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Anyone have an exciting summer internship opportunity for a student/developer?

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> As for the 'large' company, I think his definition is valid. Where I am now we're approaching 200 employees, and it's well beyond the point where everyone knows each other (there is a term for this limit). Even for 400 people, the traditional 'meet at the watercooler' methods break down, and you need to inject some innovation to meet everyone.

Personally, I like to use Dunbar's number as a the divide between small and large companies.

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I spent the downtime trying to figure out how to use Jade without the documentation available -- the docs are in the readme.md on the Github repo. It was only later that I realized that the docs were also available through npm (https://npmjs.org/package/jade), but it was an interesting experience nonetheless.

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At the moment:

1. Large Monitor -- I wish I had seen this article before I bought the one I have: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/the-ips-lcd-revolut...

2. Grado sr80i headphones

3. Laptop

4. Kitchen chair

5. IKEA desk

I'm probably going to add a better chair and mechanical keyboard to the mix.

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The icebreaker sounds like a nice new feature for Highlight

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My school (Northeastern University CCIS) has a list of suggested salaries: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/co-op/employers/index.html#salaries

  Average CCIS Co-op Salaries
  Student Level               Average  Midpoint  Average top 25%
  Undergraduate First Co-op   $20.00   $19.00    $28.00
  Undergraduate Second Co-op  $22.00   $22.00    $29.00
  Undergraduate Third Co-op   $23.50   $23.00    $30.00
  Graduate Co-op              $28.00   $28.50    $34.00

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I've set up Gitlab at Northeastern University to explore it as an option for replacing our cgit install(s). I like the UI, but my only problem with it is that it doesn't support putting repos under a user namespace like Github does (with Gitlab, rails/rails and ali/rails can't exist on the same system). AFAIK there's no plan for Gitlab to support this, but it looks like Gitorious already does.

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I set this up at my university to see if it would be a good solution for school-related project hosting. Haven't rolled out (yet), but as you said it's very promising.

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Am I supposed to eschew powerful tools because there wasn't a UX guy involved in the project?

If I cared that much about ease of configuration, I'd use Textmate instead of Vim, and Colloquy instead of irssi.

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Accepted! Flying in from Boston.

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That's a really clever solution! A side benefit is you also get to leave the reporting method and report hosting to Instagram

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As far as I can tell, there's not much of an advantage to Node over Rails, but Node has realtime built-in so I'll use it instead of Rails&EventMachine.

That said, they're both really fun to work with.

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Not a company guy, just a student at Northeastern University's CS school. We have an IRC channel, but it's tough to explain to freshmen how to ssh into a university box and use screen+irssi, and then get them to keep doing it. If they use Windows you also have to show them how to set up PuTTY. I'm not against teaching people how to do this, but teaching this doesn't scale. That's why our IRC channel is mostly upperclassmen and alumni.

Now whenever we need to coordinate for student groups (like ACM) we use Facebook groups and Facebook chat (which is XMPP, so I plug my account into Adium).

I'm working on a guide to screen+irssi to get more people on our IRC server, but still I'd trade our IRC&Facebook setup for something like Grove.io or Hipchat.

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> How about future plans? Some interviews with groups that did and didn't "make it"?

Agreed. I'd really like to hear more from companies that didn't make it or companies that aren't YC Allstars (Dropbox, Reddit, Posterous).

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> They can just choose to be less profitable and no one cares.

The shareholders might.

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> because Lion is a bit of a disaster

How so?

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I use it for grading assignments (reading a .lisp file and writing a grade.txt file), as well as taking class notes. I also use it for editing config files (like for nginx) and dotfiles.

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What? Just use whatever you're comfortable with. All the OS dogma is BS.

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I'd like to hear more about your setup. Why do you consider these essential?

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This is the textbook for one of my classes at Northeastern. The prerequisite class used HtDP (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/) and Racket (http://racket-lang.org/), and the focus was on design principles and writing good code more than it was on the actual language we were using. I'm expecting the same from this class, but I'm not against becoming more experienced with Java either.

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CCIS student here. I've only taken Fundies 1, but I really enjoy working in Racket so I'm kind of stoked for this.