sharpemt

I did this as part of my wedding proposal.

I wrote up a simple web app that accepted two different secrets to "login" (one for each person). Once logged in, you were presented with a photo and asked for a comment (first thing that comes to mind or a reaction).

If only one comment was submitted, it would tell you to remind your partner to leave a comment. Once both parties submitted a comment, the photo displayed with both comments and a countdown to the next photo. The countdown varied from 12-48 hours randomly - to give me time to figure out when to actually propose. This ran for several weeks total.

It was fun to see our comments - sometimes they would nearly match. Or reveal something we didn't remember about a historical date/event we shared.

I eventually used the site to pop the question, and then made the whole thing into a photo book, including a word cloud built from each of our comments. Was really fun to see each of our most common words.

It was an incredibly simple, fun project using flask/sqlite on an ec2 instance.

Looks like Akamai Technologies just posted for a number of intern positions: http://www.akamai.com/html/careers/index.html

What is the differentiator from other image sharing sites like imgur?

I took a contest at my school to make a gps-waypoint-driven (rc)car.

Was really interesting interfacing the arduino with an h-bridge for motor control, GPS module, and servo.

These are powerful little devices.

The small bit of documentation I attempted is here: http://arduino-car.blogspot.com/

Do you have to throttle back to 1 api request per second per ip? Any worries about hitting the daily request limit with Amazon?

I subscribe to adexchanger's news letter which covers industry trends and what-not.

There is a lot of noise, but good coverage of the big players / industry level news.

www.adexchanger.com

Likely much faster ways of going through this but to expand on your thought:

#!/bin/bash

     for (( i=1; $i < 1250646; i++))

     do

                curl -s http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/people/$i | grep advanced_search_query | cut -d\" -f12 >> people.txt

     done

Something similar to check-out. Based in javascript and lets you visually verify basic patterns on text-blocks: http://regexpal.com/

This seems great - the only thing stopping me from buying is knowing how annoyed my room mate would get after the first week or two.

Is there any plan to make "Monday / Friday" plans or something less frequent?

My only suggestion might be to add some finer granularity to location. I zoom into Boston and just see one blob - when it might be nice to see zip-code level granularity.

I try to change my location to Cambridge MA, but it stays in Boston.

Maybe handle geocoding zip codes etc.?

A request for student pricing to Panic was denied last March :(

It would be awesome if more smaller dev companies remembered what it was like to be college students.

http://imgur.com/46bQA.png

Sorry in advance for horrible photo quality...

Nice and messy right now - was working on an GPS(RC)-Car Arduino project. Monitors not turned on due to the cluttered work-surface. (primary machine is a 15" santa rosa mbp) http://atk.me/files/170b56c8056c4aed4ad8f52e94182921.jpg

Couch-surfing setup with dell mini 10 (yes win7 - dual booting 10.04): http://atk.me/files/5642a6e504556e788427ad9f7d95f60b.jpg

Finally - my setup last year (not sure why mtvU was on.. used the TV for gaming every so often: http://atk.me/files/8d1798def07a5627c55c2173fc2daa52.jpg

What is the background on that CRT in Full.jpg? :)