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I think the green signup button makes things look very alike. I have made some changes to the similarities in that respect.
Hello, I too am a Junior studying Economics (at Northwestern University though). I am looking for anything paid or unpaid for this summer.

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Job's is dead on.

Google's goal is no less than to assimilate every piece of dearly held private information it can find about you to feed you advertising more efficiently, all while wiping out the individual industries that have made them popular (real estate's next!).

Adobe hasn’t innovated a serious product since flash - it got huge, wiped out the competition through acquisitions and has been producing spammy me-too’s like their media player & mobile devices app ever since.

Apple is of course, open to massive criticism themselves, but it’s fun to see Steve throw other monster media companies under the bus!
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Submitted my resume (but forgot to attach cover letter, darn), thanks for the heads up! Seems like it'd be a cool place to work.
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Of course if we want to criticize apple in the same way they just want you to have complete and utter vendor lock in but thats almost the same as every other company.
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Adobe feels like the next Microsoft. Or maybe this one.
Laws banning cellphone use while driving have no effect
They can start taking orders whenever they want. It's delivery that has to wait for regulatory approval.
The general concept's ancient, e.g. http://www.changedetection.com/ has been up since 1999. Merging it with CSS selectors seems newer, but it's hard to keep anyone who has a CSS-selector library from duplicating that functionality.
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AFAIK, Twitter's API rate limit is per IP + per user (i.e. you can do X api requests per user on each machine). Also, on a whitelisted IP you get 20K requests per user.

There was a long discussion about that a few months ago on the dev mailing list, whether this by purpose or mistake. Back then, the official response was that it's by purpose, but verify if that's true. If it is, you have plenty of API calls you can do per user.
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Sure, shoot me an email if you're interested. I checked out your blog, and you're actually dealing with quite a few of the marketing challenges that we're facing in the educational market.

The comment about marketing to students: "Marketing to college students is like being in marketing boot camp. You deal with one of the most distracted audiences and if you get them to do stuff you're good" seems to ring true for me.

Also, I liked your idea for online social marketing for Universities to students. It's an interesting concept, I wonder if it will bear fruit.
I would recommend: http://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async/ - it implements Twitter's OAuth API. Will save you some work.
I'm willing to hire an intern (or, ideally, recent grad/dropout). We're doing all sorts of cool stuff, from Machine Learning in Lisp, to a JS heavy website, to iPhone, Android, etc apps.

Incidentally, we're also looking for a marketing intern - but that's probably less interesting to the people here.

Strong preference for NYC. My email is in my profile.
I'm a graduate student at RIT and I'm looking for an internship where I can work on computer graphics from the mathematical/programming side. Most of my experience is with C/C++ and OpenGL. Currently I'm working on Renderman shaders for a black hole visualization project.

If anyone is looking for an intern to do some work with graphics let me know at jxl6110 _at_ rit _dot_ edu .

I can start in March and work through the end of summer.
If you start using metaclasses its likely more experienced pythonista's will look down their nose at you and say "probably shouldn't have done it that way", largely because they often turn out to be magic for magics sake.

I believe the rule is, if you don't know when to not use metaclasses, you shouldn't be using them at all.
I'm kind of second-guessing my thought as well. In the early days (well, the first year, really) of the iPhone Apple was steadfast in their idea that everything would be web-based. No SDK needed.

The concern over Java at that point was if it was going to be allowed on the phone at all. JME/J2ME was what the mobile industry was trending toward. The success of Cocoa Touch and the App Store has pretty much made J2ME a footnote (except for the few carriers still hanging on).
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More info here:
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I've always enjoyed the fun/weird bits of the Perl community and wrote a fair bit of (intentionally) obfuscated Perl a few years back.

My personal best was this "zombie" code:
http://www.joelesko.com/cgi-bin/obfu.pl?obfuID=5
Would the intern be working on Postabon?
WOW, sorry for that :/
Then why not call it "meritocracy" instead? The great thing about English is there's a word or phrase for every shade of meaning - if you don't like the connotation of one usage, pick another!
I have been loving my DX since Xmas, and as a former Sony Reader refugee I cannot tell you how much I do not miss needing to run my technical documents and research papers through this sort of PDF munging in order to get something that is (barely) readable on the smaller e-ink screens. If you read a lot of technical books, papers, or other docs formatted for A4/8.5x11 then do not consider any of the smaller e-ink units.

