I'm currently working on something similar called MyJam, which lets you collaboratively build playlists and vote for the favorite songs which then rise to the top of the queue. We won Startup Weekend Ottawa! Check it out here: http://myjam.co/
Wow, that looks great, I'll have to give it a go. Where were all these similar apps a year ago?
Side comment: There is a site called https://www.thisismyjam.com/ might get confusing, not sure who was first though. It's pretty hard finding a unique name in this space, took me AGES to come up with Playlistful.
Great post. If you want to dig in even deeper you can learn certain nuances of underlying assembly language like loop unrolling, reducing the number of memory accesses, number of branch instructions per iteration of any loops by rewriting the loop, rearranging instructions or register usage to reduce the dependencies between instructions.
I took a CPSC course last year and for one of the labs we improved the performance of fread and fwrite C library calls by playing with the underlying assembly. We maintained a leader board with the fastest times achieved and it was a lot of fun to gain insight into the low level mechanics of system calls.
Nice overall layout. The only thing I would change is the email address text box. I could not find where to fill in my email until I clicked around and discovered that the email address name tag itself is the input box. Maybe append a blinking cursor to it so users know where to input the address.
I was playing with the color for the email field placeholder but settled with white (though some washed color would indicate that it is a placeholder text). Blinking cursor is nice idea, will try that locally.
Were you on mobile or desktop browser? On my android phone submit button just goes into another row below input, maybe some other phone renders it differently. Maybe I need to change the form completely on phones.
Glad to finally see Amazon announce this. Also I can finally share with family and friends about what I worked on during my internship at Broadcom. It took longer than expected for Amazon to finally release it which makes me think they went through multiple chip design iterations after I finished my internship at Broadcom last year. So long in fact that I thought it would never see the light of day. Excited to see how customers respond, this is definitely going to shake things up. Glad I had a small role in bringing this to life.
I think my objectives are aligned very close to your three stated reasons, so I want to know about some of the challenges (time constraints, analysis paralysis etc.) you face when you try to publish at least one post per week. I'd love to get some pointers to avoid facing such problems from the onset.
Proud to have worked on this during my 8-month internship at Broadcom. It remains one of the toughest and rewarding projects to tackle within the company. I am pleasantly surprised to see Broadcom open up like this and release the full documentation. A step in the right direction for a grossly under-rated company.
Probably a co-op program with a University. the University of Waterloo often does 4-month and/or 8-month (depending on the program); the University of Toronto does 12-month, in partnership with companies that are looking to woo students before they've even finished their undergrad.
(Usually it involves the school designing the academic program and shifting when courses are offered (including putting courses in the spring/summer) to accommodate the work term.)
The grandparent appears to go to the University of British Columbia, judging from their profile.
My university (Montreal ETS) also do it. They have 3 (real/full) semesters per years. Students usually take 1 of them per year to work as interns. You can technically work as intern for like 5 years and still be considered enrolled into the engineering program. Students will either prefer 8 months internship for well paid jobs or jobs that cannot be done in a 4 months development cycle(like a video game). In the end, it does increase the total time spent to graduate, but students tend to have much lower debts (if not profit) at the end.
These kind of deals seem to be quite widespread in Canada (just like the above commenter show). I know these private sector <-> teaching organization deals are not well considered in some part of the world, but, in the end, someone who just graduated, but accumulate years of full time working experience have an easier time landing a job at the end, at least for STEM jobs.
Its a sweet deal for companies if you think about it. Maybe benefits are different in Canada, since I heard that the Govt. provides healthcare, but in the US, the employer has to provide that. Plus, more salary, 401(k) etcetc.
Actually, from another viewpoint, for small companies its very beneficial to hire interns; they can be used to work on projects which might be interesting but have low financial returns.
Which leads me to conclude that > 3 month internships should perhaps be allowed only if you're working at a startup, or small-scale shops that can't really (I mean really really) afford to pay you. For a company like Broadcomm, that doesn't make sense.
Of course, this is just my subjective viewpoint. I'm inclined to believe that my sense of justice might be very skewed.
Interns are being paid in every fields but medicine and education. Some technical schools (including mine) will refuse internships paid anywhere near minimum salary (they care way to much about the statistics and marketing, which is, in turn, a good deal for students too). I am not claiming it is Klondike for every interns (it's not), but having a ~20$/h-30$/h mostly tax free salary is really helpful to avoid loans with interest. Education is not very expensive in Quebec, fees will be around 6k$ / year (9 15 weeks courses + 1x internship fees, books/material not included) but after adding the cost, of life, the rent, food and everything, it get to around 20k$/y. Given the state provided healthcare and services the first quarter* of the citizen have to pay for, it is even financial beneficial to some people.
*(The other three would be elders, children and the ones below poverty threshold)
