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Maker of Mint, Quicken balances two approaches to money
"adapted from a short, non-fiction book." Awesome
So we actually connect via a reversed SSH tunnel. So our customers maintain the corporate firewalls and tunnel out to us. Since, unlike a lot of other business intelligence companies, we don't take a full copy of your data, we ensure security at that level as well (only pulling in what's absolutely necessary for the visualizations and reports).

Good question though!
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So do I. My parents are awesome.
Overall, with the minimalistic Greasmonkey script, it's not bad. One thing that I don't like is that in expanded view, there is no visual indication to differentiate read from unread items. In list view, read items are grey. Why didn't they do something similar in expanded view? I keep having to look over at the unread count on the left.
How does this differ from the new concurrency and parallelism constructs available in C++11?
Have you considered using iSCSI? The storage server need not be a Mac. I'm using Nexenta running ZFS to supply iSCSI volumes to some of the machines on my home network.
So, uhm, what’s this meme all about? It has been mentioned here twice. What’s recess got to do with how good a school is? I’m from Germany and I have never heard anyone suggest that breaks are a bad thing. This seems completely bizarre to me.
We at blip have been frequenting gimme!, but less so since Bowery Coffee opened on Houston. You should really check that out, it's great.
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right, for super high powered workstations the Xeon makes sense but allot of the benefit seems to be the ability to run 2+ seperate CPUs, but they sell Mac Pros with only a single Xeon inside them which seems pointless.

There seems to be a total gap in the apple lineup for people who want an at least somewhat expandable computer that lets you pick your own monitors rather than forcing one on you, but doesn't make you pay for server grade hardware.

Most Mac Pros I have seen used were primarily being used for photoshop or ruby dev, very unlikely that justifies the xeon.

To me it seems like saying "you either can buy this 2 seater car with 1.2L 80hp 4 pot engine or a 5 seater car with a 5L 600hp V8"
It feels like apple is couching their thunderbolt display as their 'dock'. Display + firewire + usb, over a thunderbolt cable.
As a rule, in js I declare every var at the top of the function (or globe) in one giant var statement just because of this. Still, it's easy to get lost in the moment and mess up just once. I used to think this was just the way things were but pair-programming/code-review and/or a language with better scoping rules would've prevented this from happening.
Classic! I did that with rotation in my js gaming engine once, fun times.
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five bucks, ker-bought! I've been following the teaser videos for a while and am excited to have a chance to fool around in it.
I don't know, while this might sense from a business perspective, this seems like a flawed enterprise to me. Many creative professionals need the extend-ability of the Mac Pro. For instance for graphics (QuadroFX) or audio work (UAD DSP cards for instance). I don't think that external cards over Firewire or Thunderbolt are the appropriate solution here.
I think the argument, with regards to Jobs, was rather that Stallman was inappropriate on writing his statements so soon after Job's death. Edit: To clarify, the bulk of the arguments where not against his ideas but rather directly concerned with his behavior. I don't consider it character assassination. The counter-argument was that he was correct, which does not actually excuse the way he stated it. You can say something correct in the wrong manner.

Now, regarding the rider for speaking engagement, I would agree that the outright mocking seen there was uncouth.
> For a platform historically known for suitability for multimedia work

That's its history, which Apple has moved away from (with great success). You're not they're target customer anymore. Their average customer in 2011 wants a ultra-thin laptop, not a super-powered (from their POV) desktop.

If you're not willing to pony up the cash, your best hope is to build a Hack Pro.
Yes; thanks for the correction. I'm not sure where my confusion came from.

(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html)
> I would posit here that nothing I could do in best practice (manual front-end testing, unit testing, error handling, etc.) would have caught the offending line.

jshint would have caught it. You need to run jshint on your code or you will get silly errors like this. Simple.
That's neither particularly recent nor particularly US-specific.
Indeed, JSLint or JSHint would have cought this. The claim that "nothing I could do in best practice ... would have caught the offending line" is false.
TL;DR: Ruby has no equivalent to SciPy, hence the need to switch. Probably a fair point :-(
This is compatable with ANSI C. Also it has a fairly large number of features, especially around non blocking data structures and memory management.
Dude your costume was awesome! thanks for uploading it!
One will end up getting some type of accreditation. When it happens they will go from delivering one-off courses and concentrate on delivering degrees. Someone pays maybe $9,000 to get his BS online. Maybe a mega-corporation pays $1000 per employee to take a 3-day-Hadoop course, etc...
i'm coding that as we speak! check back in 30 min! :D
Even better is setting your editor to run JSHint when you save a .js file, and let you know if there are problems. Not only does it avoid stupid bugs, it saves time round-tripping to the browser for trivial issues like syntax errors.
Screw rounding up >1 users for testing (though it does give needed human insight), if you aren't spooling up a few multicore VMs with JMeter or better, you aren't really performance testing.
Is it just me or is this site completely unusable right now. I keep trying to say 'This isn't me!' or 'This is me!' with no results... maybe he has another missing 'var' somewhere?
I wonder if you can add a custom sharing link from Google Reader's settings page and leverage the Pinboard API:

http://pinboard.in/api/#posts_add
Now that's service! :)
Well whole rocket launches failed for silly reasons like temperature conversions, so you shouldn't feel too bad about it.
We are working on startup: http://intigi.com. You can subscribe to your RSS or Twitter feeds and then filter the feeds by your interests (i.e., using keywords).

