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Short answer: Yes, after talking to him in person and making sure he's a social fit, too.

If it's of interest, we hired him from Hyperisland (http://www.hyperisland.se), a school in Sweden focused on interactive design and development. The school is top notch and most students end up in interactive agencies.

And if it's of further interest, our best designers and the CEO never attended college. They simple have been passionate about design from a young age and had enough drive to pursue their craft to master it. For the interactive agency industry, it really just matters what you can produce, so a spectacular portfolio without degrees to back it up can land you a job.
I see this when i click through your profile link:

http://cl.ly/3287295c175670b5d513

should I be seeing the edit profile form and the delete followers buttons?

It's still all confusing .. maybe a video walkthrough explaining the concept behind the site and the features would help. Why'd someone use this over Ardvark or quora or in the future, facebook Q&A?

also, the "Ask ____ a question" box is so easy to miss ..too much wastage of screen space since it requires me to navigate to the bottom of the page to post a question and there's a whole lot of blank space between the profile info (which for some reason comes across as a form) and the ask box
Have you ever seen any Ipad / laptop / compter which is transparent??
perhaps a line or 2 on how you measure these parameters that make someone an expert, it'd be helpful for people signing up.
And then...

"Changed to flash audio to reduce bandwidth consumption."
amazing how much more vibrant it was before the quake than it is today. Traffic flowed in all directions all at once and somehow it all worked.

There's some recent thinking about removing all of the traffic signs and signals actually making a street safer.

often we build up these systems with incremental steps that seem to make sense to somebody, but put all together actually produce a worse result.

but don't expect it to change quickly. its only the users that have the information. the planners will take a lot longer to figure it out.

there is also thinking to close streets to traffic, even if just for a few days a month. people love it. but they used to flow pretty freely, on foot and on bikes before all the traffic management
well i guess mainly to broaden my general programming skills...i feel the if i can learn another language i will have a better grasp on programming(particularly object-oriented)
There are three different meanings for the static keyword. It's a real pain.
I did write to the 10kapart to ask about using this technique before working on the app. Their answer was:

"As long as it works in the required browsers and it's 100% client-side you're welcome to use it in your app."

So the build script ... doesn't count. As long as everything works in the browser, it's good. The end justifies the means :)
If that's truly the case, then it feels like it would be rewarding the lurkers and penalizing the loyal readers, as the lurkers would get a much faster effective response rate.

But by far the worst offense to me is that it kills the community aspect, elevating the words and whims of the blogger much too high above the rabble's hobbled forum; they should consider themselves lucky to have been tossed these few scraps. Who wants to invest their time contributing to such a stodgy environment?
desigooner all great points, all taken in. Guys, this is exactly the type of feedback I hoped for. Thanks!
Pretty annoying that I can't even try out e2 as I've had my licensed copy of e installed for longer than the trial period.
The good thing about things like project Euler is that it makes you practice solving problems that are easily constrained. I would say most of the real problems you'll encounter day to day are often much simpler but are far more verbose. That makes them good exercises to learn. They are also fun.
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Firstly the courts won't prosecute something like this in absence of criminal intent (it would make a precedent against police, FBI, ATF, etc. that spying is guilty-until-proven-innocent/just).

Secondly, civil suits are completely unrelated to criminal suits, in most districts these are completely different court buildings and judges.

Thirdly, criminal suits can still be filed by anyone who was inappropriately photographed (IE compromising photographs), also the parents (or anyone except the children) can file their own criminal suit for any photographs taken of themselves (not their children). The Attorney said criminal charges won't be laid against the school for the systems use against the child, not that no criminal act was committed.

Finally, the Inquirer's writing ability is utter shit... just thought I'd add it to the list because frankly this article was appallingly written.
Does it ever stop being news when someone writes any game in JS/Canvas? As a serious question, how long until we have to judge these games on the same standards for which we would judge the state of the art in Flash or as a native iPhone app? Five years?
do you mean put some examples of deals on the front page?
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These are real interesting and nice interaction models. Definitely some of the better interactive work I've seen going on in canvas land.

These types of experiments definitely push the boundary of what we can do today with HTML5. And as deficiencies we find at that boundary are exposed (performance, interaction issues, audio, etc.) the spec will only get better.
i am new to HN, but i see a lot of posts about Clojure...it seems like a pretty popular up-and-coming language, no?
> Why'd someone use this over Ardvark or quora or in the future, facebook Q&A?

