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Except that the humanities major who has no experience buying ads will waste another $100k before they learn what they are doing wrong.

I like to say that I'm an MBA who is dubious about MBAs. I needed one (a humanities undergrad--ahem!--) to demonstrate my math skills on a resume. Without it I never got calls back for jobs, even though I had turned around two different divisions of a company by the time I was 28. Yes, that wasn't in tech and yes, it was a different time, but still....

Meanwhile I was raised by a tinkerer, and I respect builders and makers. The science says diversity makes for better companies. once you are starting to scale, having built a product people want, people like me with a decade of experience add a lot of value and keep you from making costly mistakes. A lot of us are out here in startups, making it work, every day, and while there are lots of jerk MBAs, it's no more fair to lump me in with them, than it is to lump you in with the guy who sits in his mom's basement and watches old episodes of star trek 4 hours every day.
Just this morning my little brother pocked me in the eye, and my first thought was about how I wouldn't be able to program any more if he pocked it all the way out... Glad to know that there is still a way for blind people who have the passion and work ethic to continue coding
"Thanks to that team, folks in our side of the dev world now have an easy path into Git and GitHub, and can go about our merry way building things without ever having to parse what it was that you did in your second paragraph."

... except when github messes up, forces you to do a SSH key audit and then you're back to needing to know "scary crypto stuff".

... or when you try and use git outside of github
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Ubuntu isn't bloated, really. It certainly has less bloat than Windows 7. However, it does feel very bloated when you initially install it, simply because it has to fetch so much stuff from the network.
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Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about the Nay-Sayers. He's made it quite clear that it's his company, and he'll run it how he likes. He just got a huge wodge of money, and he can now spend it however he likes. A win all round, I'd say.
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An oddity of guitar is the way a cheap guitar affects one's ability to learn.

In most any endeavor, it's true that working on your skills is much more important than upgrading your equipment: practice is the way to improve, you can't buy your way into being better.

But this is significantly less true at the bottom end of the guitar spectrum. Cheap guitars really are worse -- not just in the quality of their sound or their durability, but in their playability. It is much more difficult to get a really cheap guitar to work right. A $100 guitar is going to be much more difficult to play than a $500 one.

That's primarily due to the "action" -- the height of strings above the frets. On a cheap guitar, the (im)precision of the components -- the bridge and its springs, the neck tension bar, etc., conspire to make it so that the higher frets have much higher action (or else the lower ones buzz). That forces the player to squeeze the strings harder to the neck, which is painful, and is less forgiving about finger placement within the fret, requiring that fingers go closer to the fret rather than allowing more space behind it.

The end result is that a new player, not wanting to invest too much money in something that he doesn't know if he'll like, is more likely to be discouraged and give up. If he'd had a better tool from the beginning, success would have been more likely.
I understand that, but when I open your page in lynx I don't want to read text without any formatting because there are no direct equivalents to "bold" or "italics".
I apologise. My comment was only modestly related to it's context. I've been suffering from a bit of *nix-fatigue at the moment and I wanted to vent.
Moonfruit has been around for a while. I worked with them a few years ago, and while back then the app was still publishing websites as swf files, the UI was pretty impressive for the time, and their integration was actually pretty simple and easy.

If they're still doing equally good work, picking them up for 18 million GPB seems like a good deal.
At 18m visitors, I don't think your choice of Django or Rails matters. DB tends to be the limit for even the normal applications, let alone something with that kind of volume.
Interesting. Apparently for Hyundai cars green is the most expensive. :p
Warning folks: Since I've been working on my books I haven't had time to hack on this lately. I will be picking it back up when I have a break from the books to code up a few ideas I have.
I have a whole folder full of installers. Only a few of them are named setup.exe.
Agreed, I actually really enjoy Gruber's tone on the new show.

I'd guess a part of this may be that Gruber wants an editorial reboot with the new show, so that he has more control and it directly complements Daring Fireball (Note the new description: "Sort of like the director's commentary track for Daring Fireball.") I actually look forward to it.

Dan's a good host on other shows, and a class act, but I've felt that he and Gruber lacked chemistry for a long time.
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lol.. you must've never worked with or for a fund. they're called black bags for a reason.
I've had this nagging feeling for a while that Gruber, while a superb writer, is probably insufferable in real life. That particular kind of nerd that's dangerously smart, always right about whatever they're saying, and just miserable to be around.

