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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 hard worker when I have a project to work towards. I'd be happy to take either a paid or an unpaid internship, although unpaid internships could be a problem if they required me to relocate outside of Tennessee because I don't know that I could afford to find housing. |
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 you to 1) have a career and 2) meet people that are passionate about the industry and are like minded and 3) yes, you'll see more and be exposed to more and different parts of the industry (there are co's out here doing great in areas you'd never normally be exposed to).But if you want lifestyle, Australia is probably great. If you want to be on the world stage, well, SV is it. |
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 currently do freelance web development. My email is: topqadmin [at] gmail [dot] com |
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 document that said "these are the features you asked for, here's how to provide them in a user-centric manner."As your client apparently has the IA and graphics person on their side, you may be more constrained. I'd still put forward some ideas, in a conversational manner. Two reasons for this. First, maybe I have a better idea than them. Second, it shows that I'm more than a code monkey (or a bunch of code monkeys calling itself a consultancy).The work product should include some idea of how you're going to attack the problem, and a sense of how long it'll take (fixed bids are for the devil), and prioritization based on client requirements and prerequisites that those requirements may have. |
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 value to the company. There is a stipend paid for the completion of the summer program. |
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, but I don't see it in the current list. You might just use 'text' as the language type and then use one of the other options to highlight lines and such.You can see a complete description here:http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/ |
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 an iPhone, but I have no strong feelings toward Apple's new product and don't fully understand those who do. Perhaps you'd be happier if you took the announcement less seriously?But yeah, no outrage here. |
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-blown computers. They're neither powerful enough nor comfortable enough for serious work. Of course, the situation could change dramatically a few years from now, but I'm sure we'll figure something out when the time comes. For now, get a Mac and have a blast hacking it :)2. If you think Apple's touch devices have taken the world by storm and everything else pales in comparison, I humbly suggest you come to New Delhi and count the number of iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad owners. Most of the world just can't afford to spend cash on shiny entertainment devices. People are still going to buy and use computers. You can still write apps for Mac OS X/Linux/Windows. The world has not yet ended.3. Most of the apps you find on the AppStore could conceivably be written as webapps. Why bother with ObjC and Cocoa when you can just use JavaScript+HTML5? A large percentage of apps just pull data from a server and display it in pretty boxes. On the other hand, if you're writing a game, you're already a "special case" and have to play by Apple's rules -- which are not different from what Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony impose on their developers. So, for most of your programming needs, JavaScript+HTML5 should be enough.4. Have we forgotten that these days, Apple are an entertainment and content distribution company who just happen to make computers? Apple are not marketing the iPad as a general-purpose computer; they want to sell it as an entertainment device. Since it's a niche device, in the grand scheme of things, the closed nature of the iPhone OS doesn't really matter.This list doesn't do much to allay the major concerns of the tech community: the iPad is, in fact, a full-blown computer that is hopelessly locked-in by Apple and their delusional policies, that it could be much more than just an entertainment device, that we have something radically different from the traditional model of computing but cannot exploit the thousands of possibilities this gives us. This list is just an indication that we mustn't lose hope yet. Let the guys in Cupertino figure out when - if ever - they want to loosen their grip on the iPhone OS ecosystem. In the meantime, we'll just write web apps :)EDIT: In a previous comment, I mentioned I don't want to write JavaScript. It's true. But I can put up with JS if it means I don't have to sell out to Apple. |
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 area where a SQL database is failing you, and where the weaknesses aren't deal breakers.Of course I'm biased, and tend to lean towards using SQL/relational databases... FathomDB is all about trying to eliminate the pain points of running a (My)SQL database. I feel a lot of the NoSQL marketing hype is picking on weaknesses of MySQL (rather than relational databases per-se), and so we're thinking about how to make MySQL better, and we don't think it's a good idea to abandon the relational model entirely. After all, our industry started with NoSQL back in the 60s, and there were good reasons for adopting the relational model 30 years ago! |
