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What a troubled and complex world we live in, when large, complex programs take 5-10 seconds to load.

I'd much rather my devs work on useful features instead of trying to fool me into thinking my productivity suite is loaded a few seconds earlier (and also not dealing with all the bugs that that introduces).
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Preferably hacker but designer/business guy would be just as suited if not more with an education background.

I'm not funded but financed off my own back, semi-talented hacker, Robot enthusiast (NAO Developer) and believer in better education.

Beyond your talent we basically need to work well together and be able to get through the good and hard times.

Building a new way of learning beyond the next frontier of "digital text books". I was always told not to learn purely form a text book, so why is digital any better.

Engagement and feedback is what is needed. Solution may be herewithin.

Email me at mrkmcknz@gmail.com if you think we cold possibly match and get a cool demo polished by the deadline.

N.B UK citizen but soon to arrive in the US. Visa not an issue.
Here's how I learned iOS dev (still not wildly experienced, but I'm familiar with the beast).

If you're a Rubyist, pick up PeepCode's Objetive-C for Rubyists. You're going to watch that multiple times.

Then, go and get yourself a subscription at teamtreehouse.com and subscribe to Stanford's CS193P (a fantastic course taught by Paul Heggarty) on iTunes U.

Treehouse's iOS 4 badges' topics are somewhat aligned with the topics on CS193P. You should watch the topic on treehouse first, and then watch the corresponding Stanford lecture, which will be much more detailed and a bit heavier. Having watched the treehouse videos, though, you'll have a basic understanding of what Paul is talking about, and the progression will seem very natural.

Set aside 1-3 hours a day for this. The basic things I learned in a day, the more complex ones like CoreData took me a bit longer. If you don't fancy the homework assignments on iTunes U (the first one is rather boring, the other ones are ok and practical), do something else that uses what you learned.

Two weeks of 2-3 hours a day and you'll be on your way.
I have had it twice - both times I was working - so I pretended to go along with them. I faked crashes, and restarts (each that took ~ 5 minutes) while I went on with my work. At about the 50 minute mark they seemed to realise (both times) that it was a lost cause - so made excuses and just gave "advice" and hung up. So from that small sample I guess there is a limit to what they are able to sink on a given customer time-wise. My satisfaction was that it was 50 minutes they weren't perhaps attacking someone vulnerable.
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Hmm, yes, especially if the designers are working on such a large resolution screen.

Would the solution be a media query in the CSS? Would there be data in the HTTP user agent string to serve up a different CSS/HTML/image resource?
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"ARC is awesome, but I highly suggest that you don’t use it until you can manage memory yourself. In other words, don’t rely on ARC until you understand what it’s doing."

This is not good advice.

ARC is meant to free the programmer from having to think about memory management and allow us to instead think about what we're trying to express in our object graphs and algorithms. Deciding where to call retain and release is an old, tired dance and is where the vast majority of memory leaks and app crashes come from. With ARC, we can just relax and let the compiler insert all those pesky retains and releases where it knows they should go.

There is no reason for newcomers to learn the old style. If a newcomer is reading old-style code, she can skip over the retain/release calls and pretend they're not even there, because they don't affect the algorithm.
Sure. Makes sense. The question really is about whether or not some of these applications can tolerate errors in the order of 1%.

I think the idea here is threefold:

1. The vast majority of computations do not need extremely high precision. A billion times more floating-point operations go into rendering video for games every day than for MRI processing (made-up statistic). Even now, we have double-precision floating point for this reason: most operations only need single-precision.

2. Applications that need a particular level of precision can be written with that level of precision in mind. If you know the ability of a particular operation to provide precision, and you are aware of the numerical properties of your algorithms, you can write faster code that is nevertheless still as accurate as necessary. Most of this isn't done by normal programmers, but rather by numerical libraries and such.

3. Many performance-intensive applications already use 16-bit floating point, even though it has very little native support in modern CPUs. AAC Main Profile even mandates its use in the specification. The world is not new to lower-precision floating point, and it has gained adoption despite its lack of hardware support on the most popular CPUs.

The entire idea that this is "let's make ordinary computations less accurate" is a complete straw man and red herring that nobody actually suggested.
Nope.

At the moment if you go to https://twitter.com/#!/twitter then it loads up the HTML for https://twitter.com/, if you're logged in it will be the tweets of those you follow. Then the javascript magic loads in @twitter's profile dynamically.

