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studeron Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

But this is an easy idea, and it's been done before. The only thing that's really different here is the timing of the announcement. And the "omg chad hurley reads hacker news" angle.

(Of course, everyone thinking that this is even remotely the same thing as Google Instant is also completely missing the real innovations in that product.)

studeron Django 1.2.3 released

Django seems to be a pretty active project, so I'm not sure what gave you the impression that it wasn't developed:

http://code.djangoproject.com/timeline

Looks like the 1.2.2 security release they did earlier this week was a bit rushed, partially because the security issue was reported via the public bug tracker instead of the security contact address.

studeron Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer

It's using existing mechanisms in YouTube's JSON API to find suggestions and play them. All the true "magic" is provided by YouTube's engineers. Not to take it away from someone who writes the right lines of JavaScript at the right time, but you don't have to place the guy on a pedestal.

The real lesson here is for yourself and others here who think like you -- if you tell yourself that things like this take superhuman efforts, how will you ever be able to produce something creative yourself?

studeron Android Tablets Holiday 2010

How do you harvest emails from a public Google Docs document?

studeron Google.com has an animated logo using an HTML/JavaScript particle simulator

http://searchengineland.com/google-balls-logo-not-googles-bi... claims to have an official statement:

"Today’s doodle is not related to a birthday but is fast, fun and interactive, just the way we think search should be."

and mentions that there's a Google press conference tomorrow.

studeron Google.com has an animated logo using an HTML/JavaScript particle simulator

It's been running as an experiment for some time, and I don't think it's limited to Chrome:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-live-search-...

studeron My .emacs File (Steve Yegge)

The "a combination of the Spam problem and our switch to Exchange finally drove me to Outlook" part threw me off for a bit, until I saw "Published Sep 25th 2004".

studeron 77% of the population have symptoms of personality disorder?

Reminds me of this, from last month:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66Q4BJ20100727

"... many in the psychiatric community are worried that the further the guidelines are expanded, the more likely it will become that nobody will be classed as normal any more."

studeron Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook

I think you're supposed to start here:

http://www.google.com/jobs

studeron Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

There's a pinned answer over at their support forum, so it's not just you:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/label?lid=613f70...

Didn't they do something similar with the Pacman thing? Sounds like they don't have enough computers with working speakers...

studeron Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

It says so in the announcement, so that's pretty likely.

"Priority Inbox will be rolling out to all Gmail users, including those of you who use Google Apps, over the next week or so."

studeron Email overload? Try Priority Inbox

If you annoy people, chances are that you'll end up in their spam filters anyway. This is for the kind of stuff that people leave in their inboxes to read later (or, if they're organized, auto-forward to some "read later" folder).

studeron Twitter announces Site Streams beta

I guess the fact that Twitter employees use bit.ly to map from short url:s to slightly longer url:s even in mails means something, but I'm not sure what.

(the http://bit.ly/sitestreams_doc link goes to http://dev.twitter.com/pages/site_streams)

studeron Chat Roulette Removed?

Anything new compared to what? There was plenty of background information in the article, and definitely more info than in the OP's "is this site down?" link to the site that is down. Or was this an "Ask HN"?

studeron Chat Roulette Removed?

You're behind the news:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/38833555/

studeron Mongo DB is web scale

http://www.xtranormal.com/

"If you can type, you can make movies."

studeron Google Realtime Search: a new home with new tools

And Facebook. And Buzz. And probably all other status feeds they can get their hands on.

(But sure, from playing a bit with the feature, it sure looks like Twitter is drowning out everyone else.)

studeron Time lapse screencap video of a games programmer

And the Cintiq is a screen as well, so plenty of screen space there.

Here's the sound effect program he was using, btw:

http://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html

studeron Digg Version 4

The RSS autopost stuff puzzles me. Are they turning into an on-line RSS reader, with a shared discussion space?

studeron Keys to Being Excellent at Anything

Join an open source project? Find someone at work that's willing to do reviews for you if you do them for him? (slow-motion pair programming, kind of). Read code written by your company's best programmers and compare what they did with how you would have done it?

studeron Keys to Being Excellent at Anything

Flow:

1. While the page is loading, look at the utm_source crap in the URL and wonder why the submitter couldn't be bothered to clean that up.

2. Read the first sentence and identify this as a writer of the "I should start with a personal anecdote to make people like me" school of writing (a US thing? not sure), and start skimming for the actual content.

3. Slow down when the "Anders Ericsson" anchor appears, and wait for the mandatory "10,000 hours" reference.

4. Skim the six points, and realize that there's nothing new here -- you've read the same article before, only written by someone else.

(yeah, yeah, I'll log off now.)

studeron Ask HN: How to prepare for Programming Interview?

Small to medium size companies? If so, I'd say they're probably more interested in experience & knowledge from related projects and technologies than more theoretical concepts (the really big actors tend to hire for an idealized position, and then find you something to work on after they've hired you).

I also assume that you know all the basic interviewing stuff (be yourself, don't try to bullshit them, don't panic, etc).

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I'm pretty sure computer-to-computer was available globally from the beginning, and the oldest SkypeOut review I could find during a quick search involved someone calling the US, Canada, Romania and Argentina.

Skype was a European company, of course, and the headquarter and engineering office is still there. A slightly different perspective, perhaps?

studeron Ask HN: How to prepare for Programming Interview?

What kind of company?

studeron Ask HN: How to prepare for Programming Interview?

That was about as content-free as you'd expect from an eHow article.

studeron [dead]

US only, again?

studeron The penultimate guide to stopping a DDoS attack – A new approach

I'm not entirely sure if "next-to-last" and "last" can be described as opposites, though :-)

studeron [dead]

"payback time" for what? Why are you quoting your own one-liner comment from that page in your submission? And why not just link to the original Reuters article, instead of linking to something that looks a lot like a machine-generated spam blog?

(All your HN submissions are links to that site, btw. What's your relation to them?)

studeron The Significant Objects Project

"Also its not fraud as they are not keeping the money, the money goes to the authors of the stories."

The buyers (i.e. the people being defrauded) might disagree.

studeron Lifehacker Pack for Android: Our List of the Best Android Apps

I thought Chrome pulled in some really bad font, but apparently your designer thought "text-shadow:1px 1px 1px white;" was a great idea to use on your website. Will I blow some circuits if I look at the actual application? :-)