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SEEKING FREELANCER / Remote or NYC

Skills: JavaScript/TypeScript/Python/Django/django-channels/Ubuntu/scaling/profiling/optimization

Hi, I'm looking for a full-stack web developer for what I estimate to be 3 months of work on web-art project Your World of Text. Your World of Text is infinite text wall where people can write and overwrite each other in realtime. You navigate by scrolling, and the available space extends infinitely in every direction. Private worlds can also be created. Launched in 2009, Your World of Text been taught in new media curricula and remains one of the most popular web-art projects, with over 100,000 visitors per month.

Your big tasks will be browser performance, multi-user scalability, and fighting spam. Smaller tasks tbd. If the initial engagement works out especially well, I'm open to the possibility of a longer and more open-ended engagement.

SEEKING FREELANCER - NYC, remote ok.

I'm working on a poetry distribution and discovery platform. Think Spotify, but for poetry (text, not audio, to start). This is a tiny market! It's not a startup. Just something that needs to exist that I'm devoting some time & money toward.

Backend: Django/Heroku/Postgres/

Frontend: TypeScript/React

Seeking a ~4-6 month part-time commitment.

Please email me (in profile) with experience, interest, availability, and rates.

Someone did this using Twitter data and NLP. Can't find it right now but I think the name had to do with weather.

"I'm biased against Chinese labor. Do you think anyone is biased against Chinese labor?"

Thanks! Are you using the Django template language on the server or using React somehow?

I'm curious: how do you think about client vs server side rendering? What happens where?

The difference doesn't really matter in context. You're fixating on a small part of the article that isn't important to the main thread.

Just to be clear, it seems from context that Wells is referring to the sections of Finnegan's Wake that had published, rather than to Portrait and Ulysses.

It seems like your question was set up to confirm your conclusion. If you had instead asked how Drew was able to support himself, you'd probably get a more accurate answer.

Capillary action is not nearly strong enough to permit tall trees. This is a common misconception. The stronger mechanism is negative pressure, caused by transpiration at the top of the tree, pulling up miniscule strands of water under high tension.

I think a probabilistic argument makes sense. You don't have to pursue 100% of bike thefts to discourage them.

I asked a paleontologist about this recently, and their answer was that the density of fossils is too similar to the surrounding material for ground-penetrating radar to be useful. I wonder whether the challenges couldn't be addressed with the right technology-- maybe borrowing from radio telescopes.

That said, "dig until you find something" is not really the way it's done. You find bits of bone on the surface, or sticking out of a hillside, or anywhere that the earth has recently been weathered away, and look and dig near there.

Edit to add: You, too, can go on a dino dig through Experiment's (YC W13) partnership with https://twitter.com/BBPaleo. I highly recommend it!

It's the DRY principle. If you have a single-page app, the frontend needs to know how to render everything (using JS), so rendering on your backend as well is, at best, duplicated work. There may also be complications at the boundary of those regimes, like how your frontend initializes on top of server-rendered HTML.

You might be interested to read "Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and Their Solution", a 1939 (!) book by Helen Fouché Gaines. It covers a lot of these kinds of variants.

This. Go through the deprecation lists and backwards incompatibility lists item by item. Thankfully, they're very thoroughly done. It probably won't take as long as you think!

As someone who picked Django over Rails ~10 years ago and has used it for everything since then-- I wouldn't bother.

Django and Rails, like Python and Ruby, look more and more similar as time goes on. Not because they are becoming more similar, but because the web ecosystem around them has become a lot more diverse. If you want a break from Rails, learn Phoenix! Or Node, I guess.

Furthermore, with the advent of fat front-ends, the utility of both of these frameworks has gone down in absolute terms. When they first came out, front-end features like form generation and HTML templating were really important, but now they're arguably better to avoid. (That's why channels are so important to the future of Django.)

That said, I still like Django a lot and use it all the time. I don't want to discourage you from learning it. But I wouldn't do it because you're trying to make a leap from Rails.

Oops! Thanks.

If you are catching a Pokemon and you hear that Halo 3 has been confirmed, finish catching the Pokemon, then go and inquire.

Wow, a startup that's actually shipping product.

Orbital is $400 without a dedicated desk. It's not possible to run a sustainable business in NYC below that price.

We don't. It's best to just leave it up to the mods.

I've been wondering whether you can use accelerometer data, which does not require user permission (on websites and mobile apps), to precisely determine geolocation for some users, which does require permission. This page makes Berlin commuters seem like a plausible target. A few more details here: http://andrewbadr.tumblr.com/post/132618372956/projects-im-n...

I launched Your World of Text six years ago right here on HN. It's an art site where people can write anonymously on an infinite field of text. In the intervening years, without any active development from me, site traffic grew to about 500k visits/month, then shrank back down to about 100k. A lot of that decline is due to scripters flooding the site. This month, I'm giving the site some overdue attention: fixing bugs, fighting the scripters, and some other improvements. The first iteration of the rate-limiter is launching soon, and I'll then clear the frontpage content for a fresh start.

Thank you. I'd love to use these together.

Would you mind elaborating on the TypeScript comment? Is anything broken or just suboptimal?

Why is "hard" a good thing?

Thanks to the Django team for a incredibly well-run and well-documented OS project!

A correspondence:

Python - Robert Frost

Ruby (Matz) - Kay Ryan

Ruby (dhh) - Fred Seidel

JavaScript - e e cummings

Brainfuck - John Ashbery

Java - Auden

C - Shakespeare

Haskell - Anne Carson

Pascal - Longfellow

> It would be interesting to do a serious analysis of the fossil discovery distribution to see if we can make a better estimate of the earliest emergence of hominids based on empirical estimates of fossilization and discovery probabilities.

Surely someone's done this? It's reminiscent of the tank problem.

I wonder if rather than a pure software solution, there's an opportunity here for Disqus to provide a hybrid software-human moderation solution. It's clear that good moderation can revitalize a community (hi @dang), while bad comments are a vicious cycle that drive out the good ones. IOW, moderation is very valuable. But it's hard to hire for and do right if it's not already part of your org's thinking. Disqus could sell moderation-as-a-service, according to the customer's parameters, and take care of all those hard parts.