Core-apps.com is hiring paid interns with the ability to telecommute. Our primary web stack is Ruby (Sinatra) backed by a blend of CouchDB, Redis, and PostgreSQL. We also have native iPhone and Android clients, but we're only looking for iPhone interns at the moment.
Small startup, self funded, fast moving. Feel free to email me at jon at the domain above for more info!
I have one, and I love it as well. I have a hard time committing to read long things on my computer -- I now just put it on my kindle, and when I'm away from my computer, I can focus and really read the articles.
But portions can be open source, as long as you keep what makes you as a business closed initially, you can retain control over your bloodline, while either open sourcing chunks or utilizing other open source projects.
I just heard about Plurk. Funny. Looks like it's a new thing. I don't think it's going to last. Its problem is that it adds on complex, unneeded features to a simple idea.
That's what made Twitter so huge: its astounding simplicity. It lost points for being TOO simple and for having downtime, but that's what made it huge. Tumblr has that feel to it: that feeling that it's as simple as it can get, with a few exceptions. It's an exhilarating feeling.
Plurk doesn't have that. It feels to me like Twitter with clutter.
I thought the title meant it was using Altivec or SSE, but it's merely operating on a chunk of 4 bytes at a time dealing with misaligned data up front. Still a good article, despite my initial disappointment.
A similar article which originally taught me these tenants is:
If you're using HTTP Basic auth, your browser will happily cache the credentials and re-submit them every time when asked for the same server/realm combination. You'll need to restart your browser to clear the cached auth data.
Small startup, self funded, fast moving. Feel free to email me at jon at the domain above for more info!