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 everything to ensure the ACID properties, which for the majority of cases, is the most important part. |
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 allow you to store more)
Plus :- You cannot possibly put off going NoSQL until you have further established yourself in the marketplaceFor Gridspy, we have live data and I expect large quantities of pretty flat data. It makes sense to stream the data directly to the user via messaging rather than polling through a database. Plus, I plan to store large quantities of high resolution data in a specialised database or dumped to disk - it will be much smaller and simpler without the indexing information since I don't need to search it, only slice it.See http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2009/09/database-meet-realtime-dat... |
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 arrays and hashes as "columns"We also use Redis in a few crucial places, because of its really good support for lists (queues), and sets, besides, just its blazingly raw speed.Downsites? Yes. Many rails-style plugins don't work well. But an upside is that we're forced to write leaner code and not depend too much on those.Another downside, MongoDB is super-fast, but is still a work in progress in some places, and the ORM we're using (mongo_mapper) is somewhat of a moving target right now.But hey, thats what happens when you're on the bleeding edge.MongoDB:
* build-in replication
* basic sharding
* embedded documents
* very very fast |
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 most of my projects the ability to create arbitrarily complex queries using joins is essential for rapidly iterating and trying out new ideas.Instead, I'd suggest using NOSQL stuff to complement SQL. Songkick use MongoDB as a fast caching layer for example: http://effectif.com/ruby/manor/denormalising-your-rails-appl... - and I've found Redis incredibly useful as a way of handling write-heavy parts of my applications and dealing with requirements to return random elements.One of the most interesting aspects of document stores such as CouchDB is that they are schemaless, which for some problem sets is incredibly powerful - anything where you might be tempted to use key/value pairs in SQL for example. |
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-mo... |
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 nosqleast.com, nosql should be referred to as "not only sql". further he likens the explosion of new systems under the nosql banner of that to the explosion of rdms's in the 1980s and 1990s. i tend to agree. there are a number of solutions out there right now, each approaching nosql from a different angle.watch some of the videos from nosqleast 2009, https://nosqleast.com/ to get a better picture of some of the different options and major players in this area before making a decision as to what nosql solution to base any of your future projects on. |
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 would give you an idea where some of these systems are fitting in. If you check other presentations on MyNoSQL you'll notice that many live systems are using a mixture of RDBMS and NoSQL.:- alex |
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 of them had million dollar + exits or acquisitions, so I COULD have been worth 45-55 million, give or take.My number one challenge in doing anything is not having somebody else to motivate me, or even just tell me what to do. With almost everything I do, I solve the challenges first; the bits that otherwise make the product, or the bits that aren't obviously going to work... once I've built those out, the project is mentally done for me.I will often fail to do the little things, the EASY things even, like building the change password page, or sending an email for account creation, etc. I'm so bad at it, even, that I will often stop after I have figured out HOW to solve the problems, without ever even bothering to actually implement.So yeah, that's why I'm stuck with my 9-to-5. Good question. |
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 the database. Some databases, MySQL for example, have functions that allow the database to display the contents of files off the filesystem. But on the whole, if someone has gained access to your database it does not immediately follow that they have access to your code. Only that you need to tighten up on security.An alternative to hashes, but somewhat more expensive computationally, would be to encrypt the CC number into the database using the public key of a Public/Private encryption scheme (PGP for example). So even if they got hold of your database and the public key they could still not, realistically, decode the CC number. Providing the private key is held securely on another server!It all comes down to what you need to do with the CC numbers. Long ago I worked on some software to track CC fraud for a major store (was a CC number used in store A also being used in store B, it was likely that the card had been cloned as most customers only shopped at their local branch), we used hashes of the numbers. We didn't even need to know who the customer was, everything was driven by electronic till receipts and hashed CC number.Do you need the actual CC numbers or would a hash be equally as usable? |
