15:[[5152157,{"by":"agracey","descendants":6,"id":5152157,"kids":[5152245,5160694,5160608,5190798,5153140,5153073],"score":7,"text":"I am increasingly finding job postings requiring a github account or sample projects. I have an account but all of my projects are startups I'm helping and are private. (The one project that is public is easily some of the worst code I've ever written; it was thrown together for school in a couple hours)

How am I supposed to respond to these when the all the code I've written is proprietary. I code and design for a living but when I go home I prefer to do things other than code.

--edited due to HN losing part of the post","time":1359740687,"title":"Ask HN: Will not programming in my spare time hurt my career?","type":"story","url":""}],[5100076,{"by":"berserkpi","descendants":15,"id":5100076,"kids":[5100420,5102821,5122202,5100165,5101193,5101103,5100168,5100166,5104870,5101600,5100337],"score":9,"text":"I'm a very austere guy by the way.","time":1358894193,"title":"Could I survive and save some money earning 65k in NY?","type":"story","url":""}],[3462846,{"by":"jhasse","descendants":4,"id":3462846,"kids":[3462940,3462877,3462910],"score":4,"text":"","time":1326496924,"title":"Show HN: A program to open cmd.exe in the Explorer's current path","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/jhasse/smart_cmd"}],[3284411,{"by":"wileamching","dead":true,"descendants":0,"id":3284411,"kids":[3284522],"score":1,"text":"you are good","time":1322452135,"title":"Mr","type":"story","url":"http://wileamching@yahoo.com"}],[3232273,{"by":"moatsandhackers","descendants":1,"id":3232273,"kids":[3232383],"score":1,"text":"I've been working out for the past 3 months now and have made some progress but want to gain more muscle. My current regimen is 120 crunches, 100 push ups, and 40 chin ups 5 times a week as well as 50 body squats 3 times a week for legs. Can any one suggest any improvements for my regimen? I've also been thinking of using creatine what do you guys think? Thanks!","time":1321230575,"title":"Workout Regimen for in shape hackers","type":"story","url":""}],[3165009,{"by":"naoufelt","descendants":1,"id":3165009,"kids":[3165218],"score":2,"text":"","time":1319743033,"title":"Does Montreal have what it takes to be the next Silicon Valley?","type":"story","url":"http://techentrepreneurship.com/2011/10/27/does-montreal-have-what-it-takes-to-be-the-next-silicon-valley/"}],[3116285,{"by":"wesleyzhao","descendants":4,"id":3116285,"kids":[3116335,3116364],"score":4,"text":"Today I found myself really wishing I had SMS alerts for certain GetClicky features(worse aesthetic design, but better UX than Google Analytics). And now I actually think I might build a tool that will let anyone get an SMS alert if someone lands on a certain page (say their Kickstarter page for example).

But after thinking a bit, I realized I would really like SMS alerts for a lot of things since my iPhone texts are the only things I check every time I get a notification (i.e. I ignore email notifications etc).

Am I the only one? Or do many people wish they had SMS alerts for a lot of things (such as comments on HN threads)? Or would making SMS alerts ubiquitous, just make them as equally not-useful as an email notification?","time":1318729402,"title":"Ask HN: What do you wish had SMS alerts for?","type":"story","url":""}],[3113411,{"by":"principia1","descendants":7,"id":3113411,"kids":[3113694,3113758,3113679,3114495,3113421,3113497],"score":7,"text":"I just started grad school in Physics a month ago, but I have recently considered quitting since I have gained an interest in the entrepreneur/startup world. Or I could just try to work as a programmer for a non-startup

The main problems at the moment are that I have poor programming skills and only know the basics and a little OOP(To give you an idea of my current skill level, the most recent concept I learned in C++ was Vectors a few months ago.). My only programming experience consists of taking a C++ class 5 years ago, using C++ for a physics research project, and using Matlab a bit for HW problems

I have interviewed for a few programmer positions in the past, but I failed all of them. How can I get better at programming? Should I try working through O'Reilly's book? The only programming book I have with me is a \"Learn C++ in 30 days\" or something like that. Should I just try to work through the exercises in it?","time":1318635389,"title":"Getting better at programming?","type":"story"}],[3063929,{"by":"incub8or","descendants":23,"id":3063929,"kids":[3064747,3075671,3064286,3064896,3063959,3064201,3063966,3064249,3064216,3066836],"score":14,"text":"We've made a no budget indie movie with:

No studio \nNo distributor\nNo movie stars

Our goal is:

to gross $1m and fund the next movie

It's sounds quite impossible. But we've come up with a strategy:

Everyone who registers to download the movie will get to display a picture, logo or text of their choosing on a billboard in New York's Times Square.

Prices start from only $10 upwards. So for as little as $10 you can get any message / image / logo (as long as it's not obscene and you own the rights) up on a Times Square billboard.

What do folks think about this and could this be used as a cheap form of marketing for startups?","time":1317587770,"title":"Ask HN: Can a No Budget Indie Movie Make $1m Online?","type":"story","url":""}],[2565332,{"by":"olalonde","dead":true,"descendants":5,"id":2565332,"kids":[2565513,2565438,2565522,2565437,2565422],"score":21,"text":"","time":1305837742,"title":"Flood Hacker [img]","type":"story","url":"http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/miss051911/m01_14381413.jpg"}]]

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