Category: News

Job board exclusively for remote work

Post author By Leon
Post date March 26, 2013

All jobs listed on HireThere.com are for working outside of a traditional office. I agree this is increasingly a benefit that programmers will seek.

The remote-only job board called HireThere.com

With traditional companies like Citibank and American Express on one hand, and cutting edge companies like 37signals, StackExchange, and Balsamiq on the other, a distributed team of remote workers is the future.

However, with more and more attention being drawn to remote working, there’s no dedicated job boards for it.

News

Free education materials

Post author By Leon
Post date March 25, 2013

Here are recent stories about Open Source and education.

CK-12 Foundation

CK-12 provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally. Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content inmultiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels, will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles.

The “Linux” of online learning? edX takes big step toward open source goal

Moving closer toward its vision of being an open-sourced learning platform, edX on Thursday released its XBlock SDK, the underlying architecture supporting edX course content.

Business News

How Free Services Make Money

Post author By Leon
Post date March 11, 2013

Here’s a good list to scan if you’re working on how to fund your startup. The list probably could be refactored to be half as long–some of the ideas are really variations of each other. Anyway, I find it interesting that Forbes is re-publishing Quora answers.

How Do Free Services On The Web Make Money? – Forbes

How do Free Services on the Web Make Money? This question was originally answered on Quora by Balaji Viswanathan.

News Programming

jQuery 2.0 will drop support for IE8

Post author By Leon
Post date March 5, 2013

With both Google and Facebook already dropping support for IE8, this makes a lot of sense. It’s more leverage for developers to argue against IE8 support. I recently added a functionality to freshstep.com that makes IE7 users jump through a hoop to log in. It’s bad enough getting all the code to work on IE7, but pulling in Facebook’s SDK means that most users see the little yellow triangle warning about javascript errors.

How correlated?: jQuery conference 2013 Europe Vienna review (part 1)

Some breaking news that popped out: jQuery is going to DROP SUPPORT FOR OLDS INTERNET EXPLORER (6,7 and 8) !!! in it’s 2.0 (big applause from the audience). It should be noted however that IE9 and IE10 are much more standards compliant so they will be automatically supported.

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News Politics

Bitcoin is rebellion

Post author By Leon
Post date March 3, 2013

Bitcoin recently hit an all time high of $31.9, rebounding from the crash in 2011. Tyler Cowen points out this behavior of a currency is unusual outside war or rebellion. I’m outside my expertise on this, but I have to ask, isn’t Bitcoin an act of rebellion? Isn’t something of an act of war against all states?

Good or bad news for Bitcoin? (Marginal Revolution)

With apologies to Scott Sumner, I say Bitcoin is a bubble. Outside of war and rebellion, do “normal” new currencies behave this way?