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Asked his prediction on what the stock market would do, J.P. Morgan responded: "It will fluctuate".

I don't think so, looking around at my peers. In the US, you have the right to publicly funded counsel if you are arrested, so the advice might better be put, "Am I free to go? <no> Am I under arrest, or am I free to go? <you are under arrest> I am exercising my right not to speak with you and would like to speak with a lawyer".

Sorry, I should have been clearer: they are predominantly white. When I was last in each country, I didn't get any real sense of deep hatred of each other. Though there was some seemingly good natured ribbing about who was better at e.g. asado.

I don't see how this adds to the conversation. Also, Argentina and Uruguay have similar racial composition & as far as I can tell see themselves as the same people of the Rio Plata.

Case law (and now statute) affords a lot of discretion to management as to what is in the best interests of shareholders. http://everything2.com/title/business+judgment+rule

All non-citizens are photographed & fingerprinted by cbp when entering the US. Maybe that?

If you have a reasonably good+fast test suite and you integrate often, this isn't a huge deal. Just run your tests after using rebase.

If you have a failure, having a straight-line history makes it easier to do a bisect with your failing test and find the point of failure.

Unrelated to your issue with git rebase, but addressing another common complaint, git rerere allows git to remember and reuse previous conflict resolution so you don't get into resolution hell.

I don't think it's exactly money laundering.

It's like all theft. At low enough risk, the thief doesn't care what percentage of the value (of the $ charged) they recover. In this case, they are running very large CPU (not GPU) instances on someone else's dollar, not caring about the inefficiency of it because it can be automated and is difficult if not impossible to trace.

I also saw this in the wild today on a friend's aws account. Same instance size. Spot at $2. Just one instance fortunately.

The security group permitted SSH from three /24 netblocks.

Thank you. I also learned ruby with the ruby koans and was lucky enough to meet him through our local ruby community and eventually end up working with him. His other free and open-source educational work was git immersion: http://gitimmersion.com/ which you might like.

Also, here's one of my favorite practices to watch Jim do & to practice as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ronr_CG8x0Y

Thanks for the bug report, I'm opening an issue. Can you email me a screenshot? email address in profile.

Do it! It can be complimentary to this effort. Jim's educational work lives on and touches many people for free. See for example: http://rubykoans.com/ & http://gitimmersion.com/

You can contribute to these here: https://github.com/neo/ruby_koans

https://github.com/neo/git_immersion

[edited to be more constructive]

Posting this here because I thought the many people who posted here, on github, and on twitter might want to know that there is a scholarship fund being started in Jim's name to help pay for CS education. The fund is being administered by the Cincinnati Scholarship Foundation. If you're a ruby developer, you know who Jim is, and you use his work whenever you type `rake` or use Flexmock.

More information on Jim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Weirich

Sorry, I got locked out of HN by NOPROCRAST shortly after you posted. Sorry I misread you. Cheers.

I'm going to assume that this is parody? Poe's law and all. I know folks of various genders who love & find emacs sexy.

I'm friends with the person who made emacs.sexy, and that no doubt was an influence. He loves emacs & wants to share it with the world (while vim.sexy clearly has a big element of parody to it).

I'd forgotten about the awesome tron legacy article he linked until I saw this.

My experience was it was a lot easier to learn than various linux distros, at least several years ago. It has great documentation in the form of the Handbook, and its directory structure & the ports system are rational & predictable.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

A nice example of the growing startup community in the Midwest.

Not a counter to your comment, just a field report on Cincinnati, since you mentioned Ohio:

Supply of ruby developers is lagging demand, with two well-known and growing agile-development companies with a ruby bent (http://neo.com/ * & http://gaslight.co) & a host of funded ruby-based startups coming out of The Brandery http://www.brandery.org/ that are hiring at market rates.

It's an underrated city with great arts & entertainment, and an active community of developers.

* my employer

I previously worked on this project, and most of the devices we handle are not communicating over http. The goal is to manage long-lived TCP/IP connections.

That's cheap and hardly warrants a reply. "Mac Air" may not be the trade name of the computer, but it's not ambiguous and has no bearing on the substance of the article.

I would love to see other companies follow ThoughtWorks example here.

You set up and knock down a straw man. No one has suggested they subscribe to a "secret Muslim" conspiracy theory.

I used to run my own XMPP server (OpenFire) and had my DNS SRV records correctly set up so people could chat to me from gmail. I found that one major source of pain was that Google Apps for Domains customers couldn't chat with me. It only worked with gmail addresses.

Why? Because Google Apps for Domains customers hadn't configured their SRV records for their domains. Why? Because for these Google customers, chat "just worked" with all other Google Apps for Domains and Gmail addresses with no configuration.

Google supported and used XMPP federation, but seemingly "embraced and extended" it to make it "just work" within their network.

I stopped running my system when I couldn't chat with my clients and didn't feel credible telling them they couldn't chat with me because their working but misconfigured chat system was in fact misconfigured.

I agree with you that it speaks volumes about the optimism of the era. That said, Sagan & Druyan gave a great deal of thought to the "message in a bottle": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

CinciJS has hosted a couple great talks on backbone recently. Here's the other backbone talk, on performance, from our August meeting: http://blog.cincijs.com/post/28877033821/august-backbone-per...

Sadly the audio didn't come out great on this one, but the talk was interesting, and the gem is worth checking out https://github.com/gaslight/backtastic

With CSS pre-processors like Sass, you can use semantic classes and IDs (instead of, e.g. .span-4) and extend them with the rules you need from the framework. Doing this makes switching frameworks easier, makes your markup more meaningful, and reduces network overhead as you can just send the stuff you're actually using.

Might be worth noting that this post is 8 months old.

I'm currently working for a software company in Cincinnati, and few in the tech community here would deny the benefits of SV. But there's a lot happening in Cincinnati, and great, friendly, intelligent people doing interesting things. I work with people who are core committers on major open source ruby and javascript frameworks.

Of note for you or anyone who might stop by or live in the queen city (email in profile, too if anyone wants to get in touch):

Cincinnati Web Tech Drinkup: http://www.meetup.com/Cincinnati-Web-Tech-Drinkup/

Cincinnati Coworks: http://cincycoworks.com/

QCMerge, a web conference held a few weeks ago: http://qcmerge.com

Made in Cincy (launched days ago in the wake of QCMerge): madeincincy.com

I've lived downtown for the last few years, and Cincinnati is having a renaissance. People are upset about what Austin said because the jabs aren't constructive, are increasingly unfounded, and certainly weren't fabricated by video editing as the company claims in its non-apology blog post.

It's pretty strange to me that the very act of non-lascivious public nudity would be illegal. In more liberal parts of the world(and I would've guessed Portland), this sort of protest is considered protected speech.