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While it would have been cool if we had done that, it was easier to just use Photoshop. We can put the PSDs on Dropbox or something.

ybot also put them up on Flickr in case you don't like Posterous's browser:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobywaite/sets/7215762579956148...

Well, depending on the recruiter...

No, sorry, but if you want to write some rules for us to tweak the cards to fit, feel free!

Wow, I've never had to do this before...could the downvoter explain him/herself?

Yep, now I can finally write that Webkit-based book layout software I've been wanting!

I have the Disconnect extension for Chrome installed so I can't see what the submitter is trying to get me to see. Can someone fill me in?

I'll be an intern at Yelp this summer, so I'd like to know what I'm getting into if shady things are happening.

So many great quotes.

Q. Now that you're 30 and an estate owner, do you see a settled life for yourself, a family, big Silicon Valley parties, furniture?

A. Actually, I bought a few Eames chairs so I have a place to sit down and read a book, other than the floor.

Weird, I had a project doing this exact same thing, just not as far along and not very well documented. I never actually had a use for it, just thought it was a cool problem. I had a nice functional algorithm for doing it. (Again, not documented except through some graphviz output.)

Seeing this, I may stop working on it.

https://github.com/irskep/t-reg

"Instantaneously, for free" is nowhere near what this paper claims (O(n^4m)).

This is more of a question for Stack Overflow. At the very least, it's not deprecated in the spec at all.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3528746/are-image-maps-ma...

It was a Posterous bug which was fixed after a brief email exchange.

I usually either try to make something that could become a viable product, or do something I could never get paid for in a million years but can work on for a class.

First category: games, data mining tools, audio.

Second category: weird web apps, new programming languages, operating systems.

(I have done almost all of these and they all turned out well as projects.)

It's also nice to build something for your fellow students. Do the extracurricular groups have good web presences? Is there some kind of odd thing you can track and display? Could you pull off a massive prank and integrate the project somehow?

Last thing: no matter what, do something that requires you to learn at least one new skill.

If you think that the "neat icons" are why people think the OS X interface is good, then you have a serious case of programmer tunnel vision.

Yes.

What are some other sources of data about colleges? I'm interested in similar (but not the same) data mining projects.

I hate to use an HN thread for this kind of thing, but you don't have your email address in your profile or on your blog. Would you mind shooting me an email? I'm collecting people who write well about colleges they attended. (Nefarious purposes, obviously.)

Ad Hominem Day isn't until next Tuesday.

Effectively a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2038976.

Probably meant iTunes.

What? No it wouldn't. The fact that you can use your existing, free Dropbox account means that 1Password can provide you a lot more value at no cost to you or them.

And it's not like 1Password doesn't encrypt what it puts on Dropbox.

I'm extremely surprised to see Franken on this list. Wasn't he outspoken against this sort of thing?

Dupe from a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011564

This does not go to a press release or news article, just a vanilla Outlook login page that appears to have nothing to do with the rumored "Facebook Mail." Did you just find this by going to mail.facebook.com?

Why do you think you need to understand their motivations? It's a simple proposition: you give them money, and they make the software better because they are able to buy servers, take time off work, etc.

I never liked that Atwood post because he cherry picked one open source product to raise a stink about when there are thousands of other individual projects that can use donations. Also, the Apache Foundation, the PSF, the FSF, and many more organizations have a history of taking and using donations to advance the development and use of many open source projects.

As for your comments about not being motivated to work on FOSS or not understanding why it exists, I'm not sure how that's relevant to this discussion. I don't have the time or inclination to argue with you about why OSS exists and is important, but while it's here and actively helping me do my job, I don't understand an argument against supporting those projects with bug reports, patches, and yes, money.

Very packageable, actually. Here it is on Github: https://github.com/irskep/steveasleep

It reads the sidebar from content/site.yaml. Sidebar items can point either to external links or refer to Markdown files also in content/ which are converted to HTML at request time. The only other remaining customization is to change the theme in content/templates/.

I like this instead of the feed-me-URLs setup because you can edit the Markdown and just hit Deploy in App Engine Launcher. Also, if I ever decide to move to App Engine, I have almost no barrier because I use the data store only for caching Posterous and Github information.

Note that this may break any API libraries. For example, github2 broke. I have patched it: github.com/irskep/github2

Yes, I need github2 bad enough to patch it within two hours of it breaking. Otherwise the "Steve's last 10 Github commits" stream won't display on my site! The horror!

Edit: Scratch that. Apparently I was cloning from the wrong repository and the up-to-date version works fine.

My solution for the last three or so years has been to maintain a personal site (http://www.steveasleep.com/) that consists of these things:

  * Links to and descriptions for relevant projects
  * List of recent blog posts (optional)
  * Latest 10 commits I have made to Github
  * HTML/PDF résumé
  * Links to my profiles on SO, HN, etc.

As a college student casting about for internships, that simple combination has helped me a lot. If you're interested, I could help set you up with the super-simple backend that can be hosted for free on App Engine.

I've also thought about adding a "hacker résumé" to supplement the regular one. The college job search format usually requires a conventional (boring) one-sheet résumé, but I would also like to provide a summary of hackerly accomplishments for the people I actually want reading my site.

I think that Ted Nelson's complaints about computerized layout processes are not quite relevant to Kimbro's situation. While it is true that Nelson could not effectively lay out Computer Lib digitally, it was more a problem of the layout systems' inability to support efficient editing of complex layouts and content rather than the computer's inability to capture his thought process, which was probably kept in separate notes.

I haven't seen a good solution to the layout problem either, though my experience is limited to TeX and word processing applications.