pbnaidu

I have a mashup web app http://tripoptimizer.heroku.com for looking up points of interests (Tourist attractions, Restaurants, hotels, etc) and their ratings and reviews. The technology stack is RoR, jquery, jquery-mobile and PostgreSQL. It uses Yahoo Local Search APIs and Google search APIs.

I also own www.tripoptimizer.com domain.

Let me know if interested.

I am not sure studying things in nature and creating exact models would be a good idea. Imagine trying to model a motor bike or a car by studying Cheetah(Fastest animal on ground). Nature may inspire to model/create useful things.

We also should be careful with Macbook Pros especially the unibody ones...

I think tuning little things or finding right combination of things is right on. For example, if you watch Chef Gordon Ramsay's Restuarant Nightmares TV show, he does the same thing. He comes in to a failing restaurant observes how it is run and tries to change Menu, Interior decoration, etc to make it successful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Ramsay

How about the traffic green light displaying seconds before it's going to turn yellow? I think this is feasible because of LEDs usage in the traffic lights.

I got headache trying to read the content on this web site.

I think how many hours per week you can work is an individual thing. I need atleast 7 hours of sleep to think straight and produce meaningful stuff (code, designs, conversations, etc).

Sorry, I can't seem to change the url. Here's the original url http://xkcd.com/163/.

Article is old....

If you would like to create your own buttons, graphics, background images, colors, etc, try inkscape open source image creation, editing tool. http://inkscape.org

I would also read Effective Java along with Struts related text book. Here's the link to the book http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-2nd-Joshua-Bloch/dp/032...

What does this mean? 1) some of Yahoo's executives wished Microsoft had bought Yahoo or 2) usual brain drain or 3) unusual brain drain

Well, shouldn't the quality be defined first. Quality differs based on situations, people, etc.

Tried downloading SVG zip... shows page not found...

I like inkscape from inkscape.org better than GIMP and there are lots of tutorials around that tool.

If you're going to buy MBP from apple, try buying refurbished ones from apple online store, they're about 15-25% less than the brand new ones. I think the refurbished ones go through extra testing as well, so I think its a pretty good deal.

One more thing that I would add is to give incentive for checking the new page. Say if you upvote a link on the new page and if the link makes it to the front page, members who upvoted would get 1 or 2 karmas.

Thanks. My question is about filtering within the boundaries of ontopic area. Sometimes I feel HN community has mood swings, for example community sometimes likes entrepreneurial oriented articles, startup success stories and sometimes it doesn't.

Tim Westergen and his company Pandora are simply amazing, surviving failures of several business models, lawsuits, increasing music royalty fees, etc. Its pure example of perseverance, infinite passion and enthusiasm.

I highly recommend reading http://www.madetostick.com/ book.

pbnaidu@gmail.com

I would be interested in signing, please email me if you're interested.

Umm.. I am not sure if I would discredit all the Brady's accomplishments for the spying scandal.

What if a millionaire lived in some other city and drove to New York City to get to the air port?

So.. Once you know and understand the solution to a problem or a puzzle, what's the point (with respect to the company that is hiring) in candidate getting lucky in the interview and answering that question?

Usually people say that solution is not the important thing for a question but the process of getting to a correct or wrong solution is important. Some times interviewers ignore this fact.

Instead of puzzles or problems which may surprise some candidates, how about American Idol auditions style interviews. For example, you ask a candidate (for programming job) to design/implement/test some small problem giving the full requirements or simulating changing requirements. Will this process help select a right candidate?

I would like to add one more thing... The startup/company should already be using their web services. I am not sure if they consider a good idea that potentially could use their web services.

Sorry to hear that your team is not on the same page.

I think the level of commitment from the other two co-founders is much less according to your description, I am not even sure you should give them co-founder status. Remember you're working full time on the project that means you're investing $x (your full time job's salary) every month as opposed to the other guys. From your description the other two guys seems to be playing safe, not risk takers (very much required ingredient for startups)

I think you really need to find new team members who are committed, dedicated, and risk takers.

As far as finding new team members, I think it would be nice to work with people who you know already to reduce time consumed building a new relationship. Otherwise, you got to work with people for some time to find workable team members.

Best of luck

I am interested, please contact me at pbnaidu@gmail.com

Nice article. I have met couple of people one with Marketing and Sales back ground and another with Finance background. Both had ideas but no developers to develop their product and were looking for a team of developers. They both insisted me to sign a NDA, before they could talk about their idea, I did.

I thought that was little weird for me because I thought both them would have at least 6 months ahead of anyone who tries to copy their idea, but they weren't thinking that way.

Is it ok to sign a NDA? Are there somethings to watch out for? With respect to these candidates, is asking for NDA right way to share an idea and collaborate with others?

Thanks, I'll try this first.