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> The question was misinformation.

Please tell me where the "misinformation" is in the following question:

What does dropbox add that you don't get from git?[1] And/or with git and a
decent backup system(tarsnap/duplicity/rsync)? It seems like a lot of extra
overhead and data privacy concerns for little gain. What am I missing?

And while we are at it please explain how I did not ask for a comparison?

As far as "git does not offer a centralized storage system" goes, Scott Chacon seems to disagree with you:

"If you have a small team or are already comfortable with a centralized workflow in your company or team, you can easily continue using that workflow with Git. Simply set up a single repository, and give everyone on your team push access[1]"

You did not mention if you are a windows user. I imagine that you are if you are not aware of the options to run your own git server. Of the many ways to set up a git server that are presented in Pro Git[2] my favorite is gitolite[3]. But there are lots of other ways, I recommend you take a look at the the options for yourself.

[1] http://git-scm.com/book/en/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workf...

[2] http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-on-the-Server

[3] http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/g2/pictures.html
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I second that. To deploy a website you'll have to learn Rspec, Capybara, gem, bundler... all Rails idiosyncrasies.
In this respect, I found Udacity CS253 far more useful than Treehouse. It's Python based and the course uses a light framework - webapp2
(plus, you don't get lame jokes and it's free.)
Think about what you just said for a minute and it will be clear why this will never happen.
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Hmmm. I was thinking of trying it out but the one big problem I see is that there isn't a "Browse Campaigns" button anywhere to be found. I would think this would be a very important feature for potential campaign originators as one obvious advantage here is to try and benefit form existing traffic.

Any thoughts/feedback on this? I'd love to understand why that feature isn't there already.
Hey pidg - sorry about that. It was probably an early reserved username. If anyone else runs into this we can help at help(@)about.me.
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What problem does Discourse solve that Hacker News doesn't solve right now?

EDIT: Obviously it has a modern, nice interface. That's a win. But I mean more specifically, what problem of human dynamics does it solve that Hacker News doesn't solve?
Excellent! so far my only reliable source was hackathon.io and it´s kind of messy.
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WWII wasn't trench warfare, that was WWI.

I guess what I meant was "at least it was over quick" meaning that you died and that was the end of it. I'm not saying that paying back a loan is definitely equivalent to dying, but there are plenty of people killing themselves over debt that they cannot escape.

The problem in my mind is not that it was loaned to people to pursue their education (that's good!) but that it was loaned to them with no regard for their ability to pay it back. $200k for a finance degree or engineering or something like that with a reasonable chance of paying it off is good. But $200k loaned to someone to get a bachelors in sociology is not a good bet since they have little prospect of paying it off. And no recourse once they find out how stupid they've been.

In WWII people made tremendous sacrifices for the good of the country and quite possibly freedom world-wide. That's incredibly noble. The leaders who had to make tough choices did so knowing that they would be sending many people to their deaths and (hopefully) took that responsibility seriously.

I doubt many private university presidents really truly care how many lives they're ruining by allowing totally egregious interest rates.

EDIT: debt driven suicide on google pulls a lot of hits: http://www.google.com/search?q=debt+driven+suicide&oq=de...

EDIT2: Thanks for at least telling me why you think I'm an insensitive clod. I appreciate it.
I always thought reddit would turn into the next-gen forum, especially after it went open source. But it didn't have as big of an impact as I hoped. reddit is a giant step beyond things like phpBB.
I cringed when I saw infinite scrolling as the first feature they're highlighting on the landing page. I expected it to completely break back/forward navigation (a la returning to your home page feed on Facebook or Twitter). However, I played around with the demo a bit, and I was pleased to see that they've somehow solved that problem. I'm still not a huge fan of infinite scrolling in general, but this looks like a significant improvement.
When the previous CEO murdered the elephant on video, that's when I moved all my domains. That was more than enough to make me never want to do business with them for the rest of eternity.

Which reminds me, Mashable published some lameass excuse from the CEO when it kicked up a big stink. Mashable must be getting kickback from Go Daddy.

Then again, would anyone consider Mashable as journalism? It's more like a glorified online shopping catalogue.
...data warehouses in general mostly use SQL, and lots of businesses use data warehouses successfully. Teradata, Netezza, Oracle, DB2, etc. I'm not sure why his statement was controversial - SQL's a great language for reporting and analytics.
WOW! This whole thing smells like quality. Even to the usage of CoffeeScript through and through. You guys rock!

Been going through the assets/js and it's really amazing quality code.
JIT loading of comments, eww...

You say it "remembers my place" but does it remember my place across all of my devices? What if I want to link my friend to a comment? What about SEO, will my community turn up in google/bing's results?
I'm actually pretty excited about the Ouya as an emulation platform.