I don't want to read in to things (any more than I already am, I guess,) but it sure feels like Gruber handled this poorly. For someone running a site supported nearly entirely by reader contributions and pageviews, it would have been a little more respectable to handle this whole ordeal like a grown-up instead of playing the "I can do what I want, I don't owe you anything, get a life already" card so heavily.
> "Getting good performance without having to know much about the ecosystem" is pointless, because choosing a tool is all about learning how to wield it. It's true about any tool, even something like a hammer.

There is no complete understanding of any non-trivial system, even for its authors. There is a question of how much one can understand in a reasonable amount of time, and what fraction of a perceived ideal one can achieve. Some systems have steeper curves than others.

> This article is worthless because the results are not useful to anyone for anything. Doing serious benchmarks requires a particular and fairly rare set of skills.

It is not worthless because there is some code posted to run it. Someone could beef up the corpus (it's pretty small right now) and apply their tweaks (or try other data types like hstore, or other indexing strategies). This person tried his/her best and put something together.

I agree the benchmark is pretty flawed, but given the thankless (and often adversarial!) nature of running benchmarks and publishing results, I'm grateful for anyone who does one and then publishes the code.
Yes, I agree, physical dexterity is a large task to surmount when learning. Possibly the largest, although this will vary from person to person.

I can see some neat applications for GTar, like illuminating different modes for a key.

As it is, gTar seems to me to be the hackertyper.net of guitars.
From a Django, Rails, Flask, Sinatra guy; Rails is going to be fun if you leave your pre-conceived notions at the door. Rails is not Django, and Ruby is not Python, and any attempts to make it behave like how it's not supposed to behave will cause pain. However, if you can play per Rails rules(and you should), that would be a very pleasant experience. How are you learning Rails? Since you are an experienced programmer, the official rails guide will be the fastest way to get a feel of rails - http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

The link above is the modified, famous "blog in 10 minutes". When I was starting, I found it very pleasant as it covers the 20% of the Rails which you use 80% of the time.
Unless it's your money he has taken. And you get no return on your investment. Why does he need that huge wodge of money?

The attitude expressed in your comment is really disturbing.
Indeed. I was going to apply as a developer, but that made me pause.

Perhaps I'll reconsider at some other time.
I'm calling fake or very optimistic to say the least.

The promo video doesn't show a physical device, the price point seems ridiculously low especially for a resolution of 0.01mm. And also there is this http://bit.ly/KOqDi2 the physical hand and the point cloud don't match. It's like someone is moving their hand(s) fast to mimic the movement of the visualization.
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Do you support [w]indows?
When do dev-kits ship[ ]

They are in serious need of a copyeditor.
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Yeah, the history of English is waaay more complex than that. But one thing is pretty clear, it isn't a Romance language, and isn't derived from French; it does have a huge French influence, but almost entirely in the form of loan words.
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Nice. The title is almost as impartial as the actual article or the comments section where users gleefully celebrate another victory over "Microshaft Winblows."
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No, but that's misunderstanding the problem. The 1:1 relationship of a branch HEAD to a pull request is an implementation detail (that happens to be exploited here).

The problem is that github thought it was a good idea to "review" such an object at all. It's the wrong data structure for that. What you want to review is a series of patches, which is also a data structure git supports, but not (quite) 1:1 with a branch head.
Maybe I don't use Nmap enough, but I find the Nmap switches very difficult to remember. It usually takes a few minutes in the man pages, then a few more minutes in Google before I finally figure out how to do what I want. Perhaps this goes away with experience?
As a Windows user I initially found the setup a little daunting, but the GitHub install guide was a great help and guided me through everything fairly painlessly. If I'm honest about it though, without that help guide, I would have been pretty lost.

The ssh setup is a barrier to entry for a great deal of Windows users, simply because they don't have to deal with such things on a daily basis. Whether they all should know these things is debatable.

I personally couldn't give shit how 'it' works, as long as I don't have to waste my precious time having to learn something I don't need to. I don't want to have to learn machine code for the same reason. We abstract to become more productive. We build on the shoulders of giants. We don't re-invent the wheel. I could go on...

The bottom line is that the previous installation for Windows was manageable, but still it was a drag. Luckily there were enough good resources on the web to help you through it. However, it was time consuming and that barrier has now been removed.

