Catalyst4NaN

This is absolutely awesome! On a related note, I'm constantly astounded by people who use excel all day but have no interest in getting better at using Excel. I've tried explaining how to use tables and why writing readable formulas is important but they just stare back with a bemused look.

DDG is using over 400 sources apparently, of which one is Yahoo https://duck.co/help/results/sources

Hey, I'm working in GAM UK at the moment. What part of wealth management are you working in? Awesome to know theres other HN's in RBC

You guys have just had a fairly serious exodus of staff right? What was the deal with that and why're you hiring so soon after? I used to work for one of your competitors YourParkingSpace but I love what you guys are doing - parking is indeed a very broken industry.

Thanks, It's funny coming from having to learn Node.js in my old job really quickly there was so many tutorials that were easy to get started with.

this would be much nicer if word spacing was like 5px!

I really like the sound of this approach. It seems really simple but thanks for the tip!

Yeah to clarify, I mean that after a year of work I'm now on the same level as a grad?

First thing on my todo list for Monday! :)

I don't think I can quickly evaluate that. I would say it's less technical than a traditional tech company but still closer to that than say an eCommerce store.

> I think your boss did you a huge favor, taking a risk on you this first year. Now you are no longer an unproved dropout, he owes you a real wage. Keep both of those in mind.

This is exactly the lines I'm thinking of. I've been lucky enough to gain the sort of experience that puts me on the same playing field (at least in the view of employers) as my a grad.

I think I understand what you mean. Certainly i'll look into evaluating my value + wants based off your model.

For me in some small way I want to be working for a company that is even in an almost insignificant way mine... Not dissimilar to the attitude that I guess crowdfunders have.

It's true that it seems like I'm being underpaid - I wouldn't say they're happily doing so. We're a young start-up struggling for cash and to make ends meet. Hopefully the funding round will alleviate that to a degree.

Also thanks for the link. I hadn't thought of it like that.

From my perspective, £18k (and indeed £28k) is a lot of money. I'm 19 and I'm getting paid to code, I know it's naive but I think it's awesome. I love the people I work for/with and I love my job. I come across adults who haven't had that their entire career.

Edit: Just to follow up on the counter offer. The process of raising this round of funding has been such a whirlwind. I don't think there is anything untoward going on. I think a case of Hanlon's Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

I think this would be really cool. I've found that anyone who i've met IRL and is a HN reader we're at least a little bit interesting

Is dementia common among programmers? I'd never heard that before

yes I completely agree about specialization. but A) this is about people learning addition and B) some people are totally clueless about what is useful to them. there really is a lot of good that comes out of studying general stuff that stands to the a lot of people

That's a pretty horrible attitude to take to learning.

It's like asking why ever read a book, with a level of english past the level of a memo asking if you have completed a task. This article also seems to suggest that people don't understand how to preform basic mental arithmetic.

In the states there also seems to be this insane way of thinking that you should learn an algorithm to do things in a particular way, if you can do it one way you should understand it and all the other methods should just fall into place.

This is a pretty good explanation of the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZED4gITL28