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Again, I believe there is an enormous difference between what you're citing as spare-time activities versus what a 'project' entails.

Your dad seems to be engaging in activities which are relevant to his interest in aerospace, without actually involving what he does as 'work' each day.

As I mentioned elsewhere, this is more on par with browsing /r/programming, skimming a book on a new programming language, or meeting with other tech-minded folks. In my opinion, this is very different from completing a software project.
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Never really understood the "to be able to work from coffeeshops" argument. Actually we have an office, i have to commute to everyday but i love it far more than working on my own. I am achored to the office yeah, but its the place where i can get most done and talk to other engineers working on the same project.
Its not that having a Desktop disqualifies you from having a laptop aswell, so if i feel like it, i could still work from somewhere else. I like to have the best gear for every situation, so in the office having a workstation with 2x 24" screens and a MBA for on the road seems to be perfect for me. Dropbox makes syncing relativly painless.

Oh yeah the brain argument ;) Well people tend to work on different stuff. I am a game developer and apart from a huge IDE i also need to compile builds, test server & client on the same machine, view debugging/docs while running the builds etc. With only the Laptop screen its a major pita. For doing some web development its mostly fine though i guess.
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I'd say it is easier to just do "gem install puppet" if you have ruby already installed.
You know, that's strange, because I first heard about this site nearly a year ago through somebody on IRC. When I first heard of it, I thought the same thing - this is going to go nowhere. Then a few months later I recall seeing them make a post on HN about their growth, which was pretty good at the time. I remember thinking, even then, a second time that they were going to go nowhere. That was probably half a year ago and I haven't heard a single thing about the site until now. I've never once heard it mentioned in person, via my friends or on campus. I'm in Texas, which apparently has a large user-base for the site ... still, never heard this site mentioned by friends. I don't know what they're doing or if the site is any good, but I feel like they're the sleeping giant type of website. Like, they're just going to come out of nowhere and post some usage stats about their millions of college student users or something.
Someone who knows C, Python, and Lisp could probably talk fairly intelligently about Ruby even if they don't drink the Kool-Aid.
Time and time again, anecdotes like this make me want to avoid investors entirely.
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The only really interesting article on this page so far was the Andrew Huang's one:

http://andrew.huang.usesthis.com/

90% of the articles are almost the same - some kind of Macbook, software everyone knows about, "I wish it was lighter and had more battery life" etc. I think it's the format that makes this uninteresting. Probably a lot of those people do in fact use interesting little hacks, configure their software in an unusual way or have a nice looking workspace. But there isn't even a photo of the workspace attached to the article or a bunch of screenshots while people are doing some work. A vidcast or screencast would perhaps be a better medium than an article for doing this, like in the recent "play by play" peepcode screencasts (not an advertisement, they're better, but I didn't found them worth the price so far).
ok don't shoot me...python.

I'm alright with low level stuff but I want to pick up Python so I can roll out prototypes after prototypes to run on Google App Engine.

That and Python is SO full featured. Libraries for everything from statistics to visualizing stuff to image manipulation!
Yeah but Laptop screens are not ment to be looked at from that far away, also a big difference in screen size (while having a similar resolution) isnt very appealing for the eyes.

Syncing is harder when Databases etc are involved yes, but we have a dev server in the office for that anyway where people ssh into so you dont really work locally. I work locally on game development where dropbox syncs whole projects just fine.

Still, my only computer currently is a 15" MBP Early 2011 QuadCore, High-Res Matte Screen, 8GB RAM and SSD. And you know what? I regret buying it because for my usecase the fans start getting noisy way too early.
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Sounds like this would need pre-moderation unless you want to risk serious upset at some point. And pre-moderation is slow, plus requires knowledge of the subject (each book) not a task I'd want to take on!
Without knowledge of the book how would you know if the image was subtly offensive or a spoiler?
The two that I've found to be most interesting is rms's:

http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/ (think: everything - including his laptop - he uses is open source)

and _why's: http://why.usesthis.com/
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Array is intended to be a mutable storage with a fast random access and optimistic preallocation of backing store. String is intended to be an immutable storage. At least that's how I see these types.