The page turn speed is not fast, but since I was used to it from my previous e-ink device I don't find it too much of a bother. The thing that you lose from a physical book is the ability to scan quickly to a particular section that you then drill down to the page you want. With e-ink you guess the approximate area and then guess a couple of more times until you get to the right page. The biggest "fix" that could be provided in this case would be for hyperlinks within the doc to work so that you could bounce from the table of contents or index to a specific page. At least with the DX I can actually go to the page I want though, with reformatted docs on a smaller display (like the use case for the OP software) there was no match between the original page numbers and the actual page number on the reader, so it was a real PITA.

Short version: if you read technical docs or papers in PDF format do not consider anything smaller than a DX or iRex.
It's important for Jobs to convince the rank-and-file at Apple that Google's "Don't Be Evil" is bullshit. Right now it looks an awful lot like Apple is being closed and evil, while Google is being open and excellent with Android apps.

If that perception continues, Apple loses recruiting access to a lot of the best developers.
This might be more useful as a gdoc of some sort (similar to the call for cofounders from a while back?)
There is a lesson Bram needs to learn. If you wish to avoid being considered a 'douche' you have to better optimise your statements to undermine your oponent and remove their credibility. He could have posted a factual account of his unpleasant experiences with Freenode that included a sincere warning to any other organisers of official projects. Instead he overemphasised the importance of showing both sides of the story.

If you are going to be negative then it is important to do it well and do it ruthlessly. Don't try to be fair or direct. Play to the crowd and ruthlessly take the moral high ground or it will be taken from you, as is the case here. It is a little ironic but if Bram had been more of a Machiavellian 'meanie' then he would not have been been labeled a 'meanie'. Some of the posts here provide good advice on ways he could have done that.

It seems clear that Bram's misfortune warrants a warning for all potential users of the Freenode servers. Hopefully this is not missed due to Bram's neglect of political expediency.
I fail to see the problem here. All three of these companies produce excellent products. If this weren't the case, you wouldn't be so passionate in your arguments. I mean, your criticisms practically describe their business model.
I guess that you use users/show endpoint to get the user's profile. Instead you can ask for each user's timeline - it is still 1 API call, you still get their profile data, but you also get their tweets.

The only downside is that the request might take longer.

Btw, beware that some spam accounts use others tweets to look legit. I can send you some for example, if you're interested.
Sorry I can't tell if you are sarcastic or not, but in case you're not: what's wrong with being targeted by advertising more efficiently.

Theoretically speaking, isn't being targeted by advertising at absolute efficiency being given exactly what you want when you want it?

I know in practice we get spammed by noise, but most of that noise is caused by inefficient advertising. But what's wrong with being targeted with something that genuinely piques your interest? People would love to pay for that, because frankly the information we need is not always presented to us right when we need it. Highly efficient advertising is giving people who have something to say, say it to the right person right when they need it.

Don't misconstrue this as an endorsement of false or misleading advertising. I think there is the ability for advertising to serve the need to present the right information to the right people at the right time.
I would love one of these. If I get accepted into my research program, I'm going to be looking at some clunky gloves and a lot of laptop time.

So, a scalable projectable keyboard + laptop combo would be absolutely amazing in a lab setting. (I've already looked into those projected keyboards too)
This needs to have a recording of the Apple II disk drive at the beginning of the video.
Just to clarify a point, pdflrf also converts docs to images. It crops & chops, then rasterizes and performs a few image manipulation steps to make the image look better on the Sony screen.
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"Don't be evil" clearly is bullshit to the extent that you can always rationalize an evil action, and three words aren't going to stop you from doing what you want.

On the other hand, though, a mantra like that can help entrench a culture that makes it harder for "evil" ideas to find roots.

On balance, I'm not sure a mantra makes a difference. It's sort of dangerous when it becomes so entrenched that you start to think your actions are by definition non-evil. From time to time, we do see Google pulling out "it's not illegal if the President does it"-type rationalizations.
Yep. This is exactly what I've been thinking for the last several days while reading through all the piss and vinegar the technorati on the web have been throwing at the the iPad.

