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Tuxebo (London based) - hiring hacker
Tuxebo (YCS09) is innovating in the rental space, and we're looking for a talented software engineer to join the team, possibly as CTO. Founder equity and status is available as well as a salary (dependent on experience). We are based in London so you would need to live in London already or move here. We can help with accommodation.

Tuxebo is a marketplace and booking system for renting things. Currently focused on construction rental, the aim is to be a one stop shop for all things rental; luxury cars, wedding rentals, jewellery, clothes, books, private jets, mobile homes, etc. Renting is a necessary service, financing option and lifestyle choice, making our market a very big, diverse and interesting place.

The company is generating significant revenue, is profitable and growing rapidly. Yet Tuxebo has a very, very long way to go before even resembling it's aim. This is a unique opportunity to work with some very, very smart, fun, entrepreneurial and passionate people and to get a part of a rapidly developing startup in a huge market.

As the 4th member of the team, you will be fundamental to the company and the development of the product, working alongside experienced web entrepreneurs in taking Tuxebo from simple web app, with just a few verticals, to a huge marketplace covering everything rental in multiple countries.

The ideal candidate has a thirst to learn new skills and technologies and can pick things up easily. We hope you are full of positive energy, relish the thought of being part of a small, fast-moving team and enjoy brainstorming about new ideas.

You must have:

* Good working knowledge of Python, HTML/CSS and Javascript (jQuery).

* Experience with some relational database, e.g. MySQL/PostgreSQL

* Experience with Linux systems administration

Nice to have:

* Familiarity with Pylons, SQLAlchemy

We're more interested in your raw talent than we are your experience.

Send your CV with some examples of your work to colin (at) tuxebo.com.
Heh. I remember going to Tampa (my first ever trip to the States) to get that Dvorak Award, which is sitting on the equivalent of my mantelpiece (I'll take a photo to prove it!). BBS-CON was the conference. I remember shaking the hands of a good many people back then - little did I know how much the onslaught of Windows 95 would have on the market. I was told, flatteringly, by one industry observer at the time that Trumpet accelerated the Internet by about a year - who knows, but it certainly was a wake up call for M$ who really hadn't taken much notice of the Internet before then and was only interested in a vertical control over the industry by peddling their own network protocols. Writing Trumpet Winsock to published and open protocols was a testament to the beauty of openness.

And some trivia.... the name Trumpet was actually the first product I made, an Internet newsreader for DOS - as in a newspaper name like "The Daily Trumpet". Also I like trumpets, having played one for many years, and also the apocalyptic themes of the final trumpet sounding appealed to me too. As I was writing it in Turbo Pascal back then, there was no open source TCP stack in pascal, so I had to write one, from scratch, armed only with the RFCs. Ultimately that TCP core became Trumpet Winsock.

The Internet really was a wild western frontier back then, with so many things being done for the first time - it was a matter of who was the quickest to market and could anticipate what was needed. P!
I think people forget that the original intention of the IPhone was to run web apps. Once the clamoring for native app development became too big the beast known as the app store was born.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/15/google-android-money/ "the annualized run rate on mobile for Google is now one billion dollars" -> that's the money they make of people searching on mobile (not just Android though) and clicking on ads.

If they control the platform, then it's much more likely that their search engine will run on it, and that they will make money of ads in that way.
I was under impression that iOS apps are pretty often just HTML5 applications packed in iOS app format. Can't that mechanism be used to enable these games to be played offline? Of course it's some extra effort for the publisher, but I think iOS is big enough platform to justify some.
Watch the success story of IPAD and the release of IPAD 2.
I can't really reconcile the hope in this argument that apple could enable/allow more constructive and innovative business models to flourish... with the(at this point) unconvincing menace it's being to itself and others. I don't see the subscription move as trying to directly favor Apple's stores: they _don't_do_subscriptions_.

