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Try living in the present and not stressing out about the future or past... I recommend you read (or better yet listen to the audio book version) Ekhart Tolle's "The Power of Now". From the Amazon description: "the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday."

the video is cool and all but does anyone like the music? seems to get lost to me... i guess it's really not about the music though. not one comment before mine even mentioned it...

again awesome video but it's going to be hard for them to keep topping themselves but now it's their MO

Maybe join a team for your next project. There seems to be a lot of advice to pick a small individual project (which I agree with) but it may be helpful to be part of a team to start. Stay on a team until you get a few wins and go from there.

classic dissenter view of a new product (or products in this case). newsweek writer pissing on facebook, twitter and buzz in one article.

i guess this is indicative of why i haven't read a newsweek article since never and probably won't unless i am baited into it again.

Bizo is looking for a UI/UX person in the SF/Bay Area. We are a good group of people and the company is growing fast. We recently came in second place in the Amazon Web Services Challenge and also raised about 6M from Bessemer Venture Partners.

Most of the eng team are HN lurkers and/or commenters...

Drop me a line: donnie at bizo

Unit testing is the only way to scale lines of code without scaling your team.

anyone here actually buy CDs? other than signed (and still sealed) CDs or really interesting ones like (moldover's), I haven't purchased a new CD in years...

maybe I should considering the MP3s I do buy require me to agree to Amazon's licensing agreement.

eloquent argument nonetheless

the most important part of early stage hiring is to be patient and not rush into hiring people who are not 100% fit both personality and skill wise. be extremely picky because early hires are going to interview and hire other people.

Check out JRuby (http://jruby.org/) You can write a RoR front end and pull in/execute Java code (in Ruby's sugary syntax). No need for any crazy bridges...

Considering this:

Under the Federal Trade Commission Act:

    * Advertising must be truthful and non-deceptive;
    * Advertisers must have evidence to back up their claims; and
    * Advertisements cannot be unfair.

(via http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/business/adv/bus35.shtm)

Legally it can't be deceptive.

I recommend Information Aesthetics -- http://infosthetics.com

would love to see a leaderboard of companies with the happiest employees and with the unhappiest ones.

Take advantage of the object oriented features (classes, inheritence, etc) Write unit tests early and often. Re-read the docs; some of the PHP functions are inconsistently parameterized -- meaning one function expects params in one order and a simliar function expects the params in the opposite order! (Can't think of those functions off the top of my head but there I swear...) Just be careful. PHP is forgiving (almost?) to a fault