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I am happy that he is publicly speaking against SOPA. That said, it seems gratuitous for a politician to act like a web activist; shouldn't he be trying to convince his peers in committees and debates in Washington?

It took a moment to register the significance of the name "Narcissus". I guess JsJs (like PyPy) just doesn't roll off the tongue.

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Learning to Code is a noble and worthwhile thing to do. But don't do it just to do it, or do it at the expense or something that might be more practical for you personally.

I can relate to this, but I'm sharpening my programming skills anyway.

I mean people who have learned Chinese, spent time in China, or who have connectons there.

I've seen some culturally literate Architecture grads move to Shanghai from the US after the completion of an Architecture program. This may change as the economic growth slows there over the coming years, but there are so many building projects being undertaken that it is far easier to have a bigger role in bigger projects at a younger age there.

Time split between Idaho (60%), California (30%), and the rest of the US (10%).

I wish that the Dvorak keyboard layout would get more attention and support. Prevention > Cure.

This must explain the Black added to the HN top banner (or someone is spoofing Google+). Condolences, rtm.

This isn't the first time this has happened, I remember when it was discovered in 2008 that a ton of POS card reader/pin payment machines were sending stolen data back to servers and it was built into (or sabotaged into) the machines themselves from the manufacturer (or intercepted by pirates along the way). Seems like now is a great time to get into the hardware supply chain security/QA verification business.

And how feasible is it to obfuscate the design purpose and logic of chips at manufacture as they propose in the article?

The brave new world of overzealous law enforcement data warehouse searches just continues to wreak havoc on "cloud" services and content. It's akin to digging up the neighborhood to search somebody's house. What can the Feds/providers do differently to prevent this from happening so often?

Yammer's desktop client sucks. Perhaps it is because writing for the desktop is considered so passe that the art is dying among younger devs.

An aside: it's independent thought and experimentation like this makes hackers so important.

“The one area where slavery is legal in America is when one company buys another company...”

Scary quote. Quit anyway.

I don't feel as though I know enough about Egypt and the political sentiment there to comment directly, but I sense that this is a very historical moment in time for the entire Middle East.

I met one of the founders at a Twilio event not long ago, and when he told me about his product the first thing I said was "So it's kinda like Yammer?"

At least they are starting to address this marketing problem directly.

You can pull money out of a Roth investment (IRA or 401(k)) at any time without penalty because the tax is not deferred. You pay normal income tax on all the contributions you make in the year you earn the money.

Those Google kids are seriously nerdy.

Android on Nokia hardware is an appealing idea, but given Stephen Elop's Microsoft background I wonder if they won't shift to WP7. Or both.

This article makes good points, but it fails to raise alarms for me. Knowledge has few national boundaries (and largely shouldn't), why should capital?

Google v. Bing silver linings FTW.

Thanks!

I agree. I find the idea compelling, but I'd love to know something about who's putting it together and a possible timeline.

Is there a public facing link viewable without signing in to Facebook for those of us without an account?

This is a great concept, but how does it compare with Glympse? http://www.glympse.com/get_glympse

First of all, who "hires" a co-founder? But that lexical issue aside, the biggest reason nobody will respond to this here is because nobody is interested working on a mystery project without anything to remotely pique our interest. You don't provide the slightest detail about the project, or even what industry or problem it might be relevant to. For all we know you are trying to get somebody to write a Wordpress theme. Please provide insight into your project or frame it in terms of how it is useful or important to this community. Or stop posting it again.

I was ready to hop all over this and point out errors. Honestly - there isn't really anything wrong with this plan at all.

I haven't used any from the HN resources page, but this one is pretty good so far. Thanks!

I am in a similar situation and I decided to begin with JavaScript and Python simultaneously. The resources I have found the most helpful are Zed Shaw's http://learnpythonthehardway.org/index, MIT's OpenCourseWare CompSci classes using Python, and http://eloquentjavascript.net/ by Marijn Haverbeke.

This is awesome! Wonder how they transcode.

Until very recently I had no meaningful coding experience besides a little Excel macro-ing and modifying WordPress' PHP. My New Year's resolution is to make my web app a reality, but I don't know how to code. I am on week 3 of learning Python through MIT's OCW (and many other resources), and I'll let you know when I'm done with my app!