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pbpaste | bash -c? :D

I find fish to be a more pleasant scripting languge personally, but bash scripts are the lingua franca everywhere I've worked. It's easier just to learn bash.

Anecdotally, being able to commit anywhere, without needing a branch name, is one of the biggest conceptual differences when we teach new hires Mercurial at Facebook.

Fish does this for missing files (though not invalid subcommands): https://fishshell.com/

> Some people get it immediately, others never will.

Member of the second camp reporting in. The default toString() behavior of java.util.Date threw me off for a very, very long time.

Agree with the sibling comment -- you can achieve a good portfolio allocation with 3-4 ETFs. What Wealthfront and Betterment do is pick these funds for you, then charge you 0.25% year over year for the privilege of maintaining them. It's not the best deal for the investor because the work is not particularly hard -- "managing" your investments as a Boglehead would ideally involve logging into Vanguard once a year to rebalance.

(In fairness, they do some other stuff which is more value-added like TLH, which is more work to do yourself, but again, it's hard to justify the 0.25%.)

"If You Can" by William Berstein is a good, short ebook on this subject.

It's so weird to think that Twitter used to be insignificant enough that a random software engineer could just tweet to the NY Time's social media account at will, without going through all the hoops of a social media team. Kudos to them for keeping it up, it's a great tweet.

Strongly reminds me of this classic Onion video: http://www.theonion.com/video/in-the-know-should-the-governm...

Interesting -- didn't Google use to be super strict on the languages/runtimes they use in production? Did they make an exception for ITA?

My favorite thing about Civ is that its creator has kept control over it, and continues to evolve it. We'll probably be enjoying a new Civ in 2026. The charm is that it's the same game in many respects — parts evolve, but the core remains.

This seems unusual; I can point to several popular 90's games that peaked there and never recovered (Roller Coaster Tycoon, Age of Empires II, and arguably SimCity 4 if you include the early naughts). I wonder why; as a player, the Civ model seems preferable (you always have modern versions and new, but not heretical, variety).

Interesting that they default QuickEdit mode to on now. In Windows 2000 (supposedly), they had to roll a hotfix because some well-meaning engineer made the same change without thinking of backwards compatibility. [2] Kinda shows how times have changed.

[1] "One of the top requested changes we’ve received over the years is to have quick-edit mode enabled by default. Tada!"

[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/09/13/48861...

Is there a reason why Tesla events happen at night?

Particularly, the two-dimensional map layout (no room-over-room) is much easier to make maps for.

Dropbox is actually > 600 now.

(Source: dropbox.com/about)

Not to mention, scanning many thousands of books manually.

Here's a page on their website that lets you figure out what goes into the $500/month figure: http://www.teslamotors.com/true-cost-of-ownership

Parts are a little surprising (e.g. it assumes your time is worth $100/hour).

I like this one (discovered via Civilization):

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford

This has to be one of the most honest dismissal statements I've ever read. Major props to him.

An interesting problem with making a MongoDB GUI is that a key feature of every SQL GUI -- a rich <table> of your data that you can use to see it and play with it -- won't work as well, because MongoDB doesn't have strict table definitions. (Or 'tables' for that matter). Each item in a collection could have completely different fields. So given a big collection of this irregular data, how do you display it compactly? Listing each element in JSON is inefficient.

Our company is called "DropTable".

This was a really entertaining post. Well done! 👍

I believe there is a global version you can install that goes to Program Files and not AppData. Should help with your problem.

Last I heard, it was in Google Pack.

The Twitter Bootstrap effect.

I stayed at Chez JJ Menlo Park for a month (heck, I'm the one in the picture!) and while I agree with the other posters that $30/night for a shared room is not competitive, the reason I stayed so long was for the people. It was awesome to come home every night from my internship -- there was ALWAYS something going on. And I made some good friends.

Would I do it long-term? Probably not. Did it work for me? Absolutely.

This effect can be simulated by going to yahoo.com and clicking the period in the logo.

Yes, but, competition is fiercer. The beginning of a business day in the US is also the time when a lot of strong, interesting articles (from newspapers, blogs, etc) are being read by awakening HN'ers and then submitted. They can crowd out your post. But if you succeed, you'll enjoy strong inertia for a long time as people keep coming back when they should be working. Like right now :)

[I think; subjective analysis etc etc]

When you link your bank account with Square, they have to send test deposits first to verify that it is indeed yours. These take up to 5 days, plus the time after that to actually transfer the overdrawn money.

Asking Square to take the money from another account would be no faster than moving it yourself to your primary one, because of this verification stage. Even if you had the foresight to link it ahead of time, Square only supports being associated with one account at a time.

Verification of a new account would take up to 5 business days, so it would be no faster than sending an ACH for the money.

If I lose, my logic is: "oh, I can't be good at this? Fine, I'll be good at this! <goes back to work>"

I've noticed something similar. Playing strategy games (like Age of Empires) works great for me during downtime. They require your 100% full attention if you want to win, so they're very effective at wiping away whatever you were working on.

Also, they're normally very goal-oriented, making you motivated to "do" things after playing.