The iPad cost $500-$900 and does a few things exceptionally well. (Like hook into iBooks, iTunes and Apple's App Store.)

The Modbook on the other hand, starts at ~$1700 and does all that other crap the technorati wanted the iPad to do. I think everyone just wanted Jobs to come out with a tablet computer that was cheap and badass like MacBooks are and, unsurprisingly, that didn't happen.

I mean, I'd love it if Chevy held a press conference and said they were going to sell Camaros for $10k. But it won't happen and I'm not going to get all indignant about it.

After all, Steve Jobs said himself they couldn't build a computer for $500 that wasn't, "a piece of crap." So I don't see what the big deal is about the iPad, in that sense. (I think it is a big deal in several other senses, like the piggy-backed announcement of iBooks and the A4 chip, etc...)
64 was definitely not the market leader. It may not have floundered like the Cube, but it wasn't ahead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_...
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Ask HN: Do you ever worry about running out of monetizable problem space?
There's only so many transformations of bits people will pay money for. Do you ever worry we'll run out?
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Adobe didn't "innovate" Flash -- it bought it from Macromedia, who bought another company to get it.

So apparently you have to go even farther back to find something innovative from Adobe :-)
It may also be worth nothing that those not located in America can't simply use a proxy to access Hulu because Flash doesn't obey system proxy settings -- a VPN is required. If strong region-restriction is a priority of Hulu's then this could be a disincentive towards them providing a non-Flash option.
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i wondered about that. i suspect that SD actively tries to get rid of them. the cops there seemed pretty aggressive.
While not explicit in the parent post, I think his major point was about a leader in a mature technology field not often being replaced.

Google supplanted Altavista largely because they made huge strides in a rather new field. While it's definitely possible, it's a little hard to image someone coming along with a web search that's impressive enough to supplant Google. It's more likely that "search" would evolve into something not entirely comparable to today's search, and replace them.
I'm sure you've read these before, but Paul Graham has a lot to say about this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/kate.html
I like the author's honesty; he seems to hate decision-free computing but acknowledges that it's what most people prefer.

If his main objection is that (like everyone's saying) abstractions are sad because they make tinkering harder, then I'm with him. But the question is whether abstractions and tinkering are mutually exclusive. The examples I've seen seem to suggest that they are. But it would be a shame if that were true, because I think both are very important.
I think the speed you see as a difference may be coming from how you're writing the data, node requires multiple function calls to do the writing of data (unless you use a raw tcp socket), tornado appears to just take it all in one function call, which takes in a string.
Note: This user has worked for Facebook for two years.
"For example, my impression is that Yahoo isnt really written in PHP - its written in C patched together using PHP."

Yahoo! is a company, not a single application. Not everything at Yahoo! is written in PHP, but the vast majority of Yahoo! properties do use PHP heavily on the frontend, and not just as a way of patching together C extensions.
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I think it would make more sense to a member of the OTO. Kind of Crowleyesque.
I watched both of my non-techie parents use my iPhone two years ago when I brought my family home for Xmas and by new years day they both had shiny new iPhones. They hardly ever used the computers I set up for them and would routinely update/replace whenever I returned over two decades but they dived right into the iPhone. My mom had a 3GS before I did.

The learning curve was not as steep and the rewards for learning the device were more direct and obvious. Anyone can eventually learn to use a computer running Linux, OS X, or Windows if they really have to, but there is a big difference between needing to learn how to use something and getting past that initial hump so quickly that you don't even notice it.
You know I miss the days when Apple (as in Steve) went after Microsoft and IBM with a vengeance. That battle didn't turn out too well for him, but it was fun to watch. It would be fun to see Apple and Google go at it.

The history of the PC vs. Mac wars showed us that an open platform (as in able to be installed on any non-apple device) wins over a closed platform controlled by one company. It will be interested to see what happens this time around.
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This person is actually just a scammer.
Thanks so much, Andrew.
When we run out, we've struck upon post-scarcity and you'll have no needs that won't be attended to.

Wants? I'm not so sure about that part.

Edit: You may however, be forced out of your comfort zone as more problem space gets explored. Don't expect to be able to use Rails and Django to solve everything.
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"""Theoretically speaking, isn't being targeted by advertising at absolute efficiency being given exactly what you want when you want it?"""

