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Out of curiosity, does anyone know what amazon's incentive is to do this?

Doesn't it make more sense to compare it with other cities rather than other careers?

This is seriously awesome. Great for helping to understand programming conceptually as well as being great fun.

Less nice visuals would be good, then I could make it look like I'm just working.

Top comments are equally nice reading: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...

Because one liners are never funny, especially when they're ironic.

I'm curious as to how you contact them. Do you send a cookie cutter email to each journalist?

Why do I need to register? Can you not just let me add social media accounts to an empty dashboard? As a lazy end-user, I need it to be as painless as possible to get up and running with your service, for me to even try it in the first place. That's what Permeate and TweetDeck (before they were acquired) did. Other than that I think the idea is really cool! I'm working on something similar (news feed aggregator).

Also I think this might be better off as a Show HN.

I get the impression that you want to design stuff, and it's incidental that startups let you do it how you want. Judging by the "I've spent 1000s of hours (I kid you not) designing my products", you're doing the same as what I do with development, and I'd be wary of that.

Maybe, start by trying to let your tech/design be a means to an end and start by solving a problem for users. The launch websites for so many successful startups were super ugly[1]. 100's of hours per project with less than 5 users each, sounds like alarm bells to me. If you haven't already, read The Lean Startup[2]. Build MVP, validate and iterate or pivot accordingly.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular...

[2] http://theleanstartup.com/

Love the testimonials section.

Are you working on this alone?

Good point, perhaps I'm being overly cynical about the buyers intentions.

Even if it was about paying the least amount possible, I guess there is no harm in honestly saying you have no idea and later coming to a valuation (that perhaps doesn't match theirs).

Surely you wouldn't want them to know you have no idea? I'd agree the onus is on them to come up with the initial valuation, however I'd let them think I knew how valuable my company was.

Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.

This.

Playing devils advocate here, but Ruby's ticked those boxes pretty well in my experience. Also js if you don't mind sacrificing a bit of expressiveness (pseudocode-ish syntax).

Don't get me wrong, I do also love python and can see it being used for years to come. Also, I know of at least a couple of algorithmic traders using it daily.

I was about to comment explaining how this isn't everyone's experience, and how I love London, but realised this isn't the thread to do that.

Yes, if you want to save money then don't live in London. I'm currently commuting 1.5 hours and walking some of the journey to shave off as much money as I can from my commute expenses. Trains still aren't cheap and travelling is exhausting but it saves me money. In my experience London salaries are higher on average (£2-4k) but not necessarily.

Maybe try freelancing in the evenings to scrape together more money.

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Thanks, that's really useful!

What about having done a few internships? I realise it's not the same but I've at least made some mistakes to learn from already.

I'm starting a job in September, contracting would just be something to fund my personal projects.

Currently Warwick Uni, I'll be moving back to London though. Any chance you can share what site it was on?

I'm starting a job in September (in SF!), this is just so that I have a bit of money to do a cool tech project with my mini-moto. Thanks though!

Any idea what rate I can charge as a masters graduate?

As much as I think it's a good idea, I try my best to not be that "self advertising guy".

I mean, I would never just post this link to my CV to get everyone to look at it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byk8zRX0L3yPYzMtQW1oMDBTcms...

I'm graduating in CS so I've had a bit of experience across the board. I particularly want to do web development with Angular and Node. I've done internships and projects but I'd still need to do a fair bit of learning on the job.

"Now I feel equally exhausted all day"

Not sure if you meant that to be hilarious, but it was. Do you mean it helped?

The 2 reasons I love coding:

1. Making stuff. Maybe obvious, but there are very few other fields where you create stuff so freely and easily. And it's not just about being creative, it's also adding value in the stuff you make.

2. Problem solving. The same reason puzzles and riddles are fun. There's something satisfying about wrestling with a problem for some time and creating a correct solution.

As a result I don't really have a favourite field, as long as I can do the above points, I'm happy.

That's exactly what someone, not living in the Bay Area, would say.

Was in your exact position a few weeks ago. Useful advice that I had was, pick the company that loves the same stuff as you.

If you love tech and want to learn and try new stuff, make sure the company feels the same way. If you're crazy about shipping cool stuff, does the company share that? This is irrespective of the size of the company.

Failing that, I'd go for the risky option.

On a side note, why is there no notification system for HN? It would be great to know that someone has replied to a comment.

Incidentally, I will probably never see if you reply to this.

I only use Fish interactively. It has really nice autocompletion (which I'm pretty sure reads my mind), and cycling tab completion which I like. Also oh-my-fish[1] is awesome.

Last I checked it was maintained by one guy, meaning support isn't always great.

I still use bash for scripting (can't get away from it) and when compatibility is an issue.

[1] https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish

Try and keep an open mind.

I used to be a die-hard Arch user who would never consider even buying a mac. Was given a macbook at an internship and haven't looked back... Well, I have. I love it though. Give it a month to start getting productive though.

As Revell said, Homebrew is a must-have. (Also fish[1], but that applies to Linux too).

[1] http://fishshell.com/

I have no idea why I have my address. Thanks for pointing that out, will definitely remove that in future. I guess it's at least useful for companies to know which country I am currently residing in.

I've heard mixed things about personal details including age, gender and nationality. Some argue that it's a problem for companies with regards to abiding with discrimination acts (especially US). I include nationality as most of my applications are abroad and my nationality gives some indication of visa requirements.

Thanks for that. Yeah I have a bad habit of changing my twitter handle every now and then.

If you're interested my handle is https://twitter.com/haakathon

Ha thanks, I based it on a friend's CV with a style that I liked, so credit goes to him for the layout. And dozens of iterations later I ended up with this.

Please feel free to steal it (maybe at least change the name though).