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Since we have your attention... :)

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Bitbucket+... - shows error message "Unable to render {include} The included page could not be found."
Yes, the state of the art is atrocious. It's hack piled upon hack piled upon hack. Mind you, things weren't massively better in the 50s, 60s, or (maybe?) the 70s.

I'd like to believe that a deep rethinking of computer systems in languages that aren't C-based and incorporate the academic OS research done in the last 30 years would produce some fantastic innovation. But that requires something like a Bell Labs willing to allow years of hacking for potentially 0 return.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2975209
At least internally Rails 3 is a lot less crufty and hackish than Rails 2. If you ever tried writing your own plugins and such to deal with certain internals there is a lot to appreciate about Rails 3.

From a general use perspective, Rails has always been designed with a focus on intuitiveness and trying to eschew unnecessary configuration. Whether it succeeds on both fronts is a matter of opinion, but considering the types of configuration options it provides I think the team has done a pretty good job.

Rails is a pre-built web app architecture. Of course it is always going to be quicker and have less of a learning curve to just throw together your own simple app architecture from scratch. But if the app you're building isn't trivial, in most cases it's going to save you a lot of time (in not reinventing the wheel or getting caught in common pitfalls) to go with the prebuilt time-tested community-supported architecture.

I wouldn't think Rails compares too poorly to the PHP MVC frameworks. Sure if you're building just a simple sort of website with maybe a few forms go with framework-free PHP, but for more complex but somewhat standard web apps if you forgo the framework (for Ruby, PHP, etc.) it is usually a mistake.
There's an xkcd for everything... http://xkcd.com/386/
Promoting the Open Web, and Platform Competition
From my discussions with some of the folks implementing this the approach has the advantage of leveraging peoples existing understanding of the DOM.
> A person who knows a lot of people after many years is able to connect you to the right people even though they have such a large network that you can't possibly imagine they have close relationships with most of them

Yes, and I've met many people like that, and I never like any of them. They're all fake users of other people. They become people you only care to talk to when you need something and you know they probably know someone. Useful, sure, but people I want to ever hang out with, nope.

Worse, if you're not careful, they're constantly giving your name to people who just want to use you for some purpose thinking you'll help for free because they know so and so.

> Do you really consider it creepy that you take your friends' business cards, ask them who they are desperately looking to meet, and actually talk them up to people whenever you feel that you might make a good match?

Yes. That kind of thing should happen naturally, because I actually want to do it, it would bother me if someone asked me to talk them up.

> For example when a nightclub promoter invites you (a guy) what he really would like is for you to bring a girl or two to the event, so more alcohol will be sold.

I don't think you're relating well to hackers. Such a thing has never and likely will never in my life happen. I've never even met a night club promoter, and if I did, I wouldn't be interested in talking to him anyway, nor would I go to a night club.

> Is it weird that you have a group of guys who remember to meet girls for their friends and invite them all to a big house party so they can introduce their friends and generally hang out and have a good time?

Yes, again, I would never go to a house party full of people I don't know, wouldn't care to, wouldn't enjoy it.

You're clearly an extrovert and don't seem to understand none of this sounds at all appealing to introverts. You all sound fake and creepy and I'd be bothered to even think you had a strategy for generating social proof.

> Why not be part of one.

Because I wouldn't like people who behaved that way. They're fake, annoying, think they have 100 friends when they don't really know what the word means, and they use everyone around them. These are not attractive people to me. Write me an article on meeting people that I actually like and then I'm interested. Meeting people should be about quality, not quantity.
this is not quite correct. it has a configuration option for this and you can set it to false. it was actually set to false as default for a while after rubyenv was released but then it reverted to true by default as I suppose it a better option for most users.

but again, if you don't like this part of rvm, just switch it off
I definitely understand the response. If you have to ask if you're an entrepreneur, if you have to even think about it, you're not. I get that. However for someone like me it's not so simple. I have two years of school left in the midwest. I have little interest in finishing school. But I came from a blue collar town and so I have no connections, and a lot of school debt.

So I work on my projects at night, and classes during the day. I get internships in the bay, and continue to build and iterate on what I've made. I have no intention of stopping at YC, or just building these projects to fluff up a resume. I do both of these things because they are worthwhile to me. But realistically, I can't just leave school and start a business, because my loan debt would kill me and my business. Without some sort of connection to funding I'm dead in the water. So I will continue to build my personal projects with my co-founder, and use them to learn and work towards having a sustainable business that someone wants to fund.