I honestly can see this move as being more 'in bed' with old media than a type of not-invented-here syndrome. In the iMovie intro yesterday the CEO of Apple said they're trying to do the platform right with an app they like developing, but also raises the bar to a place other developers should shoot for. I'm not saying to take that as parallel to 'the brand of capitalism we foster is naturally better', but who knows if there couldn't be an upside(once things get clarified) that's natural for the market and doesn't smack of greed.
TL;DR:

Conclusion: Cannabis use is a risk factor for the development of incident psychotic symptoms. Continued cannabis use might increase the risk for psychotic disorder by impacting on the persistence of symptoms.
I sure don't. Personally, my outlook swings between "I'm so awesome, look at what I made" to "I am an idiot - why am I in this field?" The latter comes when I'm 2 hours into a debugging session and still stumped, or when I'm looking at code written by somebody famous, or when I get an explanation of some concept or piece of code and I still don't understand. (Rebuttals: debugging is actually hard sometimes, and that coder is famous for a reason, and maybe the explainer isn't doing a god job.)

In my rational moments, I figure that 1) I'm smart enough, but not the smartest, 2) I can always improve, and 3) I should focus more on doing my best and less on comparing myself to others.
Can someone help me understand the Vista upgrade? For many users the “clean install” (where it deleted everything prior to upgrading) was the only option available.
What's the point of the game? Spamming twitter with random messages??? That'd be a rather idiotic thing.

Does it apply some language processing related to the quests at hand?
Beijing to track citizens with their cell phones
what prevents Google's competitors from removing that from the source and forking their own version of Android

On one level, nothing, and my understanding (at the level of hearsay) is that some Chinese firms have done just that.

On another level: What kind of lousy smartphone doesn't have Google? To the extent that people will use their phones to use Google, it doesn't matter if the phones officially support Google.

Finally, remember that in open source software the people who don't pay you don't matter, except as a source of goodwill and publicity (or, alternatively, a source of noise and complaints; the quality of your community is important). What matters is that enough people do pay you to cover and justify the costs.

how is this better than trying to make the best search engine so that every mobile device will use Google...?

That is a good question. The answer three years ago was "to the extent that the number of smartphones in use worldwide is lower than the potential number of smartphones that could be in use if they were more ubiquitous and cheap, Google is losing money, so it is in their best interest to make Google-capable phones as ubiquitous and cheap as possible." And that is still the answer today. The question, though, is: In the future, once the market for Google-capable phones is fully saturated, don't Google's incentives get smaller?

My guess is that, in the end [1], Google's incentives to throw resources at Android will be smaller, but of course Android will also be a middle-aged project by then, and probably substantially complete and less in need of constant engineering, and hopefully with an open-source community that can help with its maintenance.

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[1] Beautiful weasel words, these. It's pretty much guaranteed that Google won't support Android forever, just as Apple no longer supports ProDOS and Microsoft no longer supports Windows 1.0. The question is whether forever is measured in months or decades.
If you're aiming at a broad consumer audience, the "Login with Facebook" button is by far the lowest-friction way to authenticate users (for better or worse).

So, the answer to your question is: "this world."
that's pretty smart of you :)

economics of a fundraising, random numbers but you can scale them up or down easily.

assuming you usually have $10k daily profits, and today you got even only $15k that's still 5.000$ / 50$ (average profit for you on a $500 project or whatever is an average project) = 100 new people that'll try you out.
So total cost = $10k with no other costs (a part from fixed ones: hosting & support)

If just half of these 100 people will do another project on average in their lifetime cycle you already have covered your costs and make some good profits (100 / 2 * 500$ = $25k)

Without even counting all the free press!
let's say $10 CPM and 200k people reached, that's a nice $2k of bonus
Decision Time... iPad 2 or Xoom/Android?
Konaa Marketplace User Accounts
It may be difficult to tell what patches were applied, but it should be trivial to start with redhatskernel.tar.bz2, make a diff from the kernel.org corresponding release and generate one massive patch that should be applied to other different kernels.

It reminds me of the first WebKit release and how KHTML folks got mad by it being supplied as a gigantic tarball and not a series of diffs.

