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I usually don't criticize in comments, but that article was very difficult to read and understand.

I have read both and, at the time, it put me in a position of valuing great fantastical deeds done by the folks portrayed, the absolutist nature of objectivism to value the individual over all else really left a bad taste with me.

I don't think the mindset finds the book, although it would certainly help in finding the recommendation.

Does anyone know the extent that the surrounding townships would be impacted by this? My parents live just outside of Flint, but the article only mentions that Flint is impacted.

That was a great article. One of the best since his passing. I've read The Machine Stops, many years ago in high school, but I'm going to read it again.

Here's the free epub over at goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/ebooks/download/135676.The_Machine...

While not a poker player, I can't help respect the why-the-fuck-not? aspect of this. Very cool.

I'm with schneems and my enthusiasm for mail clients has waned considerably since Sparrow.

Airmail 1/2, adequate but prone to many small usability issues that was very irksome.

Mailbox is very well designed, but key features like downloading attachments fails 50% of the time (and no option to change where they're downloaded to? Really?). I want it to succeed, but I feel like it should be much better by this point.

So, I'm willing to take the plunge. I bought Mail Pilot 2 (app store version). Here's my feedback:

- Options page is very cluttered. When deleting email there is mention of an option to turn off confirmation, but I couldn't find it.

- Client is very sluggish. To the point that, when writing mail, keystrokes take a second to register. This is a deal-breaker for me. This is on a brand new i7 MB Pro, 16GB of RAM.

- The design is very slick, but it's hard to determine if a message is unread or not. Feel like it should be more obvious. Also, all of the little icons (gravatars potentially?) don't fail gracefully displaying broken images instead.

This is after a few minutes of use, so there might be more that come up. I want to like it, I really do, but the sluggishness just kills it for me.

They are if you have to manage a lot of them.

I love GH, but I only use it for my public projects. Limiting private repos ($200 for 125?) seems insane to me, and it will drive people to make public items that shouldn't be.

For any private projects, or ones involving clients, I use BitBucket and make all repos private. It's a difference of $190 for me (I use the $10/mth plan with BB and host well over 125 private repos).

You need to look him up and read more. He's not your garden variety hire.

That's the reason we use it. I love GH and use it personally, but the pricing for companies with a lot of private repos (like agencies) is not ideal. We save a considerable amount of money using BB over GH.

BB is pretty great though, so aside from the social factor, the functionality is pretty much the same.

Exactly. I love this process, and endeavour to drop all dev/develop branches from the repos I'm working in. Sensational headline aside, I've seen a lot less untangling when feature-branching off of master and a judicious use of tags.

While it's dated at this point, I've always felt that the Github flow [1] works best (for the projects I'm involved with anyway).

[1] http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html

Always nice to have alternative. Mechanize is certainly the big player in this space, but I like the use of faraday here.

Thanks for sharing.

The real answer, as many have tried to implement, is another site/tool entirely. One that allows filtering, notifications etc.

Pretty easy to build, not so easy to get community engagement unless the HN folks endorse it officially as an alternative.

Kaminari is great, and it's been around for awhile now. Not sure why this has been posted today, but anyone using Rails that requires pagination in any way would benefit greatly from it's implementation.

Specifically:

"Does not globally pollute Array, Hash, Object or AR::Base."

Which is very polite.

Oh, I agree 100%. My comments are directed solely at what drives most politicians, and that is their own or their party's electability.

Rand Paul is a politician as much as any other, and the tea party are nutters. Obama hardly has a stellar record in office and all of the incumbents are, IMO, laughable at this point.

I'd say that politicians, and their monied interests, are killing real political debate.

I can't believe I'm supporting Paul over Obama on anything, let alone this.

Given it's his last term, I'm surprised that Obama is at this so much. It could be the pivotal cause that sinks the Dems in 2016 and Paul's filibuster only bolsters his own campaign.

Feel dirty supporting a tea-partier.

While I have yet to finish a project with Ember (I've been trying!), the amount of attention to backwards compatibility in this upcoming release is astounding.

Great work by all those involved.

But, it's stored all over the place, not just a single table or file. All of the URLs on the site get put into the DB as fully qualified. Just today, I had to do a search-and-replace with wp-cli on 26k instances of the domain name in the db.

Not as easy as you make it sound.

Built upon the backs of thousands of displaced native peoples (by the government) so that De Beers can move in and strangle the diamond market to drive up prices.

Not sure if this is a model that others should laud, really.

Agreed. Pygmalion was/is an incredible record.

Holograms? Who did they buy that gave them that kind of traction. Seems like the corner that Oculus had been gunning for.

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Pretty sure that Marco is investing in Blumberg himself though. He says that in the episode interviews.

Anyone know if you can get these in a podcast format?

Parent linked the beta, take out beta from the URL. Looks like a pretty decent project.

Agreed. Always pleasant to see his name attached to projects. Gives me reason to look into them further.

First I've heard that Haitian proverb ("Behind the mountains, there are more mountains."). Very appropriate for this community.

If I could upvote you twice, I would. The number of times I've had to argue with developers over how unique their situation is and why they've had to go and re-invent the wheel for situation X is disconcerting.

I think it's a pride issue and a difficult one to manage correctly if you want to keep active/engaged developers who believe they're tackling difficult/unique issues.

I personally think Rails is great but, frequently, it is not a sentiment that is shared amongst the people I regularly work with and they see it as too elementary (for some bizarre reason).

If Rails were a for-profit with marketing dollars I would suggest that there is a perception issue with the framework among developers, but I don't know how you handle that in the OSS world.

I should clarify that statement. Evidence points to the fact that it does reduce vitamin D production, but it does not stop it entirely.

If you apply and then spend a lot of time in the sun, your vitamin production will be decreased, but not entirely. People who routinely apply sunblock spend more time in the sun, so they will end-up producing more than those who spend no time in the sun at all.

It's the cost of weighing burns against vitamin D production. The skin cancer worry (legitimate) due to sun damage vs. decreased vitamin D production is probably a good bet to make.

It's fucking crazy. It means that the US could instigate either a "cyber-war" or a real war between two separate nations with no one being the wiser.

Truly terrifying, and probably the largest revelation in the article. This is was the major news outlets should be covering, right now.

None of that changes the fact that increased exposure to UV will have net-positive benefits in regards to vitamin D intake. If you apply sunblock you just have to spend more time outside in order to absorb more vitamin D via UV.