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Keep coming. I still have Karma you can down vote. It just shows how shitty this project is.

The documentation doesn't say this, but apparently, after you start mosh-server, it dies if there is no incoming request within 60 seconds. What is the point of the server if it is just going to quit after 60 seconds?

Keep down voting me as you like. The fact remains that Mosh is crap. If it works, it should just work. Otherwise, it is just crap.

I encourage people to uninstall mosh

on Ubuntu, sudo apt-get autoremove mosh

on Mac with MacPort, sudo port uninstall mosh

Well, same here. Obviously, the developer is on here trolling, down voting people for dissing their crappy project

For someone coming from other language background, including C#, JavaScript, Ruby, I find PHP absolutely unconventional, odd, unexpected, and inconsistent.

This is not a language, where you expect intuitively on what method to call unless you do a StackOverFlow search on existing problems, raised by others like me.

Yet, I currently develop a web app on PHP. Certainly, I can't wait to move over to Ruby or other languages in my next project.

The author is stating the obvious. But he/she has every right to do so, because PHP is simply not user friendly enough to programmer. If PHP truly targets non-programmer, they totally succeed in their goal.

No kidding. Too bad they don't have good documentation on server installation (just client)

That does not work. It seems to me that you need to install mosh server, which doesn't have much documentation at this moment.

I just installed the mosh client, and replacing ssh with mosh command alone doesn't work. By not working, I meant the error message is "/opt/local/bin/mosh: Did not find mosh server startup message."

Octave is pretty awesome. There is also R. Personally, I also do a lot of computing within interactive programming console (like irb, php -a, node). However, if you are doing symbolic expression, you can't go wrong with Octave

I no longer have a TI-89, but I recall there is a way to turn on text typing mode. If you want fully size keyboard, you may want to look into TI-92.

Maybe in Asia, this "taking care of elderly" mentality is strong. Here in States, I actually think that you are on your own is more true. You can't depend on your kids to take care of you. If you do, you can still end up being on the street.

In my view, kids are not investment. They take out much resources from you, and you do so willingly because you love them. As they get older, they may or may not show appreciation, depends on your relationship with them.

Kids are cool to have? Nah, I have too much emotional burden to even become a father figure. It is a lot of responsibility, and I bet the joy of having kids is priceless. Cool? not so much.

The experience of iOS 5 on iPhone 4 is pretty shitty so say the least until I figured out the culprit is iCloud. Some symptoms with iCloud enabled, include but not limited to, random screen freezes, random login freezes, and application switching freezes. Just lots of freezes thanks to iCloud

I wanted to make a purchase, but your web site is turning into a perfect infinite loop to PayPal. It just keeps trying to forward me to PayPal, abort, retry..abort..retry

Fix your code and you get the money?

I am almost sold, until I read that it only does WEP cracking... For $500+, WPA2 crack at minimum...

One little thing I should point out about the UI design is that there is a fine balance & trade off between visual effects and performance. Often times, it is also quite subjective.

Take Vista and Windows 7 for example, you see the aero Window edge is roundish (especially top two corners). Now take look at Windows 8, as it is pretty edge, not round at all. Do you know why? It is really because Windows team used at least 5 rectangles, all stacked together to form that roundness for Vista & 7. That means it is more GPU cycle time to draw these duplicated rectangles to give such pretty illusion. With Windows 8, I do welcome the edge/sharp corners, feel more clean and snappy.

Vapid or not, everyone is entitled to their opinions. If you can't accept that, you are not welcome on HN discussion either. End of story.

Simply stated, if HN is heading towards Reddit-like behavior where comments must gear towards "singular" minded thinking, that's the also the day I stop visiting this site.

Well, you can pretty much imagine how it went down. FBI caught up to him with threats like "eh..you are unemployed, and you still have two kids. You want to see them in foster care system?" ... well, no surprise there. too many buttons that FBI can push on this guy

No, if you pay good money for something, you expect the product has good feature to pamper its user. It is more true with a car where if you pay good money for a car, the car should take care of you more than the other way around. If not, it is not worth the money to buy in the first place.

Your way of reasoning is pretty much the same as when iPhone 4 first came out. You pay good money for something that shatters easily. At least, in iPhone case, Apple came out, admitted faults and tried to make its user happy.

The point is that the cost of repair an EV seems way more than a fuel-injected vehicle. It has nothing to do with stupidity

One key issue that Tesla PR accidentally omits is whether owners are still responsible for 40K replacement if battery does indeed fail.

