oddevan

I'll second your point about doing work that you believe is important. I'm nowhere near as experienced as you (only 28 here) and I've only got two jobs to compare, but I can easily pinpoint the biggest difference between the two: the first job was a corporate job that was a struggle to work at and be motivated at. The second (and current) job is one at a small organization that has me working directly with the people who are using my work. In other words, I'm talking to and working with the people I'm ultimately working for (the users) and that is the motivation I desperately needed and couldn't get at my last job.

OP: If it is at all possible, and I mean AT ALL POSSIBLE, try and find a job that you will be motivated at. There comes a point where you have to take care of yourself in order to take care of others, and it sounds like that point is coming soon for you. If you can't get out (or even just in the meantime), try and do something in your spare time that is fulfilling. It can be programming your own (unrelated to work) project, it could be getting out and enjoying nature, it could be something completely different (writing music and stories are some of mine). If you can't get that enjoyment during your work, try and get some of it on your own time.

Do you have a link to a live demo?

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Currently I'm using a local Wordpress install and a static site plugin and I'm getting kinda fed up with the gotchas. (Detail and links at http://www.oddevan.com/about ) If this does what you say it does, not only can I automate the deploy process, I can move over to Ghost (which I'm already using for its superior Markdown editor).

Is there anything more modern that also does this (generates flat files from a database that can then be uploaded/served statically)?

There is also a WordPress plugin for generating static pages to upload later, but it's got a lot of gotchas and doesn't seem to have been updated recently. I'm using on my site.

http://leonstafford.com/wordpress-static-html-output-plugin/

This feels like irony. Is this irony?

This. So much of this.

I see real value in using App.net as an identity provider so that I'm not relying on something shaky like Twitter or Facebook but I can still get the benefits that come with an external provider (lower signup friction, 2-factor auth for users that want it, less overall damage if site is hacked). But (a) their marketing is so weird that I don't really know that I can do that, and (b) their onboarding for end users sucks, so I'm losing people telling them to sign up through them.

> I wonder why it wasn't this way from the get-go

As I saw it, GitHub was trying to see if it could become a business. Developers will pay decent money (as in "desktop software" money, not "mobile app" money) for a quality text editor.

I wouldn't have blamed them for going commercial, but I'm happy to see them releasing this to the community. :)

I agree with the clarification that "it's a technology that never got a share of average users aware that they were actually using it." Plenty of people subscribe to news feeds in Twitter; what do you think the backend technology is supplying them? Podcasts have also been mentioned.

People don't use RSS the same way that people don't use JSON: they don't know or care about it, but it's a key component of many of the services they use every day.

Agreed. The OP's point seems to be that he's asking for a high-level overview of what Phone Call Guy wants to talk about, but Phone Call Guy is pushing for a phone call. There's at best a mutual disrespect, and at worst Phone Call guy is being solely disrespectful since OP said (multiple times) that he wanted to get an idea of things before the phone call.

I'm at a school. We've got hardware for VMs but zero budget. I was/am tasked with getting a basic Git server up-and-running, and GitLab hit the necessary points of (a) running on a Linux VM (b) having a GUI for Git and (c) being free.

I could see us using GitHub further down the road after we get some best practices in place and start using Git more, but for the time being GitLab is an excellent way to test the waters, especially since the GitHub Windows and Mac apps will work with an arbitrary 'origin' URL.

And I don't get a picture at all with a $50 amplified antenna. The local ABC affiliate hasn't put any transmitters in my area, so I'm SOL without cable or a service like Aereo.

(more info: I'm in Greenville, SC, which is part of a TV market that covers a large, mountainous area and has 4 cities in it. The stations actually based in my city (NBC, Fox) come in very clear; the stations based farthest from my city (ABC) don't come in at all.)

I've starred your JWD project. Always on the lookout for a good writing program. :)

Based on some informal research I did ~10 years ago (i.e. I ready the LGPL as a high school student), the LGPL requires, among other things, an end-user license allowing reverse engineering. The LGPL isn't just "my code is GPL, the rest of the program is whatever"; it puts forth some requirements for the entire finished product that are either impractical (must include source code) or illegal (would violate NDA or other license terms for the console libraries) for console games.

