dorkrawk

I was thinking about a product like this marketed at new parents. A lot of people like to post pictures of their kids but I can imagine situations where removing these pictures some time in the future would be really beneficial.

Imagine you post a bunch cute pictures of little Jonny as a toddler. Maybe when little Jonny is in high school he doesn't want classmates to be able to find every "cute" picture of him that his mom wanted to share with her friends and family. Obviously once those pictures are "out there" they're potentially out there, but something like this could help, especially for situations years later.

I saw that as perhaps a way to compare Atlassian (mainly BitBucket) to Github

Atlassian is to Github as Box is to Dropbox ?

This looks awesome. I love the ability to write on e-ink. But is flexibility a feature or a bug of paper? What is the benefit of a non-rigid e-ink display for these types of use cases?

[an optimistic thought] I feel like a lot of people might be overthinking the Facebook/Oculus integration. FB is a big company with lots of money that is still figuring out how to make money. Oculus seems like a company that could make money in a way that diversifies FB's income. Maybe if they just own Oculus and let the smart people at the helm do what they do best (I feel like Zuckerberg can recognize the smart people in charge of Oculus) it will just be a good company that earns money for Facebook so Facebook can keep doing what it does. I know Zuck mentions VR and social together in his post, but maybe he just feels compelled to justify the purchase in relation to what Facebook is known for.

I'm guessing that most of the guts of the software will work anywhere but polishing the frontend is a platform unique job. Github probably has a majority OSX userbase so this made sense for the initial release.

dave dot schwantes at gmail dot com if you still have an invite available. Thanks!

I think a big problem with environments is the balance between "having control" and "having to control". Sometimes just getting things set up to the point where I can actually do the work I wanted to do sucks up a lot of gumption.

Just because it's not from the The Onion doesn't mean it's not "The Onion".

I love the new Australus UI. I've been playing around on Nightly for a bit and I can't wait until that gets rolled into the main branch.

So what is going to happen to the $4.99/month "Web only" tier?

I know there was an SF Music Hack Day: http://sf.musichackday.org/2013/index.php?page=Main+page

Can anyone who's already upgraded comment on whether or not Mavericks has really improved battery life (and what hardware you're using)?

It seems like story is the punchline to an xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1055/

| Aren't you just being lazy? :)

I can't tell if this is a functional programming joke or not...

No, I think it boils doing to engaging with whatever you're reading rather than just consuming it. For non-fiction you can encounter the same facts as the author and reach different conclusions. Take something like Outliers, you can read it and say that his conclusions are too broad, but still get something out of the book.

I agree. If you judge a book by what you get out of it rather than what the author's ideas and motivations are you'll probably enjoy your reading a lot more.

Ahh.... I was wondering where all my new Twitter followers were coming from.

This might be a minor nitpick, but it always bugs me when Ruby on Rails is listed as a language, particularly by people who should know better (developers). There's even a section for frameworks on the site. People searching for code snippets should be able to understand that Ruby is a language and Ruby on Rails is a framework.

I just got mine, too.

So you think that a flying car could efficiently solve a traveling salesman's problem?

I would love to look at the code behind this work.

I've done this with Coursera classes. I just sign up for them so that they're always saved in "My Courses" and go through the video lectures at my leisure. I miss the grading and a lot of the live discussion, but the notes and lectures are certainly valuable.

That's not totally true. I've heard from several professional musicians who use Reaper ( http://www.reaper.fm/ ) and it sells for $225.

import random

if random.randint(0,1): (True,False) = (False,True)

What happens if I squander my basic income on something frivolous and I can't get a job? Wouldn't there still need to be social programs to prevent people who fuck up from just starving to death? How would a basic income coexist with current systems of debt?

Could this exist without VAST healthcare reform? What happens when people get (expensively) sick?

Who gets a basic income? Every citizen over 18? Every non dependent? Isn't a basic income for someone with 5 kids fundamentally different than a single person? Wouldn't a basic income even in the same state be vastly different (say Chicago vs Urbana in Illinois)?

This is certainly an interesting idea and I'm interested in people's thoughts on these and other details.

For those of you interested in GAs, I built a small Ruby gem to make building genetic algorithms a little easier: https://github.com/dorkrawk/darwinning

I think he's saying that a failed startup is like the end of your first serious high school relationship. It was your whole world for a while and when it comes crashing down it feels like nothing will ever be right again. But life goes on and if you're lucky you eventually look back and realized that you learned a lot and grew as a person and you've moved forward to other things that are now important to you.

Maybe the official responses by these major companies were about the same event were all reviewed by corporate lawyers who all hone in on very similar language and addressable points because it's a tricky statement to make and there are few ways to make it correctly?

Or how about this... There's a hidden pot and every user can only contribute the same amount of money (say $1) to the pot. This way, the value of the pot would more likely reflect the community consenus of issue value to the project.