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tysoneon Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]

Useful context about the film, from the New York Times's in-house historian: https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/11/13/1978-farewe...

tysoneon It's Time to Panic About Privacy

related: The Times's publisher wrote that we're examining our policies and practices around data, too.

> "As with a politician railing against high drug prices while accepting campaign donations from big pharma, a news organization cannot talk about privacy on the internet without skeptical readers immediately, and rightly, examining its own practices for signs of hypocrisy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/sulzberger-new-yo...

tysoneon The last day of linotype at the NYT (1978) [video]

The Times's resident historian, David Dunlap, wrote about this wonderful film in 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/11/13/1978-farewe...

tysoneon How did “Handbook for Mortals” get on the NYT bestseller list?

Methodology: https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/methodology/

tysoneon The New York Times Redesign is Live

Details about the redesign and technology overhaul: http://source.opennews.org/en-US/articles/behind-scenes-nyt-...

i.e. "… using Github instead of SVN for version control, Vagrant environments, Puppet deployment, using requireJS so five different versions of jQuery don’t get loaded, proper build/test frameworks, command-line tools for generating sprites, the use of LESS with a huge set of mixins, a custom grid framework, etc."

tysoneon NYTimes.com down for some users; paper suspects “external attack”

We are now publishing at a backup site: http://news.nytco.com

tysoneon Google acquires BufferBox (YC S12)

Kind of the thinking behind http://adventlocker.com/

tysoneon Broken iPhone? Call iCracked (YC W12), the aspiring AAA of smartphones

Apple does offer this service, essentially. The $99 AppleCare+ offering will replace the phone or repair it (for $49/incident) within two years of purchase.

tysoneon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011)

The New York Times

* Software Engineers, Architects

* iOS Software Engineers

* JavaScript Engineers

* Developer Advocate

* QA, SEO, Analytics

* News Applications (Rails) and Multimedia (JavaScript, Flash/ActionScript)

More information: http://bit.ly/nytjobs and http://www.nytco.com/careers/index.html

tysoneon A creative cover letter from a hacker to the Chicago Tribune

Here are two recent job postings from the News Apps team at the Chicago Tribune:

http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2009/09/09/hacker-wanted...

http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/2009/12/24/were-hiring-a...

tysoneon Ask HN: Who's hiring (take 3)?

New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/features/openings/