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Yeah. Lots of websites do this. And I wish they'd stop.

Very inspirational story! What school did you go to for completing your Computer Science BS?

Perhaps it is because it is more likely for a hardware company to be able to afford the $18500 fee for DEMO, while software companies are generally poorer and might chose to go the cheaper TC50 route.

It is interesting to note that the majority of startups at DEMO are hardware companies while most at TechCrunch50 are software companies.

Wait... you want Mike Arrington to give preference to people who are young and poor, regardless of the merits of their startup? If David Sacks has a better startup to present, why would he be turned down? Isn't the primary goal of TC50 to showcase cool startups?

Chrome is a verb now?

I think the second browser war started when Firefox was released.

There was plenty of buzz about a Google browser over the years. Even the BBC covered it way back in 2004, around when the Chrome team was established: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3680942.stm

In addition, plenty of small blogs covered it: http://kottke.org/04/08/the-google-browser http://thetruthaboutmozilla.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/the-goo...

So there were plenty of rumors flying around about Chrome. Its just that they were lost in the sea of rumors any large company has.

Warning: link is a PDF.

Scribd can't seem to convert it.

And the blog post where you can congratulate the team: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/sep/03/1/

Take their payout, quit, and do it all over again!

GreenSQL is interesting, but it just adds another layer of complexity and another link in the chain. It might be useful to somewhat secure old code with minimal dev work, but no programmer should depend on it, especially since every single modern programming language offers secure methods to conduct database queries.

I understand that. I'm not disputing the fact that a 128 bit random integer is hard to guess.

The problem, however, is that it is being stored as a string. As such, if you decide to use the 32 character hex representation as a password, you're essentially storing a 32 character string that can only consist of 0-9a-f.

A random 32 character alphanumeric string would correspond to a random integer much larger than 128 bits, and as such, would be much stronger. There's no benefit to go with a weaker password.

Of course it will, since the password is stored as a string. It may be a random set of 0-9a-f, but a brute force attack will still only need to use those characters. Compare that to a password of the same character length using any possible characters and you can see that it is clearly weaker.

What's with the huge smiley face taking up half the browser window?

I'm so glad to see Django inching closer to a real release. Their last release (0.96) is woefully old, so the only choice most developers have is to pick a random SVN trunk revision and develop against that. Deploying an SVN Head build of anything to production is just plain scary.

A blogspot blog plastered with ads doesn't ooze with trustability. I'd like to see a better source before I believe this.

I'd love an invite. my handle @ inzain.net

If that was the case, they would probably get a dedicated domain for it instead of using knol.google.com.

Then you can debug, but your changes aren't picked up unless you restart the server -- which is exactly what dabeeeenster and I are complaining about.

I've found it very hard to find an IDE that works properly with Django.

In particular, there seems to be no way debug code while using the Django dev server with its autoreload feature. This means that either you don't debug code, or you have to restart the Django dev server every time you make a change. Very annoying.

Also, I haven't been able to find any Eclipse/IDEA level features in a Python IDE... things like being able to ctrl+click on an object to see where it was defined, or a "Find Usages" feature.

All in all, I think there is a huge opportunity to innovate in the web IDE department. Python, RoR, and even PHP all still need a killer IDE.

It's a little amusing that Loopt pulled off a better Yelp application than Yelp itself.

Yelp promised tons of cool location-aware features for their iPhone app, but what they released today is little more than Yelp Mobile. Terrible usability and lack of new features.

I'd say that Loopt, on the other hand, is the best app released today. I'm very impressed at what they're doing. And Yelp integration is just icing on the cake.

Am I the only one who was thinking "Wow, this is stupidly impossible" while reading the story? He was trying to say that our minds make us think its possible, but that point was totally lost on me.

His code tag makes the page super super wide.

"Any thoughts on PHP frameworks?"

CakePHP is a powerful, popular one. It gives you Ruby/Django's famed MVC in PHP.

I attended Startup Weekend in West Lafayette (we were the first team to actually launch within the weekend) and San Francisco (we were the only team to do a non-profit app), and I can't recommend it enough.

The actual startups created were worthless, but fun. And above all, it was an amazing networking opportunity: I lined up work for over six months now on two different (good) startups based on the contacts I made at Startup Weekend.

One thing though -- the original organizer who set up the SWs I went to (Andrew Hyde) is no longer the organizer. He's started working for TechStars and has handed the reigns over to a guy named Raymond.

What's the point of using 280Slides if you're just going to save it to disk as a PPT presentation? Why not just make it in PPT in the first place?

There's been a number of job postings today. Would you guys approve if I started up a "YC Jobs" site?

Wow. Talk about flamebait.

Just got the response (11:46pm PST). I'm in, woo hoo!