The Gauntlet
http://sites.google.com/a/prosody.us/prosody/Tech-Assessment/
The gauntlet has been thrown down, bitches. :-)
dstillz
Re:The Gauntlet
on Sunday March 30, 2008 @12:33AM (#149891)
Update: OK. No one seems to get the joke. The explanation is as follows. These are my actual interview questions. No coder would do an essay assessment, so I came out with the most outlandish, didactic, "you are inferior" way of making an assessment. I promise my April Fool's joke will be better.
Re:Domain Squatter Tries New Business: Running Websites
on Thursday March 27, 2008 @01:21PM (#147881)
Don't call us domain squatters. We're domain farmers. And you're just jealous. :-)
Re:Ask YC: How many people here were regional BBS users back in the day?
on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @04:11PM (#146063)
Too young. My early scene was meeting up with the local kids to swap BASIC programs, pirated games, and 8-bit video game cartridges.
Re:Ask YC: Whats your Twitter handle?
on Monday March 24, 2008 @11:52PM (#145409)
http://twitter.com/dstillz
I got it a long time ago but started using it very recently.
I think the Hacker News homepage has a bug -- and that I fixed it.
http://www.derikstiller.com/seenitgone/
A shameless plug? I think not.
Re:Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
on Monday March 24, 2008 @05:32PM (#145026)
Just because I upvote something doesn't mean I want to save it!
Re:Ask YC: Are you working part-time on your startup/project/idea?
on Monday March 24, 2008 @08:51AM (#144512)
I'd love to have that.
Kind of a more-intensive, tech version of the Tuesday Night Music Club.
First rule: no bringing your girlfriend, even if she is Sheryl Crow.
Re:Ask YC: Are you working part-time on your startup/project/idea?
on Monday March 24, 2008 @08:06AM (#144489)
I really think I can prove myself and my ideas. I wish I were better at networking.
Re:Ask YC: Are you working part-time on your startup/project/idea?
on Monday March 24, 2008 @07:58AM (#144486)
Yeah, a different, more literal kind of alone.
I got burned last summer by bringing people on board too early. I'm the hacker-type.
The other people were the kind whose strengths too were different from mine. One was a high-powered client-interfacing guy, who has since taken a full time job as an IA, after the failure of his own Web 2.0 startup (all in under a year!). The other, and the troublemaker, was a high-powered marketing person who wanted to fasttrack the branding campaign before I even had a product or clients. We'd all worked together well in the context of a larger company, but we couldn't reconcile our directional aspirations for a startup.
So this year, I'm alone. In Northern Virginia's technology corridor. I would love a hackerly co-founder, or at least someone to bounce my ideas off of. All my friends from CS classes keep moving to the West coast to work for the Googles and Microsofts of the world. I have a feeling my YC application this year is going to be rejected simply because I'm a sole founder.
Re:Ask YC: Are you working part-time on your startup/project/idea?
on Monday March 24, 2008 @03:36AM (#144402)
I feel that THIS summer will be THE summer that I turn one of my projects into a startup, so in the past month, I've quit full time work and moved into a cheaper place to live.
I'm currently doing requirements gathering for my first project, and I've already done around 400 lines of coding. I wish I wasn't alone.