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Dude, take a step back and forget that you know this stuff already and do it professionally. That list is not easy and far from obvious, even for real programmers coming from other environments, let alone for actual programming beginners.

Your list is far from canonical even at this very moment and hasn't even been common for very long. To figure out your list, I have to:

1) know that homebrew is the "right" way to install software that rails depends on, rather than MacPorts or Fink, or the Mac app store, or download.com, and oh yeah, there is this thing called sudo, and I should install homebrew recipes using it, or should I??,

2) know that rbenv and ruby-build are things that exist and that they are competitors to RVM but are either more or less in vogue depending on who I talk to,

3) understand that rbenv doesn't just work in the current shell without closing and re-opening it,

4) know that the "right" version of ruby to use is 1.9.2-p290 (I have to know the patch-number?!) and that I need to install it and set it as my local version (wait, what does that mean, why do I need a local version?),

before I can get around to actually installing rails and using it.

Now, I could just blindly follow someone's list from a blog post (randomly chosen presumably, because the theory here is that I don't know enough about these things to make an informed decision). Maybe I would even get lucky and find a list that works properly with the version of rails that the official documentation is talking about, but it would still be a much better experience by far to go to the official rails site and be told: "hey, download this all-inclusive, up-to-date, guaranteed to work disk image straight from us!".
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Develop for the platform. Move on. Clearly you are not a pro at this.
I think crowd sourcing is a great idea. Being a professional programmer doesn't mean doing it for 120 hours a week. I'm more than happy to throw a little bit of money at something like this to have a good job be done of it.

Open source is amazing! But people have to eat. If people with great ideas and the ability to execute have to pull a contracting gig to pay their rent which takes away from important side-projects, I think that's a shame.

I'd like to see more things like this. If it means more high quality open source that helps people and saves them time, then great! I have donated $25 to this project. The direct impact it will have on me when it's complete is:

* I will be able to get designers/front-end developers up and running on a reliable rails setup without much hassle to myself.
* It's very likely they'll be able to set it up themselves.
* Programmers from other environments might be playing with Rails in 10 minutes on a weekend, enough to whet an appetite that will potentially give us a broader pool of developers to hire from.

This is great! Crowdsourcing is great! I hope he raises the cash required to focus on this and I can't wait for the result.
There are theoretical upper limits on energy consumption:

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/07/galactic-scale-e...
Thanks for your hard work. I'll be sure to look into UploadWizard the next time I need to upload a picture.

To be honest, even after 5 years of editing I had to google how to upload it. Wikipedia editing in general is rather obfuscated, but I find the Commons tasks that much more so due to my unfamiliarity with them.
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That's one way to acquire funding : redefining scientific terms as company brands to drive traffic to social networking sites. On a completely unrelated note, have you signed up for Klout, the completely new and different social net site with totally awesome and random rewards ;)
We might need a new protocol. TP/IP.
[I]t's mean, just fucking mean, to punish a good, productive, communicative team...

I didn't say standups don't benefit good teams; quite the opposite. You've missed (or ignored) my point that even good communicators miss conveying important information sometimes. And if the team is really so naturally communicative, they're hardly going to view a standup as punishment. Again, I have to really wonder what kind of standups you've been subjected to that would trigger your revulsion. It's like being violently opposed to eating with a fork. Technically, no, you don't need one but it often helps. Either way, it's nothing to get worked up over.
Sure I think you are right.

I sometimes maintain a conversational tone here, so expressing personal surprise at seeing what I was going to type as the top comment just sort of came out. I "hated to say it" because it's such an overused trite idiom. But yeah, it added little and "I agree" would have been a smoother intro.
Exactly. They could ask for all tech to be covered, not just the two in question.
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Or, which will Dropbox be the prelude of?
> A 15-minute standup isn't going to hurt a good team's productivity

It can send a powerful message that the team is not responsible for producing the software.
Got ~8fps increase on the Tempest game I've been working on. It went from playable in Chrome, to very playable in Chrome, and still unplayable in every other browser :(

https://github.com/mrmekon/tempest-cljs/
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But isn't this "unused" money in the system that folks are happy to give away for increasing the probability that something they need gets done?
I run an alternative to the App Store (Cydia) that happens to support paid upgrades. As far as I can tell, they are an important mechanism that allows developers to obtain a hardcore audience and then support them into the long-haul.

This article seems to believe that you can continue to expand your market forever, as there "are always more fish in the sea", but in fact some (many) products really do have limited appeal: you need to not lose the people you have.

