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I really hate using WinSCP for file transfer between Windows and the guest OS. If Windows shipped with a native sshfs-alike, I'd probably be ok, but I really prefer native Ubuntu development.
If a guy came in for a job interview wearing shorts, sunglasses and Axe body spray he probably wouldn't get the job either.

This is also for an internship, act professionally, act like a grown up, act like this matters. Clearly she didn't and is now complaining online and bad mouthing a company with good hiring practices.

Her gender has nothing to do with this.
The company being all male has nothing to do with this.

Her being unprofessional and everyone else being more professional regardless of gender does.
Looks like this is from a CS course at UC Berkeley on cutting edge web technologies: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs294-101/sp15/

Good talk from Pete Hunt on React as well. More talks from others will be coming in the near future.
> There's a good chance the tech world will change around them and the whole thing will come tumbling back down to earth.

What supports this claim? Yes tech and the tech world changes quickly but some of the core functions of running a business, such as effective team communication, will not go away any time soon.
Don't underestimate the stickiness to small teams. We did switch to Slack from HipChat (which was fine) and we love Slack. I imagine a deal of disappointment among the 6 people in our company if we switched to something else - especially something almost Slack.

Slack is one of the first companies walking around with a billion dollar valuation that makes me go... "Yeah, maybe..." We use it. We love it. It's mature, well designed, gets improved constantly, and is used by more local businesses I know than not. It provides real, actual benefit to our small organization above and beyond what we pay for it.

Slack, to me, is a real product, with a real revenue stream and real value to teams. I really hope they never get bought and acquired or rolled in to a larger organization. The app is a constant joy to use - I can only say that about one other program I use daily.
We just left HipChat for Slack and love it. The file sharing includes previews, the drag and drop to upload immediately is great. Search includes the content of uploaded files. Search on HipChat is a joke, IMO. It's more fun to use, and more intuitive for non-technical people.
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I'm not that familiar with Ubuntu Phone, but from a look at the docs I am concerned that it may have some of the same media issues (or at least the same variations between vendors). According to the architectural overview in the porting guide[1] their Qt-based API sits on top of some abstractions of their own, which then sit on top of stagefright, OMX, and Android's HAL (and thus Android's drivers). Not reassuring.

I'd personally be much more at ease if I saw ALSA sitting directly under Qt, but I can understand why they'd want to leverage the huge Android hardware ecosystem.

1. https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/ubuntu-for-devices/por...
This is from a dev standpoint but at my job we're using MySQL and I develop from Linux. When I want to browse or modify data with a GUI nothing quite matches OS X's Sequel Pro.

The best I've found is DBeaver (or SQuirrel). IntelliJ is working on a thing called 0xDBE, but it feels even worse.

I could easily rattle off a handful of other applications that just feel better, even if slightly, on OS X. DaisyDisk and Transmit come to mind right away.
You can't really be serious.
How much is a painting really worth?

It depends who painted it. It will also depend on the art collector. I'm not a big fan of Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' and wouldn't pay a dime for a copy. But I might pay $50 to commission an artist for a semi-professional sketch of one of my favorite TV show characters.

Few people would place the same value on the commissioned art. Most would consider it worthless!

What do paintings and music both have in common? Both are artforms. Both are heavily reliant on subjective taste. Someone might be willing to pay $15 for a Taylor Swift album but wouldn't pay $3 for a Slipknot album.

The problem with the music industry is they try to price all music more-or-less equally. All singles, regardless who made it, are about $1.00 nowadays. But are all songs worth $1? If an album has 10 tracks is it worth $10 or $12? Would someone buy an album if they only actually listen to 2 of the songs? Why buy an album for $12 if they only like $2 worth of the songs?

If I buy the song on iTunes how many hoops do I have to jump through to put that song on my Android phone? The distribution and control over the music favors the pirate.

Few people want to order physical CD's because they then have to burn/import the tracks onto their computer to access the music on their mp3 players/phones. But if they purchase the CD online, through iTunes, they don't actually own the music! They also get locked into the Apple Ecosystem (see earlier point about Android).

As for Streams vs Radio. Radio playing the song 16 times might reach 1,000,000 listeners in New York. A stream playing a song 16 times likely reached only 16 people (if only a handful more). So charging "per time the song is played" is not the correct model if the song is reaching significantly less amount of people per time played.

