kylemathews

I've used this plugin on a number of webapps. Works great! Very simple to integrate into my Backbone.js apps.

And "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" - http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Like-State-Institution-Universi...

I've made the same realization. There's something incredibly satisfying about having built something that others find helpful. That's where most of the joy of entrepreneurship comes from. Optimize for reaching that goal first and then move onto secondary goals like becoming a billionaire or changing the world.

The "American dream" is a perfect example of what jwz is talking about.

The american dream is "designed to help a small predatory class dominate a larger prey class" - http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/11/16/the-evolution-of-the-am...

Weaving myths to manipulate underlings to your advantage is a tradition old as time.

Why would you want to add 100-500ms of latency to every single DOM manipulation? Realtime means I click on something and something else happens, immediately, not a 1/2 second later.

All this to just save having to load jQuery in the client? Not sure I get the advantage.

As much as we all like Steve, I kinda doubt he was the only one with that insight.

Yeah, I read "The Theory of the Leisure Class" recently and have been rethinking the meaning of a lot of cultural values/activities so understand very well your dilemma.

In this case however, I think buying expensive hand-made knives is a pretty clear case of conspicuous consumption. They're not markedly better in any way over mass-manufactured knives that anyone can afford.

Your comment would be a lot more interesting if you add what those network-based applications are that you think Node.js wouldn't be a good fit for.

Yes, the new alt-tab window switcher is horrid for the reasons you describe. I gave up on it after a day or so and switched back to the older window switcher via the CompizConfig Settings Manager.

Any reason you didn't use Socket.io? I noticed you're polling the server every few seconds for updates.

Some details would be nice.

His font is that color because he was downvoted enough times that the Hacker News software hid his comment.

Not really. Frameworks, like the mentioned Backbone, let you maintain links to all important functionality - http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Router

Here's the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

mathews.kyle@gmail.com Thanks!

I'm a developer looking to join a startup that's working on problems that matter. I'm in Palo Alto. Contact me if interested.

I spent two years living in a foreign country learning a new language (my first foreign language) immediately before I started learning to program and it's always struck me how similar the two experiences are.

All good communication comes first from good thinking. Whether or not we can communicate in a certain medium (speaking a language, writing, painting, music, programming) depends entirely on how fluently we can translate our thoughts into that medium.

So good thinking + good understanding of programming concepts = good code.

Ok, double that 5 million then to 10 million (a very generous assessment of their time). It's still an incredible return.

Canonical (the commercial company behind Ubuntu) has hired a number of full-time UX and Mark Shuttleworth, the founder, recently stepped down as CEO to focus full time on leading product design and development. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/mark-shuttleworth-to-s...

I think this is evidence that there's a "real UX team" at work.

Chrome 12.0.725.0 Ubuntu 10.10: 293 + 13

Agreed. I get 240 + 9 bonus points on Firefox 4.0 on Ubuntu.

I was disappointed the Philippines didn't make it on the list. I spent two years there and they are ridiculously obsessed with learning English. Add to that the 50 years they spent as an English colony and they, as a nation, are exceptionally good at English. Even slum dwellers I'd find were often fairly proficient.

There's another Open Source News CMS with a ton of traction already Open Publish - http://openpublishapp.com/

"The Nation", "The New Republic", "Japan Week" and a bunch of others use it.

You did, it closes now almost immediately after opening.

The confusion is understandable as Development Seed is a leading Drupal company who've released innovative Drupal distros such as Open Atrium [1] for intranets and Managing News [2] a news aggregation / analysis system.

[1] http://openatrium.com [2] http://managingnews.com/

I think how Gmail handles the problem is they keep multiple instances of the server-side software running, one for each version of the API. From my experience, whenever GMail rolls out a new feature, I don't see it until I do a refresh and frequently that's what GMail tells me I need to do to see the new feature.

I haven't directly but I just happen to be staring at Pivotal Tracker which handles it pretty nicely. The do as you say and push a little lightbox which says "A system change has occurred requiring a refresh of this page. Please click 'OK' to reload Tracker."

It's not just bureaucracy + increased communication costs of course. At some point, it just becomes harder to find as many skilled employees to hire either because there isn't any left (a common problem when looking for skilled developers) or the really talented people are looking for smaller/younger companies where they can get outsized returns.

I'm getting a segmentation fault on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.10. Anyone know what's going on?

Edit: Removing the ~/.Sublime Text 2 folder fixed things. The segmentation fault only started after I restarted my laptop.

Nope, that's the actual title of a later book he wrote to provide a visual condensed introduction to his ideas.

http://www.amazon.com/Medium-Massage-Marshall-McLuhan/dp/158...