Much like CrLf said, this is an exaggeratedly negative spin on something really simple.
While I would like to poke fun at the Swedes any day of the week, in Denmark the "alphabet song" still doesn't mention 'w' I believe ;)
A £400,000 PC downgrade: Rebooting Babbage’s Analytical Engine
Google Pimps Up Personal Profiles
Donated.

Thank you for opening up the online world to me, back in the days when just trying to connect to the Internet was a bit of an adventure!
When you say "Internet Explorer", do you really mean "IE6"?

If not, which features does your web app require that IE7/8/9 don't support?

I run both Chrome 10 and IE8 in parallel on my system, and I can't think of any web apps I've used that don't run on IE8.
Unless they start renaming files, interfaces, functions and structures for no reason, it's really trivial to start with tree A and get a set of differences between it and tree B.

Almost a decade ago, I wrote some utilities that did exactly that, for merging and finding commonalities between the many (almost a dozen) different versions of the C programs that ran on our electronic voting systems.
Exactly, the next really big plattform after the web is smartphones. And in order for Google to ensure its existance Android is necessary.
Obviously this is not what was done here, but how difficult is it to take a satellite photo from the side, instead of from directly above?
I've just worked out that the sprites represent recent tweets! Click the sprite to see the tweet. Tweets containing ":)" become white sprites.
I never knew what a 'winsock' was, but at my college in '97, we used dial-up to connect to Demon on Windows 3.1, and it worked great. I used to FTP Amiga demos.

Will donate!
He should do a reddit AMA
You can't import everything from a whole namespace, but you can do it on a per-class basis. The following works as expected:

namespace My {
class MyClass { public function Foo() { echo 'Foo'; } }
}

namespace {
use My\MyClass;
$var = new MyClass();
$var->Foo();
}
Be concise and call for an action first, e.g.:

Please use a modern browser to view this website. We recommend Firefox, Chrome or Safari. These browsers support some of the advanced features used to build this website.

You need to be friendly and polite, but there is no need for a lot of boilerplate language to sugarcoat it. You could caption it with something like "Internet Explorer 6 is not supported".

That being said, why do you need to exclude older clients from your app? Javascript frameworks tend to make supporting a wider range of clients relatively effortless, by providing fallbacks.

I would only exclude users based on their browsers for backend applications targeted at a small group of tech-savvy users and if building something that degrades well isn't viable within the scope of your project. The latter also depends on what kind of project it is (if its a small hacking project or a demonstration of some HTML5 functionality I totally get not being bothered with supporting IE7).

In my own work I make sure everything works and doesn't look embarrassingly ugly in older browsers, while some minor presentation details (e.g. shadows) are only visible in bleeding edge clients.
A minor note, but is this accurate?

In America, this is a massive issue, because there are only two main ISPs, and so a lack of choice and competition.

Which two? I can name a handful of companies that provide internet access (Time Warner, Cablevision, Cox, Verizon, etc) but perhaps they aren't "major".
Interesting. You basically made the point I use to describe Microsoft's relationship to software piracy. CentOS allows Red Hat to compete in price with, say, Debian much like pirated copies of Windows allow Microsoft to compete in price with various Linux distros.
AB testing, I'd guess.
I would say Android. Apple really disapointed me with the latest iPad 2. There's nothing new and innovative here.

Honeycomb has a superb notification system compared to iOS' stupid full screen block. You have a real tablet optimised desktop with widgets and multiple homescreens, a true useful web browsing with Flash and tabs, real multitasking and everything is optimised for a tablet to be productive but simple.

You really feel you have power and control of what you are doing and can do, you should take a look at some Honeycombs video.
Summary:

They looked at people aged 14-24 ("time T1", which they actually call "baseline"), and followed them up 3.5 years later ("time T2") and 5 years after that ("time T3"). They looked at whether they'd used cannabis five times or more by T1, or between T1 and T2. And they looked at whether they'd had any "psychotic symptoms" -- quite broadly defined, so that ~10% had such symptoms between T2 and T3 -- between between T2 and T3.

