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Looking for interns / entry level? | ekiru: I'm a high school senior looking for a programming internship for the summer. I'm admittedly quite inexperienced(both in terms of hobbyist activities, having worked on no projects of any significant size, and in terms of work in the field, of which I have no experience yet), but I am a fast learner and a very ha... |
Advice for young and ambitious | EuclidCapital: If you are serious about start ups (as in you want to accomplish something big), you should move to SV. Outside of SV, it's hit or miss (maybe your current start up will work, if it doesn't maybe you hit on the next one). If you move out to SV, you'll realize there is an ecosystem and an industry for y... |
Looking for interns / entry level? | toddml: bit.ly is looking for dev interns in NYC this summer.If you're ambitious, curious, and like the idea of big data and high traffic volumes, drop us a line at jobs @ bit.ly |
Looking for interns / entry level? | sev: I'm a semester away from graduating with a computer science degree in the Los Angeles area. I'm looking for any positions available that can be contract based and remotely worked (although I would be willing to come in for any any meetings here and there) I have programming experience for over 5 years, and curre... |
Easy way to display non-parsed HTML blocks? | nostrademons: How about the <pre> tag?You could also do a preprocessor that converts your angle brackets in certain divs to < and >. It should be pretty easy (<1 hour) to whip something up in Python that uses BeautifulSoup and string search/replace to do this. |
Is this good Chinese? | ycseattle: Yes it is. After open the text file in browser, manually select "Unicode" encoding, it will show the Simplified Chinese translation, and the translation is actually pretty good. |
Is this good Chinese? | chrischen: I can also confirm that it is correct. |
What should I include in a tech discovery phase? | paulhart: I've been in this kind of situation, but with less expertise on the client's side.My (successful) angle of attack was to review the documentation provided as a kind of "requirements dump" rather than a "this is how it should work" definition. I then applied my own knowledge and experience to generate a docume... |
Looking for interns / entry level? | adaugelli: True Ventures is looking for interns graduating in 2011 or 2012 for our summer TEC program this summer in the Bay Area. As a member of our program, you will be paired with one of our companies and spend eight weeks working on a variety of projects both appropriate to your background and skillset and of valu... |
Easy way to display non-parsed HTML blocks? | jim_lawless: You don't mention whether you intend to host the tutorial yourself. If not, you might consider setting up a blog on wordpress.com where you can use the [sourcecode] tag when composing a post that provides all sorts of options for displaying text from various programming languages.HTML used to be supported... |
Looking for interns / entry level? | indigoviolet: Facebook: www.facebook.com/careers . You can also shoot me a resume. |
Looking for interns / entry level? | bmac: CS Junior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute looking for a web development internship in the Boston area. Skilled in Python, Django, Java, Linux and more. Email bmcloughlin@wpi.edu for a resume. |
Where's the outrage? | christefano: Outraged? Not really. As a webdev I'm glad the display has a standard 1024x768 resolution and not something weird. (As a consumer, I'm disappointed that it's 4:3 and not widescreen.)The iPad display's 132dpi is what I'm more worried about. Most images on the web are 72dpi. |
Where's the outrage? | DougBTX: A standards compliant mostly-open-source web browser? No outrage at all. |
Where's the outrage? | BigZaphod: Outrage.... why, exactly? Technology is always changing things. This is just one more example. Adapt or die. |
Where's the outrage? | cscotta: No outrage here - and honestly, no overhauling necessary for most of my work. Touch-enabled devices have been with us for years, so most companies writing software, sites, and web apps to be used with them have long since adapted. Over-reliance on hover states is annoying, anyway.I develop on a Mac and use a... |
Where's the outrage? | jsz0: Offering iPhone optimized sites is important because there are 75 million iPhone/Touches out there give or take. I'd be surprised if there are more than 3-5 million iPads out there by the end of 2010 so it's probably nothing to get too bent out of shape about. |
Where's the outrage? | jexe: I am way too excited about the possibilities to be outraged that I'll have some interesting work to do. |
Where's the outrage? | chrischen: Likely Apple designed the iPad to work with most of the existing web, and wasn't naive enough to believe that the web will design itself around Apple's iPad.EDIT: The iPhone was one of many mobile devices, so it warrants sites having mobile versions. |
Where's the outrage? | araneae: It's always possible it will be irrelevant. |
Where's the outrage? | GeneralMaximus: Here's a little list, not from a web developer's perspective, but from the perspective of someone who really wanted to write apps for the iPhone OS but is turned-off by the AppStore. Did I say turned-off? I meant outraged. Offended. Disgusted.1. Neither the iPhone nor the iPad are going to replace full-... |
Where's the outrage? | brandon272: I think the outrage hinges on how popular you think the iPad will be. Hence, my lack of outrage. :) |
