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Yahoo - Santa Monica, CA

Come join my team and help us build http://screen.yahoo.com

We use javascript all over the place.

If you are interested please send me an email with your github.

I was in a similar boat. I was already programming in qbasic when I was around 14-15, but went to a standard high school. Math had always been my strong point, but I lost interest and my grades suffered. It was then very difficult to catch up because I wasn't learning whatever I needed to learn throughout the year.

I did however excel at the programming course we had. I loved going to the computer lab and trying stuff out. This school would have been awesome if it was around when I was in school. It would have been a perfect fit.

DDG uses Yahoo! Boss.

http://www.ysearchblog.com/2011/06/27/ydn-qa-with-duckduckgo...

Or the producers of television see this as a way to not deal with the networks and still get their show distributed to people, and the networks find themselves without good television to put on the air.

This article has tons of gold in it besides the "don't call yourself a programmer" part. I actually thought the paragraphs past that were better, especially for the younger crowd. I want to send this post to every kid that's about to graduate college.

This is the same problem I have with this approach. It seems like a cool idea, but I don't want to break accessibility. I think you can get around this using aria and having it skip over that element.

See aria-hidden:

http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/states_and_properties#aria-hid...

Authors MAY, with caution, use aria-hidden to hide visibly rendered content from assistive technologies only if the act of hiding this content is intended to improve the experience for users of assistive technologies by removing redundant or extraneous content. Authors using aria-hidden to hide visible content from screen readers MUST ensure that identical or equivalent meaning and functionality is exposed to assistive technologies.

I was thinking something similar to this last night. Google+ unifies the product set. Even the new Google mobile web is unified and easier to get around now. I can see it pulling me into products that I don't really use much just because it's more convenient.

This is pretty cool as there isn't much like this in the SFV. It would be nice if there were some photos so we could see what it looks like. I've been to co-loft in Santa Monica a couple times and am hoping this is similar. It would be nice if they hosted some meet-ups like co-loft does as it would be a much closer place to nerd out for people that live closer to SFV.

Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug

Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

Check it out for yourself on the awesome padmapper: http://www.padmapper.com/?lat=37.69897768523249&lng=-122...

"Why would I use your product? What's the use case? What value does it provide that the other dozen or so top color pickers DON'T offer?"

Maybe it's just a cool hack. Not everything has to be a fancy boxed up product with the only hope of being sold to Google. Sometimes people just like to build cool things.

There is also djangode: http://github.com/simonw/djangode

simonw hasn't worked on it in a while, but it's been forked a bit to keep up with the latest node. It doesn't give you an orm but does basic regex routing and django style templates.

I had the same thought when I saw this yesterday. HN users should all fork it and add at least one good practice each.

Crockford's Javascript: The Good Parts, Stoyan Stefanov's books, and Zakas's High Performance Javascript. Also don't forget about http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/. There are a ton of good video lectures to learn from.

The quest for people has begun.

I'm in the Los Angles area. There doesn't seem to be an event to actually go to right now, but even if there isn't one I was planning on making an irc channel or something.

I have around the same commute time. Lectures in the car don't work for me. Language audio lessons such as Pimsleur were a little better but still require a bit too much concentration. I can however listen to audio books and follow along.

django.contrib.auth

I think this is an acceptable use of the word. This particular account may not have turned a profit, but it might over time. And even if it doesn't this is certainly more revenue than you would receive with iTunes.

Cheat sheets are great and all, but they don't teach you version control. I think that what we have here is a very difficult topic to grasp for most people, and countless cheat sheets don't make people understand them.

For example, look at how they are telling you to resolve conflicts.

5.) Resolve Conflicts (Merge Others’ Changes):

    $svn update
    $svn resolved 

Resolving conflicts is almost never that easy, unless it's some white space. Even then you still want to peruse a diff to see what is going on. I know cheat sheets aren't meant as tutorials, but glossing over important stuff like resolving conflicts doesn't really help anybody.

Exactly. Even though lately there has been a lot of new users and a lot of meta discussion, there are still interesting posts like this one. Personally I have moved away from PHP and to Django, but I am looking forward to PHP 5.3.

I haven't quite gone the way of mouseless, but I am using vimperator. When using Firefox I was already trying to navigate using vim keybindings, being that I am in my editor for most of the day. Switching to vimperator was pretty natural.

The idea is great, and I actually don't mind the terminal look. I could see where some people might be annoyed by it though, so making it optional would probably be a good idea. What I do not like is the min/max/close icons in the top right of the terminal window that have no functionality.

Another little thing is search. Before I submitted my command which was

svn st | grep "^\?" | awk "{print \$2}" | xargs svn add $1

I searched for it and came up with no results. After browsing the popular page though I found

svn status |grep '\?' |awk '{print $2}'| xargs svn add

Also I noticed that commands that have no whitespace after the | are not being picked up and added to the tags. For example, that last command only xargs would be listed but not grep and awk.

Here are links to the examples:

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/153/add-all-unver...

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/36/add-all-files-...

The French Laundry at home http://carolcookskeller.blogspot.com/

She finished up in October, but it is still one of my favorite blogs.

Palish seems to be conveying the local customs in a kind way.

"But we're hoping that, as in past influxes, the new arrivals will with some prodding from the existing inhabitants learn the local customs." - pg

Yeah I would be interested. I've already started going through the lectures and some of the exercises, but it would be cool to work on them in groups.

I can completely agree with you here. A more universal policy that improves the system is better than pointing out particular problems of a particular district. I think ultimately though property tax is the wrong way to fund the school system and that needs to change.

I'm not really familiar with the DC school district, but LA Unified gets a bad rap for being an awful school district. If you take it on a whole maybe it is, but the wealthy neighborhoods produce very good schools because they are outspending neighborhoods in say South Central Los Angeles or East Los Angeles. Do you think that this is solely because in the richer neighborhoods the parents have more time to spend assisting the students or in the classroom? Also it would be interesting to know how much more the richer schools receive in funding than the poorer schools. It seems like they are getting a two fold advantage. They have more funding available and parents who have more time and/or more involved.

Edit: just to clarify I didn't want to come across as calling you a right-wing Nazi baby killer and hope that I didn't in the original post.

The US may spend a lot of money on education, but there is an underlying problem that isn't addressed in either your comment or Phil Greenspun's argument. K-12 education is primarily funded through property tax. This results in wealthy communities having great schools with tons of resources and poor communities that are using decades old resources and schools that are falling apart. So maybe you are correct in saying that "more money" isn't the answer. The tax system that we use for education is not equal and is failing us as a country. If we want to maximize the ability of people we should give the most people the best opportunity that we can.

The article that this article is responding to is useful in understanding as well.

http://sgillies.net/blog/858/how-to-decorate-python-gis-code...

This one as well.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=240845