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 couple days if it were simple.4) Whenever I have >1 concurrent girlfriend, I have trouble separating them. Shutting off the phone sucks. Three girls at once give me so many worries that I wonder why I even bother.5) Getting visas to foreign countries sucks, and air tickets are too expensive. Okay I can live with the ticket prices - my salary is high enough - but the visa humiliations are too much for me. You Americans have no idea.6) The Flash platform is really poorly documented around the edges. I'd love to see something like quirksmode.org for Flash.7) I can't seem to wake up early. |
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 around to realize the database containing credit card numbers isn't there.Most server compromises that I've seen have stayed local to the server - I'm not a security pro; but generally I've seen the server that got knocked over get messed around with, anything on that server was fair game.Beyond that, I'm sure there are other things you should do to protect the database that contains the credit card numbers; but seriously - keep them off your web server. |
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 someone live better. Personally, I am doing pretty well but when i go back to the place where I grew up everywhere I look I see unemployment especially in young people in their 20's. I've spent a great deal of thought towards analyzing why this is. I've come to many conclusions, but in the end I think its an education system that prepared a large body of students for work in industry that was lifted up and handed to computers. So now there is at least one town (and I would imagine there are more) where there are young people eager to find a job. I feel like the internet is a great solution, the local economy may be devastated but the global economy probably still has something for them. Sites like etsy are one step towards this direction. I think if you can find something more specialized, with the principle of self employment. you have something special. |
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.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_...More info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Secu... |
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 it for a couple of weeks and then its back to studying something totally unrelated. This on and off sessions keeps me totally out of shape for programming as I am not able to get good practice. I eagerly wait for the day when I am free to do what I love indefinitely. |
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 lack confidence when talking. I wish I could _talk_ on the net so that I "get" the accent and intonation. The best scenario would be to be able to discuss about things I'm interested in at the same time (startups, programming, etc.). I could actually host a Ventrilo server (anyone interested?) until someone builds an app for that :D |
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 type info, the STL and templates.C is probably a good bit easier to learn, though."the awesome speed of C"Thats a trap. Don't listen to it. Really, by the time you're good enough of a programmer that speed matters, you'll be good enough to make other, seemingly slower, languages fast enough. Most speed is held back because the program simply isn't compute bound. Writing in super efficient highly-optimized assembly isn't going to make a program which blocks reading files or network sockets go any faster. Also, good data structures and algorithms do a lot more for performance than the inherent speed of the language. For example, in another comment I stated that I managed to get a python program take 20 minutes, down from 1.5 hours, by using a tool to translate it to C - but then rewrote the bottleneck in python, with a better data structure, and it ran in 40 seconds (at which point converting it to C actually made it slightly slower).Very few programs really need to be so fast that writing in C is worthwhile and by the time you find your language to be the limiting factor, you should be a much more experienced programmer and picking up C then will be a lot easier.My final advice is to pick a higher level language - Clojure, while fundamentally different from C++ and Java, is a very powerful language with lots of very high level abstractions (and streamlined access to Java code, so your Java skills will translate nicely to Clojure). If you're looking for a more mainstream, easy to learn language, I would suggest Python or Ruby - both of which are great high level languages and will serve you well, even if, in the future, you learn C.[1] http://scapecode.com/?p=107 |
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 Spring, MD) are currently looking for Django/Python people. |
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 on where you want to work. |
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 worth, I post my jobs on Craigslist and at local university offices first, only falling back to the big job boards in a worst-case scenario because as an employer they present a poor signal-noise ratio. |
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 common to find that people are looking for "C++ and Python" or "HTML, Python, SQL and framework."We're not hiring at the moment, but we use Python extensively. Even so, if someone was primarily a Python programmer, without equally strong skills in something else, we wouldn't be able to hire them.As I say, strongly biased, unsupported by statistics, random opinion. |
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 thoughts on it.
