jbhelms's comments

jbhelms | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2020)

Location: San Francisco, CA US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Mostly MS stack, but I know Python as PHP as well

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesbhelms/

Email: jbhelms [at] gmail.com

jbhelms | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: LavaSend - SnapChat for documents

Clickable link: https://lavasend.com

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: The Day Programmer vs. The Night Programmer (2006)

The terms night and day confused me a little. I consider myself a morning person, but a night programmer. I thrive in the early mornings, but I have all the traits described here as a night programmer.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Website outages and blackouts the right way

That is good to know. I guess this helps catch SEO cheats with javascript

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Website outages and blackouts the right way

Since GoogleBot doesn't run javascript, does that mean that an all Javascript solution would work without disrupting indexing?

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Stop SOPA site template

I think this is the method I plan on using and offering to my customers. It will get the point across and still allow them to function.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: A good domain registrar/ssl cert

I ended up going with NameCheap.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: In VC pitches the bio slide should come first

In the comments, Brad Feld of Foundry Group said he prefers it to be last. Mark stated that this is a point of disagreement between them.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: How can I get a meeting with Alexis Ohanian, a Y Combinator Ambassador?

I second what both those people said. I had a nice email exchange with him about my startup. It didn't turn into a meeting like it did for the second person, but he did help me. Also, you can find him on Reddit as well. I have never met him in person, but from our interactions, email and Reddit, he seems like a really nice guy.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Equity splitting

You should check out this article. It may not be perfect for your situation but it should set you in the right direction.

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/wrong-answer-5050-calculating-c...

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Steve Jobs Died at Home of Respiratory Arrest

In the comment section on there someone pointed out that they knew someone who died the same way and it was a peaceful death. They just stopped breathing while in a coma. I do hope he went peacefully.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Does our homepage load quickly or slow for you?

Loaded slow for me, and in bits. I am at HP in Roseville CA.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: What are we supposed to do with Google+?

Well no, I am a fairly analytical person. If G+ dies I will not hold on just because.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: What are we supposed to do with Google+?

Let me ask you this. What do you do when a friend says they are on MySpace? That is exactly how I see my friends On Facebook after I make the switch to G+ over the next few months. I will still log into Facebook to see what is going on, but for the most part I am only keeping my Facebook account because I admin several pages. For now I am double posting things to FB and G+, but eventually I will stop. IMO, G+ is another social platform, just like Facebook was when there was already Friendster and MySpace. Some people with jump ship, some people will keep both accounts.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: HP to lay off as many as 525 at webOS GBU

I am a contractor at HP in Roseville. While we are not associated with the WebOS team, there have been talks here about layoffs. I work on the HP Networking/Procurve team. We have been told that our team is being integrated with HPIT, but the problem with that is the HPIT team is on the east coast, so that means the chances of even the employees keeping their jobs is slim. All of us contractors have been warned that our contract will most likely end at the end of October. While I don't know for sure, I would guess that the WebOS team will be folded into some other HPIT team if they are willing to relocate.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Has Windows 8 killed web games by not supporting plugins?

I think it will be more likely that this decision will kill any market share that IE has left.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: 11 Great Free iPhone 4 GUI PSD Templates For Designers

I have used the iPhone GUI PSD Version 4 several times. It does lack a map though, which i thought was in the version 3. Thanks for this resource, I have bookmarked it.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: I have a 40% click-through. Should I start building?

One problem that I see is that I did the "Get a taste" thing and it just spun and spun and never did anything. I am now a little apprehensive that I gave your app access to my Facebook posts.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

Actually, after posting this I found an article that said that GoDaddy is selectively denying DNS requests, so they are now being crappy with DNS as well. I guess I need to move to a new registrar and DNS host.

jbhelms | 14 years ago | on: Startups should not use GoDaddy. Ever

DNS wasn't really the problem here, it was the hosting and setting up a ssl cert. I use GoDaddy for my DNS stuff and have never had any problem with them for that. Most of the horror stories come from people hosting with them.