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rfc's are an amazing resource.

it's sort of sad to see this man today leading icann, a private corporation, in its quest to profit from the demand for domain names by squatters. selling the "rights" to run registries for some ridiculously high fee. seems not like something postel would approve of. definitely not the way you handle a "public resource".

past icann leaders have condemned this scheme as a protection racket (e.g. esther dyson).

i'd rather see an article on paul baran. his instructions were the most interesting. he didn't just write things and send them to a distribution list. he went and presented live in front of the telco people who thought he was nuts.
You've seen the "Dont talk to police" video, right?

"An law school professor and former criminal defense attorney tells you why you should never agree to be interviewed by the police."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Alternative idea: allow the flight attendants to hand out nicotine patches. :-)
Any idea if/how this integrates w/ Vanilla Forums?
You can do a little of both. I've seen companies do rounds that put cash in the founders pocket but still want to grow.
I am empathetically not condemning it. I'm pointing out that if we're measuring things by "how useful are they to society at large", it's not obvious that the time spent by a lot of people in college is ahead of four years spent becoming a World of Warcraft expert. But I don't think that's a measuring stick to which we should hold up everyone's lives, which is why I have a problem with neither college graduates nor MMO players.
An "impressive" 600 or 800 million?

This makes the Instagram deal look even more out of proportion. Github ought to be worth a lot more, it's a profitable huge business with real assets, used by millions everyday for work.

But the question is: what could they do with more money that they can't do now?
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> A machine or piece of technology by itself isn't any more amazing than anything else. Having it available and easy to use for all of humanity is very revolutionary.

Absolutely. But I feel compelled to point out that the wealthier slice of the developed world isn't "all of humanity" by a long shot. Right now the revolution that is encompassing all of humanity is the mobile phone itself. The smartphone's going to get there, but it still has a long way to go.
I was going to say something similar, although it would have been more polemical ;)...

Eugenics is a bad example because it is something popularly believed to be false, not least among those who consider themselves knowledgeable, but in reality, is not necessarily scientifically baseless.

Often, it is precisely those who bid you "question everything!" and "speak truth to power!" who will brook no dissent when their deeply held beliefs come up for debate. One example, related to eugenics, is the study of intelligence. A survey of scientific experts in the field[1] found that a far greater proportion of them supported the 'hereditarian hypothesis' of intelligence being partly heritable, than the media let on; the views the press described as 'beyond the pale' among scientists were actually common, if not orthodox, among the actual scientists, even on the most controversial of questions.

The real story is that these scientists don't publicize their findings lest their field falls into disrepute and their funding gets pulled. Instead, they labor quietly, proceeding apace with their research in obscure journals unknown to the public.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyderman_and_Rothman_(study)
The site is not public yet, but I'll save your message for when it is.
One of the best? I know that in my case I enjoyed cigarettes more than most food, but I don't regret giving those up. Being healthy improves your quality of life as well as the quantity; I can surf and do parkour and hang-glide and many other fun things which several of my friends simply can't do. And, privately -- since it isn't polite to bother someone about their weight -- I find this rather sad.
It's not a question of familiarity, it's that git doesn't play nice on Windows. It requires a POSIX emulation environment, like cygwin, which is a second class experience.

Compare this with Mercurial, which runs great from the command line on multiple platforms. I actually prefer the command line for SCM work, but git makes it hard.
Charlie Robbins (CEO and Co-Founder of Nodejitsu) here. I think your thoughts are really poignant. I’d like to make clear that public availability is the absolute top-priority for us over here but we chose to make a couple of choices that other Public Cloud PaaS companies did not. These choices enable us to offer the truly best-of-breed hosting opportunity for Node.js developers:

1. Early on we recognized that we would not exist as a company if the node.js community was not successful. That is why we have built and maintain over 200 open-source modules on npm.
2. Infrastructure agnostic (that’s right, you get to choose where your servers live).
3. Multiple platforms (currently Ubuntu and SmartOS).
4. 100% node.js up and down the stack. This is all we do and I think we do it better than anyone else. We also have provisioning, monitoring, and configuration management tools similar to our jitsu CLI for enterprises.
5. Commitment to immediate support: If you have a problem, you have a problem now, not tomorrow, not 3-days from now. As such, we want to make sure we grew our support team to support increased on-boarding and support requests resulting from public availability.
6. Private cloud support: this is currently where most of our customers reside. We license them software that they run in their datacenter or self-managed IaaS account.