TL;DR
Distribution is the largest problem. The next largest problem is the market model. The last problem is art is inherently worthless and is only given value by a person - and that value changes per person.
Elon Musk has joked that one day he will merge the work of Tesla and SpaceX into an electric jet. I'm hoping we'll end up with electric-powered Star Trek shuttlpods with Falcon-derrived takeoff-landing thrusters.
I think your last sentence is the one you might have led with in your previous comment. Barley is perfectly good, prepared plain or in other dishes. It just isn't rice and anyone expecting rice and receiving barley would likely be horrifically disappointed. I know I would (and I love barley and almost never eat rice)!
And yet Slack was able to seize large portions of the market. Did communication just recently become a need?
this article does a fair amount of discussion on advantages. Basically it is quiet, has no on-site emissions, and is theoretically more efficient. They also go on to mention that it loosens some design constraints. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516576/once-a-joke-batt...
The phrase he used has a fairly well understood meaning, so of course the substitution would read differently. It would be an entirely new phrase. Different words/phrases have different connotations.
> the modern strategies to commoditize ISVs on iOS

What modern strategies?

I've seen this theory proposed multiple times, that Apple wants to commoditize software, but I've never seen anyone actually demonstrate ways in which Apple is doing that, just speculation that it would be in Apple's interests.
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I agree. What exactly would be changing? The parent's argument rests entirely on a vague claim that seems very undeveloped.
There was a study done on survival rates of acute heart patients, and the effectiveness of cardiologists. The data showed that when cardiologists were away at conferences, mortality rates went down 7 percent or so.

Yet the American Heart Association treated this study as a curiosity, and doctors deemed it only worthy of snide comments about using it to justifying conference trips to hospital administrators.

http://freakonomics.com/2015/04/09/how-many-doctors-does-it-...

As for science, the two examples I'll trot out yet again are Pluto, and kibibytes. Pluto, is of course, not a planet, yet many cling to the nomenclature simply because that's what they learned growing up. More relevant for HN's is usage of kibibytes for 1024 bytes and kilobytes for 1000 bytes. Uptake on replacing the more traditional usage is similarly slow, for some reason.
Today I learned that the Athenians were assholes, at least for awhile. Who knew?
There is still strong mutual coupling in the near field if the coils are mutually resonant. The magnetic systems uses a ferrite core to concentrate the field, and these need to be well aligned to achieve high efficiency. These are ferrite based:

http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en/inductors-coils-cho...

The near field systems rely on both coils being within about one radius of one another, and the coils are typically self resonant, but the smaller you make the coil, the higher it's self resonance, thus it's efficiency is lower. That's the issue with resonant near field coupling, the small devices like phones limit the coil size, and efficiency. Near field demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GransrkXd4
My team just gave up on Slack today, because push notifications seem too unreliable when we're on our phones. Paradoxically, we've found it works better when the app is not running than it does when it is running. Most of us are using Android phones. I couldn't find anyone else having the same problem, and I couldn't find any answers googling around, other than the obvious "turn on push notifications"-- push notices were definitely on.

We may go back to Slack at some point, if we can get it to work effectively for us.
There have been many before them, see Flowdock, Campfire, IRC, going back as long as we've had the Internet. What sets Slack apart is they've executed it better than anyone. They took the industry by storm overnight, it seems.
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> Yeah, you can follow companies, but "relationship" generally implies that it's reciprocal.

iD and Bungie both have a long history of heavy interaction with their customers. That's rolled off for iD, but Bungie's back-and-forward seems as lively as ever.
Actually, it sounds small, but the biggest advantage of HipChat over Slack is that HipChat allows you to change the background color of bot messages (like incoming exceptions, deploys, etc.). It is incredibly frustrating that Slack can't allocate an engineer to just do this. Slack's custom message styling options are virtually nonexistent. Yeah, yeah, I know we programmers shouldn't say "it will only take a few minutes," but come on!
did you noted that you said, free-to-pay, on both comments? nice typo, got me a smile.
Super Premium :-) I think the way we think about it here is: Azure "Premium" Storage as opposed to the regular Storage offering we have. Having said that, our naming could have indeed been better.

Disclaimer: msft engineer with Azure Storage
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Given the list of enemies of the great cetacean, i bet it has learned to threat assess in 360 degrees. At that depth the danger comes from all sides. Pretty interesting thought though; i wonder if more deep sea footage would show more creatures disregarding my desire to see them swim like airplanes fly...
It's more about what they don't do to help developers make money. A web search will find research papers on software ecosystems, which discuss best practices for mutually-reinforcing, virtuous circle, feedback loops between platforms and developers.

