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I also work as an engineer for an ad related company (openx) and I similarly believe we do none of the above. On the engineering side we mostly write code that gets called billions…

I took CS-373 with Prof Erickson ten years ago. It was hard. But he was also possibly the best lecturer I had while in school.

I thought they did something similar three years ago, but it didn't get traction and they sunset it. It makes a lot of sense, maybe the market is ready for it now.

We're OpenX, located in Pasadena, CA. We're willing to relocate, and the internship length is flexible. The internships are paid. We wrote an ad server and have our own ad exchange…

Yes! As an 'old' programmer with a family, I thought long and hard before leaving a stable job and joining a startup. In the end I decided that it was worth it even if I had to fin…

Cool, thanks for the response. I'm enjoying the service. Good luck.

If anyone from earbits happens to be reading - would you please provide an alternative to FB for login? I don't have an FB account and I won't get one just to sign up for your serv…

Generally, I think: "Great, you implemented a feature and registered a domain for it."

I like what you said, and it mirrors my experience. It comes down to what your priorities are. In my case it's family, work, then other stuff. It's a lie to believe that you can ha…

Only 15 minutes for lunch with your girlfriend? I'll give you some feedback: if you'd like this relationship to last, she's going to need a little more time than that. =)

Have kids. Surprisingly effective. Also encourages development of other positive character traits.

Excellent book! I'm enjoying my copy and find it a great complement to the other two. riak_kv uses gen_fsm, so people looking for a real world use case could check out their usage:…

Angry Birds Privacy policy: http://www.rovio.com/index.php?page=angry-birds---frequently... I was pissed until I read the FAQ and discovered when they're using data and what they'r…

Thanks! Worked for me. A colleague just recommended this book last week.

Thanks! I thought perhaps the numbers were so low for those languages that they didn't merit inclusion, but that seems not to be the case (certainly not for Lisp).

Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance). Personally, I'm …

This is a problem with the downloadable version, which is written for the LAMP stack and grew over something like 10 years as an open-source effort. Not surprisingly, YMMV (as with…

I launched a service to production last week that uses riak_core to distribute load/storage to 8 nodes. Documentation is a little sparse, but I was impressed by how easy it was to …

Interesting, you're defining "worth" as "the difficulty with which something is obtained." I agree, it is a neat thought exercise. I was defining worth as "the value that something…

The other day I came across a comment on HN from one of the creators of Erlang. His karma is 31. I just checked the profiles of the top ten people on the leader-board and while I'm…

And, by implication, Perl is not the hottest girl in the room? (which I'd certainly agree with)

See my comment above - OpenX is being DDOS'ed. The upgrade didn't bring it down, though it's likely that the DDOS is intended to keep people from upgrading.

OpenX is being DDOS'ed, that's why the site is down.