xenoterracide

I've been thinking about doing something similar. If you'd like to brainstorm on how to make it work let me know.

I think it's possible. Firstly you need to tell people it is different. Secondly drop the email, have the form redirect to their profile. I think you should add a radio button or something that provides the options login/create/lost password. have login be the default.

then show it to someone for usability testing. If it doesn't work make 2 separate forms.

actually you could just have one link that says something like login / register

yeah go with EC2 first... get users... and more users... until EC2 doesn't cut it... then turn the virtual machines into dedicated servers somewhere. Truth is you'd have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to get the reliability amazon should be selling you for much less.

depending on what you want to do dev wise you should strengthen your skills in these by working on actual apps in them. Get involved with a favorite open source project in on of these languages. School doesn't generally teach real world coding in my experience.

slavery?! every part of the world has had slavery at some point... (Most of those countries had revolutions... we had a civil war)

Vietnam? at least we have the guts to go to war. Europe didn't and they got their asses handed to them, we then bailed them out.

Pox blankets? stupid or asinine (I'm not looking it up. Your probably referring to us infecting the 'Native Americans') but I'm sure we aren't the first to do something like that.

Being an actual American... I don't see that we are all that patriotic.

potentially possible that he needs money to establish an infrastructure to allow users.

http://w3schools.com is good for real real beginners... http://www.webdevout.net/ good for some more tips...

I like o'reilly's book web design in a nutshell very good reference (little dated in some cases (not much for beginner, has all the ropes, just not up on latest browsers firefox 1.0 or 1.5...) though hopefully a 4th edition is on it's way)

ooh... and don't forget http://csszengarden.com great for seeing how powerful css really is and getting some good idea's for design.

ah... sorry dude.. accidental mod down trying to highlight goplan.info... I'm kinda in the same boat as you (perhaps) all todo list software I find really doesn't fit what I'm looking for.

django has a free book for their framework

http://www.djangobook.com

you should talk to the amarok people, the last.fm support should probably become a scripted plugin anyways...

I believe the answer to this choice of words comes from pg's essay on what we tell kids. It's inappropriate. Especially as a headline.

not that many. But at the same time I don't know of any males claiming to be females (on freenode).

You have disrespected them (and potentially males) by claiming that all who claim to be female on IRC are in fact male, and that we should be aware that they are lying. I have no such knowledge that they are... and it simply doesn't matter to me if they are. But I prefer to believe people are honest, and if someone claiming to be a female on IRC is actually a male, it probably won't matter much to me, because I'm not on IRC to date in the first place.

note: the actual male to female ratio is irrelevant.

I've never had the problem with people pretending on freenode, not like you do on, say, yahoo chat.

Seriously, do we need to promote the stereotype of "don't believe someone if they say they are a girl". Better advice, say "cool" when someone says they are a girl, and otherwise ignore it.

In a sort of case/point, the most famous female on freenode, imho, is Christel http://blog.simplychristel.net/ the person that took over for lilo (when he passed away) on freenode, not including the other FOSS projects she's involved with.

I don't think I would insult her (and myself) by suggesting she isn't female, nor would I insult her (and myself) by 'throwing' myself at her.

She (and any other woman) should be respected, by the same standards you would respect a male.

In the last job I applied for they dismissed a candidate because he showed up in tshirt and jeans.

In a previous job I applied for (electricians helper) they wouldn't hire you if you applied in a suit.

I believe in both jobs business casual was fine. It really depends on the interviewers though.

If I were interviewing you and you weren't wearing business casual I might ask why, but that's me. The reason I would ask why is it will give me insight to your personality, and circumstances. You might be having a tough break, you might enjoy wearing suits, or you might think appearances don't matter.

I haven't figured out why it's so hard for people to do this by hand, althought I'll admit sometimes it's a challenge. I think they miss tables.

awesome... I never new that bash could do this.

I've been downvoted for explaining to a guy why he was being downvoted. he then told me his 'trolling' was a joke and to have a sense of humor (he was already at -4) then I started getting downvoted and he got upvoted.

or in our case, we are applying and combining existing proven technologies into existing markets that haven't used this tech yet. Stay tuned for updates on how well we do, but if we fail it's not likely due to that.

Feel free to tell me if I'm wrong, but you have to run a windows server to run asp.net and that comes with a whole plethora of maintainance and security issues. There's also the cost factor, you know IIS, MS SQL, etc... If you want the whole M$ package. It gets expensive just to break into it, and even worse on maintainance, as you have to watch out for all those viruses and broken service packs. This is why people say Microsoft Sucks. So there is some technical merit to it.

I believe asp.net can be run on *nix via mono, and an apache mod. However, my experience with mono is that it sucks (I've never developped in it just use apps developped in it).

Other than advising against the M$ path on an administrative perspective, I can't really give you a fair comparison.

I set my browser window size to 1024x768 and I test in opera, ff, and konqueror (probably test graphic links and epiphany too). I don't worry about the height that much though.

I still don't _always_ see the downvote... there is at least one other factor involved. not sure what it though.

I hate foot notes period... unless their are links to them... and links back. They aren't so bad in books... (but still suck there) but in web pages they drive me nuts.

web programming, it's something they can see the results of right away and prettier sooner. You must keep them interested, imho. on top of html/css show them js and php/mysql perhaps even teaching them ajax (you can sub php/mysq for preferred lang, db).

interesting... care to show us this 'wonderful superwoman code' so we can emulate its style?

http://www.last.fm/user/xenoterracide/ easiest way to find out what I'm listening to.

Not really news, but I enjoyed it when I read it several months ago.

I've been wondering about open source software as a service. Could you make web software, theme it, and offer it as a pay for service. Think amazon or maybe ebay. What would happen if they opened their software.

asside from linux where can I find 'the cube'? no where.

(Co-founder) well we are/aren't trying to prematurely optimize. It's more like 4 great languages to choose (depending on option) and we don't really know enough to pick and learn one. So we're polling to find out if there is really something that we should with a few requirements. Like we care more about how fast the code runs than the speed of coding.But generally not to the excess of writing in C (etc).

I'm the Ops Co-founder. True C like languages are faster, but we don't need quite that much speed. nothing Scientific, or really mission critical. I mostly want the code to run faster vs ease of coding. So if the app was going to take longer running in php than python, but faster to code, I would still want python.