Stardock's 2014 report touches on related topics, http://www.stardock.com/press/CustomerReports/Stardock2014.p...
I've used both and currently use slack. I prefer the simple ui of hipchat to slack for sure.
In my area slack seems to be becoming the more popular chat tool but maybe I just have too small of a pool to be accurate.
That's what he said in his cameo in Iron Man 2 - "I've got an idea for an electric jet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuG2AVFB-g0
In this context, what's important is source-code availability to the general public. A program which has publicly-available source code but is released under a nonfree (or at least potentially nonfree) license is leaps and bounds better than one which doesn't even provide the source code.

Yeah, software freedom is a very good thing, but - in the context of security - it's the source code availability that matters, and that doesn't necessarily require a FOSS license.
I'm talking about the same code running on both 2.7 and 3.3+.
What Founders Should Know Before They Raise VC (and Why Magoosh Chose Not To)
How is minecraft free2play or free2pay?

Also, afaik LOL, TF2 and Dota2 sell content as micro transactions, not consumable cheats. I don't know if the same is true for Hearthstone, and i know this is true for WoT, but its lunch is being eaten by War Thunder, which also only sells content.
Ya, I really wish more good talks were converted into web essays, like what Bret Victor did between the Inventing on Principle talk and Learnable Programming essay. It is just easier for me to read things, skimming at first, more deeply later, than to sit through a video in one shot. But I'm getting old, I heard younger kids prefer videos exclusively.
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While weight is very important in electric aircraft, I was hoping to see an efficiency advantage as well (batteries weigh more than motors).

The top advantage of electric motors for aircraft is that they can fly at much higher altitude, therefore much lower air resistance, reducing energy requirements. Fuel-burning jet engines require a certain oxygen density to operate[1]. Electric motors don't need oxygen, and propellers/fans can operate even with very low air pressure.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_engine:

"The limit on maximum altitude for engines is set by flammability- at very high altitudes the air becomes too thin to burn, or after compression, too hot. For turbojet engines altitudes of about 40 km appear to be possible, whereas for ramjet engines 55 km may be achievable. Scramjets may theoretically manage 75 km."
Slack's valuation will make a lot more sense once they delve into the video chat and conferencing world, making their way further into the enterprise.

People need to understand that investment is a vote of confidence in the team, not just the product. What can this team accomplish with that investment? That's the question.
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Compare and contrast the experience of buying an iPhone with the experience of buying an iPhone app.

When you buy an app, you are basically looking at sales sheets from people you don't know making claims you can't verify. The only way out is to go find reviews about the apps from blogs you can't trust.

Now think about buying an iPhone. I've owned an iPhone for 8 years. I know intimately the support experience. I know intimately the build quality. Software quality. Product lifecycle. When a new iPhone comes out I have basically all the information I need to make a purchasing decision, without ever laying eyes on the actual product. People who don't have that information can go to a retail store where they can try the product and talk with knowledgeable and friendly people about it, and many of them turn into me in 8 years.

I want to be able to create that kind of experience with my products. Because if smartphones were sold the way that apps are today I don't think many people would buy them.
Cheesy with the added elevator music. Original link is better :)
Thats not really en explanation.

There are several reasons why they are doing well and they have much less to do with execution than with the right people getting involved.
I'm still unclear on what part of the App Store makes it impossible for companies to engage with their customers. I've played many Bungie games, but nowhere in the purchase process for any of their games was I encouraged to form a relationship with the company. Any back-and-forth with companies happens in channels other than the retail channel; twitter, forums, websites, etc. I don't understand why selling on the App Store vs, say, PSN Store, or Xbox Live Arcade, or any of the numerous Windows PC retail channels, affects the ability to engage with customers in this fashion.
Normal helicopters can autorotate to perform a controlled emergency landing if the engine fails. Quadcopters don't have that option.
Normal helicopters can autorotate[1] to a landing if the motor stops. A quad is unflyable with one motor out[2]. An octo can self correct for a single motor failure, and is still controllable with two motors out if you get lucky about which of the motors fail second.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation

[2] it's probably theoretically possible that a quad with reversible motors (or reverse pitchable blades) could be built to survive a single motor failure, but so far as I can tell nobody, at least in the hobby size quadcopter world, has done so (thoughI'd be surprised if the KMel Robotics and Pennsylvania University research teams don't know exactly how to do it).
You can have the demo experience you're describing by unlocking the substantial content as a single IAP.

It's not Hollywoods fault we got Transformers 3, it's the 50 million people who bought tickets to Transformers 2.
That's intentional. :)

There are 2 classes of f2p games:

free2play, which sell game content in small units. Characters to use, classes and equipment to unlock, etc. and they also make it possible to gain all of those things in a reasonable manner by simply playing.

free2pay games intentionally abuse the human psyche and subtly push people towards buying things that are at the core consumable cheat codes, and which are not available reasonably through normal gameplay. (They also tune the difficulty curve so this becomes only visible after the player has invested a lot of time into the game.)
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http://zee.aero/

http://www.jobyaviation.com/S2/
I take care of my elderly parents, who each have over a dozen different pills to take each day, and this kind of repackaging is really helpful; although I would have thought it's the kind of thing that drugstores already do.

