willwagner

I believe the same tree was used for manufacturing golf balls for a time. Before that golf balls were originally made with leather stuffed with feathers but transitioned to be the "gutty ball" for 50 years or so until they transitioned to rubber and more modern materials.

I think if you are including coffee shops, dry cleaners, and the rest of small businesses that are self-funded, I agree. If you look at VC backed high tech startups, I don't think that is the norm:

https://www.capshare.com/blog/4-key-insights-from-5000-cap-t...

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Having worked for a competitor that was later acquired by GoFundMe, the reality we faced was that we could determine pretty quickly whether a fundraiser was going to be successful within 48hrs or so. While we spent a lot of time developing tools to help people setup a good fundraiser which would increase their chances, for the most part, it just came down to their extended social network.

Most people came to our service directly to give to a specific fundraiser (as opposed to coming to our site to find a fundraiser to give) and while we did things like "now that you gave here, check out this" type features, the results were somewhat lackluster. If I were to start a compassionate crowdfunding site today, I'd try to build it in such a way that it could be embedded into niche communities that are both to gather content, support, and fundraising.

The whole experience is that it was fantastic to work with people really dedicated to the mission and feeling like you are making a difference. On the other hand, it's hard also not to change your mind on how healthcare is viewed in the US, that the majority of Americans are one car transmission away from a downward spiral into poverty, and while I appreciate GoFundMe and other compassionate crowdfunding sites, a high tech only, private enterprise solution is not always the best way to solve humanities problems. Coming from a die hard capitalist, that's saying something.

I've heard this many times before and don't doubt thats the way doctors feel but it's a little like not monitoring production because you don't want developers chasing down minor production issues.

I believe around $199 a share is when AAPL would become the first company ever to have a market cap of $1T. It could happen tomorrow. For reference, the first $1B market cap company was US Steel in 1901.

Here are a couple things that have served me well:

* Own what you own 100%. Be proactive, ask questions so you understand context, and raise concerns along with possible solutions when they pop up.

* Help others when you can. If you are going to be in this industry a long time, your network of colleagues and friends will help you long past your current gig. They can help you solve problems and avoid bad technical choices and when you are ready to move on, they can help you find a new job. The kindness you show others pays off in many ways.

* It's easy to get emotional when you are passionate about a job or a project and that passion can quickly turn into anger. Before sending an inflammatory email, sleep on it.

* Learn the tools of your trade well. Know your editor, debugger, devstack, monitoring tools, deployment tools, etc. I'm a bit hyperbolic but the single best thing I did in the last 20yrs was learn vim well.

* Work hard but pace yourself. Put aside time for yourself to stay healthy.

* Enjoy the moment even when it's stressful. You'll eventually look back on your career and see that the highlight reel features some "against all odds" moments and battle scars.

* Keep learning

Maybe more than a toe dip based on the price, but for me, getting a MUSE device helped me start meditating and I haven't stopped since. The thing I like about it is that it gives you feedback when your mind is focused (and feedback when you are not) and quelled my own internal fear of 'am i meditating correctly?' I can't vouch for the scientific basis of it but it has helped me in my everyday life.

http://www.choosemuse.com/

(I am no way affiliated with this company)

Just to support your claim:

http://soils.wisc.edu/facstaff/barak/poster_gallery/minneapo...

(The link doesn't mention copper in particular)

I think you are selling yourself short by not asking questions particularly as a junior dev. Depending on the role, people are hiring you for not only your current skills but your potential to grow. Write some questions down in advance - no one is going to ding you for having a cheat sheet for asking questions.

Here's some questions I'd ask:

- what sort of training or growth opportunities do you have? - do you offer any aid for continued education or online courses? What about conferences? - do you have a buddy or mentor program to help me get moving quickly? - Are there any books or resources you recommend so I can hit the ground running? - If I got the role, what would make you feel you made a great hire in 6 months or a year?

I totally agree. Things like life jackets for sailors, ropes for climbers, and helmets for motorcyclists have made those sports impotent for the real men/women of this world who scorn safety. If you are not willing to risk it, just stay at home so the rest of us can unflinchingly face danger head on.

I wonder if this originally got greenlighted as a "gaikai" player, gaikai being a competitor to onlive which sony bought and has promoting as part of the playstation 4.

As the article mentioned, ps4 games are supposed to allow remote play on a vita device, so this will actually be useful in my household where the tv with the ps4 is being occupied, but that seems like niche problem to solve.

Being able to add to the installed base of the Vita is a good thing for sony which will drive more game development, and if they can work out how not to cannibalize ps4 sales by offering gaikai direct (assuming it really works; color me skeptical that it will be a lag free experience), plus the video services like netflix, this may turn out to be a nice device for Sony.

got through to the buy on google wallet and it timed out. No charges if I look at my googlw wallet account so i think i'm screwed.

SurveyMonkey - Palo Alto, CA: Sr. Web Application Developer

We're looking for a of solid software engineer that can help us build out our next generation survey platform. This position will require a lot of heavy-lifting using JavaScript to write client-side applications using our own internal framework, jQuery, and Mustache. A solid understanding of front-end technologies that can work at a large scale is required; some experience with python would be great but not a requirement.

SurveyMonkey is a great place to work. We're big enough to offer competitive salaries and great benefits but small enough that you feel like your contribution and ideas can make the company successful. We have a great team of engineers with big ambitious plans but we need a few more core engineers to get the job done.

You can apply directly at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/job-listings/

or email me directly at: will@surveymonkey.com

A few years ago, I worked at a startup peripherally related to the search space and we did some usability studies on the google search page. What we found then, more or less, is that people generally feel like there is no problem with google's search results, and if you pressed them to try to find something that google could not find easily, instead of thinking google let them down, they essentially blamed themselves for not being able to find it. It's hard to sell a solution to a problem people don't think they have.

