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Neat technology, but at first I thought I was going to read an article about some sort of messaging/event system. It's not; Staircar is basically a way to deal with high write to read ratio data. It's not for subscribing to or publishing events.

Hanlon's Razor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor)

I really doubt 37Signals took their manifesto down for nefarious reasons. Changing architecture, codebase rewrites, SCM tool, etc, all could have caused that page to be removed.

I have the exact same problem. IMO what happens is you start to learn all the ways things can go wrong, edge cases, bugs, etc and you realize how fragile your code (and other's is). Throw on poor time estimates and you learn how difficult it is to produce quality, reliable software on time.

The way I think about it is if you do question your abilities and know you're fallible, you're ahead of 90% of the other programmers out there. Because you are thinking about all the edge cases, performance, reliability, maintainability, etc, you are going to create much higher quality code than someone who is 100% confident in their abilities.

Also, if you've seen quality code and worked with people smarter than you, you'll no doubt improve (as long as you're humble enough to learn from them :) )

Honestly they were asking for it. Kudos to whomever hacked them and took the high road.

Are there any security firms that actually know what they're doing? I'm beginning to think there isn't.

I agree, I'm not sure what's so different about HN's information where something like Lucene, Sphinx or any other full text search tool couldn't handle.

Looks pretty awesome, would love to see more screenshots though.

"My profile on StackOverflow careers was viewed by employers a whopping 1 time and had 3 search hits."

I've had similar experience with StackOverflow Careers. Even though my skills listed and location are in the top 5 for each, I have 31 views of my profile and 6 inquiries. And I've been on the site for over 6 months.

I get the feeling that while SO Careers has the right idea it's really a matter of where the recruiters are.

Please please don't put labels inside text fields. Once you've entered information you don't know which field it is, especially after you've filled out the entire form.

SEEKING WORK

Mountain View, CA, remote

Frontend engineer with experience at Yahoo and Mozilla. Expert in frontend performance, layered semantic markup, CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, etc.

Preferable tasks: frontend optimization and scalability consulting. About 10-15 hours/week availability.

http://ryandoherty.net/ ryan@ryandoherty.net

I started reading this article thinking it was like any other 'how to travel the world and live cheap'. When I got halfway to see that he quit his job, moved to Mexico and has a successful business all while living with MLA I was astounded.

Really shows you what anyone can do if you simply have enough tenacity and dedication.

Menlo Park, CA

Gibi - http://gibitechnologies.com/

We're a GPS tracking+web app product company, still very young with a LOT to do.

We're looking for our second technical hire; preferably someone with high traffic environment experience (hundreds of thousands of devices updating their information and configuration multiple times/hour via TCP connections). We're not a typical LBS startup :)

We're small, just 3 of us currently. You'll get a huge amount of freedom to choose our technology and platform. Right now our proof of concept is LAMP, but I know we'll need something better for high volume TCP traffic.

If you're interested in dealing with real location data, high traffic environments and delivering a reliable product contact me.

ryan@gibitechnologies.com

Days? The current existing version can tow 7 tons from LEO to LLO in 6 months, so I don't think we'll get to Mars in days.

Practice by negotiating every day on small things. Someone wants to schedule a meeting at 3? Push for another time. Buying new tires for your car? Ask for a discount, say you won't pay more than X.

That's how I've improved my negotiating skills. Start small, build confidence, learn how to deal with hearing 'No'. Everything is negotiable.

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Remote and local, SF Bay Area.

Performance engineer and frontend web developer. Worked at Yahoo! and Mozilla as a frontend engineer specializing in performance and scalability. Available for consulting and short duration work (~10hrs/week). Would love to help make any site faster.

http://www.ryandoherty.net/ https://github.com/ryandoherty http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryandoherty

I'm glad someone is showing average bandwidth rates for this many ISPs; I'm not sure I've ever seen any tech site test that many.

