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This is a shoddy sales pitch, at best. Remember his first post as soon as he left Msft titled "Thanks Microsoft, Hello Google" (http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2009/11/thank...). I'm all for talking about your past work experience, but that particular post just costed Don his credibility.

>>And they're using a crappy Flash video player that doesn't support full screen and keeps resetting when it runs out of bandwidth

That's pretty ironic, if you ask me.

About time, wouldn't you say?

I would get the parts (from Newegg, Fry's etc.) and build one on my own - it turns out to cost lesser and lets you control what goes into making your PC. That, and there's always the good feeling of building something from scratch for personal use :)

Make epic products.

Good post! When you think about it, most of these are brain-dead and so intuitive, that you'd think everyone follows them by default. Often, I see over-use of emphasis (italics, bold, or underlined) and abrupt font size changes without reason.

I'm no C programmer, but I love how clean the code is. Good work!

Maybe it's just a bug? Haven't you found phrases which you thought were very popular and yet couldn't find Google recommendations for them?

Uh, sea lions != dolphins.

This is enlightening! I'm an amateur photographer who likes to post-process some images (mostly tweaking contrast, brightness and the hues). This post taught me quite a bit on photography forensics.

What kind of site are you building?

For me, it's about "stop spending all my time on that one boundary condition that 0.1% of the users will hit" :)

Sweet! Thanks for the links!

I'll start with my own. One of the projects that I'd like to work on, is to build a site with PHP,MySQL and JQuery. It's a really simple idea, but I want to learn JQuery properly and there's no better way to learn a library than to build something that uses it.

Really slick. And that's saying a lot since I typically dislike iPhone cases (they look clunky and makes the iPhone look big and ugly) - I love the designs you have on the site. Good job folks!

Did they phone-screen you before they asked you to come over? I can't imagine a company asking each of its candidates to come spend an entire day with them without a prior filtering of sorts..

I like how the author says " I certainly don't mean for this to be useful or anything! grin Still, I hope that someone gets a kick out of it."

:)

Great advice - I like the fact that Aaron keeps it real simple. I also like how he doesn't like questions along the lines of "counting the number of piano tuners in Chicago". I've been witness to interviews with similar questions and I'm always left wondering as to what the point was.

That said, I'm not sure if all of his advice can be followed by a reasonably medium sized company/organization where hiring decisions are made by a committee, rather than one person.

As a side note, I think that reading a resume can actually be a good starting point to understand the candidate's background.

Exactly the way I'd expect nerds to discuss breasts :)

What a grand title for a fluffy article!

The example here (and the theory that the more the contrast, the more "female") is too black-and-white (no pun intended). It's not just contrast - there is a reason why women are called the "fairer sex". A face that is whiter, has no visible facial hair (and smooth skin) is natually perceived as female.

It's like being stuck in a shoe store with your wife and her female friends. Forever.

Plurchase uses a neat idea to act as a proxy for shopping sites. They don't seem to be storing passwords before sending them off to the actual sites (which is good). I hope it takes off. Good luck!

Such a great list. Priceless! Thanks for the link. (upvoted)

Hilarious! This is worthy of a movie. Or a soap opera at the minimum.

Hmm, look at the glass half full. Someday when you're popular, people will find your Usenet remains and quote you on it. That's cool.

The screen real estate always bites you (as stated in the article). 9/10 inches is just not good enough for all the Mac UI.

"The founder of XYZ, reportedly missing since last friday was found alive when some fishermen off the coast of ABC cut open the belly of a freshly captured shark. Along with the founder, the fisherman also found some kittens, a few pieces of string and a whiteboard marker."

Dont' call them products until you've sold one of them. Or even made one of them.

It's not about the stake or the developers. The whole deal sounds fishy. Why won't the investor provide references? Why should the decision be made right away (next day or two)? Why shouldn't this person publicize the site?

When it looks too good (or too suspicious) to be true, it probably is.

You are extremely brave. Not a lot of us would go through crap seeing so many doctors and hospitals without going nuts. I hope you recover completely soon. Thank you for sharing - somedays I think my life is tough, but these are reminders that I'm way off the mark.