EdwardMSmith

Sounds like you've got a "grass-is-greener" thing going on. Everything is good where you're at, but you feel you're missing something. I've felt that way.

Go take a few interviews, and spend a few days in the Valley. Be sure to drive...at rush hour... price a few houses/apartments...

If you're anything like me - who is also in a medium-large (well, a college town just outside of) midwestern city that's highly rated for being a great place to live, with kids, wife with amazing job, etc. - interviewing and spending a little time there quickly clears up the grass-is-greener syndrome.

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With fast user switching, yes, but if you log out, then it shouldn't.

Set up two different accounts and log out/in between them.

Set the various programs you need to start automatically (from dock, options -> open on login)

Fast user switching: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6BNJS4W...

Exactly. If you have deeply nested data, multiple properties that may change, or arrays, then it becomes quite difficult (and/or slow) to test if there's a difference.

From my understanding, it makes shouldComponentUpdate() very simple:

return nextProps.value !== this.props.value;

If the object is different, it has changed.

3) 2014 Lassa fever to Minnesota: http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0404-lassa-fever.htm...

What 'part of Flux' is listening to(or triggering, for that matter) the ARTICLE_UPDATE, ARTICLE_UPDATE_COMPLETED, and ARTICLE_UPDATE_FAILED events?

The dispatcher?

Right after reading this thread, I fired up Software Update, and OSX Update 10.9.2 is available for me.

Links to here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6114 but nothing's on the page.

Edit: big update. 460M (I think), and took about 10 minutes on an Air.

Are the parents planning on doing (baby) sign language? If not, a book on how to do that would be, in my opinion, the best thing you could do.

I don't know what the latest research says about later brain development with early sign language learning, but I do know that teaching our kids baby sign language from birth certainly cut down on frustration as a parent, as we were much more likely to understand what the baby wanted/needed.

It's also a serious trip to see a 1 year old kid doing sign language.

I'm assuming this was a call with all the remote staff that edit the individual sites and live in the communities that the sites cover.

I don't think they were going to fly them all into a central location to fire them.

That is about as far from "terrible" as I can imagine the process being for a minor (in the United States) traveling internationally unaccompanied by their legal (in the United States) guardian.

And, how would you phrase that in a legal document like a terms of service?

Who determines "abuse of resources"? Who determines "being malicious".

If the sole determination of whether somebody is crossing the line for termination lies in Github, then the legal result is exactly what currently exists in the terms of service.

If Github does not have the sole discretion to make the determination of abuse, then who does? A third party mediator?

I wish GOG.com would set up some US-based banking.

I've stopped buying things from them, even though I want to, because my bank freaks out every time, due to "the high levels of credit card fraud originating from Cyprus".

This is the 4th year for node knockout. It and knockout.js are about the same age.

(honest question) - Is windows 8.1 free if I have a (full, standalone) copy of XP or Vista, or only if I own Windows 8?

Mavericks appears to be free for people with Snow Leopard (at least, that's what I read).

My personal experience is very different.

In 2011-ish (don't remember the exact date), we noticed that the battery on my wife's white (2006) Macbook had started to swell.

I looked into it and realized that there was a recall on the battery, and you could have gotten a free replacement, but the recall timeframe had expired.

I took the macbook to the Apple store anyway, as the computer worked perfectly otherwise (in fact, we didn't really notice any significant battery life issues anyway), and asked them about the recall.

They said, yes, the recall had expired, but they could do a one-time special thing and replace the battery for free anyway. They did that, and also replaced the keyboard "tray" which had started to crack a little bit.

The macbook still works perfectly today - 7+ years after purchase.

Second, the replacement cost for the "un-replaceable" battery in my 2012 Macbook Air is $129[1]. That is not "distressingly close to the price of a shiny new mac", and really not that far off of the cost of any other replacement battery for a machine in its class.

[1] http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=United...

It's a storage issue. Storing a useful quantity of hydrogen is very difficult.

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Did you use Backbone-relational for nested/related models? I've found that it has a significant performance penalty with lots of models.

The thing to understand is that he IS saying "yellow lorry". His muscles are simply not developed enough for it to sound correct. But if you tell him, "no, yellow lorry", he'll get frustrated because HE IS saying it to the best of his ability.

