If you don't want to play the "I'm only 17 years old" card, how come your main blog landing page says so very clearly =), just kidding, I oddly agree with your point. You can get some good feedback by posting on HN, but there will be the occasional troll that might ruin your day. Give it some time and you'll build up a thicker skin and learn to let them go.
You should clarify cheap, you mean cheap as in price, not necessarily in quality. Indian developers are able to charge much less in USD because of the conversion rate, that doesn't necessarily mean that their work is cheap. I used to use Elance a lot several years ago, and found that's a good way to pickup good clients. Also going to local meetups is definitely valuable.
I can't remember the last time I was late, my family has a history of being the first arrivers, but I also get agitated with people who are late, especially if no heads up
I don't know, I find it hard to believe that Apple would try to compete by lowering the quality of the product, that's never been their thing. Their products have always been more expensive, and it was always because they built a nice solid product (i.e. made of durable metals, glass, etc.). Give me a hunk of metal over a piece of plastic any day of the week.
All good things started as pet projects...as long as you maintain an interest in building the community you should do fine. Sponsorships and ad sells will come naturally when you establish an engaged audience. Work on building up the content that you curate, and like someone else mentioned maybe use any video editing and recording skills that you may have to create your own video content and commentary, that will give people a reason to come back on a regular basis. Also you should have an email newsletter signup to interact with users when they're not actively looking for new info.
For me I would do it if the salary field was optional, I think the employer should decide what value to place on a specific candidate based on his or her past experience.
Companies who can afford to pay for someone with an expansive background will do so, but certain candidates might also be more interested in working with local startups who don't have Silicon Valley or NYC budgets, but allow for more flexible positions (i.e. Telework, like others have mentioned).
Not to mention certain people thrive in a small team environment versus a large corporate culture, and there's a chance to get meaningful equity to build something new and exciting.
If you control the Wifi setup you can see the traffic passing through it, easy way to pick up ideas if a developer happens to be working on a project using it. Not saying that Google would do this, but they have done this in the past with streetview cars picking up and listening in on unprotected public Wifi connections
I liked the commenter on the article that suggested using fold as a unit of measure. Grow 2 fold, etc. That's how I think of things. Sometimes if you think about growing in orders of magnitude you end up with too high of an expectation. If you're just simply looking to double or triple, you're more likely to reach the mark, and even exceed it, which is probably better for morale.
That's why I'm glad I haven't had to freelance in awhile, a lot of the places are ghost towns with bargain basement budgets. I did like Elance though, they seemed to be pretty professional, but their fees were significantly higher I believe.
I've had the same experience, when I first started at the job I'm at now, I always had this feeling that I was too technically inexperienced, but I found that I was able to find many of the solutions to my problems by doing research (with the help of Google, of course)
I agree, my new years resolution was to blog more, and Wordpress is definitely the most open of all the platforms and allows you to own your own content. Long live the open web. Good luck with your new job at Automattic.
Hmm... did not know that you couldn't republish market data, I hadn't yet looked over the developer agreement I was only given access to it this past week...still not sure how I'll use it
It can also be based on age range, the younger you are, the less likely you are to find success on a dating site, beings that there's a smaller dating population in your age range
POF doesn't make it a requirement, probably because it would create friction in the signup process. eHarmony on the other hand, that's too many questions and no one is going to fill that damn thing out.
You could limit who can contact each user based on the requirement of filling out a "dating checklist" this means that women won't get inundated with messages and will actually respond to those who fit her requirements.
Hey, there's your startup...video speed dating! lol
Facebook does use PHP still don't they just pre-compile it to make it run faster? I'm sure they also use C/C++ in addition now though for certain resource intensive processes like image and video processing
"Real sockets" you mean you don't count web sockets as real sockets? I think it will get there, eventually, just needs more time. Browsers have evolved a lot over the years, but it all comes down to the fact that the organizations in charge of creating the standards (W3C) move a little too slow.
and even if they aren't ssd, that shouldn't cause them to take this long to restart, my macbook when I just restarted it 10 minutes ago took a good 10 minutes to boot up, and I don't even have that many programs installed on it
My Macbook pro is going to be 3 years old in May, and my iPhone 4 is Verizon bought last Feb. Not sure if they have solid state drives, but when I don't restart for several months, they take a longass time to reboot
With the right amount of willpower you can stop using these services... I haven't been on facebook in over 2 years, and it's increased my productivity drastically. I also avoid services that require me to sign up with Facebook, I hate lock-in and I won't be a part of it. Long live the open web!
2013 is also going to be a big year for Healthcare IT, the HHS is moving to open up clinical patient data via HHS. I doubt Google will venture again into the healthcare space, given the recent failure of Google Health, but it's going to be a turning point, they should have waited until the end of 2013 to close it down!
The biggest problem with books is that they cover things exhaustively. What tutorials do is teach you a few interesting things, that cause you to become more interested, and then you want to learn more. If books started off with an interesting tutorial up front, more people would want to read them, but they typically start with very elementary things that bore the readers before they get to the "good stuff." That's been my experience anyway, not sure if everyone shares that same view.
I'll be writing more about the benefits of learning by doing, because in my experience there is a LOT that you DON'T learn when you just buy hosting and use CPanel to manage your servers. It pays to just setup a server yourself at least once, you'd have a new found appreciation for what many developers take for granted =D
And they say you can't please all the people, all the time...if this service really works as described, it seems like you just made that cliche obsolete (in terms of music selection anyway..lol)
I love it lol, I'm disconnected and off the grid in so many ways...I do still have TV, but I do not have a facebook account but used to... It may prevent me from getting a job at facebook but that only matters if you're not planning on creating the next big something yourself.
Although don't you think that by reading HN you could end up being part of a "group think" mentality since most of all of us here are involved in IT?