So rest assured we ramping up for a public release. Feel free to email me at charlie [at] nodejitsu [d0t] com if you’d like to talk more.
My takeaway - joint projects, even (or perhaps especially) between friends, need to have clear agreements and binding contracts.
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I have never seen a city bus with a trash can.
We fly a lot more now than before deregulation, while many countries are just emerging with people who commonly commute via planes. I wouldn't be surprised if passenger miles from 1990 to 2010 were larger than 1900 to 1990. Flying used to be a high-class affair, now anyone can fly; not allowing smoking is probably a good thing in that context.

At least, here in China, people are not careful in the way they smoke, and I wouldn't get on a plane that allowed smoking. Ever see a Starbucks trashcan go up in smoke after someone was told they couldn't smoke there? Its quite funny the first couple of times, but it gets old after that.
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It allows founders to take money off the table without selling out to a company who would have interests other than growing github.
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How does that make sense for the VC though? They're not in the business of cashing founders out.
Generally, to grow more quickly.

Where have they said they were against it? I think they are often held up as an exemplar of bootstrapping by other folks, but I don't recall too much from them directly either way.
Agreed. I'm thinking they're looking to expand Github's services outside of "code".
Acquisitions? There are quite a few developer tools (and the developers of such) that would be useful to the company. For example, things like https://sifterapp.com/ or even developers of apps like TextMate, Sublime Text 2, companies like http://www.panic.com/, time tracking apps, etc - anything that the average GitHub developer would be likely to use, even.

My list might be a bit frivolous, but money would give options, at least.

(Edit: Actually, why not Heroku style cloud hosting too? The code's already on the service ready to roll..)
I don't like the TSA's approach either, but this isn't a very good argument. They stopped disallowing lighters on flights for this reason; they don't want to care about the small threats and focus on finding...you know...terrorists. The change hasn't soaked in completely yet, but their is hope they'll do the right thing eventually.

It would be fairly easy to put your fire out with a fire extinguisher. But I'd rather not fly with you anyways :)
I suspect that there are physiological effects from computer gaming. I know that I occasionally will play a bit excessively (though not extremely so) for a few days when I am having other issues, but I have learned to moderate even that because of these things. Among others I find:

1) Interference with sleep. Will continue to see video game images when I close my eyes to sleep and won't sleep well.

2) Changes in how my eyes track things.

3) A general, physical malaise. I will feel a bit of nausea....

I don;t think the deaths are caused by exhaustion. I think they are caused by brain or hormone imbalances caused by the gaming itself.
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That's more like taking a hammer to your hard disk. What we want is more of a virus that rewrites your genome with a single base.
My earlier comment should be read as firmly tongue-in-cheek--like, puncturing the cheek--if people thinking it's serious is what's picking up the downvotes.
That didn't do anything for me. I'd hope WordPress escapes MySQL and JS code from query strings, that seems like a pretty big vulnerability…
I'd be surprised. Coda 1 can edit lots of file types, but it's clearly intended for a PHP workflow: edit files, preview them, upload to the server. Not sure the whizzy features are going to help you much.
You're a programmer and can't afford a laptop?

(serious question for the folks who seem to need to do development on an iPad)
Your solution is for median position, not median value, and it would require a queue, not a stack, so unneeded old values could be dropped.
Considering the time span you set this up in, you should consider doing a screencast from beginning to end setting something like this up. A lot of us could learn from that, seeing a full site from beginning to launch.
Also reminds me of Derek Sivers' classic on learning to sing:

http://sivers.org/15-years
Why would they use the Mac App Store? To throw profits to Apple?
I heard that large companies expect a higher level of "enterprise" support from Github. That's where the real money is, and a small company just cannot scale easily in this respect.

Proper enterprise support requires customer representatives, phone lines, sales people. All that is expensive and requires capital.

