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After my internship I worked part-time while finishing up my last year of school, then joined full-time after graduating.

I joined Khan Academy as an intern in summer 2012 and have been with the company ever since. We're not going to top Facebook, but I can assure you that we compensate interns competitively. Given the massive contributions that interns like Elizabeth have made, nothing else would make sense to me.

What do you find deficient about hterm?

What's cool about our industry is that interns can contribute a lot, on or soon after day one.

By the same turn, it's also much easier to propose and make corrections. If I discover an error in my computer graphics textbook, I'd have to...call the publisher and see if they can fix it in the next edition, I guess. Perhaps the textbook industry's fixation on keeping students buying the newest editions of their books has actual benefits...

Marking the heap's region of memory as non-executable improves security. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_space_protection

Saw it on Twitter and had to submit, y'all are pretty cool.

What traffic from 60 Minutes looks like: http://bjk5.com/post/30813320623/what-traffic-from-60-minute...

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

You're correct--because we have a Premier account, which anyone else can obtain too: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/premier/

There's nothing about Khan Academy's application (or any other customer's) that would somehow immunize it from platform-wide serving issues.

Yep. We (Khan Academy) have a lot riding on App Engine, and they are supportive when we run into issues with the platform.

I'm talking about the internships offered by many tech companies to college students, which are always paid (often very competitively). I'm a student, and have benefited from these myself, but I'd imagine that from an employer's perspective hosting interns is a relatively low-risk way to get to know some potential full-time candidates pretty well.

Whither internships? The best way to find out if you like working with someone is to go ahead and work with them for a little bit.

I don't remember specifically, but that'd be my guess. Non-root users in containers have been fine for a while now.

Yes.

Container-based virtualization is already here, but without user namespaces root privilege in the container implies root privilege in the host. That's no longer the case; interesting times indeed.

"Pending request latency arises when all of your application's available instances are too busy to serve new requests. When this happens, incoming requests go to a pending request queue." https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/pe...

Pending latency is exposed as a metric on the App Engine Dashboard.

Indeed, while having a global request queue is good, the scheduler's one-size-fits-all behavior can sometimes be suboptimal. Thankfully there are several ways in which it can be tuned: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/pe...

For what it's worth, Google App Engine uses a so-called "intelligent" global request queue/scheduler. In most circumstances it's quite effective.

I could make myself remember to special-case you fairly easily, but I really don't want to have to special-case anyone. That's why I love iMessage--it's a progressive enhancement, not a separate app. When that breaks down, like when I can't fall back to SMS when sending from my Mac, I get annoyed.

(Khan Academy dev here.) The datastore being a black box is a slight concern to me personally, but the really great tradeoff is letting Google handle the responsibility of keeping our persistence layer, among many other services, up and running. They're quite good at doing that.

I interviewed with a Twitter search engineer and he told me that that's because their in-memory search index is not big enough hold all tweets ever posted. On top of that, their efforts to scale up the index are counteracted by the ever-increasing volume of tweets posted per day.

function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {...}

How clever of them.

Khan Academy video that uses Illinois as an example of what happens when pension obligations are underfunded: http://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/american-civics/v/illi...

I don't know, but either way it's much snappier.

No, we don't plan to. Before every hackathon we get these delusions of grandeur about evolving our upcoming hack into a thriving business, but the morning after we're always left with, well, a big hack.

Thanks man! Now how are you still awake?

At my internship last summer, several devs were partial to those super-clacky keyboards one can buy. I can't stand working without (or even with) headphones in places like cafes when loud conversations are going on around me, but I found the keyboard sounds very easy to tune out.