exactly what rails has become to me. Models and API controllers that respond_to json. The client does the rest with Backbone, handlebars, css3 animations, ...
They seem to have removed their crunchbase profile already. Pretty sure they used to have one. The amount of shut downs lately seems slightly higher than usual, feels like we are entering a slight shedding phase.
Part of me wonders if this is a temporary problem that got triggered by urban environments becoming extremely trendy in the last decade or so. Either way, we are not only losing a solid worker class, but also some of the skilled labor force because of it (especially here in SF).
because Jack developed twitter during employment at Odeo, which was the company of Evan Williams and Noah Glass. Eventually they would spin it out. I think 4.9% is a fair stake (when you are not risking everything to make an idea work but rather rely on your current employer to build things up with you).
"But honestly, if you want to live a life that involves kids, a car, and doesn't involving the community as heavily, SF isn't for you." See but that is sad.
this all sounds great for entrepreneurs, but what about the software engineer that just wants to work on cool projects and have a nice home/kids/car and isn't really interested in networking much, having a "mentor" or raising capital to start a company?
Like others have mentioned, the possibility of a brain-drain from SF is a very likely scenario in a few years (if the cost of living stays this shitty). It would be more beneficial if startup land would decide on one of the secondary tech hubs as opposed to everyone going wherever. Having 2 people move to Seattle, 4 of them to Boulder and 3 to Phoenix isn't gonna establish much in either of those. But having 10 people all move to Austin seems like a bigger impact.
when jogging in Atherton, I'd sometimes not make it home before dusk, and on multiple occasions I had a police car follow me, shining lights in my face to make sure I'm "someone" that belongs in Atherton.
I used to go jogging in Atherton a few times a week and I always wondered about all the cars getting pulled over. I wanna say in all cases it was a Hispanic driver in an older/beat-up car. Never once in the years I lived here have I seen an "expensive" car getting pulled over.
yeah usplash is a popular/great resource, and that unfortunately makes it almost useless. Right now there is another HN post on the front page that is using an image from that same MacBook Air series (as a background image): http://www.codingjohnson.com/an-awkward-conversation
This is pretty cool, but I think spending a bit more time with a bigger project instead of doing 180 small ones would be more beneficial. But maybe her goal is to jump into bigger/long term stuff after the 180 days. Either way, congrats for getting out there and building stuff!
Why Canada Has No Big ____ Companies would be a more interesting article/video. The biggest Canadian company seems to have an annual revenue of "just" 50 billion. On the list of largest Companies, Canada is not even present: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_re... I am not trying to bash Canada, but compared to others in the global arena, Canada isn't really known to be a player with large corporations.
I wish eating unprocessed foods would be made easier in this country. During and after college I didn't care too much what I put in my body but seeing some of the first negative effects about three years into that little experiment made me (slowly) focus on eating right. I started to compare what people in Germany (where I was born and raised) and America do differently. The first major difference I happened to come across was how real sugar is replaced with high fructose corn syrup (which is a more processed ingredient?) in almost any product here in the U.S. Not that real sugar is that much better for you but it made me notice that clocks tick differently over here.
I am a huge fan of JS-heavy single page apps paired with a nice REST Api to exchange JSON data. That's how we've built the dashboard at userfox.com and I've seen this same architecture pop up at other shops since. What makes this especially appealing to me was the fact that I was pretty much developing the API along with the web app. An API that can also be used by other clients in the future (native smart phone apps, etc.)
In the past I've mostly seen salaries offered (outside of expensive Hamburg or Munich) for a Sr. Software Engineer that are around €35-45k/year before tax.
Coffee meetings are still my favorite, all though I don't do enough of those myself. The outcome is usually positive and they don't take up much of ones time. Also I'm a huge fan of Email and use a personal newsletter (newsletter.zinssmeister.co) to share whats on my mind with people that have the same interest as me. It isn't a huge list of people but that's what makes a personal Email newsletter so effective IMHO.