tsestrich

Really well done. I love the idea too, and if I hadn't already started on another project this was essentially going to be my next :)

Glad someone beat me to it though, since maybe now I can find an easy avenue to sell some paintings on if I ever get back into it.

I agree with others about how awesome the speed of the site is. It really makes a big difference, especially on a graphics-intensive site.

What are you using for hosting? Or are you guys running your own hardware?

Might not be an expert, but I'm in a similar boat in that I have a firm footing in PHP and want to develop a web app on my own. I chose to go with PHP and Symfony, as it seems to be a pretty powerful framework with great documentation (they have a complete guide on how to set up a job posting board, for instance).

I had started out with raw PHP, and I'm pretty much scrapping my initial work since it can be done so many times faster and with better quality using Symfony

Two things about the community page and user pages in general...

It would be nice to see a "More..." or "All..." option to see more than just the top 25 users, in case someone wanted to see where they fell for instance.

Also, the user pages: the URL has some GET information that seems sorta odd... like the latitude and longitude to some location (theirs? mine? not sure) and a "comingfrom=..." field that seems to change nothing when modified. Not sure if you care at all about those things, but just seemed like weird information to be passing via GET on every page

That's exactly what I'm going to be doing with my Computer Engineering degree (like CS with some electrical engineering thrown in), but in the US with Deloitte Consulting.

I had the exact same conflict, where I didn't want to be programming every day for eternity, and this will give me the opportunity to travel around and see a ton of different companies. Granted, I'm expecting to get worked to the bone and get tired of staying in hotels every week, but it'll be a fun experience that should let me move into something awesome.

I think the solution is to have multiple colored lights that flash like a game show whenever you finish off a certain task. Makes it seem more important than if you had just made a little mental note of it

I'm just thinking that for any larger company (think Fortune 500), $20-$25 would be a rounding error. I bet they'll charge their premium accounts significantly more ($hundreds at least). Their "analytics" would have to be pretty kick ass though for any company to take the next step and pay for the service.

I think the key part of it is the "verified" part of the deal.

Can you please continue down this alternate thread of straight-to-the-point-badassness? I was enjoying the story until the last paragraph, when it wasn't a story anymore

It's very difficult to critique specifics without handing you back a physical paper with redlines on it. Generally, the grammar needs a lot of work, as does the tense (jumping back and forth between past and present), and the flow from paragraph to paragraph. A lot of sentences are actually sentence fragments, and a lot of times I feel like you're instant messaging me your thoughts rather than writing a story about them.

The content itself is entirely vague as well. Sentences such as "OK if you eliminate the fact that he was a researcher of math at the age of 25, but what do you know, he was actually _the_ math genius." just confuse me and make it difficult to read. Saying "OK" as if I just called you out on something just does not seem right for anything except dialog (OK, maybe not all the time, but pick your places).

Saying "It wasn't just numbers, same was true for logic, innovation, ability to ask the awkward question, and then solving the hell out of them." is such an awkward way of introducing someone. You're building this person up so much in such a short amount of time, I have a hard time believing any of it (it's not true, but you need to be able to suspend disbelief). I've always learned that you should never ever ever tell your reader an opinion about something... that's "meta-story". Let your reader determine that he is a super genius if that's what he is, but don't tell them all these super-human things he can do... it sounds like a kid describing his action heroes. What you need to do is build up the character's credibility as the story flows, not wind up the character like a toy and let him run through the story.

The first few paragraphs of the story really need to pull a reader in to make them want to read more, and what I see in the first few is "another story about the future". I don't really see a character at first, and that's a big minus to me. I don't really want to read about a list of things that are true in your future, I want to read about the people in that future, and let the way they interact with their world describe what the world is like.

"He used a lisp program for all this stuff.He had read in school that it was one of the most oldest languages around but never belived that,it had the most advanced features." -- This contains detail that is not really pertinent to the story... not sure why it's really in there. In stark contrast to that specific technical detail, it seems odd that among all the other "future-y" stuff, it still takes long enough to collate some Google search results into a database that he is able to read a book (about more things that are too technically detailed).

