code_devil

Possibly, but if they are also getting the IP of Bump, then it's an acquisition AFAIK.

the main goal is to save on taxes.

Thanks. Fixed it.

If you are not hurting for money(which I doubt), I would suggest taking a nice break, travel, pursue some other skills like new language(Spanish, Portuguese), photography, cooking, volunteering, adventure sports. It will recharge you and maybe along the path you will find some interesting problems you could solve, for an instance a software solution for a problem that exists in some foreign country but you dont see the same problem in US.

You can read a news article on his talk though ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/10/30/why-zyngas...

wake, make some tea, read flipboard/zite, go workout for an hour, come home shower, and head to work.

Yes. I computed it reverse. Thanks.

$2k for 15000 users. <wrong>Each user is worth $7.50/month to you. But, they only pay once to sign up.</wrong> Each user is worth 13 cents.

So, it seems that the users paying for the archival service($25/yr) are the one's keeping the lights on at your bookmarking service. 1000 such users would bring in $25K. Basically you need 7% of your users(15000) to break even today.

Each user is worth $2000/15000 ~= 13 cents

My Question:

1. Is it easy to get recurring paying users?

2. In the long run(for any paying web service) what % of the user base do you think will be such users ? [Is 20% the max ? or 30 % ?]

EDIT: Fixed my cost per user

Companies that are already IPO-ed would be in the ~$150k range for a Sr Software Developer. The equity part wont be that great though.

Yes.

I took two classes (200 and 400 level) programming the M6800 and M68HC11 processors in my undergraduate degree. The beauty of these processors is that they are very minimal and you can get a very good understanding of the entire chip. The HC6811 has two 8 bit data registers(AR,BR), two 16 bit index registers(XR, YR), one 8 bit Condition Code register(CC), one 16 bit Stack Pointer register(SP), and one 16 bit program counter(PC)

Initially, when I took the 200 level course it was fun since we had to write really small(optimized) programs and match the solution of our Instructor. However, when later on I took Computer Architecture/Organization classes learning pipelining etc, it made me imagine how an instruction PSHA (in 6800/6811) maps to an actual 8 bit binary number, which in turn triggers the signals in an actual gates (AND, OR) of a processor.

Some projects I recollect:

1) A LED based calculator + code for the debouncing logic(keypad)

2) A Chess Game.

3) An OS that context switched between jobs. (cant recollect more details)

4) Given a specific date, find out what day of the week it is on ?

I was in a project planning meeting with the lead/manager and it was the first time I heard 'resources' being used for engineers as well as for hardware equipment. It did sound weird for a second, but it was not annoying/irritating.

However, it makes you realize you are only a "resource" and you can be replaced by a different or multiple "resource" if you quit or if needed.

I think this also holds for any other country as well. Say, if you go to India, you will see a vast disparity between Mumbai and some small remote town. In Mumbai/Delhi a mechanical machine would be used to mix the cement material for construction whereas in the remote cities you might see labours manually mix the contents of cement.

based on the handful votes so far, it does seem to be skewed towards web/mobile/apps.

Also it might have a bias towards Web/Mobile Apps. So, I created another poll to verify that.

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2764570

You might want to add "Technology/Industry" like Web Companies(FB,Twitter), App Companies(Built on Top of FB, Twitter), Mobile Companies, Networking (Cisco, Juniper), DB/related (Oracle), OS(Apple, MSFT).

I "get" the feeling that programmers in Web technologies get paid less than people in hardware/appliance companies like Cisco, Juniper, NetApp etc.

Edit: Just noticed the Industry Option :)

I have been looking to learn spanish. My personal preference is to take a classroom course so you will have real people to interact with and remember the vocabulary. And then you can follow up that with online material.

During my search, I also found 1. iTune podcasts (Coffetime Spanish) and many more 2. My local library has a tie-up with MangoLanguages 3. Verbling ( a new site backed by YC)

Rosetta stone is always there, but is something I would consider once I have take a classroom course first.

It may not have much meaning today. But, 50+ years from now, it could well be a part of history related to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.

so are you using one of those helper libraries/project django-norel ?

I have used AppEngine for a few fun projects where I have tried to use FB Login/Connect for authentication. I like the fact that you can rapidly prototype and improve your skills and have it all published to the web for free.

Question: I was looking for a library for authentication mechanism other than FB or Google . Any suggestions ? (All I need is basic user/password)

I would think the both to be almost same as long as you can tie your name to the App/Software you deployed in Google Market. In one scenario I get to see actual code and in the other a final product that has been deployed to the market. Both, having being done as a side project should be considered equal

To help myself with some problems, that might be useful to others as well. In the process learn a framework and updated my programming skills.

Or maybe they were not suicide bombers. They were just terrorists trying to leave the cell phone at the target location and then send a SMS to it.

Thanks. Those are great!

I would suggest creating 1 or 2 simple FB apps like quiz, gifts etc to get the feel of developing FB Apps. Firstly, you will learn about FB API's, secondly you can gauge how easy/hard it is to develop and accordingly do a cost analysis between self developing versus outsourcing. And, even if you outsource it, you would be able to maintain/fix bugs locally.

There is a NewTech meeting the first Tuesday of every month at DLA pipers in Palo Alto. They have 3-4 demos of products(typically web apps) followed by networking. It includes free pizza/wine/beer.

I was thinking the same when I saw this question posted on the main HN page. I guess it could have been worded differently and not be an ASK HN When ?

Agreed. But if it was new site, that would give you some value, would you still be concerned about using facebook/twitter credentials ?

I got my iPad over the weekend. And this was one of the first apps I installed. So far I have been loving it. Currently you can only have 9 sources. Maybe they will charge for having more than 9 sources or maybe they are trying to keep the ui nice and simple, since Evan Doll is a former apple employee and instructor for the iPhone classes at Stanford.

If you are a tech entrepreneur in the social media ecosystem (facebook, twitter, social-games), you probably dont need a reminder since all your friends in either of these networks will have a status for "happy mothers day" :)

To access those you need to get authenticated and it's only allowed for the logged in user.

The graph api pretty much displays what you will see at your vanity url www.facebook.com/<username> without being logged in or when a user who is not your friend comes to your page.