Where's the outrage? | nkohari: I write a general-purpose web app, so I don't need to worry about what new devices are on the market in order to "stay competitive". If you tie yourself to a single device, you have to accept the consequences. |
Where's the outrage? | s3graham: Doesn't seem like a big deal to me. If there's a multitouch api available from JS (is there?), you could do pretty much everything demoed in those apps. |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | justinsb: Is your app pushing the limits of SQL databases? Is there any reason to look at NoSQL other than the fact that it's 'cool'? Currently all the NoSQL databases are very early adopter products, and each have their own strengths and weaknesses, so you'll have to choose a NoSQL database whose strengths match the... |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | randliu: No, it's not ready to replace SQL, and I don't think it ever will. What are your requirements? If it's horizontal scalability (and you're actually hitting a performance wall) you should begin to think about it. Maybe also if you never do any joins.Relational database systems (+ normalization) compromise everyt... |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | gridspy: I'd only consider NoSQL if you expect a very heavy load and one of these: - You have live data that is changing very regularly
- You have a large quantity of flat data (think column-oriented databases)
- You don't need to index / find data and it is very flat
(perhaps simple files on disk will al... |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | w3matter: For us the big thing, during the current refactoring of http://www.funadvice.com, is eliminating joins.In testing of the new up-coming platform, that was a huge, huge win for speed. And we're a Postgresql shop too.MongoDB allowed us to:
* Have embedded documents (very large performance improvements)
* Have ar... |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | simonw: NOSQL = Not Only SQL - I don't think you should ever expect it to completely replace SQL since they're good at different things. I've played with a bunch of NOSQL engines (including CouchDB, MongoDB, App Engine, Solr, Xapian and Tokyo) and while I really like them and would use them for a bunch of problems, for... |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | Jim_Neath: I've been using MongoDB to rewrite the activity feed on one of my apps. I wouldn't use it for everything though (not just yet anyway).Having said that, the guys behind Harmony (http://get.harmonyapp.com/) use MongoDB for everything, as far as I know: http://railstips.org/blog/archives/2009/12/18/why-i-think-... |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | siculars: from your comments here, it seems that you are a bit confused by the term nosql. it is kind of a misnomer, inmho, and should rather be called nordbms. what this movement is really replacing is the traditional rdbms approach to data storage, retrieval and searching. as @emileifrem points out in his talk at nos... |
If you were to learn a programming language for your first time | JFitzDela: I reckon I'll be different, here.I'd say PHP (particularly if the new coder has interest in web programming).It's syntactically easy-ish, freely available, very well documented and supported, and sets the newbie up for easy freelance or professional work.- John |
Help, please: need a headless DHT capable torrent seeder | ZeroGravitas: I'm not really familiar with this technology but I thought the default Ubuntu client Transmission could do this via it's cli interface.I'd imagine if it's in Ubuntu it'll be available easily in Debian. |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | alexpopescu: I think it would be a mistake to think of NoSQL as a replacement of RDBMS. Its main goal is rather to make our lives easier for a set of scenarios that were created with the read-write web. I'd encourage you to take a look at these NoSQL usecases: http://nosql.mypopescu.com/tagged/usecase. Hopefully that w... |
What's your problem? | drcode: I want to program the iPhone/iPad, but don't want all the headaches required for this: - Buying a Mac dev box
- Learning Objective C
- Dealing with the whole Apple Developer's Program paper shuffle |
What's your problem? | bmelton: Failure to finish. I've had, to date, 7 ideas that, had I finished executing, I would have been first to market (in most cases, by years). I would have been beaten to market on one other product, and really close to tied with another few.In imaginary-land, where I live, of the 7 companies I beat to market, 4... |
What's your problem? | mstevens: I know this is in some ways a claim to be smarter than google, but I always feel like email clients just aren't up to it.I have some fuzzy ideas on better webmail I plan to experiment with one day. |
Storing Credit Card Numbers | peterhi: The first issue is why do you want to store them, just for the record or do you need to do something with them. Do you need to store that actual number or would a hash of the number be acceptable (for comparison purposes).Databases are commonly compromised by SQL injection attacks that reveal the contents of t... |
What's your problem? | arihelgason: Problems faced by the denizens of this site are more likely to be well-served by what already exists.Try asking people in industries that rarely interface with the tech world. That's where you find the big, underserved problems. |
