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that is terrible. if you are a half decent php guy you could expect 25k. if you were really good 30k. if you could demonstrate something useful like hadoop or c++ more. what else a…

Why wd you want a job at google anyway?

Like IBM wrestling with the PC vs the mainframe, you need to find some critical way of transitioning into the new paradigm. IMHO Microsoft's web businesses are too close to the exi…

Happen to agree with Jason on this one. So startups prior to marriage, working on my third when my first child was born. Moved to big corporate jobs with big perks for three years,…

Hey I am the CEO of PeerIndex -- the rationale is design patterns and frameworks. For our business, UX is important but not absolutely critical (at least at the working proof of co…

Twitter has 170 employees. Assuming fully loaded cost of 150 k that is approximate $ 30 mill pee annum The google and bing deals are worth 50mill leaving 20mill to cover other cost…

Hey congrats on doing this. NLP on tweets is not trivial at all given just how colloquial it is. I like being able to navigate a visual map of what people are talking about.

Wow! So many jobs. Yah, so we're hiring. Anywhere in Europe. Team is distributed. But we have nodes in Slovenia and Wandsworth. Several roles: Big-data analysis person: use whateve…

well hardly every since. the thing that prompted it was a HN post on how to get in touch with PG; and I have really strong memories of the Viaweb story, mostly around my dad's hear…

October .... 1996. I was working as tech correspondent at The Economist and had managed to push the story of ecommerce being exciting not because of Amazon but because these guys a…

Pablo the hacker behind it, presented in detail at DLD, and I was lucky enough to see it. They were able to detect between the species of mosquito that are carriers and those that …

and for $10, nathan myrvolhd can user a laser to track and detect a mosquito, distinguish those carrying malaria from those who aren't, and then shoot down the ones carrying malari…

Good points. I ought to clarify: back to the idea of rebalancing. It is really about checking your assumptions and trimming your sails a few times a year. As to fund managers: i th…

Yeah. That's a great idea too. Much appreciated

Oh hey thanks. (D) is a good point. I will add that on the sign up page. Cheers

Rumpel Wise thinking. I think you have a couple of issues you need to bear in mind. The world is fundamentally broken. And most models you will read about were built for a differen…

Oh. The link is http://bit.ly/Viewsflowdaily

Hey HNers, One of the things I've just launched is a dead-simple Daily Business Briefing. We send out 12 stories a day after scanning 2-3,000. Some questions: (a) Is it too simple?…

hey sorry for getting so silent. but the best is the enemy of the good. Lots of issues about just how great wikileaks is for all this--but until there is something better then let'…

yep. it's a politico-deflection tactic

Ok. So this could be uncomfortable news for the guys at Spotify. Anyone else find them selves still buying music from iTunes?

Hey that is really nice. Will it show me recommendations in some way?

Yeah completely agree. As a startup founder, I know what I am good at. I also know that it isn't yet the time to bring the 'mainstream management' on board. I have to eliminate the…