That sounds an awful like going to a webpage, for example Google, typing in a query, and having the results be appropriate and useful.

(Roughly, how Google was before it stopped being that and started serving useless shit like dozens of the same mailing list mirrors, shareware download sites and shopping aggregate sites).

"""Theoretically speaking, isn't being targeted by advertising at absolute efficiency being given exactly what you want when you want it?"""

No, because part of the point of advertising is to convince you that you want it. Perfect advertising would be such that whatever they show you, you buy.
Part of me agrees with him re. Adobe. Adobe has a mountain of resources, talent and potential. I've been working with Flash for about a decade now - before Adobe even bought Macromedia - for all sorts of different use cases. In all that time it's been and to this day remains a horribly inefficient IDE to program in, and the FlashPlayer is a platform you have to optimize early and optimize often to keep running on performance-intensive uses.

Every new version developers are just praying this time Adobe will give us a product they've gone back and fixed instead of just adding more stuff to it.
There's only so many transformations of bits people will pay money for.

Says who?

Do you ever worry we'll run out?

No. I think people will always be willing to pay for something that saves them time, makes them more money, or fulfills some other need/want.
Aha! He forgot 6^P as the original way to boot the disk. Newbie.

The funny thing about the Apple ][ disk was that homing sequence itself. It was aligning the head to track 0 by SLAMMING it against a metal backstop. Primitive, but took very few opcodes to make it happen, especially since the apple disk format had no encoding in the tracks to tell the head where it was.

One of my first forays into 6502 assembly was copying that home routine off the card and changing the delay between pulses to the servo. You could actually make music with that metal backstop if you made the delay small enough.
Theoretically speaking being targeted by advertising at absolute efficiency is being persuaded to part with as much cash as possible for as little product.

This is advertising presenting the right information to the right person at the right time.

On account of the consumer not paying for it, advertising is pretty much diametrically opposed to the consumers wants.

A paid for service which tells you what you want and when you want it is not what google are developing.
You mean people actually socialize on Facebook pages?

It seems that the only effective purpose for pages is for celebrities/companies to push updates to their fans (and almost always ignore the reverse direction), and groups are even worse. Most pages and groups I see are things that you join because you agree with/identify with the name and then totally ignore. I wonder if facebook a) cares, and b) could do something to fix it.
That said, it's a tough pill to swallow coming from Apple of all people. Especially with the lawsuits over rumors/leaks. Especially with the, "you can't run non-approved apps on iPhone OS," attitude. If I had to rank companies on the spectrum of 'evil,' Apple would be closer to evil than Google.
> The history of the PC vs. Mac wars showed us that an open platform (as in able to be installed on any non-apple device) wins over a closed platform controlled by one company. It will be interested to see what happens this time around.

Not necessarily. Care to comment on the era where Apple opened itself up to 3rd-party hardware vendors?
[cringe]

This person knows just enough to be dangerous.
Yep! There are a lot of exciting things happening with Postabon in the last few weeks (on both the business and tech sides) that I can't talk about publicly yet :-D But let's talk if you're interested in some details and think you might be a good fit.
It does seem to be. In this case, I have added reason to implement OAuth!
Well targeted advertising is when you're looking for a car, and you get presented with information about cars.

Perfectly targeted advertising is when you're looking for a car, and you get presented with information about a car that you buy, but that you would have bought if you spent time doing the research yourself.

This is my definition of theoretically perfectly targeted advertising. This is what I think Google is trying to achieve.
The idea is probably to compile PHP into machine code rather than byte code.
"No one will be using Flash, [Jobs] says. The world is moving to HTML5."

Maybe I'm just a guy, maybe I was just a hopeful iPhone user, but for the record, the iPhone will NOT be seeing Flash - ever.
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I thought it was never buy a x.0 MS product. And in the case of XP, etc... it was wait until the first service pack.
You can never be sure on the internet. If I were Cthulhu, I'd claim to be a little cuttlefish too.
True, but Apple doesn't make any special claims that it's not evil. I think if people smell bullshit in "don't be evil", it's because looking at all companies, they see no correlation between claiming not to be evil and actually not being evil.
And here I thought he was going to start sending adverts over my Windows network.