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Would you prefer Twitter or something else? Or do you want a site-specific sign-in?
And here's a list of all so far for future reference, seems like the site is doing fine for now though.

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LaTeX lab is a direct copy of google documents. I am also incorrect with www.scribtex.com who have another service. Scribex are going strong but latexlab is not being worked on anymore. sharelatex is the only service which offers the ability to work in real time which is the way I see latex collaboration working.
One project I'm watching is Mulberry: http://mulberry.toura.com. Possibly not ready for production, but it has a lot of potential.
They do. SCRUM morning meeting in our case.

I don't particularly like them because I don't really care what 20 other people have been working on yesterday, and we generally unblock ourselves immediately instead of waiting for next day's meeting, so that's not helpful either.
One of my absolute favorite short-stories. First came across it when I was on a SciFi reading rampage around the age of 8 or 9yrs old.. it completely struck me then, and still does each time I come across it again.

I owe it in part to SciFi stories and books like this for shattering any chance I had of narrow-minded thinking in life, and bringing perspective to Humans as a species and our place in the cosmos.
If I had a prediction its Kindlefire competitor with full Google cloud
I wouldn't expect so much. There is ample evidence for the ineffectualness of, say, the CIA. As a simple example, at the time of the fall of the USSR (pretty much their major goal) they had admitted they had no effective agents in Russia
Thank you very much, this is quite surreal to see it on HN getting good feedback!
What's in a number? On billion dollar companies.
I think you're conflating the issues of

1. How managers should behave regarding raises

2. How employees should behave regarding raises

As an employee, you want to take control over negotiating your own raises because that generally results in more money for you. In that sense, I agree with your posts.

As a manager, you want to move employees away from political behavior. Feelings of unfairness are a big demotivator, and if you wait for employees to ask for raises, then there will be very little correlation between competence and pay. Employees will find this out, and the result will be your employees focus on politics, feel like life is unfair, and in general will be less productive.
Excellent. Now I no longer have to cart MikeTex Portable on my keychain. Since I work on multiple computers with files from my DB, this will be great. Thanks.
Seconded. Could an admin please change the story title?
The title conjures images of the google-bot GETting you way more coffee than you want during a crawl, but the article is actually sane. POST a drink order, PUT in changes and GET status.

I have the strange desire to go put wifi in my coffee maker.
I've had a great experience so far with WebFaction: http://webfaction.com
Great concept and nice looking implementation, Henry! I'd not remembered to check it out since you mentioned it in the pub the other (last?) week, but I'll definitely kick the tyres over the weekend :-)
It's a productivity killer. If everyone knows that John is a better developer than Bill, but Bill gets paid twice as much because he understands corporate politics, then people focus on politics, feel like life is unfair, etc. The money saved by underpaying your best employees is rarely worth the inevitable productivity hit and loss of talent.
You can download the source files with maybe 2 clicks? (settings -> download zip).

There is no version control at the moment. I am working on how to implement this and diffs in a user friendly way soon. Basically git is not the answer for collaborative LaTeX in my option, a different more dynamic and simpler way is needed which I am working on.
I cannot agree more. Often it makes me wish there was some type of program/device that plays music based on concentration levels.

What happens when I start getting into something complicated, is that I notice the music. Until this point, it's just kind of in the background. It feels like my brain's saying, "Not enough CPU to play music and work on this problem. Please eliminate the problem."
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An inotify daemon could help, but it's not perfect: it needs a long time to warm up in the case of a reboot or crash

So does, presumably, the cache when you use lstat. (Let's scratch presumably. It does. Bonus points if you can't use Linux and use an OS that seems to chill its caches down as soon as possible. )

I hope I'm wrong, but the proper solution to this seems to be a custom file system - not only will it allow you to more easily obtain a "modified since" list of files, it also allows you to only get local files "on demand". (E.g. http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/2011/06/build-in-cloud-a...)

That still doesn't solve the data structure issues in git, but at least it takes some of the insane amount of I/O off the table.

I'm looking forward to see what you guys cook up :)
Doesn't really solve the issue but you can globally disable per-application restore in Preferences and you can use Cmd-Opt-Q to make apps forget currently open windows instead of manually closing documents.
lol

In reality, just like any scientific articles you see like this one that could change everything, you will never hear of this magic fungus again. Nor will it save the world and the world continues as its normal self.
Ha ha, hello John! I have since left the land of ec2 and this is running happily on a small linode instance, found it much faster for my monry. Yes my db's are in a totally different datacenter to my server but I don' think the site is that slow.

