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PiCloud did something like this, but they were bought by Dropbox. Haven't heard much about them since.

Can someone provide some context to this post? What happened at Disney?

shout out to p'unk avenue! philly represent!

Water isn't allowed on board planes? I usually bring an empty nalgene through security and then fill it in one of the many water fountains in the terminals. Works well!

humor

Fig functionality was not merged into Docker's 1.3 release.

Ansible/Chef orchestration IMHO solves a very different problem than container orchestration.

to be honest i still usually implement virtualenv when constructing a container.

This way I'm sure that I'm not interfering with the os-level python dependencies, and any activation of the environment is handled by a "python-webapp" baseimage that I use for all of my projects.

I'd love to see these guys start using Docker. Not only would it be easier for developers to containerize their apps to fit this platform, but it would be quite a boost to the eco-system -- pushing development of Docker to (potentially) giving Sandstorm the "fine grain" controls they're looking for.

Either way, cool idea! I definitely see web apps moving in this direction.

As it is a massive commercial product that is developed to run on PS3 and Xbox 360 I'm sure it runs "OK" on the PS3.

To me this feels like a group of friends that are already financially stable deciding they're tired of working in a corporate juggernaut and just want to "get the band back together".

Maybe quip works out, maybe it doesn't, maybe it's just giving these guys and gals something to do for the next year or two... and that's just fine. Not every product has to shake the foundations of society and life as we know it.

That sets a pretty crazy precedent for news organizations doesn't it?

This is the main thing I got out of this story when it first broke.

The firm was able to buy over a billion dollars worth of stock but was undercapitalized after incuring a loss ~5MM? Just doesn't make sense.

i always thought of the physical structure of celery and how it splits and is stringy - reminds my of piping tasks through a distributed task queue. i like the rabbit connection too though!

Who determines what the decorum for such a dialog should be? Does the informality effect in any way the rationality or defensibility of their choices? Why do people care? I'd much rather read an article in this tone rather than some stuffy technical blog like many other engineering teams sometimes put out.

Crashlytics was never really on my radar until today, but I'm really impressed by their design work. Really great stuff.

I really like this idea! However, I think the value of this really lies in building a community of users that share their drawings. That's what makes instagram really great and "sticky". I think putting a $1.99 barrier to entry into the ecosystem could be detrimental to the growth you would need for this to take off.

Top post HN (check), interesting title (check), innocuous title (check) -- click -- "Blocked by Security Policy" (huh?)-- .xxx domain? wtf! damnit! now i have an xxx domain logged to my corporate login... EXCELLENT. thanks.

Really though... Is there some sort of clever reason why this person's blog is on a xxx domain aside from annoying people like myself stuck behind corporate proxies?

I've used this in an interview and was very frustrated.

Perhaps it was the fault of the interviewer and the way he framed his questions (they were slightly involved questions -- "write a command line utility that converts an image file, include unit tests, etc.)? I would often have to write my code in the online editor... (so the interviewer could observe my "style") and then bounce out of the browser, throw it into iPython or sublimetext, run the code, debug in my editor... go back to the browser... write my updated code out... rinse repeat.

Code interviews are a bit nerve racking to begin with -- and interrupting my workflow so jarringly doesn't really help. I prefer when hiring managers have me branch a git repo on git hub, encourage me to commit my changes to a project frequently and discuss my thought process on the commits. I think that process works better for both sides.

I can imagine being a developer on this product would be insanity. They probably implemented the Airplay feature, showed it to their bosses and for whatever reason the higher-ups had their reasons for nixing the second screen... Then they thought -- Ok, so we can't do video but perhaps people would want to airplay the audio to their fancy pants audio setup in their homes, better than nothing, right? Wrong.

I hope the big media companies get their acts together. They only get to screw up a finite number of times before someone comes and blows them out of the water

Great idea. I built something similar to this for myself. My company has a full cafeteria and Aramark (the co that runs our kitchen) posts the nutritional info on the web. Quick tool to scrape the nutritional information into a DB and it kicks me out a solid meal for the day everyday. I'm trying to incorporate a little logic so that it learns what my favorites are and adjusts its recommendations accordingly.

This is the first time I've looked at all of Google's social offerings and thought... wow this is a cohesive, thoughtful, and well-executed set of products. I do hope this reaches some sort of critical mass and takes off. Even if it doesn't its nice to see them really pushing the envelope and putting the fire under everyone else.

I remember doing something similar to this after I graduated from college ('09) but a bit backwards.

I was totally frustrated by the lack of responses to resumes that were flying from my outbox like cards from a blackjack shoe -- so I created a help-wanted ad on craigslist for a job that I thought I would qualify for and might have a chance of landing.

The resumes I got were from people with 3-5 years experience, masters degress, laundry list of skillsets, etc. Needless to say, the whole experience was disheartening -- but it taught me to be creative in my approach to the job market and that generally the "resume" based approach to finding a "match" (employer<->employee) is deeply flawed.

Is the authors implication that in the digital nature of ebooks the ability to manipulate text becomes easier? Regardless of medium isn't this always a possibility? Whether it happens at the publisher and then printed on dead wood or otherwise -- to me it seems like one in the same?

Pandas is an extremely solid, well-tested and super-powerful library. Congrats to Wes on the release of this book.

Excellent product and superb demo.

Question that may be a bit off-topic but one I'd really like to know: what editor are you using there when you're editing the python service? Thanks and congratulations on your launch.

Very cool. I'm just shocked that secret service let something like this happen. The red flag mechanism in their brains must have been doing backflips.

I think it has very little to do with the design of the CPU itself but rather the unprecedented introduction of a functional CPU being emulated and usable/programmable within a game itself.

further on in the article they explain that facebook is developing a hip hop virtual machine that allows them to run custom bytecode in their own runtime environment which would allow them to push deltas. im fairly certain that pushing deltas of compiled c++ code on this scale is impossible.

I love d3. Mike Bostock does great work and the flexibility of the d3 library really makes it super-powerful. The fact that it doesn't work lt IE9, however, makes it unusable for me at work. Most people on corporate networks (at least in my experience) are running win xp with ie8. Once we move everyone to win7 I should be able to start pushing out some great analytics based on the d3 library. looking forward to it!

really interesting. im excited to check this out. what are you using for the data visualizations?