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blored··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Web Developer, full time http://www.poolhouse.ca/

We run Dogbook and Catbook. We love what we do and offer a lot more than a standard 9-5 job. The salary is competitive and we are located seconds from Eglinton subway station.

We're looking for a smart, hard working individual who loves building consumer applications. Standard web technology experience is essential PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML and CSS. Mobile app development experience is a plus.

If you read HN that's a great start. We're also offering a $500 referral reward if you know someone who is looking.

Email: hn-apply@poolhouse.ca

blored··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)
Dogbook and Catbook (Toronto, Ontario) is looking for a quick learning Developer. PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JSS. Our team is small and we like to move quickly. For more info check out:

http://www.meshjobs.com/job/web-developer-toronto-on-canada-...

$500 referral rewards for helping us find someone.

blored··on Facebook and Heroku
You're right. I work full time on Facebook Applications and there are several things hindering the FB Platform. First is the lack of moderation of apps. Secondly, the approved advertiser list has too many companies promoting mobile offers (which are spammy) (http://developers.facebook.com/adproviders/). As a consequence Application ads are seedy. Think 'You have 1 new message' type ads, or "Are you smarter than Obama" type ads. Thirdly, the whole Permissions/Authentication system needs to be improved. The Permissions wall in its current embodiment advertise the negatives of adding an Application.

Even if you disagree with the above, you should agree that an API that accounts for 10% of a site's traffic, like Facebook's, is a struggling ecosystem. Src: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-news-feed-apps-2011-...

blored··on $45,000 algorithmic contest
ergo $46,000 USD
blored··on Perfect example of real-life hacking
Periodically you will find cereal boxes with a 'Free Adult Movie Admission' inside. The cereal is around $3.00 while movie admission is around $14. My friend and I used to buy some cereal, tear off the coupons on the way to the theatre and enjoy a nutritious snack during the movie.
blored··on We put our site for auction on eBay
Combination of fatique and a sense of completion. We can walk away now and say it was a success or we can struggle for another 1.5 years trying to achieve another level of success. At this point we're ready to sell, we're doing it now because it's worth something and we've reached a scalable and solid idea. We've accomplished everything that we've wanted to for our first start-up.
blored··on Ask HN: Yahoo spam filter, is it possible to get through?
Technically we e-mailed our heads off. Still, to this day we're out of the yahoo spam filter (for now).
blored··on Founders at Work featured in 21
I actually thought the exact same thing while watching the movie.
blored··on Founders at Work featured in 21
Lol, for the first half of the movie I couldn't figure out if he was saying "Winner, winner, chicken thinner" or "dinner". Thanks for resolving it for me.
blored··on Omnisio (YC Winter 08) launches
I've been watching this post closely. First of all I don't think it ever made the top of the front page, which I think is odd for the techcrunch post covering the launch of a YC company.

Either the founders didn't make a lot of friends during the YC dinners or something more probable - everyone knows that Omnisio is a winner. Voting it up only reveals our own inadequacies.

Because as soon as I saw this I said wow, I wish I had thought of that, or better yet, I wish I knew how to do that. This product is going to rock the socks.

blored··on Inspectd on TechCrunch after only a few days
Nice, I'm assuming you're not one of the founders. But if they're reading this, good stuff!
blored··on The story behind Dean Kamen's combustive meeting with Steve Jobs
That's what I said to myself about HP, Dell, Lenovo until I bought a MBP (Macbook Pro).

It's tough to imagine 'what it could be' unless you actually see it.

blored··on You weren't meant to have a boss
Another appeal of big companies that wasn't touched on in the essay is that 'everybody's doing it'. I would argue that in addition to the economies of scale of mass production a large reason why you see people in corporations, eating crappy foods, and even wearing the same clothes is because 'everybody's doing it'.
blored··on My create-your-own-social-news-site startup is live. Feedback appreciated.
I agree. The design is very nice.
blored··on Disqus Gets VC Funding, Releases v2 and Kicks Competitions' Ass.
Congrats guys!
blored··on $3.00 per active user? That's how much a facebook app is worth.
Good point, I'll put that in there, I think.
blored··on $3.00 per active user? That's how much a facebook app is worth.
Oh yeah for sure. We already have a quasi ClutterMe facebook app hacked together, it's not viral at all, like 65 users, 3 active.

We decided to make something a lot more sugary. We'll see how it goes. I'd say what it is, but that would just spoil it.

blored··on Ryan Carson responds to Paul Graham on startup hubs
Nice!
blored··on Some things to check in your YC application
I've noticed that when I was editing the application and left the window open for a long period of time (maybe 30 minutes - 2 hours) I would find that clicking 'Update' would return an error. I'm not sure if Refreshing my page helped, but when I clicked the back button my application would be saved. I only remember it from the trauma of the prospect of losing my data. I thought it was a time-out issue.

This happened to me a while ago, I would say late August, early September.

blored··on Weebly guys launch snaplayout.com
This is good, real good.
blored··on Where do YC applicants host their projects?
Yeah, I know for a fact that a bunch of YC companies use them. I was told so by a YC founder. So we signed up with them and so far no complaints. They are quick, and somehow they caught wind of when we launched and sent us an e-mail asking of there was anything they could do for us. It was a nice touch.
blored··on Ask YC: I'm applying to YC with a web app, but I also have 4 facebook apps going on the side.
So does one recommend putting all your projects in the corporation of YC funds?
blored··on Ask YC: What is considered high level of ability ?
If Icanhazcheezburger, yhou can haz cheezburger thoo.
blored··on Where do YC applicants host their projects?
Somebody please correct the title.
blored··on We've Launched...
The reddit one no longer works because I deleted it. I resubmitted with a catchier title.
blored··on We've Launched...
I know, and as a MacBook user I'm totally ashamed.
blored··on We've Launched...
=)

Thanks Prrometheus, we just have to keep on spreading the word.

Update: IE now works a lot better.

blored··on We've Launched...
Hyperlink = www.clutterme.com or <a href="http://www.clutterme.com">This Links</a> ... without embedded styles.

blored··on We've Launched...
What front page do you have?
blored··on We've Launched...
Good points.

I should have posted the video link.

Here's the video Demo of our site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og7GBtFLZhA

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