In terms of social features, you can make any interest public and share it with others. You can also follow or fork any of the public interests (like Github).

We are in early stages with the social features (and overall product) and would really appreciate any feedback/input! You can email me at mjfern@intigi.com or use the feedback button throughout the site.

Thanks in advance!
> we just wanted users to have a more social experience with our site.

This strikes me as bologna, because right now it's meaningless (see: "eventually" make it easier...).

IMO it's perfectly reasonable to say that you didn't want to roll your own registration system.
I'm familiar with the Humble Indie Bundle, so I knew that Voxatron was some kind of game before clicking the link. After the link, I know nothing new. It could be a shooter, a platformer, a puzzle game, or anything else. There should be a brief description of the game in a prominent place on the page.
this is actually one of the ways we considered. We called it the Tastemakers (interior designers), basically, getting people with good taste to recommend great products to put in your home, so users would be drawn to our website for the content.
Mac Pro always strikes me as a weird deal. For $2499 box I get - No wireless, No bluetooth, Xeon. Its very strange to buy such an expensive box with expectation that it will be all inclusive only to find that you need to first buy modules to get a wireless keyboard working.
Boston Dynamics built a human like, self balancing robot
Have you had any luck getting it to handle modern JavaScript style? Whenever I've tried js2-mode it really hasn't liked jQuery style nested anonymous functions.
The Xeon is only about 10% more expensive than the equivalent i7; the high price of the Mac Pro comes from some other source (e.g. the fancy motherboard that you also don't need).
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one of the issues in the Dubai is the lack of prominent bloggers. You'll find most users following prominent international blogs rather than any local ones.

Strong idea about trade resources though. We have started our own blog. We hope to get some sort of following for that.
That's Tumblr apparently.
Sounds like a good idea. I know emacs flymake mode can be set up to underline problems detected by jshint. Personally I like to have the tests and jshint run by a hotkey so I can happily move the code through invalid states (towards a valid goal) without being constantly complained at :)
I don't want to date myself (and so I won't ;) but I too was contemplating the same thing when I graduated (after getting a bachelor's in Computer Eng). In hindsight, passing on getting an MS in CmpE (or CS) was absolutely the right thing to do - nothing beats on the job experience.

However an MBA is a different story. Getting an MBA at a good school can be extremely expensive and only you can decide if the opportunity cost is worth it. I have several friends who wanted to switch careers after spending a few years in technology and used an MBA to make that leap. But even they will tell you today that you don't need to spend 2 years and $150K to make that happen.

Hope that helps.
It has been suggested elsewhere that the App Store probably excluded the GPL on purpose. Even if it didn't, it is unreasonable to say that it is copy-left's fault.

Also, I must repeat: "whatever the end user have access to is not free". My point is, if we want to free the end user, then the copy hold by the end user should be free. But a regular user isn't free to modify and redistribute the copy he hold on his iPhone, even if the original licence was a BSD one. Heck, even if he could, his modifications still have to pass through the App Store review process, which means there's no guarantee other users could benefits from them.
The follow up http://wit.io/posts/the-ugliness-of-python is in my opinion, more interesting. I always find it funny how different people think different languages are ugly.
That's still a half-solution. What if I want to make a multiline note?

Also, that doesn't solve the problem that others can't comment on the shared item.
I wasn't initialising the x variable

Do you mean s/initialising/declaring/, or am I just really confused?
This is a pretty nice idea for people not based in the valley or that don't have a startup based network.

I like the idea, but the site design is a little painful to the eye.
> The Desura client currently only works on Windows and Linux PCs. We are working on support for Mac. To be notified when support is added, please provide your email:
This site a scam? Create a fake account using a completely random name, it seems to have found a lot about "shpadoinkle Hassenpheffer" on the internet, I however can't find a single reference to the name...
My var story was a little harder scoping issue where a variable held the information for a pending call. It would asynchronously process the call, then mark the call as completed. Well, if there were more than one call going through, the callback was only getting one record, causing it to repeat the call about five times before I caught it and fixed the scoping.
As many have pointed out, there are absolutely tools that would catch this kind of problem in development. But the experience also speaks to the lack of sophisticated observability tools for Node (and just about every other popular dynamic language too).
You're right, I am.