Adding to this... "By this time the database was over with indexing and he was presented with a nice command prompt on his DataBaseLinux machine." is like saying "he raced to his car and drove to the store. his car was blue. he was sad to discover that the store was closed, however, so he could not buy the Sony 42" LCD TV with support for Dolby 5.1 surround sound built in that he was looking for". The key here is not that detail is bad, but you need to be consistent, and it has to be relevant detail. You need to expand on the parts that make the story human, and really cut down on the parts that make it technical.

Stylistically, I personally would not go into a story attempting to point out "this is like this in the future!" every chance I got. Specifically, it seems irrelevant that DRM is not an issue in the future, and it would confuse the hell out of a reader that was not familiar with the subject.

More comments to come likely, as I get some time to dig deeper.

EDIT: Sorry... if this is indeed a language barrier issue, that would explain a lot about the style comments I had. I then agree with khafra's comment. Otherwise there is a lot to discuss here. However, sentences such as "He didn't really thought about robots , but he did knew that his secretary robot was a good talk." makes me think the former is the case.

The real question is: "who's 22 and still living in a dorm room"?

Cool story though, glad to hear your users are finding original uses for your app

That's pretty interesting that he'd put his money into Prosper rather than Lending Club (lendingclub.com). Maybe as a company it's currently more profitable, but for investors (ie. people making the P2P loans), its far more risky than lending club.

I just started up using lending club, and I chose it over prosper because of lending club's more rigorous screening process for who can obtain loans (must have a 660 credit score to qualify for even the lowest grade loans). As such, lending club loans have a far lower default rate across the board (Prosper indicates a >20% charge-off rate -- that's 20% of loans becoming unrecoverable losses. Lending club has a year-to-year default rate of only ~5% for even its lowest-grade loans).

Anyone else doing P2P lending?

You could read Go! as "go not" :)

I see what you mean, and I haven't been able to find a full text of what was said about each topic. Out of context, I saw each point as an unsubstantiated claim that was part of a single, larger point. There wasn't an indication that each of those had a complete discussion following.

If those were points gleaned from a larger discussion of "things to bet on", then I stand by my original statement. However, I'd look forward to seeing what was said in particular if each of those was a specific topic of discussion.

This might be me being a nitpicker... but how does being able to bet on "Innovation... Software... Things on Screens... Programming Languages" help anyone? Are these things that were up for debate?

The useful things in here are the bold predictions, such as Linux never being a factor on the desktop, and not betting on things like business school and government change.

Sorry, had to get that off my chest. I should also clarify that I'm not commenting on the fact that this list was posted in its entirety, just on the list itself. I appreciate it being posted for us to review.

Yes indeed I did, lol. Thanks

Eh, I get the sense that sometimes people will just grab any news story that hasn't been posted yet and post it hoping to get voted up points. I haven't been around all that long, but it seems like the signal to noise ratio is getting a lot higher even during the short time span that I've been on here.

Not only that, but you get twenty blog articles submitted pretty much all talking about the same thing every time, and it can just get draining. I think people get aggravated when they start reading the same thing over and over. "Release early/iterate often" has been the subject of no fewer than one top-page article nearly every day, and though it's good advice, I think by this point we get the message. Once the main point of an article is understood, people start to pick apart and criticize the smaller points I guess.

"Japanese people were surprised about the news since he made that in his age."

As opposed to most other people, who were not surprised at all?

I agree though, the title implies that he improved all of Ruby's performance... even though it was just several methods. Still cool that he got into this kind of project at a young age, but it's not like he re-wrote a bunch of algorithms or something....

I like the idea, but just a heads up that Pitt plays Notre Dame at home that day too (an 8pm game)

What if someone threw you something?

