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Setfive Consulting - www.setfive.com ashish [at] setfive [dot] com
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adatta02··on Choose Postgres queue technology
This is more or less how graphile, https://github.com/graphile/worker is implemented.
adatta02··on Ask HN: Where did you find your startup's accountant/bookkeeper?
Botkeeper (https://www.botkeeper.com/) might be a good fit. Saves you time recruiting an individual, more cost effective, and they never take a vacation.
adatta02··on Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?
Check out https://www.stattleship.com/
adatta02··on The Bootstrapper's Bargain
Yup, this was happening in Kendall Sq in Cambridge for awhile until the city quietly asked everyone to move - http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2012/04/2_...

2 bd w/ living room apartments were cheaper than office space across the street.

adatta02··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2013)
Setfive Consulting - Cambridge, MA (Central Sq.) Full time, full stack LAMP engineer

About the gig:

At a high level, you’ll be joining our team as a junior engineer to work with our clients to tackle their problems and help them achieve their business goals. In doing so, you’ll get the opportunity to work with a diverse set of clients and be involved in projects at every stage of their life cycle. In addition, you’ll be expected to manage your own projects, interact professionally with clients, and deliver quality code on schedule.

Experience and Skills:

- 1-2 years developing code on the LAMP stack w/ modern PHP (v5.2+)

- Experience building MVC driven web applications using a modern framework would be a plus

- Familiarity with MySQL

- Javascript with either jQuery (preferred) or Prototype

- HTML/CSS

- Source control, preferably git

- Previous experience interacting with clients would be a definite plus

Compensation/Perks: - Depending on experience, market rate with an additional performance bonus.

- End of year bonus based on overall revenue

- Paid health care

- 401(k)

- Open schedule – set your own hours

- Generous paid time off

- Personal development time to experiment with new technologies or work on your own projects

Interesting? Shoot us an email at hiring@setfive.com

adatta02··on Some tech predictions for 2013
The NFL actually has it's own network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Network They have a couple of specialty programs like "NFL Red Zone" which shows every football game simultaneously, something which regular channels (ABC, NBC, Fox) can't do because of licensing restrictions.
adatta02··on Kindle Fire HD: Much Better Than Original Kindle Fire
For what its worth, you can side load APKs on an unlocked Kindle just like any other Android device. Obviously that still doesn't get around not having access to Google's own apps like Gmail though.
adatta02··on What Twitter Bootstrap Really Is
I wouldn't advocate it as a rule of thumb but in my experience agencies end up producing things like http://boloco.com/ which if you started with Bootstrap you'll end up spending most of your time fighting against it.

As you pointed out, a CSS framework would certainly help but I'd argue in that case you might be better of starting with something else.

adatta02··on PHP Annotations Are a Horrible Idea
Your second example is actually how Doctrine 1.2+ works. You could define your models in a YAML file which was then transformed into PHP classes at runtime.

That of course, leads to the issue of having your configuration separate from your implementation/code.

adatta02··on Exploiting filepicker.io
HTTPs would work but also if you scroll down a bit and look at the policy JSON (http://pastie.org/private/tkr7iyqzqrezmmqazbfijw), it has an "expiration" field which would mitigate the type of attack outlined in the parent post since after a period of time the signature would no longer be valid.
adatta02··on Exploiting filepicker.io
Sure - check out http://aws.amazon.com/articles/1434

What you're interested in is:

"signature" - "A signature value that authorizes the form and proves that only you could have created it. This value is calculated by signing the Base64-encoded policy document with your AWS Secret Key, a process that I will demonstrate below."

adatta02··on Judge Posner decries "excessive" copyright and software patent protections
The full piece is an interesting read on the Becker-Posner blog as well - http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2012/09/do-patent-and-copy...
adatta02··on Do Web Developers Ever Learn?
fyi, your header menu is breaking for me - http://i.imgur.com/nstFX.png - Firefox 15.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.
adatta02··on GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
Potentially not, many MTA relays will retry a couple of times before completely giving up.

The sender might also get a delivery failure message from the relay.

adatta02··on Your public IP address, via Google Search
Also http://whatismyip.akamai.com/ for a completely clean "get my IP" page
adatta02··on Ask PG: Why not take YC public like Berkshire Hathaway?
GSV Capital is doing something similar - http://gsvcap.com/about/

NASDAQ:GSVC

adatta02··on Show HN: MAXGIF, endless stupidly big GIFs
Add one part http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/random and we're off to the races!
adatta02··on Starbucks Style Guide
This jab is awesome "SiteCore has a mind of its own. It will automatically add a shape attribute to links."
adatta02··on Geocoder.ca sued by Canada Post for their open database of postal codes
Do you know how accurate that is? Every time I've seen census zip code data it comes with a big disclaimer that its only accurate as of the last census. The USPS changes zip codes at will.
adatta02··on HipChat acquired by Atlassian
^ this - I've just given up trying to get TweetDeck running on 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10
adatta02··on Ask HN: Who else keeps a secret diary of startup ideas?
My buddy Andrew keeps http://pleasestealthisidea.com/
adatta02··on Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA
I think the "STOP SOPA" banners on Twitter are pretty effective and if Google added one of those it would be a strong statement - http://www.blackoutsopa.org
adatta02··on Ask HN: How many logic gates would it take to implement a small Lisp language?
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3583 might be a good starting point assuming that an implementation of lambda calculus qualifies as a LISP (it should).
adatta02··on Ask HN: How can I convince my co-founders not to use a LAMP stack and should I?
Well for one, you can use any client side tools you want since they will be server language agnostic. And as others have pointed out, having to learn a new language/framework/etc is going to introduce another huge risk.

At the end of the day, a beautifully written app with the latest and greatest technology with zero users isn't going to help you build a business.

adatta02··on Facebook security hole allows viewing of private photos
Check out Dewars White Label - http://www.epinions.com/reviews/pr-Dewars_White_Label_Scotch... One of the better blended scotches I've had.

Granted it's pompous but if you're going to spend the money a single malt is probably a good investment. Stop by a quality store and they'll be able to pick one out to fit your tastes.

adatta02··on Ask HN: Can you recommend a path to developing on linux?
This is going to be an unpopular answer but you could take your .NET skillset and start developing applications running on Mono - http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page - now and then see where the path takes you.

Best of luck!

adatta02··on Clojure on Hadoop: A New Hope
Check out Hive - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home - it uses a "SQL like" syntax to let you run ad-hoc queries across data in a Hadoop+HDFS cluster. We're using it to run reporting nightly on ~10gb of data and are pretty happy with it.
adatta02··on Tru.ly launches free verification API
Thanks for the feedback. Updated the copy to make that a bit more clear.
adatta02··on Tru.ly launches free verification API
We're only using Facebook to pre-fill fields so that users don't need to manually enter their first name, last name, birthday.

All three "levels" use the same dataset to verify the information. We use a third party provider that provides a look up service against a mix of credit and government issue data.

Would love any additional feedback!

adatta02··on Eight years ago today, an RC plane became the first to fly across the Atlantic
I read this an hour or so ago, it's from http://dlewis.net/nik which is a surprisingly good email newsletter
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