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You just jogged my memory about WoW (Windows on Windows) :)

It was in the works after Full Throttle's success, but was cancelled. I don't know the reasons.

Back up. Time to migrate!

My sympathies to any workers displaced by these events, but I'm happy. Parse is a bad product: it has weird quirks in normal usage but most importantly scales abysmally. I'm thrilled to have ammunition to justify moving away from it. Love love love the open source angle however, and wish more sunsetting products go this route.

Concord, MA USA (soon Cambridge, MA USA) KAYAK Software Corporation

Mobile engineers, iOS

Hi all. Kayak is a world leader in travel search and our iOS app is #1 in the App Store. Help us keep it that way by building out exciting new features and relentlessly polishing our existing ones. You should have iOS and network experience along with a deep desire to grow and perfect your skill sets. We have a very small team we are looking to grow, so talented juniors all the way to principal architects are welcome. We have a flat organization, give people tons of responsibility and autonomy, pay well, and enjoy lots of perks.

If this sounds good feel free to reach me directly at mdurgavich+hn@kayak.com

Two great points. I'll address.

My issue with masonry is that it's a paper thin abstraction over auto layout. There's some nice syntactic sugar, like chained calls to layout rules. Ultimately I think there's room for some containers that give up flexibility in exchange for simplicity in code and mental model

Thoughts? Does anyone care?

That's all you need to do to make money on stocks, or bonds, or any other speculative trade. The trick is being consistent :)

There is a difference between "shit talk" and rooting out personal contact information to then send death or rape threats. I don't think anyone expects an experience akin to high tea with the Queen, but no one deserves to be threatened. Everyone, consciously or not, wants respect.

It's simple in theory but hard in practice. It likely has to come from guidance. As a parent, I expect I will have to teach her how to engage with people both on and offline.

There's a reason we force kids to line up and shake the opposing team's hands after a soccer game.

Realizing you had more options at your disposal because you were not submitting to the App Store was a cool hack.

Are there places where "birds of a feather" congregate? Forums, lists, etc? I'm excited to tap the wisdom of others as I get my business off the ground.

For the same reason dating couples breakup: because something changes, externally or internally, that makes staying together less desirable than splitting up. I've been married for 3+ years, and been with my spouse for almost 10. We have a child. There is, to put it lightly, momentum that keeps us together along with societal pressures (a dad married to the mom is superior to the dad divorced from the mom, all other things equal.)

I'm not posting to comment on whether this pressure is good or bad, but merely to point out it exists. We live in a culture that celebrates weddings and proposals and scandalizes divorce (look at any tabloid for copious examples), but has little to say about the tenure between.

The trend of dating long term, co-habitation, and finally "tying the knot" late in the relationship is an interestingly recent development in America. I'm curious to see how the data on US divorce evolves as this trend matures. Most of my peers (I'm late Gen X) and Millenials I know are following this pattern.

I suspect it is a direct reaction to generations raised in divorced households, but I have no proof of this.

EDIT: small clarification.

Plz -> please.

Can we get net-speak out of titles please?

Oh BlackBerry. What are we going to do with you?

FWIW, developing on their BlackBerry 10 series phones was an absolute joy. Great hardware and lots of options for realizing apps.

I won't be surprised if we get to the point where OS updates can be done seamlessly in the background without user prompting. I also won't be surprised if Apple will be the first vendor to sell us on it.

I'm pretty confused about the value this product provides. Anyone care to enlighten?

Not saying he is wrong, but almost any pattern can be traced if the lower and upper bounds are picked carefully. For those interested in trading with technicals: how can you know where in the cycle the equity stands?

A reason this disparity sprigs to mind has to do with age. I'm reminded that the translation of sophomore from the Greek is "wise fool": it's possible high school students at the ages of 15-18 are more willing to plow ahead with ideas that others think through and then dismiss. Of course, there are famous contrarian ideas that flourished and have changed the world, and most of us know that execution of an idea, along with pivoting, is a road to success. But I would never form nor invest in a company that hands out umbrellas when it rains for the same reason I don't sell Gatorade at little league baseball games: limited, fixed market, no barrier of entry, etc. Isn't it more likely an MBA considers ideas akin to this, thinks through the angles, and then discards them many times over, such that it appears to the outside observer they are timorous?

This is good advice.

If CS intrigues you, sign up for the most advanced courses you can handle. Also, be sure not to shortchange yourself when it comes to a foundation. Lots of people can "write code" without a good understanding of datastructures and algorithms. Get as much there as you can, as it only pays dividends as you grow your software skills.

Another advantage of having a headstart is you can diversify your education. I'd recommend some electrical engineering / hardware classes to complement software; understanding memory access patterns, CPU caches, multiple cores, busses, interrupts, and basic circuits are all useful things to have in your back pocket.

Be curious! Be proactive! Reach out to professors you like or that other students rave about. Trust me, they are flattered when students take an interest in them and their work. Build those relationships as they can lead to:

- independent projects in a mentor/mentee capacity

- research opportunities

- internships

- teaching assistant opportunities (I got paid $15 / hour to assist students with assignments. I once did this for a class I was taking alongside them because the prof needed help and he trusted me and my skills.)

A relationship with a professor is such a good idea I'd say it's essential. You will one day need a letter of reference for something, and you want it to come from faculty who knows you, likes you, knows your interest, etc and can write glowingly and convincingly of your skills and personality. Too many people I knew hit up someone they took a class from and got an A in, and it was a superficial and shallow thing that didn't really get them that far.

I'll stop here, but feel free to message me for more if interested.

Makes me wish I had taken a class with him while at Tufts. It's a hard truth that you can usually plot a good course through your university experience AFTER you are finished.

Thousands showed up in Dorchester on Monday night to mourn the death of one of their residents.

This. Exactly.

As a resident of a neighboring town not technically on "lockdown", residents nevertheless acted that way. Streets were empty. Businesses closed. It was very very quiet. This was obviously done by choice, not mandate. Yes, there was some fear driving this, as a police officer a few miles away was killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time (cop killings do not occur often in the Boston-area suburbs). However, a large motivator was solidarity with other towns on lockdown. We really wanted to give the police every chance they could to catch this guy. The value judgement was made by private business owners and employers to support that effort.

Not to be pedantic, but it's over 150 people injured in addition to the dead.

Why does the author's attitude to the reader vary from condescending to reverential to dismissive and back? So weird.

I've been thinking a lot about radio as I've watched my hometown market of Boston - once vibrant and varied - consolidate under the big boys. One path forward is to swing the pendulum the other way: offer hyper localized, focused content relevant to the geography. As a lover of rock music, a station that plays emerging artists from Allston and Berkeley School of Music would have me over the moon. College radio does this to an extent, but they still have to contend with crippling costs.

Hypothetical: if this balanced product was offered for $10 straight up, would you buy it?

This article's argument is, in a word, crap. The author wants to compare efficiency of cars vs. bikes on the basis of fuel costs (after a scattershot discussion of CO2 emissions from those aerobically respirating vs a bus spitting out fumes), then cites fast food as a baseline fuel source. We can game this anyway we want: why not eat 7 bananas, which are $0.20 at my local market, and claim differently? And let's conveniently forget that EVERYONE needs food, regardless of how they expend or conserve their caloric "fuel". I'd like to see a more scientific analysis of carbo emissions of bicyclists vs cars vs public busses. I strongly suspect bikes come up with high marks in the average case.

Putting the kiddie in "scriptkiddie" I guess.