£10 says it goes down in the next 6 hours.
I was on a conference call once where that happened. It took over 20 minutes to figure out a) who the heck was doing that, and b) how to eject them from the call.
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Because those companies generally already pay the $$$ for Perforce (which has any number of deeply terrifying, shiny red candylike self destruct buttons and makes git's user interface look kind) which for all its other faults handles this specific user case extremely well.
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I know that many people see VC funding as some sort of holy grail, but given my experience over the past several decades, it is the last form of funding I want to take.

These days the internet provides infrastructure and distribution and a marketing medium, and open source removes much of the capital costs for a software or internet startup.

I think everyone should be trying to get to profitability around the time they start needing to do a second angel round, or ideally before they get out of an accelerator.

In most cases you don't need to hire a dozen engineers before getting profitability, even on a small scale, and if your idea is scalable, you can raise reasonably big rounds with angels these days (though I've not been thru an angel round, I'm assuming the terms are much more reasonable and the process more straightforward.)

I hope to be profitable very quickly, and to plow those profits into growth %100. If we do raise outside funding, I'd like to do like PandoDaily did and have a syndicate of a dozen or more angels.
Unfortunately no, that brings in a world of Complexity which Im not planning on dealing with. www.scribtex.com offers a git based interface for offline work which may suit.
As opposed to covering a field with fecal matter?
The startup I currently work for uses stand-up scrum's in the morning to discuss what one has crushed the day before (completed items) and what one is going to crush today. This is also the time to explain to the various different teams (Android/Java API, C++ api, server/backend) what you changed, what things they need you to be aware of and what requires more meetings and or having a time where a switch-over is required do to changing something that touches all teams or some of the teams. For example, letting the other teams know that DNS entries now server ULA IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses and they should probably do testing to verify everything still functions.

It works for us, although sometimes the meetings can be a drag when the day before you spent a lot of time in meetings and you don't have a lot of input. It is one way of kinda putting you on the spot if you aren't producing anything which keeps people accountable.
The behavior described in the post sounds like the kind of intellectual and moral laziness that you'd have to expect when The Market is assumed to yield Truth, like some kind of modern Oracle of Delphi. And those who practice it risk serious rotator-cuff injury from constantly trying to pat themselves on the back for being so incredibly cynical... um, 'scuse me, efficient.

Management, done right, requires the ability to make judgments, including character judgments. Collapsing all possible human motivations into the single dimension of fear/greed may swell the bottom line of whoever can do it the most cynically, until at some point it doesn't, because over time (if not immediately), it will produce an atmosphere that is poisonous to innovation.
I'd really like to see a prominently linked privacy policy. Not that I'm particularly concerned with you stealing my work-in-progress, but just as an easy-to-see assurance that such things won't happen.

A really sweet potential feature request: dropbox integration. Then I could work on my dissertation from anywhere, and always have a few extra backups.
Hah! I don't think I'll take that bet :-)

I'm bored this w/e, so do get in touch and let me know if I can lend a hand with some back-end systems tuning ... email, or via the phone number on m'webshite (also on devwiki, under "contact numbers" IIRC)
The bigger question in my mind is: Why use the Apple authoring tool in the first place?

Writing a book is a lot of work. It is a huge investment in time and money. I would think that it would be far smarter to author it using a tool that allows output in a myriad of formats. And, yes, one of those formats could be ibook, but not the only one.
Good point, security is vital to this (hence everything is https). I will be looking into this.
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If Facebook can maintain its popularity and nothing more interesting and creative comes up, it can maintain its stand. But there still a chance that it will end up just like Friendster.
Canberra by any chance? Much, much heavier screening there.
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I know, and I've thought about telling the people who set the call up to do that, but our seminars also have regular, legitimate questions. We could have a protocol where questions come through IMs, but that's cumbersome.
I've found the drone music this guy does fantastic for zoning in while coding: http://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/

Particularly of note is his 8 hour album "Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell" http://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/field-recordings-from-the... . It's my go-to when I need to sit down and concentrate.
They are putting people on this. Thankfully, those people are smart enough to ask for help before blindly going off and doing their own thing.

