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After my internship I worked part-time while finishing up my last year of school, then joined full-time after graduating.

I joined Khan Academy as an intern in summer 2012 and have been with the company ever since. We're not going to top Facebook, but I can assure you that we compensate interns competitively. Given the massive contributions that interns like Elizabeth have made, nothing else would make sense to me.

What do you find deficient about hterm?

What's cool about our industry is that interns can contribute a lot, on or soon after day one.

By the same turn, it's also much easier to propose and make corrections. If I discover an error in my computer graphics textbook, I'd have to...call the publisher and see if they can fix it in the next edition, I guess. Perhaps the textbook industry's fixation on keeping students buying the newest editions of their books has actual benefits...

Marking the heap's region of memory as non-executable improves security. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_space_protection

Saw it on Twitter and had to submit, y'all are pretty cool.

What traffic from 60 Minutes looks like: http://bjk5.com/post/30813320623/what-traffic-from-60-minute...

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You're correct--because we have a Premier account, which anyone else can obtain too: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/premier/

There's nothing about Khan Academy's application (or any other customer's) that would somehow immunize it from platform-wide serving issues.

Yep. We (Khan Academy) have a lot riding on App Engine, and they are supportive when we run into issues with the platform.

I'm talking about the internships offered by many tech companies to college students, which are always paid (often very competitively). I'm a student, and have benefited from these myself, but I'd imagine that from an employer's perspective hosting interns is a relatively low-risk way to get to know some potential full-time candidates pretty well.

Whither internships? The best way to find out if you like working with someone is to go ahead and work with them for a little bit.

I don't remember specifically, but that'd be my guess. Non-root users in containers have been fine for a while now.

Yes.

Container-based virtualization is already here, but without user namespaces root privilege in the container implies root privilege in the host. That's no longer the case; interesting times indeed.

"Pending request latency arises when all of your application's available instances are too busy to serve new requests. When this happens, incoming requests go to a pending request queue." https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/pe...

Pending latency is exposed as a metric on the App Engine Dashboard.

Indeed, while having a global request queue is good, the scheduler's one-size-fits-all behavior can sometimes be suboptimal. Thankfully there are several ways in which it can be tuned: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/pe...