I'd be curious to hear your feedback.
That I do, that's not what he's describing to me.
I actually don't know if know of anyone with such a title. But of the people who often write about the Apple I think there's quite a few I don't consider evangelists/advocates. Probably the biggest name is Walt Mossberg. He's very Apple friendly (Jobs described him as a friend of Apple to Apple employees), but I think he does try to generally be fair -- and is not a cheerleader.

There are some others that another poster mentioned -- Pogue and Marco. Pogue is borderline. He performs at MacWorld, writes books about Apple products, and does seem to go out of his way to defend them. But not with the same regularity and gusto of the three. Marco I view as a dev with a specific agenda to make money as a dev, and what he writes is about that -- if indirectly.

Robert Scoble is someone who writes a lot about Apple, but I don't consider him an Apple evangelist or advocate. He will go out of his way to prop them, but he'll also oddly go out of his to dig on them too. Maybe it depends on what side of the bed.

In any case, I hope that helps.
Markdown isn't a general purpose markup syntax. It's a niche solution to the smaller problem of "I want to format a plain text file or plain text email in a way that is perfectly readable as plain text, but also can be converted into a web page that retains the same basic formatting".
It's fine. However, we would recommend pushing and pulling over SSH for speed.

And let me clarify: by fair-use we mean we offer unlimited _code_ hosting, not general storage. We monitor for abuse, such as large repos containing only music, videos, and public viruses or malware. Though don't worry - if we notice any problems we'd of course contact you first.

We'd love to have you as a customer!
T-Mobile has discounts for bring your own type plans... I for example am on one of those plans with my iPhone 3G (jailbroken.)
Dan Lyons I guess?

But he's more pathological though.
So, what other Linode datacenters are more stable? 4 of the last 5 issues on status.linode.com are from Fremont.
Actually, I agree with him, it's written like a study of human's and it comes off very disgusting.
With the death of Flash, for front-end web development, likely right around the corner this is a great strategic move by Adobe to stay relevant.

Maybe they'll create an XCode like tool for HTML5 using PhoneGap as the glue. With the acquisition of TypeKit it really looks like that's the direction they are heading in. Would be an interesting and useful product.
Access to gossip. Startups helping other startups by integrating the other's or the same technology(s) is a very real force of business. Knowing how the board is wired has investment benefits.
I agree with you completely, I've made some changes already. The site that I want to show people is about a week away from being where I would advertise it though. It will be on my profile soon.

Thanks for the advice!
That's a really cynical view, isn't it? Implying that the people, through their democratically elected governments, can't ever improve upon things that have come before.
The numerous security issues make it unlikely that a drawWindow will ever make it into the canvas API for content, from my perspective.

Firefox has supported it as an extension for a while now but it's not enabled for content due to the security problems.
First, huge kudos to you and Adobe for making these acquisitions. And double kudos to you for doing your AMA here on HN!

Just curious, but since the move of PhoneGap to an Apache incubator project was announced within such a relatively close proximity to today's acquisition, I can't help but wonder if the decision to open source the code was something Adobe was aware of.

I mean, you must have been in the process of doing the due diligence during this time, right? It leads me to speculate the decision was somewhat of a joint one, or, alternatively, that maybe there were points of contention around it.

This might touch on sensitive information so I fully understand if you'll have to pass on answering this one.
This is unfortunate. The rush-to-publish tech blogging format strips away almost personality -- it's just incredibly hard to be fast enough and keep anything.

MG was one of a very few writers who could handle the pace and maintain a distinctive voice. I hope he's a great investor, but if it means less public writing, the industry will be poorer for it.
TwoSides ups the ante in QA, placing weight on viewpoints and persuasions
Every VC needs an Apple columnist. He has a good eye for what's hot and lots of leads so that should be useful to a VC, especially with these inflated valuations a service's "hotness" just might be the determinant for high returns. Wouldn't trust his analytical skills though.
My company has many very small projects that needed to be archived yet weren't completely closed (possible to re-open for new feature). We started with GitHub but were forced to leave since they didn't have any viable plans - ended up moving to SpringLoops which charges on "active" projects. Basically we can close and re-open as many projects as we'd like as long as < 10 are active.
Word on the street. We are migrating to Dallas after this is resolved.
You don't know Dilger? Consider yourself lucky -- until now:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/
http://droppages.com lets you do this with very little set up. I've been very happy using it on a simple static site that I have less technical people collaborating with me on.
I'm 35, and I look back at my 29-year-old self as a kid.
These seem somewhat similar to the reason you would use simple files rather than SQL databases.
> I'm of the opinion that not everything I do is worthy of sharing

The same is true for me. But who defines what is "worthy of sharing"? I believe this question is to be answered by others, not by oneself. It's generally hard to say whether something will be interesting or uninteresting to others, i.e. worthy or unworthy of sharing.

