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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Thread.com (YC S12) - Software engineer who loves product (Python/Django) London, England.
We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.
You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.
One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.
We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.
Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/
Thanks!
Comment · 12 years ago
Thread.com (YC S12) - Software engineer who loves product (Python/Django) London, England.
We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.
You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.
One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.
We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.
Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/
Thanks!
Comment · 12 years ago
Not to sound too much like an Amazon product page, but if you like this, you'll probably quite like "Unix for Poets" - http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~padro/Unixforpoets.pdf . It's my favourite 'intro' to text/data mangling using unix utils.
Comment · 12 years ago
Thread.com (YC S12) - Software engineer who loves product (Python/Django) London, England. https://www.thread.com/jobs
We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.
You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.
One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.
We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.
Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/
Thanks!
Comment · 12 years ago
Thanks! Beat me to it :).
Comment · 12 years ago
Good question -- it's hard! It is partially up to the moderator, but their job is more on the side preventing people from hogging the conversation, i.e. giving the opportunity for everyone to say something. Naturally we encourage everyone to talk if they have something to contribute, but we can't force them to :).
Comment · 12 years ago
It is a problem indeed. We found the best solution to #2 is to avoid any massively niche topics. For example, "has anyone used <specific Python library>" isn't great for a group conversation: it instantly excludes people who haven't used that library, as well as people who don't know Python. Instead we try to stick to topics which everyone can relate to (even weakly), e.g. process-related topics are great for this.
Comment · 12 years ago
Clickable: http://www.manytomany.co.uk/
Comment · 12 years ago
Was not meaning my comment as a slight to you at all, it's a very cool app you've got here. Best of luck with it!
Comment · 12 years ago
Neat!
From their JS:
readinglvl = getReadingLevel(paragraphs, sentences, words, chars);
[..]
function getReadingLevel (p, s, w, c) {
var r = Math.round((4.75 * (c / w)) + (0.5 * (w / s)) - 21.43);
return r;
}
Comment · 13 years ago
For a site that's (apparently) hosting an article about a security vulnerability, they _really_ need to turn debug mode off.
For those wondering what I'm on about when the site starts functioning again, I got an error page akin to a Django page with `DEBUG = True`, listing useful information as the full path to the PHP script being run, the user it's being run as, , etc.
Comment · 13 years ago
Agree that lxml is certainly quite large and batteries-included, but I've always found I can do pretty much everything I want to just using a few select methods, namely etree and xpath.
E.g. for extracting URLs from a sitemap:
from lxml import etree
root = etree.XML(data)
urls = root.xpath(
'.//sitemap:loc/text()',
namespaces={
'sitemap': 'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9',
}
)
import urllib2
from lxml import etree
data = urllib2.urlopen('https://news.ycombinator.com/rss').read()
root = etree.XML(data)
for i, item in enumerate(root.xpath('.//item')):
print i, item.xpath('title/text()')[0]
print item.xpath('description/text()')[0]
print item.xpath('link/text()')[0]
print
https://www.thread.com/jobs
We're a startup trying to reinvent retail so men can dress well without being subject to the horrors of the high street or having to trawl through millions of items online. We do this using a combination of powerful algorithms and human stylists.
You'd be joining a small, highly technical team with a ton of startup experience (the founders have started and sold 2 companies before). You'll be one of the first technical hires and get to build and own huge parts of the product and work on the core algorithms.
One of our ancillary goals is to build one of the best engineering cultures anywhere, and we'd love you to help us do that. We launched in October and user and revenue numbers are scaling extremely quickly. We're backed by a collection of the top investors from London and Silicon Valley as well as Y Combinator.
We're especially interested in people who are interested in founding their own startup one day. We view working at Thread as a founder bootcamp where you'll learn about all parts of starting and growing a startup.
Want to learn more? Check out https://www.thread.com/jobs and you can see some of our code at http://dev.thread.com/
Thanks!