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I just posted the latest State of the Stack for Ruby.

http://blog.newrelic.com/2011/09/28/state-of-the-stack-a-rub...

It has:
- A breakdown of ruby versions
- A chart showing the changes to ruby versions deployed since Rails 3 came out
- A breakdown of rails versions
- A breakdown of ruby dispatchers
- The top 50 gems and top 50 plugins
I walk around all day with a frown on my face, worrying about one thing or another for no good reason.

There is a good reason - you practised worrying so you got good at it, so it became a tool you use frequently because you can, even when it doesn't help.

The answer is to not do that. It's an introspective answer, it's difficult to do, but the secret to it is that it's not stupid advice it's actually pretty good advice.
World's Biggest Multiple Touchscreen 3D LED Monitor....Amazing
"Maybe it’s the New York City in me speaking, but the days of T-shirts and hoodies are over." The days of t-shirts are over? Are the days of pants over? Were t-shirts in and of themselves ever "in"? I wear unscreened/printed colored t-shirts every day. I take care of my body and choose t-shirts and pants that fit well. I have as little respect for a coworker or potential client that judges my ambition or skill set as inferior because I don't dress myself off a rack or blog as they do for me.
No one has figured out a way to objectively measure eyestrain so it's a completely personal decision.

As a developer I too spend all day reading and writing text on a screen and I can can tell you that there are so many things that go into what causes me eyestrain personally that I'm sure making any of it objective would be tough.

I have tons of problems with eyestrain when reading black-on-white text for long periods of time, so the kindle works great for me. I'm sure with a sufficiently configurable reading app I could tweak it until I could stand it, but I don't know too many PDF readers that allow you to start messing with background colors and the like.
It took a lot of pain, but I finally got it through my thick skull that you can't go off gallivanting and starting startups if you're not earning enough to even make a living on your own.

Being a student has its downsides.
I have some great ideas (or so I like to think) but no money/time to purse them.
Is it really necessary to downmod me for that?
I have a nonprofit I'm passionate about, so I work my 9-5 to get money and pour my energy into my passion. Could I get rich if I redirected that passion to something profitable? Possibly. But to what end?
Scala's perception problem
So... K&R is wrong because if people misuse its fragments copy-and-paste style they could be dangerous.

OK. Fair enough. But tell me... why are such people coding in C now?
Almost all of the people I see doing startups are young college, or just out of college, kids with nothing to lose or people who are already extremely rich.

I work to live, I don't live to work. I flat out refuse to work more than 9-5 and even that is too much. These startups expect you to give them your entire lives, 24 hours a day, and weekends, and eat nothing but ramen.

I don't know about you guys, but I have rent to pay. I need to be paid with real cash, guaranteed. I also need to spend as little time at work as possible in order to earn that cash. I have more important things to do, like sleeping, eating, and spending time with friends and family.

I can almost understand the punk kids who do startups, since they have nothing to lose. I absolutely can not understand the VCs or the rich people who do startups. These people have millions of dollars already. As nice and cool as they may be when you meet them, they are fundamentally in a business of greed. They can already retire to a private tropical island forever, but instead they are going to spend their money making some trivial social web app to squeeze out a few advertising dollars.

That's perhaps the real reason I don't do a startup. Nobody wants to give me money because they know that as soon as the check clears I'll be out the door never to be seen again.
Cool app! I think the deeper integration with Windows will definitely appeal to people. I'm working on launching a new company soon, Appolish, which offers UI/UX design for apps. I would love to work with you to improve the interface and interactions of Air Controller as a portfolio piece! Let me know if you're interested. schraeds at gmail
POETIC JUSTICE
Coffee shops force you do work and nothing else. The shop's shared WIFI is overloaded so slacking off on the web is unrewarding. Videos are dog slow, social sites have long wait for refresh, the high ping in online games makes other players hate you. You can't walk off easily to watch TV. You can't slack off by going to kitchen to grab some food. You can't have a comfortable phone call because it's loud. You can't even slack off to have a long bathroom break, for fear of someone grabbing your laptop. You don't have interruption from colleagues, meetings, or phone calls as in the office.

The "rent" is unbeatable, $1.50 for couple hours of desk space, janitorial service, power, and WIFI. And you got the constant caffeine boost to keep you going. Just put on the headphones and blast away at the codes.
I worked from coffee shops for 6 months as a solo founder. Being a solo founder was incredibly lonely, and sitting at home made that worse. Going to coffee shops and being surrounded by other people working on their own gigs was energizing.

Now that I'm working at a 2 person startup, I still work from coffee shops ~2 days a week. It's a great change of scenery from the office. I plug in headphones, get a caffeine buzz going, and can be very productive without being distracted.

