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I have the Naga, and under linux you can program the buttons of it and any other mouse using imwheel. Then your macros are in a file on a disk, not on NVRAM on a mouse.
I'd like to mention SourceTree[0] for a GUI DVCS. I typically drop to the terminal for git usage, but every so often use SourceTree when I need something that is easier achieved with a mouse.

[0] http://sourcetreeapp.com/
Got the Black delivered on my door today, will try to post a quickie review tomorrow :-)
Higher quality... in what way? Resolution, or something else?
Nothing replaces a real handwritten thank you note but for a business person who has to write a lot of them... It looks like the next best alternative
> How much of Rails is written in C?

None, on purpose. We want maximum portability, and so the Rails defaults are Ruby-only on purpose. Of course, it's easy to add gems that replace things that are written in C or Java, depending on what makes the most sense for your platform.
Oh, I'm definitely not suggesting that American's own body politic should grow, by any means. If anything America could do with being split into about four different countries. (Not on any usefully-simple geographical lines, though; something more like "charter cities"/"special economic zones" might do better. An ideal division might be "The United Farmlands of America" and "The United Metropolises of America", since each group has pretty homogeneous opinions on how "their country" should be run.)

It would certainly be nice, though, if countries of people who do have homogeneous bodies politic, where country A is interested in the political decisions country B make because they affect A, could somehow trade something of their own for the right to have their own people get some control over A's affairs. They might, perhaps... buy stock in A? :)

(There's actually a lot of things putting governmental-policy "stocks" on a global market would solve, when you think about it. Certainly problems too, of course, but consider, for one thing, that it offers a workable alternative to "takeover by war" and "eternal austerity" that some Eurozone countries have been looking for for years now: "takeover by transfer of controlling equity as a liquidated asset during default.")
>The software industry is heading in very bad directions, and this is at least a glimmer of hope.

I don't buy this -- Steam is just another walled garden app store with the same conflicts of interest that we're used to seeing, such as giving top billing to their own products on their store, using DRM, promoting itself as an advertising space, etc.

The problem I have is: where are all the GPL'ed games? The Torque Engine was just released with a permissive free license, which is good, but it will probably take a really good engine being released as GPL to get people to really start embracing the development of games in a community-driven way, rather than being stuck in the ivory tower like most games are now. There really isn't any other meaningful way for us to oppose these abusive "app stores" rather than shunning them so that we can turn to more community-driven efforts.
It costs almost nothing to run a company in the cloud and the software infrastructure is so productive that you can realistically bootstrap yourself.
For what it's worth, I was able to navigate fine using WASD and the arrow keys on my laptop
abusing?
> Does anyone know some orgs with deep pockets that would be willing to accept and host 30-50 terabytes of papers?

The Pirate Bay?
Has anyone made a virtual IBM 5100 and posted the image to Pirate Bay yet?

It sure (would have saved / will save) him a ton of trouble.
Do you have a power meter by any miracle? The main advantage I see to this over the Raspberry Pi (for my application) is its spartan power usage.
The only development tools you'll ever need: a terminal, vim and the GNU toolchain (gcc, gdb, make, screen etc).
SourceTree makes staging chunks/lines in git a snap -- I use it to do that every day. I couldn't imagine the tediousness of doing that on the command line.
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Don't forget the app's main purpose (buying games).
I enjoyed the pictures; don't listen to the haters. Milk-chugging at a disaster scene was a big enough "WTF" to keep me interested.
Newman!
Bahahah. Let me clarify, I've been managing peons like yourself since high school. I've already climbed the six figure ladder. The view wasn't to my liking. See I decided to quit & build products designed for social good, hence why I turned down a CIO role at a bank last week & turned down $125k work-from-home contract at Wells Fargo today. I can make money anytime I return a headhunters voicemail. Maybe that's why my parents are cool with the risk. Go ahead Google me, my resume speaks for itself.
Ah, okay. That's interesting, I suppose. You basically are interested in seeing at what concurrency level the server starts spitting back 500-series responses (or simply doesn't provide a response). Basically, how many concurrent requests are needed before the server's inbound request queue overflows.

