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No mention of Boston Dynamics in the article?

I used to work there, and they have a skypekit license. It doesn't use the "spawn a skype linux client and use the plugin interface" method, it's a direct integration.

There's an online service called Blue Jeans Network that lets you have a conference call with Skype, H.323, Google Talk, and Microsoft Lync participants.

http://bluejeans.com/

Looks like you're coming into the same space that OnSwipe is in.

I'm not crazy!

Also note that it's an iframe, not a real IE6 browser. :)

Doubtful this is real. Only source is this blog?

I'm curious if they tried to employ BigCouch, the dynamo-esque fork of CouchDB.

Teaching somebody how to set up a rails app with some basic routes and implementing some ajax calls and stuff, sure.

Will they know what's going on under the hood though?

Taking somebody from ground zero and teaching them enough to be able to debug problems that the hires would need to know in order to be proficient, self starting engineers.. I'm really skeptical about that being done in 8 weeks.

Most of the little tricks and crap I've learned over the years have been through trial and error, and working on many different projects.

More specific examples: for loops not creating scope in javascript and asynchronous calls introducing race conditions due to not understanding them. Those aren't things that are in curriculums, though when trying to build some features most people will encounter them.

Heroku dynos are still ran on EC2 instances, exclusively on the East coast of the US.

I'm not sure if these postgres servers are. However one interesting note is that the "maximum database size" of the heroku server is 2TB, while RDS is 1TB.

I don't know of any phones being sold that have open source basebands.

Node.JS!

Node.JS will replace it. Not a fanatic Node user either.

I think it's just that everything that people once thought valuable has become a commodity, so only intelligent people prosper ;)

This is pretty sweet sauce. You get the modular ideology like Erlang.. without the syntax. Ew.

Integration with Tumblr.

This has always reminded me of how fragile the human condition is, and how similar people are to the computers that they build. Little late for the American Independence Day, but whatever.

Sigh. Everybody was warned.

I was laughing with them when they were making fun of Sony, but now I'm not so amused. :(

I would say all successful engineers and aspiring entrepreneurs need to know the basis upon which we program today. Where we came from with assembly, why so many people wrote blocking code vs using event-driven programming, even though we've known that to be the most efficient way to handle IO for nearly 30 years, and the general human nature of technology and economics revolving around that. Working at a startup that is transparent about it's business relations is the most engaging and thrilling way to pick that up, of course. Knowing the broadest amount of relevant technology, and how to apply it to help people solve problems, is the most fulfilling (and coincidentally the fastest way to accumulate large amounts of money).

If you're familiar with some of the heavy hitting problems in computer science right now, such as vertically scalable architecture, garbage collection, how difficult it is to debug multithreaded applications, you might want to check out Node.JS, as it is my #1 bet for large adoption of engineers in the near future. It's the first project of it's kind, in the age of GitHub, that can really be called a trending software platform. It allows you to do very rapid iteration of development, without having the hassle of how to handle large amounts of IO and other problems that will make you bang your head against your desk with if you were using other systems.

Above all though, the most interesting projects for you to work are probably what you would learn the most from.

I agree. A technical co-founder with no business sense would likely be inclined to disagree with business decisions made by the CEO, thus causing friction internally and hindering productivity.

Nice!

Just bought it. Checking it out.

I want push notifications for replies, though :). Premium feature? Could make something to poll myself but I'm cool with spending a few monies for it.

I agree with this.

Where I work, everybody has linux development machines, but use their machine of choice as their actual workstation. This either forces people to use vim/emacs through SSH, or set up some local file sharing so that they can use their bloated eclipse thing.

Personally, I've spent months each with a few of the popular editors around, and I fall back on vim just because my .vimrc has been tuned so much over the past few years that it's just painful to use anything else. I don't even care if the editors have more features.

Now, if I had a fancier terminal, where my mouse click picked the right vim split view instance, or highlighting text in a split view vim selected only text in that window, instead of the whole line of the terminal, I would use that. MacVim is pretty much the perfect tool for me, but it's local and not remote (and also not inside a terminal that I can split up with screen).

This seems a little bigoted. There are people working on fault tolerance, load balancing, and other clustering mechanisms in Node. Granted, they might not rival OTP/Mnesia, but I have great confidence that the Node community will be able to do most of the outlined stuff in his email soon.

He did specifically say "was not designed" for these kind of applications, but that doesn't mean the application layer can't take care of it. In fact I would argue that with Node, you have the possibility of having greater control over your clustering and failover logic.

If you want to write neat PHP templates, Facebook's XHP is the way to go.

[Insert comment scolding above sexist comment].

There's probably a reason it's so unprotected (though probably not a very valid reason).

Writing CSRF-safe logout would mean that you can't have an href to a static link, and you'd to implement some sort of unique id/key and/or a form post behind the scenes.

I'm sorry to be a downer, but is this a problem that really needs to be solved? If somebody unfriends me, it's probably because we hardly talk (if we ever talked) and I won't miss them.