it is about google+, that extra info pane on the right is about google+ pages, I'm sure if emberjs made one they'd show up too. if you don't like it go use duckduckgo.
Hi HN, my co-founder and I have been working on a Google Reader clone in the last few weeks, we're not quite ready to launch, but would love to get feedback as soon as we've opened up our beta:
To be honest, I'm not particularly bummed that our team Contactable (http://becontactable.com) got rejected. If anything - its encouraging us to try to hustle harder, get a prototype to market, obtain paying customers and building a profitable business.
Although I was bummed about not getting through to the next round - I DO NOT feel that I was hard done by. In fact, YC partners clearly thought that there were better businesses to back or a better fit.
... and that's OK. The best thing to do, is to focus more of your energy towards your own startup.
I do not believe any of the processes need to change - if they realise something is broken, YC's partners will adjust accordingly. After all, they are also in business to make money - so if they start picking bad businesses to back, then they will change their application process accordingly.
Life's never fair, so just get over it and hustler harder!
Every time someone managed to get a custom printed Coke bottle - the proud owner inevitably photographed the bottle for display on Facebook - which of course is the real genius behind their marketing campaign.
It may have been an expensive marketing exercise for Coca-Cola, but being so different definitely grabs headlines.
I agree, there are hundreds of guys in India that are doing a great job advancing the stated of the art - and you'll never hear a peep from any of them.
Ankit and Rahul are just good at talking themselves up. There are plenty of people in InfoSec that excel at marketing themselves.
Worst of all, they are an embarrassment to the intelligence agencies they have purportedly worked for.
I have no doubt in my mind that a graduate beginning her infosec career at the NSA, DSD, GCHQ, RAW, Mossad or other intelligence agency would show a better understanding of fundamental security concepts than these fuddiduddies.
I'm curious to know whether people in the US holding senior positions are not subjected to non-compete periods following their termination with their current employer (e.g. not working for a direct competitor for a period of 3 months etc.)?
It surprised me that Marrisa Mayer was allowed to quit Google and then start at Yahoo the very next day, is that common?
"It also only applies if one is fired from said previous employer, not one who's left at will."
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Are you referring to California here, or non-competes in general? If the latter, I'm, pretty sure that you're incorrect. " The use of such clauses is premised on the possibility that upon their termination or resignation, an employee might begin working for a competitor or starting a business,..." (top of same Wiki page)
Huh? Every non-compete I've had forced down my throat (I've refused to sign the last several) was specifically guarding against me leaving the company for a competitor.
Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which
anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or
business of any kind is to that extent void.
Its CA law. From the business and professions code [1].
A clause restraining you from engaging in your "profession, trade, or business", i.e. in general, is unenforceable. A clause restraining you from engaging with another party may or may not be unenforceable depending on the details.
In other words, nobody can enforce a clause preventing a programmer from programming for company B after leaving company A purely on the basis of restricting competition.
They may have a case if e.g. company B contracted company A to do some work and then bought out company A's programmer (e.g. to save money), but only if the contract between company A and the programmer in question has a restraint specifically penalizing this scenario.
(Even then, it doesn't mean companies will choose to enforce the contract. I've worked for companies where the restraint was between the companies A and B, and in the interest of preserving business relationships, company A decided not to pursue their legal right to recourse when company B poached an employee from A; the employee did not break conditions of their employment with A as the restraint was between their companies.)
Her Yahoo offer letter does have a non-compete clause, but it's only in effect while she's still employed at Yahoo. Among other things, she can't own more than 1% of any competing business. She was at Google for a long time but I don't think she ever got that much stock.
MaysonL, I believe the US position is to prevent patent violation in underdeveloped economies regardless of where the research was done or who owns the patent - this makes sense from an economic perspective given that the same could happen to a patent owned by an American firm.
However, I agree with you if you are suggesting that the US should not be strong-arming poorer countries into raising prices just to maintain the profits made by pharmaceutical companies.
I'm 30 and am in an identical decision - except, a few weeks ago, I made the decision to resign from a well paid job at a startup.
A close friend of mine from university are going it alone for the next 18 / 24 months.
I'll be relying solely on my wife's income and our substantial savings over the
next 12 months.
The main propellant that started me on my journey has been the unequivocal support I've received from both my wife and parents (my own and my in-laws).
Once I was clear in what I wanted to do & had a rough plan for how I could achieve those, I waited a few months - thought about the various scenarios day & night and once I had convinced myself it was a risk worth take - I took it to my best friend (and tried convincing him).
Luckily, we have been coding together since university and we decided we could take the plunge together since our temperment and personalities are matched well.
One of my current colleagues encouraged me & said to me it'll be the best experience of my life, to paraphrase his words... "the worst that could happen is that I'd have to
go back to working for someone else. There's no chance that I could die, so why the hell not give it a try?".
When I mustered up the courage to tell my CIO (who I report to...) that I was leaving - he was sad to see me leave, but overjoyed that I'd be taking the risk and trying a new venture (he co-founded the company I currently work for and previously sold an earlier startup to Cisco).
So with the encouragement of others around me, I could only blame myself for not following through and giving the 'startup' thing a try.
... and thus, I would impart this advice to you.
Over the last few months, we've been brushing up our coding skills by building prototypes of ideas we like (and launching them - this is the hard part). One of them is a project we call Math Brain (http://mathbrain.com.au/exam) which helps students in Grade 12 practise for their university entrance exams (or as we call them in Australia - High School Certificate).
The site is not supposed to be a billion dollar business - but it seems to have started getting some regular usage (we were plesantly surprised). Hopefully, we can continue building upon this and perhaps build a proper business out of it (we would never had known if we had never launched it).
At the same time, we're not putting all our eggs in one basket - like you, we've got a number of other app ideas we'd like to prototype and release - all built & following the lean startup methodology.
The difference though, is that we have external pressure to deliver - i.e. both my wife and parents are invested our venture succeeding and therefore we demo things to them regularly. They got sick of me telling them about the ideas I have and showing them mockups of products - now they tell me to shut up and build it.
The trick, I believe is to make sure that you have someone outside of you and your co-founders putting the pressure on to deliver the project. Once you've got this external pressure, your likelihood of success is already higher.
The fact that you have a wife that can support you financially is great - because now you are both invested in making sure you are successful - this is great motivation!!!
I hope this helps in getting the fire started... god speed!
The distinction being that both of these projects are OPEN SOURCE - therefore Google should not be taking COMMERCIAL advantage of this!