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http://status.heroku.com/ for those on Heroku

This is really cool stuff! Did you come across any interesting retweeters and spam rings?

Agreed. I just went to color.com instead which does have a link to the app store directly.

Great writeup! As I read it, it also reminded me of this poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" - http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Dulce.html

Awesome! Will try to stop by :-)

Congratulations guys! I hope this means there will be some more really cool tools coming soon :-)

Sweet! Works great on iPhone 4. Background uploading is such a major pain killer that no one here seems to be appreciative of. That's a huuuge technical feat and a major head start and of course am not surprised that JTV guys nailed it. Congrats!

I love Marcus du Sautoy's programmes - he also did some BBC Horizons ones that were particularly interesting - The Secret You was fun and Alan & Marcus Go Forth and Multiply is pretty entertaining and insightful as well.

They have an impressive NLP search powered by a crazy backend, that map will be pretty trivial for Adioso to build I'm sure :-)

Adioso.com is so much better suited for this kind of stuff.

It just depends on what you want to test for. I find balance in testing for the most important security features such as authentication and stuff that'll most likely change very little.

You can speed up RSpec so much by offloading it to Spork, a test server of sorts that loads your environment.

All you need to know via Fred Wilson http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/11/employee-equity-how-much.htm...

In short, the first few in terms of percentage, then move to Wilson's multiplier factor model.

To raise that big of a round from Sequoia AND Horowitz, Bump must have clearly shown them their numbers. Sharing alone is not the single most valuable part of Bump. Bump could very easily replace the paper anything for a lot of stuff - event tickets, p2p payments, etc.

The use cases can go on and on. From what I'm guessing based on their trajectory, I wouldn't be surprised if Bump used iOS's safari browser's accelerometer to implement in-browser Bumping. Go figure!

There's some good code in here. If you're of a slightly more of a machine learning bent, consider looking into Collective Intelligence (has great source code as well - http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596529321/). It will be a great addition on top of this book.

Of course, when you're ready to graduate, look into Lucene & Mahout for some heavy duty stuff. If you want to make any of these map-reduce'able, Yelp's Mr. Job (also Python) is a handy tool.

On top of that, the BackType blog is always full of gems. Their recent dissection of the #lessambitiousmovies trend on twitter was quite interesting (http://blog.backtype.com/2011/01/analysis-of-the-lessambitio...)

You're missing my point - a great language (whatever it may be for one's choice) doesn't get in the way of thinking clearly. If that's PHP for you, that's great.

I never mentioned any context of web in my statement. Au contraire, python's greatest strength is in its vast number of libraries for non-web stuff as well (though it can handle a lot of web stuff very easily). I find python's vast science and math packages to be very handy.

You missed my point. I am talking about the code being cleaner to look at in general.

It's simple, If I don't indent properly - I don't get to run my code in python.

Yes, I know I can make my code look cleaner in Ruby, but I'm lazy. Call me shallow, but sometimes not having to type in blocks and "end" is kind of nice because of the inherent indentation constraint. And that indentation makes it easier to find lexical scope hierarchy easily too (at least for me). YMMV :-)

The single most reason why a language X (it's python for me today) wins my heart is not because it's extra fancy or anything but the times when it gets out of my way to let me think about the problem and then everything else seems clearer. I write a lot in both Python and Ruby, but the days when I have to dig into my old code, Python readability trumps over Ruby's (or anything else for that matter).

The best part is "the car is entirely powered by silicon solar cells and produces about 1200 watts — the same amount of power required to run a toaster." That's really cool!

That's too bad. Regardless SproutCore will be huge now that they also have Katz on their team :-)

This sounds like an excellent candidate for Kickstarter - have you considered that option?

Maybe there should be an YC RFS for stuff Salesforce might buy :-)

And the tipping point is reached :-) Congrats and hope the virality ensues!

Microsoft didn't capitalize on Touch-based computing (a la Surface - didn't imply about pixel sense at all) when they had the chance before.

Microsoft labs has a lot of crazy cool stuff, but they don't see daylight in the hands of the consumer. There's something to be said about that.

The point is that they missed the boat, but shipped late.

"Gates's admission that he looked at the iPhone, unveiled three years ago in January 2007 and which went on sale in June that year, and thought that "Microsoft didn't aim high enough" is a startling revelation from the man who drove the company to focus on mobile." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/12/ipad-bill-g... - that says it all!

It's really cool for sure, but you know what this one man once said "Real artists ship!" Too bad Microsoft didn't put this in a tablet eons ago.

In a nutshell yes. But it's so much better and realtime. You just have to get involved in it to see why it can be quite addicting.

Here's a simple hash:

LinkedIn => Recruiters Facebook => People you don't want to be friends with; Twitter => People you wish were your friends; Quora => Basically Hacker News comments' like quality + twitter like asymmetrical following + domain experts whom you can contact directly! Also, there your upvotes are visible too :-)

Here's a thread on Quora similar to your question - http://www.quora.com/Is-Quora-a-glorified-forum?q=is+quora+a...

Great, Microsoft built the Lexus LFA [1] of Tablets. Pseudo-sleek, super expensive and no one knows or gives a damn about it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus_LFA

Amazon EC2 is always a good option. https://www.djangy.com/ looks promising as a Heroku for Django.

Keep an eye on HN Jobs - there will be a flood of listings in the coming weeks/months (there's already one).

And Quora as well - here's one to start with - http://www.quora.com/Startup-Internships/Which-startups-will...

If you are looking for startup internships, you can pretty much find one at almost all of them these days (in the Bay Area and probably NYC). Hit up www.startuply.com for a huge list of startups. Find ones you like, look into their jobs page or email someone there. The more proactive you are, the better your chances.

I assume you are complaining about ATL? Even then, I find it hard to believe it's difficult to find companies here. Go to some networking events, I am sure you will find plenty of them in Tech Square :-)

Congrats Reddit! Wish you and Hipmunk greater success in 2011 :-)