Comments like yours are a little annoying because you're telling me off for making assumptions without providing alternatives to those assumptions. What else would the end game be? Then we can have a discussion about whether that's reasonable, and whether you can get there from here.
JS is so easy to cock up in, I commonly find myself logging to the console just to make myself sure of the scope and other things.

This technique totally went to shit when I came across one of our scripts that gratuitously used `apply()` all over the place.

The other common error is array iteration, and I've not quite understood why iterating through one array in the same scope as where it was created works fine, but passing it to another function and performing the exact same routine also goes through the prototype methods after the elements.

Of course, particularly with the var mistake, you'd never really understand the magnitude of it until you attempted to use JS on the server side. This post has, quite thankfully, likely exposed a bug in my own code I couldn't quite understand a while ago. :)
Do you have a specific example in mind? It works pretty well for me.
And on behalf of New Zealand, I'd like to point out that you are being somewhat hypocritcal.
Thanks, my current solution is similar to that - storage drives in a PC server originally bought for that purpose and accessed through ethernet. (Interestingly, I have a hell of a time getting 2 Macs to network, but Macs network fine from PCs.) This was not as fast as I would like though and I usually had to copy files locally for editing. I migrated most of my video and photo work to the PC just because the speed was much faster having the drives local. It seems strange to me that I have to have two computers to do basic things. I greatly prefer the Unix on the Apple, but it's getting to where I might just switch back to the PC since the Mac has become an impediment to my workflow. This after using Macs since the 1980s for work at home. It makes no sense. Why shouldn't all Macs have easy access to reasonable amounts of storage. They should. Not having a reasonable solution here is really boneheaded of Apple.
Mac Pros have had bluetooth and wifi built in for years. Presently they come default with a Magic Mouse, and you can add a wireless keyboard for $20.
I'm in stuytown with a 25 / 25 fiber connection.
Gates on Jobs’ zingers: ‘None of that bothers me at all’
I think a more nuanced view is in order. As with many things, this is an example where agreement or personal likability is probably not a Boolean thing for most people.

Personally, I don't care what he looks like and I hate it when disparaging anecdotes are being passed around. It doesn't matter that he's a stereotypical "weird kid" as Dave Winer describes him. We're all hackers here and before the days of the Brogrammer, most of us were (and still are) weird kids. What does matter is the message Stallman conveys in his talks. It's an important one, and he brings it across very eloquently.

He himself is, however, an extremist and people do well to always keep this in mind. He is still influential because he is an extremist with a lot of legitimate grievances. When he is giving talks he sounds reasonable, because the fundamentals of his ideas are reasonable. That doesn't mean he is a reasonable person. In many interactions he does in fact appear to be the bully, not the victim.

In the end, RMS is so fanatical about his vision of Free Software that he as a person becomes remarkably non-free. That's a tremendous price to pay and I respect that. So there is no need to come down for or against RMS. He is what he is - he does his thing irregardless of the world around him.

I believe it's not always productive to try and pass a final judgement on people or ideas, to try and weigh the good vs the bad and arrive at a net value. It is not necessary to stand up for or against Stallman. Sometimes, it's OK to let the pros and cons stand for themselves and acknowledge them as such without giving in to the urge to make a weighted sum of the whole thing.
Half true. He bought a division of LucasArts; it wasn't even called Pixar until the sale meant it needed its own name. The idea of Pixar being a feature length animated movie house wasn't even conceivable until Steve Jobs was there to negotiate with Disney for financing and distribution.
JSLint was my first response, but I have to agree with someone higher up -- use strict is probably a better solution, since it'll happen whether you like it (or forget it) or not.
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Thanks for the feedback! We are trying to condense a lot of data into a small amount of space, which can be trying... Anything in particular that could use some design love?
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That is correct.

Teachers have a "planning period" typically where they get 1 full class period off.
Thanks Luke!
Here's a link to the product page, http://www.maxwell.com/products/microelectronics/product.asp....

Maxwell makes an entire array of microelectronics components. These are generally meant for use in devices that are deployed into space environments.
I've used SimpleGeo since I met Joe Stump at Foo Camp. I was talking about my early stage iPhone app, Kliq which needed reverse geo coding and a few other basic location features. He suggested SimpleGeo and I got started quickly–though each of the features I used I was ready to rebuild on my own when the time came, rather than pay the as-then rather large monthly fee were I to be so lucky to have so many users.

It's been bumpy, even with relying on them scantly–I had hoped the feature set would grow and mature to take even more work off of my hands. Instead–several times the API changed from under me without warning or backwards compatibility and my alpha app simply broke. Once, embarrassingly in an investor presentation, another time it took a personal tweet to the founders to get things re-sorted out.