The fun part is that you do not have to use beepl in order to use beepl. For example - beepl already drives questions from twitter. And if people answer to them, beepl will reply on the responder's (twitterer) behind. Beepl is built to help - and that's precisely what it'll do. It connects questions with people based on their interests and expertise. Nothing in random on beepl (this is still in TODO). It's one great questions mashup. It also measures how or whether the question is interesting / not interesting. Also employs the semantic engine, custom built knowledge base, crm114 discriminator, question mutilator, etc.. so why would someone use this over Vark, etc? Because all these lack of these features. Their all brain-dead technology - more like phonebooks. Beepl is more like Internet 3.0, with AI, big brother and all that...
I learned on the TI-83. You learn skill-sets in chunks. First it was menus. Then holy-shit, variables. Things kinda just go from there.

You never as much learn programming as you "absorb" it. This includes things like syntax, approach, mind-set, etc. This goes for every language, especially if the idioms are different.

Come up with a cool project with small scope and a discernible "end goal," and do whatever it takes to get there. You'll learn more along the way than you expected to. I learned more about call-stacks, memory management, and pointers in front of MS VC++6 compiler and runtime errors than I ever thought I would when "making a game."

Its like learning any other language or math. Learn and understand and atom, and use that to understand another. Its definitely cumulative and you can't learn it "front-to-back" as much as it is in "bits and pieces."

Good luck!

(If its any help - this is the order I learned things in. Not documenting my age or how long I spent learning it as it spans more than a decade)

HTML

TI-Basic (TI-83)

Visual Basic

C++

CSS (finally stopped using homesite)

Java

Python

C

PHP

ActionScript

Ruby

Javascript
Agree, but willingness to answer also has context. I'm almost always willing to answer simple questions such as "Where can I find XYZ?" I have to be in proper mental state to answer more complex questions such as "Can we discuss the large and complex proposal I sent via email yesterday?"

This is all amplified when you have virtual teams. Those more complex conversations are more manageable when you are face to face. People can express how busy they are and how focused they are. IM doesn't have that luxury.

"Can I ask you a question?", in my personal experience, is usually a trap. If it was an easy question, the other person would have just asked it. Therefore, it's probably going to be a complex question that will take time and focus.
>>Some users swear by it because they don't have to share any sensitive credit card information (including CVV coddes) with the merchant.

I tend to be one of those .. Dispute resolution with Paypal is a much better experience as compared to dealing with, say Bank of America ... I was lucky to have had my paypal account on itunes when I had some fraudulent purchases .. No long claims process as with a bank .. The investigation and the matter was settled within 3-4 days ..

Now I've read about paypal arbitrarily stopping services without any warnings but other banks can be the same..
One of Python/Ruby. Just flip a coin and get started.

http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html or http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/

"what each language is specifically used for when developing"

They're used for all kinds of things. Not worth worrying about IMO.
I think maybe you're unfamiliar with the term "linkbaiting." It refers to an article that is sensational and uses attention-grabbing techniques to get people to link to it.
You can build cool stuff in any language, so it depends what your goals are. If you want to get a job as a web-developer, PHP is your best bet. If you want to have fun coding, Ruby or or maybe Python is best. If you need to maintain servers, Perl is the best to learn. Clojure is worth learning and a lot of fun, but not yet as practical for getting jobs, if that's your goal
Doesn't mean they are going anywhere...Did I quit using Twitter when google came out with Buzz? Nope. Just because Facebook decides to do something doesn't mean everything else around it is dead.
I wrote a mini JsDTD (unfinished) last year:

http://alexle.net/experiments/jsdtd/

(code is at http://github.com/sr3d/JsDTD).

I didn't use canvas, just straight HTML.

Side story: I went to an interview at Zynga and demo'ed it. I think I was able to impress the guys there, one of them even thought it was done in Flash. It was just Chrome runs everything so fast. (I got an offer from them but ultimately decided to not take it :) In my opinion, it's definitely a good strategy to build some thing cool, then mention it at the end of a job interview like "by the way, this is what I built". It worked for me.
My guess is that this wasn't notable/upvoted because it was written in JS/Canvas, but rather because it was written in only 10K of JS/Canvas.
Yeah, these guys have my meaning correct.

In my mind, the difference between teaching and educating is the same thing as the difference between an "instructor" and a "teacher" and explaining my definition of education might be better illustrated using these titles.

An instructor is usually hired (often by a community college) to open a book and deliver curriculum to students. Sometimes, personal anecdotes or experiences are peppered in but for the most part, it's cut-and-dry. A teacher on the other hand delivers curriculum using their own string of lessons and methods. A teacher gives part of his or her experience to each student giving them more then a simple instructor ever could.
What's the use case then?
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I do not really know how to describe this...

