robspychala
Re:ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can...
on Sunday June 04, 2017 @08:13AM (#14481054)
on face value you can't argue with your logic but if you want to play the long game and help create and contribute to an industry that includes people from all demographics than this is a very smart move.
and more people included in your sample, more chance of finding amazing A++ engineers that can help the industry, your dev platform, etc...
Re:Take-home interviews
on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @05:35PM (#9971736)
From the employees' perspective:
Take home tests are the worst. Company says take home test will take 3 hours to complete. They never do. Schedule 2x or 3x the estimate. Especially if you want to impress the reviewer.
You send it over, then the company says no or yes, only to move to new stage.
In the worst case you ruined your weekend and received a no. But the company just took 10 minutes to arbitrarily reject your application.
From the company's perspective:
I've seen applicants receive friends'/roommates'/spouse's help on take home tests. Not a good indicator at all even with a glowing submission.
Re:To Apple, Love Taylor
on Sunday June 21, 2015 @11:05AM (#9753672)
this sucks but it's not a new technique
music clubs of 15 years ago didn't pay artists for your "12 free CDs" either
Re:Mac OS Screenshot does not Allow DVD Player to Appear in Captured R...
on Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:45AM (#5792410)
also happens when you try to view iTunes movies or shows while controlling your Mac with a remote desktop connection.
super annoying.
Re:Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox
on Thursday May 16, 2013 @10:09AM (#5718667)
super cool. we are doing something similar with Birdseye Mail's Smart Actions http://www.birdseyemail.com/developers ... we opted to reuse open graph tags in favor of creating a new JSON / JavaScript syntax
Still really great that Google signed up partners for the rollout. It's a bit of a chicken vs. the egg problem for technologies like this and it seems they have some cool email providers on board to help with the adoption.
Regardless of the outcome, this is great for consumption of emails and for users who have trouble dealing with their high volume of email.
Re:Open Graph for Email
on Friday February 15, 2013 @03:39PM (#5228487)
That's true. All clients as far as I know strip out javascript for security.
What we do is actually inject scripts into emails to parse information in them.
We've built a bunch or scripts for social networks and retailers like ebay and amazon, but that doesn't really scale. Writing these custom script is time consuming.
So we thought, hey wouldn't it be great if the publishers of the emails annotated their messages with open graph tags (just as they already do with their websites) and that's how the idea. And we just parse those our using some simple javascript (https://github.com/birdseyemail/open-graph-protocol)
It's a bit of a chicken vs. the egg problem. We're hoping other email providers will adopt Open Graph in email so that publishers will have a reason to annotate their content.
And in the end the main motivation is that it's a great thing for consumers to have actions associated with emails. Imagine how much time you would save if you could "add to wishlist" your Groupon email just as easy as archiving it.
Re:This year's iPhone design trend: Side navigation
on Thursday August 30, 2012 @10:33AM (#4454817)
facebook was 1st I believe
Re:Tunneling Below Second Avenue (for New Subway)
on Sunday August 05, 2012 @11:52AM (#4341734)
East Side Access is another amazing project in NYC. going to bring LIRR to Grand Central in 2019 ish.
i've been somewhat documenting its progress at http://eastsideaccess.tumblr.com
Re:Twitter shut down my startup.
on Thursday June 07, 2012 @05:17PM (#4081388)
BTW, we're using heroku and ironmq for all the backend heavy lifting. Perhaps twitter got spooked by the volume of API calls. A testament to seamless cloud scalability. And of course we soon hope to get the twitter issue addressed so we can be operational and help causes spread their word.
Re:An Open Letter To Those Not Employed At Instagram
on Monday April 16, 2012 @05:42AM (#3846675)
agreed. I started http://snaplog.com around the same time.
Re:The amazing iOS 5 API and iPhone 4S hardware nobody talks about
on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @08:42PM (#3350213)
this API is it. no approval process as far as is known. the CB api treats devices no differently than web sites as far as Apple is concerned.
the reason that there are no apps yet is that only iPhone 4S has the heardware for CB and no CB chipsets out there yet in devices. chicken and egg problem which hopefully will be solved with the iPhone 4S adoption.
