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Pinboard is seeking a summer "Pintern"

You’ll spend three months learning every aspect of running Pinboard, a reasonably complex website with about 20,000 active users. Each layer of the ‘web app stack’ will come to feel like a close and trusted friend. Then that friend will betray you, and you’ll practice extracting the knife from your back as you hide your tears from an uncaring world.

The usual Pinboard humour aside, this sounds like a great internship.

Pinboard seeking a summer "Pintern"

You’ll spend three months learning every aspect of running Pinboard, a reasonably complex website with about 20,000 active users. Each layer of the ‘web app stack’ will come to feel like a close and trusted friend. Then that friend will betray you, and you’ll practice extracting the knife from your back as you hide your tears from an uncaring world.

The usual Pinboard humour aside, this would be a great internship.

Seeking a Summer Pintern

You’ll spend three months learning every aspect of running Pinboard, a reasonably complex website with about 20,000 active users. Each layer of the ‘web app stack’ will come to feel like a close and trusted friend. Then that friend will betray you, and you’ll practice extracting the knife from your back as you hide your tears from an uncaring world.

Usual Pinboard hilarity aside, this would be a great internship.

Seeking a Summer Pintern

You’ll spend three months learning every aspect of running Pinboard, a reasonably complex website with about 20,000 active users. Each layer of the ‘web app stack’ will come to feel like a close and trusted friend. Then that friend will betray you, and you’ll practice extracting the knife from your back as you hide your tears from an uncaring world.

Usual Pinboard hilarity aside, this would be a great internship.

Daring Fireball: Web Apps vs. Native Apps Is Still a Thing

Take away all the dogmatism and vitriol from the Gruber-haters and web-or-nothing folks both, and this is still the truth:

The dynamic remains unchanged. Web apps are the best way to reach the most possible people with the least effort; native apps are the best way to create the best possible experience.

The way I see most apps these days is as highly customised web browsers. Build your website, but if you want the happiest possible users, build native apps too.

The Ultimate AI Brain

parislemon:

Steven Levy interviewed Ray Kurzweil about his new role at Google. On the topic of having the courage to follow your convictions:

Levy: What’s the biological basis for that kind of courage? If you had an infinite ability to analyze a brain, could you say, “Oh, here’s where the courage is?”

Kurzweil: It is the neocortex, and people who fill up too much of their neocortex with concern about the approval of their peers are probably not going be the next Einstein or Steve Jobs.