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I can not decide where I lay on this issue.

On one hand I love the ability to interact with facebook through apps such as Tweekdeck (which I can only assume uses this API?).

However, this API can be abused by sites to publish 'closed' information. If I create a strictly private profile so that all my status updates are displayed only to my confidants, I have an expectation of privacy. Say Bob is friends with me, however uses this API to publish all my assumedly private status updates to the world on his website www.watch-woodsiers-status-updates.com, without my knowing. Is that right?

Someday around June, 2010.

Don't depend on someone else to score you a job.

Network.

Verbose resume's bore, simple resume's score.

There, same advice, but far less writing (and far less self-congratulatory, please-read-my-article-while-I-masturbate-over-how-superior-I-feel-compared-to-this-poor-dude bullshit).

That's more of a necessity rather than anything else, though.

I disagree. There will always be yuppies who have money. In times of depression they are the least effected group (relatively).

I had a good chuckle when that was essentially the first tip.

If you have an addictive personality then you probably should be very wary of using websites like this, I have facebook and check it for maybe 10 minutes every day or two, I couldn't use it for longer because it's so bloody boring.

True. Usually because it's very easy to identify and call out anyone who doesn't know what they're talking about.

The way I see it, if you're intelligent enough to do it once, you can sure as shit do it again.

But you're completely right, it'll surely sting.

Hey! We can keep it in BETA for a few years! Nice idea.

I'm keen.

Someone want to hack it together? Maybe have a vote site built similar to YC/reddit where anyone can submit a book and discuss it, then the most popular submission every 2 weeks is chosen and we all read it?

Maybe decide 5 groups of books (business, technology, scifi, philosophy, etc) and choose 1 from each every month, to facilitate those who may want to use this book club for different reasons such as a learning facility (those who would gravitate to functional books on tech for example) or an escape from the every day (and read/discuss scifi or philosophy). I don't know, I havn't really thought this out. Maybe I'm over complicating it - I do that when I'm boozy!

Either way, it sounds like it could be a fun way to play with the Amazon API.

I don't have time to check it out now, so I'll gloss over it tomorrow... but I think I might just have to kiss you (run away now). This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for!

I'll drop another line and some feedback after trying it in the morning!

Forget about life goals, instead break them down into 1, 5, 10 and 15 year goals, and then maybe tag "life goals" right at the end.

That way people can see something infinitely more important: you have a detailed map of what you want to do and where you want to go within certain timeframes. Though, it's important to know that they aren't stone-set, and should be revised at least twice a year.

Yeah, don't drop out. I'm you (in terms if your passion) three years ahead. I'm 21 and nearly finished with University, and I was similar to you in High School in the fact that I was writing software, having fun with small-scale start-ups and projects, and had businesses begging me to drop out so I could work for them full-time.

What's different? Not too much. I now have corporations begging me to drop out and work full time, and some really cool jobs lined up for when I'm done. The biggest tip I can give you is this: don't fuck up. You will at some point think that you are awesome and you can drop out of college - don't. Also, if you focus too much on work, business and software without an equal amount of partying and social activity with it, you will feel empty and eventually burn out - a lot of self-management is required here, because if this happens you either persevere in a depressed state, or take a break for a few weeks as you should.

While I'm certainly not "old" yet I've been told myself thousands of times by trusted people both in my family and in the world of work that I'm way too young to take things too seriously. When I'd take this at face value I would think they just didn't understand my passion, my craving to do this fun, exhilarating work. It wasn't until the Christmas party of one of the companies I worked that I understood, as me as my boss spoke for ages in a completely plastered state. There are things out there that are fun, exciting and new that you simply haven't experienced yet, and you couldn't understand how enjoyable they are without at least giving them a shot. This is akin to deciding which programming language is best after only trying one.

Luckily for me, I have been maintaining a balance - or rather, been threatened by my girlfriend of 3 years to maintain a balance "or else", however I can see how easy it would be to grow up too young and miss out on so much. There is no other time in our lives where we have the opportunity to learn, travel or try new things with such little holding us back in terms of responsibility or finances, so we must do these things too!

Don't quit HS/College early, and keep your passion; but the number one rule is maintain balance. Anyone who will hire you now based on your knowledge, work ethic and passion will absolutely hire you 3 years down the track, full-time. Any smart employer would. You will get tempting offers over the period in which you study, but you need to put yourself first, and have not only the degree you get from college, but the experience.

Also, protip: People will complement you over the next few years, over and over again. You will feel on top of the world, and then you will begin to feel superior. Don't. Most of the time this is a test, and you need to stay modest.

In the quest of self-research I've come across http://www.curdbee.com and http://www.invoicejournal.com/ and http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/index.htm - has anyone had any experience with these services?

