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I am sorry, I don't know you from heck. However, I must ask you this: Have you worked at Google in the past two years? No offense but Google has thousands and thousands of engineers. Long gone are the days where each and every engineer used to work on world-changing stuff. These days, there are enough people who work at Google and are still cogs in the wheel. This doesn't necessarily mean that Google itself doesn't do interesting work or there aren't people (who have wikipedia entries to themselves) working at Google on the most cutting edge problems. Frankly, the fact of the matter is that a non celebrity who just graduated from school is not going to be paid to work on the next game changing search/social algorithm at Google. On the other hand, he or she might be a quality engineer and deserves to be paid commensurate with the market's needs.
Hey, if they want to disagree with the Qu'ran, that's between them and Allah...

Also, the cartoonists, plural, were Danish.
I am loving this app and would definitely buy it (when you decide to charge for it).

One small gripe though (of which you are probably already aware), your reset password functionality is rather poorly done. It emails the password in plain text and also I didn't find any place where I could change the password which was emailed to me.
> Not having a facebook account (or any social media website account) forced me to be more active. It forced me to contact my friends face to face. This has HUGE advantages.

I'm assuming you don't have kids and don't need an easy way to share photos with family. You know, the parents that ask you to email all of your photos?

I know that piles of baby photos are annoying, but they are less annoying then when they are forced on you via email. In FB at least you can squelch people if they annoy you. Or if you really like your friends, you can create a separate account for baby pics and only post to that account.
The editor was already pretty stable, but maybe not the plugins, which are optional. I'd agree that the price is a bit high to upgrade, but for people like me who didn't own it yet, now is a good time to buy.
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It's strange to me that Package Control isn't integrated into the core for v3.0, given its usefulness and popularity.
There is a shortage of available engineers, period. It's not a matter of companies not paying enough.
That's great news - do you have a source (maybe a forum post) for that?
I'm also holding out for a Mac Pro bump that isn't a pisstake. So I guess I'll bite a few bullets at once.
Tried it and crashed my entire Finder. Simply put. I uninstalled it.
Okay, so I've been meaning to get this off my chest -- I'm a bit peeved by the fad of deriding Gladwell for a panoply of accounts. All of a sudden it seems that everybody's hopping on the cool wagon where the new thing is scorning Malcolm Gladwell. The 10,000 hours model is rather loosely made in the Outliers book. He does not say '10,000 hours exactly' will give you worldclass skill in area x -- he says roughly 10,000 hours, with expert instruction, constantly pushing the boundaries, etc. will get you mastery.

Just like Norvig does not say 10 years exactly will make you a worldclass programmer. [1] It's said in loose terms. Basically, it's just a more marketable and fun way of saying 'Practice makes perfect' -- and I applaud both Gladwell and Norvig for once again saying it again and inspiring people to really work hard at whatever they want to be good at.

[1] http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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It didn't work when I tried a few weeks ago. I am running on Linux.
Interesting article and I see where the author is coming from. However, I'm incredibly distracted by the photo of a man clearly about to put a straw in his eye.
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I live in San Francisco. 35-40% of my income goes to oil the tax wheels, another good 15 % goes to make sure I can live within the city. If you keep doing the math, you don't save much at the end. I am not saying I live paycheck to paycheck but the city is so freaking expensive that you don't save much. In fact, a friend making 30% or so less in Austin did the math and found out he could save much more than I could. On the other hand, I am not complaining, I choose to live in this great and amazing city.
Facebook yields a lot of value for a lot of people. Most of the people I am friends with use it extensively, and post things that will make it harder for them to get a public sector job that requires any kind of background check. They are pretty much all banned from politics for the content that they have shared. Not a lot of college students in the US are choosing majors that will help them get jobs, and it makes me sad that they are hurting their chances even more. They have heard from me and other people that it is important to communicate so openly only with those they trust, but I have only managed to teach a few of them how to use cryptography effectively. It is a very hard sell.

Facebook is worth it for a lot of people. But it's easy to run too far against the diminishing returns that additional time on it yields, and it's easy to slam doors in your future that may otherwise have been valuable.
Previously, sort of: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/04/19117
Something that fascinated me while in the UK - subtitling accents. I mainly saw this (heard this?) with the Scottish, but other strong accents had this done also. It was the BBC I noticed this with.
Again, the only people who say these kinds of things and truly believe them are those who've never started something on their own and made it successful. How could you possibly understand if you lack the context?

> It is not accurate to pretend that you are 100%, solely responsible for your own success, without any other contributing factors.