With that kind of thinking, it's really hard to build a product to go head to head with google that is so much better that can change people's habits directly. From my perspective, you either need to somehow change the equation for some sort of query attribute (e.g. google may not be as timely as twitter so I'll switch to it when something like an earthquake happens) and eat slowly away at the google advantage, or you need to build a product that first targets the thought leaders (something like building a better code search or social search) and then make google un-cool to use.

Either way, it's a tough row to hoe.

I don't know how TiVo feels, but I always thought their lifetime subscriptions were a good way to seed their initial customer base. Lifetime is a little misleading because it's tied to the TiVo hardware, not the lifetime of the customer, but I still think it's relevant. TiVo started with a big problem of knowing they had a product that people would love if they tried it; in that instance, getting people past a hurdle of paying of monthly costs kind of makes sense, especially if they become devoted customers who tell their friends. I'm sure it also didn't hurt their cash flow.

D3 doesn't support IE (or at least it didn't 6 months ago when we looked into using it).

I'm in my mid-40s. When my dad was a kid, he always had a car lust for a Cadillac. When I was a kid, I had a car lust for a Porsche 911. I wonder what kids these days think would be the ultimate car? I presume a Tesla but I could be wrong.

I finally got through and registered as of 7:16

Edit: I got "no tickets available at this time" several times before getting through so don't give up.

I'm assuming others get to a "There are no tickets available at this time" alert and then you have to start over. At least, that is what is happening to me.

I like the QR codes at Best Buy; I use them all the time when I'm just starting to research electronics and I make a visit to one of their stores. It's convenient, I can store it on my iphone for later, and I can read user reviews, etc.

That being said, I'm not sure if they help or hurt sales because when I do scan a QR code, I typically end up doing comparison shopping and typically Best Buy's prices don't compete well with online retailers.

Just out of curiosity, if that person owned TapTyping.com before you started your business, is it really possible to create a trademark after the fact that would rule out him using the domain for anything typing relate?

Looking at it from the point of view of the domain owner, if I'm developing a website/product with a long development cycle, should I be trying to trademark the name as soon as I get the domain name to avoid someone swooping in after I buy the domain but before my site goes live?

Why is there nothing like like this in the SF Bay Area? It seems to me a theater that served beer and decent pub food would do well in SF and I'd pay a premium both for the movie tix and the food, but at the same time similar quirky places like the Red Vic shutdown.

I'm with you; I had great vision until i hit my forties and now at 45, I'm squinting more and more. With the aging baby boomers I'm surprised there isn't an uprising of discontent over this issue.

+1 for Monoprice. Their prices are great, they have a large selection of cable types and lengths, and they are speedy.

With Amazon's convenience and large selection, it's hard for these niche shopping sites to gain any mindshare on me anymore. When I'm looking for something esoteric I usually check Amazon first and then possibly google product prices to make sure the price isn't substantially cheaper somewhere else. For me to switch away from Amazon at any place that hasn't been "grandfathered" in my mind like Zappos and Monoprice, you'd have to do it via price first, and then keep me with some sort of convenience or other hook.

Just to highlight what for me was non-obvious but interesting. It implies that this change in two places made a significant improvement to their performance stats. Basically, the optimizing compiler is finicky about the arguments object especially if it is used out of bounds. Without that knowledge, the change seems non-intuitive. I wonder if this true for all pseudo-arrays?

Old Code:

  var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1);

New Code:

  var l = arguments.length;      
  var args = new Array(l - 1);
  for (var i = 1; i < l; i++) args[i - 1] = arguments[i];

We tried doing something similar at XMarks (a bookmark sync service) when I worked there. We figured bookmarks were a good source for mining quality websites and hired some very bright people with a search background to build it. For some searches, it gives pretty good results. Here's the one it gives for VPN providers:

http://www.xmarks.com/topic/vpn_providers

It was an uphill battle for us, which ultimately never worked out. Early on, we did a usability study with users to see how they use search engines and the people we interviewed tended to think that google was more of an expert than themselves and if they were having trouble finding things, it was more their problem than google's.

We ended up trying to take our data and tried decorating it directly on the google search results page to start getting usage, but it was really hard to get any traction and build any momentum. For most searches, Google is good enough and only a small number of our current users started using our website for search/discovery.

We ended up spending a significant amount of time decorating the ads within search results and after a considerable amount of logging and number crunching, found that decorating those ads not only increased the clickthrough rate of ads we decorated, but also increased the overall ad clickthrough rate. That's a huge win for a search engine and worth a lot of money, but ultimately google just did it themselves, and for other search vendors that had ads on their pages, they were basically handcuffed to google's contract which wouldn't allow them to use our technology.

TL;DR - Competing with Google is hard.

I'm mentioning this from a point of complete ignorance but why can't this sort of proposal be used for cable operators as well (both for broadband and television)? Getting to choose from several competitors on who gets my tv and broadband service would I expect create better plans than the current "pay for 100 channels but only use 3" that most if not all US consumers currently get.

If you include affiliate codes as part of tracking codes, I can definitely see some users wanting to keep that data preserved. For instance, someone may want to reward some shareware author with their amazon purchases. Social organizations like churches, clubs, etc. might encourage their members to tack on an affiliate code to keep them funded. It's hard to see the use case for keeping the utm_* tags, but not all tracking codes are meaningless to an end user.

I had heard it was over 50% which i found very hard to believe so the 12% number seems a lot more reasonable.