In my opinion that's great. It follows Dieter Rams' principles of good design, namely:

Good design is as little design as possible.
Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects,
and the products are not burdened with non-essentials.

http://www.vitsoe.com/en/gb/about/dieterrams/gooddesign

Let's remember that Git is a distributed source control mechanism. It needs to move versioned code around. That is its pure purpose. When the security setup takes more effort than the source control you're doing it wrong.

That being said, the common language of the Git world will remain the command line. The vast majority of examples you will find on the web when you are learning how to use Git will be executed via the command line. That fact in itself means that you should still learn the basic commands and get familiar with git bash.

EDIT: I hope this gives a fairly balanced opinion from a typical Windows Git user. I appreciate that this topic is a heated one.
Care to elaborate? A 5 min investigation on nmap.org didn't reveal how to contribute.
There's indeed a learning curve, but because 'it's just JavaScript (c)' is CoffeeScript's motto, it doesn't take much. On the other hand, IcedCoffeeScript [1] introduces a fe extremely handy keywords that run afoul of CoffeeScript's motto.

And the debugging is just getting better, and with SourceMap, hopefully will be a non-issue in the very near future.[2]

In the long term, I think it's better to use CoffeeScript as it is a lot more readable and maintainable.

[1]: http://maxtaco.github.com/coffee-script/

[2]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Features/SourceMap
They do care about markup, but they care more about reaching the most audiences with the best experience. To do that they have to sacrifice valid W3C markup for markup that will display best in most browsers (and sometimes with browser-specific conditions). Another problem is the lack of markup dedicated to layout which sometimes breaks validity.
It looks awesome, but I don't think I would enjoy this fancy GUI after a couple of weeks using it. It looks like a replacement for dreamweaver or iWeb.
Search is a very fast method of navigation when your editors search doesn't suck. Watch an experienced emacs or vim user sometime. I can't say much about other systems but I did once spend a day working with only emacsspeak, the audio interface to emacs. With emacsspeak you use the normal emacs movement commands to move by char, word, sentence paragraph etc and it will read out the unit you've moved in, it kind of let's you scan through a document. Also, experienced users have the speech turned up really fast, if you google it you can probably find a recording...
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While more money is at stake, I'd say the risk is actually substantially lower unless they're lying about everything (I have no reason to believe they are).

These guys aren't totally green, they have multiple working prototypes/pilots, the software is done, manufacturing is ready. This isn't really much different from any other pre-order. They're saying "The product is tested and ready, give us money to buy a bunch of parts and put them together."
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Finally!!! Coda's editor really shines with their sidebar IMO. Being able to drag and drop files, seeing meaningful icons, built in ftp editor when you need it... etc. I just hope it has a split-pane feature the way sublime does as I have become addicted to the way that works.
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This is not a new video, it's part of his Messenger series lectures from 1964: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/
I'll repeat this: he was saying other people flame him in those situations, not you.
If you're not a Mac user, how would you know what the App Store icon looks like?

There was nothing in the Help/FAQ either, so it wasn't until I manually navigated to panic.com, seeing that they do Apple apps, that I finally got pretty sure it wouldn't be available for my platform.
It definitely goes away with experience. When you use nmap regularly you only use 10% of the switches most of the time and typing them after nmap becomes muscle memory.
Lol. You're lurking around here. Nice to see other Brits here!
What browser are you using? It runs like a dream in Safari.
I apologize for my confusion.
Would the analogous lesson for entrepreneurs be that if the market doesn't want it, it's wrong? I'd think there's some cases where products are ahead of their time, i.e. they're right at the wrong time.
I didn't say that it is simple to come up with such setup. But whenever I see such list, it reminds me of some sort of blueprint architecture (or template) that I've seen somewhere else.
Scaling isn't so much the problem, since you can do various things to keep users on specific servers. In my setup, I also solve a lot of the state issues since there isn't a single state for the entire app, but instead for each process that runs a small part of the app. That means you can scale and change up the application easier if you need without impacting the other parts.

The real problem with coroutines for storing state is simply that upgrading the code requires you to either kill all the old state, or trickle users off on A/B paired processes. Because the state is tied to the code, you can't just change the code and hope it works. Everything will be off and the coroutines won't continue.

Since Tir uses tiny processes, it's easier to do these upgrades in one part without killing the other parts, and since users are never in any one process for very long by design the risk is smaller.

But, you definitely have to be more careful than the other models.
I think we're arguing the same points.

We both seem to agree that your run-of-the-mill Java programmer working for the autozone website is not a complicated position.

We both seem to agree that your run-of-the-mill UI/UX person working for the same autozone website is also not complicated.