The coffee shop matters a lot. I disagree with the author's opinion that national chains are best. Starbucks tends to have terrible WiFi, average coffee, and feels soulless. You have to explore your city to find the right balance of WiFi, ambiance, coffee, and power outlets. I was spoiled living in Seattle - I imagine that search takes a bit more effort somewhere like DC :)

GeekAtSea has an excellent post about Seattle coffee shops:
http://www.geekatsea.com/best-coffee-shops-in-Seattle
Using Object-Oriented Programming to Manage Control Flow in Rails Controllers
I just had a baby in May, and we planning on emigrating from the U.S. in the near-to-mid term. Thus, my priorities don't include starting and running my own business when I have many other things to take care of before heading down under. It's something I may try to tackle down the road, but for the next 3-4 years I want to spend my energy on other things.
"for free at their library" really means paid for by a perhaps non-trivial portion of their tuition
Optional in Guava, like Scala's Option[T] when you must use Java
It is a choice between buy a CD in a shop, itunes, or Spotify. Especially if you pay for spotify, why pay again for the same music?
Another counter example is Singapore.
Well it seems that we hit the nesting limit, so I will reply to this post. I'm not including a URL, I'm just signing my name. Please keep in mind that is a guideline.
> Spoiler alert: he turned up pretty clean; he -- or at least someone using his name -- is most likely the author of his works

Do you have a handy reference?
For Hackers, the Next Lock to Pick
I think there are many ways to classify a startup. I just enjoy working on projects in my spare time. My financial stability does not depend on the success of my side projects, although it would be nice if I could make a living doing what I enjoy.

You might ask why I would not go out and seek funding. Simply put, I do not think many people would fund me, and those who would probably would want to slightly redirect the path of my work. The only things I enjoy working on are those that are risky, unproven, and complex - all things that investors hate.
Running my own web design & search engine marketing company that keeps me from working on startup ideas. Every time I get ready to put the day job on-hold, someone comes along with a "we'll pay anything" project that we end up taking.

I guess I'll have to get stronger so I can just say "no thanks" and move on to what I really want to do.
Behind the Numbers of Mozilla's Bug Bounty Program
1) "It's a sign of poor application design when you have to learn it instead of merely using it."

No, what this actually is a sign of is disingenuous arguing. I have conceded that vim is harder to learn. What I do not concede is that it is otherwise hard to use. You understand what I am saying, but being purposely difficult.

2) If vim's menus were to cover everything vim can do, then we would have ourselves a usability issue. That menu system would be absurdly deep (which is really just an argument in favor of vim if you think about it critically).

3) Blogs are not "technical documentation", which is what you said. Not to mention that any developer in the world should be able to use compat mode without reading anything. The rest of vim's feature set is large enough that it will require some type of research to uncover, no matter the presentation. Textmate can avoid this by having a dramatically smaller feature set.
My visa (H1) makes it difficult (impossible?) for me to build a startup in the US, and at the moment I don't want to leave the US.
This is the protocol that Amazon's new Browser (Silk) uses to keep the connection with Amazon EC2. I think it is very interesting that this protocol works so great.

I would love to test silk just to test the speed.
They're solving the #1 aggravation issues that most new smartphone and tablet users have - slow connections.

It's true this problem is also being solved by LTE rollouts but those aren't today for most people.
So you must think there's no difference between Safari and Chrome then.

Rendering engine:browser::Car:engine
I am brushing up on my atrophied/outdated code-fu. Years in business will do that to you, but start-up here I come.
I hunted around for a few things like "node.js", "Php", "True Blood", "Harry Potter", etc... they all fit within the same pattern you noted. (with minor, or not-unexpected variances)

My favorite was "Maple Syrup"
Would you mind sharing some of your ideas to those (like me) that have the time but don't know what to work on? Maybe others can find a passion in what you don't have time to pursue.
I'm not as skilled as I need to be to pursue the ideas that excite me, and I am not excited about the ideas that I am skilled enough to pursue.
Chatting and Google Voice don't work well because those are relatively real-time activities, and the Kindle can't handle those well. E-mail, however, will work just fine.
Err.. I would argue that (+1)^2+(-1)^2 would not yield a false positive.

You are right that the explanation is incomplete, though. The squaring provides an 'absolute value' effect as well as disproportionately weighting larger alphabetical distances.
Future Shock Levels
> does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.

That struck me as a little odd at first, but after considering it for a minute, I think it's probably a smart move.
I have a family and kids and that takes up so much time and energy that that extra bit of time and energy that a startup takes over a challenging day job just isn't there.
For rest of the world: 1 ounce = 28.3 grams.
For me it's your last point, better self control when I'm not at home. It's also a state of mind thing, if I'm at home I have trouble getting into the "I'm working, now" state of mind. Getting out of the house, be it coffee shops or other locations, helps with my focus.
As an engineer, I find myself intrigued and amazed by the design.