I also would not expect that VM will use representation optimized for splicing --- you should _always_ expect that splicing will take O(arr.length) and use appropriate data structure when you want better time bounds.

There is a limit to how VM can optimize use of data structures. It can't magically guess that you wanted list or binary tree instead of an Array. Introducing many special cases/heuristics also leads to complexity and as a result to bugs.
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LikeALittle had 20 million page views in their first 6 weeks (http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/19/likealittle/)

Also, really cool story about Evan from his childhood, from Startups Open Sourced: 'When I was 16 or 17 I convinced my parents to give me $10,000 to invest for them; two weeks later I lost $8,000 of it. I put it in all these ridiculously risky stocks. I was really confident, lost 80% of it, and was at $2,000. For the next few months, every week my dad would say, “So how is the portfolio doing?” and I would say, “Oh, good, very good,” and I was totally lost and didn’t know what to do but was determined to figure it out. I studied the market relentlessly to try and figure out an algorithm to gain money back; I got back up to $10,000 within the year so finally, I could tell my dad, “yeah, we’re at $11,000, we’re good, we have a 10% return so far.” So, I didn’t tell them that I actually lost most of it, initially, but that experience ended up teaching me so much that I actually took the $10K to about $200,000, over the next couple of years.'

These 1 page press stories never do justice to the founders.
Every child is different. Some people need that statement tattooed on their foreheads in mirror writing. It's why parenting is so freakin hard and no-one's figured out the rules yet.
I actually don't listen to music, very much. I was checking my last.fm tracking a couple weeks ago and if you average it out, I've listened to about one song per day for the last five years. Usually, I listen to podcasts or nothing at all. Very occasionally, maybe even just white/brown/pink noise.

Edit: Actually, I just realized that I do listen to some 'music'. I play EVE-Online which has an extensive in-game track of like six hours of ambient and sometimes techno-ish/industrial tracks that are perfect for thinking. Since I usually have the EVE client running in the background on any machine I'm on (never know when you might need to make a big Heavy Water trade in Jita for your player owned structures), I usually let the music play the entire time.
it is quite interesting when you look at what this guy is producing.

a single laptop, period. and until recently, not even an office.

That is to teach us, productivity is not necessarily correlated with "gadgetivity"
It is interesting but there is very simple lesson to learn: terminal and decent editor is all you need. I know a lot of people who are still afraid of terminal (they can't live without TortoiseWhatever and are not familiar with basic terminal commands) and can't live without fancy development environments (like Visual Studio) after years of development. Even more - terminal + editor allows developer to switch between platforms almost without problem (e.g. my usual week consists of developing completely different projects for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux).

After all David killed Goliath with sling. What's wrong with the fact that magic things happens with dumb tools?
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That's true, but production is not what The Setup is about; it's about the tools you use. So I get what the GP is griping about. If every The Setup becomes a variation of "Hey, I use a MBP, TextMate, and Terminal.app" (like it has been lately), then why read The Setup?
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FWIW, Buzz has a far better S/N ratio than twitter: I find people like Terence Tao, in particular, to be particularly insightful when they're not hampered by a 140 character limit.
How do you find it speed wise? Last time I used it, it was struggling with full screen ncurses apps, but that was probably two years ago now.
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Gnip has shifted a bit. When it started out the purpose was to solve 'the friendfeed problem'[1] - which was that for each service friendfeed integrated with, they had to write an entire module to implement a client of that services API

The thinking was that Gnip would implement the client once, and then expose a standard interface so that a dev could integrate with all of these services using just a single API

The second part was that instead of polling, Gnip would push update data to you using XMPP or callbacks.

I think they found that there isn't that large a market for apps, at that time or this time anyway, that needed to integrate with a dozen or more services to make paying Gnip worthwhile

The second part solved itself through either pubsubhubbub or API's implementing their own callback.

Gnip downsized for a while, but saw a resurgence with the Twitter deal. It makes sense for Twitter to offload serving the API, implementing track, etc.

I think datasift is a bit different. Actually a bit more advanced since they support many more ways to slice and dice the data, analytics, and more. That space is more like hootsuite and the similar services - you want to mine social network data and extract key analytics. Gnip is more about making API consumption for apps easier.