In a similar thrust, those here who think that because it's an open and easy to develop for platform don't remember the lackluster sales of many prior platforms that lead into the market with emulation (which gave them huge libraries).

Most of the non-emulator software was quite frankly, lackluster. Those consoles counted their sales in the tens of thousands of units, not in the millions.
Forum software is often clunky and old-fashioned graphic-design-wise, and its search features often are broken, and I'm sure it's not a barrel of laughs to moderate or administrate.

But what specifically about the user interaction and user experience is wrong about old forum software that is corrected in this new platform? The sandbox forum is very nice looking but does it operate much differently from old-school stuff? Ultimately I'm looking at a list of topics sorted by how recently they've been updated (and there doesn't even appear to be a way to change that order).
It's GPL, so I can plug it into my own nefarious schemes and makes miiiiiiiillions.
Google Drive now lets developers share hosted websites
Don't be a cunt.

OP was mad people were stealing his websites design, not his photography, for all we know they both sourced it from the same image warehouse.
I love the idea, but they've made an odd choice in the way they've styled the page: I can't scroll down to read all the text. Page scrolling is jerky and the text disappears for me before I reach the bottom of the text. I had to inspect the page source to finish reading "How does it work?"
I suspect the dichotomy might have something to do with open-source vs. proprietary.
I juuuust switched from gVim to Sublime Text. Luckily I havent bought licsense yet :)
Take the children of the great depression. Born in poverty then conscripted into the military for ww2. Those still alive raise their children in the shadow of imminent nuclear annihilation. Then have their children conscripted for Vietnam.

Oh and if they managed to avoid ww2 they get to spent a few years in Korea.
It actually does help, and the concept behind it is called pipelining [1].

Suppose there's a sink that washes and dries, and there are two people who want to use it. The second person will spend 30 seconds waiting, and 30 seconds washing/drying. So, 60 sec total.

If there's a sink and a separate dryer, the second person will spend 15 sec waiting, 15 sec washing, and 15 sec drying. So, 45 sec total. The second person gets a 15 seconds savings, because he can start washing as soon as the first person finishes washing, rather than having to "block" until the first person is done washing and drying.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(computing)#Concept_an...
You certainly do seem to claim that. You say "the point [...] is to create a brand", and a few sentences later you say "also [technical reasons]". That to me looks like a clear distinction between primary and secondary reasons.

Secondly, you say that focusing on the brand like this is part of Tesla's "ingenious strategy". However, as I pointed out in the previous post, all of the strategy you covered follows directly from constraints Tesla had. So Tesla's strategy of building a Roadster first is completely straightforward.

Tesla does have an ingenious strategy, though. For instance they are working on Free Charging Stations, they have unique showrooms and they are willing to license their technology to some of their competitors. I don't think any of those things are straightforward. So there is a lot to say about Tesla's ingenious strategy, but their expensive-cars-first strategy is not the ingenious part.
Wow. very cool. But that 3d-rotation on the hero graphic gives me a little vertigo -- it's almost too good :-)
bitbucket has free private repos. If dropbox is private enough for you, bitbucket should be as well.

Obviously I just keep my private repos on my own server. Who doesn't have their own server these days anyway?
I think you got something mixed up. Buying coins can be looked at as a currency conversation, sure, but exchanging coins for goods most certainly is not, and will be taxed as per usual.
It's something that many people will consider pretty according to today's trends (fixed-width text, rounded corners and gradients and monochromatic icons and tooltips) but from reading the announcement I expected something more. Looking around the Discourse site, I just can't find what makes Discourse special and my first reaction after 5 minutes of poking around was "Well, okay...". Maybe someone else can explain it to me.
What browser/OS? Working fine on Chrome stable/Mac 10.8
I think there's definitely a need for more privacy options, but I have doubts that the FTC or any federal agency really understands the issue well enough to be anything more than a hindrance to making it happen.
Anyone used his config for nginx? How does his cipher list affect speed?
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JSON type gives you some typed values within the doc, multi-level nesting, etc. You can add functional indexes (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/indexes-expression...) to index specific attributes within the JSON, do legit sorts over values, reasonable array queries, etc. It seems much, much closer to what Mongo does than anything you can do with hstore.
Hopefully by 2015 that'll be enough to buy the BlueStar model...
What about old fashioned https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/map and area tag? They are built specifically for this.
homebrew-built vim worked fine for me. I followed the manual steps.
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Then they came after the C++ hackers, and I did not speak up because I didn't know C++...

