I was a philosophy dropout software engineer who worked on the other side of the country and was aggressively recruited by Palantir a few years back (I passed, mostly not wanting to relocate)... I think they like to keep that top-tier CS count high but still go after engineering talent when they spot it, like any half-sane software shop. The degree thing probably (theoretically?) helps the sales pitch but it's not like an East Coast "white-shoe" firm where anything other than a Harvard MBA is automatic disqualification.

I thought we resolved this with hackernews.el - why would you read hackernews with anything but Emacs?

IT MAKES NO SENSE>

Because emacs?

Is AltaVista going to do an IoT pivot next? Maybe Pets.com?

I really want to read cheesy near future speculative fiction from the late '90s where they toss around hot brands of the day like that. But I don't think any cyberpunk author worth their salt would have done something so easily that would go out of date.

Though this always gets a kick out of me (Orion's Arm, online massive sci-fi collaborative project http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b2afc424975):

[2017] - Personal Virtual Reality media interfaces begin to take the market share from TV, radio, films, and other media.

[2018] - First supercomputer using memristors, 'Harvey', constructed by a team lead by Peter Shor at Bell labs, with funding from IBM, Lycos, RedHat and Pepsi.

They made a joint venture with Geocities

I covered evil-mode in my previous post[1], mostly advising new converts not to rely on it, but just to take the Emacs plunge completely.

[1] http://decomplecting.org/blog/2014/10/23/welcome-to-the-dark...

Definitely! Angel List has a really simple REST API, it shouldn't be hard to do.

I used it with my (fake) EdTEch Startup Generator[1], to check if my fake startup is actually a real startup. I was surprised how often it happens.

[1] http://eduwampus.herokuapp.com *

* May load a little slow, it's on Heroku free tier.

I love that Solaris is such an essential target... Oh, how I miss you, Sun...

My school still has an old SPARC machine running Solaris 5.x that all of the CS students have accounts on. They even have gnome installed and X11 forwarding enabled, but I'm not sure why...

Even in C, always remember the rules of Macro Club[1]:

1) You do not write macros.

2) You do not write macros that violate expectations of normal code behavior.

3) If this is your first time, you must write a macro.

4) Don't think object-oriented.

5) No shirt, No shoes, No dynamic scope.

6) Don't create new scoping rules.

[1] http://stuartsierra.com/download/2010-10-23-clojure-conj-mac...

> I agree on the point of frameworks. I don't like any that exist so I made my own Rails-inspired one.

With blackjack and hookers? Please say with blackjack and hookers.

Haha, thanks for making me laugh. This comment section is truly terrible.

I'd actually be okay with this if they also stopped using LaserShip. They're part of the reason packages take "significantly longer than the advertised two days" to arrive.

If youre a Prime member and a package misses it's promised delivery date you should contact customer support. SOP is to increase your prime subscription by one month.

Build more warehouses, partner directly with USPS. USPS delivers every day, to almost everyone. Just get your shipments to those sorting centers by 2-4am, and next day delivery for vast swaths of the US becomes easier.

They've been doing that. In Southern California, I get deliveries 7 days a week now, with USPS handling the Saturday and Sunday deliveries.

This is brilliant. I can't wait for it to make it to Chicago. I'd buy EVERYTHING from Amazon.

"Thou shalt not take the name of root in vain."