Gnip has 50+ services, Datasift about 6 or 7 - so you can see where they are beginning to diverge.

When Gnip first launched, I spent a day with the team as part of covering the launch for techcrunch. My own conclusion at the time was that Gnip was a stop-gap measure between then and whenever the protocols such as PuSH would be stable enough to see wide adoption. There was also the element of outsourcing your API which didn't seem right - Mashery does something similar with outsourcing dev community, API tokens etc. But Gnip have proven otherwise with the twitter deal. (edit: for reasons why twitter would use them, see [4]

What could be interesting is Gnip has morphed into part of the old Gnip, with aggregation and normalization, plus something akin to Cloudflare but for API's - while datasift has become a datamining and analytics platform more for internal business use.

The space that Datasift is in will be huge. With Gnip I am still a bit indifferent only because I am implementing an app at the moment that talks to a dozen or so different API's and I couldn't see how I would use it or why I would pay for it, but the twitter firehose isn't one of hte API's (but twitter auth is - and Gnip, from what I know, doesn't touch auth at all)

As an aside: and interesting point in history is that when Gnip launched twitter totally rejected them, only later to give them access and then take it a step further with a full commercial partnership[2][3]. that was back when the twitter firehose was 5-6 tweets a second, it hit 5k a second yesterday

[1] http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/06/26/the-new-datastream-ag...

[2] http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008/07/18/battle-over-twitter-o...

[3] http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/twitter-plays-nice-xmpp-fir...

[4] http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/11/why-is-twitter-part...
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My opinion is that this is not web 2.0 at all. The moment you start selling anything on this site, i have a feeling these college kids are going to turn their heads away. It will be only a matter of time before horror stories of stalking sprout up!
I bet that a lot of the internal discussion and hesitance within Twitter over the past couple of years has been around this very topic.

It seems that the product guys won the argument over the platform guys.

The problem now is that a large part of the reason why the product was successful is because of the platform and the dev ecosystem
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Well put. See my similar comment above, written before I read yours. You can only read so many versions of The Setup with the same Mac hardware.

IMO, what The Setup needs to do now is to branch out and ask other types of geeks, not just software engineers. Why not ask astrophysicists, land surveyors, biologists, &c?
He would be using tools like solid rulers to press them against paper. And he most probably use water and heat to shape 3d ovals.
Speaking as a "security person", it is really difficult to get anyone to care about security until it is too late. My estimate is that 999 or more of the Fortune 1000 are either owned, or just really lucky.
And "apt-get install puppet" if you're on Debian or Ubuntu.
Blanket statements kill me. Yes you should hire a good designer. But you should attempt to target a niche when it makes sense.

If I am making an iPhone app I'd like a designer who has experience with it. So it is the difference between "I want a designer with OS X experience" and "I want a OSX Designer". Aren't they almost one and the same?
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When one person receives income and pays tax on it, and then spends that income, so that it becomes income for someone else, it is not double taxation that the second person pays tax.

Corporations are legally distinct persons, separate from their owners, so the situation is essentially the same.

If the owners wish to avoid this, they can structure their business so that it is not a C corporation. Of course, then they give up many of the advantages of having the corporation be a separate person legally.
Is it? "Download" links here:

http://info.puppetlabs.com/download

Then I have to click a link at the bottom to here:

http://info.puppetlabs.com/register-download

Then I have to scroll to the bottom to skip registration and get to the page you linked.
Yeah I almost clicked buy until I thought "How will I reheat these, microwaves will not like these!"
How did github get early users?
You nailed why I for one am not impressed/excited by Ruby. If the only language I had/knew before Ruby was say COBOL, Ruby would look like an orgasmic programming utopia. But if you have more experience under your belt, both with other languages, and with readability and long-term maintenance, then Ruby looks much less interesting. Not completely without interest/merits, just much less so.
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Don't really disagree with NY_USA_Hacker, but I think his perspective is biased toward what he happens to know about. This is quite natural: everybody thinks that what they already know about is important, because that means that they know Important Things. So I'm going to go the other route and tell you things that I don't know about that I wish I did.