I gotta nitpick the graph though, it's incredibly hard to figure out which line is which ISP (too many lines and similar colors). A regular bar chart with the ISP names under each one would have worked fine (since the avg. bandwidth didn't change much over the course of the study).

Unless my math is wrong going from 1024x768 to 2048x1536 is quadrupling the resolution, not doubling, as the article states. Am I missing something?

180KB? I only see jQuery (70KB uncompressed, it should be gzipped down to ~20KB) and the 2KB plugin on the demo page.

So that's about 22KB for this effect when most sites already are including jQuery anyway.

I'm actually impressed by this type of UI. Each button is equidistant from the center. This makes it a little bit easier to use for users lacking fine motor control (elderly, disabled, children).

You can start writing patches now, there are tons of resources to get started. Pick a small bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ (even fixing a typo) and fix it. It may take a week, but who cares? You can get help via patch reviews and asking questions on IRC (irc.mozilla.org)

There is also a lot of resources on wiki.mozilla.org about all our projects and how to get started.

Don't let your inexperience stop you. It will certainly take a while to improve. All great programmers have years, even decades of experience.

There are also lots of other ways to help: QA (http://quality.mozilla.org/), Support (http://support.mozilla.com/), Review personas (http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/), and marketing (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/)

More info: http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/

Link to Add-on Compatibility Reporter: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003

Even more impressive is their HTML5, WebGL, audio and video demo linked to in the post:

http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/mozhacks/flight-of-the-na...

I love Backblaze too. They also have a great blog and have posted about their custom hardware a while back http://blog.backblaze.com/

I'm thinking of using it for a new project. What's your opinion of it? Any gotchas?

To me, this sounds like the "old NASA" that I read and heard about from the 60's. Limited time frame, small team and a focused goal. Is there a way we can get NASA back to that type of organization?

If we did that (and had some audacious goals), I think it would get the public interested in space travel again.

Agreed. I'm 27 and was making more than $110k/year working for a top company in the valley. And I was a middle of the road engineer compared to some of the geniuses there.

irc.mozilla.org, it's a mainstay for most discussions and coordination for all our projects (IT, webdev, firefox, etc).

#webdev, #firefox, #amo (addons.mozilla.org), #labs

Over half our employees and all our volunteers are remote, so IRC is how we stay in touch for the most part.

Mountain View, Auckland, Beijing, Copenhagen, Paris, Tokyo, Toronto

Mozilla is hiring!

http://www.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa

HQ in downtown Mountain View, CA, but we have offices in Toronto, New Zealand, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing. Great benefits, extremely challenging projects (scaling web services to 400+ million users, optimizing our JS engine, making Firefox mobile fast on phones).

I think that some people don't get eyestrain using a monitor because their eyes jump around and off of it continually throughout the day. The eye motions and strain of reading is fairly different when you read word after word, line after line for 1/2 hour or more.

An analogy would be saying your arms don't get sore picking up a book but actually you're picking up a book 100 or more times in a row. Your arm will get tired.

Nice site. What's your goal for users visiting? I see a signup link at the top right, which will be missed. If you want to get users to signup there should be a big signup button somewhere in the middle of the page.

An API?! Awesome! Seriously, kudos, this is a great site.

Mountain View, Toronto, work from home

Mozilla! http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Jobs.aspx?c=qpX9Vfwa

We're hiring just about any position you can think of. Webdev, analytics, C++, IT/sysadmin, security, QA, etc.

Mozilla's mission is to promote openness, innovation, and opportunity on the web. Lots of technical challenges, smart people, great environment and you get to make the Internet a better place.

Great question! I think the primary reason is the originals (4-6) were written/edited/produced by other people, while 1-3 were solely managed by Lucas. No one stands up to him now that he's established and revered.

There's a great review of Star Wars Episodes 1 & 2 on YouTube that are absolutely worth the time to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia#p/u/19/FxKtZmQgxr...

http://www.youtube.com/user/RedLetterMedia#p/u/0/CfBhi6qqFLA