We could test that out at some point.
As someone who uses Terminal.app, what are the benefits of using iTerm2? After looking at the features of iTerm2[1], I see a lot of it as superfluous.

That said I can see a usecase in the Growl notification feature for testing etc.

[1] http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/features
I think you're referring to Zendesk. Insofar as Alexa's rankings are accurate (they aren't, but that's another matter) then Zendesk.com is indeed the 650th highest trafficked site on the internet and they are clearly getting a lot of usage. That's great for Zendesk, but it says very little about how they compare to other B2B companies. Just as a low Alexa rank (above a certain minimum threshold - say 500,000) tells you very little about how a given B2B company is doing.

Example:

Website A: CRM software for real estate agents that charges $2,000 per month. Alexa rank 120,000.

Website B: in the same business but gives their software away free, lets users host blogs on their site and advertises with popups served from the domain (a huge Alexa boost to lots of porn sites, ad networks and others) and as a result has an Alexa rank of 9,000.

If you were to do a post on the real estate CRM industry you'd probably dump on company A and praise company B - even though we know essentially nothing about either business. Website A could be doing millions per month in revenue and have 50+ employees and B could be one guy working nights and weekends and making $2,000 per month.

tl;dr apples-to-apples comparisons between B2B companies based on homepage traffic stats = fail.
The gory details are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bMwCey-gmqZVTpRax-ESeVuZ...

TL;DR: functions are now represented as (function pointer, pointer to a context structure), whereas before they were represented as a single function pointer.
I accidentally replied to the wrong comment; this was intended to be a reply to the parent of your post.

But I also didn't realize that that person was saying that there was a gorilla test, so now I'm mostly confused.
I've got a sample size of one. I work in a factory, and almost all our designs (including tooling and processes) come from the head office in America.
And remember clicking the red X does not kill the process...
I've lived in Tokyo and I am the author of this article. I have to say that the scale is completely incomparable here. Not only this, there are over 100 cities in China with a population of over 1m. There are 9 in the USA.
Don't forget MACVIM. Vim on windows is terrible. Now that you're on OSX it's going to be fantastic.

<3 Vim
Not mentioned yet: HexFiend for hex editing, Cocoa Packet Analyzer and Wireshark for packet inspection.
Thanks for the link. I think floats are pretty overused, I don't see fixed precision decimals getting used, which always struck me as odd.
Didn't like it, and it's why I left: wanted to be in an area where normal humans could raise a family without crushing themselves with unpayable debts and soul-sapping commutes.
That would be FileMerge, which also does folder diffs -- although not as good as Beyond Compare (one of the few apps I miss having from Windows dev).
> make China play fair

You mean "play fair" as in "please do like we say and let your billion people be poor and eat raddish all year long"?

This is a joke. From Chinese (and most other parts of the world) standing point, the West has never played fair. It started with drug war, when British cannons forced the Chinese customs to open the doors to opium boats. Then it was nuclear power, when everyone was asked to NOT do as the US did and not try to get their hands on nukes. Now that Chinese people finally have their industrial revolution, and can start getting their head out of the mud, you're asking them to "play fair" and stop working hard because they are "stealing" your jobs? You are probably asking them to not buy 2 cars per family, to not use washing machine to wash their clothes, and to not take planes to discover the world's nice places, right? So it is pure "do like we say, do not do like we do", right?

A joke, I say.
If I understand correctly, these people are using special software to encode data in transactions, namely the output addresses. You can only embed arbitrary data in blocks if you're able to mine a block (like Satoshi's headline in the genesis block and Dan Kaminsky's Ben Bernake ASCII art), otherwise you need to encode it in the transaction data.
Not directly related, but highly relevant: IE seems to be getting WebGL support: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/30/4165204/microsoft-bringing...
Shenzhen is the headquarter to:
Huawei
ZTE
Tencent software (largest software house, QQ rules in China)
etc.
It's also the center of GPS/Tablet/Surveillance...you name it.
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Dash app[1] is brilliant. It's an all-in-one place for language documentations. Very useful.