I see. I'll look into it, thanks. Not too sure how keen I am on the subscription model, though. I much prefer 1-off payments if I'm going to pay.

I like thesixtyone.com for indie (and indie electronic) or di.fm for dance music (though I haven't tuned into the latter for quite some time).

What a dumb article. Please don't post this kind of crap to HN.

I'm a full-time Uni student but work as a Digital Media Coordinator for certain digital television channels. Are these fairs in Aus, or Cali?

And change your web host to something like slice, it can't handle all our page visits and takes over 25 seconds to load.

This makes clicking anywhere on the site abhorrently slow too.

Aussie here, looking to move to Cali at the end of 2009. Is there any particular events or avenues/agencies which assist internationals in finding jobs, especially in our sectors?

Any advice or tips?

When they go to McDonalds they should be given a double-size meal for the price of a single size. They require twice as much, after all.

"May I please speak to a supervisor" - magic words!

From my experience you can also ask to speak with the Gold tech support guys who are local to your country (that's the case in Australia anyway).

This is regarding Dell support, btw.

When my XPS M1530 arrived the screen was grainy. They came out the next day and replaced it in 10 minutes. I asked if they could come later at night (around 7pm) which is outside the scope of their free care, however because the order arrived 2 days later than their website estimate they did it for free.

Also an additional thing with Dell - when ordering something always ring up and talk to a rep before completing the order. Mention you're interested in purchasing in future if all goes well, but the price concerns you, and if they have any upgrades available - they will usually throw in a free processor/ram/warranty upgrade as these things are relatively cheap for them depending on the time of year.

I'm about to buy my girlfriend a Dell Mini 12 for Christmas (she only uses laptops for Office, Web, Messenger and Skype) and see what deals are available.

While my Dell relationship has been great there have been moments where I had unsatisfactory customer service. I got industrious and tracked down the email addresses of CTO and head of Australia (I'm an Aussie) and shot them an email expressing my frustration. I was promptly contacted by a top level Sales assistant (who was Aussie, not outsourced - apparently there's only a few of these dudes) who sorted things out very quickly and threw in some stuff to boot.

I would recommend them to anyone as long as it's understood that they are out there to make money like any other company, and you have to approach them looking for a bargain that's not advertised. This works best if you have a history of purchases, are placing a large order, or mention that you're a "decision maker" regarding hardware purchases in a technology company (if that's the case).

I had a look at Kohana after your posts, and I really like the look of it, especially since I was leaning toward CI however didn't want to learn in an environment which was supporting a mix of PHP4 and 5. If I'm learning PHP now, I may as well learn PHP5 and work in an environment which can fully facilitate that without having to bloat up and lose flexibility by supporting 4 as well.

Kohana really does look like a great framework, however after reading the forums and wiki a little I'm worried that if I begin learning now, I'll need to change a lot of what I learn in the coming months with the 2.3/3.0 branch (whatever they end up calling it) - and whatever I start building will have to change too.

This isn't a huge problem as whatever I build now will be mainly side-projects which are designed to push my learning forward (such as small e-commerce sites, rating sites, file uploader sites), however considering the changes coming soon (API etc) it's a little frustrating.

However, thanks to you two I've found Kohana which is absolutely what I was looking for. Cake is a little too bloated and complex, CI is more flexible and simple, however to appeal to a larger userbase must support also PHP4 and 5, while Kohana is very niche insofar that is all about 5 and thus very much less restricted.

I'd be interested to see what other people who have worked around these frameworks think of Kohana.

I'm also interested in what your views are with learning inside a framework such as CakePHP?

I ask this because I can see the upsides (learning in an environment which fosters really good habits and quality code, however I can also see the downside insofar that you are for the most part 1-step-removed from a lot of the core functionality which is important to know.

I'm in a similar situation regarding wanting to know MySQL, PHP and Javascript (or even just jQuery) within a year. Give that I currently study full time in a Business Degree, along with two part-time jobs (one static, one freelance and malleable, but both related to web development) do you think you could give me a few tips on what resources to read, and more importantly (given the abundance of resources) what to avoid to keep it as simple as possible?

I am happy to pay money for good resources or subscriptions.

I do know basic PHP and MySQL, along with complete HTML and CSS (CSS being my forte), however the next step is advancing that knowledge into the dynamic sphere.

I'm 21 and plan on moving from Australia to the Valley next year to start on my passionate life journey. So this advice is really interesting to me!

Especially specific advice regarding working in this general field in the Valley or California would be fantastic.

Thanks!

I've actually been looking for a decent domain service to transfer my 50 or so godaddy domains to.. Any suggestions guys?