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kp212 | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you do to boost your creativity and/or productivity?

Hmm, maybe I am approaching this incorrectly, but I'll go out, drink it up with friends, and not think about work, or my side project. I'll come back to it a day or 2 later, after not looking my problem for a bit. Sometimes that break lets me see things another way, albeit a little hungover ;).

kp212 | 16 years ago | on: On those "Entitled" Twenty-Somethings 

  All I can say is, and I've been working over 8 years, if I was graduating college in this economy with 50+k in loans, no job, the worst UE rate in 20+ years, I'd be pissed as well. Not saying its right, not saying its wrong, just saying...

kp212 | 16 years ago | on: California Won't Accept Its Own IOUs

Why can't they sell them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_bond

Many other states and munis do.

Whether its a good investment or not is dictated by the risk and interest rate associated to it. You can't not pay your obligations which in this case would be the interest rate to cover today's expenses. Otherwise we are talking about a larger issue which would be bankruptcy.

kp212 | 16 years ago | on: California Won't Accept Its Own IOUs

Yeah, but when companies issue bonds, they use the real money issued from the sale of these bonds to pay down debts of creditors. In this case, if the IOU's are like bonds then they should be sold on the market, and the real money collected should be used to pays these small businesses, which are the state's creditors. I know a state is not a company, but when raising capital via debt, you can't just force someone to accept these IOU's when they are owed money.

kp212 | 17 years ago | on: Rate/Review my start-up - HearWhere.com

I think it would be nice to have a date range, and perhaps the option to search by genre or band. I would like to be able to see whats going on in the month of August, or see if any of my bands are coming into the area.

kp212 | 17 years ago | on: American lawns take up the same area as NY state, cost $40 billion a year

Yes it is my business. This is the same approach people took on gas and corn. Consume so much until the price impacts us. Except this time, I don't want to pay $5 a gallon on water in 2020, because a bunch of people wanted to run it all day on their lawn at 25 cents a gallon in 2008. People already are stuggling on fuel, we don't need the same approach on water.

kp212 | 17 years ago | on: Financial Times: IT graduates struggle to find work

Have you seen consultants from overseas in an internal IT dept? I think this is total ____, and it sounds like another PR ploy to lobby a raise for the visa quota. I work for one of the investment banks, and I would say a low ball estimate is 25%-30% of the back office IT, is visa related individuals in the US (either consultants or internal hires), not to mention the "24 hour" teams they like to implement with India. I don't have a problem with companies needing to import talent at all, but I do have a problem with companies driving the wages down by using these excuses of a lack of talent. Subsequently, paying these people below US market value. If a shortage was the case, companies should pay a premium of something in the ballpark of 10% more, because of the "lack" of demand. Instead, they look at this as a cost saving tool. It's so blatant, and its so obvious, just work in the back office of Wall St. for a month, and you will agree. I wonder what it's like on the west coast.

kp212 | 18 years ago | on: Poll: What are you doing full-time?

Working as a corporate tool. Got a verbal offer (would need to negotiate my comp) to work with some really bright guys again at a startup. Debating what to do, asking myself why am I debating what to do...

kp212 | 18 years ago | on: Querying Google/a search engine through my webapp?

I wrote a page scraper for google some time back. Its actually easier to parse their pages than yahoo's imo. You will get blocked for hours if you intend to post hundreds of times a minute though.

kp212 | 18 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where to look for info on E-Commerce websites?

Thanks for the tip. I started Googling for open source e-commerce packages. I actually have some background in coding, I wrote a couple of smaller projects over the past 2 years, so I am comfortable with php/html, and I think my illustrator/shop skills are coming together now as well. I actually built a version 1 with the yahoo store editor. It's ok, not totally satisfied with the design, but it works, and is clean as I could make it. As I am starting work on version 2.0, I find this editor to be a little frustrating not letting me customize some of the modules, and I want to make some of this database driven instead of a page for each product. I don't like the idea of their custom tables. Does this help with gauging where I am technically?
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