[1]: http://kapeli.com/dash
MacVim's pretty nice, but I've never had a serious problem with the Windows versions of GVim.
Your attitude isn't very appealing.

You should consider finding other ways to express yourself.
Holding Public Office
Back when SFPD was short staffed there used to be a billboard advertising $91,000 starting salary for new recruits.
Workers get "exploited" when they're poor and have limited options. Government "protections" can only make it worse.

For example, many illegal aliens in the US are exploited because they are prohibited by law from getting a job. So they can only get hired by the few employers willing to break the law to hire them. If it were legal for them to work, they would find better jobs.

Similarly child labor is only a problem when families are too poor to survive if the children don't work.

Minimum wage laws "protect" the least profitable workers from getting legal jobs, forcing them to get illegal jobs or survive on government handouts. To see this, imagine if the minimum wage were set just above your current wage. You would then be out of a job.

Environmental destruction happens because government restricts property rights and creates commons which belong to no one. For example, when the river waters belong to no one, people feel free to dump into it. As soon as the waters have an owner, the owner has an incentive to protect them. See http://mises.org/daily/2120
I am the lone Windows user in my office. I could use a post on how to go from Mac Development to Windows. Only half kidding.

I don't want to make this a Win vs. Mac thread, but I think it is important for both sides to understand there are things that are good about each.

The Mac guys get a closer to Linux environment, which makes much of the stuff that is happening on Web servers behave more closely in dev to the way they do in production.

Windows has a long history of dev tools, so there are some really great Large File (>4 GB) editors, memory inspectors, inspection proxies (Fiddler for example) which make my Mac devs jealous from time to time.

But I am routinely jealous of how easy it was when I was on a Mac to do installs of Libraries using Yum and such. Plus since we are a mostly Python Shop that is quite a bit easier on a Mac.

I am a long time user of Visual Studio, but there are a lot of great IDE's now so you do have choices, and because many of those are Multiplatform you do have more choice, even if your team mates don't share that choice. (Sublime, Pycharm, Eclipse)
The U.S. certainly didn't develop by undercutting China with cheap labor.
> The Pirate Bay?

Sorry, but TPB doesn't actually host any content.
I've visited SEG Market and saw people walking around with BOMs as if they were grocery lists, arguing with vendors over pricing and then walking down the row to talk to a different shop. Low volume stuff, like 1-3k pcs orders.
The IBM Cobol Structuring Facility (1988) [pdf]
I don't agree with this advice at all. That you are stuck with cmd is really all that needs to be said.

On the other hand, Cygwin's gotten to the point where it, plus mintty, are actually pretty good--Cygwin used to be a real pain to work with (I mean, bad) but it's improved by leaps and bounds over the last few years. You can get a bash or zsh shell that work remarkably closely to OS X or Linux and just about every tool you're likely to run into will work as you expect. Contrast this to direct Windows ports of your software, which are frequently compromised to work in the fairly deranged environment of the Windows shell.
Usually I dance
Spot on account of what pre demo day is like. Its been well over a year since demo day (W12), but reading that account was like reliving it all over as if it happened yesterday.
git diff | gvim -

Autocoloring is enabled by default. Green for newly added lines, red for deleted lines. Ctrl-F/Ctrl-B jumps forwards/backwards by a page. Do other diff tools offer more functionality than this?
From what I've heard, the video isn't a huge part of the application. They're looking for good startups, not good video producers.
It goes beyond zoning laws. China has maybe 4 classes of businesses: small businesses (which pay small bribes to local officials instead of following the rules), bigger businesses (which are gradually pressured to play by the book, depending on their size and who they are bribing), state-owned entities (which get the rules changed if they want to do something, but generally follow whichever level of government they report to), and foreign businesses (which have to do everything by the book).

