danielhfrank

Don't forget the Chris King Headset Composite Index: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2008/10/no-getting-around-it...

They're hardly the only ones trying to abstract files away from the user. iOs has had a lot of success with non technical types doing just that. Here's hoping that osx doesn't fully take the plunge

Amen! It would seem that Parker thinks he can ingratiate himself with promising companies simply by patting himself on the back. The sad part is, it appears to work

Hey Mike, do you think you could talk about how you test those js functions? Do you actually hardcode them as strings in python, or do you load them from a separate js file that you can develop / test separately. I've always been a little sketched out by the requirement that those MR jobs be written in js, would be curious to hear how you do it.

+1 for this. Rather frustrating that "Assigned to you" includes those from my organization's repositories, but "In your repositories" does not. It's not that the language is that hard to follow, it's just not quite the functionality I was hoping for

upvote x10. The y combinator is exactly the sort of thing I would have been happy to have written on my body, had it not turned into an investor buzzword

Forgive the nitpicking, but I think you misread him slightly. He wrote "Take only classes you're interested in", not classes you enjoy. I did many of the things that Dave suggested (BA in Math, very few required classes for that one), and definitely lived by that policy. A prime example was that I never took a class just because it was a pre-req for another class that I wanted to take. There were some really hard classes that I did not enjoy doing the work for, but I had signed up because they covered interesting topics, and for the most part I was glad to have completed them.

As I said, I pretty much followed Dave's advice on course selection, not because I didn't think CS was necessary, but because I didn't yet know I wanted to do development. There are some things I feel I missed (like learning how a computer actually works), but on the whole the most useful programming skills I've gained are ones I've learned on the job or hacking on my own projects in the middle of the night.

New York, NY - Software Engineer , fulltime

Trendrr is a real-time data processing engine that powers Trendrr.com, Trendrr.tv, and other media experiences. We are a small, lean startup. Our stack is built on open source, and we believe in giving back wherever possible. This is a very small development team, and you will have a hand in everything.

For more information about the position see: http://blog.trendrr.com/2011/05/24/software-engineer-wanted-.... or contact me directly, I am a developer at Trendrr and am happy to answer your questions

Wow, you just rolled all my most visited sites into one. And now I can read techcrunch again without my brain melting. Actually, that might not be a good thing, but thank you anyway. Great work

New York, NY - Software Engineer , fulltime

Trendrr is a real-time data processing engine that powers Trendrr.com, Trendrr.tv, and other media experiences. We are a small, lean startup. Our stack is built on open source, and we believe in giving back wherever possible. This is a very small development team, and you will have a hand in everything.

For more information about the position see: http://blog.trendrr.com/2011/05/24/software-engineer-wanted-.... or contact me directly, I am a developer at Trendrr and am happy to answer your questions

New York, NY - Software Engineer wanted

Trendrr is a real-time data processing engine that powers Trendrr.com, Trendrr.tv, and other media experiences. We are a small, lean startup. Our stack is built on open source, and we believe in giving back wherever possible. This is a very small development team, and you will have a hand in everything.

For more information about the position see: http://blog.trendrr.com/2011/05/24/software-engineer-wanted-... or contact me directly, I am a developer at Trendrr and am happy to answer your questions

The article asks who could have imagined ten years ago that by now we would all have video phone capability and never use it. Infinite Jest was written 15 years ago. DFW 1, SingularityHub 0

People, have we already forgotten this? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5365283/regular-expressio...

This whole thing is hilarious, but probably useless

I would personally love this. Even though I am by most measures a techie (I get paid to write software), I find deployment / configuration to be very different from development and generally a whole bucket of hurt that I don't want to get involved in. Have some projects that I simply never wrote because I knew they'd need server setup that I didn't want to do. Now if only there were support for something besides rails...

Yes, that is what he is trying to say. I think that viewpoint, especially as echoed here by blhack, is pretty narrow. The developer community is quite insular and it's easy to assume that the views and tastes of your friends reflect that of, well, everyone. It has been my experience that most people my age (which appears to be the age of most of the people in the trailer, or at least the ones in t-shirts) are either unaware of or ambivalent towards the 'startup scene' (though I wouldn't deny that such a thing does exist). Surely you can't think that everyone in their teens and 20s is writing code in their spare time - those skills don't teach themselves! It'd be much easier to just go and try out for American Idol.

The comparison to rock and roll, though, I think is quite apt. In both industries there are many young talents insisting that they are not in it for the money, yet knowing that if they become very successful they will also become very rich, just like their idols. Derivative works and copycats are everywhere, and the whole thing is bankrolled by "suits" looking for the "next big thing"... Hmm, this analogy is probably full of holes, but it's an interesting one that I hadn't thought of before

Frank Rich (of the NYTimes, although he's moving to NY Mag) has always been great about linking to sources. Not always necessarily a primary source, but for an op-ed writer it makes a huge difference to show that you can back up your claims. Or at least that your sources think they can

I suppose I'll be in the minority on a site run by a VC, but I'm pretty disappointed that a get-"rich"-quick story like this can outpace technical articles here - no doubt the word "profitable" in the title helped. I certainly don't think there's anything "wrong" with what you did, it's just not what I come here to read. I'd always kind of held the belief that this was a site for lots of really smart folks talking about current technical issues, but maybe I've been fooling myself a bit.

Credit where it's due though, the site appears to have been coded up pretty well

"I think that the next printing of our book should have "Banned in China" slapped on the cover. That should be good for sales, right?"

I would buy that in a heartbeat

Could anyone comment on how much of this stuff could be sidestepped by just using an incognito window in Chrome? I don't mind ads targeted to, say, me as a Java developer. But, if I'm going to look up anything I'd rather others not know about, I simply pop open an incognito window and... am I good to go? Is there anything besides my IP address that can be read when I'm doing that?

Amazing. I might dump my girlfriend just so I can use this

How does this stack up against Read It Later? Anybody tried both of them? They sound identical

Great post-- Ping really is a waste of a great idea. This should have been the death knell for last.fm by letting you connect with friends through the application you use to listen, but they didn't put in the most important feature! The entire 'like' feature lives in the store, not in the part of iTunes where you actually listen to music, which is where I would want to be able to communicate that I like something. Maybe olefoo is right, Apple just can't find any room in their 'walled garden' for user-generated content...

Hey, I wrote the piece so I'm happy to address your question. First off, the training data was completely separate from test data, which was painstakingly gathered by hand. We wanted to make sure the data we were testing against was classified as accurately as possible. For training data, volume is more of a priority. Your other point is very well taken-- we'll probably use some metrics like that ourselves to look for improvements! Let me know if you've got any other questions, I'm happy to clear things up.