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What made me roll my eyes while flipping through the presentation was the "in your face" attitude of inserting the images in the presentation to make a point. To me, the imagery exuded a certain lack of self confidence, but then again - big f'ing deal...it's not how I would get my point across. I see the insertion of the images as being a poor design choice and something that is not reflective of the larger community as a whole.
EDIT: Definitely off-topic, but does anybody have any experience with CouchDB/Rails? If so, what are the pros/cons...
I would add one more category of procrastination: doing something when the time is right. It's an idea I borrowed from "Zen and the Art of Archery" where the author was struggling with how to know the right moment to shoot so that his arrow will have the right trajectory. His instructor told him that "it" will shoot when the time is right (what I've written doesn't do justice to the lesson I learned in this simple example - so I highly recommend reading this ~96 page book).
Many might translate this behavior to doing it whenever I feel like doing it (or procrastinating), but most of these downtimes are spent thinking or designing in my head what needs to be done. It would seem that "it" has a life of its own in my mind and perhaps at the right moment, I am compelled by something do get "it" done. I must say that this is merely a model (that works well for me) about transforming procrastination from a negative to a positive.
I suppose my answer to the original posting would be that if I feel like I'm "type-C" procrastinating, then this can be remedied by thinking about the more important tasks that need to be done. Usually when the thought gets translated into action, the results are much better than if I forced myself to take action without properly preparing myself mentally.
I am definitely advocating that you develop yourself further and grow in ways you have not. But do it from a position of power, not because circumstances are such that it becomes an act of urgency, or worse, desperation.
I really can't agree enough with the earlier comment about discussing this with your wife. It's just as much her decision about where you guys want to live as it is yours.
That said, what's your urgency in having to make a life altering decision that impacts five people (including yourself)?
I've been an OSX devotee for a long time, and I feel your pain. I use forklift because it's relatively lightweight on the memory and it does what I need to do efficiently. I was thinking of going with PathFinder, but I decided against it because it was a bit too memory heavy for me. PathFinder has more features, but then again, I'm not looking for a command-line replacement...just a more convenient way of navigating through folders, copying things over, finding things...
Good article too!
My reasoning prior to today's announcement? The convenience of the deploy. The fact that I don't have to dive into Ebb/Thin/Mongrel and figure that out (probably easy for 99% of the people on this thread) means more time to think about other things.
It's also exciting from the perspective that I'm interested in seeing what the Ebb/Thin/Mongrel teams are going to do. Competition is great!
In relation to the comment to which I responded, I think it is a big boost to the Ruby community (especially the Rails community) that Passenger and Nginx are playing nicely with each other.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been so bombastic in my statement that the MagLev claims have "gone up in smoke"...that's just my response to the fact that they have demonstrated some pretty amazing stuff but are a little short on delivery.
To be clear Phusion's release today not only promises on a performance boost for Rails, but it also delivers it.
Everybody is 100% right in pointing out that technically speaking, MagLev and Passenger/Nginx are totally separate technologies to solve separate problems, but the goals are the same in my view (delivering better performance for Ruby apps). So I don't think drawing an allusion to the MagLev promises of increased performance for Ruby is unwarranted in relation to what it would mean to the Ruby community at large.
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I actually feel more at ease in the Karama area than in the Dubai written about in the article. Yes, it's a very poor area, but over there people don't feel the need to pretend to be nice to you.
The ability for a non-engineer to connect resources together to produce the device is a function of Moore's Law.
If TC is really worth as much as 24/7 Wall St. and others have speculated, then the marketing dollars are taken care of. Also, Arrington is well known and a highly resourceful individual.
I would never buy one of these because my tech needs, like yours, are a bit more "nuanced" depending upon my need at the moment.
Look at this as a "gateway" device for people that aren't as "hardcore" as you or I.
YC has more experience than you.
YC has more success than you.
If they turned you down, listen to the "why" and make the adjustments necessary to be successful.
Consider it a badge of honor that they even gave you the time of day. Take the information, feedback, advice, and rejection to heart and grow a pair.
Success is not static, it is dynamic.
Back to the main point: any "killer" of a community has nothing to do with the underlying technology, but the people behind the community. The only way HN would be killed by TC is if PG were to be the motivating force behind whatever it is that is going on at TC, and at the same time kill HN himself (unlikely).
I would sure as hell welcome whatever TC has to offer as a competitor to HN as this fosters diversity in thinking...and at the same time offer a second place to exercise the proper use of language.
Is PG moving over to TechCrunch?
I'm surprised at how many "experts" STILL equate technology with community...just tells me how many still don't "get it".