And honestly, that's actually what "free upgrades" means: it is the developer telling the people who already like his products that they are no longer considered his customer; that he is no longer attempting to make the product better for them.

Instead, he has chosen to target the incremental increase in users that he can obtain by using the existing users only as a marketing channel, and then gearing the product towards continuing to sell new people who don't have your product yet.

While this might work for some products, you /are/ going to get diminishing returns: the sales graphs for products like this are always exactly the same, with a long and reasonably flat but definitely and certainly declining tail.
If I can get a comped dinner once in a while, sure.
At least partially that might well be because society perpetuates the stereotype that gut-reactions are a female thing, guys are really bad at listening to their heart, and in general emotionally stunted. At some point, it becomes internalized - and you see men simply ignoring emotions and feelings that they're well aware of.

Sure, it's dressed in sugar coating ("guys are rational!"), but it's still affecting behavior. That's the thing with gender stereotypes - they actually hurt both sides, just in different ways.
Nice looking site, but if I were a potential customer I'd be overwhelmed with choice between yourselves, Cloudyn, NewVem, Cloudability, UptimeCloud, CloudVertical... No idea how to compare.

Obviously, yours being free forever makes a compelling case!
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they just need to add mouseover details. Rough wind speeds are already indicated by line density, using color would just waste that variable so you couldn't use it for things like pressure. That would be a super cool visualization and again details could be provided by mouseover data.

It would also be cool if you could zoom in. There is definitely a lot of local variation in wind speed/direction that you have to filter out when looking at the entire US but would still be very interesting to see.
My biggest question was how the car knew when to stop at the window and when to continue driving. Wish the video had shown that.
You can emulate this with Cmd+Down.
I remember the Terraserver. It was always messed up when I wanted to check it out. :P
Being negative and being an asshole is not synonymous!

Believe it or not, it is completely possible to disagree and/or be critical of someones idea without being a jerk or an asshole. As we all know, emotion, intention, and connotation are all hard to convey in a text-only medium. Take a bit of extra time to ensure your comments are polite and respectful, and always keep in mind - PERCEPTION IS REALITY.
what I felt was rude was not the thing Bundler said but the thing Bundler does. if you know people are expecting rubygems to be the default, you don't tell them "oops you forgot to type rubygems, sucks to be you." you just make it the default.

you had an issue open for this on GitHub but it was closed with very little explanation. mind if I reopen it?
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There is a whole scene of these super-heroes. The amazing Snap Judgement did a piece on them:

http://snapjudgment.org/superheroes-origin-stories
>Nobody wants to be sexist, and nobody responds well to suggestions that their behaviors were unintentionally sexist

Maybe some of Jay Smooth's TED Talk on racism (http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxHampshireCollege-Jay-Smoo... apply to sexism.
Sex is not sexist. TWSS is immature, and inappropriate in a group workplace, as is (my personal favorite) replying "YOUR MOM is X" when some X is mentioned. This bot is a cool hack and a nice way to win a battle on your opponent's terms. But TWSS isn't sexist.
I lost his reasoning somewhere between the astrophysical power output of a galaxy being ~10^37 watts, to the conflation of energy with economic utility, to the endorsement of deindustrialization and world socialism.
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Working on it...

The LatticeMico32 toolchain (gcc, gdb, ar, ld) is very bad, seriously... I'm thinking of doing a MIPS or ARM emulator, just because the toolchains are so much better to work with.

Anyways, I do have a framebuffer demo that runs at a very decent frame rate on my machine (at this moment it is Chrome only and I unfortunately don't have the binaries for the demo on github). But this is not on Linux, it's on a barebones newlib environment (no Operating System).

Writing a mouse interface is trivial, the only reason I haven't done it yet is I'm thinking if it is worth to continue investing on the LatticeMico32 architecture, as the toolchain makes me want to pull my hair out.

Besides running Linux, the emulated system also runs RTEMS (actually it runs anything as long as you can get the toolchain to produce working binaries), and it might be easier to get an RTEMS system running with a simple graphical environment, but then there wouldn't be man y libraries do choose from.

So that's the status. I believe we are on the verge of having a viable option for making "GUI" programs on a canvas screen. If I were to work full time on it, I could pull a prototype off in about a month or two (literally), maybe a little less as this thing is so addictive I would easily work 16h days on it if I could.

IMHO, the ideal thing would be having an easy to use environment with a mature toolkit on it (I was thinking Qt) and let the user choose the language of choice to develop in. Possible choices would be C, Python, Ruby and Lua, which are fairly easy to have on the web.