So, it's probably illegal to run a business from a street-level apartment. But they do it anyway, because the government generally just says "no harm, no foul" (and some red envelopes probably get passed around). A homeless guy can buy a box of coke (or even beer), and sell it at a bus stop, and as long as he keeps on good terms with the local powers no-one would raise an eyebrow. He wouldn't get much business, though, because there'd be a guy with more capital doing it better and cheaper 10 steps away. In the US, he'd need a hawkers permit (which is usually literally impossible), a liquor license, a business license, regular tax returns, and so on.
What? Humble BundLe totally sold out their integrity after they let THQ sell their games with the Humble Bundle brand, without linux versions and with DRM.

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/the-humble-thq-bu...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/humble-thq-bundle-thre...
I got three of these. I need controllers like I need a hole in my head but hey, they are really really cute. A bit of trouble with the release that was on them but downloaded and burned in the latest and they were fine. Sadly no, I have not yet put them on a meter but will when they are near such a setup.

Something that sets these apart from the Raspberry Pi are that they full of easy access I/O, and two the Cloud9 IDE.

It is insanely fun to write javascript code in a browser talking to this thing wirelessly and have it do stuff. For me who likes to do mobile robots this is the really really great. I've got one of the old Rovio telepresence [1] things (its a mobile base with a Web cam and a WiFi link) and this board is going to be its new brain. The angstrom distro on it is very similar to the distro that the Chumby came with only a bit more stuff (Python, yay!).

The HDMI output is ok (its not 1080p so don't even think you're going to do XMBC on this thing) but nothing to write home about.

One USB port so get a hub, but on the plus side you can provide you own 5V power supply and that means you don't need a powered hub (unless you're trying to run high power peripherals). The Logitech Unifying receiver works well if you want to add a keyboard and mouse in one plug. (Now if that Unifying Reciever did WiFi it would kick butt)

All in all I think its a really good board. Nice mix of features. It will put pricing pressure on the Arduino Due I suspect.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/WowWee-Rovio-Enabled-Robotic-WebCam/dp...
does anyone know some orgs with deep pockets that would be willing to accept and host 30-50 terabytes of papers? I can't seem to find anyone that doesn't wuss out. I know it's risky, but it's also critically important.

Google?
The tone and diction of the article really struck me as odd and unusual.

1. The heavy-handed metaphorical comparison of YC to a summer camp: "During that time, campers, or founders, have regular meetings with each of Y.C.’s counselors, or partners," "The director of this camp," " basketball-court-size dining hall,"

2. "The Y.C. term culminates with Demo Day, or D Day." N̶o̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶c̶a̶l̶l̶s̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶D̶ ̶D̶a̶y̶.̶

3. "or persist and grow 'organically' — an unsightly word in the valley of silicon." - The correct word would be "bootstrap." - and it's a totally acceptable word in the tech circles I've been in.

EDIT: Ah, I stand corrected. I worked at a YC company in the past and I had never heard anyone (the YC founders I met) call Demo Day as D-Day. The snark is really uncalled for.
Do you mean TAM instead of valuation? That's a very strange way (if that's the only way) of defining a startup's valuation. Also, surely you wouldn't be angel investing in anything with a valuation anywhere near $1B, you'd never make any money.
Could you just set up 8 accounts then transfer bitcoins between then, with the chosen recipient indicating the value of a byte?

