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There's a huge opportunity in monetizing the library. (the link on the lower right)

HN is a pool of knowledge ranging from true-to-life successes to know-it-alls who just hang around and keep re-quoting philosophies which they never really live out.

Emphasizing on 'HN is a pool': the place is a firehose of information that drowns most minds. This like-minded community, new or old members, in turn affects each other to become passionate. That's the thing, passionate about what? How do they start spending this passion? How do they go about in creating a cable company?

There must be a way to organize this pool of thoughts and posts into digestible streams of water in which, I believe, some people or corporations would actually pay to drink from.

You can take a look at Planscope:

http://planscope.io

A job posting - not postings from a recruiter or third-party agencies.

If you already have a github account: http://gist.github.com

Share it via http://gist.io

You have to take into consideration what your goals are and I'm guessing you want to create a sustainable business. Read up Lean Startup by Eric Ries and get your product out there quickly by using "things" to ease the process.

Here you go :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4640269

Made this from a personal need:

http://ace-subido.github.com/css3-microsoft-metro-buttons/

Reached a lot of karma and comments here. I plan to update this in mid-November, getting a lot of emails and tweets about new colors and other stuff with the project.

It's cool to bring it up -- if you are asked.

When you use it as your main tactic for giving off an aura of competence due to the market fighting over you, it comes off as arrogant and makes you look foolish, especially when applying for junior level positions.

Wait till they ask, if they ask, it means they want to fight for your "interest" in working for them.

yep, you can just drop it into a bootstrap project. if you want a button to use the style just add "m-" to the usual bootstrap "btn" class.

If you'll be using bootstrap, just a heads up: I found out from a ticket someone issued in Github that Bootstrap released new icons on 2.1.1. Going to try and incorporate that in the next push :)

For WPF (.NET) applications, I've personally used MahAppsMetro (http://mahapps.com/MahApps.Metro/).

For web, I've seen code52's metroCSS (https://github.com/Code52/metro.css/) and olton's Metro UI CSS (http://metroui.org.ua/)

Both are full-blown frameworks with grids and everything and I've tried them out for my needs, but most libraries are too over the top. I needed something more stripped down for buttons that can work with Bootstrap or with my own handmade disaster.

On a sidenote, the day Microsoft adviced and pushed developers to stop calling it "Metro" and call it "Modern UI" instead (http://gizmodo.com/5933580/on-second-thought-microsoft-is-ca...), really got their own ecosystem off balance.

If you read the readme and the source. You would find that much of it was from Tim O Donnell's Google buttons. As my process 3 months ago I gave them a new CSS base, repainted and attached thin bevels. As for the colors I matched the colors and gradients from Microsoft's websites. I barely touched bootstrap for the buttons except for the dropdown, the radio button javascript are hand-made. The form elements and icons however are a different story, they came from Bootstrap and Syncfusion.

All sources are transparently mentioned in the acknowledgements section of the readme.

Interesting, would try to branch out some components with this thought :)

Noted :) along with everyone's comments. Compiling all the stuff people might need and all your comments, would make an update in the following days if I have time.

You're right, maybe a single HTML template alongside the download would be great.

Thanks again!

Hopefully, if the demand for more components rises :) thanks again for the compliment.

noted, trying to get more feedback on that jumbo banner. i'll see if maybe a link to "getting started" on the bottom could lessen people getting "lost" as well.

I really do appreciate the critique and the compliment.

A few months ago I've been really searching high and low for a simple library to recreate those buttons Microsoft uses on their websites. I do agree, it really doesn't look like buttons when you take away the text. Well anyway, I decided to build one for my own. Just shared this v1.1 release to everyone here at hn. Just maybe, just maybe, someone out there also needs a simple button/form library for such a specific need.

The release kind of addresses some issues, because some people keep contacting me at twitter or fb asking me "how-to's", so hopefully most of their 'needs' are met :) Really tried to make the documentation a little eye friendly for everyone.

Thanks again man!

The starting scene on The Social Network. The way they depicted how Zuck pieced together the facemash app. It had no special effects, it was an accurate depiction of a hackathon session.

It'll be hard to get past HR, since non-techs attribute CS jobs to people with CS degrees. With your skill-set you can end up on the front-end. Take it little by little, start building websites for your friends for a start.

Best way to apply with your current skill-set? Be radical, a simple project suggestion: rebrand/redesign things. Take a look at how minimallyminimal got the eyes of many people with his rebrand of microsoft.

As for your question on the best way to apply for a job? Assuming you're applying for a position with your skillset: redesign their website. bring it along with your github profile on your interview.

Take a step back, breathe and relax. Set it in your mind that the company you're working for has been running with or without you. Take the burden off your shoulders and clear your head. After getting some peace in your mind, you can take action:

The first thing you have to do is to tell your client/boss, without all the computer-techy talk, the situation you're in and how it's going to actually affect them. Clients get pissed off not because things don't "work" or the user experience is "broken". Clients get pissed off because they expected them to "work" and the experience is "nice". Clients have expectations, and most of the time (for non-techie clients), they have unrealistic expectations. Set their expectation and make them understand the ramifications of having ONE guy working on such a massive undertaking under your specific circumstances.

After you do this you'll find that it's much easier to breathe in and actually work. In goodwill, they will set aside time and plan things to actually help you, because they know in the end it will help them.

Next steps are usual dev protocols:

1. Get it in version control with a dead simple bug/issue tracking system.

2. Always write good commit comments.

3. As for documentation, do it incrementally. Write small bits each time you work with the app, or each time you deal with your build/deployment process. It will compile into good documentation later on. If possible get your documentation into version control as well.

I highly recommend that you do these things and produce a consistent flow of routines in your work before getting other people to help code with you. It doesn't help when you have another person sitting around burning precious time figuring out things as he goes along the way. On-boarding them without those 3 things listed will be hard, and it will put off a good amount of time from things that actually need attention.

If you're implementing Agile on a personal level, make sure other people are on-boarded with it.

You'll find that adding people will be much easier. The cost of logistics regarding adding additional team members rises higher than expected if the development workflow and environment isn't established. You'll burn time on-boarding good developers, you'll burn even more time on-boarding mediocre developers (I've personally experienced this in my previous work).

Hope this helps.

thanks for the heads up, i was wondering what happened the other day. didn't see that thread

Being "smart" is relative. In what area is she smart? There are many types of intelligence. MMA fighters or Bikers are physically smart, musicians are smart in terms of auditory senses and so and so forth.

In a relationship, as applies to any other aspect in life, we have our roles to play. One major pitfall is to compare each other and make up for your weakness instead of focusing and honing your strengths.

Assuming you have a healthy relationship, her being "smart" doesn't mean anything and should not affect you in any way. She will ultimately depend on you leading her in the relationship. She will depend on you to stand up for her when she feels bad. She delights in you when you share your stories. She feels comfortable when you listen to her even if you don't understand what she is saying.

Be a man for her.

I've heard good things about the HP Proliant Microserver.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-42...

> Anyway, for some reason, everyone who tries to describe Git already has such a strong understanding of it and it's oddities, that they are, for some reason, unable to lay it out properly for a noob IMO

I for one had a really hard time grasping Git, until I wiped my VC-mindset slate clean, it was primarily my upbringing in a development environment where Centralized Version Control was the king. I read up on Eric Sink's Version Control By Example. It's a great book to lay-out the fundamentals of Git. If you wrap yourself around the concept and not the tool, the use of tools (Git commandlines, Git GUI's) will come naturally.

wow, I never thought I'd be mentioned in hackernews. Always a pleasure to contribute and help out fellow developers. Thanks for the post!