techtalsky

Well, sigh, as usual a bunch of chatter about it and not a word from YC. Well, it was worth a try.

Most grocery stores sell Turkey bags for brining, especially around Thanksgiving.

I think 1 and 4 are the best points. It's a kill-two-birds-with-one-stone proposition. You get to give your first clients the care and feeding they need to become great initial success stories as you make some of the initial cash a startup needs so badly in its infancy. I think this is solid advice.

In the original article he details that the Ask updater waits patiently for 10 minutes after the Java installation completes (probably successfully or unsuccessfully) before launching as a background process.

Perhaps any company that doesn't actually have any other product or service? I agree it gets into tricky territory though.

Nothing too terribly exciting, but the Source Map feature, allowing easier debugging inside minified code seems very useful. Chrome only, but still an extremely slick feature:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...

And STILL be prosecuted for 2nd and 4th degree money laundering, and STILL need to extract dirt on all your clients (which your other clients would possibly find out and help you accidentally die in a plane crash).

It's really wonderful to start to see this wave of Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other super inexpensive but plenty powerful enough for a range of applications type devices.

More and more are popping up on Reddit and HN every day and it looks to be ushering a little hobbyist "golden age". I can't wait to see where it takes us.

He did, however describe the eventual problem: his comments table was larger than what Wordpress's out-of-the-box feature (Recent Comments) was able to sort. He had very overpowered hardware in his custom situation. It strikes me that this was an extroardinary but still within band problem that WPEngine should have eaten the cost for solving OR tell him MUCH more swiftly they couldn't.

Perhaps, but you really just have no idea what conversations are happening behind closed doors.

I'd love to look at people on the train but there's a pretty serious ethic against staring at other people on New York City subways. There's also no bandwidth at all. It's a rough and loud ride. Podcasts, music, and casual games help the time pass. YOU try meditating on the 5:45 C train some time.

"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell

The rule against showing a render seems just a little rough. In some cases I think a render of a product is important and it seems like really crippling a hardware project if they can't show the design of the product. I get why, but that seems like the toughest of the restrictions to me.

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say, "Lying is good." but I also wouldn't go so far as to say "Always tell the truth." simply because it is not possible. It is literally impossible to tell people the 100% truth about your life, for the simple reason that all telling is choosing information to tell, which always omits something.

You MUST omit something, because otherwise you'd be telling your unabridged autobiography to every single person who asked you a question about anything. Obviously everything short of that is an information choice.

I think it's worth aiming at truth and not invention, but I think it's also wise to think about what information is going to be effective when sharing.

It's not so much that. If I'm at home in Brooklyn and want to get to a place in Manhattan, there might be two ways to go. Google maps calculates what the fastest way is, including walk time and train connections, and gives me a route that shows the stops, walking directions, and connections.

Yes, indeed I do love Dungeon Raid already and have poured countless hours into it. I almost have every class upgraded to level 10. If there was a sequel I would buy it tomorrow. 10000000 was a breath of fresh air. I'm a little sad DR hasn't come up with a sequel or at least some updated content. It's a good game with very deep strategy and surprisingly a lot of content in a way, but now that I'm mostly through it I'm wishing for more.

These games hit a certain sweet spot for me in that you play in short sessions but there's a long term progress you can work towards. That way even when I'm tired on the subway I can chug slowly forward and still feel like I'm making progess. Other times I can rejoice in playing with zenlike brilliance.

I had a tremendous amount of fun with 10000000. It worked as a fun little joke about upgrading EVERYTHING, it's got a zippy little feeling to play, and not a pixel onscreen in wasted.

And... even though once I beat it I wished there was another level, I found it refreshing that it simply ended and I got to watch the credits like an old NES game.

I knew nothing about the guy's story, so this was kind of heartwarming.

This is a MySQL discussion, but I think it's worth it to say what two things I think keep Postgres from becoming the viable worldwide use-by-default contender that MySQL became:

1. Branding. First and foremost. MySQL had great documentation, an identifiable logo, and a wonderful name that every non-technical person could remember and identify. Postgresql is just, well, it's a horrible nightmare of a name. People would like to think this doesn't matter but: of course it does.

2. A really slick installer for Windows. You could say this is branding and to some extent it is, but MySQL and its admin tools have a really friendly installer that lets intermediate developers without a lot of DB experience get it up and running with their development environments quickly. I admit it's been a while since I used Postgres's but the fit and polish wasn't there.

A lot of people are mentioning Python support. I just wanted to put in my vote that Python support will be the thing that gets me to download and try this. It looks awesome but it'll be so much easier for me to relate to if there's a supported language I'm already productive in. I'd like to learn some lisp-likes, but learning a new and innovative IDE at the same time is a bit more to bite off than I have for at one time.

I think it's a 13-lined ground squirrel. Commonly mistaken for a chipmunk. Not all squirrels have bushy tails.

Yeah, I really can't believe this made the front page. Really man? You're whining about people whining? It's just noise to me. Social media reflects what's happening in the universe, however deep or asinine. When people die or twitter is down, I find out about it first on Social Media. Granted, I try to put forth a little more signal than noise in my own communication, but I don't think blog posts complaining about it is really "signal".

It's interesting to note that the newly Kickstarter-funded Wasteland sequel is going with Unity for its development. A great post on why here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts...

This seems sensible. Of course many people could quibble about things they wish were included or dropped, but almost all of this stuff I've had to learn the hard way. Having most of this information presented to someone in an organized way would go a long way towards making them a formidable hire.

Thank you very much. I didn't realize that string handling was changed so much in 1.9. This has got to be one of the best string encoding methods in any programming language to date.

I feel like the problem with RSS was mainly a branding issue. First of all... acronyms don't sell. No non-expert user is ever going to click an orange icon with a wi-fi logo that says "RSS" or "XML". MAYBE they'd click a button that says "Subscribe". Individual browsers and implementations tried to brand them as "Live Bookmarks" or similar, but there wasn't much unity around it.

RSS is of course unbelievably useful, and people who understood that the content of a site was being published side by side in a human readable but totally nonstandard format (HTML) and a machine readable and much more standard format (RSS,ATOM,etc.) instantly grabbed some kind of reader and subscribed to anything they were interested in.

I tried to preach the gospel of feeds. I tried to get people to subscribe to MY blogs. Even most of my medium-technical friends said, "Yeah, that whole reader thing sounds cool, I've been meaning to set that up." Non-technical people simply subscribed to things via email.

If somehow email could have organized itself more naturally into push (email) and pull (feeds) buckets, then it could have perhaps happened naturally, but confusing standards, implementations, and no real great way to explain the benefits to new users is what killed RSS (and XML feeds in general)... there was no war.

Does anyone know why String.each was cut? String.each was one of the cool things that attracted me to ruby in the first place. I loved that you could say myString.each and it would assume you meant linebreaks unless you told it some other delimiter.

The play logo is an interesting direction for them. Totally new, non-primary colors and a different form-factor than we usually see from Google.

It's hard to imagine it being worth the cost proposition for them to support several flavors of Lunux plus all of the hardware driver support issues that would crop up. It would cost them a tremendous amount in development, upkeep, and support. I'm sure there's a market for it... just not big enough to be worth it.

Very interesting, although he does indeed say:

> The extensive class library is however quite daunting. It appears there's a class for almost everything, and much of "programming in Java" seems to consist of "searching for the right class". Even after two years I find I cannot do much in Java without constant reference to the documentation.

Right, and that's what the article says a judge decided is NOT the case.