Of course, this is just a wild guess. I have no firsthand information.
Presumably the founders are committed to growing the product line and potentially creating a new publicly traded developer tools company.
Well that's nice. I'm glad they stand for freedom of information. There's nothing here I couldn't have gotten with a simple Freedom of Information Act request. But I guess sending them a letter requesting the information isn't dramatic enough for Anon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(Uni...
What makes me sad about js client-side frameworks and Ember.js in particular is that they are still only client-side. Nevermind the code duplication, but the bare fact that I have to actually think about how to construct my server so that it works with Ember.js. The reason why people hooked up on Rails so quickly is because it solved all of their problems, not just one. Novices are not going to try Ember.js just because it works on the client, while having no idea about the server-side.
Seems like Fred Wilson is getting bubbled, investing in a search engine for Reddit users (of which I am a proud one). I hope it was a small investment.
Two questions:

- How is GitHub worth less than Pintrest?

- What could GitHub possibly gain from raising money? It's clearly not about money. Is this a liquidity event? Couldn't they just issue a dividend for that, they've clearly got plenty of cash… Or is this about the credibility of having a valuation. In that case, couldn't they have gone public? Amazon went public at a sub-$500M valuation, and look at them now!

Edit: come to think of it, I can see the possibility of wanting to acquire other companies, and not currently having the capital to do so. That's about it.
Comparing it to Backbone, feels to me that Ember uses a notation that is closer to what I already know about Javascript, for example all the object methods and prototype class emulation. I was going through the API and everything seemed like it made sense right away. The only thing I wish the site had is more examples with bi-directional bindings.
Chicago's CTA busses have garbage cans in front of the rear exit doors. But then again we also have alleys so we don't have to put our garbage out on the sidewalks.
Remember most jobs are like gaming. Sitting at a desk for hours on end, maybe a few breaks.

I don't think it is gaming alone, it is bad life styles in general. The worst part is most people HAVE to adopt that lifestyle for a desk job.
As a Configuration and Project Manager, I have to agree. I did my trial run at coding in the 90's and quickly realized I didn't have the right skills to do it right. NASA wasn't hiring me anytime soon. However, I still play at home to keep me in tune with what real programmers do. Perhaps what those who can't code should do is to _prototype_ and then hand the reins over to a real talent. I do agree that posting to Stack and coding on GitHub are great ways to show the right people that you really do know how to code. Like someone said, good code always wins arguments.
If I were to guess, this is probably to help them move off of Rackspace onto their own hosting solution in order to appeal to that enterprise customer segment that keeps getting mentioned.
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I spend about 6 hours a week playing chess. I am not sure whether it is a good idea, but has at least one benefit: it gives me a "barometer" for how well my brain is working (in the form of my FICS rating, which is automatically calculated).
Blah. I hate those blog posts. I try to keep my RSS feeds extremely light, but I really want GitHub feature announcements. I wish their product "broadcasts" had a feed separate from the company log.
So, you want to start a company?
It's been many years since I forgot how to access a gopher server.
Or https://gist.github.com/2766323, including the final image as well
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Support and sales, if they're interested in growing (and why wouldn't they be?)
GMail, Google Calendar, AdSense, AdWords, Android to name a few of the _actual_ heavy hitters from Google. Sure, not the majority, but they are all the bigger ones.

http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2009/01/opengse-release...

(I think Google Sites is also written in Java).

Amazon is pretty much a big Java shop (don't forget the companies they acquired as well). Check out their jobs site.
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Considering most desk jobs are roughy equivalent to watching a few movies on end. What do you do then?

It's not so bad at small companies where socialising with freinds is not frowned upon. However at many large companies, spending 30 mins socialising would be frowned upon.
Why is defunkt the only listed founder of github on pandodaily?
My guess is that Github wants to expand more aggressively (probably into enterprise) and extra cash will speed that up.
But GitHub's enterprise application is something enterprises can host themselves, inside their firewall. https://enterprise.github.com/
Github's support for Enterprise is atrocious at best.

But we still pay for it, because what else is there? :)
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Because he's the only one with an AngelList profile.
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I don't think it's quite as simple. Poland has been dubbing foreign TV/movies since the early 90s (in addition to having a rich homegrown tradition of children's entertainment) and English among younger generations is widespread and quite good, if not Scandinavia/Netherlands good.

I'd be willing to bet a correlation with country's population and relative economic power would be much stronger.
Can you elaborate on the tools you use? What IDE and screen reader do you use? Also, what tool do you use to type code with? Braille keyboard? I really interested to learn about what kind of setup that works best for blind developer.
They used to get it from Craigslist. The listings were directly linked to Craigslist listings. I see that they don't do click-outs any more so I'm curious as to where they are getting them from too. By the way, I had done the same thing about 2 years ago but had to stop after realizing that scraping Craiglist was against their terms of use.
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Me too. I used to think that being blind is a death sentence for programmer career.
Java is pervasive at Google. Check out the Guava library and Google Guice for examples of how they adapted it for high-scalability web services.

