Leah Culver founded Pownce with her friends Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka as a way of sending messages, links, files and events to friends. Leah is the lead developer for the site and spends most of her time working on feature development, fixing bugs, scaling the site, and maintaining the API. She’s a recent computer science graduate from the University of Minnesota and enjoys the challenge of developing a web application from scratch. Leah also writes a blog about her experiences as a software
>>1
Now that she's just another Six Apart employee and her career as an entrepreneur has crumbled, can we stop talking about her now?
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Anonymous2008-12-21 11:39
She [...] enjoys the challenge of developing a web application from scratch.
As long as she can begin with a FULL-FLEDGED ENTERPRISE-READY CUSTOMER-ORIENTED SET OF NETWORKING AND DATABASE SOLUTIONS
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Anonymous2008-12-21 11:47
The New York Times, grouping her as a central figure in the new emerging subculture of New York techie night life, described her as "the founder of Pop17, a Web site posting her video interviews with tech-world celebrities."
WTF? WTF is NY techie night life? WTF??
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Anonymous2008-12-21 13:33
>>8
Don't ask me, I stay home every night and read SICP and program lazily in Haskell.
The NO CARRIER message can be used at the end of a sentence for humorous purposes in Internet messages and forum posts, signifying that the person typing the message was suddenly cut off. This joke may mean that the typist was writing something excessively boring or illogical, or something the authorities (usually either the government or the site moderators) would supposedly want to suppress. Alternatively, it may imply they were simply a victim of bad luck. The NO CARRIER message is usually preceded by a string of garbage characters, as a parody of what used to frequently happen to users of dialup BBSes whose telephones suddenly dropped signal in the middle of a message. ("Hey! Wait! Don't pick up the ph{#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER") This joke anachronistically continues to be seen on the Internet despite the waning use of modems in favor of broadband connectivity.
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Anonymous2008-12-22 21:22
I personally hate^H^H^H^Ham a fan of the joke showcased here.
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Anonymous2008-12-22 21:28
I read The Jargon File (a hacker's dictionary, by ``esr'', illustrated by ``The Great Quux'') and thus I understand the joke here.
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Anonymous2008-12-22 22:17
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Actually, I experienced a true NO CARRIER just a few months ago. I have my system console displaying on my desktop, it's pretty useful because you often notice all sorts of stuff you would easily miss. I was using an HDSPA modem while on holidays, the thing's horrible and works pretty bad. The software is even worse, it floods my console with irrelevant AT commads. So once, it dropped the connection, NO CARRIER showed up on my desktop while I was typing.
I also witnessed a true ^H^H^H moment not too long ago as well. Some guy joined an IRC channel using the Windows telnet client, which is terrible. It's set to backspace = ^H, it will actually moves the cursor back on the terminal, but will send the whole thing to the server. His messages were hilarious to read.