I've seen some surprises in the past after publishing pet projects which I thought weren't worth much, and weren't really complete. Nevertheless, some of them did get interest, and with the help of others they did become good and almost complete.

Of course there are also other projects which I published, which nobody else was interested in, where I finally lost interest and which are hopelessly outdated crap by now.

However, I couldn't have told you in advance which of my projects will or will not share this fate.

Having that said, I fully agree that one shouldn't publish every crap. But I have quite good experiences with: When in doubt, publish!
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Yes, I am an Apple customer, though really don't think that has anything to do with it.

My opinion stems from running my own SaaS applications, seen the business downsides of all the free stuff, and now don't focus very much on the free aspect. I prefer trial.

I also recognize that me paying for a service I like is a healthy way to help that service stay around, because that is how I view it when my customers are paying me.
If Sprint gets an exclusive on iPhone 5, there is going to be severe backlash. I know many people waiting to upgrade their phone until iPhone 5 comes out, and they aren't going to switch to Sprint to do it.

This would be a betrayal of all of their customers holding iPhone 3G/3GS/4 waiting to upgrade on Verizon or AT&T, and it will be a big chink in the armor for Android to exploit.

It would annoy me as a developer too.

For these reasons, I sort of find it hard to believe that an exclusive is possible, but I guess $20B is a lot of money.
Hash-bangs: less fun than they sound (ex.com/RESTofURI ex.com/#/RESTofURI)
What is the best router plugin for Ajax web apps?<p>Contenders:
http://davisjs.com/
https://github.com/mtrpcic/pathjs
Good luck with that one Trolls.
Haskell must be on the slow road to failure. Maybe in another 20 years it will be gone for good. :-)
This is the fourth downtime event this week, and it won't be the last.

Linode appears to have an abusive relationship with the people at Hurricane Electric. No matter how poorly HE treats Linode, Linode always takes it and begs for more.

Our failure management scripts have gone into action 4 times this week because of Fremont, but our relatively high DNS TTL of 15 minutes has still left a few unhappy west coast customers. We will be reducing our TTL and seeking a new west coast provider. Most likely back to ec2.
Infringement may not be stealing, but it's just as illegal. He's trying to implement a system for enforcing a law that already exists. In particular, it's a law where you get a warning before anything happens. How is that abusive?

Further, what is "nominally legal or moral" about protecting the rights of artists to be paid for the use of their works? If you build software and decide to charge for it, and someone else makes a bunch of copies of it and makes it impossible for you to make money from it, do you not want the law protecting you to be enforced? Last I checked, programmers have a hard time making money from merch and touring.
The BBB is a racket. That should be clear to anyone who thinks about it even briefly.
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Thanks. As I'm sure you've guessed, this was a permissions problem with some of the pages we'd been keeping quiet until the launch. Let us know if you find any more.
That's a pretty cynical view of TC writers and a pretty generous view of VC's. I'd say on balance both tech writers and investors have overlapping considerations. Writers want to cover important / relevant companies, which sometimes means writing about what "everyone is talking about". VCs want to produce returns for their LP's, but just as often get fooled by "hype" by products that are unlikely to make money.
Or, for that matter, using fictitious tests to show of fake lack-of-performance in blog posts.
I'm referring to the known (and still not fixed?) issues with dropbox, including logging out having no real effect on disabling access to the dropbox files. Or someone being able to steal the dropbox keys from one computer and reuse them on a different computer.

In addition, as I'm sure you recognize, this reduces breaking into your hardened box and filling it with unicorn pr0n to swiping your friend's laptop while she is in the loo at the Starbucks.

So someone can steal the key to your server with a few minutes access to your home computers or laptops and you will not know until you have unicorn pron all over your blog.

This may be fine, and I mean that, for a personal blog (that also has regular backups.) I wouldn't set this up for clients (as suggested by others) to make it easier for them to blog, I think I would find a different solution for them.

Don't get me wrong. For my own personal needs, I think your solution is better than say, posterous which seems to be going downhill fast.