Technically, it can be done, I just don't know if there would be enough interest, and how to have a sustainable business model around this idea. What do you think?
Speaking of IBM and pharma industry; in 2007 AstraZeneca selected IBM's services unit to provide internal IT support, with a 7 year, $1.4 billion deal. In 2011 AZ decided to kick them out, because of years of dissatisfaction.

Was this dissatisfaction due to 'IBM['s successful] shift from a product-centric culture to a customer and service centered company'? Was it due to AZ's inability to think of themselves as being in the 'disease management' or even 'disease prevention' business?

Or was it due to upper management reading too many articles in Forbes and deciding they needed to get rid of internal IT staff to focus on core competencies? I'm leaning towards the latter.

(The ever increasing difficulty of developing new drugs plays a larger role than any of these.)
How long ago did you experience those issues? I still have some time to go until I launch whatever it is I decide to build. I hope the Mono team finds a solution for them eventually.
Getting a rails dev environment setup used to be pretty painful, but thanks to a bunch of great tools (brew, rvm, rb-env, bundler, pow), and many blog posts, things are much better now than in the past. I can easily get brew, ruby, rails, Xcode, zsh, emacs and my entire dev environment set up on a brand new computer in a few hours these days (bounded only by network and CPU), and then get to work right away.

It is a different story for someone completely new. When I have time to sit down and help my brother and friends interested in getting started building websites, I recommend Rails (or Sinatra these days). The entire first session is usually devoted to helping configure their environment, and explaining the various tools they may need to know about when they are on their own. This is before even getting to the bit about learning HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Ruby. All of this is usually a complete waste of time because they have most likely lost me after typing in "cd" or "mkdir" for the first time. Yehuda's proposal nicely solves the configuration step for a beginner (the only class of developer for whom I think it is a seriously debilitating problem), but that is really the least of worries for someone new to web development in this day and age.
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But download a Justin Beiber album and you get sued for $50k in a matter of days. System works perfectly!
Love it, but wasn't the software tricorder app shut down by CBS on the basis of trademark infringement? How on earth will this project survive that?
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well yeah. here you are making this personal, and what I said is I'm not going to give Yehuda any money because I criticized his PROJECT and he responded with
'fuck you giles.' so he made it personal, and you're making it personal too.

I'm not saying Bundler should be destroyed and it's a thing of evil. I said it was super useful but had very aggravating flaws which indicate that Rails went off the rails. If you guys can back off from all the making things personal about me for five minutes you might actually notice that "Rails went off the rails and is no longer entirely true to its original principles" is not such a vicious thing to say.

But is "fuck you giles" a response which is going to prevent you from getting my money? Yes, of course it is.
>What other cross plat does this in the browser

Unity, and it does a far better job at it.
But my impression is that in the lab sciences (or any crunch mode job) you are made to feel that everyone relies on you so you are stuck taking care of them, whereas the gratitude model is that the company is so nice to you that you want to earn the respect they give you.
Agree. Some of the performance tuning with Hadoop could only be done if you knew how it worked underneath and if you know how the clusters are set up. I'm also not sure if Pig/Scalding/Scoobi can do this already, but it'd also be nice if they could abstract tunable settings as well on a job-level basis.

By the way, hook 'em!
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Great story. Just what some of us need.

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Sue them. It's basically a scam what they're doing.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57405914-71/windows-phone-...
It's easy enough to convert something like that to energy potential, but when determining whether a site has good potential for wind energy development we really do tend to think of the wind in terms of speed (in m/s) and not energy density.

Depending on the capture technology (even specific wind turbine models using a certain technology) and project arrangement the variation even at a single location is very high.

And this is a beautiful visualization of the flow.
Looks a lot like a chunk of hair. Very neat implementation!
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He did, actually. Much of the work he did on Merb and Rails 3 was generously funded by Engine Yard.
You seem to forget that he has almost always be paid for his contribution:
* Merb / Rails - EngineYard
* Sproutcore / Ember - Strobe (and via contract work)

I myself struggle with the concept of asking $25k to build what he wants to build. But at the end of the day what I think doesn't matter what I think or how many people disagree. If enough people agree with him and support him, then the project will happen. If you don't like the idea, just don't give your money.
If you are worried this attitude becomes a trend then be active and release your stuff differently.
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Hooray!

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Woohoo gets the karma on my post! Unfair ;)
The USPS is funded by its federally granted right to deliver dead-tree spam to my home against my express wishes. Which then has to be removed by the city at taxpayers' expense.