I don't know of any entrepreneur who thinks this way. Not one. Your success as an entrepreneur depends on a myriad of factors external to you. The roads? The power grid? Transportation? Banks? Please. Stop it. It hurts.

How about we all stop and thank Spain then? Without the Crown investing in expeditions that led to the discovery of the American Continent you wouldn't be enjoying that cup of Starbucks Coffee.

Oh, yes, let's also thank our governments for starting wars. Without WW1 and WW2 you might not have penicillin, radios, planes, cars and a bunch of other things you enjoy today. They were brilliant! Too bad they had to kill a hundred million people in the process.

Crazy, right?

Right.

My advise to anyone buying into this kind of thinking is simple: Go start a business. Learn what it takes to actually earn your keep from scratch and even create jobs and be responsible for the livelihood and well-being of families besides your own. Succeed. Fail. Learn. Rise-up and succeed again. Then come back and see what you think of these ideas. I'll bet you a donut you will not think very highly of them. That's the power of reality.
i pay 30$ every month for SAAS apps that provide even less value.
I did, too. Different UI, though. See http://www.domainjig.com
Soda is a UI theme not a color scheme.
From what I got from this conversation, Sublime Text is not a one man show anymore? Jon says he will "have something to say on the front soon".

http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=107...
I'd been wondering about the recent slow pace of updates, but I shouldn't have doubted. I've been consistently delighted by the quality of Sublime and the frequency with which it improves. For the amount of work I do with it and its quality premium over competing tools, at least for the features I value, it feels underpriced (on a US salary).

I'll happily pay for the upgrade if it keeps the author cranking away at a similar pace.
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Nice-looking watches, but I was very surprised to see prices over US$5,000 from a maker with no cachet and fairly standard design / no special complications.
>>micro-blogging

a.k.a. "listening to the sound of my own voice"

But you set up the argument incorrectly. It's not a matter of whether or not one gets utility from Facebook. It's a matter of whether that utility is worth the cost. I would posit (although cannot prove) that most Facebook users are not aware of what the platform is costing them in terms of time and attention (not to mention things that they say that make them ineligible for a lot of jobs). They are only aware of the benefits they are getting.
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Works fine for me - http://i.imgur.com/mnAA8nw.png

If the fine hasn't been changed in SL2, it just reloads it with a message displayed in the status bar. If it has been edited in SL2, it asks if you want to reload the file.
Don't hold your breath -- I felt the same way about xserve before Apple shocked us with the axing of the server line.
I was arguing that someone else's argument was wrong. That is not the same as arguing a position on this immigration bill.

See https://plus.google.com/114613808538621741268/posts/bNrjdAWp... for my actual opinion on what I'd like to see happen. (It never will.)
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> In big companies good people can end up being laid off because they happen to be in the wrong team/group/project and some clueless bean counter decides that's the business that needs to be eliminated.

Why do they have to be clueless? Projects are never failures? They could cut a terrible project and still end up laying off good people. Is that a bad thing?
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My test just now was on Windows, but I use it regularly on Mac and Linux as well, and I'm pretty sure I would have noticed if it silently clobbered changes like that. You're sure you had unsaved changes to the Sublime buffer for the file when you conducted your test?
VirtualBox is very very slow on my PC, VMware player is faster.
Really cool! What are you using for availability checking? You're getting so many and they're coming in so fast!?
As the legend goes, an MVP is not even a prototype, but an ad or a landing page that describes an idea to see if people respond and/or comment on it in a usable way. The prototype form of an MVP can certainly be thrown out in favor of a new codebase, and at any rate prototypes as a generic industrial concept are routinely built by independents, contractors and small firms before the manufacturing decisions have been made, before going to a larger concern to build the product as refined from the prototype. That is, prototypes are commonly used to generate funding for the actual product. Therefore I don't think being an MVP coder who can't or won't move on to the final building stage is anything to be ashamed of, and not anything to blame like this consultant does. Not only that, but a lot of product-stage coders are terrible at greenfielding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenfield_project
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That was great, Thanks! I actually found a surprisingly good domain for my next project. My apologies if I squeezed you out of a referral credit. I processed it via DreamHost just to consolidate my all domains.

