if this guy believes what he writes, why isn't he a developer? certainly these are skills that would be worth investing his time in. is it because he fancies himself a 'capitalist'? The cat fell out on this one when I reached his parenthetical, half-joking-but-not-really-wink-wink plea for a 'star' iOS developer to come out of the woodwork and build whatever ipad app is on his mind...nice of the forbes people to give him an audience for his recruitment pitch... content on the web has become so self-serving... i miss reading, and awkwardly trying to fold, the printed nytimes. yea, i said it.
I recently went through the b-school admissions process (admitted to several 'elite' schools but, ultimately, decided not to enroll). It was a remarkable experience. Remarkable in that it made me feel completely inadequate and commoditized...and I was a successful applicant! There's an entire industry built upon the panic and stress of young over-achievers who believe their life will be defined by the rank of their school. It's called admissions consulting...and the rates they charge. oh, brother.
I feel supremely sorry for any 16-year-old trying to get into a top ranked school right now. As a fairly stable 26-year-old it made me depressed like nothing before. It's a broken process that's been spoiled rotten by the bottom feeders who will tell a kid "you won't get in unless you pay me five grand to help you." (i couldn't afford it...)
If you want to see some people really freak out over race and admissions, talk to some Indian B-school hopefuls (note: I am not Indian). They are absolutely bucketed and compete against one another.
Wouldn't it make sense if you're writing an article on Zynga to talk to and use as a point of comparison the other giant player in the video game industry, EA? I don't know, feels pretty reasonable to me. If I'm doing a story on Google Search I'd probably want a quote from someone at Bing...
Why was this posted to hackernews? Most of us aren't commodity traders so can offer nothing more than superficial feedback ( likely on the things traders won't care about - like font choice or css comments...) and we certainly won't be paying customers.
This seems to be the new trend on HN job posts: "we're xyz ycomb company. we're solving extremely difficult technical problems! [end]" ...yes, routing all those lunch orders must be a real pain...
why can't they write production code? if it works, it works. deal with scaling problems when you actually need to scale. in lieu of finding a 'technical co-founder' i taught myself to code and built our entire product. I'm now the 'technical co-founder.' JFDI
I don't buy that normal people care about analytics and stats and 'animating how their post moves around the internet' - might be cool for us geeks, or the marketers might find it useful, but for the ultimate success or failure of g+ I'm betting this feature will be entirely irrelevant. Twitter shouldn't waste their time worrying about this.
Thought this was a very interesting read until getting to the comments section where the author agressively went tit-for-tat with a commenter over, what seemed to me, terminology and minor difference of opinion...then I thought, race has nothing to do with it if you're simply a jerk to people.
Title was very confusing...'wait, he has applied and was rejected? what?' - felt like a headline trap. Should have been, 'why I didn't apply to this round of YC'
I just spent the last week implementing something very similar for a client project...most of the problems in that list of yours already have solutions... Nice idea to try and productize them, though. In the case of my client your product could have saved them a weeks worth of paying me so there is considerable value if you can make it super duper easy to integrate
and this is why I want to leave boston. one of our most prominent startup journalists is pushing a storyline of too much risk taking. This is so 'boston', it's almost unbelievable...as much as we try and fake it here, Boston is full of skeptical people just like this guy.
not to say this is the case here, but i'm always cautious with things like this where the main selling points are the credentials of the instructor (see 'about' section)...if the guy is such a badass app developer why is he trying to make money as an instructor? shouldn't he be getting rich building...well, apps?
" all people can't be programmers/tech people. That's not a solution."
totally agree. i was just using my own experience in the tech industry to demonstrate that there are indeed areas of the economy in which demand for labor outstrips supply. it isn't down down down across the board if someone like me is turning away work.
Amazing to read articles like this given the state of the tech industry. More work is available than I know what to do with. This is structural unemployment. People need to acquire modern skills. I dont think this is a wall st problem, I think wall st just accelerated the inevitable demise of antiquated industries and occupations.
how's this compare to something like touchscroll.js for reproducing native-style scrolling in a mobile web app? e.g. content div that scrolls with fixed footer on ios
Am I the only one who thinks this might be incredibly boring? Seriously, over the course of say, a 10 hour coding day, how many inspired, exciting, or even interesting moments are there? That is alot of 'dead air'... This feels like an Onion satire on the popularization of 'geek'
SEEKING WORK
Ruby on Rails, frontend (HTML5/CSS3/JQuery), Mobile, Design.
Boston-based.
Remote: OK.
Sample: http://www.bostonflip.com site/iPhone/Android soup to nuts.
My first gig out of school was with a startup. First employee. They paid 20% below market wage and gave way less than 1% equity. I didnt know any better (young/naive). I got screwed, big time.
These are the same guys who rated subprime mortgage backed bonds AAA. How the rating agencies still have any credibility is completely incomprehensible to me. I hope someone in the press has the wherewithal to make this point.
I built an iPhone/android app with phonegap 0.9.x. My target market can't tell that it isn't a native app. Only other developers can tell and I could give a damn about them bc they aren't my market. So there.
This is great practice for airbnb. Far worse things than this will happen as the service grows and they will need to be prepared to handle the absolute worst (eg craigslist killer type stuff). Get enough people together and bad stuff is certain to happen. It's just a matter of time.