PushState will allow twitter to load in the static HTML for @twitter's profile at https://twitter.com/twitter/ and then progressively enhance it with javascript. The net gain will be that the page will be available much faster on initial page load.
I'm only slightly familiar with prestashop, but I can recommend Magento. Check it out.
Not true. I worked at one! However, it's fair to say there are no VCs in St. Louis that focus on consumer-facing technology companies.

That said, St. Louis isn't impossible. Strangeloop STL is one of the hands-down, bar none, best conferences in the country each year; Slicehost did quite well for themselves from there; Jack Dorsey goes back home all the time (a co-founder of Square is from the Lou, and the swipe-powered dongle technology comes out of Wash U); and it's not like Chicago's all that far away.
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/10/ces-2012-panasonics-20-i...

Panasonic showed a 3840x2160 20" screen at CES at 216dpi. 3.5mm thin. No word of pricing, but the technology seems to exist.

Also 2880x1800 would be the 15" size, not the 13" size. Since it's double the 15" MBP's linear resolution.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3614884
Are you guys seeing different images than I am, or is this a gesture from a non-US, non-California location? I see the image with the pointer finger extended, and the thumb out to the side, with the rest of the fingers folded. (For a second I thought by "shocker" you means some lightning bolt icon, but I don't see that either.)
I agree. I see this in a lot of the places that don't have a strong entrepreneurial community. I see people bemoan about not enough investors or not enough resources. Their solution is then another website or another LinkedIn group or more mingling with suites like it will magically solve the problem.

The places outside the Valley that have succeeded have all done so because they have nurtured and embraced the entrepreneurial and tech community. St. Louis and elsewhere should do the same.
Using your analogy, if I have to transport an item, and I want to pad it sufficiently, I should be looking for a bigger box. Not trying to shrink the item.
I was trying to work out where people stood on SOPA to get some idea of how much they understand internet startups. But I don't understand enough about Americna politics to get very far - all I have is that the Senator for Missouri, Claire McCaskill, was a SOPA co-sponsor.

How do congress-people fit into this? There seem to be lots more of them...
I was amazed at how quickly Facebook's og meta tags were adopted by many sites back in the day; I used to run an archiving/scraping service and it helped me a lot.

I can't help but think Pinterest should also offer a meta tag for sites that want um, Pin... interest. Something beyond og:image.
XCode is the obvious choice for beginners but even after a short time of using AppCode I hope I never have to go back:
http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/
Hm, if you believe Bruce Sterling the place is due to become a hotbed of hacker and alternative culture: http://books.google.com/books?id=M2OpTnzs2PMC&q=chattano...

Someday.
But as a hiring manager if you pay all your new employees the same low wage, you'll still have to pay for that first year of coding but a soon a they can the non lemons will move on

Your job is much harder in a lemon market, trying to fine the non lemons sooner and more efficiently than the competition
I have a library for this sort of thing (but without the HAML-style # and . niceties :-/) which can also output DOM Elements or HTML (escaped by default) from the same code by flipping its output mode: https://github.com/insin/DOMBuilder

The output modes are implemented as plugins, so you can also add other sorts of things, like the template mode I'm in the progress of writing, with template inheritance and the like.

Bretthopper's comment about the readability is spot on, though - you have to start using comma-first pretty quickly or you will go mad getting commas in the right places, and you're never going to get a designer writing these things.

The good thing about it is that since your templates are written in code, it's trivial to share them between client and server - this example app can also be clones and run on Node.js, which uses the same templates to serve full pages when you hit any URL and works as a forms 'n links webapp if you disable JavaScript in your browser: http://jonathan.buchanan153.users.btopenworld.com/sacrum/fra...
This is a smart move. It's much easier to tag your site than issue a takedown request.

I mean, it probably won't stop copyright infringement too much , but it gives Pinterest something to point to when people complain.
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I have a potential project that would involve testing somewhere in the range of 500 Cassandra nodes. What are the best tools to use in load testing such installations? Is everything pretty much custom?
I'm not sure. Maybe something like law.
I think what you are trying to say invariably translates to people learning to enjoy the process and journey rather than the destination.

You have to do things because you really like doing them and hence you somewhat abstract yourself away from the actual results.
As noted by a comment on the page, it would be better if they had a more generic meta name value so that content creators don't have to do the same for every website that they don't want their content distributed to.
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Of course you can still open an image directly and pin that.

Why a company would not want their product image and a link back to their site is beyond me (it's basically free advertising).
I'm concerned this will lead to a number of meta-tags we will have to include in our ever-growing header tags. Can Pinterest and Facebook not just acknowledge robots.txt or we invent a new tag like rel=nofollow?
The syntax looks very similar to JSONML, which has its own templating thing JSONML BST:

http://jsonml.org/ (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...)

http://jsonml.org/bst/ (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...)
Comcast's plans aren't synchronous though. Their 30Mbps package ("Blast!") runs $72.95/mo, but that's using "PowerBoost" which means it's not 30Mbps and only has an upload rate of ~4Mbps.

