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Thats amazing, lets see some code?

I use simpleDNS, they're a reseller of enom so its a bit more expensive but they have nice little additions and api integrations that are helpful if you're developing. UX is much more simpler.

It depends on the industry that they're in. If its something like government contracting obviously it makes sense to dress conservatively. For me personally, I go dressed in slacks or jeans and dress/casual shirt. It's what I find comfortable and I think I look better in it.

I've found with smaller teams they'll do due-diligence and double check that you can do what you say you can do. If I know you're good, I don't care how you come in dressed for an interview, so long as you're dressed and take care of personal hygiene like a normal person.YMMV

On a similar note, I remember reading somewhere that performing magic in front of children is harder than it is for adults.

Our adult brains have built up a large repertoire of pattern recognition algos that help us skip steps, lead ourselves to conclusions, ultimately interpret our world better and faster. Children see the world on a more visceral level because they don't have that pattern recognition in place yet, so they have to rely more on direct sensory feedback.

Totally off-topic.

Personally, I think you kids are too young and inexperienced. You say you have experience, you say you can "do" things. Prove it. Make something ship it, market it, charge for it. Whatever it is, just do it. There is no substitute for proof.

I'd even advocate for you to work for a start-up as an early employee. That way you can watch, learn and observe and pick up some experience because there's a lot to learn.

The key to being successful, let alone a successful single founder is having a solid understanding of who you are, what you are or aren't capable of, how you see the world, and how you want to make an impact. Some people call it mettle. You might think that you have it all down, unless it's been tested, you just don't know and you'll be always be second guessing yourself. I just don't think you get that unless you've fully entered the "real life".

This all goes back to my first point. If you had belief, you would already be doing it instead of searching for validation here. It sounds harsh but I understand your angst. Trust me it becomes managable with time.

That's pretty neat upvotes for you.

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Your site is down for the count.

Although I can't speak from experience, as long as the upfront pay is acceptable enough I would jump on it. But what kls said, makes a good point. FWIW I found the diversity of jobs I have taken have always lead me to a path that I would not have imagined years earlier.

BTW I'm UX designer with similar background and I'm looking for some opinions and guidance on my career. Would you be willing to chat with me?

I found the article to be an interesting read but I wish that someone could talk about the psychology, history behind why the country became that way instead of just finger pointing on how terrible the conditions were. While its difficult to feel any empathy towards a manipulative, despotic, authoritarian regime, I also think that most westerners misunderstand and underestimate the people and their situation.

The NK brand of communism is just a thin veil for the old dynastic feudal caste society that Korea traditionally was. This is just how the country was for over 2 millennia. The north, especially due to its easily defensible mountainous terrain, has always played a pivotal role in keeping larger more powerful threats from absorbing the whole. Considering its history it sheds some light into understanding their extreme xenophobia.

Westerners always raise the question, why don't the people rise up against the injustice? This is a culture steeped in confucianism, the patriarch is supreme and group cohesion and harmony is of higher importance than the needs of an individual. Even linguistically, social order is embedded into the language with many different levels of honorifics for different rank and class.

A little off-topic but just my 2 cents.

The Caste System: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Korean_caste_system

but who will watch the watchers?

There are only 5 resources needed to become a great designer.

The first is taste. - Develop what your style, brand, voice is. The best way to be the best is to learn from the best. Consume voraciously look at more to develop yourself.

awwwawards.com pinterest.com thefancy.com cssremix.com styleboost.com

The second is practice, practice, practice, practice. First try to just to imitate and copy when you get better you can start breaking the rules and really become "great".

You might not hire him but I might. The truth of the matter is that sometimes you do need people like him. Hustle to me is the willingness and ability to get things done. This guy just chose to apply hustle to sales. There's nothing wrong with that.

Better code, design or "joy of developing a business" don't always win in the market and I'm willing to bet that the one that hustles harder will.

Besides I'm pretty sure start-ups, founders, companies are all driven by some desire to make money. Difference between you might be degree. Just because you're not comfortable with it doesn't justify pontification.

I just found the manner in which you laid judgement a bit harsh.

