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rogerthaton Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating Web Apps

I don't have a chance to watch the video right now but I'm curious to know when Atlas is launching, if anyone knows the date.

Also, I see from the comments on carsonified that they're going to charge $20 for the IDE. If anyone watches the video, I'd be interested to have that verified.

rogerthaton So You're Moving to San Francisco

NYC rocks. It's clean and one of the safest cities in the U.S. these days. Whether you can find a job is another question.

rogerthaton So You're Moving to San Francisco

In contrast there is a layer of garbage and grime everywhere in New York City. So much so that after a day of walking around in the summer, you can turn a white handtowel black just by wiping the sweat off your brow...

That's because the NYC summer is hot, not because the city is dirty. (Maybe you have oily pores?)

rogerthaton John Cleese divorce tour: the first review

Hopefully this means he'll be funny again.

rogerthaton Lean Startup Circle - Google Group

Ok, point taken, I wasn't aware of the distinction between patents and trademarks.

But my point is, don't you find it at all absurd that Eric Ries is trying to own the term "Lean Startup"? It strikes me as being a little ridiculous.

rogerthaton Lean Startup Circle - Google Group

"The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries"

His ideas sounds awfully similar to YCombinator's.

Grounds for a patent dispute?

Does pg really own Lean Startup?

rogerthaton A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

I apologize in advance if this question is intrusive but is there any possibility it could have been an accident?

Sometimes the line can be blurry. Accidental suicides do happen. Especially since there was no note.

rogerthaton A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

I've been futilely reading his recent FriendFeed and Twitter updates for some inkling as to what could have triggered this tragic act.

http://friendfeed.com/danhau http://twitter.com/danhau

Not so much as a smidgen of a hint. His comments seemed consistent up until the last with no hint of despair. No wonder this caught people by surprise. It's flabbergasting.

My condolences to everyone close to Dan. Although I didn't know him personally, he seemed like a terrific guy.

What sad news.

rogerthaton Ask HN: How do you pick colors

I find the color schemes don't translate well to a web design from the format that they present on Kuler. But maybe that's just me.

rogerthaton 20+ hour outage due to EC2/EBS on BitBucket

Despite this, Bitbucket is great. Private repository with a free account option - you don't get that on GitHub.

rogerthaton Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free

It figures - I wouldn't expect them to canabalize S3. Thanks for the details though.

rogerthaton RentHop (YC S09) Video Pitch on Reuters

$15,000 in revenue in the first month is impressive.

Unless they made that up.

However, even if it's a fabricated figure (and I'm not saying that it is), they would not be the first company to lie to the press to generate some hype. I also don't believe it would be against the law, except perhaps if someone were to rely solely upon that information to make a decision about whether to invest in the company.

rogerthaton Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free

Can you upload files to SimpleDB and use it as a free alternative to Amazon S3? I imagine not but I'm curious anyway.

rogerthaton Generation B - Middle Aged, Laid Off and Losing Hope

Are you saying her death was tragic because she was a hot young model while he would just be a dead old loser? That's the vibe I'm getting from this thread generally.

rogerthaton No more yes. It's either hell yeah or no.

Very good point. Rings true for me and my wife, I'm sad to say.

rogerthaton Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions At Once

Maybe this is a stupid question but do people switch between vm's a lot?

rogerthaton Introducing Surinx (Ruby syntax w/ Java typing)

You are reminded to ship a case of the Sierra Nevada Hefeweitzen to Engine Yard.

rogerthaton BadaBingle = BingGoogle²

I hope your legal team is on standby.

rogerthaton No more yes. It's either hell yeah or no.

The problem with me is even if start with a 'hell yeah', I usually fade to a 'yeah' by the end of the day and when I wake up the next day it's more like a 'ehh'. My 'hell yeah' reliably always hops to the next thing and follows the same fade-out pattern.

It's actually pretty depressing now that I step back and look at it. Thanks, Derek.

rogerthaton No more yes. It's either hell yeah or no.

I don't think I could get away with this without people suspecting I was being sarcastic.

rogerthaton No more yes. It's either hell yeah or no.

Makes it sound like Yoda should have been writing ad copy for Nike. I think a Zen Master might be more likely to put it as:

"Do, or do not. All is Being."

The line between Zen Buddhism and Nihilism is a fine one.

rogerthaton No more yes. It's either hell yeah or no.

When you're single the incentives for being good at partner dancing are considerably higher than when you're securely in a relationship.

I went the opposite direction - from being a fanatical swing dancer while I was single to being completely uninterested in it after I met my wife. It was purely instrumental, in other words. And I saw the same pattern repeated with the majority of swing dancers both male and female. As soon as they were hooked up, it was see-ya.

rogerthaton My hobby: Troll hugging.

Understood. But because the commentary is so poorly written, it would probably make more sense if the conversation from the channel had simply been printed as-is. Hard to believe this was written by someone of note in the programming community.

rogerthaton Ted Kennedy has died

Do you not see any possible explanation for why a public figure such as Ted Kennedy would have wanted to walk away from the scene of that accident? Isn't it the most human response, to walk away ashamed of what you have done? Don't you think he regretted it, probably for the rest of his life? And now I would ask you, have you ever done anything you didn't intend to that you were ashamed of?

rogerthaton Ted Kennedy has died

"You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye." - Early Hacker

rogerthaton Ask HN: What is your purpose in life?

So no life after death would mean low ROI.

rogerthaton Ask HN: What is your purpose in life?

Well said.

rogerthaton Ask HN: What is your purpose in life?

What does "better" mean for you (if you don't mind me asking)?

rogerthaton David Foster Wallace on Life and Work (unabridged)

Another great Wallace essay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20fede...

"Federer as Religious Experience"

rogerthaton David Foster Wallace on Life and Work (unabridged)

Marginalia received a DMCA takedown notice for their original copy of the speech:

http://www.marginalia.org/log/archives/2009/05/so-very-sorry...

But in the comments on their apology page at the link above, there's a reference to a book in which the address was published with Wallace's permission, as well an interesting note about an edit that Wallace made to the speech before publishing it:

An essay on April 26 about David Foster Wallace’s commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005, which has now appeared in book form as "This Is Water," misstated the speech’s publishing history. It was included in the collection "The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006"; it is not the case that Wallace, who died in September, "never published" the address.

The essay may also have left the incorrect impression that both of the following sentences in the speech were omitted from the text of "This Is Water": "It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master." In fact, only the second sentence was left out.