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Jon is an awesome dude, and a great person to work with. In addition to having the best hair in all of The Mission, he and his team will no doubt go far in the only storefront sector. Can't imagine a cooler founder to work for!
Styloot is solving fun problems in the visual and taste space, for fashion industry. Think of it is as hunch for fashion. An agile web 2.0 company based in Manhattan and Pune, India. Looking for front end designers and developers. Sorry no to remote.

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this is interesting - colorscheme as a reflection of programming philosophy.

I actually tend to read (and write) comments a LOT. Which is why, I simply am not able to use any colorscheme that tries to hide comments.
FTA: "The spreadsheet contained a zero-day exploit that installs a backdoor through an Adobe Flash vulnerability (CVE-2011-0609)."

How many times has Adobe been responsible for such backdoors? I mean, they can't even put out a decent PDF "reader", for Chrissake. This company shouldn't be allowed to operate till they get their act together (I'm just venting). I hope someone sues Adobe one of these days and drives them into bankruptcy.
There are some obviously unverified "millionaires" commenting on this post.First thing I'm searching for is images of poor people flying on public "commercial" airplanes. Lols.
Here's a vimdiff sample from the rvm repo...

http://i.imgur.com/IMdt5.png
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I good project would be something related to your work to say increase productivity or enhance something. I started python doing automation scripts for PSS/E ( simulation program for electric power systems). Or create a game - sudoku perhaps. The point is start doing something and the learning goes along with it.
If you yourself use OS X or Linux, you are much more likely to know primarily people who are similar in this respect (for the same reason that I as a .NET guy don't know many Rails developers), and in any case jdietrich's statement lacked the qualifier.
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ - the word "hard" not meaning "difficult" in this situation.

Or do you mean you do know Python and want an open source project to work on using what you know so far? The wording of your question is ambiguous.
Of course! The main problem is that I don't really know what is easy and what is not in regards to Python... Great suggestions though!
I believe there are already some TVs that accept 48Hz as an input frame rate over HDMI. This is the only way 48fps video will look right, unless we move to 240Hz (the LCM of 48 and 60). 120fps would give the same juddery results as playing 24fps on a 60Hz display, but going up to 180 might be good enough to make the judder invisible (I don't notice the judder of a 24fps stream on an 85Hz CRT, but do at 60Hz, for example).
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Seems clear to me. Parallel == same direction. Perpendicular == different directions.
Two reasons:

1) according to the Ebert article, it's not twice as much film, it "requires 50% more film and one stop more light (a trivial issue)"

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/assets_c/2011/01/MaxiVision%...

Notice what's implied in the diagram is that the MV48 format would use existing 35mm film and would modify existing cameras for it.

2) it's way less expensive than 3D, both to shoot and display.

3D is just as much a competitor as the Red camera. It's what the movie studios and theaters have been banking on to compete with the quality of home theater setups, not an increase in 2D image quality. Caring about the unique look of film compared to digital while trying to increase the quality is why directors like Christopher Nolan like the IMAX format, but shooting with 70mm film is not only expensive but unwieldy because the cameras are huge. Sort of like what bulky 3D cameras were like before James Cameron forced the invention of a new one for Avatar.
First one had ~40 (disclaimer: I advertised free food). Second one had 23 (with no food).
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This is the holy grail, great video tutorials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk
Totally, I mean you pretty much have to be on Windows to be a good .NET developer (unless you're big on Mono or whatever).

It sounds like the OP is interested in working with "latest and greatest" web technologies, though (no offense), and many of them are developed on Macs or Linux and therefore the best development environment for them is on a Mac or Linux machine.

I think it might just be a culture fit thing, as some people gravitate to .NET type stuff and some people gravitate to node.js or Rails, and just as it's a pain in the ass to get .NET stuff working on a Mac, it's often a pain in the ass to get things like Rails or node.js working on Windows.
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Only way to find out is to try and figure out what is that which is hard.
The first project I worked on where I felt like everything sort of 'clicked' with Python was a client/server based application, in which I wrote both the client and server.

I had a simple server daemon that ran on systems I was maintaining at the time, which would gather obvious statistics for system status where, in most places, you'd just be able to install munin, or some other OS monitoring utility, but I couldn't, for reasons I won't bother getting into.

Instead, I was perfectly okay to write a server that listened on an arbitrary port, and a client that swept through all the registered servers, getting information from them and displaying them in a GUI.