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/14520
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/15643

The 30Mpbs up and down package in Nashville costs $57.99. It's a deal. All their packages are, 100Mbps up and down for $139.99 is great. FiOS's fastest package is 150/35 and runs $199.99/month.

Update: You also save with packages. It's actually cheaper to get the phone service (1Gbps drops from $349.99 to $317.99) and the TV isn't much more.
I agree with the general sentiment, but you're not free from all memory management. If I've never learned about it, how do I know when to make something strong vs weak? How about bridging from CF types?

ARC is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't free newcomers from ever learning about memory management.
Why, though, is it opt out rather than opt in? Given the claimed advantages of pinterest participation, why not have those sites that want to participate add the meta tag? It seems somewhat backwards to demand that sites that don't want to participate add a meta tag for a single, specific site.

EDIT: One interesting side effect of moderation on sites like this is that it actively discourages conversation. I've replied to various questions and, without fail, when someone asserts their opinion by downvoting this, they need to seek out and downvote every other post I've made on this topic. Weak sauce.
google obeys the

<meta name="robots" content="noimageindex">

- or -

<meta name="googlebot" content="noimageindex">

meta tag. well, i guess pinterest didn't knew about it and instead reinvented - an unknown, obscure, niche - wheel, again. (see: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...)
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I'm going to express an opinion halfway between the OP and those who are rebutting him (or her). I'm not familiar with St. Louis, but I recently moved from San Francisco to Columbia, SC (didn't really want to, but I'm an academic, my postdoc ran out, and USC offered me a good tenure track job) and am sympathetic with both sides.

One person responded by saying St. Louis is "a city like any other", and that's misleading. There is no baseline to compare to. I've lived in a half dozen cities for long enough that they have very different cultures, and people living there have different priorities. San Francisco, for example, is much more intellectual, much more lively, and much more exciting than Columbia. Here in South Carolina most people like predictability and routine.

But not everybody. For example, I know one high school teacher who just flew his students out to Stanford for a math competition. The cocky bastard believed they have a chance of winning -- and after seeing them in our local competition I believed him. I have met some interesting people, and people who have some intellectual interests, and there is no way that "there is no intellectual scene" in St. Louis or in any other city bigger than 1,000. It might well be smaller, more marginalized, or less intense, but it will be there.

But that said, some cities are definitely more conducive to intellectualism, entrepreneurship, and having an exciting life than others. If I wanted to start a startup, I would do it in the Bay Area or maaaybe Austin, Madison, Raleigh/Durham, Boston, New York, or Boulder. If you have a choice, then you should go to the best place for the best opportunity. Why wouldn't you?
Respectfully, the summary should be "Do things, Tell people".
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Things to know about St. Louis:

The City of St. Louis is a separate entity from St. Louis county. When I last checked the employee map for a 150 engineer software company, there were two employees living in the City of St. Louis, (a receptionist, and a newly divorced man in an apartment) the remainder where in St. Louis County, St. Charles County, and living on the "east side" in Illinois (but far enough to clear East St. Louis).

The City of St. Louis has a 1% payroll tax for people that work in the city, plus another 1% for people that live in the city. That may not be important for a startup, but if you are looking to long term employ a lot of highly paid people you have to ask yourself if you want an extra 2% margin or not.

There has been a fair amount of redevelopment in the city itself in recent years, and probably a large amount to come, so you can find a nice place. Make sure to check for a grocery store nearby. Public transit is next to useless. Prepare to drive.

The radial highways in and out of the city are in pretty good shape these days. Check the actually commute times, but 20 miles in 30 minutes wouldn't be outrageous.
>Of course you can still open an image directly and pin that

well, to counter this scenario pinterest would need to support the

X-Pinterest-Tag: nopin

HTTP header - for images, PDF, all non HTML data (similar to googles "standard" X-Robots-Meta: noimageindex, see: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/control-crawl-index...)
It's easy to forget today, but this was how academia began 350 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society
This is bang on. I would not advise trying to sell your solution at the end of a customer development interview, and perhaps not for weeks or even months after. If you truly solve big pain points the time will come to ask for the sale, but it's not after the first conversation.