I'm sad that for so much money, such a great team, excellent visual design, hot shot investors etc. they didn't take off. I wonder if they just didn't hit on the right business model–for me it seemed I am something of a YCombinator gamble for them: they want my startup Kliq to be reliant on their services such that I can't or don't want to rebuild at scale (wasn't the case), price such that they take money from me Kliq now, as small developer team with little time to build cookie features not core to my app (they didn't charge us a monthly fee until the very very end, while we probably would have paid $5-$20 a month right away and up to $50 with more features), and price such that they "exit" with Kliq if we do end up scaling. Then they just need some success stories and they would have been too. Some ideas as a now former "customer".
I wouldn't be surprised if this was a genuine East/West difference rather than A is better than B type situation.

It's hard to explain - there's a Chinese phrase called 're nao' which literally means 'hot and noisy', but means 'fun' or 'enjoyable'. In the UK we might value focus, calmness, and purpose on a webpage, whereas lots of Chinese webpages seem to be designed for this 'hot and noisy' idea of fun. I think the aesthetic sense here for the majority of people is significantly different from our own in general, so I don't see why this might be different on the web.
Thanks Solomon!
This Humble Bundle is a bit of an abberation; normally the deal is like 5-6 games for pay-what-you-want. So the value proposition is normally a lot better - "dude I can get SIX GAMES for like TWO DOLLARS!" and that tends to be enough to draw you down to click on the games' icons and find out about them.
> huh? and how exactly would they do that in a legal way?

Simple: The acquiring company turns to the VCs and says "If you want the acquisition to happen, you are going to waive your liquidity pref".

It's not complicated. And as for "legal", contracts are renegotiated all the time. You might in fact argue that the liquidity pref is put in as a throwaway, since it is rare that they are ever exercised.
This is an awesome creation that is sure to improve how radio stations and podcasters communicate with their listeners! A brilliant tool indeed!
Node.js/V8 postmortem debugging
I was initially sceptical, but actually Frozen Synapse is quite a good game.
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I'm not an expert in JavaScript...

Given that you said that, and that the problem you hit is a common pitfall for Javascript developers (especially if you're not very seasoned with the language), I'd strongly recommend picking up a copy of Douglas Crockford's Javascript: The Good Parts. Not only does he inform readers of this particular gotcha, but he also elaborates on Javascript best practices and tools that others are bringing up in their comments.
I never really understood the drama around switching tools. Picking the right one for the job is the first thing you should do.
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Yeah, even the (new? upcoming?) Magma ExpressBox 3T only allows 3 PCI-E cards off your Thunderbolt port; not nearly enough for an audio workstation. Though if one of those three slots can support a Magma host card, you can then daisy-chain to a regular Magma expansion box.
Of course you can. "Extreme" does not mean "violent".
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There's Indievania! (http://beta.indievania.com/)

From the About section:
Indievania is an online indie game marketplace for independent developers to sell their games directly to players, where 100% of the cost of the game goes to the developer.
Seems like it would be a huge opportunity for people to start creating these science Ruby gems.

Not my field, personally...
I'm pretty sure in Fuzhou it's just the 1 guy, he just drives around ALL THE TIME!! To be fair, if I was the only guy with a electric green car that goes 200mph and sounds like thunder.....I'd do the same
Thanks, signing up, and kicking the tires. You'll be hearing from me.
During Internet 1.0, Austin was a tech hub. Dell, and a bunch of tech consulting / software companies. There office parks outside of the city that used to house the tech scene. Inside the city seems to be where the new action is. Another plus for Austin is the labor pool is overqualified for the job opportunities (according to my Austinite friend). If it were #2 instead of New York, I'd move there in a second.
Knowing tools takes time

True

And it seems like every week I'm hearing about some great new dev tool.

True

Do folks actually try all of these?

No

Hearing about something is a data point. Hearing about the same thing, multiple times, from multiple sources you trust is a sign you should try something.
This is an aside to the main point, but I get the impression that raganwald doesn't quite understand the "it gets better" movement (I'm not sure if that's quite the right word to use for it, but I'm failing to come up with a better term). "It gets better" wasn't started to try to claim that the situation for LBGT teenagers was improving (although that's true), because that message doesn't really help the individual teen. The message was: as you, individually, get older, it will get better. And, more specifically, please don't kill yourself because your life is difficult right now. A similar idea appears in some of PG's essays where he points out that high school is pretty unpleasant for nerds, but most of that disappears later in life. It gets better because the community of adults is structurally different than the community of children.
A couple of sources on the history of blogging. Bernstein's reminiscences of the personalities show that little changes...

http://tawawa.org/ark/p/jorn-barger-community.html

http://www.markbernstein.org/Jul09/Flames.html