They excluded from their sample anyone who'd had psychotic symptoms by time T2; that was 23% of their sample! (They wanted to avoid finding people who had, e.g., already had psychological problems and taken cannabis in the hope that that would help.)

They also excluded anyone who'd taken cannabis before T1.

(The results without those exclusions were similar to the results with them.)

They found a substantial increase -- about a factor of 2 -- in incidence of "psychotic symptoms" between T2 and T3 among people who used cannabis between T1 and T2. Remember that "psychotic symptoms" doesn't mean actually being psychotic.

They also looked for evidence of that "self-medication" scenario, by looking to see whether people with psychotic symptoms by T2 were more likely to use cannabis between T2 and T3. Apparently not.

They found some evidence that using cannabis over a longer period is correlated with (and probably causes, given their findings about self-medication, but that's harder to be sure of) larger risk increases for psychotic symptoms.

There are a bunch of caveats; for instance, they're relying on self-reported data for both cannabis use and psychotic symptoms. (They give some reasons for thinking that this doesn't hurt their analysis too much.)

I think their investigation would have been improved by introducing an extra delay, and looking at whether cannabis use between T1 and T2 is associated with more psychotic symptoms between T3 and T4. (Compare the two propositions "Taking cannabis now will make your brain a bit weird for a year or two" and "Taking cannabis now will make your brain a bit weird for the rest of your life".)
Whoops! Yeah, I'd had WinZip in there originally, then I couldn't remember if this particular story had already come out. I've been gone from MSFT for a long time, but it was generally considered bad form when I was there to call out specific products publicly for their bad code.
Can I make another suggestion, too, then (and also related to 'removing people')? I live halfway around the world from where I grew up, so most of my friends are either "back there" (childhood friends) or "over here" (friends I've made in the last few years).

I'd love some way of just seeing friends that I grew up with that are now living relatively close to me, if that makes sense. As in, is there anyone nearby now that I grew up with? I don't know if it's possible, but seeing that on a map would be really cool and helpful, actually...

Anyway, just a thought. Nice work, by the way.
Here is a small collection of mine (from 1996):

http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f96-lla/@.html
I wonder if the whole city is a vector....
Donated. I never used Winsock, but I worked for Netscape, which would've been worth a lot less without Trumpet getting users online.
Peter, I distinctly remember the first time I installed trumpet and I realized that I could use more than one application over the same connection at once. Until then, I had been using BBSes or dialup connections that used Lynx for web accesss so there was no notion of using email and a web browser concurrently. Trumpet gave me the first "real" Internet connection. Thank you sir, for creating such a wonderful product. I was genuinely saddened to hear your story the other day. Hope this goes a little way toward correcting some past wrongs.
Oracle can outspend Red Hat very easily in advertising. Going head-to-head against them like that would be insane.

Besides that, Oracle has also made a lot of important contributions to Linux that Red Hat also benefits from (BtrFS is my favorite).

We don't need an arms race here...
Is it's a big US Bank, assume you'll always get hit by some fee...
I love this.
Donated.
This is actually an annoying interface. Maybe I just don't get it?
bought and paid for by the pharma/booze/police state industries
Quicktime is so 90s.
I think many of the people posting in defense of Boston are doing so without the benefit of history. In fact, the lack of any references to 128 pretty much guarantees it. Here's a little story:

In the mid-70s and 80s, if you wanted to do something new, you went to 128 or Silicon Valley. The 128 ring was huge, and you couldn't walk 20 feet without seeing a company that was building hardware, selling successfully, and making a lot of money. However, as the economy took bumps over the following decades, the sector contracted and consolidated. But it wasn't staying here, everything consolidated on the west coast.

When DEC became Compaq (became HP), it was a sad day. Not because DEC was doing anything particularly cool (the writing had been on the wall for Alpha and VMS for a while), but because it was the last 128 giant still standing. Boston.com still writes articles about it to this day:

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/cambridge/articles/2011/02/15...