40K replacement basically tells user that go get a gas-powered car. If a fuel-injected engine fails, would it still cost just as much to replace? How about a BMW? or Mercedes? or Lexus?

I am actually curious that if it is a fundamental design issue with battery, how are major car makers like Nissan handling its Leaf car?

If everyone bricks their car needs to pay 40K for the replacement, it would be outrageous and all over the news. Personally, I do think that Tesla could have done more to make sure drivers are fully aware of this issue before making their purchase. Otherwise, I wouldn't put my money in Tesla stock, as they are sitting dock and waiting for class action lawsuits

I would also love to see ASP.Net MVC 3 being compared with the open source free stacks.

I am actually more surprised that Yii is not all that fast as I expected.

Given that Symphony had such a huge buzz (aside from CodeIgniter), it is apparently the slowest..

Well, I would say yes, Linux has come a long way to be much more mature and much more usable than before.

However, up to this date, it is not without issues, especially on laptop hardware. Remember that Lenovo ThinkPad T400 from a few years ago? Well, the level of stability from a popular distro, such as ubuntu, has been quite up and down. One release (like 11.04), I had trouble with it booting up and playing nice with dual graphics mode. Today, with 11.10, it is much better. How about that shiny Acer AspireOne 722 netbook? You should check the online thread. There are still discussions about how to prevent freeze up and etc. All these little quirks here and there are the reason why I would still run OS X.

The problem with the way how OS X keeps data cached in the inactive memory is based on the assumption that you are going to re-use the same app within reasonable amount of time. With the current behavior/performance response (without knowing exactly how Apple engineers implemented it), it really feels like a giant garbage collection system that takes age to free up its own memory with no real sense of concept that if you don't use certain apps for day, chances are, it is going to take a long while before I use them again.

I am one of the devs out there running a Macbook Pro with 8Gig of memory (I wish I could have more but I have a 2010 old model). For web development, I have at least Firefox/Chrome/PhpStorm/SmartGit/Mamp/Thunderbird/Terminal/Notational Velocity/Dropbox/Alfred/Sophos AntiVirus open at all times. Now, a long the way, I may open a few other apps that I use rarely, like Photoshop/CyberDuck/VMWare Fusion/iTune/iCal/iOS Simulator/Preview/LibreOffice/Skype. Now, pretty quickly 8Gig gets used up, and the system runs to the ground shortly after.

If I then have VMWare Fusion shutdown for awhile, and relaunch later, the system really just can't take it anymore. The last resort? purge&

At least, that's my day-to-day experience with OSX. Personally, I find the memory management really lousy, worse than other other OSes I used in the past (both Windows & Ubuntu/Fedora/Gentoo).

So why the heck I use Mac still? Because of the driver support is still far better than Linux. With Mac, you are less likely in need of blacklist of some drivers because of freeze up issues.

Either way, I am definitely not a happy camper with the current memory management system in OS X

I think it has a lot more to do with memorization of all the little quirks on what works on what browser and what doesn't.

With languages like C#/Ruby/PHP/JavaScript, I find that I can soak up that knowledge better than HTML/CSS, because I find it consistent and organized (...not too sure about PHP's quirky API naming conventions). For CSS, it just seems like there is a myriad of tricks you gain through out the years, and I guess it just takes more effort to get good at it.

As someone with programming background, I actually wish there are more stories on the opposite direction (programmer who gets kickass awesome in UI design (HTML + CSS)).

I think that the complexity of CSS compatibility (what browser supports what not... even there are minor quirks between Firefox & Chrome, not just IE.. don't get me started on IE7 & 8 either), it is very easy to raise a white flag and say "that is it..I am going back to deal with backend only tasks, nothing that consumer will see on the surface).

Perhaps, OP already has a knack for UI design (as he/she mentioned in the post that he/she is a UI designer by trade before Ruby), so kudos for getting a nice grip on Rails. As for me, I wish I can master the UI design etc.

Now even the cached version doesn't respond either. Definitely interested in Rails, and hopefully, the site will be back up soon.

I use Yii myself, but I find that not so many people choose it over Symphony/CodeIgniter/CakePHP. I wonder if it is because of some bad marketing?

As a programmer myself, I would actually prefer starting clean slate with something new (especially for a brand new project), like ruby, nodeJS. Of course, you can stay in your comfort zone with what you know (be it PHP or even .Net MVC C#), but in the long run, the cost of re-writing logic, pain of scale and transition to another platform is truly a buzz kill. I would rather get the code on the right platform first, so that future maintenance is not merely throwing money down in the drain. Not sure about you, but re-writing sounds pretty lame and low efficiency to me.