software company i
422.
by vlad 18y ago
It's not a forum in a traditional sense, but a blog post.
423.
by vlad 18y ago
"The costly myth of dollar-cost averaging" http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P104966.asp "When the market is studied over long periods, dollar-cost averaging almost always produces lower returns than investing lump sums in diversified p
424.
by vlad 18y ago
You're arguing that the sentence contains enough information for the author's intended interpretation to be understood (which is true); in practice, however, customers expect developers who answer questions at small companies to be more kno
425.
by vlad 18y ago
Great stuff. You mentioned rails, django, catalyst, and php; I think you want a framework like CakePHP or CodeIgniter in place of php in that list. Also, just for kicks, you could mention that Smalltalk has a framework as well: Seaside.
426.
by vlad 18y ago
The way he wrote it, he indeed said he resented it. I recommend everyone starts such sentences with, I've instead of I . Any time you start a written sentence with I've , it's clear you're describing something you just did, versus some
427.
by vlad 18y ago
There is at least one app on the PalmOS (Treo, etc) that captures a user's signature on the touch screen via the stylus, so I was surprised the author of the article believes this is a new concept. However, actually creating and submitting
428.
by vlad 18y ago
I upvote articles that I don't have time to read, but want to keep track of. I've been doing this for at least a year, since the /saved?id=vlad feature came out (articles a user upvotes are available via that suffix to the url.)
429.
by vlad 18y ago
I disagree. This is a very good change. The real title ("snagging smartphones") isn't good. In fact, it's almost entirely meaningless, and has nothing else going for it other than alliteration. This one is better. Regarding frequency, I
430.
by vlad 18y ago
I've been reading PG's stuff since way before YCombinator existed, and that was my initial analysis of YCombinator. First of all, my belief was that PG graduated from five different colleges around the world because he liked being around sm
431.
Ask YC: Best music/online radio to listen to when coding at 2 AM?
3 points by vlad 18y ago|10 comments
432.
by vlad 18y ago
Quite often, the most random and insight-free blog posts containing no substance or logical deduction are upvoted because of a strong title. For some reason, some readers try to pull out whatever tiny bit of insight that the article might
433.
by vlad 18y ago
Not insightful at all.
434.
by vlad 18y ago
Thanks! Really awesome!
435.
by vlad 18y ago
Regarding getting any type of programming job after doing it yourself for a time, it's not very difficult to do. I didn't have any difficulty getting a job at a billion dollar company after doing my shareware business for three years or so,
436.
by vlad 18y ago
I think there are only 10 philosophy grads per year, and the Paul Graham data point heavily skewed the mean salary. :)
437.
by vlad 18y ago
I'm not sure what I just read.
438.
by vlad 18y ago
Was it a crisis when they got inflated returns in the first place? Or is only the correction a crisis?
439.
by vlad 18y ago
Maybe if they stop cursing and start recursing. Sorry for the worst and most annoying joke ever.
440.
CBS and CNET to adopt Facebook Connect(news.cnet.com)
1 points by vlad 18y ago|0 comments
441.
by vlad 18y ago
I think a lot of points in the article made sense. Salary might not be as good a measure of college value as how each individual student feels about the school they attended and their performance in the real world many years later. Related
442.
by vlad 18y ago
Where are these positions located? Why do you care about "potentially less career advancement opportunity?" Do you want to do a startup, or do you want a career at a big company? We can't assume much from your post. Thanks! Also, what
443.
by vlad 18y ago
I disagree. Stay with Computer Science and add a double major in Math. Do your best and apply to transfer to other schools that have stronger CS programs.
444.
by vlad 18y ago
Say person A is unique. If everyone else is identical to each other, then that's unique compared to person A and vice versa. So two uniques is the lower-bound, right?
445.
by vlad 18y ago
I had actually googled that at 4am before posting, and left it intentionally vague (it was not necessarily the first time he met Woz, or the only benefit Jobs found in college). But you are correct and precise. Interestingly enough, Paul A
446.
by vlad 18y ago
I tried searching for Paul Graham. I got Linus Torvalds, then Sergey Brin, then Drew Curtis, then Will Wright. Not bad company.
447.
by vlad 18y ago
Steve Jobs is not an exception. He met Woz in college. This means he benefitted from college. Jobs, Woz, Zuckerberg, Gates, Dell, and virtually everyone on this planet benefits from college up until they don't. A big portion of students
448.
by vlad 18y ago
1) College students don't ask how old you are, but what year. Take classes in the summer and winter to change that faster. 2) Since you do care about learning, but want to pick your own classes and also learn more efficiently, talk to your
449.
by vlad 18y ago
See my post here on how to get $7.75 domain names without hassle: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=340826 EDIT: Here's a link that will give me about 70 cents of your first order (I've been recommending them here for almost a year, so
450.
by vlad 18y ago
An employee's share of SS tax is 6.4%, not 15.3%. (The full amount is twice that, or 12.4%, so I'm not sure where 15.3% comes from.) Add Medicare tax (1.45%, not 5%, and the employer pays a matching amount). You get 6.4% + 1.45% = 7.85%,

More ›