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1. I find that NDAs are dated in today's world and in all honesty, few rarely pursue anything if the NDA should be violated. It's a waste of everyone's time.

2. Your a consultant, signing an NDA with something like makes no sense as your business it to talk to businesses. Much like an investor would never sign an NDA, I'd be careful about signing one.

3. If they're pressed on this, and you want the job, ask for a mutual NDA and revise clauses that are more reasonable, and that won't affect your main line of work. Four years is insane.

Yes and no. In a few years, a lot could change and for all you know, a totally new Mac line could come out to replace the Air as well as the Pro. It's hard to speculate that far in advance and not think that Apple will continue to shake things up.

Previously yes. There were many things in life I much rather not do. When I was in college, yes, there were courses I find rather unimportant and didn't find interest in going but went for the purpose of passing the course, etc... But I assume you're asking currently. Before, I did what I needed to do and didn't care about dedicating time to anything specific so finding motivation was never more than getting something done. Now, I work towards stuff I love doing so finding motivation isn't as hard.

I'm not sure I know how to answer this honestly. I love working and doing what I'm doing. I much rather do what I do than go out, hit up the bar, hang out with friends, play games, or any of that stuff. It's kind of addicting to be honest. Borderline unhealthy.

We're a small startup local to the SF Bay Area looking primarily for developers right now and designers in the near term.

Ideal candidate would be a PHP dev with JS, jQuery, HTML, CSS, etc. C++, Python, Objective-C, etc are bonuses.

We're currently focused on solving an consumer ecommerce experience problem.

Adsense is probably the worse monetization I have in place among anything I do and one that I ignore and just have sitting there passively from sites set up years ago so keep that in mind as I'm responding here...

I have not done anything with my sites that have Adsense running on them for years now. They're just kinda sitting there collecting revenue. With that said, I've noticed an increase in revenue as well as clicks slowly but surely. I can't say that Adblock is a problem for me and if it was or is, it's not noticeable. But then again, I only do maybe $20-$30 in Adsense income a day altogether (currently) so not a whole lot to go off of.

I also want to note that this is combined income. I am not really monitoring individual sites or channels so it might be possible some are up and some are down. Not sure and too lazy to look

Create an account without using OpenID? As for why it needs it, no clue.

Good or not, I think one thing everyone can agree on is to go to college first. There are two sides to this debate. To go to college at all, and to drop out after you're in college. I think at the very least going, is worthwhile for everyone even IF college isn't made for everyone and in many cases may not help out at all in things you learn in the classroom. Afterall, there are other aspects of college you can gain from, both on and off campus.

I tend to be very objective rather than believe I'm right or wrong on any given subject. In areas where I have strong expertise, I tend to be more opinionated but I still retain the openness when discussing.

Depends on who's behind the keyboard.

Please learn to use your friendly neighborhood spider-Google next time. This subject has been beaten to death. Some here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615846

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175223

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1578380

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787241

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931832

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1758554

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840197

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756924

The search literally took maybe 3 seconds tops...

You can access the agile key via dropbox's web login without having to install

I partially agree. Finding someone with good skills shouldn't be second. It's probably at least third on the list. The first and second should be someone that gets it AND someone who is passionate about it and has the drive to execute on it. Someone that gets it but is incompetent in the areas of execution as a cofounder is not really cofounder material either.

Dropbox possibly doesn't encrypt user's data but 1Password does. You already have to have two layers of passwords to even get to the encrypted list of passwords stored before hand.

On the shared passwords, I haven't found much use for that ever. Generally speaking, I would just have people create their own accounts or some services allow for sub-user accounts. I can't imagine many use cases having to give someone your password and I'd imagine that the of use of the service is focused on the primary user so whoever they choose to share their password with will have to find their own way to remember the password.

On the note regarding the plugin support, that still doesn't change it's web-base. As for desktop app, unless its a true local machine service, if you're calling back to a server somewhere, it doesn't change the security issues raised in my original post or that of others here.

I'm sorry but I strongly disagree (btw, I'm not the one that downvoted you; I don't have that option).

Why should I contribute to an open source project when I can do something like design a simple killer wordpress theme that may gain major adoption and use that as reference for my work than a single open source project catered to a single developers open source work that may or may not get used heavily. That or is only used in parts. There are tons of free designs out there, how often have you or anyone you know hiring designers reference how awesome or widely adopted their one off icon kit has been or something similar? Not happening.

How does this compare to a service like 1Password? While I get the convenience of having access to it anywhere on any machine since it seems like it's web based, I'm not a huge fan of web base password storage. Most people would not trust you to store their passwords. Some will, but there will be a huge number of skeptics.

I like services on my local machine. While it is true I can't access all my passwords when I'm not on my main device, two things come to my mind right away:

1. I rarely if ever use any other machines. When I do, I easily memorize my passwords for common things I like to check. Usually these days I check them on my smartphone.

2. There are ways to get 1Password to work with Dropbox which in turns allow me to replicate what you guys are doing without having to exclusively use an online service.

