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I'd figure that it's more due to differing opinions on things like Test::Unit vs Rspec, Haml vs Erb etc than your publisher. Still, not a good excuse to go unrecognized. RW3 was excellent, and I'm sure 4 is as well. Best of luck.

I wish we had an accurate spec for Ruby. RubySpec project is great, but we still let the language be defined in terms of MRI implementation.

In many local governments, car dealerships are some of the largest businesses and financial contributors.

I wouldn't be shocked to learn that their interpretation of "not listening in" does not include reading speech-to-text transcripts of conversations.

Maybe you just had a bad experience with your provider in Atlanta. Webpass in SF is pretty awesome. 200mbps for 50/mo.

Colbert explains it in detail: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/955486/

I believe the excuses names were Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan...

Glad to see Bitbucket doing so well. Their support is great, bailed us out of a nasty mess we got tangled up in our repo.

CarWoo!, San Francisco Bay Area (YC S09)

We are looking for an awesome full stack Rails developer to help us take the online auto industry by storm. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn the mostly terrible experience of buying a new car into a wonderful experience for our customers. Responsibilities

Work with David, Tommy, Erik, Scott, Rimas, Tim, Derek, Jeremy, Peter, Adam, Jon, Todd, Matt, and Patrick to create a world class set of products. We're a small team, but we work smart and get a lot done. Here's some of the cool stuff we're working on right now: a queuing system to optimize our operations across the country, mobile apps, application of game theory, and a lot of other great things we can talk about when we chat.

You'll get the chance to work on any or all of this stuff if you so choose.

Qualifications

- Deep knowledge of Rails and everything that goes along with it (MVC, REST, relational database design/SQL)

- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS

- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery (Backbone, node.js)

- Experience with version control systems (we use Git/Github)

- Solid testing methodologies and willingness to write comprehensive tests before release

You get extra bonus points for:

- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery (e.g. Backbone)

- Ability to write complex SQL

- Understanding of good RDBMS design. Experience optimizing queries.

- Experience with memcached, sphinx, and nginx

- Story-driven development

- Web service/API development (REST)

- Ability to play ping-pong skillfully and/or drive a go-kart furiously

Perks

- Full Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)

- Unlimited PTO

- $5,000 to buy anything you want to get your work done (must include an Apple computer of some sort)

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If you're interested, send an email with your résume and something interesting about yourself to scott@carwoo.com

We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with us).

You can switch the template engine in Ember, but you'll lose the databinding hotness unless you implement it in your own engine.

Dear god, so many haters in here. It's a brand new prototype product, and people are complaining about minor features etc. What is wrong with you people? I thought this was a board full of hackers. If you can't see the massive potential in this, you may be in the wrong place.

It's hard to say, as many of them may not be labeled as suicides but rather "end of life decisions." One could reasonably make the argument that choosing to forego a painful medical procedure to extend one's life a few weeks or months may be an indirect form of suicide. Many patients decide that they have had a long and happy life and that the additional torment of another treatment in exchange for a chance for a small extension of time in a seemingly low quality of life is not an acceptable tradeoff. In some cases patient may then be able to request assistance in ending their life or "pulling the plug."

Luckily none of my loved ones have been in such a position, but I think that one can have rational thoughts regarding such a situation, weigh the pros and cons, and decide that you are ready to go.

It seems to be. Pulled up a cargo moving van for me, something I had recently searched for but have no interest in actually owning.

It makes things crisp enough that those higher resolutions are practical. Sure, you can turn your font size down low with a low res screen, but you rapidly get to a point where the characters are harder to distinguish. Not so with the retina screens. Really you just have to see the difference. It's striking.

Seems a little dubious to claim that the increase in donations was a direct result of increased speed. The nature of the election cycle seems like more donations would take place as campaigning ramped up and the election date drew nearer. Were those kind of external factors accounted for in your analysis?

Still, very interesting writeup and congrats!

I often init new repos even if its a single file script. Github pricing is per private repository, but Bitbucket has free unlimited private repositories so I can just push them all up.

I generally version all the things, and end up with lots of small private repos. Bitbucket's pricing model is perfect for hosting that kind of thing. Really liking the new UI.

