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morpheismon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)

Group Nine Media | NYC/San Francisco | ONSITE | Full-Time | Senior Backend Software Engineer

Group Nine Media is a media company that was formed after the merger of four top media brands combined with a $100 MM investment from Discovery Communications. We're the company behind NowThis, Seeker, Thrillist, and The Dodo.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the systems engineering team. Our stack includes PHP, Python, Ruby, and Clojure. Ideal candidate is empathetic, takes initiative, is well-organized, and gets things done.

Apply here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/groupninemedia/jobs/715694#app

morpheismon Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before starting up ?

Target businesses, not consumers. It is enticing to build a consumer-oriented service when you have a great idea and a strong team to implement it. The problem is that revenue per customer is low and you will need to attract a lot of users to offset costs and reach profitability. Your runway to success is basically as long as your cash lasts. This is quite a concern if you are an unproven entrepreneur, do not have a large amount of savings, and do not have accesss to a powerful network of people. While you will need to have strong sales skills, businesses are more likely than the average consumer to pay for your product. Your revenue per customer is higher and the burn-rate (servers, bandwidth) is probably going to be much lower.

morpheismon Facebook Easter Egg

As of about 3 days ago there is a jQuery plugin for the Konami Code.

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/konami-code

morpheismon Free chicken for hungry hackers (and everyone else)

Solution: http://www.virtualbox.org/ (assuming you have a licensed copy of XP)

Free chicken... should be worth the effort.

morpheismon Ask HN: Should I care to support IE6?

Good advice. I would suggest that the OP also encourage users running IE6 to upgrade.

You might want to take a look at the IE6 Update code (http://ie6update.com/) for ideas.

morpheismon Has web 2.0 made lying to users acceptable?

I don't think lying to users is ever acceptable. Perhaps "web 2.0" just makes a common phenomenon more transparent and easily recognizable.

morpheismon Ask HN: How do you manage your news reading time?

I find it's best to enforce a time limit. I use LeechBlock (a Firefox add-on), in particular.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476