Job Description: Lead Software Developer (Python/Django)

PopJam is a new and exciting fast-paced, well-funded web startup based in Soho, London. We’re looking for a top notch lead software engineer eager to build awesome web software used by millions of people. Founded by an Imperial College rocket scientist and the creator of the Million Dollar Homepage, we’re looking to create the next big thing in the rapidly growing content discovery space.
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About PopJam:
* We’re backed by world-class investors
* An exceptional response to our Alpha launch with a large pool of users waiting to be invited in
* We love being on the bleeding edge of the web and web tech, and are incredibly open to new ideas and ways of thinking
* Our founders have a proven track record of making money online and know how to do it again

I would love to know what their business is about.

I’m asking because I’ve seen this photo on Flickr yesterday and he’s using a Sharpie Extra Fine Point Marker. It might be a marker I really enjoy (how strange sounds that!?)

Kernel Boot Process
Diary of a failed Startup
Who needs a Computer Science Degree when there’s Wikipedia
Programmer Insecurity
Metaclass Programming in Python

• Did you know that if you would have bought shares from Yahoo at the beginning of 1997 and sold them at the end of 1999, your gain in investment would have been about 13.000%? Even after the year 2000, you would still have a again of 700-1.000%.

• Apple (and about the same for Google): Beginning of 2005 till now: +400%

• Microsoft: 1986 - 2000: +55.000% (okay, that’s lame, 14 years).

Any tips for the next big thing?

Today I prepared a presentation for some parallel programming lecture I will be giving tomorrow and when I fired up Keynote I discovered that it wasn’t registered. I could remember that it was not possible in November but gave it another try. And, voila, it worked! Cost me some bucks but so far it really paid off.

Well, for me Flickr is Beauty. Beauty, because there are so many people who are sharing the best and most beautiful moments of their lives with thousand of others. (Whatever beauty is for each individual in detail, I say that everyone will find his own definition of beauty on Flickr.)

Photos are Beauty. But videos can be Beauty, too. I’m not talking about those ordinary YouTube clips (and for me, personally, I’m not talking about everyday photos you can find on Flickr, even some of my pictures are just bog-standard) but about special moments in the lives of people. Seconds of their life which have a special meaning because they are just beautiful.

So video on Flickr might be a good thing, to add another piece of beauty to the lives of all of us.

Uninstalling the unwanted versions via Add/Remove Programs does not work. Searching the web for some uninstall tool, found some MSDN blog. Downloading the tool, selecting the unwanted frameworks, rebooting. Explaining the guy behind me that it’s okay that there’s an error message popping up every second. Re-installing the not-removed .NET Framework, working.

Updating OS X to version 10.5.2-experience

Starting Software-Update, waiting for the download to be finished, rebooting, done.

PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 16): 550 Denied by policy

Tested with my dreamhost and gmail account. WTF? Is it so hard to get your mailing list working correctly? I wrote the first email to their support on December 6th, they are friendly, but seem to be completely incompetent helpless.