Great tool though! Maybe put up a Donate button and every time I find a domain, I'll send some Karma $$ your way
There's a simpler explanation. Women clump toward the mean on many metrics, while the distribution for men is much more spread out.
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I dunno. I went to school in India where almost everyone is shoehorned into the Engineering/Medical undergrad career. While, I don't think it is particular hard to not succeed at these professions, I am not convinced it is a good thing to do just because it is an economically prudent option. Sometimes, the purpose of going to school is to open the mind and expose it to different ideals. Maybe I am being a naive optimist but I would like to think that we can surely let some of the citizenry indulge in that without having to force everyone to join a technical shop to create a factory ready worker (much as is happening in India/China.).
heh. that would be me.

here's the larger version of that pic:

http://d3br966ilz90nq.cloudfront.net/assets/images/me.jpeg

the thing almost poking my eye is part of the plastic hoops that form the handle of the bag. and it's just the perspective - it's not particularly close to my eye :)
Well considering the large development in terms of plugins and this is currently a BETA, we'll have to wait and see how many new features come out with ST3 to justify the 3 tag. Or it can become a Firefox and have ST18 in a couple of years.... ;-)
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I've been looking into doing freelance/contract work, too. However, I am in the US. I know there are many different tips and tricks to charging what you want, but can anyone with iOS freelance experience share their experience with pricing methods?
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Hi all,

I'm working on a project, but I'd possibly like to limit traffic to IP blocks belonging to educational institutions. On a university-by-university basis, it's not too hard to get these listings. But is there a list of these somewhere? Or is there a clever way to query arin to get this information?

Thanks in advance!

Example: Princeton IP addresses http://libweb5.princeton.edu/e-resources/ipaddresses.html
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this sounds great, but my question as a startup developer, is how would we get past the iron curtain of these businesses? You basically need to be on the inside, in order to recognize a problem, and develop the solution. Not to mention the fact that, if the existing thing somewhat works.. why would the business want to change for a "technically" better solution?
and write-up for those who are interested in the technical details: http://ronin-ruby.github.com/blog/2013/01/28/new-rails-poc.h...
The only problem along these lines I've had with it is in renaming files, where it doesn't appear to be locking onto the inode and the previous-named file still remains in editor and can be saved with the old filename. OOB edits do get reflected back into the editor somehow, though.
I've had my target on two separate pieces of unsexy enterprise apps. One is the most popular mini-storage management software. It's basically a CRUD to manage and search available units. It also has some basic accounting functionality built-in and credit card processing.

I built an MVP, showed it to a friend whose father's company pays 300k/yr for a 130-site license. It took me about 3 weeks. Even though it worked he told his son that he didn't think it was possible that I could build something in 8 weeks that could match the software he's paying ~28k/mo to license.

I built the MVP as an exercise in learning a language so I wasn't very attached to it. I dropped it and went to working on my current startup.
You can change the password by clicking on your name in the app — it brings up a profile page that lets you change your name, password, or profile photo.
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Software dev pricing is weird since it is so easy to grossly undercut yourself or overprice yourself by an entire order of magnitude.

I can certainly sympathise with people who have sent reasonable estimates and have received somewhat borderline insulting responses like "Wow, I could buy a used car for that!" or "That's nearly what my plumber charges!".

However in a certain sense I can't help but feel the industry has brought this upon itself. I remember ~2000 when websites were a new thing.

There were contractors around who would happily go in and quote very large sums of money for really very small amounts of (often very poor quality) work. Since the market had not really had a chance to self-adjust it's prices yet people would often just accept these costs without understanding what they were buying.

I remember a popular tactic being for designers to literally rip the HTML for a competitors website, switch the logos around and come back with a $10,000 bill.

So naturally the smart teenagers with a lot of free time to learn saw an opportunity to rebuild these websites better for the price of a few pizzas. This taught the market that costs could be significantly lower and also that the correlation between price and quality was very loose.

These kids also figured out the value of sharing code and ideas with each other, leading to a sort of open source renaissance.

Now that those teenagers have grown up and have to feed their families during a global recession those in developing nations are basically pulling the same trick on them that they had pulled back in the day.

You also have the added problem that there a sort of "iceberg" going on here. For example one can build an impressively featured website in around an hour simply by uploading one of the popular CMS and shopping cart systems to a shared webhost and copy pasting some content.

Of course, once you do such a thing you will get the familiar "this is great buy wouldn't it be ever greater if this drop down menu just sort of did this? I mean this entire thing took you an hour , so that change should take like 10 seconds right?" , "Well actually, I will need to develop a custom module to do X and then interface with Y so it's probably 4-8 hours depending.."

At that point it might be hard to convince a customer that you are not somehow trying to pull a fast one..
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Haha no worries. I just link to name.com because it's what I like to use for my own domain purchases (of which there are many!). Of course I do get a referral fee but it's pretty small so I won't lose any sleep over it.
Although Pivotal was being led by Martiz, who has left the company.

https://blogs.vmware.com/console/2012/12/the-pivotal-initiat...

