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Awesome, I've yet to meet any of the Justin.tv guys in person.

When I hire, I want to see the hacker's github account =) Projects they work on, the community of hackers they're connected to, their insight to technology, that's all extremely important.

I'm less about the "code challenges" that some companies do, because that's usually just a lame useless task. I'm more about giving potential hires a real feature we want to make, or bug we want to fix, and see if they can do a quick rev 1 of it.

I agree that IE6 is a huge pain point... but just know that users on IE6 already have a horrible experience with the web, that your crappy and broken pages probably look and work just as well as anything else.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned developing and hacking the crap out of view code in order to support Internet Explorer 6. It's a waste of time. People who use IE6 already see the internet as a horrible experience, so trying to make your own product or webpage work is just a big waste of time.

Sysadmin work is also really horrible, though I would say it's unneeded these days with the help of services like Heroku.

This is where Fanvibe first started, in my living room: http://flickr.com/gp/kinetic/Y2ceC3

Check out the photos! our first purchase was a foosball table ;) We also had one of our interns working with us in the "office"

We since moved off to Dogpatch Labs in San Francisco, which became a bit too distracting to code in everyday, so I usually just work from a small home office that has three walls of windows =)

the porn industry is basically an "industry" built upon a deadly sin that has a very powerful innate emotional grasp on some (maybe most) people. Any company you build upon that taps into some impulsive emotion is going to be pretty cool, but in this case, society just makes it seem like the dirt of technology companies.

If you really understand porn, and you're not the kind of person to take on everything associated with it, go for it. But I think the question and suggestion is rather: "would you start a company based on an impulsive emotion, even if it's something society has branded as a sin?"

I can see betting, smoking, drugs, that kind of thing all falling into the same category.

If you're able to find something that hasn't been struck down as horrible, then go for it.

parse out the facts like everyone says. if you already know bias exists, then you don't have too much to worry about. seeing bias shouldn't be a worry for some people, especially HN users. Here we always read and analyze everything carefully before making a decision about how to take it.

Treat all news sources the same way, it shouldn't be too bad.

I believe there are "aliens" of some sort out there. At least some kind of life. What kind of life, I'm not too sure, but there's just too many possibilities for there NOT to be any life. Who knows really how big our galaxy is? How many galaxies there are? And what's beyond that? If we exist somehow, there's gotta be more.

haha, if you could discern one cheer from another, you'd basically know the results ;)

It's true, I'm amazed how huge soccer/football is in every other country other than the U.S.

Dogpatch is an awesome space. I've worked out of there for awhile now, even did a code competition there last year for the RailsRumble.

The Hackers and Founders meetup is fun. I went to the first one that happened at DPL. The keg is a nice touch to the DPL events.

congratz! i also graduated from AHS, but back in 2001 =X I'm old.

A pretty sweet site our design intern pointed me at was: http://siteinspire.net/

It has some really nice designs that are more trendy now a days than ever before. UX less tried as usual, but looks visually cool and super modern.

I'd also vote for Philz Coffee towards the north end of Berkeley, I've worked out of there whenever I'm not meeting down @ YC in mountain view. The coffee is fuel for me (other than cheesily being motivated by happy tweets from fanvibe users =)

If it's a late night gathering, I love going to the Pub in Albany/North Berkeley. Awesome atmosphere, awesome belgian beers. Pretty cool people there too. it's well lit, no music, so it's easy to talk and hang out in.

randall you live in the area too? commute to sf daily?

Ever goto the Pub on Solano? Not sure if that's still Albany though, but I consider it Albany since I can walk to it from my house ;)

Also, wonder if we could talk to the owners about "reserving" that back area where there's couches. Depending on the size of the group, might be doable without reservation.

I've been going to Philz a few times a week when I'm not down in Mountain View =) It's a really cool spot, park on lincoln during the week for 2 hours of free parking. Open till 9pm too, and good amount of space in the back.

There's a good balance of writing it right the first time, and spending too much time with the details and not the actual feature you're implementing.

With enough experience, you'll know how to start writing something such that it won't require extensive refactoring. Make sure it's good enough that if you don't have enough time, it's still good in these two major ways: as fast as possible with no redundancy, maintainable by someone else.

I just use one gmail account. Any other email account I just forward. Eventually everyone just emails to that one account since I always reply from it. It's not a problem at all.

With filters, using the +blah functionality (email+spam@gmail.com for example), it works great! Never need anything else.

I've found the Twitter feed useful to get the most highly ranked articles, but every few days I'll take a quick 5 minute break from coding to look through some of the new posts.

From what I've heard, it started as "preposterous" in terms of it's preposterously easy to use.

First job out of college (2005) I was contacted when I posted my resume on Monster.com. Second job was at a startup which I got through a headhunter. Last one I made for myself! It's the best way =)

I've seen a huge designer community using delicious. maybe the artsy guys and gals liked the "clever" name ;)

oooh, that's how it's happening! thanks for reporting this to us!

eek, good catch =) need to do some polishing!

gotta count on the HN folk to really get down into it. you guys have awesome feedback.

hugh3: awesome quick feedback!

1. Yup, the "at" is basically for the regular season pro teams in American sports. We'll be fixing this soon for all other situations 2. If the guy was your friend, would that be more useful? Like in real life? 3. The server is OK, we haven't implemented any polling yet to the page. It started off as a quick check-in, leave, and come back tool early on. Our roadmap includes a smart decaying poller that will update the page often. A lot of our users now just refresh, nobody's complained too much yet, but we definitely need to get that in ASAP. 4. Definitely need something that says: "You can be anywhere!"

Thank you for trying it out and giving us the feedback even though you aren't a huge sport fan. We appreciate it!! Hopefully we can cover more big events like World Cup, Olympics, Formula 1, etc. where you'll use it.

Great to hear you want that! Our pro-account users (which is free when you invite 5 friends btw), will be given much more than the basic updates we have now.

We're fleshing out all those features (play-by-play) and more very soon.

Some other cool stuff we'll notify you about are really close games that are almost ending, big comebacks, or blowouts/upsets from you or your friends' favorite teams.

Love to hear what other specific notifications you'd like to see!

We love avid sports fans, definitely send us an email with anything else you'd like. We hope to make something you guys really like.

You're right on track with what we're working on. People love to share and brag, and a lot love to brag that they're at the game.

Working with the leagues and teams are tough, but we're going to try to work with them more on cool stuff like audio and video.

Sharing photos and video will be a sweet feature. I'd probably post a million photos myself while I'm at the game ;)

Great ideas! keep them coming.

d0m, that's a great idea! "Get Started" definitely should show you quickly what you can get. We'll start on that ASAP. Thanks for your feedback.