This had the added benefit of reinforcing my understanding of UDP/DGram, which are probably still weak, but definitely better than they were.
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What's misleading is that you're only focusing on resolution or framerate, not the point that MV48 upgrades image quality while maintaining both the unique look of film vs digital, but also uses existing film and cameras, unlike digital, IMAX, or 3D.
Ask HN: What is the easiest way to do browser-to-browser link sharing?
Hi HNers,

Every so often, I find myself trying to forward an interesting link to my co-founder -- usually, it has something to do with our business, something I wouldn't want to share with the whole world. Plus, in most of these times, my cofounder is sitting right next to me.

I find it ridiculous that the only way I can share links with my cofounder in such situations is to either use email or to resort to using something like Google Wave (or now Convore). Am I missing something? Is there a better way to deal with this problem?

If I can't find a simpler way to get around this problem, I am thinking of writing a set of extensions to enable this browser-to-browser link sharing. Would any of you be interested?

Hope you leave a comment.

Cheers!
Yes. People opt in to anonymous usage tracking when they turn on 'Genius for Apps'.
just read HN...if its important it'll get voted up.

This way you can stop wasting time reading and start doing.
Hi Petervandijck,

Quite honestly we're still experimenting with content to see what works and what doesn't (TSF is only 2 months old). If our current batch of stories don't interest you, dig a little deeper and checkout some of the fantastic interviews with Andrew Warner, Alexis Ohanian (co-founder of Reddit) and Tim O'Reilly. Perhaps that would better suit your tastes.

I hope I can win you over, but no hard feelings if TSF isn't the place for you.

All the best,
Paul

P.S. I'm always open to guest authors if you would like to contribute!
Well, they're at least recording this information and syncing it with your computer - and I can't see why they'd bother recording it if they weren't also beaming it off to the mothership.

You can see this for yourself if you sync your phone with your laptop. Go to your phone's backup folder. On this Mac, it's ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/[big random string here]

Once you're in that directory, grep for the file that contains the sqlite database by looking for a text string used only in it: 'grep appLaunchCount *' works. You'll get one result. Pop that baby open with a sqlite editor - I use MesaSQLite, myself, but it doesn't matter which.

In the database's Scalars table, you'll see three columns - key, daysSince1970, and value. For each day in the last couple of weeks, and for each app you've used, there will be the following keys:

-- appActivationCount.com.[app name here]

-- appActiveTime.com.[app name here]

-- appBackgroundActiveTime.com.[app name here]

-- appLaunchCount.com.[app name here]

The values are the number of times the app was launched & activated that day, and how long the app was active in seconds. Not 100% sure on the difference between appActiveTime and appBackgroundActiveTime - perhaps the latter involves the app actively doing something while in the background?

There's a bunch of other data in that file as well, but that's the stuff relating to frequency and length of app usage.
"This is actually the potential hire's chance to pay me a compliment, give a small amount of feedback, and keep the door open for the future in case their other "better" option falls through."

That's quite narcissistic and self-absorbed. You're really not that important and to take a letter like this and try to paint it as a "blessing in disguise" is arrogant and foolish.

He doesn't want to work in a Windows shop. He wanted to be able to work with particular technologies. He's a new grad and idealistic. He has preferences and opinions and had the insight to skip working in an environment he believed he wouldn't do well in. He's not a bad hire, just a bad hire for your organization. Get over it.
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This is what I wanted from this post. Thanks.
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This type of question is asked a lot, so I want to begin with the disclaimer that everyone is different and the real best project to begin with is something that you have a personal interest in, or that helps you professionally. For example, I taught myself jQuery by creating http://sleepyti.me -- which is now profitable enough to pay my rent.

If you don't have an immediate need for software -- whether it be a webapp, or (more likely with Python) a script that organizes files on a *nix system, you have two viable choices: open source contributions or 'challenges'.

Open source contribution is by far the best way to propel yourself into software development, but the problem is that it can be very advanced for the neophyte programmer. If you can find a project to take you under their wing, that's awesome; more likely, you can set this as an eventual goal of your programming experience.

A second choice that I personally have found intriguing is the 'challenge' approach. Completing challenges such as Project Euler or various Code Katas that you can find (don't worry if they're in another language specifically, you can simply use your language of choice to complete them) shows progress and presents you with real, challenging scenarios to deal with. Code Katas tend to let you learn the language most practically, where as Project Euler problems are generally more math and algorithm-development based. Either way, these challenges are fun and generally rewarding.