It's a complex workflow....

:-(

For example, you can see how one "grow" the expertise as they use the site..

That's why this one is "bigger" http://alpha.beepl.com/user/rsvaskova

Than say this one: http://alpha.beepl.com/user/marknutter

..but they'll all grow in time.

So erm, .. this is where I am stuck. That's why I am looking for a blogger.. :-P
That's a great concept! User interface design has to enable rapid turnaround in order to be improved iteratively. I wonder what are the possibilities of coding the business logic API in C, and communicating with it from an HTML5 front-end.
"The Mathematical Experience" goes into this in pretty good depth.

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Experience-Phillip-J-Davi...
how they works ?
My reading of his use of the terms:

"Instruction" is sharing the minimum knowledge required to accopmlish the task.

"Teaching" is sharing the minimum knowledge to effectively understand the task.

"Educating" is sharing the minimum knowledge to effectively understand the task and as much context as is necesasry to understand why the task matters.
Crimety, the LA Times has decided to become Demand Media with worse web design...
Viva la porn! :-P And I know who else likes porn... on twitter. I can sort for "porn". Neat! :-)
it is gaining a lot of popularity right now compared to what it had before.
if you want to do OO, I would advise Ruby or Python from your current list. If you really want to learn OO, I would recommend you learn some Smalltalk.
Teambuilding and strategy are highly practiced arts in the military. In my opinion, it's why officers who leave the military make good business strategists and leaders.
I actually think of training and learning orthogonally.

Learning is about increasing your knowledge and comprehension. Training is about increasing your skills. Learning involves study. Training involves practice. Obviously, the boundary is not stark, but you get the idea.

Contrast the feeling of wonder and amazement when you first learned some difficult theory or algorithm, with the feeling of power and confidence that comes from repeated practice using it to solve problems. In my mind, the first is learning, the second is training.
It certainly does help, thank you Ramit. Have you done any split testing to see if your conversions increase with PayPal though? Any thoughts/data on having PayPal as a secondary payment option, for those who prefer it?
Interesting points. I'm leaning towards having PayPal as an option, but I don't think I'd use them as my main provider, at least not for long... Thank you both.
Perhaps he's being modest.
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there has to be a use case?
cool, i am probably going to go through a python book, and i will also look at smalltalk
from tfa: "I know some people think that blogs are conversations, but I don't. I think they're publications."

It's not about interesting conversations.

It's about on-topic replies to the author's post. IE people being able to read and comprehend a post before making a comment on it.
In my opinion, Python is the best of those for.

Python is the most minimalist without being cluttered by unnecessary features (Ruby) or too many functions in the default namespace (PHP). The syntax is very elegant and easy to read (unlike Perl).

I recommend that you read Learn Python the Hard Way(http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index).
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You're being downvoted because, simply put, you're wrong.

One gigabyte is as large as any other gigabyte, yes, but the characteristics of that gigabyte may be very different. If they're predictable in some manner, you can tailor a compression algorithm to that gigabyte.

You can learn some about this by studying linear algebra.
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python is def more signal to noise

Python is structured, clean. Ruby is too freestyle for a beginner (imho), perl is a shipwreck.. and PHP is too limited in scope
I'm still waiting for a shell client so that I can script running Lisp processes.
Why do people initially suck at brain surgery?

Why do they initially suck at Super Mario Brothers?

Why do they initially suck at playing piano?

...

Not sure if I should tell the old Carnegie Hall joke or link to that Gladwell book...
> OpenGL, however, was difficult for him to pick up. Smith cites a steep learning curve as the primary reason for that.

All of the top drawing apps and visual manipulation apps are probably done in OpenGL. CoreGraphics is too slow for real-time interaction. I'm tempted to take the BigNerdRanch OpenGL course to get the bootcamp introduction (http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/opengl.shtml)

If only I can get away from my backlog of commitments for standard CoreData/Tab bar apps...

Fellow HNers: "How to learn OpenGL"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1497383
Interestingly, the traffic move much slower. Perhaps, a cacophony of traffic promote more alertness and caution than it would be otherwise in a faster but more orderly traffic.
As the owner of a MacBook Pro, I can tell you this: all of those people have very hot laps.
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It was interesting reading about the New York Nightowls http://nynightowls.tumblr.com/ and seeing how Apple laptops are everywhere. I've seen more and more Apple laptops at Web Development Meetups and conferences. How popular is Apple among the Web Development crowd? For the web developers out there.. what platform do you use.. and why?
While I'm not a UI person, I like html/css/js more than most other GUI toolkits I've used. The notion of using these for presentation in desktop apps gets me pretty excited. While there is something to be said for conforming to a platform's GUI standards, most of the GUIs I've been impressed with, e.g., Picasa, Lightroom, many web-apps, and Chrome use non-standard GUIs.