So cool yet so stupid at the same time. I wonder how much it costs to manufacture it.

Why dont't they have their own video use popcorn instead of showing a plain-jane video about how popcorn works in a practical context.

Bad marketing imho.

I want to see a better cable/TV company. Where instead of paying for 500+ channels. You get 10 personalized channels. Where each particular channel learns what you like and suggests content that you might like. So I can program a channel for my kids and using some web based ui preload the channel with content I approve.Think pandora + TV content.

I'd imagine on the business side of things you can collect some of these preferences and then in turn serve ads based on my preferences rather than blindly trying to get someone to look at your ad.

Remove the slow step top boxes the complicated remotes the tv guide channel. Simplify everything to the basics. I think hulu is a nice start but this is what I think are looking for.

I think this is a misleading article in the sense that all movies lose money, due to the way they are structured.

I'm no expert on the financing of the entertainment business but I do remember a podcast on npr talking about this:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/05/the_friday_podcast_an...

Is it just me or does it seem like getting into and launching a company through YC seem a little like american idol? Can't say that I like the way its going.

I think that most of it is due to the fact tech is mostly a meritocracy (at its best). You're either good or you're not. You aren't judged on how well you can socialize with your superiors, co-workers, clients nor does playing politics wildly affect your performance/compensation. It does but I would say less than other fields.

Also eastern culture places more of an emphasis on introspection paired with their particular upbring which typically revolves around a lot of studying, a solitary activity, I think its natural for that segment of the population to find tech to be a desirable career.

Personally if I were a woman, I'd jump into tech. I'm sure being competent and of a different gender would yield significant advantages albeit maybe soft advantages.

This is so true and the funny thing about it is that it makes sense logically yet it runs so contrary to our natural inclinations or at least mine and I'm sure many others.

Economics you so crazy.

I think alot of it depends what it is that you are building. My approach to would be different if it were building a large scale web app vs a website and it also depends on the team thats helping to maintain it (ie. if it were to be maintained by engineers who don't really know or care for css or a team of web devs)

I always start off with a base which consists of the misc. browser fixes and hacks + basic typography elements, rough blocking. My philosophy on formatting really follows what everyone here is saying. I really prefer horizontal lines and proper tabbing of all the sub elements because its really hard to read otherwise.

While commenting is really good and I like it, finding the proper balance is the key. When you're doing fast iteration it gets really tedious and cumbersome to go back and make sure your comments are in sync.

This is how i arrange my css: http://maderogue.com/public/assets/css/base.css

For bigger project I like to break things down by specific functions & models. (ie. tables, buttons, sorting controls, etc.)

i really like the way jquery ui themes are done.

just tried this out, didn't know about it but it really works well. I didn't see any jumping around-ness when I tested it.

Personally, I don't think you can ever teach "good attitude" often times I doubt the candidate will ever be receptive to your attempts to change their attitude.

Funny, quick question though why are you tracking every input value? just out of curiosity? I just kept typing in random letters can't see why it would be useful other than maybe the occasional laugh.

I hate the fact that I have to "validate" my email address with a lot of web app services when you first sign up.Imagine doing that every time you want to log on.

Definitely adds more resistance to the flow.

Quite arguably one of the best text editors that I've used, It's my primary code/ text editor when i work on a windows machine. I just wish the OSX version was just as good. Looking forward to trying out this version.

wow, great design love the way it looks. I'm going to have agree with what value you get paying 11 dollars?

Not only is the software patent outrageous but the lawyer math is totally baloney every visitor represents a lost sale of 149. ridiculous.

If you're doing the designs yourself you're doing yourself a great disservice by charging so little.

Often times most people assume they have an endless well of creativity in them but in actually its a feast and famine scenario. Assuming you want to do this full-time you will burn out eventually.

I'm guessing they can see what fraction of their visitors also visiting their competitor's site.

I'm not sure what else they can gather but I'd imagine that if you can pick up on what "videos/pages/articles" those visitors are visiting, you can seed your own site with similar content to further entice them to use your site as a primary resource and decrease the chance they will visit the competition.