purephase

Could you elaborate on the PR beating comment? I feel like I've been under a rock lately.

Congrats! Minor nitpick (to all copywriters out there), when writing acquisition blog posts that will likely make their way on to HN, put a little snippet of who/what you are at the top of your post.

Your comment is one of my least favorite parts of HN. You read your own bias into my comment. I said:

"You would have similar issues with almost any other language and environment."

This includes Linux, Windows etc. I singled out MacOS as it was relevant to the parent comment. And, as for "incorrect", I think "command-line tools" and SDK could likely be used interchangeably in this context and saying otherwise is splitting hairs.

He wore that to an interview? Jesus. I'm all about the informal meet-and-greet, but that clearly shows that he had zero respect for you or your company.

That's just unbelievable.

And, I understand that. But, the drawbacks of the security implications of your development/developer browsers being thus weakened is, IMO, a decision heavily weighted in favour _against_ this feature.

Personally, I would love it. It would make my life easier to have a full IDE within a browser. However, I would never be comfortable with the security tradeoff and would never enable it.

Oh, Windows is much, much worse. ;) I just wouldn't lay blame on Ruby/Python etc. communities for the vagaries and whims of OS shops.

I voted you up in agreement if that makes you feel any better.

I'd put this particular failure more in Apple's camp then Ruby. You would have similar issues with almost any other language and environment.

The simple fact that you need Xcode's SDK and homebrew/macports on a machine to get anything done outside of Xcode speaks volumes for using Mac's as development workstations (or, specifically, MacOS).

In what terms? If usefulness is taken into consideration I would rate Dropbox and Stripe considerably higher (and a few others).

There's an odd logic to this that I'm having difficulties refuting. Rationality for a win... ?

Sadly, it is. The types of conditions in processing facilities make a lot of the employees temporarily insane. They're asked to do inhumane things and thus become what they do. I even pity the workers. Most of them are illegal immigrants being paid shit wages to do horrible things to these animals. Do you honestly believe that if it was not commonplace that this bill would have even been considered?

Sometimes, the truth is horrible.

Which, as we know, is a rock-solid protection mechanism against these types of exploits. Everyone reads modal messages.

While the number 1 suggestion sounds great on paper, isn't anyone else concerned about the security implications?

The ability for the browser to modify files directly on my workstation outside of caching folders sounds like a recipe for disaster.

It's actually pretty spot on. If you go and visit some of the places depicted in the film, without prior approval and scheduling, and you'll see it first hand.

I say this as someone who use to work for an organization that sourced and inspected chicken and beef processing facilities and, I've visited them regularly.

So, you're suggesting that vegetarians change their own lifestyles so that those with (to use your example) "less" moral quandaries and more fiscal concerns don't have to change theirs?

Seems like an odd way to go about addressing the problem.

While accepting that it is not appropriate for every situation, I believe that the HTML5 canvas/video/audio/svg/dragdrop/storage elements are specifically targeted at replacing flash/silverlight so I can see how non-technical folks might get confused.

Having worked in higher ed for 10+ years, let me tell you, in a lot of disciplines, they don't vet as much as you might think.

Certainly, high profile/cost courses with lots of interest in teaching them are, but the big money makers such as con-ed, distance learning and apprenticeship take the most convenient person available and throw them in, often at the last minute with zero preparation.

I don't see how this differs from ureddit.

I'm also interested in this.

It looks like a startup by lawyers, not developers/designers. If it works for them and they provide a valuable service, so what?

This is great. Thanks for sharing. I've been toying around with mina, but I may give Capistrano another shot. Right now I have a bunch of build scripts that would be much better suited for Chef and your setup closely mirrors my own.

Congrats. I still can't get by the initial cost of RubyMotion. I know, it will pay for itself, but that's a lot of initial buy-in going on faith. I wish they had a demo version available to try before buying.

I think the most common is you have a single password, but you hash it with the name of the service you're logging into.

For example, if you're password is "puppy" and you're signing-up for HN, your password would be:

pHuApCpKy

And, if you wanted to make it stronger, salt it with some special characters.

p~Hu!Ap@Cp#Ky$

... which is just the shift-characters on a number row in order.

This way, you only have to remember one password, and it is service specific, and pretty strong. No password manager needed.

Of course, I don't do this. I use a 1Password and KeepassX.

Very cool. Pointed me at the Sublime Text version and I love it.

3-year terms for anything in this space is an eternity. Even if the math checks out, the inflexibility of that kind of lock-in should be a consideration.

Of course, YMMV.

While I can concede the initial setup, once you've got it all scripted, it's not that bad. Either mina or capistrano make managing unicorn fairly painless.

As to the Phusion release, congrats. While I use unicorn, I always welcome alternatives. It means the ecosystem is healthy.

As idyllic as that sounds, they've been predicting that since the start of the industrial revolution and the trend has continued in the opposite direction.

Manufacturing desires and trumping economic needs over social goods is so entrenched now that I doubt most people would choose a more relaxed lifestyle over the next shiny bauble dangled in front of them.

I wish it were not so, but I see little to no evidence to the contrary.

RABL does a pretty decent job at generating XML too.

This guy keeps popping-up. Very impressive for a years worth of work. We should be lucky to have someone willing to do this so openly, even after the rebuff from the community. He could have easily gone black hat and we'd all be the worse for it.

I (naively) hoped that this wouldn't re-surface but now that it has, I'm not surprised. Harper and Co. are steadfast in toadying up to Washington and Co. and seem to not only disregard the numerous times similar legislation has been shot down, but the fact that almost this exact same legislation has been shot down everywhere but the US.

This in particular is politics at it's worst and anyone that actually uses this line should be ashamed of themselves:

"The bill will likely be promoted as protecting public health, however, there is a danger that the provisions could be used to stop the entry of legitimate generic medicines."

Right out of the US playbook.

I really, really like Raphael. I was in a position to try out Easel, Fabric and Raphael and while is was my personal favorite, our needs to stay close to AS3 (to port flash) meant we went with Easel.

Raphael is a very nice library though.