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I've been paranoid living in SF with a car the last year and sucks to hear this happened to you. Just some advice for the future and to others that park around SF: I didn't realize until recently that my car has a "valet" button and what it actually does. Basically, its a button in the glove compartment and when you turn it on, the trunk can't be opened. So what you do is turn it on, and then lock your glove compartment with your key. Also make sure if you have back seats that open that they are locked as well. This way even if someone breaks into your car, they won't be able to access your trunk.

Its working now, maybe just update the title to say that TED.com gets a makeover

Why would Google care (in a negative way) if you've done design work for Aol?

I wonder if we'll soon see an Upworthy for Porn: "You will never believe what this girl did to pay her rent"

Not really. I was a hobbyist sketcher/painter up till high school and then didn't have time for it when I went to university other than a few random spurts. I felt like I wanted to bring back this passion of mine after a good 10 years of being away from it. I had also been feeling completely addicted to capturing moments on my phone/DSLR and wanted to channel that desire to capture into something more creative and challenging.

I wrote a post explaining my motivations if you're interested: http://crafture.me/post/60578682070/a-year-without-cameras

Thanks!

This is fantastic and beautiful!

I made a few sketches myself as part of a larger project I'm working on (a year without cameras): http://crafture.me/post/64711241777/startup-school-2013

Such beautiful words. Love the last line: "To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself."

I love it. I shoot an email to our leads/managers and make sure no one is depending on me for any tasks. I make sure to inform them in advance but once I had a spontaneous trip to Paris that I booked my flight 3 days in advance and took two days off for and they were cool with it (it was to shoot my friends playing music in the Parisian streets: http://vimeo.com/channels/streetmusic)

If needed I take my laptop and put in any required work remotely - that's great when you work on web tech. I do this when I know my days aren't going to be busy, such as visiting family. If I know I won't have time or access to the net on a trip I let everyone know so they can expect I will be disconnected.

I've taken about 4+ weeks off so far this year, 2 of which I was working remotely, and will be going to Burning Man this year for a week. I'll probably take some time off in December.

The key is to make sure you are being productive and adding value when you are at work so you don't feel guilty taking time off. When you plan off time, make sure there isn't anything crucial to the business happening at that time. Let people know how you are going to be accessible (IM, email, ability to commit code) or if you are off the reservation.

There is a certain amount of uncertainty and self-inflicted guilt about the whole thing; whether you are taking less/more time than your peers. I guess that's the price you pay for this perk.

Looks like Github used Angular.js. Would be interesting to hear how they settled on that. I've been using it for a side project and so far have had a positive experience.

The YC landing page has had an image carousel for a while. I don't think it has hurt them but then again that page hasn't been redesigned in years

I wonder if the test was given after a longer period of time, how would it effect the results of both groups. Hypothesis being that the TED group would retain more over time relative to the dull lecturer group.

This is beautiful work guys!

Been a Fireworks user for years for UI mockups and graphic design. Would be tragic if this news is true. One alternative not mentioned here is Omnigraffle. It is actually very well suited for UI design though not as much for visual design but you can get pretty close.

Mountain View, CA. Full time.

DNAnexus - https://dnanexus.com/careers

DNAnexus aims to become the data platform of the genome era.

We are funded by top investors TPG Biotech, Google Ventures and First Round Capital. We have a small team of ~25 people working on challenging problems in cloud infrastructure, security, genomics, interactive visualizations and more.

Experience with DNA isn’t necessary, but really strong software engineering aptitude is. We are looking for talented people to fill these roles:

- Vice President of Engineering - Software Engineer in Test

- Systems Engineer

- Front-end Engineer

- Bioinformatician

Here's an article that would help give an idea of the kind of work we do: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/genetic-data-gl...

Hey OP: I'd like to know if these are also streaming on Netflix :)

How do you guys differentiate from Weebly, one of the earlier YC startups?

Do you know when it's coming out? It looks like it was funded back in Sept 2011 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smallfish/stripped-the-c...

Coincidently I got this same recruiters email today.

There's quite a lot of discussion on copyright issues around here so its somewhat appropriate, even if this is about art vs digital content.

Does it let you take a screenshot of the whole height of the page? I see that you can specify the height of the viewport, but what if I want a whole long screenshot of as much height is rendered?

It really doesn't take that long to figure out if you are the corporate type or not. I spent 10 months at a large tech consulting firm and knew that wasn't the work life I wanted.

Just curious but by free are you referring to food shelters?

I see they are on Causes but perhaps also using Kickstarter would help make up the remaining funding.

The express train or a car takes about 45 minutes otherwise its 1hr:15m. 30 minutes is just not possible!

What!? How do you not like Modern Family. I think you need to give it another chance.

Haha that is awesome yet also educational

There seems to be a double standard in the comments here.

Companies regularly cut short interviews (speaking from personal experience). They've all been polite about it and explain why, usually saying "it's not the right fit". There are some companies that ask between multiple interviews if the candidate is still interested in talking to the next person.

A candidate should be allowed the same ability to "walk out". From the OPs story I got that he cut his interview not during a round but before the next one was to begin (the reason for moving him into another room). Thats the perfect time to do it. The reason the candidate gave is sufficient, he doesn't wish to waste anyone's time. The response of the company in this case is actually arrogant and unprofessional.

That's true for the military complex he mentions and the government. The middle class is less about 'anti-India' and more about keeping up with the Joneses. There is often a feeling of "we could be where India are right now" if we simply weren't embroiled in internal corruption scandals and government overthrows.

Of course, when it comes to a cricket match between the two, you're spot on.

That would defeat the point of the joke