mcargian

most frequent flyers (on flyertalk) have been calling it the nude-o-scope

30 hours for $550? Not to belittle your situation, but this would have been a red flag for me. Even in Tennessee I would expect the hourly rate for a reliable developer or designer to be higher than this.

If it was a larger amount of money you should definitely tie payments to milestones. When it is such a small amount like this it's hard to spend time on a lawyer (or even your own time) for a detailed contract so, in this case, communication is key. Even when things go sour.

Shouldn't the rejection be focused (as much as possible) around areas that you want to improve such as getting a conversation started with women and cold calling customers? Securing a bite of someone else's croissant is pretty low on my list of rejection fears.

After several generations of netbooks, people are still pining for optical drives for the one or two times a year you wish you had one? I'd much rather the smaller form factor and a USB key for data transfer.

lol, ok thanks for ganging up on half my comment and the down votes. My wording choice was poor and I agree that "nothing to hide" does not make it right for the abuse that we are seeing lately. But I still stick to my response to the previous commenter, our interview was very straight forward.

Oddly I had exactly the opposite experience. My wife and I were interviewed together, the agent asked very straight forward questions about our past with me present. There was nothing tricky in the slightest. I guess it depends upon the situation, but if you've got nothing to hide then the above article is a non-starter.

If you don't mind me asking - what did you end up paying compared to the sticker price? The problem with most services like Carwoo is that you can get a much better deal yourself with a little bit of knowledge and some time.

Same image as yesterday. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1780004

I've worked with them as an affiliate too - and their XML service, in some cases, is very slow compared to their competitors - like orders of magnitude slow. I hope 40+ engineers can help them catch up with the rest. Although 40 seems like a crazy number.

He stated they have $70,000 per day in revenue. Depending upon average ticket price that is more like 6,000 to 8,000 tickets during this period. Still an incredible success, but not 70,000 tickets.

Wait - so after all that they are not going to milk this into some kind of contest? They are just going to give up and walk away?

"This wasn’t the right project at the right time for crowd sourcing" - what? Isn't that the whole point of this crazy stunt?

Looks like they are getting a good response and more mindshare then they should for a logo. Perhaps this will be the new "new coke/old coke" case study of the future but "now with more crowdsourcing (tm)".

source?

I generally reply to less than 2% of CL ads - choosing the ones that I feel I have the best chance to win. I never send a resume, I only reply with links to other projects I have already completed that are pertinent to the job request. I also mention that references are redily available, which they are, although no one usually checks on them.

I find that answering the job ad specifically, explaining how I would work on the problem, and mentioning how I have done something similar in the past gets me the best success rate to speak with the client directly. Even if you don't have exactly the same project under your belt, you can reference other web work and explain how portions of the project are the same.

I agree. More than half of my work has come from CL. The nice thing about CL is being able to win work locally if you are in a larger metro area.

Even if you are not in a big CL city, many replies to job ads are from overseas or from developers with limited communication. If you can communicate well and provide a solution for exactly what the customer is asking, you can win some good (and potentially long term) work.

But as Ryan says above, you need to weed through a lot of bad listings and be persistent in your search.

Happy Birthday!

I wonder what the age distribution is between applicants and those accepted. Rejected as well. But I'm "old" in YC-years so I didn't expect to get an invite.

What is flex? I'd just go with 0 or Studio as it is much more common on rental website search forms.

I don't think there was anymore than this. I remember the first post with a big lead up to the 30 day trip - but I don't remember many other posts other than the one you linked to.

From AVG:

wp_content/themes/LightBright/js/League_Gothic_400.font.js

Exploit link to exploit site

edit: FF 3.6.8 on Windows - AVG 9

is anyone else getting a virus fishing attack warning on this link?

Both United and Jetblue have extra legroom economy sections available for purchase by anyone well in advance.

I think this shows that the original article is incorrect in its assumption that given more product differentiation people will chose an alternate airline. If more people were willing to pay for extra legroom then more airlines would offer these "economy plus" sections.

For me, I'll stick to flying one airline, keeping my elite status which almost always guarantees me an upgrade to first class.

and an even lousier HN submission. What is going on? Has there been some take over of HN by Kevin Rose?

> Was there a particular one that bothered you?

All of them. ;)

I mean that in a nice constructive way. After setting up OpenBravo and other open source POS/ERP systems I am looking to get info on your product quickly. How do I import existing products? How do I perform end of year inventory? How are gift cards/gift certificates handled - if at all? etc.

Personally I'd rather read all the answers than be forced to watch dozens of slow paced videos, but if you could speed them up I guess that would be ok too.

Also, can you speed up the demos? The pacing is horribly slow. "now we are going to click 'Item List' [pause] [pause] [pause] [click] [pause] [pause] now..."

I would expect that your potential customers already know about POS terminology and quickly want to see if your software matches their technical requirements and is easy to use. The incredibly slow moving, dumbed-down videos would turn me off instantly.

> And most people's domains hadn't reached the point where just using initials was unworkable.

Seems like my first email address (especially university VAX accounts) back then were even more cryptic and included some bizarre Godzilla reference like djd984kd@mothra.someschool.edu.

If you are attending Startup School, don't forget the Hackers and Founders meetup Sunday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=893109

I've had a Nokia 9300, E71, and other Nokia phones. I have been able to tether with all of them on AT&T.

Although it may be evil and expensive, it is absolutely not gambling. The last person to bid, wins. There is no chance, no draw, no random event. The last person gets it.

> Pilots have to learn this attention span management skill to a much higher level than most people.

Perhaps you should mention this to the Colgan training co-ordinator. I don't think the CO 3407 crash had anything to distract the pilots other than their own conversation.