What's your problem? | mstevens: I have a big procrastination problem. An effective tool/strategy/app for reducing this procrastination could be massively useful to me. |
Python Development Environment | vaidhy: I have been using Stan's Python Editor (SPE) for quite some time and am very happy with it. Easy to install on my Ubuntu box, no big application+kitchen sink package, no magic customization files and free to boot. |
What's your problem? | cousin_it: My problems? Okay, I'll try to list them honestly. Try to build some startups from this:1) It's too cold in Moscow. The gray sky sucks.2) I fall sick easily. Now slowly recovering from a brutal case of stomatitis.3) I can't easily find new people to play music together in a casual setting. I'd do this every ... |
Storing Credit Card Numbers | icey: You should be using a separate database server than your web server if you're going to be storing credit card numbers. The database server should not be accessible by any machine except a small whitelist of IPs that you've specified. That way when your webserver gets compromised, it will require some looking arou... |
What's your problem? | clistctrl: Personally, I have no significant problems that can be solved with technology.However if you look around, there are far better places to go looking to solve problems then HN. The recession is plush with opportunity. Not just opportunity to help someone with some insignificant problem, but to truly help som... |
Storing Credit Card Numbers | olalonde: You should look up what is recommended by the PCI DSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Secu... / https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/). |
Storing Credit Card Numbers | mrduncan: I'd recommend starting with the PCI DSS. That standard is required by pretty much all card companies, and compliance is enforced by a self-assessment checklist and/or security assessor. If you plan on storing card information, you must be in compliance with this standard.PCI DSS Standard: https://www.pcisec... |
What's your problem? | ARR: My problem is time. I am still a student in India where you have one exams after another and all on completely different levels. I want to do what I love with programming and be part of projects which interest me, whose products I use (best example would be Ubuntu), but I know if I start, I will only be able to do... |
What's your problem? | Zarkonnen: Thanks to a habit of bad posture I'm very limited in how much work I can do. But terse code is often incomprehensible and English can't be compressed too much either. I want a way to reliably code/write without using my hands, and/or to minimise the number of input gestures I need to do. |
What's your problem? | olalonde: I am bilingual (french/english), but one thing really bothers me: I never get to speak in English. I read books in English, I watch movies in English, I read/write in English, etc. but I never get the chance to practice my spoken English. The end result is that although I understand/write English very well, I... |
What's your problem? | tdoggette: Certain large, critical organizations that I work with have a paperwork process that goes:1) Receive information through web form or email2) Print it out3) Scan it in to document management system.There are whole offices of people whose job it is to do this. |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | aita: Yahoo's benchmarks: http://www.brianfrankcooper.net/pubs/ycsb-v4.pdf |
Should I learn C or continue C++ | dkersten: As a former C++ programmer, I would say stick with C++ BUT be aware that its a dificult language with lots of tricky undefined behavior and hidden traps that even professional C++ programmers often forget about. [1]The reasons for stickling with C++ being that you get such things as classes, RAII, runtime typ... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | orenmazor: I'm coming at it sideways. I work in a .NET shop and I'm pushing for ironpython at every opportunity :) |
Where are all the Python jobs? | Josh0: What sort of Python job are you looking for? I know that there is definitely demand out there for Python programmers who work with Django (a web framework built on Python, for those who don't know). We (Discovery Creative—part of Discovery Communications, parent company of the Discovery Channel—out of Silver Spr... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | jswinghammer: Depends on where you are maybe?I don't think many places pick Python because there are fewer people who know it. I know some people who use it in their jobs though and their employers sort of just understood that people had to learn it on the job. I wouldn't say Python is a hot skill really but it depends... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | wensing: Check out some of the hubbub going on around PyCon. Also, look for Python-related meetups if you're in a major metro.Coincidentally with PyCon, Atlanta seems like a hotspot judging by the number of members of the PyATL and Django meetup groups. |
Where are all the Python jobs? | nroach: What are your criteria? Do you have a geographic location that the employer must be within? Do you have a minimum salary you need to make (before bonus or equity)?We just finished a hiring round, which included Python. I expect that we'll wind up hiring some more in the not too distant future.For what its wor... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | jmaygarden: I use python all the time, but I'm an embedded developer. So, the python code is just for internal tools and rarely ships. Therefore, a posting for my job would require C and assembly not python. However, it would definitely be useful. |