(At least two of the (non-chain, family owned) local drugstores where I live already do this. For example,

http://findleyspharmacy.com/rxmap.html
)
A metaphorical suggestion that you have an axe to grind is a description of your behaviour, not a criticism of you as a person.

You obviously dragged your baggage into this discussion. It’s your baggage, drag it everywhere you like, but do not be surprised if you get called for ranting about feminist conspiracies in tech in a discussion that is not about feminism.

Sure, GitHub has taken some repos offline. Fine and good to suggest that it would be helpful for them to report on these things, in this or another report.

Excellent to bring up an example that matters to you personally. You’re invested in it, you feel strongly about it.

But the moment you started to talk about tech culture as a whole and some bias the industry may have with respect to feminism, you left the subject matter behind.
We also just switched from HipChat to Slack. We use JIRA and BitBucket, but had a difficult time with HipChat. It would sometimes drop messages and/or spontaneously disconnect.

I find it amusing whenever I drive by their Office Space bill board on the freeway and think to myself, "How many times will I have to send that memo through HipChat before the message gets through?"
Yep, domain looks parked to me...

You can access it directly here:
http://204.246.150.204/
I disagree about the MS part. I think Slack would probably do very well there. The enterprise market is where Slack is going, and MS is fully entrenched there. They also have a very developer-centric culture that some people enjoy.
I agree with artursapek. Part of their success comes from better execution, many in the enterprise space are starting to argue that superior design for end-users is more important than ever (https://twitter.com/levie/status/586265289748307969), and also the market is dramatically expanding as we speak as more teams are working remotely than ever before, caused by a variety of technological breakthroughs. Part of Slack is execution, another part is timing.
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He has also discussed it on stage at least a few times.
"Docker has a bad security reputation"

Ecept for ulimit, there is literally NO security improvement in this release.

Logging merely gives you a visibility - right, you get hacked but at least it's not painful to look for information, but I would really rather prefer not to get hacked due to the existing insecurities...
Heightist title.
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Very interesting talk, but being in the process of building a similar architecure at the moment, i think the person dismiss OT and other kind of merging technics a bit too fast. "Latest to write wins" isn't manageable in every case , such as google doc, or github. You sometimes needs locking and atomic complex updates for which a stack only built on top of mongo and pojo, and no other knowledge of the relations between data parts may be insufficient.

But i sure hope they'll prove me wrong and solve the problem in a generic way.
Good ol' Bobby Tables.
And the reason we got Transformers 3 is because the 50 million people will buy whats being made available for them and pushed.

Keep in mind that via Spotify's subscription model it's only something like 20% of the what users listen to thats chart music. The rest is outside the normal popular genres.

So it's a chicken and an egg discussion.
Slack only sends a notification if you're offline or away: https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201895138-Notifi...

The assumption is that if you're actively in the channel, you saw the item already and don't need a duplication notification on your phone for the item you just read.
And now to complete the conversational loop and point out the problems of categorizing demos via IAP, I point you right back to my original comment.
wow, I never heard of such thing --really interesting.

Also searching the web, I got no relevant result; is this some term you came up with, or are there more info somewhere?
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I hated the title, but not too many posters here seem to be bothered by it.

Either the BBC editor is woefully ignorant of the difference between airspeed and ground speed, or he deliberately chose a clickbait title.
Don't confuse price with value. A corporation is worth the discounted present value of all the dividends it will ever pay. That figure may not be knowable, but it does exist and in this fevered dream world can safely be assumed to be zero for almost everyone. The price, however, can be pretty much anything, reflecting what at least one person is willing and able to pay for it.
Slack is one of those curious tools that seems to take off despite doing nothing particularly new or innovative. We started using it due to some colleagues who raved about it. I haven't come across a feature yet that we've used that hasn't been part of IM / IRC clients for more than 15 years. The main feature of it seems to be that it's new, so when you first start using it only the 5 other people that you are collaborating with right now are on there, so it starts off feeling more productive and focused than other tools.

But then, I thought the same thing about Twitter (how is this not worse that every other IRC / IM service I've ever used?) and look what happened there.
Has the secret to breaking bad habits finally been found?
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A solar-powered sea-plane would be pretty awesome. Probably not enough range to cross an ocean in one go, but you just land, do some fishing, then take off again the next day.