(Disclaimer: I work for Google. I didn't overlap with Paul Tyma, but I know people who worked closely with him, and he's generally quite highly regarded. He also has built something that people want, unlike most of us: he wrote Mailinator single-handedly and ran it off a single box. So despite NY_USA_Hacker's questioning of his competence, I think he's actually a far better source of advice than anyone on this thread, including myself.)

I wish I knew more of:

Statistics. Hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals. I wish I knew everything that could go wrong when analyzing data, because we analyze a lot of data, and it's really easy to let biases creep in. I wish I understood better how to slice & dice data by conditions - "these are the samples that exhibit some particular trait, and that trait affects this other variable in this way, and so our overall result will be biased by..." I wish I could data-mine large quantities of data and pick out the trends automatically.

Neuroscience. So much of what we do relies upon understanding how people perceive things. There's been a lot of research in that area lately, and it turns out that people's biases are actually quite predictable. I wish I knew how. I wish I knew why.

Trade sense. There's this soft skill called "trade sense" that basically refers to knowing what people will be willing to pay for. Steve Jobs is a master at it. I suck at it. It is a fundamental skill for an entrepreneur, because there is no company if people will not pay you for your product.

Statistical machine learning. Basically, the past decade of AI research has discovered that trying to encode a whole bunch of rules into a computer just doesn't work, because the real world doesn't function like that. Instead, what does work is to feed the computer a lot of data, and then notice patterns like "if this term appears, this article is most likely X". There're a bunch of techniques for this in the literature, they typically aren't taught in undergrad, and they are wonderfully useful.

Image, audio, and video algorithms. More and more data is taking the form of multimedia these days; plain text just doesn't cut it. Processing multimedia is an order of magnitude more difficult than processing text, because there's an order of magnitude more data. But this is largely virgin territory. Well, sorta. Basic multimedia algorithms have been around since the 60s, but the environment has changed massively in the last decade.

Getting along with people. Almost everything worthwhile these days is too big for one person to handle. You need co-conspirators and allies if you want to get anywhere. Don't be a jerk; you need people if you want to accomplish anything.
why is there any onus upon techcrunch to be "fair"? the way i see it, arrington has never even pretended to be anything other than a blowhard; he's just a blowhard who has managed to interest a lot of people in what he has to say. you could argue the whole "with great power comes great responsibility" thing, but from what i've seen of most techcrunch-style blog-journalism, it really doesn't work that way.
I use TextMate for writing code, and it does most of what I need,
but the allure of emacs is strong and I think that one day I will
take the time to learn it and harness its power, but for now, I’m
a TextMate man, and it treats me pretty well.

Oh how I love my father for teaching me the dark arts of emacs when I was 12.
This is now compulsory for all online transactions in India. Lot of people complain about this saying its one extra step, but for me I don't mind losing a bit of usability if it can add one extra safety net.
Well, yeah, but these are all memes wildly spread. Cryptonomicon (sadly) not so much.

I just think it would have been a nice gesture... 7 letters, not that much of an effort. Of course, it's not a crime, I wouldn't deem anyone a douche because they forgot to forewarn in the heat of discussion.

They should do a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode on this one :P
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We invited everyone we knew in the Ruby community. We all attended local Ruby meetups and talked to anyone that would listen. We used it for our own open source projects and invited would-be contributors to join the fun. We used an invite-only model during the private beta to create artificial scarcity and encourage people to invite their friends.
Not the only machines by a long shot. While it's certainly conceivable to think of memory and thought as one gigantic state machine, it's impractical to model it that way. What makes FSMs neat is that they are incredibly useful, in spite of having no memory and a relatively limited set of states.
I've actually started using Vim since I wrote this post, and it's treating me nicely. I still use TextMate for a lot of things, but as I become more familiar with Vim, I find myself there more and more. It feels much more natural to me than Emacs.
You should look into NoSQL. It's web scale!
Can't imagine it is, but is that what they're aiming for? Hadn't heard of it until showing up here but it looks to me like it's a concept that won't have legs because all of the girls they're writing have names and are facebook.