If SeedKit programs are easily portable to windows/mac, this might be a nice open-source replacement for Adobe AIR. Either way, I'll definitely give this a look next time I build a Linux GUI.
Respectfully, but your boss sucks at hiring. I've never been asked my grades. I've never asked after anyone else's grades. And, when I see grades on people's resumes, the very first thing I think is "this person is very junior". Most pro's don't list their grades.

Just leave the grades off. You will be fine, I promise.
Anyone know what happened to the SF branch?
The implication of this being news is that they're demonstrating something new. It may have escaped the notice of some, but I thought it was pretty well-established that you could use an iPad to surf the internet.
Sorry! Accidentally clicked the "down" button on your comment and there's no way to undo it.
Also San Francisco Night Owls: http://sfnightowls.com/ and LA Night Owls: http://lanightowls.com/ though these don't seem to have been active since May 26(?)

If there were one near me I'd try it.
Two different models of travel: One up which everyone is equally opportunistic (or kindhearted) and the system solves itself bottom-up. The other in which people are protected from their worst instincts (or those of others, who may be stupid or malevolent) by a rigid set of rules and signals. Of course this is a dialectic not just for traffic flow but political systems, public/private class variables...
As far as I'm concerned, the only way that the new iTV is going to "change everything" is if it somehow gives you the ability to watch any episode of any show at any time, streaming, ad and hassle free. THAT I would pay for.

But giving the networks the ability to require an app as a gateway to their programming? Sorry, but that just an invitation for abuse, and begging for new ways to shove ads down our throats. Think javascript popover ads are annoying when browsing the web? The networks already abuse the screen real estate when you are just trying to enjoy a program. Imagine if they could do this in an app instead...
Of course not! But if there's no use case then this is getting an awful lot of buzz for no real reason other than Ajaxian running a story on it, considering that it's not that new. http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/compression-using-canvas-an...

It's been on reddit or hacker news before, this year iirc.
I would love to get one of these groups started up in San Diego, maybe at The HIVE.
Ze Frank summed up the way I deal with ideas as I don't want to get addicted to brain crack.

http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html

1. Take a shower and think it over.

2. Tell a few friends I trust.

3. Create the quickest and dirtiest version to see if it even has legs. This includes looking up who is doing something similar...

4. Show that to friends in #2

5. Walk away for 3 days and not think about it.

6. Come back and review the thing again and decide if I want to continue with it.

One thing I've learned is it is best to get others involved...early before you waste too much of your energy. If you can get someone else excited enough to want to help that usually means your idea has possible legs....or you are a good salesman/woman/person.

Regardless...engage early and engage often. Nothing is built in a vacuum.
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Doesn't this say more about his observation skills and his style of interaction than anything about social media? He says himself that there was a big drop off in engagement over the last few weeks. The fact that he didn't notice that is hardly the fault of Twitter or Buzz.
A couple years ago a friend of mine and I wrote http://ptdef.com/ which is canvas/js as well but with randomized maps and pathfinding creeps.
Would love to see someone get the SF one started up again.
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Tech demos or challenges, like what people are submitting for 10K Apart.
Information-rich app. Very nice marketing. It's always good to be modest.

http://www.exitstrategynyc.com/

The interesting thing is PositionApp shows it ranks in the top 300 in the Navigation category in countries outside the U.S.
Certainly the ego-driven component you describe is there, but as with group events, there is a balanced version, and then there are the networking whores that don't understand the difference between having a natural connection with someone and "hi my name is X, here's my card, let's have lunch!"

You don't have to post navel-gazing facebook status updates. It is also a very elegant way to share family and friend group photos and plan events.

Do you even remember how hard it was to plan events with Evite? That was incredibly horrible, and yet people were thrilled because it was better than nothing.
Based on the website, this looks awesome. But it would seem to compete fairly directly with iBooks. It's bound to be a time-consuming/costly process to prepare content for this platform. I wonder how inkling has convinced themselves and their partners that Apple won't pull the plug on their venture.
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Or even DC... if anyone is interested.
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What other Textmate bundles do you use?
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Ran into this myself. I moved my license key (in your user's AppData\Roaming\e directory, filename "license_key") out of the way, then it gave me 30 days to try it out, but YMMV.