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SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance Python/Django/jQuery, with extensive experience building e-commerce marketplaces. I have a research background, data analysis, playing around with NLP right now.
I run a django dev shop, currently taking gigs for it. Here's my portfolio:

* http://www.cloudshuffle.com/

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Contact details in my profile or the link above.

Here're some examples from my portfolio:

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and many more.
Hey there,

I'm very sorry about this. This isn't acceptable.

I'd like the opportunity to dig into your case to figure out what happened. Can you get in touch with me at michael@stripe.com?

Going forward, please also feel free to reach out to me directly at any point if you run into similar problems again.

Michael
Could you elaborate. How was not being able to read a problem?

Did they have trouble navigating the city? Was this perhaps in a city without subways?
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Tom Prince - Continuous integration specialist

I'm one the core developers of https://buildbot.net

I design, deploy and manage various buildbot installations.
Moved on to ZFS on Linux. FreeBSD does not support sharesmb.
You can use MonoDevelop to develop C# projects on Mono:

http://monodevelop.com/
Another useful source for browser marketshare: http://clicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/
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Signed up, I don't have an iPhone app so this won't work for me. Would like to delete my account but pretty sure there's no way to do that on the 'my account' page.
Shown HN: Introducing a New OpenSource Learning Management System
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MS should seriously consider releasing a patch that makes Win8 look like Win7 on desktops (shouldn't be very hard). Win8 has a fair number of improvements under the hood.

My guess is that someone in the Windows org has this working.

(I won't get into the quality of the Win8 UI, since I have not used it yet. Maybe it's the bee's knees and I'm just believing all the anti-hype).
Yes this is obviously True at least for us. We've got one windows 8 user out of 22,000 people and its one of our QA team on a surface.

Our app is productivity based and I don't think windows 8 is attractive to this segment.
I think it would be hard to visualize using existing tools. Imagine the jump from assembly language to scripting languages. The effort required reduced by many orders of magnitude for the exact same result. We don't have such game creation tools yet. We only have cookie cutters like RPG Makers or game engines mods. So probably this is just a wishful dream for now.
I'm surprised nobody else on his blog or on HN has mentioned this. I didn't find this post heartwarming as much as I found it gut-wrenching, but only because I've been there myself to a lesser degree (which was still terribly exhausting and heartbreaking in so many ways).
Try something new Don't be afraid to fail.
If you're looking at scizophrenics then by definition you're looking at the ones who haven't recovered. My understanding though is that they don't just do better because they're given less drugs, it's also because of social differences in terms of how families interact with each other.
Wow - those are some troubling comments.
SEEKING WORK as a German freelancer in Hamburg, Germany or remotely in a nearby timezone.

- Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Some Photoshop skills
- Scrum Master

German is my native tongue, but my command of the english language is very good (8 out of 9 in the IELTS test).

Please have a look at some more info and my e-mail address at http://www.lorenzkitzmann.de/
Thanks! This is my 1st node.js project. Glad you guys are digging it.
I run window 8 and its a solid upgrade. It feels faster and has incremental updates to various parts of the OS. (Native mounting of ISOs was a nice surprise)

Only down side? The lack of start menu. But since that can be easily fixed with Start8 (Google it), then there is no reason to not upgrade.

If you run windows 7, then stop wasting time and upgrade to 8.
I don't think that the problem is figuring out Windows 8 (something that anyone could do given enough time), but, rather, the real problem is unwillingness to buy. Having heard from friends and the media that Windows 8 is radically different, any remaining interest is dissipated on sight of screenshots or a demo computer in-store.

That said, my parents, when actually confronted with it, were fine; they weren't huge fans, but using the new interface wasn't a problem after they adjusted.
Are managers getting better with time?
Is It Wrong To Use A Svbtle Theme?
Thanks for the support!

I'd answer by saying that we are not a "make you rich" service. For that, we'd be charging a lot more!

Distributing your information to various sites just increases the chances of you being discovered. The more you put yourself out there, the more you're likely to be reviewed or mentioned or shared. This is PR 101. It's not going to turn you into a millionaire overnight, but it's just one of those things you should be doing.

That article leaves out an important dimension: time. Sure, one blog post isn't going to net you hundreds of sales. But over a long enough timeline, could it net you dozens of sales? What if you multiplied that by 150+ different sites? This is long tail / long term.

Peterpings takes the time/effort out of this thing that you should be doing, so you have more time to dedicate to product development, or a more creative marketing campaign!
I'm Christoph, a user interface designer based in Latvia. I'm looking for remote work.
You can find me here : www.christophcup.com / mail: me@christophcup.com / skype: kristapsso
what kind of app do you have? we're just getting started :)
Thanks, turns out he manually set it to 4 always-on instances, so we don't know what the GAE scheduler would have done.
I wonder if it was truly an intentional 'trap street' or a genuine mistake? It would be hard to tell the difference. In Google's case they may be worried about their back end data being copied wholesale, in which case flagged streets would be too easy to remove, or perhaps it was a trap street in a third party data source, and they couldn't tell the difference to remove it. Or maybe it was just an honest error. Interesting that trap streets and errors make good cover for each other...
Congrats on shipping!

