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I'd say that in the near future it will be possible to use some of the larger, more widely touted features of HTML5 and related tech. Definitely things like canvas and web sockets as most modern browsers support those now in some form and it looks as if even IE 10 will support web sockets.

The way I see some of the other things: They're coming along, slowly. It will probably be awhile before you're able to use many of the new browser APIs or things like WebGL without some (many?) hacks to ensure that things work properly in all browsers.

This is a great question. On our last project we mostly got feedback from close friends (one even did a usability study as a class project!) and attempted to get feedback via random posts on the internet.

We've been working on something new recently and are nearing the point of finding early adopters to take feedback and iterate. While we have some people lined up, I'd love to hear what others do.

A common case seems to be be some sort of 'Donate' link or an optional paid version (app store style) for those that wish to support the developer.

The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/tangled/

Chrome 15+ supports CSP. In 15 it uses an old syntax I believe but if you use 16+ then you should be able to use the same headers as in Firefox.

I didn't realize FF had CSP working as well. Thanks!

I sent some details and a few screenshots for you.

The dialog to "Tell Columbus more about you" never loaded for me with Firefox.

I saw a graph for the link on this post but tried a number of other functions and did not see graphs.

I also enjoy creating small projects and would not enjoy being in the position of not being able to work on them or not being able to to release them. Even though nobody else may really care about what I do, I enjoy the ability to talk about or write about my projects without worry of losing writes to them or being fired.

I'm still a student so I haven't held many jobs yet, but of the ones that I have I have always been able to work on my own projects without worry. What I work on while at work or in the time I say that I will be working becomes the property of my employer and otherwise I can work on what I please (as long as I don't disclose confidential information).

From what I have observed, it comes down to the values of the company and how they wish to handle this issue. It is possible to find work at a company that is fine with you working on other projects on your own time (open source or otherwise). You may also be able to negotiate it in the terms of your employment or even be able to find a company willing to pay you to work on open source projects.

On the other hand, there are companies that really don't want you working on your own projects. I suppose that there are people that are okay with this or want to work at these companies enough that they are willing to sacrifice that freedom.

These are mainly observations of both of my personal experiences and those of people I know for whatever they're worth but I do believe you can find a job where your projects are not an issue.

I'd just like to point out that Amazon didn't use the Android Market for the Fire but used their own ecosystem (whether you want to argue that they built the Amazon app store for the purpose of putting it on their own devices is another story). So they didn't actually use the existing Android sales/distribution ecosystem.

I can testify that an EC2 micro (free tier) instance stands up to some level of traffic as long as your site is built well.

It is also easy to scale that instance in the case that you need even more capacity and are willing to pay a bit more for the expected high traffic time period.

It's something I've always been interested in although I don't have the flexibility in my schedule to make it work.

From what the accounts I've read, It provides some benefit in the short term however it doesn't seem sustainable in the long term (think months or years).

We used it for our new product and it enabled us to write a usable layout with good looking elements really quickly.

We're likely to move away from it in the future but it was really helpful as we were starting out.

I'm especially looking forward to trying the new interface to Twisted and the gen module. I was about to write some async interfaces to things that are currently not - these new modules look like they'll be helping me out quite a bit.

If I remember correctly, this was presented at A2NewTech [ http://www.a2newtech.org/ ] a few months back (I don't remember which month). They had a good demo and I really like what they're trying to do.

I wish there was a little bit of a better way to do side by side comparisons between Google Street View and the submitted photos. I'd prefer some sort of side by side vew than the fade in/out method it has right now. I'm not sure I have any ideas on how to make that better, for now.

E.g.: http://whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/42.278652,-83.73908...

Great job guys!

Great article. It's a good reminder that you don't need funding and a huge idea to get a side project going.

Thanks for writing this!

I guess the first one that comes to mind would be Twilio.

I'd say learning OpenGL would be a good thing. The OpenGL ES 2.0 spec is supported on both iOS and Android and you can write in C++ for both. It might be more practical use some engine, but if you want to understand what is happening under the covers then this is the best way to do it. Plus, shaders are really powerful.

Hope that helps!

Edit: Here's a tutorial that I've been going through myself recently. It's taught on a desktop but everything is applicable to mobile as well. http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Tab...

I think this would be an interesting twist on the "slowban" from the article. It would certainly impede argumentative behavior.

An open source project called ThinkUp is trying to do something similar to this. However, right now you have to host your own copy.

http://thinkupapp.com/

Where are you based out of? At least here in the Ann Arbor/Detroit area the demand for good developers/interns is huge, and it seems most people that want a software job around here have one.

My best advice would be try to get involved in local startup/entrepreneurship events if you have such things. Connect with the community, in my experience everyone is happy to talk to others about what they're working on - they won't bite :). Talk to people about their needs and your skills. Good luck!

This isn't my project but something that some people I know are trying to get going. I think they are almost shooting for a dating site type feel - I've had the process of finding a cofounder refered to as dating (with the hackers as the women in this analogy).

It is early but I believe they're trying to get user feedback so they can iterate. As it says on the site this was built at a startup weekend event. They can't improve the UI and features without having users providing feedback.

I agree they could have more fine grained control of location, although I believe that MA would be covered by the Eastern US region.

For things like files Alfred does have verbs.

examples:

    open report.pdf - opens in default pdf application

    find report.pdf - opens directory in finder

Take a look around in the preferences, while it doesn't have all the features of Quicksiver, you'll be surprised.

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Nice, I like the interactivity. I realize it would make the chart really cluttered, but I wish there was a button to show all of the workflow arrows at once.

He came to Michigan to speak a few weeks back and he recommended to me a presentation from Dave McClure that covered some of the same stuff. It's pretty jam packed full of info but really useful none the less.

There's a few of these floating around, this is the most recent one I could find: http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pir...

Great, also look into a2geeks for more local meetups: http://a2geeks.org/display/geek/Groups

One group of particular interest to people here might be http://www.a2newtech.org/ (monthly meetups with presentations of new startups and startup ideas).

It might be late for the larger companies who do hiring through school via career fairs and such. However, I have a few friends who are still talking with some small to mid size startups about internships. It seems to me that the smaller companies don't follow the same intern hiring schedule (or the students that didn't get offers from Facebook, Google, etc are now exploring other options).

This is a welcome improvement! Much more detailed than the spreadsheet I've been keeping of downloads over time.

I did notice that the data they're providing is only going back until December. Are other people noticing this too?

Yes of course not cloud in particular, but web services in general. It just gave me pause because if Google messed this up, how many other services with less man power that we trust with our data have similar vulnerabilities?

I met Jon a few weeks ago and we talked about the possibility of this exploit. At the time I didn't believe that the folks at Google would miss something like this.

It just goes to show you can't be too careful when interacting with today's cloud services.