As a skeptic and privacy advocate, I see that this elegantly provides an unassailable technical justification for amazon to monitor, log and analyze 100% of all web activity that each customer engages in, developing fascinating behavioral and interest profiles on them. At least it can be disabled, for now.
I need a cofounder or two.
I love the Kindle3, but the side paddles are a pain.

I often end up holding the device in weird ways and accidentally push the paddle inadvertently.

Also random keys on the keyboard cause context switches too.

I'm going to be happy with a $79 or $99 kindle, as I only read on it, and never take notes or search.
Cows might be key to turning deserts into grasslands, and taming climate change
"Supports Adobe® Flash® Player."
Different body types are flattered by different clothing styles. One of the great failures of modern fashion is the idea that the thing that Hot Celebrity wore and looked good in is going to be appropriate and good-looking on everyone else; that outfit might have made them look better but make you look worse.

Saying that isn't skinny-worshipping. In fact, it's almost the opposite of skinny-worshipping, because people that try to squeeze into Hot Celebrity's fashion are going to feel the need to skinny up in order to make it look good.

Rather, the OP's advice is to find something that fits you and is flattering to you; tight T-shirts typically don't really look good unless your chest measurement >= your waist measurement, but there are other things that will. That's a lot different than just saying "you look bad".
I'm a telecommuter and I work out of coffeeshops quite often. For me, they offer social interaction and a change of scenery that I don't get at home. Going to a coffeeshop will also force me to get to business if there is some work I've been particularly dreading. There's a cozy little bubble which forms when working amongst strangers in a neutral location, which shoots my productivity up.

It is possible to mitigate most annoyances by bringing along extra supplies: power splitters + long power cords for limited access to plugs, your own data card for the unreliable wifi, laptop locks for when using the bathroom, and noise-isolating/canceling headphones for the occasional bad music, and an spare sweatshirt for when the coffeeshop leaves their door open.

Its not for everyone, but it has its merits.
I do but I use the DX.

I had posted a similar comment earlier today about this.

I love the keyboard for note taking when reading technical books on the kindle. That way I can come back months or years later and just read my notes to refresh my memory.

The hi-lighting option is also great for this. It's like instant cliff's notes.

if you don't want to read the book then you can just search amazon for the hi-lights that people have made public for the book and you've got your cliff's notes without having to read the text yourself:)
It's to avoid the 'horrible' side of working from home, as detailed here:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
Totally agree with this insight. One of the fallouts of the tech bubble and ubiquitious computing trend was that it became so 'cheap' to add programability features and customization that everything got more computer like. The backlash, things like the cell phones for elderly people which act like 'normal' phones was the result.

Also the market seems to be pushing back on things like TVs that are also internet browsers.

So the vision here is very important, and the Kindle as simply a window that lets you look at the books you have is pretty compelling. The $80 ad supported one, I want an open source text book library for that. The school district can give those to every student and save money.
I actually tried last year, opened a company and moonlighted for a few weeks. In the end I simply couldn't muster enough energy and money (I'm married and have a 2-year old daughter, with a baby boy coming up in a few weeks), so effort waned and I never launched. Then I found a more interesting and demanding job, and simply closed everything down. I still have a few domains left (xpenses.mobi and .net among others, if anyone is interested).

TL,DR: startup + other job + family = didn't work for me.
I second the other posts. I have a lot more self control at coffee shops. I could come with all manner of reasons why, but honestly, I just don't know why. But I do know the result.
"CSS on/Images off is an unlikely scenario, but it is a possible scenario (also consider the possibility of images not loading for any reason). If I were in a user stuck in that scenario, I'd say: I can't access core parts of this website. For a website developer, you could call that an accessibility problem, no?"

No. I'd call it a connection/network issue. The universality consideration (which is what you are really advocating here) then points to progressive enhancement -- defensive design -- as a technique to mitigate the failure to load a page's supplementary assets.
I have no freaking time until I get at least one kid shipped off to college. Although then I suppose the "financial reasons" answer will come into play.
I've found it helps if you try and go places when they are least busy. Coffee shops seem to have different down times depending on location, customer base, etc. My favorite spot is always crowded from sunrise until about 3pm and then totally dead for the rest of the day. Less noise, distraction, and guilt for taking a table when there is nobody in the place.

I also recently discovered the public library as a great place to work. Of course this will vary from city to city, but mine is clean, quiet, good lighting, comfortable work areas, cheap parking, and free wifi. Also, they have a great music collection to borrow from.
Wow did this ever get a bad title.
I thought it was legal to pirate music in Canada, so long as you're not providing the download?
I am very surprised this was legal. Aren't there disclosure requirements? Certainly in the US if you acquire a stake of more than 5 or 10% you have to declare it.
Capitalism without the presence of (a set of) freedoms is not really capitalism, no matter who calls it that.