I bet you would agree that designing the interface for the first consumer focused touchscreen-only device is something that is very complicated.

Just like I agree that working something that deals with ct scans, ultrasounds, 3d printing, 3d rendering, product delivery and a host of other problems are very complicated.

The real point is that you should know your industry, and yes all of our industries are a little different. If you are working on the Accuvix V20 Medison ultrasound system I personally believe you should know how to turn the thing on, point it, run the scanner, understand the readouts (to a certain degree) as well as understand the inner-workings of the image acquisition and processing. I believe this is just what helps people make more informed decisions. This doesn't mean you suddenly have to be a UI/UX person, it simply pushes you to know the complete lifecycle and have some competency in the product you are working on.

Should you be a UI/UX person? No. Should you know why the UI/UX decisions are being made? Absolutely. Knowing that will help you write a better system, it will also help you bring to light more possibilities.

I mean, would you call Jonathan Ive a "UI guy"?
How do you get the car data? I see you have data from cars.com do you have custom code that scrapes the data or do you use some known tools?

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The CEO doesn't get to decide what is creepy - his audience does.

I saw an investment presentation of a new startup doing something with Twitter a few months ago. The first thing I thought was 'creepy'. This is not the first thing you want your potential investors to think.

For some customers, it may not feel that way, but if enough customers do, then you have a real problem that writing blog posts and doing interviews isn't going to fix.
Having a local editor for remote files is super handy if your SSH is flaky for whatever reason (say, you fall off LTE into 1x or GPRS land), regardless of the device you're on. Never mind being able to take advantage of the touch screen...
One of the ways nmap makes this super easy is that it prints out the submission page and asks you to submit the fingerprints if it does not know about the device:)

If you get a new device run a full scan against the device; all ports, OS detection and full service version scan.

Here is the page if you are curious:

http://nmap.org/submit/
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I'm hoping as these flights become more regular, SpaceX gets into the business of installing an InterPlanetary Internet.
I agree that slander is too strong a word. In my opinion a class on business networking sounds a lot like learning to shake hands and make eye contact. Safer trivialized the class, but it hardly rises to the level of slander.
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That used to be a problem before luarocks, but now with luarocks you don't have to worry about it. You get fragmentation anywhere you go in every langauge no matter what. The problem in other "batteries included" languages is the core team dictate to everyone else the primary libraries, and then many times they refuse to update them and you have to work around them.

In Lua, you don't have to do any of that. Lua gives you the kernel, then you add everything else you need.
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I think so. Obviously this is based on the standards of market preferences, which is in constant flux unlike the 'objective laws' of the physical world. Something might be a great idea but is wrongly timed in the sense that the market doesn't want it yet (or at all). In the sea of human preference subjectivity the only objectivity we can hope for, it seems to me, is sink-or-swim on the market.

In a sense the same might be said for science though.. such as if a theory is imagined long before we have the tools to actually test it out.
That's actually right, S3 costing at $39k/month seems completely crazy.

No wonder 37signals decided to switch to their self-hosted storage solution[1].

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2483-nuts-bolts-storage
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Could you say what differentiates it from Backbone?
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Would you mind saying a little about what kind of thing you are looking for? I am curious.
You can make the workers do whatever you want, that's just the default setting since it's the most common.
I couldn't really find anything on the site on this, so the question: are non-US citizens allowed to sign? If so, are they encouraged to sign?
But why would you be looking at the iPhone screen other than when interacting with it using said hand?
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Everything regarding fair use is definitely in a gray area and is highly dependent on the issue at hand. However, from what I've seen, archiving is allowed as long as redistribution doesn't enter the picture.

One famous case is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._Times_v._Free_Republic

The judge held that "while defendants' do not necessarily 'exploit' the articles for commercial gain, their posting to the Free Republic site allows defendants and other visitors to avoid paying the 'customary price' charged for the works".
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No, just different. And Klimt is better.
He's probably angry because he's had a person with 15 years experience unstage 10 commits already pushed to origin (reset HEAD~10) then readd them to the index and complain to everyone that git tells him every file in his repo is conflicting after a merge. After a serious bout of ROFL he has to help the coworker use merge correctly weekly. After a while of this the person decides to manually fix the conflicts each time he has to push to origin there adding a comment in the git log that says :merged master back into branch.

So to all of you that actually know the difference between merge and rebase and what the difference between origin and local branches are :hattip:
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