On top off edwinnathaniel's list, add Google Sites, Google Docs, and Mapreduce frameworks such as Flume Java.
Interesting. As a hacker myself, I would be more interested in hiring (if I was in the position to hire) someone that could quickly `grep` and `sed` their entire repository for the occurrences of a function name that needed refactoring, all the while never leaving the same terminal window that Vim or Emacs was running in.

I agree with both of you though. My frontend co-workers need to constantly have that browser window open and complain about their F5 key wearing thin, while I'm lucky if I manage to remember what local domain name I assigned to Apache that points to the project I've been working on for the past 8 hours. My code tests tell me everything I need to know, and I can tell whether or not they're passing from my same terminal window.

We all use different tools, many times to solve the same problem, and on occasion we'll use the same tools to solve different problems. The wheel wasn't a breakthrough in the transportation technology only, it also sparked the mechanical revolution once someone meshed two together.
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Where I've lived, there are ash trays everywhere, not despite; because of laws prohibiting smoking in these areas. The idea is to provide a safe and convenient place to dispose of your cigarette now that you've entered a non-smoking area.
It wouldn't be unprecedented. Most of the Bin Laden videos were phony.
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> This one is different: it's on the Whitehouse site

> So if you sign only one online petition this year, make it this one.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petitions

Obviously different petitions will have different worthiness-levels, both in terms of their cause and their likelihood to have any effect, but I don't think your arguments really back up the "if you only sign one.." statement.
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To #1, why does a paramedic earn less than a relatively unknown football player? There are lots of variables to take into account, many of them soft or cultural ones.
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Thanks for posting the links to those programs. There's been some real progress in the areas of programming and funding for that kind of thing. I've worked with some of those programs and they're awesome.
Stenography machines have at least 22 keys. You can press any combination of them simultaneously, so over 4.19 million.

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Anecdotal evidence (the best kind!) - yes. A friend who went to the National Security Language Institute in Yemen last summer recalled several smoke-filled regional/commuter flights.
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One senerio would be give the founders enough that if they swing for the fences and strike out they still have enough. This aligns incentives and removes risk from founders.

In addition, if founders want to take cash off the table and that is what it takes to make a great investment in github you do it.
They can sell some of their shares to private investors. A VC expects to earn many times their money on the investment... which requires dramatic and risky expansion of the business.
So the obvious weakness here is that this will be less precise than a control system that uses direct touch such as a keyboard, mouse or touch pen. It looks fun and dramatic though.
I have no knowledge of Anon being anti-vaccine. If I were to formulate a hypothesis, I would imagine that they view 'vaccines' as synonymous with big health. So, "the big healthcare mafia is selling us 99-percenters vaccines at a huge markup, profiteering from their proprietary knowledge, state-protected monopoly, and our dependency."

Then again, Anonymous doesn't exactly have a unified message. It's possible that the individual creator of this video has their own conspiracy theories about vaccinations.
"If you bought Coda 1 very recently (after April 10, 2012) directly from us, you are entitled to a free upgrade. Unfortunately, Apple does not provide us a way to give free upgrades to all customers who purchased Coda 1 from the Mac App Store recently"

That's what I was looking for - I bought it in the last month.

Thanks for your response.
I used to do something similar. Luckily, I had a cube at the end that faced a wall. After I started feeling some wrist pains I set up a keyboard-timer, a program that was part of Gnome that locked the screen after a given interval of continuous activity. I set it to 2 minutes every 30 minutes that didn't include at least a 1 minute break from typing. During my 2 minute break I had enough time to do a set of push-ups and a set of sit-ups and would alternately go refill my water and go to the restroom. I think it ended up being akin to the Pomodoro technique because I found myself working harder and really getting into the zone to beat the timer.

I also had a period where I bought a new car and started driving to work. I put on about 15 pounds over two months. I realized this and went back to biking to and from work. For me, bicycle commuting is the best way to get exercise because it doesn't feel like wasted time when I would just be sitting in traffic anyway. It can be a bit of a hassle, but I get to comfort myself with monetary savings and benefiting the environment.