Now mind, you don't need several of the freedoms people in the civilized world generally like to enjoy for capitalism to exist. Freedom of religion is largely irrelevant to capitalism (so far as the state religion doesn't become a dominate market force...). Basically all you need is some form of property rights, the right to enter and exit markets, and some subset of freedom of expression (basically the right to say "[Product] sucks.")
Flowchart: Navigating NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
Ward Cunningham can also be found on here! http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=WardCunningham

However thus far it was just to leave one comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2911327
I think Anandtech put it best. Paraphrasing: T4 is proof that Oracle has not yet abandoned SPARC and provides enough performance that those who are heavily invested in Solaris/SPARC won't feel obligated to look for an alternative. It probably won't convince anybody to switch to SPARC.
Doing a startup is really hard. Emotionally grueling and demanding. You have to fight for every 100 users you get. At a bigger company you get 100k's or millions of users "automatically". Right now, I'm more interested in building world changing products that are used by millions, and I feel like my chances for success are higher at a big company since lots of really cool startups die because they couldn't get enough awareness/marketing to get adoption.

"At a startup all your challenges are external. At a big company, all your challenges are internal".

Fwiw, I started a startup that was acquired so I'm also incented to stick around so that probably biases my thinking a bit too.
If you want to understand millionaires who continue to do startups, here are a few possible reasons:

1) They enjoy work, even if they are working on something that is seemingly trivial.
2) One million dollars is not enough. Nor is 10. In fact, most people that earn a few million rarely retire after that. It is more a game of power, fame, and (possibly) goodwill than wealth. Bill Gates could have retired much earlier, but instead he amassed a huge amount of wealth and started one of the world's biggest charities (the Gates Foundation). Warren Buffet spends very little on himself - he owns one house that he bought for a small sum of money, and he gave 99 percent of his money to the Gates Foundation.

That said, there is a fine line between the "punk kids" (who are usually the designers and developers) and the founders in larger companies. Founders in their second, third, and etc...companies typically have very comfortable lifestyles.
Well, some people start a startup for the sake of creating or for the sake of changing something.

Also the thought that your job and paycheck is guaranteed is an illusion. We have seen it time and time again: loyal, hard-working employees get kicked out of a job they worked 20 years just because the company is "re-structuring". Unless you're very specialized and non-replaceable, you're at risk, too. The risk is WAY lower than starting and succeeding with a startup, but still.
What makes Apple great? Taste.

I worked at Apple for 5 years. Some of the best engineers I know would routinely show up to work in pajamas. There are just as many, if not more, "poorly-dressed" people working there as at any other tech company.

The casual clothing trend, at least in Silicon Valley, has roots in 60's-70's counterculture. The idea that you need to wear a suit in order to do your job, or to dress like an IBM drone, was explicitly rejected, along with a whole slew of other ideas which were perceived as needing reexamination. Apple was one of the companies which best represented that counterculture influence and its success in shaking up entire industries. To tie them to some notion of stylish dress equaling success is ludicrous.
Is Sun's legacy weighing Oracle down?
Capitalism (in the purist laissez faire sense) functions just fine when people believe that capital is controlled by those who are more deserving (or better at managing it), even if the people controlling the capital happen to be a monarchical dynasty whose inherited land happened to sit on an oil well.

When people start to believe in others' needs and wants you get all the products of an egalitarian mindset allegedly incompatible with capitalism, like taxes and government borrowing.
I get a flash of content and then a blank white screen. There's a bunch of 403 and 500 errors for content on the page and about a dozen javascript errors when I open up the developer tools. It may be that some Chrome versions are more forgiving then others (16.0.981.0 here).
Looking for an old-fashioned trilogy?

NO. In for a penny, in for a pound I always say.

So, five or six books good enough for you?

NO. I shall require at least ten.
Frankly, this is just sad.

Your answer is based entirely on the premise that working for a startup boils down to killing yourself for the chance to get rich, which couldn't be further from the truth.

The "rich people" who do startups do it because they love building things that solve big problems, the work hours and payouts are, if they're lucky, just a byproduct.

Sure, I'm 24 and I have basically nothing to lose, but really I have no choice - I have to build things. I can't deal with just performing maintenance.

And even if you are ok with just performing maintenance, working in a small team is simply more fun than working at a larger one.

Seriously, reflect more on this. Writing off startups because they're "in a business of greed" is a straw man at best.
Have you ever considered that people might want to do a startup because they want to build something of their own? Not for the unlikely potential money (or not necessarily for it), but because they want to see their product/invention used by others around the world? Because they find the thought of being a cog in the wheel of a large company mind-numbingly boring, even if it pays very well?

It's not for everyone, and I am not saying you should think like the above, but please try to appreciate that some people actually do think like that.
So How Did the Bush Tax Cuts Work Out for the Economy?
The K3 and (IIRC) K2 had the Java logo as well. Java's used for the KDK, don't know how deep in the stack Java goes, though.
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