there used to be a finance hackernews clone -- anyone remember what that is? is it still alive?

thank you so much! been looking for that for a second

It's not particularly alive :(

To be quite honest -- you should probably save for at least a year of expenses of your OWN money before quitting your job.

Thanks. Maybe I should have stated, my job allows me to take a leave of absence, so I don't actually lose my job, I just lose my insurance and paycheck for that period of time.

haven't used any of these -- but if you scan a couple class B's of popular hosting providers like aws, rackspace, etc. -- you'd be surprised at the % of things like memcached/redisd/hbase/etc.. that don't even have the most basic auth -- and people store all sorts of craziness in there

it's 2012 and everyone still cares not at all about security

too bad both sites use the old stereotypical pictures+profiles approach to dating unlike flirtrs which actually makes you go meet people (cause you know, if you are trying to meet people it helps to go meet them)

Are you serious? Extremely few people "resort to this." The Silk Road is absolutely miniscule compared to the overall drug market.

I'm willing to bet that if I asked every person in my 5-floor walkup, I'd come out with a list of dealers comparable in size to the silk road.

I shit you not -- if you are in San Francisco I can take you out partying and you'll have a job you love the next day <-- this is how retarded easy it is to get a software job in this city -- EVERYONE is hiring

It's odd. All these businesses are fighting over a small amount of talent. Why not just have a remote office in San Francisco and focus development elsewhere in the country?

This happens a lot with agencies, where they locate their sales, marketing, even designers in say New York or London, meanwhile the bulk of the company is elsewhere - in locations with high unemployment and lots of developers.

In those areas you might have 20, 30, maybe 40 developers all applying for a single position.

Because the valuations you would get headquartered in Silicon Valley seem to be far higher than you would get elsewhere.

I've built up a (profitable) tech startup in Canada in the last few years, and get valuations in the range of 20 times earnings or 2 times revenue. Respectable compared to the S&P 500, but laughable compared to what seems to be the norm in the valley (or at least what seems to be the norm based on what I read here)

Not that i'm complaining, i love canada, but something to consider.

any developer openings?

Why have your developers in San Francisco? Because software devs want to work around other software devs. It's an exciting town to be in if you work in software, and lots of developers want to move out here. It's hard to say the same for towns with high unemployment like Cleveland or Detroit.

  ...locations with high unemployment and lots of developers

Do such places still exist? Even with high unemployment numbers, I don't see many unemployed developers right now. A lot of the work in other areas is a little boring and Enterprisey (.NET, Java, C++) but there are still jobs in such areas and a shortage of people.

So the job interview would take place during the "partying" and you will end up with what we old-timers like to call "competitive" salary?

I had no clue why dropbox was so special up until that point when Drew mentioned that -- and it very much was mentioned 'in passing'.

"Filesystem of the internet" is the end goal for them -- dropbox of what you have today is nowhere near what it will be like in 3-4 years if they are still kicking ass.

that's pretty cool too!

agreed