MrDunham

Founder here - thank you HN for the support. Feel free to post questions / comments.

And for the record, this was inspired in part by PG's RFSs.

Thanks! Founder here and yes, we're definitely expanding outside of health. I like your version as well - really flip the market on it's head.

Just did this myself - if nothing else it feels really good to respam a spamming recruiter.

A little side project of ours to answer the question posed in the last post: "How will programming ability be measured?" [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3794066]

How do you pronounce this? It reads "shitty", which is probably not what you want.

Cool background, lots going on though - could you provide context for it's usage?

Sweet! See you there!

I'm not sure when the last time a HN post made me actually laugh out loud. Well done yourself!

Also, it helps to be part hacker :)

We're going for more of a party in SF, and get discounts at a bar after the event.

No McDonalds though, sorry.

Haha we're still looking into that... though the test might be less than scientific for legal reasons.

Programming ability might have to be more subjective, but we've also built a Ballmer Calculator based off well established formulas.

Basically, you put in your weight and sex, we tell you how much you 'should' drink to get to the Ballmer Peak.

As a thank you to the HN community that made Hacker Fair (for the Hacker Dojo) so great, I'm giving $5 off... which means it's $10 for an open bar on Cinco De Mayo.

Use HackerNewsLovesBeer (not case sensitive)

Jason, your product seems like a fun idea, especially because it allows you to use it over wallpaper (which, since untextured, is probably the best use-case).

That said, please go read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Lashing out on Tech Crunch at users will kill this crucial PR moment for you and create a negative view of your product. There are many assholes on the internet - respond 'I'm sorry, how can we improve?' and 99% they'll back off realizing there's a real human on the other side.

Congrats again, I wish you well.

I love the idea. Might want to make the radius a bit bigger though. I didn't realize it was going to do anything until you explicitly told me to check it out (my mouse was ~200px from the left side, scrolling w/ the wheel).

Hey Matty! Thanks for the complete review, very helpful! We'll make sure to improve for the next one. Also thanks for the kind words.

... and yes, I finally got some sleep :)

You make a great point. It probably took me a day to figure out what "karma" was, upvotes, etc. I don't think I sent a single upvote for weeks since I didn't know how important they were/weren't.

HN isn't really set up for the new user, IMHO.

bluehat (also on thread) built a network of couches to put awesome programmers up for the event - you should come!

The valley will blow your mind.

Thank you! Took a lot of nit-picking and swearing at the computer, but glad it paid off.

This should really help with "getting in the door" without relying on a resume. Also builds cred. before the interview.

Besides those, getting in front of 100 companies at once should boost your valuation :)

Sorry, It looked pretty good on my windows machine - though totally broken on IE.

I'm not a coder or designer, used Themeforrest and a lot of sweat to get the site working. What are your suggestions for fixing the fonts? (dumbed down for a mech. engineer)

Sorry about the short notice.

We're planning on holding these more often. It may be Hacker Dojo, it may be a spinoff. I'm thinking September though for the next one, depending on how this goes.

Yeah... leave it up to stupid late-night mistakes. Can you believe I programmed this with no javascript experience? (note, I cheated, themeforrest did some of the work and I just REALLY cleaned it up, organized, etc)

We are encouraging companies to bring their engineers and recruiters, so that you can talk to someone who knows what you're saying and talk to someone who can actually continue the hiring process.

We are definitely thinking about that. Already had interest from Microsoft to do one in NYC actually, which means we should have interest from other companies quickly as well.

Go figure, my noprocrast settings went off 3 min after going live...

Well done! I too sit on emails for far too long - making up plenty of reasons not to send.

You've inspired me to scour my inbox now

I met Baydin's founder a few months ago, very friendly guy.

Their game was quite useful for me (during beta, haven't tried lately) - though if you're a chronic "I'll do this later" emailer, prepare to move out of your comfort zone.

I believe their argument is more on the lines of "why aren't we doing this? It's so damn cheap"

Like you said, cost of fuel is a small part of generating energy. Besides, PG&E would mark up for the "privilege" of using their power. ;)

Please link to whatever article this came from - or you accidentally linked to the Craig's homepage (which is back up).

Sounds interesting, I'm interested in reading it.

This is fantastic. You just delivered another selling point I hadn't even considered yet for our app (I'd say more about it, but I'd like it to be a little more done for a 'Show HN').

Much thanks!

Haha very true.

They have both posted on their news, however, under the root. However I'd like to see the claim backed up.

That article claims 3 deg C. The article just posted claims to have furthered that research to 20 deg C.

Amazing how 3 months of research produced such a significant jump.