Re:The amazing iOS 5 API and iPhone 4S hardware nobody talks about
on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @05:19PM (#3349622)
oh man. can you retry? i think it's cause not all the assets loaded (ran out of free quota on GAE) fixing now.
Re:The amazing iOS 5 API and iPhone 4S hardware nobody talks about
on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @05:18PM (#3349618)
is it still broken? rand out of quota for a few minutes so maybe not all the assets loaded.
Re:The amazing iOS 5 API and iPhone 4S hardware nobody talks about
on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @05:17PM (#3349613)
looks like GAE quota was reached. fixing now.
article is also mirrored on tumblr @
The amazing iOS 5 API and iPhone 4S hardware nobody talks about
http://www.de-de.com/blog/14177518904-bluetooth
CoreBluetooth 4.0 LE
Re:Brubeck: A new Python web framework running on mongrel2
on Sunday July 17, 2011 @11:25PM (#2774980)
BTW, how is the performance compared to sync pymongo in your use? I'm testing with eventlet and seeing it about 10-20% slower.
The future is DotCloud
Re:Treehouse Hits The Deadpool; Founder Off To Google
on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @08:41PM (#2278103)
http://snaplog.com, http://clowdy.com and probably dozens more.
Re:Rate my app: Squarelog.com
on Monday October 18, 2010 @01:52PM (#1804430)
big diff is that suqarelog.com can be a replacement for 4sq's client ... for launch i'm touting the photos feature because it's the biggest differentiator over 4sq's official app
I wanted to make squarelog.com to feel like an app designed by apple. Heavy on polish and refinements.
Rate my app: Squarelog.com
http://www.squarelog.compromo codes:9TXNE7YJH4E3 RLW6KHRPJMPW RR437MMEJMEJSquarelog is an iPhone that allows you to easily add photos to your checkins.
Re:Fluid Layout from Hicksdesign
on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @05:03PM (#1456326)
rga.com has been doing this on their main site for a while now
Re:Who's using Google App Engine?
on Saturday April 03, 2010 @07:39PM (#1239338)
We're using it for http://www.scienceslides.com/ ... a place for scientists to download signaling pathway slides in powerpoint format, etc...
Overengineering is like snoring
Entrepreneur ADD
Do you ever find that you have a few decent ideas that you could pursue but need to pick one obviously since there only is so much time in the world.what do you do? how do you vet the best one?Do you just think really hard and just pick which one to work 100% on? Or do 2 or 3 beta versions and then pick?
Re:Play framework for Java - a radical rethink of Java web app develop...
on Friday October 23, 2009 @12:11PM (#899024)
http://m.mlb.com/ uses a hybrid Freemarker / Groovy / Java framework called MVC+GF. During the 2009 season it was able to scale with out issues during peak hours (9th innings, etc). That's hundreds of requests a sec a server - pretty cool.
Groovy is used cause it has closures (java doesn't) and is simpler and easier than Scala.
Re:Review my startup: ScienceSlides.com
on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @09:23AM (#729928)
great suggestion. thanks!
Review my startup: ScienceSlides.com
Unless you're a scientist, educator or a grad student who is studying to be a scientists or an educator in bio-technology and medial fields then this site might not offer too much much for you. Still, I wanted to post this here to gather feedback since it might offer inspiration with programmers with similar projects.The website is built on Google App Engine in python. I feel that the general...
Standing desk for coding
http://robert.snaplog.com/:GwE/brooklyn_standing_standup_desk_project_completein
I find that working at a standing desk is the most ergonomic way to code.Previously i have bought tables, but recently i got inspired by the Door Desk, and decided to build my own.This is the result.In the end building a desk was easier and cheaper than I thought!
Re:Short URL hints / autodiscovery RFC
on Monday April 13, 2009 @06:06PM (#560613)
http://wiki.snaplog.com/short_url#TOC-Suggestions-from-commu...
the rev attribute is deprecated from HTML5