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 are they offering? if you are getting stock, cost for moving and regular training sessions on growing skills like scalable, Haskell or big data stuff, then you might just as well stomach it.
if you have a CS degree and have experience with version control, coding in a team, and delivering you are being undrbumped.
come to London get a work permit, leave and get a real job with a startup that value it's team.
Thanks for the advice. Since first posting I've come to a mutual agreement with the company whereby I have left in order for me to find a role that allows me to further my software engineering skills.
Right now I'm in between jobs and looking for another position in the startup scene. I love the culture and I have a passion for learning. If anybody is able to point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.
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 existing cash cows and that pollutes the offering. They have two masters: the masters of the new (cloud based market) and the master of the old business.
Perversely what could have been an asset (the cashflows and distribution and brand awareness of the existing business) turns out to weaken and confuse the proposition.
Unsurprisingly (if you are an observer of this industry) being a startup focussed solely on your product confers you real advantage.
What Microsoft needs to do is put some of the $2bn a year it loses being 3rd in a range of markets (some of which only have two players) into building offerings that don't encapsulate Msft DNA but purely focus on what this new world needs.
They can then bolt on distribution via the Windows platform as icing on the cake, rather than a core part of the proposition.
Windows doesn't need to die. It needs to be ignored by Microsoft and Redmond.
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, then back to startups. We are at 3 kids (one of six weeks), and clearly the ability to work all night is constrained. And I am more tired.
However, I can guarantee on most days to have 90 minutes to 120 minutes of complete joy with my kids, and weekends that take me away from 'office work'.
And, that 36 hour weekend break is a weekly opportunity I have to review, contemplate, reprioritise--mostly holding this stuff in my head for the weekend. It was hard work at first and now it's something that I look forward to.
On the downside the costs of failure are disproportionately higher.
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 concept stage).
Excellent design is expensive and time consuming and vital for some businesses. I felt for ours, good and clear would get us very far along--and could be done with a lower investment by using a framework (e.g. blueprint) and some commonly used design patterns.
When we know more about our users (A/B test, A/B test, etc) we'll invest increasingly more in the UI and perhaps we'll look and feel different. Although I still see us leaning heavily on frameworks, for the attendant benefits.
If you are an awesome UI designer or visualisation person in the mood to challenge us with your thinking, let me know ;)
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.
Thanks. I've had to develop custom corpora for handling misspellings, netslang, SMS slang etc... even with this very early demo I have ideas which I haven't implemented. The next releases should do a considerably better job.
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 heart attack. Check here: http://bit.ly/5e0XxJ
Bear in mind, this was in the days well before blogging when getting any story out involved fighting for column cm with other journalist, and a (necessarily) sceptical business editor. I know, it seems antiquated now!
And I am not sure I said it was news. And yes, you may get semantic about this being news.ycombinator, but i'll leave you to do the detailed analysis of what qualifies since you have the media studies degree.
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 malaria.... nice http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/using-lasers-to-zap....
Looks cool. But the article estimates that the devices could cost $50. And it doesn't mention being able to tell if a mosquito has malaria -- only that it can target females because males don't bite people.
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 weren't.
And Pablo also pointed out that their target would be $10--especially if volume would be reached...
what else are they offering? if you are getting stock, cost for moving and regular training sessions on growing skills like scalable, Haskell or big data stuff, then you might just as well stomach it.
if you have a CS degree and have experience with version control, coding in a team, and delivering you are being undrbumped.
come to London get a work permit, leave and get a real job with a startup that value it's team.