Just re-introduced my kids (8 and 10) to Scratch:

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Drag and drop visual programming. Its good for kids because it allows them to quickly create things that they're used to seeing/using (graphics, animations, sounds), but still uses real programming concepts.

At 5 you're going to have to sit with her and help guide her on concepts, but she'll pick it up quick.

Edit: Err, 5th grade, I see, not 5yo... sorry.

You could always become an "architect" or a "lead programmer". Figure out the big chunks, and the details of the new/innovative little chunks, then delegate the grunt work to "junior programmers".

Probably means a dull corporate gig, tho.

My take on it is this:

In the 70s and 80s, Lego was low resolution. Block, 4 bit color.

Now its just higher resolution (smaller pieces with more non-right angles), and higher bit-depth.

Lego has just paralleled video game evolution.

This generic knights theme?

http://kingdoms.lego.com/en-us/default.aspx?icmp=COUSFR33Kin...

And this fancy castle?

http://kingdoms.lego.com/en-us/Products/Default.aspx#7946

As a person that switched from Backbone to Angular, can you explain models in Angular (from a Backbone standpoint)?

I've looked over the docs, and as far as I can tell there really isn't a model in Angular - not anything concrete anyway.

The docs seem to explain that any JS object is a model as long as you make some reference to it.

Or, is an angular Controller (+ some JS data structure) really a model.

Its quite confusing to me.

When I had a rails app on Heroku (a while ago), I solved that by setting up a free Pingdom account to ping a full stack (hit the DB, hit any external services I was using) "heartbeat" route. I'm not sure if this works any more, though - they may have done something to work around it.

I fear this is going to be taken poorly, but this really made an impression on me. This is not a criticism of the author, nor really a condemnation of the lifestyle depicted - but only an observation. I find the "Myths of The Valley" both very interesting and very frustrating. This is about the Myth, not about the author.

This reads like a religious testimony, or a classic Campbell myth.

It begins with scripture from one of the prophets, "Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded. - Paul Graham" then moves to the (self-acknowledged) epiphany where the author expresses how his eyes, once closed are now open. In monomyth terms, its a mix of "the ordinary world", "call to adventure", and "the refusal":

"I’ve learned more and done more in the last four days than I have in the rest of my 22 years of existence." "Until last week, I was pretty convinced that I was a lazy, talentless fuckup." "We are so good at it that we can easily convince ourselves that we are happy doing something when in fact we are not. ... Then I woke up."

We then bring in several of the common Valley mythical elements:

The "all-nighter" - "This week I worked 15 hour days and was disappointed when I got too tired and had to sleep."

The "garage" - "On day one, I ... slept in a garage next to my motorcycle.

We then have, in monomyth terms, the "meeting with the mentor": "On day two I met with one of the biggest investors in the valley."

Testimony as to how life prior seems trivial: "There’s not not enough time to argue about what movies to watch or what restaurants to go to."

And the conclusion where the author warns about being led astray on the journey: "Between the time that I left Facebook and the time I joined Pixlee, I received a literal metric fuckton of advice, from respectable, well-meaning, intelligent people. I compiled all of the advice and in the end, went with my gut."

We're now at the beginning of Act II, I'm honestly (really!) excited to read the next part where we have "tests", "allies" and "enemies" and "the ordeal".

I think the whole startup experience fits with the monomyth quite nicely, and we already have a few epics coming out of the Age of the Valley - the Jobs myth and the Zuckerberg myth, among others - both of which fit the classic pattern pretty well.

Anyway, I wish the author well, it really is an amazing experience!

As an uneducated observer, what I understand is, to infringe on a patent, you need to infringe on every single claim in the patent.

Was looking at the patent and your website, and it doesn't appear as if you might infringe on the final claim:

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the computer is integrated into at least one of an audio system, a video system, and a message board of a sporting event to trigger content elements at times of sporting event milestones based on the production schedule.

Clearly that haven't patented rundown software - that has existed forever. Their invention seems to be to use rundown software to drive multiple screens in a sporting arena.

That said, you need a lawyer.

Just anecdata, but most purpose-built racing dashboards use a linear tachometer (vastly more critical in a racing situation than a speedometer) instead of a circular tachometer. It may just be a packaging thing, though.