$1.99 game purchases are impulse driven. I'd think less so for $59.99 game purchases.

Their maps app is a regression stemming from political strife with google. It's much less useful now.

Listening to the RNC in another tab, read this as homophobic hashing. Sigh.

Agreed. I saw "turnkey rails" in the sidebar and thought I'd take a look into it. It's very unclear what versions of software are included. The last changelog entry on 2011/12/06 says nothing about ruby or rails versions. The last mention was 2011/01/27 claiming REE 1.8.7-2010.02_i386_ubuntu10.04.

To give a perspective on update frequency, according to the same page (http://www.turnkeylinux.org/updates/rails), two updates before that was Fri, 2009/10/23 - 16:35. This update claims to have ruby 4.1 installed. It seems that their VM image also includes a time machine.

Not getting a huge feel of confidence from that being featured on their landing page. An open market can be good, but when it comes to supplying an image for my production env, that type of thing could leave me feeling a bit uneasy.

Any word on the future of Pivotal Tracker?

We are looking for an awesome Rails developer to help us take the online auto industry by storm. You'll join a great engineering and design team that's working hard to bring car-buying into the 21st century. The features you create will help turn the mostly terrible experience of buying a new car into a wonderful experience for our customers. Responsibilities Work with Michael, Erik, Scott, Rimas, Tim, Andrew, and Patrick to create a world class set of products. We're a small team (just 5 engineers and 2 designers), but we work smart and get a lot done. Here's some of the cool stuff we're working on right now: a queuing system to optimize our operations across the country, an iOS app, and a stealth web crawler.

We do story-driven development, so you'll get the chance to work on any or all of this stuff if you so choose.

Qualifications

- Deep knowledge of Rails and everything that goes along with it (MVC, REST, relational database design/SQL)

- Solid grasp on modern web application design using Javascript, HTML, CSS

- Experience with version control systems (we use Git/Github)

- Solid testing methodologies and willingness to write comprehensive tests before release

You get extra bonus points for:

- Extensive Javascript experience outside of JQuery (e.g. Backbone)

- Ability to write complex SQL

- Understanding of good RDBMS design. Experience optimizing queries.

- Experience with memcached, sphinx, and nginx

- Story-driven development

- Web service/API development (REST)

- Experience with iOS development (Objective-C)

- Ability to play ping-pong skillfully and/or drive a go-kart furiously

Perks

- Full Benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)

- 17 days of PTO (vacation)

- $5,000 to buy anything you want to get your work done (must include an Apple computer of some sort)

- A substantial amount of equity in the company

If you're interested, send an email with your résume and something interesting about yourself to scott@carwoo.com.

We're based in Silicon Valley, but if you live outside the Valley, we still really want to talk to you (we'll pay for your flight, hotel, and meals when you come interview with us).

Is there anything in We the People or Data.gov that could be infringing? Maybe they'd take it more seriously if they had first hand experience with a patent suit...

This was pretty interesting when announced back in 2008, but I thought the project was dead. Are there plans to update it to 1.9? They posted some optimistic benchmarks back then, how do they compare to modern VM competition? I'm interested to know more, but I'd like to see a bit more info and context.

Goliath has a websockets branch and also supports eventsource and streaming pretty easily. If it's something you need, definitely look into Goliath as well.

http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/26/server-sent-event-notificat... https://github.com/postrank-labs/goliath/tree/websockets

I agree that tablets are going to be ubiquitous in the future, but it may not be iPads that get into the most hands. I'd like to see John put his incredible javascript knowledge to work on a great cross platform web application rather than a native iOS app.

Display a loading image while waiting on a document? The only "innovation" that got them the patent was that they claimed displaying a smaller image on a smaller screen was somehow groundbreaking.

Don't wait for a background image to finish downloading before displaying web page text? Who would think waiting was a great idea in the first place?

I don't think either of these is somehow an feat of software engineering that should grant them the ability to extort money from companies creating innovative software in 2011.

Warning: if this article already made you angry, reading the actual patents will turn your rage up to 11.

These are some of the most general and obvious patents I've seen used in a lawsuit like this in a while.

Thanks, someone retweeted it and I didn't have the link handy.