EDIT: Although he's now the Chief Strategy Officer at EMC, so maybe that's good.
http://www.emc.com/corporate/emc-at-glance/exec-team/index.h...
The original article doesn't debunk it, it states without giving a single citation that "claims about the accents of the Appalachian Mountains, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater region and Virginia's Tangier Island sounding like an uncorrupted Elizabethan-era English accent have been busted as myths by linguists."

Most likely his source is a single linguist, Dr. Michael Montgomery, who is from Knoxville and has written several articles on "Appalachian English", but which articles actually pertain only to East Tennessee rural english, and not other parts of the Appalachians.

Here are all his articles on the topic:

http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/engl/dictionary/articles.html

He does a good summary of the language of that region and can be reasonably considered an expert. He makes a convincing argument that much of the novel vocabulary is Scotch-Irish vocabulary from the early settlers of the area. He makes a less convincing argument that since the mountain people of the region are not familiar with idioms of Shakespeare, their speech is not related in any way to Elizabethan English. Elizabethan era people did not speak exactly the way Shakespeare wrote though. Pilgrims so desperate from religious oppression by the Church of England at the time to would not necessarily be experts in Shakespearean idioms.

Dr. Montgomery's articles are certainly worth a read and make many reasonable arguments about the dialects he is familiar with. The notion that the idea that any archaic language dialects have influenced certain dialect pockets that have survived to the present has been debunked, and such an opinion is held by all linguists is not established, cited or proven by the article.
I am certainly concerned that they might give it the official arse.

The only thing that gives me hope is that the Pro fits a small but important niche in the overall ecosystem: a system better suited for the developers of iOS applications than the iMac is.
Potentially, they can still be worth quite a lot. Starvation is serious business.

(You might have been facetious, but I'm not sure, so I'll just take it literally.)
Can't quite figure out this goto definition thing, though of course I'm trying it using a dynamic language, JavaScript. Was praying he worked some secret SublimeText magic into it :/
I think facebook definitely has beneficial uses (reconnecting with old friends, arranging events etc). But I feel like a lot of people are addicted to it and allow it to get in the way of having real, face-to-face interactions. Eg people who can't have a dinner conversation without looking down every 10 seconds to check their wall. It's a kinda scary trend that seems to be becoming increasingly prevalent in the younger generations.
I agree. We were an early Crashlytics adopter that also used TestFlight for Ad Hoc testing. When TestFlight launched TestFlight Live and introduced its own crash logging service, we saw no need to keep both in the app and shut off Crashlytics. Anecdotal of course, but I think the theory here has merit: crash logging is a feature, not a business model, and the Crashlytics team made a good move here.
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I can imagine all sorts of bad things. That doesn't mean we have to try to protect against all of them all of the time. You can reasonably protect against black swan events, and trying to do so is costly in so many ways: money, liberties, convenience, etc.

Everybody is so afraid of dying that they don't dare to live.
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I'm currently on a MBA 11" and my girlfriend does her big data analysis on a 24" Cinema display, so sharing a full screen is no option. The idea of being able to only share a certain window is fantastic.

But you're right, this is a space with lots of potential. X11 could do all this and more already in 1996 one can even connect multiple mice / keyboards; it is sad that this function never really made it into other operating systems, although on the other hand X11 had lots of other issues due to the complex architecture to allow for network sharing of invididual screens.
Not for us, apparently.
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Agreed on the human-readable. "http://blah.com/f.aspx?415235132,15231525671755124,251255215... just is wrong. I also believe they should also be easily memorized. Because "http://example.com/01/43/74/22/why-should-we-all-use-shorter... isn't as memorable as "http://example.com/2013/clear-and-concise-writing/.

Also, it can be some sense of discrimination or reverse discrimination, but for those jobs that require face to face interviews, it doesn't matter a whole lot.
Same here (on Mac) - it's always had this behavior for me.
now you're just being deliberately obtuse; the perl redux program is almost 30% faster than the perl fasta program.
If you build an app for yourself you probably have the requirements and wireframes welded into your brain since it's likely being developed to solve a problem that you encounter on a daily basis such as managing your dotfiles between all of your VPS instances.

When you're developing something to solve a problem you could never even imagine having, say wardrobe management software for the wife of a senior politician you're probably going to need those wireframes.
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Spot on.

In enterprise B2B, nobody's going to give the time of the day to a startup whizzkid just because his solution is technologically better or faster or whatever, without connections and financial backing (stability).

Enterprise is more about who knows who. Painful sales cycles. Talking to loads of people across many business layers (while greasing the right pockets, dinners, gifts and whatnot).

Anonymous B2C is popular with startups for a reason.