I like the idea of easily, quickly, blogging within emacs.
Sure, its DVCS, but if they go away, where will you host it now?

You are choosing to use Bitbucket for specific reasons. If they shut down because Atlassian is burning money and wants to trim the bottom line, then you now need to find something else to fill those specific needs again.

You don't lose any code, but you now need to figure something else out. And if you were relying on "free unlimited private repositories" you might not find that on another and now have to pay for something else.

Personally, I use GitHub daily for my job, but my private code isn't with GitHub.
What is the right size for web development projects?
Actually it wasn't contentious at all! Nitobi already had plans to donate to the Apache Foundation, and Adobe already had strong existing relationships with both organizations. We were glad to support that move to reinforce that we're here to support PhoneGap and further fuel its growth as a free open source project.
> However, these are only project works. I will never publish specific solutions to homework excercises, as this would only help cheaters and nobody else.
Which is why (lite) private repoes would be nice. I wouldn't want to hand out all the answers to my school assignments but I'd still like to keep them tracked with git (depending on the size). At the moment I've just put my coding folder inside Dropbox which in a way acts like version control (in the sense that I won't lose the code.
There is business, then there is bad business, and then there is scum. These guys fall firmly into category 3.
He's heading to a VC fund and as a concession settling for one of the best beats in the news business
Aussie start-up Family HQ takes on the might of Facebook
Opera is better than Chrome on one and only one point: Opera will load multiple pages in multiple tabs swiftly, while Chrome gets bogged down in some known and unfixed race condition.

I find that reading news aggregator content like Google Reader or Hacker News is much easier and faster in Opera than in Chrome.

Apart from that, Opera seems to have many bugs where pages that other browsers load just fine, load incorrectly.

But yeah, even now, Opera won't display your site.
That's actually pretty good. Double precision floating point (IEEE format, anyway), can represent all positive integers up to 9007199254740990, which takes you up to Fib(78), so the fact that you can get up to Fib(76) means you are getting close to the top. Good enough for most work.

After 9007199254740990, double precision only represents even integers. Fib(79) is odd, so can't be represented. Fib(80) would be representable though, as will be every other Fibonacci number for a while. Then comes a range where only multiples of 4 can be represented, and then a range with multiple of 8, and so on, so while there will be representable Fibonacci numbers in those ranges, more and more will be omitted.
I think in average expat salary is higher
the incremental impact on success bewteen a good and single letter .com domain name is less than the incremental impact of a great hire, at any early stage startup.
Look who's talking: a patent troll himself. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058876
Being a good investor is basically about "deal flow" and good judgment. Seems like writing for the tech press gives you lots of practice at both.
I don't typically think of lottery players as being all that concerned with probability.
Do you basically run mirrored Linodes in different data centers, and rysnc everything from the primary to secondary? Then when primary goes down, update the DNS to secondary?
I think this discussion may be going in the wrong direction. Arguing the merits of ARM and Power instructions over x86 just seems to be falling into the trap the article discusses - slightly different ways to keep doing the wrong thing.

To me TFA is about a reassessment of fundamental assumptions, and it's about exploration. It doesn't suggest concrete solutions because nobody knows what they are, but it does suggest that our efforts to better the art have been short-sighted. Right now the next Intel chip or ARM chip is just another target for compilation, just another language or library fight with instead of solving real problems - solving old problems, not just the latest new/interesting/imagined ones.

(FWIW, this particular example doesn't excite me too much - If the future is DWIM, it almost certainly has to be done first in software, even if it is eventually supported by specialised hardware.)
Interviewing a waste of time?
Keep Putting Yourself Out There
Railscasts are cool, but if you want something more advanced, I cannot recommend destroyallsoftware.com enough
Can you point to anything in Adobe's history that would indicate it is a company that has any clue how to "fuel the growth" of a "free open source project"?
So basically the only person you don't consider an Apple evangelist besides Mossberg is a former paid Microsoft evangelist.
Doesn't Groupon target the somewhat higher scale part of each market (e.g. well-known restaurants)? Wouldn't this explain the higher-than-average prices, since those averages are computed over the whole market?
I think roles such as these (i.e. 3rd party ratings) are best left to non-profit entities. Not that there isn't any potential for conflict of interest simply because the org is non-profit, but it seems to minimize the possibility. Also, because non-profits are dependent on donations, there is more interest in transparency and honesty. I'm thinking about something like Charity Navigator.