Side note: I have been told by the person in charge of recruiting at my company that explicitly stating references as "available on request" is really unnecessary, and just takes up space. Obviously your references should be available upon request if they aren't on there.

Other tips: - Avoid using italics, it apparently can cause problems if someone tries to scan your resume and have a machine read it. - Keep things left-aligned as much as possible, so someone quickly glancing down doesn't have to jump across the page on every line of the resume (this is actually similar to web design, in that you can assume the reader will spend a very minimal amount of time reading your resume unless they quickly find something they like)

Good advice. Not trying to be mean or say anything about the service, but it was a big turnoff from the moment I saw it.

I thought that was a very interesting experiment, but I thought of it more of a proof of concept rather than a "I wish this could work for everyone".

The thing that will ultimately make something like this impractical is the emotional attachment to the places that we live. It's likely the same reason that you wouldn't want to live in hotels year round... at least not for your whole life (if you're a contractor you might have some experience with this). People, unlike data, like to decorate, have things set up a certain way, and have a place they call home.

While it's interesting to imagine a world where people only used what they needed when they needed it, we can see some of that today. That's why people will rent a pickup truck for a day while they're moving, or pay to go to a public pool. They don't need to own a pool or a truck year-round, just for a bit of time, which is a little like utilizing server resources.

The part about living in a nice hotel for a day, however, was a good example of something we don't see very often. I guess we really don't have a real-world version of excessive "server load spikes" where you want to live somewhere REALLY nice for a day or two, but analogies can only go so far

Seriously. I thought the whole article was interesting, but then I read that and I was like "Are you kidding me?". I love the theory of evolution and all... but why toss it in their randomly... it made no sense whatsoever. It definitely discredited the article and the scientists involved.

"Maybe it will help us achieve our end goal and people will realize that it's stupid to vote Democrat!" would have been comparable...

I agree, "Russians Continue to Upgrade Doomsday Device" would have been an even better attention grabber for the article title.

perhaps, but this is talking back during the cold war (maybe today would be different). I would think that we'd be too afraid to try something like that during the cold war in fear of starting a legitimate war.

But again, maybe that would be different today, and we might not-so-politely ask them to disarm the system

I still think it's a little odd that they wouldn't want to simply achieve both goals at once by telling people about it. That would still mean that they would be less likely to preemptively pull the trigger themselves, and at the same time would deter the US from attacking them.

Not to mention, if I (as the US) knew that this system was in place, I would probably be a little less terrified that the USSR was going to randomly decide to attack (since this is clearly meant to be a purely reactive system). This would subsequently lead ME to be less likely to randomly attack, etc, etc.

Oddly enough, I'm actually a little relieved that it does eventually come down to a person's decision. I guess if the decision is to end the world, a 24 year-old junior officer is as qualified to make the decision as anyone else.

I'm definitely more than a little concerned that they're still maintaining this thing though.... creepy

I'm pretty interested in the stock market, so when I'm not actively working on something on both monitors I like to have real-time stock information up on my secondary (using the thinkorswim desktop application). I get a little obsessive sometimes, so this could potentially be a big distraction

>>Your parents notice. "That sounds great honey, can we help?"

My parents frequently ask to help me grow my beard :)

I'm not a big fan of the beard analogy, I feel like there must be many more relevant ones (a garden, for instance)

That's pretty much it, it got bored and made YouTube, filling it with distracting videos so it would have something to do

I'll just say: sometimes, the most innocent and un-biased opinion is from someone that has no standing in the matter.

I would say that I'm on neutral ground, being neither predominately in either industry. That said, I feel that the current method of distribution for music (CD and iTunes) is completely outdated compared to the great advances that we've seen in other areas of technology. With the drive towards users wanting free content, there has to be a way for artists to capitalize on this.

I obviously cannot wish for the world's top artist to be working for minimum-wage salaries, but seriously, there must be better ways to make money than for record companies to strong-arm individuals into paying ridiculous sums of money for "sharing" copyrighted content.