Now, if it's going to end up OSS, that's a different question. (I'm not implying it's not - I'm saying that's a decision that could go either way)
I've got bad news for you. If you hover your mouse over the drawings, it totally shows who did it.
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This is counter-intuitive from a business standpoint. Managers behave this way because they've learned through experience that:

1) Most of the worst employees hang on for dear life to their jobs and don't dare risk losing them for any reason (asking for a raise, etc). Incompetence or sub-par job performance not withstanding.

2) Occasionally employees get a fire lit under them by a spouse, mid-life crisis, etc and attempt to obtain a raise. Doing so communicates that the employee wants to stay at the company, and that they can be low-balled.

3) The best employees have mobility in the job space and can get better offers. This is why quitting is the only reliable way to get a raise (counter-offer). The employee has clearly shown market value above their current position, and the psychological effect of social proof kicks in.

There are of course exceptions, but even a moderate amount of time in a large company shows this to be generally true. Managers are incentivized to keep personnel costs down, and only give in if their hand is forced. It's just human nature at work.
Yep, I had this issue. No visa covers a foreign entrepreneur wanting to come and create jobs in the US. In the end I had to go through contortions to get an O1 but it wasn't pretty.
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> I am aiming for a fermium model at the moment

So you'll have half as much traffic in 100.5 days? :)

More seriously, this looks awesome. I do all almost all of my writing in LaTeX, including papers, presentations, and random other documents. I've tried to collaborate on LaTeX documents before, but unlike many other types of text documents, the collaboration didn't work very well: the editors that could do collaboration didn't integrate with rapid compilation and previewing, and the editors that do rapid compilation and previewing don't do collaboration.

Have you considered using PDF.js to display the PDF in real-time in the browser next to the LaTeX document? Put that together with something like SyncTeX, and you could show your (or everyone's) current cursor position in the rendered document in real-time. Various tricks also exist to render LaTeX documents more quickly to allow for real-time previewing, such as those used in WhizzyTeX http://cristal.inria.fr/whizzytex/ .

Integration between the BibTeX bits and some form of online reference tracking would make a lot of sense: hit one bookmarklet or browser plugin button on a paper you want to reference, and end up with a new reference in your .bib file.

The biggest question I immediately have: how well does this handle documents that need random packages you don't already have in your TeX installation? From Beamer and TikZ to conference and journal styles to random obscure formatting packages, I don't want to find out in a crunch that I can't easily use any package I need. Do you have any compatibility issues with random TeX and LaTeX packages, perhaps due to the need to run them in a secure server environment? Do I have to add all the individual packages into my project, or can I have them as common elements across my projects? Similarly, can I share my own .bib files and packages across projects?

On that note, what about images and arbitrary data files I might need to include, such as from \includegraphics or

What TeX implementation do you use behind the scenes? TeXLive, I hope?

How do I know what versions you use? What happens when you upgrade? TeX itself might keep backward compatibility forever, but random LaTeX packages don't always maintain that property.

First-impression question: why do you ask for my first and last name, rather than just an email address and password? Do you want it to fill in \author{} automatically? Please say up front what you need it for. Either way, never ask for "first name" and "last name", just ask for "full name", which will work for more people. http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-personal-names
"Or a console which will bring Android Apps to your TV."

That's GoogleTV.
If you limit change propagation, your changes won't propagate as fast. That goes for bugs and bug fixes.

I can certainly see why you would have the latter propagated instantaneously, or close to it.

There's also the point that if you don't propagate change to everybody at the same time, you'll have dozens of slightly different versions of those projects across your company. The question of submodules vs. large repo is not as easily decided as you think - there are large upsides (and downsides) to both approaches.
I found a better version and with better cast. Its in Black-n-White though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-9t9BIBLKw
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Knowing that somebody is taking the effort to get this sort of thing right is really, unspeakably awesome. Though I guess not really, given that I'm posting it. This sort of thing is one of the main reasons I read HN.

Hopefully the methodology will filter out into the wider world one day. . . Anyway, thank you for posting it!
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I see what you're saying about deleting the deletion page. It's an interesting point. Having separate URLs for GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. on the same logical entity breaks the connection between those operations. However, I still don't see much added (practical) value in maintaining that connection, especially when it comes to websites (vs APIs). Even in perfect REST world, an article can be represented by a dozen URLs:

http://example.com/articles/3423423
http://example.com/reviews/fallout-new-vegas
http://example.com/bob/submissions/articles/13

They might look different and only some of them might be DELETEable. (Or am I wrong here? I'm not entirely sure.) How that's different from treating http://example.com?Articles.delete.1 as a deletable representation of the same article? Both will affect many other pages on the website. You still need to understand what the request means to really know the consequences of sending it.