Forgive me if I have limited enthusiasm for this "unmatched bargain".
In a large portion of these attacks, the attackers are using some form of modified SpyEye/ZeuS botnet source with a pre-loaded 0day (adobe products are the target of choice since they seem to have a vuln discovery a week). Honestly, regardless of how you slice this - with a solid Social-Engineering backend, this is a very difficult problem to deal with/defend against regardless of the securities in place.

However, I will say this: I really do think it's in a company's best interests to dabble in the blackhat security markets a bit as a bystander. You can watch the development of some VERY interesting 0days, botnets, and other such goodies from an in depth perspective. That way, you can protect your mission-critical assets from the latest and greatest vulnerability before it trickles through to vulnerability notifier services.
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Small and growing. It's a bit fractured at the moment and there are many places to focus one's attention, but that's better than the alternative of nothing at all.

I see things improving for us over the next few years.
Since there seems to be some interest on the subject, and I don't want to kidnap the great thread about the worst Linux PC ever [1], I decided to submit on a separate thread.

Some things do keep in mind:

1. Very early stage. Runs better on Chrome.

2. If you think this sucks, you're probably comparing my code to Fabrice Bellard's Jslinux[2], and as Bellard is a genius his code (which is unfortunately still not available in readable form) is probably much better than mine. But progress is being made.

3. Still, the potential is there, soon it will be possible to have a somewhat standard programming stack and write GUI applications that run off a canvas, as I said in [3].

4. For Chrome there is a nice terminal emulator (hterm) I lifted from the Chromium source tree. The rest use textarea.

5. The code, of course: https://github.com/ubercomp/jslm32/

If anyone has questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3767410
[2] http://bellard.org/jslinux
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3769486

EDIT: Added itens 4 and 5.
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Um. I don't mean to be nit-picky, but that proposal isn't going to do anything. Let me explain.

The proposal is to prevent new power plants from producing more than 1,000 pounds of CO2e per MW of power produced. Coal is around 1,600 pounds/MW, natural gas is around 800 pounds/MW. So what happens?

1) We build new natural gas plants, and burn all available natural gas at ~800 pounds/MW. Given newly discovered shale gas reserves, this is going to be a fuckton of gas, and hence, CO2e. (Note: This would have happened without the new regulation.)

2) We keep all the old ones around, and burn all available coal at 1,600 pounds/MW. Given known US coal reserves, this is going to be a fuckton of coal, and hence, CO2e. (Note: This would have happened without the new regulation.)

All the new regulation does is ensure that all available coal is burned in old plants, instead of being burned in a mix of new and old plants. Since coal produces the same 1,600 pounds/MW either way, this is completely pointless. At best we're delaying the rate that we burn coal (with fewer coal plants, it'll take longer to chew through the coal), but the climate, sorry, couldn't care less about that. Either that carbon is in the ground or in the air, and if it's in the air, it's causing damage.

If you want to have some impact on the climate, you need to figure out a path that leaves fossil fuels in the ground unburned. Tinkering with the rules about new power plants doesn't even help.
I meant "not sure I understand why people didn't get their knickers in a twist with railsinstaller" :)
I remember as a kid going to Space Academy in Huntsville, AL. A camp counselor told us how the engines came to find a home at the Rocket Park of the Alabama Space and Rocket Center. NASA had placed the Saturn V on tour to show off this amazing machine - this particular rocket never went in space, but it was a _functional_ vehicle. The story goes that once the rocket was set up, the governor rallied for the rocket to be labeled a historical landmark. And since it really is an incredible chunk of American history, the motion passed.

And, as it turns out, you can't move historical landmarks. Apparently NASA was furious, but played it cool.

Or so a museum counselor told a band of 7th graders.

More on this particular rocket:
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/butowsky4/sp...
There have been reports of people winning, so I don't think it's entirely fair to call it a scam.

I think the bigger issue is the flexible rules they're using depending on the store/employee. I think they had some original rules (phone must be able to turn off and on, make calls, have data plan), but they were apparently thrown out the window when they saw the massive response from people looking to cheaply upgrade their old phones.

I hadn't seen the link you posted before, but that and my experience do seem to show that the managers seem to be subjectively deciding some of the close cases.

I wonder what will happen to any extra laptops a store has after the challenge ends tomorrow. If, perhaps, the store employees or such get them, maybe that would explain some of it. (For the record, I doubt it. But it would explain a lot.)