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My first week of MBPr 15"
It's my first week of using MBPr, and also I use MBP side by side. I love the text rendering on MBPr the clarity of words is beyond words. However, I am annoyed when it comes to Images, And I have no clue how this issue is going to be fixed, I had a tiny logo for my site 33x33px and doubled the size of it 66x66px and set the width to 33x33 and it now renders gracefully on MBPr, But hey! why do I have to do that, ---- my logo is not the only image in my site, there are a lot of images, some of them could be made larger, but some of them I have no control over. Like I fetch user avatar from Twitter API. ------ but the point here is, it's not prudent to scale images and re-engineer everything..... And I am reaching to the decision to question Apple, was Retina really required at all. Because as I said i use 2011 MBP side by side. I was more than happy with the rendering of text and images..... isn't this a mess? Images are terrible on MBPr period. And in order to fix them, web developers have to re-engineer everything, as I had just started to grasp responsive design and on top of that retina images now....?.... Looking forward to your feedback, unless there is something I am missing here.

PS: Please excuse my english, I actually can write it very good, but I am just in procrastinate mood right now. ;)
I've been working remotely for a while now, after running a consultancy out of an office for a few years. Personally, I think it boils down to whether you trust the people you work with, and you create the necessary conditions for them to excel regardless of where they are. It really shouldn't matter where you are, even though face-to-face time is indeed important from time to time.

I'd love to know what pain-points you found.
So what happens is Norway's sovereign wealth fund wants to buy a kagillion shares of MSFT (or whatever). In the good old days they could probably complete this transaction before the price went up too much. Now, thanks to HFTs, this additional demand is noticed faster, the prices rises faster, and it costs Norway more money. So, bummer for them.

But great for you! Because maybe you're the guy selling MSFT shares to them. You get the benefit of the price rising faster.

The market is more efficient. Norway can no longer take advantage of the fact that it knows that there's all this additional demand (originating from itself) and it takes a while for everyone else to figure that out.
I think working from home at will would be the best of both worlds. Come in when you want to collaborate in person, stay at home when you need to work undisturbed.
I honestly don't know how this works. I mean it's really very difficult to get someone to work remotely with the same dedication and passion. I find collaboration extremely difficult. I mean if there are 5 rockstars working on a project, then sure, remote working will do fine. But if we talk about a decent workforce, there is a lot of handholding required. I don't know how it's possible remotely.
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No, oh god no. Bell doing it means Rogers and Telus are not far behind. Which means Shaw will jump in too. This should be opt-in rather than out-out. Well since majority of online websites are tracking users, so it was impending decision I guess, all in the name of relevant ads. I am surprised they were not doing so already.

The data trove will be massive, since bell (rogers and telus) controls TV, Mobile and cable. The data aggregation from these 3 mediums will be very accurate, if they decide that data from other business arms should merge. Scary, since literally among Robellus 90% of Canada will be getting tracked.
Work remotely it's good when also the big percentage of company people works remotely.
Anyway, I buy the book
Definitely not good advice, regardless of what language or framework you're working with. If there's a solid migration tool available, it is definitely better to use it.

Aside from being a great habit to get into, South (or whatever other migration tool you want to use) will keep your database consistent and predictable to the framework. If you add or alter columns on your own, you run the risk of slight differences between what you've done and what the framework would've done left to its own devices. You may not have done anything wrong, but you don't want that inconsistency.
So the url will be in the page source? Even when the page is on incompatible software?
It's supported natively by Safari, Mac OS and iOS. And it's not a hack, it's a specified protocol that a few media companies seem to be taking up now.
Thanks @sherm8n, great advice.
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Hi, we wanted to get some feedback on our initial MVP (we tried to keep it simple) and more importantly, which direction we should take with this? We're trying to figure out which features to do next.. thanks for checking out!
I'm kind of interested in the meta story around this remote campaign. Assuming 37 signals is doing this book at least partially for money, they're making a play relating to a trend using themselves as the model of what works.

Is the target audience employees who work remote or want to, or is the target market managers who need to understand remote employees?
> Legendarily it was HP (or was it sun?) who shipped a whole batch of ethernet cards accidentally in the 90s with the same MAC address, boy was that a nightmare to figure out the hard way.

Sun used to use the same MAC address on each port of their QFE (quad fast Ethernet) cards. It was easy to fix with ifconfig, but always made me wonder two things: a) if I number these ports sequentially (:a, :b, ...) am I going to collide with some other QFE card from the same batch, possibly from this same order of a dozen cards? And b) who thought this was a good idea? Was Sun just conserving MAC addresses on the theory that most QFE cards are 75% underutilized??
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I abuse Amazon Prime to no end. I live in the boonies and don't have a car so they're actually my lifeline. Bought a pack of 50 machine screws the other day and including the free 2-day shipping to my door it was only $1.35. Unbelievable.