Sure, companies are still doing things in MA (Boston, specifically). But what we have today are a few poster boys in the bio, chem, and robotics sectors that make the evening news and let us feel good about what's coming out of MA. I can almost guarantee that if you transplanted a 70s geek from Boston to the SV of today, they'd feel right at home (minus the lack of wood-paneled station wagons), but doing the reverse would yield nothing but utter horror. We are still a booming tech sector, but it's simply not a place for innovation (no offense to the other locals posting).
Track Exceptions from your applications
If you are a developer, then this is a service you will like to get acquainted with. If anything goes amiss, you will know it on the spot, and you will be able to do something to fix it before lots of people notice and your reputability has gone out of the window.
I was a journalist, and unhappy. Took a break, went back to school (to study music), met a girl, and we decided to get married. By that time she was in grad school a few hours away. When we married, I moved there and had to find a new job.

I knew HTML and got a job doing tech support for cell phones. My employer had no internal web site and I saw that they needed a page to share links to reference sites, so I made a simple HTML page, just dropped onto a shared file server, not even a web server. Then I started adding pages of training material, etc.

I had just heard (this was 2007) that CSS could be used for layout - gasp! - so I bought Eric Meyer's CSS: The Definitive Guide and studied during lunch breaks and evenings. I spiffed up the site. Next I got Head First Javascript to add some animated menus. Soon after, somebody told me about jQuery, and eventually I caught onto that.

As I added more pages, it sucked to have to copy and paste my common menu, so a friend recommended PHP. I had to set up Apache for that, though, so I used XAMPP. Now I could do includes! But wouldn't it be nice to have some database interaction? I read a PHP book and added that too. Eventually the system was pretty complex, with object-oriented database interactions, permissions controls, AJAX widgets, etc.

All this time I was getting advice from my best friend (we were roommates in college), who is a truly awesome coder with famous companies on his resume. And I was discovering that I really enjoyed this stuff and had a knack for it. Also, all this time, I was still doing tech support: I could be knee-deep in a coding problem and get a phone call, and I had to pick it up, and it might take 2 hours.

But by the time I left, I had a good enough resume to get a full-time programming job. And I continue to learn. I've made the jump to Ruby and Rails (Ruby is a lovely language), test-driven development, etc. I'll never be DHH or Linus Torvalds, but I hope to do solid work and keep having fun.
The user base here is likely older.
I don't get you. So you're ok with the companies doing that, but not ok with the laws which allow them to? Normally, I'd say that some both things are a problem. How can you say X is bad, but doing X is ok, since the law allows it? That just sounds like hypocrisy to me...
It looks like we have a couple competing stories, so here's a repost of my take. I think many of the people posting in defense of Boston are doing so without the benefit of history. In fact, the lack of any references to 128 pretty much guarantees it. Here's a little story:

In the mid-70s and 80s, if you wanted to do something new, you went to 128 or Silicon Valley. The 128 ring was huge, and you couldn't walk 20 feet without seeing a company that was building hardware, selling successfully, and making a lot of money. However, as the economy took bumps over the following decades, the sector contracted and consolidated. But it wasn't staying here, everything consolidated on the west coast.

When DEC became Compaq (became HP), it was a sad day. Not because DEC was doing anything particularly cool (the writing had been on the wall for Alpha and VMS for a while), but because it was the last 128 giant still standing. Boston.com still writes articles about it to this day:

http://www.boston.com/yourtown/cambridge/articles/2011/02/15...

Sure, companies are still doing things in MA (Boston, specifically). But what we have today are a few poster boys in the bio, chem, and robotics sectors that make the evening news and let us feel good about what's coming out of MA. I can almost guarantee that if you transplanted a 70s geek from Boston to the SV of today, they'd feel right at home (minus the lack of wood-paneled station wagons), but doing the reverse would yield nothing but utter horror. We are still a booming tech sector, but it's simply not a place for innovation (no offense to the other locals posting).