:)
It's pretty but years of reddit and hacker news make it very difficult for me to follow message boards without nested comments.
This = awesome. And hilariously true. :)
If you're not a web designer, I don't really care that you've designed your own webpage. If an about.me page (or similar template profile) presents you better, then absolutely rely on that for your first impression.
First place in the remedial English spelling bee.
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I'd argue that Reddit and other link-aggregation sites like HN are the evolution of the online messsage board to an online-focused format, though self/text posts are possible to start general discussion.

The big thing missing is a way to 'sticky/pin' posts, though Reddit makes use of the sidebar to similar effect.

How Discourse's conversation threading model is quite interesting though, I'll be interested to see how well it scales.
It's up to you whether this is strange or not, but the effect you're looking for is the definition of even numbers.

I don't find the GP's argument credible, but this really isn't a contradiction of it.
You can too spend part of a gift card, give a gift card to someone else, or combine gift cards for a large purchase, unless the company making them has terrible customer service. The only thing you can't do is split them arbitrarily.
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Hany, well done! This is one of the best hacks of feed gaming[1] I have seen. Keep it up!

1. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/feed-gaming/
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As in how you just stated as self evident your ideology that one must always provide reason and justification? What's unnecessary bullshit is your own wild-eyed hypocrisy.
You realize Discourse isn't just for the hacker crowd?
Judging from the beta (http://try.discourse.org/) it doesn't seem to provide anything new in terms of managing a civilized discourse. The structure of the posts is very similar to regular forums; the only difference being the explicit replies, but they almost do more harm than good in the current implementation (it's just an expandable <blockquote> and doesn't really help me understand the context).

What I want from a "civilized discourse construction kit":

- Build it for a real community and try to make it work within that community.

- Make it possible to close threads, write summary for threads, group threads together, explore a topic. In general: Don't make the threads all about real-time, but rather focus on how they can be useful in the future.

- Bring more structure than linear comments, but less complexity than threaded comments.

- Encourage longer responses.

There was recently a good thread on Reddit about this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/171xod/the_joys...
on the cards, message bus really is awesome, I plan to blog about it. can you put a request on meta for this? Also I would like to release the "general consumption" gems as MIT
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Some posts that I've submitted and have made the front page have been knocked back to the 2nd or 3rd page by the mods, I believe. It's happened 3-4 times lately.
> What if I want to link my friend to a comment?

The fact that there's a permalink bar on every single comment was the first thing I noticed, since it highlights on hover anywhere on the comment.

http://try.discourse.org/t/this-site-is-a-sandbox-it-is-rese...

If you `wget` the canonical URL of the page per the meta tags, it contains all of the comments in the HTML; everything is accessible to the search spiders.
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>StackOverflow also has an extremely busy design, and it seems to work.

The design's being so busy has prevented me from exploring the site.

I wish I knew of a browser extension or a bookmarklet to make the site more sedate by, e.g., deleting some of the elements on the page.
That's a pretty circular argument. You know the term fits because it has the attributes of the term, which you know because they used the term.
How does the infinite scrolling work when you have topics with 10000+ posts?

I'm halfway tempted to install it and learn the API just to answer this question.
Is there any kind of a licence model for things like this?
(code is up on github, but on sale at the mac store)
I really liked this treatment of first-class functions. It started off slow, with a lot of trivial, contrived examples that should be obvious to anyone who has ever seen first-class functions in any language. But then there were some very pragmatic patterns, with standard library examples, that used recursive function types and methods on function types to build some very neat APIs. Building a lexer out of a recursive function type actually sounds like a really cool thing to try, if I find some free time I want to try it without looking at Go's standard library `text/template` lexer and see how it compares.
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Very cool. Though the 7 minute flight time is rather disappointing.

I know this would increase costs a LOT but it would be awesome if it could be redesigned to use smaller chips and put more of the weight to the battery.

On that can anyone explain to me why they positioned the batter on the top of the device? Wouldn't it be better balanced to have placed it below the body? Not that stability looked like an issue just seems like an odd design choice.
If you use Google's hosted libraries, you can embed it like so, and it should seamlessly work over SSL.

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
quick tip for the author: If you are doing a 2x2 grid, the convention is you want better to be up and to the right. So you want snapchat to be in the upper right quadrant. I was initially confused when I glanced at your table and thought "Morse code is the best solution?"
Seeing as stately is a real word this will never matter for this specific case.
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You can use the Google CDN's copy of the jQuery file -- it supports HTTPS. The URL would be : https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.mi...