Where are all the Python jobs? | RiderOfGiraffes: My experience is limited (although unusual) and my exposure to the current job market even more so. However, it's my impression that there are very, very few "Python jobs." It's becoming more and more the case that multiple skills are required, and frequently Python is one of them. However, it's com... |
What's the current state of NoSQL ? | kunley: There are different things to consider depending on whether you'd create new app alone / with trusty co-founders, or you'd want to introduce it to a team using some form of agile development, or you'd want to expose NoSQL to people using ol' rusty waterfall model.The last case is hardest and I'll share some tho... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | ganley: We're hiring Python programmers. Or rather, we're hiring strong programmers, and we use Python. http://www.woti.com/ ... DC area, no telecommuting, must be a clearable US citizen. |
Storing Credit Card Numbers | hannibalhorn: If you're going to store that info, use gpg (or perhaps gpgme) to encrypt it and keep the private key for decryption somewhere completely separate. Access to the source code shouldn't matter at all. |
Where are all the Python jobs? | pxlpshr: We're based out of Austin, we use python / django extensively. I would say that we're really efficient at this junction and just don't need to hire another person (yet), but we also can't afford it since we're just starting. Nevertheless, speed and elegance does seem to be a benefit on the surface... 1 python ... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | djb_hackernews: have you checked out indeed.com and the python job board? The python job board gets updated surprisingly frequently. |
Where are all the Python jobs? | mbrubeck: There's always Google. |
Where are all the Python jobs? | alttab: The limit of my response is but of my own humble opinion.Python is a relatively simple language, with a small learning curve, and many applications. I've seen python used as a tool more than a primary technology for shops (unless they are a web company running Django.)My advice is that it seems like you are loo... |
What's your problem? | fragmede: Make this use case easier, or just parts of it; for all critical IT infrastructure that isn't core to my business:I'm looking for a wiki program to run. I want to force people to login before they can read any of the wiki (it's for internal use). It also needs to support LDAP.Currently, I load up Wikipedia an... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | gabeiscoding: I doubt this is representative, but we are a C++/Qt4 ISV and I'm looking for a Python/Django intern for the summer to help with some internal web sites and possibly setting up a customer portal (read $12-$15 an hour, no benefits)In other words, Python is an on-the-side language for us that I would look fo... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | jister: From what I noticed so far, Python is not hot in the market. Java, .Net and PHP still dominates the market. Again, this is just my observation though. |
Where are all the Python jobs? | ibarrac: We are looking for someone with Python and strong Teradata SQL knowledge for a contract position in Orlando, FL.Dice.com posting: http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=302... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | sunny_s: I have been using python for network related stuff.From this thread, it looks like python is being used mostly as python/django or for in house stuff only. Also where I come from, I hardly see a python job add without mentioning django. Is it correct to assume that there are very few industry jobs out there f... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | JeffJenkins: The startup I work for is hiring python UI devs. We're based in NYC. Feel free to email me if you're interested or want more information. We're using django with mako templates and (largely) MongoDB as the backing store. |
Where are all the Python jobs? | njharman: Python (Django) is big in information industry aka what people still call newspapers.Python is also big in science so if you wanted to get paid little and deal with beauirocrcy look to gov/acadamia. |
Where are all the Python jobs? | ned_batchelder: HP in Massachusetts is looking for Python talent: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200912/looking_for_a_python_de... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | jlees: It's interesting that this is sort of self perpetuating, though. I was looking for python developers (I sort of still am; Python + NLP), and literally nothing promising came by. Part of that was being located in Scotland, but still. I changed the job ad to Python + Java and got a ton of recruitment agency spam a... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | euroclydon: Here is one:http://www.transloc.com/site/content/careersThis is a Raleigh, NC company that was started by a friend of mine. |
Storing Credit Card Numbers | bensummers: Let your payment gateway handle it. Just store the reference number they give you in your database, and look it up in their web interface later if you need it.Don't let the number even touch the disk! |
Where are all the Python jobs? | dkarl: There's no such thing as a "Python job." Anyone who can't pick up Python in a week isn't worth hiring, and conversely, being productive in Python isn't proof of technical ability. Unlike with C++, Lisp, or even Java, if I was hiring for a Python shop, I wouldn't stress Python as an important qualification for ... |
