thoman23

Well now we know just how threatening Let's Encrypt is to the incumbent CA industry.

That sounds shockingly like a bug I remember one of our best developers finding when I worked at Homestead in the late 90's (and I remember being in awe then of his ability to deduce the pattern out of the seeming randomness).

I don't think it's that straightforward. It's hard to vote for something that doesn't come up for a vote. And it doesn't come up for a vote if the right people don't want it to come up for a vote.

Not to mention they are no longer "cool". I hear younger developers talk about Jira like I might talk about Internet Explorer. Without Jira, the Confluence Wiki loses some luster. HipChat of course has been overrun by Slack...etc.

For the record, I'm still a big fan of the Atlassian suite, and also had thought about taking a long position once they were public, but I can't do it given the above conditions and this seemingly inflated price.

Whether that's exactly his reasoning or not, there's no doubt that it's exactly the vibe that he gives off, and exactly why he is so beloved. People are attracted to the sense of existential authenticity that he exudes.

> "Just like a salesperson would ideally like an open bar, programmers would ideally like an open budget for snacks/toys."

I'm a programmer, but according to this my true calling is in sales.

Yahoo Sports was a quality product,until the redesign that I understand Mayer micromanaged. Now I find it unusable and I find myself going to nfl.com, mlb.com, or ESPN instead.

Sorry, I can appreciate some devil's advocacy, but I'm just not buying it here. Assuming the Tesla employee was unarmed (which I think is a safe assumption), then there's nothing potentially dangerous enough to justify running someone over rather than wait the few minutes for law enforcement to arrive. Even if you think you are being falsely imprisoned, I don't think you are justified in running someone over rather than wait a few minutes for law enforcement if you are not in immediate danger.

But what part of standing behind a vehicle in order to write down the license plate is "pursuing a vehicle? What action is left that would be acceptable in your manual...duck and cover?

"Autosteering (Beta)"

That must be the single most frightening use of the Beta label in history.

Their job is really the least of their worries now.

Dude, the Tesla employees just asked them to wait for the sheriff to arrive. It's not like they jumped on the hood of the car. Writing down the license plate number should not get you run over.

Wow indeed. Not once, but twice, intentionally ramming their Jeep into some poor employee. That's sociopathic.

You seem to have accidentally (I assume) submitted a link to http://www.vexflow.com/tests/.

Next up...treadmill desks.

Perfect! RIP Yogi Berra.

Completely agree. I don't see any hovering going on. Of course, I'm still on the losing side of the battle against the "sharing economy" phrasing, so I might as well accept this one too.

Yeah, I was reading a little about it and it's fascinating. It's a case of the full product development capabilities moving into the actual factory, so no outside company needs to design or own the product. The actual factory stamps it out and the outside company just brands it and sells it retail. And when combined with nonexistent intellectual property protections, in this case, no one even seems to be sure which company or factory originated the design. And no one cares.

The downside is there is no way for the consumer to rely on a trusted brand with good quality. It's a total crapshoot.

Honestly? I'd say don't reinvent the wheel. Underlined links with the changing cursor and/or clickable buttons are what the user expects, so give it to them.

Eh, not really. A lifestyle business is your main source of income. It's not a side project. It's just not a startup because there is no massive growth expectation.

So the government should not arbitrarily seize property from its own citizenry? I'm sure they will take that under advisement.

Turns out I was mistaking Angel Hernandez for Phil Cuzzi...so to speak. It was Channel Intelligence not IV that I was thinking of.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/17/channel-intelligence-sues-j...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=248577

Ha ha, exactly. Just like there are a few baseball umpires who are so bad you learn their names (Angel Hernandez, Phil Cuzzi, Joe West), Intellectual Ventures is one of the "companies" that most developers know of for all the wrong reasons. I remember when they sued every maker of "todo list" software.

One of the comments on the original article nails it. The real problem is conflating "estimates" with "deadlines" or "commitments". You see it with the casual replacement of "story estimating" with "story sizing" in our language. "Sizing" implies a degree of certainty that may not be there.

Estimating is most definitely useful. But you have to fight every step of the way to keep an estimate from becoming a "promise". Promises that can't be kept are not good for any of the parties involved and lead to things like developer burnout, poor quality, technical debt, surreptitiously reduced scope, lack of trust...it goes on and on.

You might be overthinking how hard it is to allow remote work.

Man, no kidding. Why would anyone want to sign up for that? 45-50 hours codified face time in your open office cattle farm. Get permission from a founder at least a day in advance if god forbid you need to be out of the office for something. Not only do I not want to work there, but I'll think twice before signing up with them as my 2FA provider.

Does this mean if I wait long enough, I won't ever need to figure out what exactly Docker is?

I'm going to dumb it down a bit, and say that I like to think of two movies with different visions of a technologically advanced future: WALL-E and Elysium (aka that Matt Damon movie where all the rich people live on the space station). In WALL-E, nobody works and everybody (well, everybody that survived the initial apocalypse anyway) lives the literal fat life while robots serve them all equally. In Elysium, the abundance of health and life that comes from technological advances are hoarded away for exclusive use by the wealthy.

Of the 2 visions, I always found the Elysium model to be much more likely...actually I would argue inevitable. Given human nature, I just can't foresee a world where everyone lounges around in equally-served harmony. No...there will always be an elite, and the elite will find a way to procure and consume a vastly disproportionate amount of resources. Even in the movie Elysium, after the proletariat storm the space castle at the end, any "victory" will be short-lived and will just produce a new elite.

So I guess I'm suggesting that the proclaimed political/economic system is irrelevant. The reality ends up looking pretty much the same in either case. And that reality will probably not be pretty once human labor is fully commoditized through technology.

Why on earth is it so hard to find video of the keynote? Here we have a genuinely exciting product announcement with a brilliant "one more thing" hook, and I can't find the video. Microsoft should have it plastered over every news outlet in the world.

I found the video below (with 97 views!?), which makes me really want a Surface Book...and then it cuts off RIGHT BEFORE the big reveal! Microsoft seems to have caught up to Apple in terms of hardware, but it seems they still have a ways to go in marketing and PR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c6ZLdJ1rkA

Are you feeling okay? Did you just get back from Colorado or something?