Obviously it wouldn't be readable to anyone who didn't know what to look for so it couldn't be used for spam/memorials/etc but it could store information.
It’s because of this power law: If a company has a 1 percent chance of being a hundred-billion-dollar company, then it’s worth about a billion dollars

Really, is this a power law? Looks to me like a simplistic application of expected value.
I don't think OpenSolaris is open anymore, maybe you're thinking of IllumOS or OpenIndiana.
Didn't pg say a while back that the video was the most important part?
Recent thinkpads recognize FreeBSD as an OS, and then promptly have tons of issues with poorly designed ACPI.
If you want to get laid

Zappa obviously didn't know about engineering school ;)
The ability to communicate is a critical skill in any company.

If none of the founders at your startup can write at a basic, clear level - YC applications are no works of literature - and the founders cannot hold a conversation (that tjeu prepared for) in front of a camera (let alone a spontaneous real life conversation), then the founders have no business starting a company that one day might have 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, or 1000 employees.

It is a common misconception that introverts have some fear of holding conversations and give presentations. An introvert is merely someone who doesn't necessarily enjoy those things and for whom those activities are tiring.
The biggest issue I see is with distribution.

For example:

I'm not a fan of DRM, but there's nothing preventing anyone from downloading the game and selling/giving away copies with ease.
The one thing that I absolutely cannot stand about my OS X workflow is that to this day, I still have not found a good hex editor. On Windows I used HxD, but there's nothing that really fits the bill. That, IDA Pro (I don't have an OS X license and from what I hear the OS X version isn't too spectacular anyways), and Visual Studio are what make me occasionally boot into Windows.
You can try it on FreeBSD-CURRENT...It's really night-and-day better than it used to be. Less underscores, and it runs about 20-40% faster than the old one even when "adding" software compiled from source (portmaster -day is almost twice as fast).
Weird. I use a Das Keyboard and a $10 logitech mouse. I've never had any problems with mouse or keyboard on linux, ever.

They have always 'just worked'.

Is everyone with these stories using some obscure hardware which requires propietary windows drivers and/or some obscure distribution or something?

I'm not trying to be snarky or dismissive, but I've been using Linux for the last 14 years and I've never had any of these problems people talk about with regard to basic input devices or audio drivers.. even when I went through my Gentoo phase.
> "but if you throw that away because of the flame title then you've lost that"

Yes, and rightfully so. I have no problems with the author's views, I have every problem with people being assholes and douchebags with each other.

I have zero qualms about missing the thoughts of people who haven't the least modicum of respect for their fellow man. I don't care how smart you are, at the end of the day intelligence, or being right, is not the measure of a human being.

> "you don't like the way they said it so you ignore what they said"

Yes. Like I said, presentation matters.

The antisocial, the arrogant, the whatevers of the world who cannot massage their thoughts into something worth communicating will rage impotently at the fact that no one is listening to them. Us nerds have a bad habit of letting this turn into a superiority complex, but no matter how superior you might feel, still no one is listening.

At the end of the day, we're each only on this lonely rock for a short amount of time. Many of us have figured out that we'd much rather be good to one another with our time than to spend it stroking our egos by seething with rage about everything.
Premier is great if you need a virtual assistant that is "fire and forget" without having to quibble with the precise nature of the work nor managing your own hire.
Can't wait to see Openresty benchmark with LuaJIT.
Not making any graphical assets?
I think you're being very hyperbolic. They were very explicit saying the games were Windows only and had DRM (Steam). It was its own isolated bundle.
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...and now I have to sign up for hang gliding lessons. I also developed a fear of flying suddenly (after having flown something like 250k miles).
Eliminating my trivial inconveniences building Discourse
The Trouble With Identity’s Late Arrival On Instagram
More examples:

http://www.csc.com/ Alexa 30,000 - Market Cap $7.1 Billion

https://www.saic.com/ Alexa 43,000 - Market Cap $5 Billion

And just a random one I've used that I knew would have a high Alexa given how their service works:

http://unbounce.com/ Alexa 6,000 - Total employees 20, total funding $850k (per crunchbase)

If you were to rank these three companies, unbounce would be on top and you'd be telling the CEO's of two companies worth a combined $12 Billion+ to stop whining and be more like unbounce.