Zen Writing Mode

I wish not!! When I get on a repository, I want to see the code. Although I don't mind if there is smaller area containing the feed.

Our team makeup is almost entirely "devs" (I call them Engineers — people who design, build, and ship software). A lot closer to 120 than 80. However your estimates a pretty far off in terms of people who work on dotcom — that number is much closer to 15.

One of the more interesting sociological problems of software to me is this idea that more people equals faster movement. The only studies in this field prove the opposite, yet common opinion is simply that: more people equals more output. We've actually spent a great deal of effort not growing our team lately, much of which has directly contributed to an increase in pace.

I would credit our pace far more to the organizational structures we've created within our company (ex: http://tomayko.com/writings/adopt-an-open-source-process-con...) than the size of our team.

I'll just leave this right here: http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-...

Our work is still primarily client based at Lincoln Loop and we share many of the same principles that GitHub does. Keeping track of billable hours is how we get paid, but our people get to choose when, where, and how many hours they will bill. We've written a little about it here: http://lincolnloop.com/blog/categories/business/

This is part of a larger scheme by Github to get you to start writing text and code directly into the website. This is just another nice, small editor improvement.

Say what you like, but I much prefer having a screen to type in vs a piddling little textarea.

I wasn't even aware this was a thing. Google's been busy updating their older stuff as of late- the new image search took me by surprise just earlier today.

Why? Zen doesn't have anything to do with that symbol, IIRC.

Zen is also shit sticks, rotten vegetables, and screaming. It's Ikkyu's poem about how he hates incense, it's Ryokan playing ball with the village kids, it's Pai-chang refusing to eat, it's arduous meditation retreats, it's Seung Sahn surviving on pine needles, it's Bernie Glassman founding a bakery to give work to the unemployable, it's seeing into your own self-nature, it's the Rinzai master hitting you with a stick, it's the Gateless Gate, it's a rhinoceros horn, it's the family of the Buddha, it's the vow to save all sentient beings from suffering, it's "vast emptiness, nothing holy," it's arousing the spirit of great doubt, it's drinking coffee out of a thermos in a beat-up old car, it's getting laid (that's wisdom!), it's Kanzeon's all-pervading gaze of compassion, it's drinking wine and eating fish, it's a blown-out candle, it's a pebble in a bucket -- in short, it's not just elegant stuff for refined aesthetes.

"Joshu Roshi: It is very hard for me to comment on things like Japanese culture. I am Japanese. So things like chado (tea ceremony) and so on, these are things I almost cannot speak about because they are so much a part of my culture. My feeling is so deep. I could try to show you though.

"If you brought me a tea bowl, one of those fine, very very expensive tea bowls... You know that most of them have names? Like people's children or pets, they have names... If you brought me one of those tea bowls then I could show you my feeling. I would first have to drink some water. Yes, very much water. And then I would pick up the tea bowl and look at it from every angle. I would sit in seiza before it and admire it, how much it cost. And then I would piss in it. And then I would drink more and more water and piss in it again and again. I would have to drink the Pacific ocean and the Atlantic ocean to be able to truly show you my feelings about Japanese culture and what it has to do with Zen. [...]

"These army people and rich people, lords and ladies and emperors wanted to play with Zen. Some lazy monks played with them and painted pictures for them, taught them how to eat and drink tea. But the army people and the lazy monks made a big game out of tasting tea. They sat around making moon faces and doe eyes about "simplicity" in little tea huts. These tea huts were built especially for them to sit around like that. This cost a lot of money, being "simple" like that. [...]

"Zen arts without Zen study is just cultural junk."

That made me laugh!

Nice, thanks!

My guess is that they're making sure this works before integrating it into the editor at large. Isn't that the most obvious thing to do with it?

Initially, i thought it had shortcuts and syntax highlighting. Anyway, i don't think it will be too long before they will add these features. But it's true, now is kind of useless.