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Nice implementation. One thing to note is that this doesn't seem work on desktop browsers; open it on your phone!

This is the market at work.

A massive demand for web development combined with a low supply of competent engineers leads to high salaries relative to the amount of time you need to invest to command such a salary. This leads to entities like Dev Bootcamp and Coursera charging to provide the necessary training, they can also command a hefty bonus for making a hiring referral. An influx of newly minted developers enter the market, prices go down as the supply curve slides to the right.

If you want to read about M&A. Pick up a copy of The Financial Times or The Wall Street Journal.

Great point, there is no excuse. NSLocalizedString(@"SEND", nil) is just as easy to write as @"Send". Thanks for raising him from the depths div.

Yea, that bit of Chinese in the title is simply the name of the app, Babatuba.

It lets you make grid images like these: https://twitter.com/babatuba8

Noisebridge has been doing this since 2010: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Spacebridge.

Looking forward to seeing what everybody does with this. We've been trying to build mobile apps with this in mind since we first heard the whispers about "Google's Secret Augmented Reality Glasses Project". It's amazing to see how far things have come since then.

As mentioned in Serial Experiments Lain, an anime really worth checking out.

I've certainly thought "Wouldn't it be nice to not have to eat anymore?"

A possible solution arises.

With some elite shell scripts to boot. It's nice to know that if your primary skills in 1988 were UNIX, C, and shell scripting, should you be magically transported 25 years into the future, those same abilities would allow you to feed a family of four in 2013.

Stripe is going to be a tough organization to compete with. I wish you the best of luck.

I love mashape. I'm 100% biased: I've used them to host Lambda Labs API from day 1.

The team is amazing, fastest customer service in the west.

Yea, for a second I thought this might be doing structure from motion. A simple rotation of the map and look at the source says otherwise.

Nice hack though. Can't wait to see some real CV with WebGL.

It's not clear what your tool does or how it can help me now.

It's not difficult to pick up a new web framework. The skills that matter transcend the flavor of the week.

Something similar: http://www.chillingeffects.org/input.cgi

Wait you mean they're trying to manipulate us with "Social Proof"?

My original post: http://www.stephenbalaban.com/facebook-graph-search-breaks-y...

The author didn't provide any background about the original Knuth "Literate Programming" paper and subsequent review by McIllroy. Knuth was using that code to demonstrate Literate Programming style. While the quote / anecdote was taken a bit out of context, I agree with the fundamental idea: code reuse.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

[2] "Literate Programming" http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/2/97.full.pdf

Dell is not being purchased by Microsoft. Silver Lake Partners, a PE firm that does investments and leveraged buyouts (LBOs), is conducting an LBO of Dell. Microsoft is merely providing some of the capital for the buyout, which would likely take the form of a loan to Silver Lake Partners.

Again, Microsoft is not buying Dell, Silver Lake Partners is.

It makes a lot of sense for MS 1. from a strategic standpoint, 2. Microsoft having tens of billions of cash reserves which need a return, and 3. MS + Silver lake have a prior relationship: MS purchased Skype from them.

I've used this before. Cleaner API vs shelve, faster setup vs DBMS. Good for quick hack-together projects!

I'm curious if anybody has insight into NSCache's caching algorithm? It would be nice to know the details.

Hah do you guys just have servers sitting around or are you at least co-locating?

Are you hosting your own cluster of using EC2 GPU instances?

Exactly, I would say the biggest problem with oDesk is that it takes so long just to start hacking. The process should ideally be:

1) Claim a project you like 2) Clone the repo, start hacking 3) Get paid

instead of

1) Apply to a project 2) Wait for a response 3) Schedule a skype interview 4) Skype 5) Start hacking, email a zip file (I've honestly been asked to do this) 6) Get paid

I know a lot of people in the industry are wondering if this type of legislation will come stateside. Don't know if anybody else noticed this, but with Google+ it looks like they've already implemented "opt-in" style facerec.

But I think people will be surprised how high the rates are when they make the 'opt-in' button the big blue one.

Another great visualization of the primes is the famous Ulam spiral:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Ulam_1.pn...

One reason Blizzard would do this is to combat RMT + selling your account to a third party. All they would need to do is set up a crawler on eBay or any other website where somebody has posted a screenshot of their account for sale, then dole out a warning / suspension / ban.

You can train your own album with an arbitrary number of people. And who's stallman? That's St IGNUcius of the Church of Emacs!