I wish you luck on your question to master software development; there are few feelings in the world as satisfying as creating a useful, clean piece of software.
I'm teaching myself to code and blogging about my journey. I write about some of the issues you mention like how to get a domain and set it up and all that. It's not that difficult but it looks hella intimidating doesn't it?
Anyway, you might find it helpful: http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/how-i-am-le... and http://pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/how-i-am-le... ->this probably more relevant because I talk about the first few apps I worked on.
craigslist won't be disrupted for the simple reason because they have a ton of traffic...UI etc, is pointless for classifieds since the only thing people care about is whether or not the service has buyers/sellers for the things they want...and Craigslist has that in spades.

i.e. I recently listed a car for sale on craigslist...listed it on Friday evening and got 8 interested people in a few hours, and it sold the next day.
Wait, whats wrong with fighting with the cops?
There are other appendages that could also be useful...just saying.
Statsd/graphite, I think.
The app makes money through adwords and its enough to pay for your rent?
I always write Pacman in a new language to teach myself that language.
Are we talking about companies that mandate Windows, or companies that just lean strongly toward Windows?

Much as I dislike it, I use it as work because some of our key software is tied to it. (I VNC to a Linux box to do actual development.)
I'm sure there's someone who said that about newspaper classifieds once too.
Why downvote? I love techmeme too!
Syslog had blocking and non blocking writes, depending on the severity of the log. I suspect that it's still that way in syslog-ng,but I haven't looked at it recently.
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Well versed in Linux networking (specifically Ubuntu Server administration), Python, C, and Java. Have done significant amount of work with PHP, iOS/Obj-C, OCaml, Common Lisp, and x86 assembly. Pretty good background in math and computer science, some background in physics/electrical engineering/biology.

Would love to work on anything interesting!
Whether you turn on Genius for Apps or not, the usage information's saved in your mobile backup. Perhaps in that case it's just not getting sent to Apple.
Don't put that anywhere near this game if you don't want your life to flash before your eyes.
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So somoene is free to go out and fill it - craigslist is under no obligation to do this. They're private. They can do what they want.

Just because a whole LOT of people would love to get their hands on it because they think they could make billions off it or monetize it better doesn't turn it into an obligation. Craigslist is what it is - and if Newmark is pulling in 50 million a year off it, for all this time, he's probably not all that concerned if the site dwindles out over the next half a decade, if it does that. Unless he has a horrid gambling habit he's probably sitting awfully pretty right about now.

Nobody's forcing you to use craigslist. If you have a better site out there, go use it. IF you think you can do better, try pitching it to them. IF you just want to whine that it's not as good as it could be and you aren't satisfied as a customer... wait.. you aren't a customer. Nevermind.

Craigslist is doing fine without you.
I prefer Windows. I work in a cross platform shop, my code needs to run on Mac and Windows but unless I'm trying to track down a Mac specific bug I'll do the initial coding on Windows. For what I am trying to do (cross platform C++ development) Windows has better tools. Visual Studio has a better C++ compiler than Xcode. Visual Studio has a much better debugger than Xcode. Beyond Compare is Windows only and I haven't found anything that matches it on Mac (please let me know if there is something that's as good on Mac). Source Insight is only available on Windows - I know that SlickEdit is available for the Mac but I much prefer Source Insight.

All my personal opinion that applies to my particular circumstances only.
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Ask HN: How to transition from Windows to Unix
Hello, I'm a business intelligence consultant and know that I got my current employment because of my knowledge of and skills in the Microsoft software stack. The problem is, I have some real issues with Microsoft as a company and with their software. I'm a UNIX guy at heart, having learned CS on DEC UNIX and currently have the most fun using and developing on FreeBSD systems. The issue is that once I gain experience using MS software, more jobs open up to me because of this experience so it makes it even harder to switch, not to mention the fact that a LOT of businesses are stuck in the windows mindset. Is there any hope? BI is a specific category of the industry but I'd like replies to be general for application development (.NET) types also.
I use my MacBook Pro 15" as my main development system. I have virtual machines setup for some projects usually using Ubuntu.
4 years ago worked on Windows, when tried Ubuntu and after that Mac, I never return back. I cant understand how LAMP or Rails developers working on win machines, I'v 2 XP running computers at home and using them only for gaming(very rare)
Arch Linux on a quadcore with FVWM is my machine of choice. VirtualBox for XP and Win7, but that's just for web testing, and for using my old copy of Adobe CS3 when needed.