I know most of you don't live in such environment, but still you can infer the "agile" scenarios from the waterfall one. In other words, the following waterfall issues can be areas of potential fkups using whatever development model.So, the impact of switching to NoSQL for different waterfall'ish teams:- it changes the way how your data is organized -- mostly it's denormalization and some strategies tied to the specifics of queries you'd have to use most (read: ad hoc strategies). So, it influences the analysis, architects, development & release management.- it changes the way how the db "schema" changes can be introduced. You'd say "there's no schema". Well, it's partly true, but in real life you have to add some metadata information to the underlying db, otherwise your db queries won't run. For example, Cassandra has ColumnFamilies definitions, CouchDB has its view definitions. Somebody has to agree what needs to be changed and then write these changes and maintain it in sync with the codebase. You'd probably need mechanism like Rails migrations to maintain it - you won't get rid of it with the promise "there's no schema". Somebody has to apply such changes to production as well. So, back to the waterfall: it influences analysis, development, release management & operations.- it changes the way how your app scales. The goal of many NoSQL engines is to easily scale horizontally -- this is a big win to operations! But we're not there yet (Cassandra? Maybe MongoDB?), see eg. http://bjclark.me/2009/08/04/nosql-if-only-it-was-that-easy/. Also, if something you need crucially doesn't scale, you have to redesign your app. So the influence is: operations have less work, release management has more work, but in the worst case all the teams have to rework the app.- it allows for some non-standard app behaviours. Eg. CouchDB is excellent at disconnencted operations, meaning: ocasionally synchronizing data between nodes which are mostly offline. It's also called "no master" as opposed to "multi master". No wonder IBM research funded CouchDB development (trying to rewrite Lotus Notes? ;) and also Ubuntu chose it for their Ubuntu One sharing platform. Feature like this is a relief for release mgmt & operations, but can need a lots of work from the architects, analysis & devs.Hope this is useful. I'm considering convincing some BigCorp to use NoSQL in some project and these are the issues I thought of. |
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 dev = 2-3 et al. |
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 looking at your career a little narrowly if you are simply looking for "python jobs" because it doesn't seem like you are willing to challenge yourself.Do a little more personal stretching and you may realize there are more real opportunities than you have previously allowed yourself to notice. |
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 and find their table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software). I can then take that table and import it directly into a Google Spreadsheet, which lets me do better filtering. Hopefully the table on Wikipedia has the fields for the comparison I want. If not, I have to go and fill out the list myself (and then add it to Wikipedia). I then spend the next few days playing around with the short list until I'm satisfied with my choice; then implement.Thats all well and good. But I'm not the IT department! Okay, as a startup, I am, but it isn't core to my business. And I feel like it has got to be a solved problem. How about for inventory tracking? A trouble ticket system? Etc.This shouldn't be that difficult.Asking people what they use certainly helps, but they may or may not have the same requirements.As an app, a better way to use tables on Wikipedia would be great (especially when things are split across multiple tables as the list of wiki software is).(I'm not affiliated, but while writing up my use case, I came across this: http://www.wikimatrix.org ) |
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 for say a CS undergrad student to fill the need, where as for our C++ devs I have a much higher bar of required experience/education. |
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 for python programmers who are not into web programming? |
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 as I had clearly hit some kind of programming-drone buzzword (not one of the candidates foisted unconsentingly on me looked remotely interesting). As a result I wouldn't hire for either skill again - as other posters in this thread have alluded to, it's more about general ability than specific Python experience, especially as Python isn't too challenging to pick up. |
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 the position. |
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 credit card number to see if it comes out the same.It's not just the credit card numbers that are valuable -- it's the combination of credit card number + billing address that are generally required to make a purchase. 30 bit enumeration can require just a few minutes (or even seconds) on modern CPUs and GPUs. So, if you do store them this way, fluff them front and back with random data that you ignore when decoding.What would I do? Make sure the user has a password (Use HMAC/bcrypt to verify password; DO NOT STORE PASSWORD!); When the user logs in, derive key from password using a different HMAC with different salt, and store in memory/session vars only for as long as needed. Use that key to encrypt the credit card number with a symmetric cipher, e.g. AES; make sure to purge these keys from memory/session directory early and often.Advantage: You don't have access to the credit card on record even if you (or a rogue employee) wants to. Active participation from user _required_ to get access to data. If your server is hacked, only credit cards used while a hacker has complete view of traffic are compromised, and not all data stored.Even better: offload to payment processor and make it their problem.Really. |
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 didn't want to read 500 pages just to learn how to build a blog.I also recommend watching some of the Peep Code videos as they go more into depth on specific topics. |
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,longitude,verified,current,prefered and population.The 'verified', 'current' and 'prefered' fields are all internal to an application I wrote so you can lose those safely.I've also added tables with countries, country aliases and regions.edit2: holy guacamole, easy guys, that server is only on a 100 Mbit uplink.I figured there'd be one download... |
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 developments, but it's hard to convince managers. I prefer the tools I make to the standard, corporate fat applications we sell for millions. If anyone is hiring on those skills, I'll be glad to hear offers. |
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 are likely to be recommended here.http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/Crunchy Bacon! |
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 Clojure would be one option. Another option would be OCaml or Haskell. These are truly mind-expanding and will help you in the future. |
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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