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I was at her presentation of this on Wednesday and it was great to get a peek at how Stripe does their API development, since what they've built has been really impressive.

Reading this (or watching the video) will be well worth your time.

I wish GitHub would add more fine-grained permissions. Right now authorizing an app like this is giving away the keys to the kingdom and that's a little scary. For a similar reason we chose to run Hound (https://houndci.com/) locally instead of use the SaaS version.

Cool idea.

I can't tell from the screenshots: does it show changes across all branches in the repository?

Should you not feel like running this yourself, I Done This is a commercial version of the same idea: https://idonethis.com/

I've used it for a few years now and I am a fan. It helps me keep track of what I've accomplished each day and lets me look back over it.

HUD navigation could be cool, but anything that takes attention from driving like showing text messages is a terrible idea and should be banned. Distracted driving is incredibly dangerous. Even hands free phone calls are distracting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_and_driving_safet...

I read "Command and Control" on vacation this summer and I highly recommend it. It interweaves jaw-dropping nuclear weapon disasters from the whole nuclear age with a detailed account of one particular incident. It's astonishing how close we've come to accidental nuclear detonation (and then what happens?). That's really the point of the book: it's a matter of when, not if.

Yeah. You can get managed hardware (for example at Soft Layer) for a much better price/performance ratio than EC2. The upfront costs are higher but the price for equivalent hardware is way cheaper.

I think EC2 makes total sense for variable load (I paid like $0.25 to run some Coursera homework on a huge computer for 15 minutes and that was amazing) but if you're running something that needs to be up constantly and reliably (e.g., a database) EC2 gets expensive pretty fast.

I wasn't at RubyConf 2004 (back then I thought Ruby was some weird Perl-ish language from Japan, not worth my attention) but for my RailsConf talk I dug up some old blog posts about what it was like when DDH first spoke about Rails at that conference.

Jamis Buck was there: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2004/10/2/rubyconf-day-two

Francis Hwang: http://fhwang.net/2004/10/03/RubyConf-2004-Day-2

It's amazing how few people were there and how marginal Ruby was in 2004.

I think I mixed together the April 1, 2004 launch date and the circa 2002 internal development period. I'll update the date.

It fits in better with my thesis if it came out in 2004. ;-)

If you're interested in some of the milestones along the way and the context of web programming back in 2004 and 2005 when Rails came out, I made a timeline for my talk at RailsConf this year: http://www.recursion.org/looking-backward/

It was fun to research all this stuff. It's interesting to see how far back some of this stuff goes. For example, Rails gets much of its power from Ruby's flexibility. Ruby is heavily inspired by Smalltalk. The first research version of Smalltalk came out in 1972! The MVC pattern was also first developed at PARC, back in 1978.

Congrats to the Spark team. Sad to see the Twin Cities lose another IoT startup, but I hope this positions them in the best possible way for success. Welcome to San Francisco!

Very nice! Congrats to Brian and the Rollbar team for releasing a super-useful feature.

Anyone interested in this topic should check out the book "Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco". It's a great look at the history of San Francisco's transit network and the political battles that continue to shape it (usually for the worse).

http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fight-Politics-Mobility-Francis...

I just added "Difficult Conversations" to my to-read list. Thanks for the recommendation.

This looks like a solid release. Collections will make Jekyll a much better choice for a wide range of sites.

Absolutely. Outside the tech echo chamber, the economy has never recovered from the "jobless recovery" of the 2000s.

I read a good point about this somewhere: renting out an apartment on Airbnb is a good way to make money now, but the free market being what it is, that extra value will be captured by rent eventually. Landlord knows you can make $500/month renting on Airbnb? Add $500 to the rent.

Remind anyone else of the smart rifle in Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Fraction

I have tried to figure this out: is there any point to doing forward exercise and 83(b) election with ISO options, which is what most employees get?

I was hoping he'd drop in some reference that would explain it, like the take over of world government by Norway after the war (sort of like Poul Anderson's Tau Zero http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero). But I guess he just wanted it to be inscrutable.

Slow, dirty, delays/missing busses, infrequent service where I live, did I mention slow?

I ride my bike as my primary way of getting around. It's way faster than taking the bus (MUNI average speed is something like 8 mph) and I can leave work after 7:30pm (the time of the last convenient bus).

If you are unfortunate enough to work on a WordPress plugin, one of the nice features of this release is the ability to symlink plugins.

http://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/04/14/symlinked-plugins-...

This will make iterating on changes to a plugin much easier.

BART apartments in Dublin aren't replacements for apartments in San Francisco, but they would help workers get to work quicker, blunting displacement issues (Imagine riding the bus three hours a day for a $10/hour job.)

However, a vibrant downtown Mountain View with transit-oriented development at the Caltrain stop would be a good replacement for at least some of the tech industry people who commute down from SF now. But that train station is a parking lot.

Including capital gains in regular income taxes _would_ be a tax on wealth, though, wouldn't it? Certainly more so than it is now.

To avoid discouraging savings, the wealth tax could be progressive. The tax on the average citizen's savings is negligible but rentiers pay a substantial portion.

I think an inheritance tax is especially important to prevent the formation of generational wealth.

This is by far the most comprehensive overview of the Bay Area's messed up development priorities I've seen in one place. Kim-Mai Cutler does a great job stringing all the threads of the housing crisis together.

I don't think San Francisco can build its way out of outrageous rents alone. The other cities in the Bay Area need to step up and provide the type of urban housing close to transit that people want. No more surface parking lots next to train stations.

Congrats to John and the Runscope team!

If you haven't tried their Request Bin service for testing webhooks, give it a try: http://requestb.in

I don't expect this to be free. My point is that pricing should be clearly stated on the landing page for the product. You should have a pricing link or header, even if it just says "free for now, we're working on pricing".

The announcement blog post implies otherwise:

> It places the focus value not on our super-secret-source-code but on our handling of the hosting, billing, and maintenance of that source code.

The marketing site needs some work. There's no details about pricing that I can find and no information about configuring your own rules (I had to read the source code to see if that was possible). I am not going to sign up with GitHub to see either of those things, they need to be public.

Sociopath?

To the point of doing business under the purported employee's name! That's pretty low.