Having said that, I believe you can still garner userbase, but my original question stands, what added benefit do you guys offer?

PS Site design is a bit hideous, a change may help.

I would up the internal SSD to 256 minimum. You'd be surprise how fast the hard drive space is going to be used up between programs/apps, along with everything else you use.

Because developers greatly benefit from participating in open source projects, designers usually don't. That said, developers also make more money than designers do and in a tech centric world, there are more needs for devs than designers. That's why.

First, congratulations for being admitted to both. That said...

1. I was an undergraduate student at Stanford and the Ph.D program (experience) is vastly different than that of an undergrad so with that, take this bit with a grain of salt.

2. I've never been a Berkeley student so obviously my opinion is also skewed because of this so take this into account as well. If it helps, I'm a total geek, not into sports, and could care less for the school rivalries so at least that is not factored into my opinion here.

With those things said, I strongly believe both schools have a very strong CS and entrepreneurship presence and being admitted to both is a great accomplishment. However, having said that, I believe that Stanford has more going on. I might be a bit bias simply because I never got to be a Berkeley student (and I never applied either) but historically, Stanford is known to produce an amazing number of founders for some of Silicon Valley's largest companies (that isn't to say Berkeley doesn't have its wins). But at the same time, you have all the VCs here, it's at the heart of Silicon Valley, in a much better location (in my personal opinion), and ultimately many of the advisors/professors and people here (including guests) are VCs, CEOs, or other prominent figures.

I don't think you can really go wrong with either but if I had to do it over again, I'd still choose Stanford. For the record, while I didn't apply to Berkeley, it was in the back of my mind prior to applying to Stanford. After talking to friends, researching, etc... I chose Stanford and couldn't be happier.

Open source works great for developers for many reasons. On the flipside, rarely does it benefit a designer (although not always true).

1. It exposes a programmer's code work for all to see. If it's bad, you get more than just critique. Others can point out what is wrong with the code but even better, they can correct the code or help you see what is wrong. If it's good or great, it makes for an amazing addition to any developers resume for hiring purposes.

The same can not be said of designers. Sure they can get feedback and people can often point out what's wrong, but these feedback are often more vague. Rarely do they get a walk through tutorial of how to do things better, actually having someone go in and show them how to fix their design flaw (something that happens a lot on the coding side). Pointing something out and having someone help you solve your design problem are not the same thing.

2. I don't know about others but to me, a designer benefits more from having their own portfolio rather than something that they may have contribute bits and pieces together for a project. As a designer, I don't see the value over my own portfolio which I can get enough critiques on without having to contribute to an open source project. As a developer, I see a need but think in terms of what designers benefit out of this. Open source designs are not the same as open source software in all cases. As an entrepreneur, I hire designers base on independent skill sets which is extremely hard to measure when people are co-designing small projects.

3. Just a comment but it would seem this is geared towards a developer who can't design and want open source designs but where is the benefit the designer is getting out of this. Surely there is a better argument. For the record, I'm not arguing that designers can't benefit at all. I just don't see it outweighing the benefits a developer would get in the same scenario.

I don't see an issue with the way they're running it now. Operating it as a corp would come with its own list of headaches and I'm not sure that's the goal they have in mind. Plus making all investors shareholders doesn't sound like a good idea. Why would you even want that in the first place.

For .com, .net, .org, and .info, I like Fabulous.com. For everything else, namecheap is a good alternative.

HOWEVER, I wouldn't use them or Godaddy for hosting or DNS or anything else. If you're fine with Godaddy as a registrar, use an alternative DNS and hosting service.

With only two courses left, why bother transferring? You don't even know if all the courses will transfer correctly assuming you do get accepted. I don't get the logic behind this move?

Unfortunately that's not very representative. The stuff Stanford have listed are pretty intro courses and do not represent all types of CS courses you'd encounter

Then perhaps you lack the fundamentals of business altogether. If there is one rule I have had to repeat to so many (and only god knows why this even needs to be said) is that YOU do not represent everyone. Everyone is DIFFERENT and because people are different, everyone will have different wants and needs.

Just because YOU don't want what Groupon or a similar service offer in your area for the particular deals you've come across does not mean this applies to everyone else around you. If you approach every business like that, 99% of the business in the world will probably be non-existant, after all, I'm sure there are a lot of things YOU don't use or want.

Fuck Yes

If you're like me, half the time (at the very minimal), you'll be using your laptop at home on a desk. Personally I use the bluetooth apple wireless keyboard (exact size as the laptop keyboard with no numpad) BUT I also own the full size keyboard from apple. You should shell out for some money on this if it helps you do work and when you're on the go, it's unlikely you'll be actively needing the numpad.

This idea is not worth it

That's not always true. Most of the startups I've seen get funded are not always that interesting to me. Interest is in the eye of the beholder and for people looking to work at a startup whether as a career choice or for experience before launching their idea, they may or may not always be working on an idea or work that is considered interesting to them personally.

I would have to agree here. I can't remember the last time I even touched the numeric keypad even though I have access to one. OP, I think only a minority of users would want a numeric keypad...