> Ok, so do users really rely so heavily on Ubuntu One? If so, then why do you shut it down? If no, then why do you say they rely on it?

From the article:

> Additionally, the free storage wars aren’t a sustainable place for us to be, particularly with other services now regularly offering 25GB-50GB free storage.

In other words, they can't compete with Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, Google Drive, and whatever flavor of the week is next week. It's a distraction, so they're focusing on making the OS better and getting out of the cloud storage business.

They can probably tell that there are people who rely on it (active usage logs and all that), and to those people this is a Big Deal. But those are also the people that would be underserved by U1 going forward, so it's best if they get out now.

> Pushing to production shortly before going home is a separate issue to whether he leaves on time or not, a developer leaving on time should be expected, a developer pushing breaking changes and leaving should not.

This. I strongly believe in finishing what I've started and not leaving things broken. I also strongly believe in work-life balance which to me means working hard until 5 but leaving then.

EC1: If you're confident that your work ethic is sound, then there sounds like there's a significant culture mismatch here. I know it's not easy to think about going somewhere new, but you may have to consider that sooner rather than later. I honestly wish you the best of luck no matter how this shakes out.

Currently I'm using WordPress with a static site plugin ( http://leonstafford.com/wordpress-static-html-output-plugin/ ) -- which is not simple (too many gotchas involved) -- and uploading the result using Cyberduck ( http://cyberduck.io/ ) -- which is EXACTLY like using an FTP program.

So my recommendation is something easier to use to generate the files, then uploading with Cyberduck. I'd love to hear what other people would recommend to generate the site.

Can you give any more detail on the matter?

Absolutely. And Apple, and Dell, and anyone else that uses rechargeable batteries that degrade over time. This solves the degradation aspect of batteries, so it would improve the longevity of devices.

> note it does not charge the internal Macbook battery. Instead BatteryBox feeds power directly to the Mac in an effort to minimize the number of cycles (and stress) on the internal battery.

Is this something that any power adapter does? Is there something in the way they have it connected that does this?

You make a valid point. In Musk's defense, I can't think of any car manufacturers that have used direct sales on this scale, so while the correlation does not prove causation here, it doesn't disprove it either. He seems to simply be stating that this aspect of their business model (direct sales) is a key part of Tesla's business and one that he believes is essential to its survival.

The value to Aereo is in markets where local geography and budget constraints don't allow everyone to get every channel over the air. For example, we can get NBC, Fox, and PBS reliably, but CBS is spotty and ABC is out of the question (no digital transmitters in our area). The only way for us to get all 5 networks is a service of some kind.

They do pay pretty big bucks; both CBS and the local affiliate groups tend to have pretty long drawn-out conflicts over those fees. Yet their signal is still broadcast for free.

Yeah, I don't get it either. :/

Yeah, they'd be facing a MAJOR class-action lawsuit from their affiliates (many of whom are part of not-so-small conglomerates) if they actually attempted anything like this. I have serious doubts they even have the power to do this, as much as they want us to believe they do.

Be fair; the default WordPress theme does that too. :)

I'll add that the original "selling" point of Svbtle was its "drafts first" approach (that I really appreciate).

There's also a few references in the announcement post today mentioning writers' identity (free custom domain support, full name on everything) that could appeal to some people turned off by Medium's "nice article you just read now here's something else by someone completely different" approach.

Basically, what I see today is a side project growing up. Hard to see that as a bad thing.

And used GCC before that.

Any platform needs exclusive apps to draw people to it and only to it. I'm probably never going to get a Windows Phone no matter how good the platform looks because I can't get apps like Tweetbot and Reeder.

Ben Thompson does a better job explaining the why than I do: http://stratechery.com/2013/casual-gaming-is-a-sustainable-b... but the tl;dr is basically that the casual games most people look for on iOS are either already on or easily portable to Android or Windows. If Apple wants people to buy iOS devices to play games (and they should; that's a lot of people!), they need to make sure there are good games on iOS that people can't find anywhere else; otherwise, people will buy cheaper Android/Kindle/nook devices instead.

It's noted in the article. :)

That's it right there. :)