Only nitpick - it looks like you charge transactionally (pay as you go.) Wouldn't that make this NOT a SaaS app?

Best of luck! Might give it a shot with my product.
I am sure this story has nothing to do with the democracy. India isn't a repressive country by any measure, and far and away the most democratic one of all countries with the similar per capita GDP. It's not the government that rapes women, or shelters the rapists. It's about public opinion and gender relationships - when women are considered 2nd grade people raping them is well, nothing to be worried much about. Government can't change that. If it tries, it will result in the same thing as when it tried to limit birth rate in Indira Gandhi times - which eventually cost her life. Selective abortions and fighting them is another case of government's helplessness when the people's minds are broken. Government can't change (at least in a positive way - in a negative it can, see Hitler) public morale, even in such doubtless situations as this one. It is up to the people to change.
Paris Apple store robbed on NYE by 4 armed individuals
I'll take a look at that now.
Microsoft made a mistake trying to force a made-for-touch interface on PC users, and in the end the strategy is not that different than forcing a PC interface on a touch device. It may actually be worse, because at least in that case you would be familiar with the interface, so at least it would have that advantage.

I think this video explains most of the problems with Windows 8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTYet-qf1jo
doh! what's the correct terminology?
It seems like everyone else is giving you flak so let me offer some words of encouragement:

This looks great! This really makes functional programming more readable. It forces the use of whitespace which is my favorite part about python. It lets me easily sort the arguments to each function.

Don't mind the other people telling you about smart editors, that's just a band-aid over the problem of parens.

You've come up with a better way of writing functional code, just like CoffeScript is a better way of writing JavaScript.

Now for some constructive criticism:

You might want to add a note that your implementation on Github requires Haskell.

You only have syntax highlighting for Emacs. Maybe give vim some love next?

If you develop it further you will want better documentation or people will walk away just because they can't get it started.
2012: A year of living CNG
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Our startup is looking for a front-end engineer or designer to join our team on a contract basis (for now). The right candidate will need to possess demonstrable experience writing:

* HTML
* CSS (Sass)
* JavaScript (jQuery, CoffeeScript)

Bonus points for experience working in a Rails environment. Design skills aren't required, but illustration skills (icons, logos) will be a plus.

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I think the problem that exist is that computers have reached the level of being good enough to not replace or upgrade. If you had a PC with a Pentium 4 and 256 or 512 MB of RAM you would be in serious pain trying to run a modern web browser or do much of anything, but a Core2Duo with 4GB of RAM is more than enough for 90% of people out there. There is no longer a compelling reason to upgrade when your computer is no longer a major pain point and is good enough, compounded with the fact that the world economy is in the trash can and people are holding on to more dollars[1].

[1]http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-10-01/business/35501...
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We are hiring for engineering and PM roles.
Engineering: Front-end, back-end (FT and contract), iOS, web performance devs.
See details here - http://flickr.jobs/
Oh and try the new Flickr iPhone app out.
I originally intended to develop my own variation on WP-Svbtle for my own blog, then I saw TwentyTwelve released with Wordpress 3.5. With a white background and a few other tweaks (such as moving the navigation bar below the header image), it can look very minimalistic and clean.

Here's my own blog customized with TwentyTwelve: http://minimaxir.com/
It'd still be a mixed bag. Some settings and preferences are accessed in through the control center (of the desktop app), while others are in the Metro settings. Apps purchased in the app store would open fullscreen in Metro (unless they'd display Metro applications in windows on the desktop). Metro is not truly separate, but it is also not well-integrated.

Windows 8 is an operating system for tablets. On desktops and laptops it's an experiment at most - touch screens are not ubiquitous, and it remains to be seen whether they will be successful on 'traditional computers'.

I think everyone would be better off if Microsoft had released Windows 8 as a tablet operating system, providing other improvements as a service pack for Windows 7. But they are probably making a bet: businesses will stick with Windows 7 for a while, and they are probably hoping that consumers get as much Metro-exposure as possible via Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Windows RT.

I don't like it. So, I'll stick with OS X on the desktop and iOS/WP8 on phones ;).

Edit: I wanted to add that I do like Metro a lot... For touch devices.
While I feel I probably ought to be more compassionate, I have to say that every time I see one of his comments, reading it brings a smile to my face.

Would love him to read a (short) autobiography some day, he does seem incredibly interesting, smart, intense and of course somewhat unstable.

For anyone interested, here's a video in which he introduces his OS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAr-xYtBFbY
Find the leaks (AKA - the reason I shot myself in the head)
had to share this fine-ass piece of code
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Isn't part of the problem that the hardware market hasn't yet put out a good selection of touchscreen devices (tablets, laptops, monitors) to take advantage of Windows 8's core upgrades/features yet?

I was in Fry's Electronics last week, went to the laptop section, and couldn't find any touchscreen Windows devices in their sea of laptops they had on display. I had to ask a salesman, and he had to point out to me the one they had on display.