What's your problem? | The_Lost_Hacker: How to figure out if my girlfriend will do kinky stuff. ;) |
Where are all the Python jobs? | abyssknight: Lockheed Martin is hiring Python people, last time I checked.If you're targeting a skill set for your next jump, that seems a bit silly. What is it that you want to do? :) |
Where are all the Python jobs? | mattj: If you are in the sf bay area, Yelp (in SF FiDi/SoMa) is looking for a bunch of python programmers.www.yelp.com/jobs |
What's your problem? | csomar: I want to read a Jquery book... I didn't succeed yet, I'm building a $20K project with that thing called Jquery, but it seems that I need to read something like 500 pages before being able to parse the DOM with ease.I need to read it quickly, the project need to be complete within 1 month... or I'LL DIE :'( :'( |
Where are all the Python jobs? | trefn: We use Python extensively at Mixpanel (web analytics) and we're hiring. We're based in Mountain View, CA.jobs@mixpanel.com |
Where are all the Python jobs? | notmyname: Rackspace cloud is looking for python programmers. http://www.rackspacecareers.com/ |
Storing Credit Card Numbers | beagle3: Quite a few people suggested gpg/hash or public key. If you do that (I wouldn't), be sure to include fluff before and after the number inside your signed message; A credit card has ~30 bit of randomness, and if you know the hashed/encrypted (even if salted) version of the hash, a hacker can just enumerate the ... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | matrix: Anyone know of any Python shops in Salt Lake City area? I'm about to start looking for a new gig myself... |
Which Ruby on Rails Book? | terrellm: Last Fall I bought Agile Web Development with Rails (http://pragprog.com/titles/rails3/agile-web-development-with...) and found it to be very helpful in transitioning from .Net to Rails. Based on how you describe your experience, you would do fine with this book.There are a few more basic books, however, I d... |
Database with country names down to the city, etc. | jacquesm: hey Wenbert,I've got one, let me dig it up for you, just a moment.edit:Ok, ready for download, it's a mysql dump so you can simply read it back in to any mysql server:http://autotagger.com/geoinfo.dump.gz41 Megabytes, 2.67 million towns & cities, fields are country, region,name,accented name,latitude,longitud... |
Which Ruby on Rails Book? | awa: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/55574/learning-ruby-on-ra...http://stackoverflow.com/questions/83784/rails-books |
Where are all the Python jobs? | gurtwo: I work at a major (the biggest?) telecom equipment provider. For a couple of years, I've been doing ad-hoc Python scripts (say, 3000+ lines) to interact with network nodes, based on customer requests. So yes, there is room for professional, non-web related Python. I try to push the language for more development... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | enki: we're definitely hiring experienced programmers who enjoy python. drop me an email at paul@dropbox.com. (san francisco) |
Database with country names down to the city, etc. | gyardley: The one we used for our analytics product came from here:http://www.geonames.org/export/ |
Database with country names down to the city, etc. | wenbert: I have found the link in HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=530086 |
Where are all the Python jobs? | wehriam: We're hiring - http://jobs.hiidef.com/ - full time, distributed team. We're a consumer web incubator. Feel free to contact me directly at johnwehr@hiidef.com. |
Database with country names down to the city, etc. | bquinn: http://www.geonames.org/ (download area at http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/)Used as the placename source for http://www.dopplr.com among others.HTH,Brendan. |
Database with country names down to the city, etc. | ratsbane: Not exactly to your requirements but related: we use the MaxMind GeoLite city database to correlate IPs with lat/lon and city/country names. It's free (the GeoLite version; the pay version has a little more detail but doesn't cost very much) and simple to update and use.http://www.maxmind.com/app/geolitecity |
Which Ruby on Rails Book? | scorchin: In all honesty, read through _why's (poignant) guide to ruby first to understand the basics of Ruby and read some cool comics along the way.Once you're happy you've got a good footing in Ruby (will only take an afternoon+evening to read and try the examples) you can go for one of the many "Rails" books that a... |
What's the best place to start? | RiderOfGiraffes: It depends on what you want to do. Do you just want directly marketable skills? Then learn PHP, Perl, Java, JavaScript, C++, Ruby or Python.On the other hand, if you want to increase your personal skills then learn something radically different. A variety of Lisp such as Scheme, Common Lisp or Cloju... |
Where are all the Python jobs? | kaens: I currently do freelance work, and a lot of it has been "write me a little application that helps me search these websites for these terms relevant to the services my business provides". Python is very well suited to such tasks.There seem to be quite a few smaller-to-medium web-shops using python. |
Where are all the Python jobs? | lanstein: At Splunk (SOMA in SF). My email is in my profile. |
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