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bo_Oleanon Your github account is not your portfolio, it’s just a start

Your auto generated resume looks good. I tried with mine, it looks more like a same resume template parsed over & over again, not much of logic there. Yeah, but we can say a decent start.

Good to know you enjoy C.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: What would be the perfect web analytics tool for your startup?

I would love to know them too.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN : Can we see who down voted us?

I heard, more and more such features get unlocked when you get more karma. Thanks for making it clear about down vote stuff.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: Would you hire someone whose very smart but annoying?

Not at all.

He is not just smart. Smart people with annoying behavior are over-smart. Why you are killing your time on someone who would make fun of your company vision too?

When you hire, hire someone so that you would want to pay them more every month for their work/involvement in your organization.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (September 2011)

SEEKING WORK (Remote/Long Term)

Full/Part time PHP/CI, jQuery/Ajax, HTML5/Canvas

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (September 2011)

Can we do some negotiation on "some German required" ?

bo_Oleanon Show HN: A multi-user HTML5 whiteboard, which can replay anything - anytime :)

Same here in Chrome 13.0.x

bo_Oleanon What are the best blog solutions for a website?

I would suggest to use already existing blog service providers. Besides self hosted CMSes(wordpress, drupal), you can try creating blogs in other blog service providers like blogger, tumblr, posterous and do a simple DNS forwarding for your sub-domain like http://blog.nicholas-morgan.com

Few things:

1)Roll your own skin/theme for the blog service you use and make it similar in look to your main website.

2)Saves your website bandwith.

3)Saves your Time.

4)SEO/Analytics already implemented on most of them.

That way, you could focus more on creating content.

bo_Oleanon How Doing Less Work for More Money Saved Client Work

You’re supposed to be the professional, remember?

I do.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN : Is hacker a good terminology?

I've read every line of ESR's hacker how to. Yes, I know what it means to respect a hacker or to be a hacker..

But why, you may like to re-read my question, as i already mentioned above, people think hacker is not a person with good motives. Who is playing the role here between you HNers and the people ?

bo_Oleanon 4 Things Entrepreneurs Should Ignore From the Steve Jobs Formula

"The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I'd never be a programmer today. I'd never have had the ability to run whatever stupid, potentially harmful, hugely educational programs I could download or write."

I had a branded PC / forgot its brand which used 3.5" floppy and showed me Fatal Error!!! While i booted it first time back it '95. And my hunt for a Floppy sized OS lead me to today - A software engineering who is making living building software for good.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: Advice for interviewing/first time hiring

My 2 cents:

1.Do not hire devs without taking a test.

2.Hire developers for their "skills" and not for your affiliations with them.

3.Hire someone who is self learning and knows type of product/platform you are working on.

Why you may ask:

1. Test measures the work speed and efficiency

2. Respect people for their skills not for your relationship with them (eg. friend, relative etc..)

3. So that you won't waste time giving them keywords to Google.

bo_Oleanon HTML5 based drag and drop game creator

Games made with Construct 2 From the Demo page:

Space Blaster Game http://www.scirra.com/demos/space-blaster/index.html

Ghost Shooter http://www.scirra.com/demos/ghost-shooter/index.html

Works awesome in Chrome 13.0.x

Impressive!

bo_Oleanon Creative + innovative PHP developers

Please put your email at your profile so that people could contact you.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN : A different Business Model

Yes, I was asking about how do I make money from end-users without charging them for my product and not selling advertising (in context of a web startup)

analyzing the data we get from users and then selling that analysis to other businesses - this models seems nice. Also, as japhyr suggested charging for the support would be good idea too.

Any other ways out here ?

bo_Oleanon The Story of Blogger

Yup its been 12 years since 1999.

I am intrigued by the last line where they recommend to check Google.

For more on Google, check google.com. (Also good for searching.)

The words inside parentheses are epic.

bo_Oleanon How To Become A Better Programmer By Not Programming

>> Until he said, "So teach them!" He believed that almost anyone can learn and get good at almost anything.

I agree with this statement. But haven't accepted it as the fact yet.

You managed to learn "new things" quickly has not always meant "they" (as you said) will.

bo_Oleanon Dear procrastinator

Dear Edo,

Since you directly addressed me,

thanks for the insight. Do share more.

Cheers.

bo_Oleanon It's not about how many hours you work

I absolutely like this post.

I am one of those who thinks amount of creativity shown is more important than amount of hours worked. Creativity should not be bound in hours.

bo_Oleanon Howto: Becoming a Brogrammer

So, when my bro learns to program, does he become a brogrammer and not a programmer ?

bo_Oleanon Google+'s Real Goal is Not to Kill Facebook, but to Force it to Open

Whatever Google is doing, it is doing Open.ly, so no comments.

If they integrate all Google products with Google+ tightly, it will cover entire web for most of the internet power users aka Geeks.

bo_Oleanon Hackers to follow on G+?

Is PG in G+ ?

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: Where did you learn Web Development?

First day I opened a web browser was IE6 back in 1998 and the first site was Google. Somebody explained to me that I can find whatever I wanted using Google. Voila! But at that very moment I had only one question to ask - "How this(Google) website was made ?"

I learnt, when I began searching for how to develop websites.

When people ask about web development give them keywords to begin with and hint them to search unless you are being paid to teach them.

Edit: phrases

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: how do you reach Asia?

If you are focused on finding a similar societal group as yours it is going to be a tough search, but if you are searching for similar in technology use groups - it is a easy way to reach here.

Language won't be a barrier. These days 4 out of 10 people in Asia use English for day to day communication (my assumption as Asian). You need to first find those 4 with whom you won't have language barriers. Then, figure out whom to partner with. It's easy.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: Bad writing? Product unconvincing? Please review my product pages!

Second design looks better in content but I liked the first one. You could make the slider auto scroll with some slick graphics of your app (slider arrows are doing no good).

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: Best way to learn the CS background I missed by not going to school?

From next time write the code yourself and minimize the copy/pasting habit as much as you can. Using a good IDE helps control the copy/pasting habit to some extent.

Start here, follow the topics you have not tried yet: http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp

What's the best way to learn all the stuff I missed by not going to school?

how can I get a job that is asking for engineers to apply?

You need skills that those engineers have.

You don't need to go to school to master the data structures and algorithms, for reference there are bunch of university resources available, and there are lot of implemented code for us to checkout. Refer links others have suggested here. Give some time to learn these advance topics.

Edit: added few lines

bo_Oleanon Twitter Shows You What Other People's Streams Look Like (ex: Dick Costolo)

It took me 10 seconds to figure it ;) Yes indeed.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: When to hire a non technical friend to your startup?

But: search to see if there are better people for the role at the amount you can afford

Quoted to remind myself. Thanks for the input.

bo_Oleanon Ask HN: When to hire a non technical friend to your startup?

>> It's not the fact that you refer to this potential employee as "non technical" but as a "friend". Yes you should enjoy to work with whomever you hire, but you shouldn't be lazy about their skill set.

>> Hire someone great that you aren't afraid to fire

Got it, thanks.