mrchess

My experience was half-half. I got a pretty good place, but since I was new to the area (my first visit), I was displeased when I got there and found the surrounding neighborhood very sketchy. I mean, the host was nice but I didn't want to go out past 8pm for fear of my safety. Hopefully in addition to photos of the room, they will also encourage photos of surroundings at both night and day!

Mine had a complex multiplication problem but had 0 as a multiplier. Can't get easier than that!

Agreed. I used ddg for a while just to try it out and to be honest I didn't see it improving my search experience at all and found some of its design quite distracting.

Highlight result on hover? Fixed header? Even the fonts throw me off. To each his own, I suppose.

Diversify. The mobile app market is very volatile, and you don't want to put your eggs in one basket. As many others suggest here you probably want to make a few other apps which have traction just in case your big one fails.

There's a lot going against you as time goes on. Other people roll out apps, technology changes which could suddenly cut your income -- so yea, highly recommend you diversify.

Hey Groxx how did you find about the /canvas link? I could find no reference on Google that would have direct me to it in the first place! Very curious how you knew about it. Thanks for it btw as I never knew it existed.

I'm pretty sure there was a figure floating around that suggested >60% of businesses who participated in Groupon ended up more profitable. That being said thats a pretty good gamble -- having a 60% chance shot at higher revenues.

I'll update this with a link if I find the article again.

Source: http://bit.ly/dChtxz

And the rich get richer...

This will propagate a new wave of facebook trolls who will create accounts with specific demographics and make vulgar comments in hopes to 1) troll, and 2) make said demographic look bad. Problem is now we can't even tell if they are real or not!

You should check out the IRC channel on freenode -- #startups. I think a lot of people go there and would probably love to beta.

This post reminds me of how I "creatively" used CSS3 shadows for a job interview. One of my tasks for this interview was to mimic an overlaying drop-shadow effect from a PSD file. I couldn't figure out how to do it smoothly using transparent images, so CSS3 box shadows to the rescue!

Here is the result. The images would slide left to right as a slideshow, and the box shadows are on the borders to create the "layered" effect. The images however do indeed use real image shadows. http://i.imgur.com/0D7WQ.png

I second these guides as they are surprisingly helpful. The blog tutorial seems cliche and done, but it really is a great staple and good place to start in learning the changes that rails3 has brought about.

Yup. They sell them on Amazon too but they are significantly cheaper at JR... the UL30VT that is.

Yup. My curiosity that led to this thread was if the ante has been stepped up now with that 150k investment and the natural evolution of the ycom program. Also it would just be nice to see in general. Hopefully some people will answer :)

Macbooks are great dev machines. I am also a huge fan of the ASUS UL30VT, which runs Ubuntu smooth as butter and about $500 cheaper! I own both machines. Check JR if you're interested in the ASUS.

I'll start.

1. I applied in Winter 2010 with a published site that had been around for 6 months already, 1500 users. Solo founder with 1 remote developer.

2. No.

What if your orders go viral. How can you possibly fulfill them?

The only explanation needed is a fact. Linus Torvalds made git. Sold? :)

I clearly remember my technical screening with facebook back in 2008. We did live code (similar to etherpad) and he asked me to write out a explode() function, and to write a Person object that held an array of friends, and to write a simple algorithm to find friends within 2 degrees.

It was a straightforward technical screening but the reason I remember it was because of the verbal emptiness from the interviewer. As I coded for him live on the spot I swear to god he was doing his own work or doing something else. Often I would ask him questions, comment, or walk him through my code and he showed absolutely no interest and often got lost saying things like "hey wait a second, what did you say?" as I heard him typing away at his keyboard, lol.

Ah, very cool.

I'm surprised they are still 3 engineers. They have been posting jobs for almost a year now and still haven't hired anyone, yet they keep saying in blogs and the job section they want to hire. I understanding waiting for the "best" yet at the same time you're growing a custom stack that requires specific skill sets and I imagine as time goes on it only gets harder. I mean, slow hiring is good too but at some point you need to give in and grow so that your employees can join in on your projects and grow with the company!

I agree with this. The way they single out "Chinese" is very immature. They even said they paid to have proper certification in the U.S., well who did you pay because while your manufacturer may have shipped a bad product, your QC dept clearly failed their job too.

All you needed to say is that they were defective and they needed a recall, no reason to try and blame someone else for your problem.

I bought from you guys to support you, but please take some responsibility.

Cool! FYI there is something wrong with the fadeIn/fadeOut of the header (try editing the doc name and moving the mouse). Looks like whatever event you are listening to may need an extra conditional.

Wait, they are trying to patent tabs and hiding search results? You can seriously do that? Isn't that a little broad?

This blog post reminds me of individuals who will only drink high quality naturally purified twice-filtered water from the mountains of Switzerland.

Nice thanks. Might I suggest you make the compare chart more accessible. Even now knowing it exists I took another pass through the site to see how I overlooked it and I still can't figure out how to navigate to it.

edit: Finally found it as the LAST item on the FAQ. I still think you should make it more accesible! Cool

A couple questions:

1. Can anyone compare WakeMakes with that clock thing that tracks your eye movement by wearing an eyemask? The name of the clock escapes me at the moment, will edit this post once I remember.

edit: it's called Zeo

2. If I know I wake up at least once a night to use the bahtroom out of habit does this disrupt the wake-up system in any way?

Wow please put a NSFW tag on this. I went to it and was hit with a picture of a sliced up decaying corpse.

I'm reading comments on this app on other blog sites and people say things like "translations suck", "not worth your time".

Times like this remind me how ridiculous consumer expectations can be. People still don't get that product development takes time and energy -- they just like to criticize with their elitist expectations only because they own an iPhone.

But yes, this app is great. Keep it up!

After reading the blurb about gymnastics I realized that this was the Jason used to compete with me back in high school over on the East Coast. Times like this reminds me how small the world is!

What version of Chrome do you run? I still can't get "border-radius" to work in Chrome. That being said I still shove that -webkit tag everywhere.