But I am glad Amazon is raising prices. I don't want them to falter and hope they continue what they're doing. I'd be screwed without em.
Now you are being ridiculous. If you go that far, there is no property without government - you don't even have more right to your heart or aorta then any other person or animal trying to claim them.
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That doesn't address use cases. A Dashboard is the first thing a user sees. If it's not, you're doing it wrong. Furthermore, in-depth slicing & dicing of data, manipulation, etc, should always be done in bespoke screens, not on a dashboard. Combining that stuff with an analytical view that the dashboard provides leads to kludge. Every single time.
The control plane is on top of ZeroMQ, to allow for various arrangements of components as well as the ability to observe the flow of inputs/outputs.
Python has had a good installer forever. The only difference is that it wasn't centrally mandated. If you need something to be centrally mandated in order to use it, I feel for you.
It works great if everyone in the company is hugely accomplished and if the product of the company is in essentially permanent use by everyone who works there.
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> If you think about it, self-financing out of profits is a smart way to go about this empire building.

Just a nitpick: they're financing out of surplus cashflow. Profit is what's left after everything else (including investment expenditure) has been subtracted from revenues.

It's always worth studying both the income and cashflow statements. They can tell you very different stories about a business. People are particularly fond of getting stuck on looking at the bottom line of the income statement, when most of the useful information is sprinkled around the rest of the accounting statements.
Dedication and passion are most definitely not tied to where you are. If you're unhappy with your job, you won't be passionate; you won't be dedicated. You'll be miserable, looking at the clock, regardless of where the clock is.

If you need handholding, you're hiring and working with B-players. Not everyone is going to be able to hold its own initially, but after a few weeks on a team, you should be independent enough that people don't need to look over your shoulder.
This is blatantly untrue, pip installs wheels. eggs are dead, easy_install is dead. let them die. We are talking about Python 3.4 here, after all.
That's a good point. I'm not arguing against 37Signals' philosophy, I love a lot about what they espouse. However we have to keep in mind that they are only 37 employees, give or take, right? This doesn't necessarily work when you have 1000 employees.

I know we want every one of the 1000 employees to work 100% even when working remotely, but anecdotes don't necessarily translate into what actually works efficiently.
Not really. I'm glad I get to see my daughter grow up while working at home, but it's so much more than that. I don't have to deal with office politics or anything like that. Last office I worked at had a somewhat dress code, I'm glad I can now wear shorts. There is no impromptu meetings, and no annoying coworker stopping by my office at horrible times. I set my own schedule around when I'm most productive. I've worked at home for 4 years now and wouldn't go back to an office job without at least a $20k raise.
Something related to golang would have been called golangular ;)
Some people enjoy working remotely, others enjoy going into a specific workplace. Not sure why this is such a contentious argument every time.
This one has LTE; Surface LTE is just rumours at this point, AFAICT.
I wonder if their affiliate program ("Amazon Associates") is next?
Hoping it will appear in Android 5.0. Six months or so should be enough to implement this, right?

Also, they should probably acquire these guys, too:

http://www.genymotion.com/

The emulator is also one of Android's longstanding problems, and it would be nice if they fixed that once and for all, too.

I'm also hoping that with the arrival of powerful ARMv8 hardware in the couple of years, maybe they'll make their SDK for ARM, too, so it doesn't even need to be emulated in x86.
...keep telling yourself that.
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I would love to hear more about how various companies handle this logistically. Like how they allow access to company data and resources. I'm assuming simply using VPNs is the standard? Where I work they make it so unbelievably painful and difficult to work remotely. You have to jump through a million hoops. It's a financial company, and generally "compliance" gets the blame for this. But I wonder how much of it is just plain paranoia. Do a lot of companies worry about things like leaking source code? Or client/customer data? Or do most companies put much more trust in their employees?
Really, 10.9 just fixes two regressions that worked perfectly fine in 10.6 and were dutifully broken in 10.7.
That's unfortunate. Of course, the ideal is a well distributed gender ratio, but real people look...real. And it's usually pretty obvious when this sort of "whitewashing" is happening.
That would not be an inaccurate guess.

Other useless trivia is that our grandfather is the T in http://www.cmtengr.com/.
It seems like Lasership is basically "some dude with a car". If you start measuring metrics in that situation, it tends to lead to people lying, like marking a package delivered when it isn't. Only 1% of people will actually complain.

http://www.lasership.com/contact-us/independent-contractors
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Can PHPStorm be considered a full fledged IDE?

