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I dove for 9 years, through college, and the trick I always found is to just do it as much as you can. The more time you spend at 3 meter (or 10 meter) the less fear you have. As an example, went to a practice about a year ago after not diving for 3 years and it took me a lot of time bouncing the board to get comfortable throwing dives again.

Spending time higher up also makes coming down to a lower height that much better. Train on 10M for a full day and then come back down to 3M and it seems like nothing. Was a good strategy to break your fear. One of my coaches (from Hungary) her father was her coach and used to dangle her and the other new recruits from the platform at a young age to break their fears. Not a strategy I would use with my kids, but worked for her (a 1988 Olympian.)

Great post. Felt similar sentiments and serendipitously was given a chance to travel to Africa and beyond for the good part of a year. So took it! http://engineerwithoutacause.com/without-a-cause.html

Any idea why Redhat/Fedora are on a 3 year decline? Seems like Ubuntu is taking their market share (looking at yearly graph)

One extremely useful method that I almost never see in tutorials is

    >>> logging.exception("an exception happened here and will be printed")
    

This will print out the message and then the full formatted error traceback. In many of my old projects I built a whole string formatting mess that would print out and format exceptions and just recently discovered that logging.exception() does that all for you.

Not something I had thought about initially, but agree that they are missing the "what the user sees" view similar to how Google lets you see what different searches look like with your ads.[1]

[1] Google AdPreview tool https://adwords.google.com/d/AdPreview

I think there is only one thing you can do: Leave a negative review about the place on Yelp.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/yelp-san-francisco

Is it just me or is there a new "superior-than-the-others" NoSQL solution every week?

I like the idea of periodically taking a break from Googling or always knowing a fact. For me doing crosswords is a great exercise in this, sure you could Google the clues and know right away, but its much more satisfying wondering the answer yourself and eventually getting it by using other letters gained from different clues.

However, if this became the de facto standard way of doing things, living as our ancestors did, I feel like society would regress. The invention of the search engine was to fill a human need to organize the world's digital information in an easily retrievable format. Libraries have had card catalogs for hundreds of years: just curious, would you argue for going back to the times that pre-date those systems? Sure there might be a more random discovery of books just aimlessly walking through shelf after shelf, but what if you needed that book asap?

According to this HN post, you will be green for 5 days from when you created your account.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2456602

Welcome to HN

I think (s)he is referring to his/her username being green.

Funny how they addressed the fact that its from Oracle and there might be some hidden gimmick. At least they are self-aware. I want to not be skeptical and believe but I can't.

Took one month to integrate CyberSource payment infrastructure....Integrated Stripe into our stack in a few hours. Congrats!

Would be interested in trying it and giving feedback but not for $20. I think most people here would agree. Screenshots look great though.

just used this to follow/unfollow automagically. its against Twitter ToS but every now and then never hurt anyone.

holy grail will be to be able to target ads to someones glasses right after the get in a car crash. "Need a Lawyer? Blink Twice"

now it all makes sense. they released the self-driving car first so that i can now click on ads instead of driving. genius

Blog Post here: http://buzzientdev.posterous.com/language-detection-of-socia...

article says "available on Netflix right now in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, UK and Ireland."

Expedia is around as well

A few reasons why Buzzient is in Boston and staying put:

http://www.buzzient.com/blog/why-buzzient-moved-to-the-innov...

One of the main ones just being Geography: We are close to tons of great schools for hiring talent and there is customer access as well, with so many other Fortune 1000 companies around, in Finance especially. If only the investors took as much risk as those in CA and in NYC!

What about the value of diffusing information from one network to another. My social graph on Facebook is very different from my social graph on LinkedIn.

Boston, MA (South Station / Innovation District)

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Boston, MA (Ft Point Channel / Innovation District)

Buzzient Inc.

Harvests, analyzes and integrates social media data with enterprise applications. We are a SaaS application that also has the ability to push data to other apps to allow social customer service, erp and lead gen to happen (in enterprise apps such as Salesforce, Oracle CRM, Siebel, Interactive Intelligence)

We are a Python, jQuery, Linux shop and use the following libs and tools for dev: SQLAlchemy, Boto, Werkzeug, Fabric, Buildbot, Selenium, Git, JIRA, SVN. Developers work on DevOps, scrapers, NLP algorithms, testing tools and our front end. You get to do it all. The following skill set is also recommended http://i.imgur.com/wBhlk.gif

Our Dev Team is less than 5 FT and we are looking to grow. See our job posting here http://bit.ly/pbvtFe

Buzzient Inc.

Boston, MA

Harvests, analyzes and integrates social media data with enterprise applications. We have our own web application but also push data to other apps to allow customer service and lead gen to happen (Salesforce, Oracle, Siebel, Interactive Intelligence)

We are a Python, jQuery, Linux shop and use the following libs for dev: SQLAlchemy, Boto, Buildbot, Selenium, Git, JIRA, SVN.

Internships are Absolutely Paid and FT for three months. See our job posting here http://bit.ly/pbvtFe

See some videos here http://www.youtube.com/user/buzzient#p/u/7/d9BLn49D20M