I think we should love people more. We have to be idealist. "If we take man as he is – we make him worse, if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of becoming what he can be". http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f...
lots on news this week n accpeting bitocoin! reddit is looking into this too!
the world is shifting to bitcoin!! if it is indeed less inflationary/deflationary than we can just transfer USD into bitcoin on www.coinbase.com (which is pretty much paypal for bitcoin) - S12 YC company
I think that wins the prize for the most hyped remark on HN, ever. Really, the world has not shifted to bitcoin, it won't shift to bitcoin in the near future and possibly never.
Bitcoins are interesting, a very nice implementation of the idea of a digital currency with some thought provoking possible consequences. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market), but it isn't a general currency at all, let alone that the world is switching to it.
What you are seeing is that a few companies have caught on to using bitcoin as a way to promote themselves because 'accepting bitcoin' is a way to get free press.
Can you get by for a month just spending bitcoin without any other resources than bitcoins at the beginning of the month, sufficient for a normal months' worth expenses?
When you can go to your local greengrocer and buy an apple with bitcoin I'll cede to you that the world has indeed switched to bitcoin. Until then, it's neat but not quite there yet.
There's nothing "thought-provoking" about assassination markets, especially in the context of bitcoins. Maybe that's just because it's 2012.
The guys at https://www.bitinstant.com/ are in the process of making a debit card backed by bitcoins, so when that's out, you will indeed be able to buy everything you currently buy with a card. However, at that point I still wouldn't agree with the assessment that the world is shifting to bitcoin. For that I'd need to see at least a few billion dollars market-cap, I'd be much more comfortable with a trillion dollar market-cap.
Silence after sending the resume in and especially after in–person interview kills every motivating molecule in me.
I wish there was some kind of metrics based on feedback attached to my profile, so that after interviews, I'd bounce to that perfect position, as "one man's trash is another man's treasure".
Best rejection letter I got so far:
"We're sorry to say we couldn't accept you for a position at XXX. Please don't take it personally, it was a hard decision. The applications we receive get better every day, and since there's a limit on the number positions, we have to turn away a lot of genuinely promising people.
Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes.
We're trying to get better at this, but the hard limit on the number of people we hire means it's practically certain that people we rejected will go on to do something amazing. "
I spent a few months looking for work recently, and this style of rejection email seems to be a form letter these days. 'heaps of quality applicants' kind of thing. It feels made up, but the important thing is that now you know you didn't succeed and you can strike it off your list.