I kind of think a full fledged IDE should be capable of multiple languages. e.g. Ruby, Python, HTML5, etc. all in one package.

PHPStorm is a specialized IDE.
Thanks to Yahoo's crackdown, I think working at home has gotten a bum rap lately. I work at home, and so do my 4 employees. It can let you build a great a lifestyle, and help small businesses hire talent where ever they can find it.

In my case, I traded the city for a modest home on a beautiful lake in rural Minnesota. It also lets me be near my autistic son who attends online public school (school at home is another digression, but off topic).

Yes, there are challenges, like deciding if today is a shave day or not.

All kidding aside, working at home is tool that great companies with great employees can wield effectively to obtain excellent results and acquire talent they can't find locally. Companies, like Yahoo, that don't understand this are not great companies and probably never will be.

Long live working at home!
Heh, most such open source projects don't want to "go commercial", that's the exact point. And I'm not sure how RedHat is exactly "an open source project who went commercial" or rather a commercial company doing open source.
This is wrong. The tax will just be passed on in the form of increase spreads.

It's like saying that if you add a 1% tax on food that all grocery stores will go out of business because their margins tend to be really small (around 1%). Clearly that's not what actually happens.
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my intuition says that managers tend to not like remote employees, where as employees tend to like working remotely. or at the very least, having the option
It's a magical time to have been born in a western country, but then that's been true for a while now.

By "every individual wields great power" you probably mean those with access to technology, relative peace, and education. War hasn't gone away we just don't fight them at home anymore.
It's like org-mode, but without all the emacs! :)

I actually was just discussing with coworkers how I wish tools around org-mode could actually create an "editable" final state that didn't require emacs. I've been introducing iPython as a way around this, but I've been disappointed with forcing everyone into using python for our analysis work.

Only one of my coworkers really uses emacs, and so sharing perf data and analysis quickly has mostly become iPython.

This gives me hope!
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Another awesome resource for Django Screencasts is Neckbeard Republic.

https://www.neckbeardrepublic.com/tagged/django
The competition is getting intense but new themes are often able to gain footing on the frontpage. Genyx, Genius, and PIXMA are examples of themes released in the last few weeks that now hug the top half of the frontpage.
I don't have time to research the numbers right now, but from your quote it sounds like 1870 to 1900 it did enjoy some 80% control. That's long enough to be considered a monopoly for most purposes.
That's what has always annoyed me by the term financial aid. For the student or parent, they hear it and think "free money". Whereas once you start talking to the schools it ends up meaning a bit of free money and tons of loans. I'm years beyond university, but I do wish they would separate the two into financial aid and educational loans. It would give students and a parents a more accurate expectation of cost.
However, hardware support for WebM is very thin on the ground; the Tegra 4 is the only mainstream shipping SoC to have it, and the Tegra 4 isn't _that_ mainstream. That Android support uses the CPU, and thus hits the battery and performs poorly on older devices.
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Amazon goes even beyond this; for a lot of products they have a negative operating cycle. They can sell an item, hold the cash, and only pay for it later. Usually companies must internalise the risk and cost of buying stock before they can sell it.
If one user beats the interbank rate, that implies that the other side of the trade lost out. The same number of customers who 'beat the market' also lose out by definition, so I think that's something to be wary of marketing.

In any case, my 1% assertion seems to be correct judging by a €600 purchase compared against FairPay (£513.73 rather than £519.26).

Incidentally, is your name inspired by Betfair?
That just explains the appeal of Keynesian economics to corporations and the government. The problem is that we kinda need to worry about the long term affects of things, because not doing so is what got us in our current mess with the environment.

Dealing with the short term is really appealing, but it typically has the worst long term affects.
The chart in the sidebar says it all:

http://imgur.com/edKyuSE.png

as long as Amazon are able to generate that type of return on investment at that scale then they should continue to reinvest all their money back into their businesses.

The alternative is to bank the money, miss out on the next AWS or Kindle, give nearly half of it to the tax man, leave 60%+ of it offshore waiting for the next repatriation tax holiday, and only then get a return back which you will then invest in another stock that isn't returning as well or just buy more Amazon stock!

Google, Microsoft, Apple et al wish they could invest their cash as well - instead they have to listen to hedge fund managers lobby them for buybacks/dividends etc. because they believe they can invest the money better than Google, Microsoft, Apple can.

Given the option, i'd re-up with Bezos every year, his ability to innovate, invest and return is staggering and proven.

I really think of Amazon as an investment vehicle (like Berkshire) for web commerce with a strong umbrella brand.
you should take a look at http://neckbeardrepublic.com/ as well. one of the pycoder's guys does it.
My only problem with terminal and vagrant built into the IDE, is I have multiple monitors and enjoy separation. I usually fullscreen my IDE/editor in one monitor, maximizing each file's viewport to the best I can, and then have multiple terminals on another monitor.

