jakedahn

If you've got that much money saved, you should be working for yourself, making awesome applications and changing the world.

Don't worry about a gap in your resume, you'll probably make something notable on your own that could carry your career/life into a new direction.

I've actually already been experimenting with salt, seems like a decent option for a multi-node configuration setup.

Running OpenStack locally on your linux machine and interacting with it via an API may help with some of the networking complexities you're running into.

Is your project open source? I'd be interested to chat about how you're approaching the multi-node support in your stuff.

Please shoot me an email or send a tweet: jake@markupisart.com / @jakedahn on twitter

I would recommend that you rethink/refactor your authentication choices.

From a usability perspective it is kind of a pain to be required to login with two separate accounts to use a service.

I recommend that instead of using google accounts at all, you just use the oauth authentication api from DropBox: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/start/authentication#pyth...

You should be able to achieve the same thing you're doing now with google+dropbox with just dropbox.

I got a degree like this from the art institutes international minnesota. It was far more frontend-web centric but we did have the chance to dive deeper into things like processing, arduino, and openframeworks. However most of the students werent that bright, but the faculty was fantastic and curriculum was solid.

I think the bigest difference between 'creative programmers' and programmers from a traditional computer science background is the perspective in which they look at code, and engineering problems. 'Creative programmers' approach things with an emphasis on the discovery process which, I think, allows them to understand the things they are working on in more of an organic context. Whereas people from a traditional computer science background tend to approach things with a systematic view of the things they are working on.

The difference can look sublte, but it is real. I think having an organic understanding of a product enables 'creative programmers' to build an end to end product (from user interaction to the inner workings), whereas traditional computer science programmers will specialize on a single aspect.

I stayed at Rainbow Mansion a while back, and the calibre of people it attracted was fantastic. SF/The Valley need more hacker hostels like this.

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yeah - it was kind of a pain, because it is such a useful pattern when dealing with dropbox. Super glad this was implemented.

Why not ask for feedback on HN?