I imagine that once touchscreen devices and monitors become the standard, people will be more inclined to go with Windows 8, so I haven't written off its success yet.

Or, I guess the pessimistic flip-side to that is that the market has spoken, and there isn't a strong demand for such devices running Windows 8?
There will always be some testing of IE6 by developers on clean WinXP VMs. As testing becomes easier and easier (see apps like browserling.com) there may be increased usage of older browsers.
Great stuff, thanks for the answer. I'd pay for this service in a heartbeat if it was demonstrably suitable for any tech product or web service.

Ideally I'd love to see a "successful campaign" case study, which would show the emails somebody sent out for their product, and some of the resulting press they got from it (I understand it would vary based on the quality of what they're selling, but it'd be nice to see their email virtually reprinted on LifeHacker or TechCrunch etc.)

Best of luck and I'll check back in a month or so to see if I can make use of it!
Whether a 40- or 60-hour load is a normal person's limit is beside the point.

My point is that the white-collar office regime measures people based on their decline curves rather than their performance under good conditions, and that may have worked at one time, but now it selects for the wrong traits and, additionally, makes typical institutional work inhospitable for people like the OP's wife.

Obviously, there are exceptions. You want an uber-reliable person for U.S. President. For a software engineer, you care about overall ability and performance, not worst-case.
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Does this mean that Rails will be released within a week or so?
You think Vista will get IE10? Doubt it, part of this is also to motivate people to upgrade their OS.
> shouldn't be very hard

Somebody already published one in SourceForge. I realy doubt MS can't do that.

But then, MS's strategy is to risk their PC dominance to make inroads at portables. Such a patch would antagonize their (failing) marketing efforts.
Windows 7, released in 2009, was a success compared to Vista, and our computers are not that much different inside from what they were then.
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http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

And another, proprietary option: http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
Show HN: jQuery WYSIWYG Markdown editor
Thank you so much!

From this HN post it's pretty clear that there's some demand for an "any app" approach. We will get to work :)

Totally agree about the case studies and when there are some noteworthy ones you can bet we will show it off on the homepage. Typical chicken/egg issues preventing that right now though!
The point is that there is an existing application in production and a new application is being deployed. If the deployment fails, it simply does not enable the new application, leaving the existing one running. Using version control to rollback a running application is inadvisable (yet quite common).
Oh, no. I should really say Microsoft only make new versions work with the previous version of Windows and the current, as that's what they actually do. But Microsoft doesn't want to ever upgrade IE on XP, they want XP to die.
Xamarin has a full application suite to complement it. I'd say since 2010 it has been perfectly mature. The C# runtime on Linux is slower than the Oracle JVM though, but about as fast as the OSS JVM from the statistics I last saw.
Looks good - have you released your customisations anywhere?
Please do that. I just opened up my app today (http://www.poe3.com), and when I saw this I was like WOW! But then it asked me for the iTunes app name. :)
It's still a software service even if it's structured transactionally.
See also the SRFI for I-Expressions, for Scheme: http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html
I already use hnews. http://rubygems.org/gems/hnews
Good work though, looks pretty awesome!
This is because you can't measure it accurately. It's akin to religious interpretation. Unfortunately there is plenty of room to divide people and draw up conversations for the analysts to sell.

Browser market share is so incredibly off. I know of 50000 IE7 users who don't even put their browser near the internet.
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My parents could use their new Win8 computer quite well. But then, after seeing lots of tutorials, trying things for a long time and exploring all the new interface, they asked "Can't you really put a start menu on that thing?"

It's not the end of the world. But it's not a good interface either.
They're using a mildly questionable 'growth as popularity' for their measure. It has its uses, but does skew things quite a bit.
How my Data Toolset evolved in 2012: scale/speed/unlocking new data types
3 Resolutions for 2013
Windows Vista is a special case, it took a lot of flack that Windows 7 would have taken if Vista had not came before it.

Windows Vista broke compatibility(for the better of security) by making it so applications could only write to the User lever directories and would need elevated permissions to make system wide changes, Windows Vista also brought the first major x64 push from Microsoft, which left people with many peripherals that wouldn't work because there weren't 64 bit drivers available. In the time from Vista to 7 applications where updated to follow proper programming guidelines and 64 bit drivers where released, Vista in essence took the blow so Windows 7 could be a success.

In my opinion Windows Vista also has some serious performance issues, for example its caching was way too aggressive and would eat up all available RAM and leave little to none for running programs(I got out of memory errors in Photoshop while Vista had 700+MB of RAM "cached").
Running in loops.

When it is not an organized run, you will have to manage water on your own. We have a 5km loop and we put our water bottles in a vehicle at the start point.

Depending on the distance that we plan to run, we increase/decrease the number of iterations of the loop.

When running in loops is not an option, people are advised to get a fuel belt.
Choosing Your Lotto Numbers
I kinka thought that when he casually says he didn't want to watch the fireworks, while I guess it was only because she wouldn't.