Can I "pop-out" the terminal/vagrant windows in this IDE and put them on another monitor?
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My understanding is that by 11am Knight was clearly bankrupt, so there was no further point in staying at the office.
It comes with downsides as well in the sense that it's a very rare privilege. If your company decides one day to let you go , cancel work-at-home privileges or simply goes under, your life is going to suddenly become much, much harder, especially in the case of people who, like you, took this opportunity to move to a very isolated area.
What I like about everytimezone is that a single access provides all information I need, no interaction required.

As for the design, I appreciate the work of Amy Hoy. She also did a great job with their time tracking app: letsfreckle.com
For the last ten years I've been working from home two days a week and commuting to the office for the other three. Works well for me.
The merits of remote work aside, you have to hand it to 37signals for masterful marketing.

They have a set of beliefs that they tell powerful stories about, in various mediums, to people who already believe or want to believe these same beliefs.

And in this context they also offer products that make things like remote work collaboration easier. But you're not even bothered by that, because they are clearly experts at doing this well (they wrote a book about it and are doing it themselves) so it all just fits together.

It's thought-leadership in a very practical way. A lot of good lessons to be learnt.
I suspect they have a yet to be announced product which is targeted to teams working remotely. They are slowly building authority for why and how working remotely works.
This is brilliant, thanks for posting! Also, the best times to send an email and ensure a response is from 9pm-12am, and during the weekends. Learned that from another article.
My decision: For the book [1] I chose Zurb Foundation. For the RailsApps example applications [2] I intend to support both using the Rails Layout gem [3].

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/909377477/learn-ruby-on-...

[2] http://railsapps.github.io/

[3] https://github.com/RailsApps/rails_layout
Don't most companies already anyway use web-based SaaS solutions, so no VPN's needed except for legacy systems?
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Reasons not to buy from amazon:

https://stallman.org/amazon.html
Will never happen. But if ever, the Swiss design is imho the best one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Swis...
Add-On items are items that are not economical enough to be in the Prime program by themselves but can be thrown in a box already on it's way to you. Without the Add-On program they would not be Prime shippable at all.

Therefore Add-On items are just an improvement to Prime.
I love that 37signals is doing this.

The big question is how much does this scale? I hope this is addressed in the new book.

Having less than 50 employees allows the flexibility of doing many things differently. I would argue that this is one of them.

I don't know what the magical number is for size of a company where working remotely becomes a negative investment.

The bias with 37signals is very strong. They actively seek talent and find people that are not only able to work remotely but enjoy doing so. It also works well to have staff that can work 24 hours across time zones.

How relevant is this to a company with 1000 employees that is not technology related? I can't really answer that definitely but to say that based on my experience, not too much.
The tech side is great. The wages side... not so great.

Also, it's not a "sharing economy" when people are selling things.
I disagree. Most new employees need some sort of on boarding. When you join a new project, you'll need some sort of on boarding. Usually there's one or maybe two tech leads, and then a handful of junior devs. It's part of the companies responsibility to train them up. This isn't to say they're not dedicated or passionate, but when you're putting in 60 hour weeks bug fixing or implementing small features here and there, you run out of time to go read some books about your development language of choice. New employees ask lots of questions their first 6 months or so. It's just the way it is.
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* Not really. I'm glad I get to see my daughter grow up while working at home *

Have you tried working with home without a family? I'm getting good gigs but they are all remote. It's has been a rough time since I socialize really little.
Flagged because condescension is not an argument nor is it constructive.
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We shouldn't specifically criticize Yahoo, or read too much into it: It was (and may still be) a completely dysfunctional company where, it seems, a lot of employees had simply accepted the slow ride into obscurity, where relevance came only "by default" (I still can't believe that Yahoo is the most visited website). Mayer essentially hit the reset button to regroup and figure things out again, and she has specifically talked about her action having little to do with actual remote work, and more to do with trying to get the organization back on track. Sucks for the employees of Yahoo, but, to put it bluntly, they were the employees of Yahoo. So long as you work for someone else, they get to make those decisions.

And her action then kicked off many others to read way too much into it, usually to springboard off for their own interests. Mediocre managers who have no clue what their charges are doing, and can only manage suffering, for instance, all cheered and forwarded and linked.
I tried it. The top "publish" and "preview" buttons didn't show up till I expanded the window.

The editor is decent although if you are using emacs like key bindings cntl-y should "yank" or paste (it doesn't).

I made a simple page with a photo I took of YoYo Ma.
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