In short, I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with doing URLs the way I described.
LateX Lab was/is exactly that: http://code.google.com/p/latex-lab/

A demo is up and running at http://docs.latexlab.org/

* not affiliated with the project in anyway, just remember using it awhile back.
It seems eminently obvious to me that having basically a "change log" for a (part of a) filesystem is something that's valuable independent of your build system, revision control system, whatnot.

At least that's what I'd like to see - it's functionality that's orthogonal to those tools.
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I had no idea! Thanks. Done.

(It's under General > Restore Windows When Quitting and Re-opening Apps)

Now if only there were a way to stop Document Versions from irrevocably eating up hard drive space...
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Yes, I agree with Cohen here. Smart companies reward productive, smart employees incrementally, and don't place the burden of negotiation entirely upon them. This is not to say negotiation isn't possible or beneficial to the employee. But if a company rewards employees with regular raises and profit-sharing, negotiation isn't as political.
massive get out clause, its 3am in London and I have been drinking

I have looked into pdf.js and semi implemented it however it was only really worth it for firefox users, other browsers generally had a better experience natively, not that I am ruling it out forever but at the time I went for keeping it simple.

Seeing others cursors would be great. I am using the ace editor and that does not natively suport more than once cursor atm, if I had more time I may implement it myself but to be honest it is not going to happen in the very short term.

behind the scenes it is just a fully instance of tex-live 2011 which should cover 95% of needs. For other packaged which are available I am hoping people request them for the moment and I install them, for obvious reasons I am wary of allowing people the ability to install global packages on my server.

On first name and last name, you are right not really needed, same goes for email confirmation. I have been planning on killing those for a while but just hasn't happened!
Is Apache mod-spdy useful yet? The project page says "still an early beta and is not yet suitable for production environments" and everything I've read elsewhere says it's not ready. But things have a way of moving fast, is that outdated info?
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Basically, if you want to manage a large collection of git source repositories, you'll probably end up using Repo and Gerrit and piggybacking on the work of the android ecosystem (and beyond, gerrit is used all over the place now)

There really isn't another solution out there right now (at least not anything open source) for very large single repositories.
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Facebook Connect all.js broken for lots of people.
I really like the mnemonic value of the examples in this post. Having a concrete example and a picture for each aesthetic principle makes them easy to recall later. As a designer, having the words to describe a form or situation in a specific way is really useful!
Sure, if you want static content on multiple platforms. But the iBooks Author tool enables interactive content that no other platform provides.
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I've used jQuery Mobile + Phonegap a few times now, and it's a pretty solid combo.
What a strawman. Just because URI layout is orthogonal to REST does not make it a non-concern to REST proponents. It has nothing to do with REST. It is a good practice. Both are true.

It's only confusing if you think REST nebulously means merely "good web API design" or "good usage of HTTP."
Same here. ST gets the native UI controls, and PhoneGap provides the tight integration to the device. Canvas for everything else.
Latex lab development seemed to have stopped over a year ago before they implemented real time collaberation, if it had continued I would have not have started sharelatex.
This is a great article. It describes exactly how salary negotiation works in the US, and now when someone asks, I won't have to write it all out myself.

Ironically, I only realized the way things worked at my last job. I wanted to get paid more, but didn't really know how. Then a few companies contacted me out of the blue; I interviewed at each and was offered a job at each. They all involved moving, which I didn't really want to do, but I kept that to myself. I then asked my current employer to match the highest offer, which they agreed to do. Then I showed them the offer letter, and they didn't believe that my other offers were so high, and tried to negotiate me back down to my current salary. I put in my two weeks noticed and my managers looked extremely surprised. Apparently nobody had ever actually followed through on their threat to quit; everyone had used "I have another offer" as a way to get an easy raise (but never as much as the mythical offer).

Anyway, my current employer is More Enlightened and I don't think I will have to play this game for a long time. Which is nice, because you never actually win...
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Yeah. A lot of plastics are 100 percent recyclable. Eventually you just mine the landfill if it is worthwhile. No? Destroying the plastic seems a waste.

Possible selection and confirmation bias as I design plastic products.