The CDN also hosts a few of other popular libraries too :
https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide
If the goal of this is to supplant vBulletin and phpBB, it has to be written in PHP, period. A non-programming community is not going to deploy a RoR app, they're going to FTP some files into the hosting they just bought from GoDaddy.
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If you're any good with substitutions and regex in VIM you'll probably switch right back.
Hear hear. It sounds ridiculous.
I'm not sure how well you can really obscure it anyway. Anyone who knows what they're doing can still get at the source.
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They are doing this through Seeedstudios (the number of 'e's is important!) who, when I was with Google, we did a group buy of their digital oscilloscope kits. It turned out quite well so I wasn't worried about pre-ordering through them.

Now to think up some exceptionally opsish type thing to do with them, there is data center re-con of course but I was thinking like "go sit on the bad top of rack switch and blink your LED" kinds of things.
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Those are only a few examples of ways that people involved might be prosecuted. Here are some more: The friends/family of an assassinated person could probably claim wrongful death and cause an investigation. Non-government organizations (e.g. the ACLU) could sue for a review.

In any case, the threat of legal repercussions exists, and is likely enough to prevent US citizens from being assassinated arbitrarily.
Hey doktrin - thanks for sharing your perspective! I did see that notice on Devise's documentation. I think Hartl's Rails Tutorial will go through a more basic user auth process.

If you think Rails is a poor first choice - what's your recommended language and why?
Yes, but Jeff's post seems to suggest that there's something special in the design that contributes to more civilized discussion. I'm curious as to what that is. For example, does having a modern interface do that all by itself? Is there something special about the moderation interface? Little tricks isomorphic to the way HN makes you wait before replying to replies, and so on?

Whether used by hackers or not, these design features interest me greatly.
Well, but maybe that's the point of the original post - it is talking about maintenance of shell scripts; so that implies the following:

1) It is not a command that someone "uses", it's a script written by a programmer to be run for a business task or an end user quite likely may not "use Unix" (by your definition) ever.

2) The script goal most likely is not to make Unix work for you - it was originally written to make Unix do task X for you; but the goal/question in the OP is how to make that program more maintainable. Maintainability is an important goal, and to achieve that it's definitely acceptable to mutilate the way you usually do one-off tasks manualy.

3) The shell script is written for non-shell-script users - it's quite likely some glue for a system where 99.9% is in other languages, and the maintenance guys will specialize in those languages, and may not "use Unix" in their daily tasks at all. It's very common and reasonable to write all your code on a Win or Mac computer and then have it deployed to some linux server; and most companies currently do have separate ops teams (which would "use Unix" every day) and developer teams, which might "use Unix" once a month or less, even if the end binaries run on Unix.
>love or hate it

This move is bad precisely since a lot of web and native developers alike realize that Javascript is a terrible language, and rightly hate writing it. This move serves to alienate all those devs who would rather write in a sane language since desktop development gives them that choice, but instead see GNOME embracing the biggest wart of web development to date.
That can be a huge mess, though, if you need to do a lot of dynamic color changing of specific states and/or groups of states.
I will stick with separate sinks combined with automatic paper towel dispensers. Why? Its more hygienic. After my work converted what did we notice?

Two trashcans, one by each door of the bathroom and now people dry their hands and grab handles with the paper towel ditching it in the can at the end.

With all the concern over the flu and other contagious diseases, let alone witnessing some of my coworkers habits, I am all for a simple solution.

Besides paper towels always work.
I keep a page on there and I like how it gives me a quick way to link together my Internet credentials (so-to-speak) without much clutter. As for whether people actually check it out, that's another story. I tend to keep it listed as my "homepage" though for sites that list that information on my profile.
Or encrypted communications, indistinguishable from noise.
> If you're talking about Java, you're talking about the browser plugin. It all executes on the same VM.

I can't see how this makes any more sense than "If you're talking about Visual Studio, you're talking about Mac OS X. It all executes on the same processor." Yes, they both share the same underlying technology, but they are hardly indistiguishable — you can certainly talk about one without addressing the other. You could delete the browser plugin from every computer on the planet and it wouldn't make normal Java apps work any better or worse. The plugin depends on the Java platform, but the Java platform is not in any way dependent on the plugin.

> You can't simply declare it off limits given the massive and repeated security issues surrounding it

I'm not declaring it "off-limits" — I'm suggesting that it is irrelevant to the discussion here. Yes, there are security issues with it, but since nobody here is saying "I think the Java browser plugin is a boss idea," you're either arguing with nobody or trying to denigrate the JVM as a client and server technology based on the fact that it isn't suitable for embedding in a browser. I can't see any way that the Java plugin is really relevant. Similarly, if I went and wrote a terrible plugin to allow Ruby "applets," bringing up that plugin as a criticism of Ruby in other contexts would not be productive.