Simply enjoy the conversation, ask them to tell you about the biggest challenges in their business, and most people will open up and give you some of the most valuable feedback you can get as an entrepreneur. It's much more valuable than sitting in your basement and running an Adwords campaign to a landing page. The depth, richness and quantity of feedback you get might surprise you. You might even consider asking your prospect if you can publish a transcript of the interview on your blog.

Publishing your customer development interviews (with your prospects' permission) will give you near instant content for SEO (get it transcribed with SpeechPad if you like), added value in the form of information for other prospects in the industry, and insight into how they express their pain points that you can inject back into your pitch and marketing messages.
I don't think you can really grow or develop your skills in a vacuum. We should encourage people to put their work out in the open. And discourage the negative ego talk that's so prevalent in our communities.
I don't know whether one should move one's company to STL, but it is neither culturally nor socially barren. I moved to town in 2009 and my experience is quite different from palish's.
As a Chattanooga resident and developer (I work for Rackspace), this has irritated me since I've heard of it.

I couldn't imagine someone doing a yuppie hunt or a gay hunt... Very embarrassing for our beautiful city for a few unqualified companies and people to represent us this way.

Apologies to all my fellow developers... Don't move here for a job or the internet, neither offerings are as great as advertised.
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You are saying that you ask this question to gauge the attitude, creativity and interest.

Actually I ask this question specifically because it is such a rallying point of angry, offended developers (specifically those who interview a lot, unsuccessfully, thus having a serious chip on their shoulder about the interview process). If someone is going to be a prima donna, unable to communicate with peers without a dismissive attitude, I desperately want to weed them out at the beginning. This question serves that purpose brilliantly.

What does it say about you?

Is this one of those "we're equals" things? I think the interviewees I adore the most are those that try to "turn the table" and interview me. Throw some hardballs to determine if we're worth their trouble.

We pay far above the norm. We have flexible hours and telecommuting. We work on fantastic technologies that are driven by our development staff. Meaning we are in the driver's seat. I will engage every filter I can conceive to cull the herd, and I've found that asinine question to be a perfect tool for that.
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robots.txt is for web crawlers that follow links, it doesn't usually apply to robots that fetch a single page based on a user request. But they could invent and adopt a new tag.
You're joking, right? The overwhelming majority of sites either don't care or are positive towards stuff like Pinterest (more ad eyeballs, for example). It's the rarity to [i]not[/i] want to be shareable.
Apple's ARC documentation explains how to deal with those kinds of things. It's as accessible to an iOS beginner as retain/release are, perhaps more so. Specifically, regarding strong vs weak, the point is that you are to think about your object graph instead of thinking about memory management.
Hah, no worries! Sorry for being so picky about your results, and congrats on producing a novel insight.
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The biggest complaint I hear about iOS is the somewhat manual memory management. It's really not that bad, and is nowhere near as tricky as C or C++.

To be fair, iOS does have a garbage collector (NSPool), but you have to free up references for it to reclaim space.
I very strongly disagree. ARC still reveals the underlying nuts and bolts, necessitating a basic understanding of reference counting systems.

It doesn't solve retain cycles, thus requiring the judicious use of __weak in cases where a retain cycle may emerge. Determining where such a cycle may occur requires understanding reference counting. This significantly impacts your expression of algorithms where the simplest/best implementation may involve cyclic object graphs.

Additionally, ARC does not handle mixing CoreFoundation and Foundation code directly, requiring one to manually express bridging rules based on an understanding of reference counting.

It may be that ARC gradually smooths out its rough edges, and we find ourselves in a situation similar to GC, where developers need only understand the difference between weak and strong references, and the opportunities that exist there for leaks caused by maintaining strong live references.

However, we're still a bit far from that point, and newcomers should remain well-aware of retain/release and the vagaries of reference counting systems.
In mobile HTML5 apps _everything_ matters. I spent a significant amount of time building HTML5 apps that mirrored native UI almost perfectly and the primary issue with such an interface was that loading took forever the first time you open the page/app (but was natively-fast thereafter). If you're caching the app offline then JS performance (and moreso CSS performance) quickly become the bottleneck in app usability (because of the huge startup costs of setting up the page on the order of 10 seconds for something your desktop loads instantly).
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The idea that CSS selectors could be used for element creation is awesome. It would be so convenient to write:

var link = el("a#top.link[src='http://google.com'][data-external='true']")

Instead of:

var link = document.createElement('a');
link.setAttribute('id', 'top');
link.setAttribute('class', 'link');
link.setAttribute('src', 'http://google.com');
link.dataset.external = 'true'

Someone needs to bring it to W3C forums, otherwise we might end up with this http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/2011OctDec/0020....