Secondarily, I have an Arch netbook I use on the run (also for video skype). The lid switch works, even.

And lastly, a MacBook Pro that gets used for iOS dev.
Right - it's so terrible nobody uses it -all those other awesome sites out there are just taking over then, right?
Craigslist is doomed?

It's obviously a highly successful product. The model is simple, IIRC from articles past, the operating cost is minimal for the size of the userbase, it takes very little staff to actually run it, microscopically little compared to other sites that do far, far less.

If everyone is so keen on saying there's a better way to do property listings - go build it.
Interesting project, but I was hoping that it was something that it isn't. I've been looking around for something that would do ad hoc querying and graphing of 'stuff' frm the debug and production logs that I have on had, stuff like page gen time statistics vs time, or split by heaviest pages, or split by web app machine. And then follow that till I find something actionable.

I've taken a look at statsd+graphite, but that seems to be much more of a realtime solution, and I want to mine the logs I have on hand.
I think thee crappy apps are mostly a scam and hurt Apple and all of us devs. Sure, Flashlight is trivial but at least it works. Night Vision is a true lie and feels like adware/spyware is invading the IOS world.
The rule of thumb is to understand before you decide you've understood.

Yeah, no.

The rule of thumb ought to be find your own path, go with what works for you and forget everyone else's establishments. Clearly this guy saw a job with a culture and environment that he got a good vibe from, he liked their approach, he liked their people, he chose them.

On the flip side, I personally don't know where this attitude comes from that the younger generations should have to toil and sweat and bleed before they get that opportunity engage in something that clicks with them. Life is short, but JUST long enough to get those experiences in whatever way they come along in our lives.

Personally, I'm just as sick of old curmudgeons coming along dictating to young people how they should run a career just because said old fogie had to go in a different direction just to get his in the world as you are with recent grad students and their "entitlement".
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There also seems to clearly be enough usage and revenue, and profit, for the owners not to want to take it any further and be happy with what they have rather than risk change.

They are under no obligation to do anything with the site other than what they want to. They don't have to monetize it, or go public, or improve anything. If they're happy with what they've got, it's theirs to be happy with.

The only thing that would drive change would be an exodus of people - not just people complaining about how things could be better, but an actual clear, obvious drop in usage with a clear cause and a need for redesign.

(Look how well Digg's redesign worked out for them... it all but killed the site overnight.)
The asymmetry of the situation strikes me. Where a company which decides not to hire someone can only say "we're not following through with your application at this moment" out of fear of litigation, the candidate can freely comment on his decision to not take the job.

It would be nice when companies were able to do the same.
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I hear you, but there are things that will never appear on HN that might be up your alley. I'm all for avoiding TechCrunch, but there are decent sites out there that are not pumping out constant garbage just to get page views.
Since no one else responded with this: you're right, it is not an accident that he would be considering 48fps, the reason being that a good amount of 24fps film projection occurs at 48fps on equipment that double pumps each frame. Such equipment (and the related equipment and processes around it) would likely be easier to upgrade/retrofit to 48fps than to 60fps.
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The only people who are in a position to lay any blame are the owners.... and we can be fairly certain the site is going in the direction they want it to.
Parallel can mean in the same direction, or it can mean in exactly opposite directions. North and south train lines might run parallel to each other, for example.

In plain English, two things are orthogonal if they are unrelated or independent of each other.

In linear algebra, this meaning is given a more specific technical meaning of perpendicular; transforming a point p by a vector u that is orthogonal to a basis vector v to get p' means that p and p' have the same multiplier on v (i.e. the contribution of v is independent of transformations orthogonal to v)
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There are two paths before you:

The soft transition process would be installing Ubuntu or Linux Mint, which are distributions that lack a lot of the "hard core" command line configuration that drives away a lot of UNIX neophytes. These distros are geared towards the end user, and the transition should be soft -- some of the programs you use normally (Word) won't be there, but replacements (LibreOffice) are at your fingertips.

The I-want-to-learn-right-now path would involve installing a more technical distribution like Gentoo, FreeBSD, or (my personal favorite) ArchLinux and learning from the ground up. Based on your post it seems that you just want to get out of the Windows bandwagon rather than learn the intricacies of Linux, so this might not be the easiest option for you.

Either way, the *nix family welcomes you with open arms!
I'm curious about your experience creating sleepyti.me. Care to write more about the subject?
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