JesseObrien

As far as "screech to a halt." is concerned, it's maybe a little on the exaggerated side, but I'd believe it. I've worked for 5 different companies of varying sizes from 5 to 1000 employees. All of them have used Google Apps to run their business. Email, Calendars, Docs, Basically the Apps suite in it's entirety is the core of communicating and information storage.

There's arguments for backups, etc but in reality if the common business person working at these companies sits down and none of their Google products work, their day will halt.

That's a really naive assessment of his comment. I share a similar sentiment as the OP here, programming (not coding) is hard. A lot of us get paid well to solve complex problems for clients who expect us to do the job right. Institutions like codecademy, and other "learn to code" incentives make it seem like you can just knock some achievements off a list and bang, you're on the way to being a programmer!

Having spent a lot of time around industry vets and people who started doing this stuff in the 80s, these "nice new services" aren't all they're cracked up to be. The freelance coder market is becoming an annoying thing for the reputation of programmers, consultants and companies who know their shit, and do a great job for their paying customers.

"No reason", other than the massive budget constraints NASA faces, and has been facing yearly since the end of the Apollo program.

https://static.nationalpriorities.org/images/charts/2015/tot...

See that Science heading there on the chart? It's hard making the world a better place on a 0.7% budget. DARPA, however has access to that Military heading, 16.3%.

Check out this video, he's very humble and down to earth. He's worthy of the praise he gets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOpmaLY9XdI

A theoretical discussion, such as the article's, isn't trying to nail down true or false. The discussion is rooted in and follows established truths along the way to explore potential new possibilities. This is what theorizing is. If we simply sat around discussing facts and non-facts we'd never get anywhere with discovery.

A question such as "What's true and what's false?" does not prompt for knowledge expanding discussion. We want to ask things like:

* What exists as scientific fact now?

* Is what exists now provable by scientific method or is it still in theory stage?

* What seems likely and/or possible as the next steps?

* Can we test anything in the resulting discussion with scientific method to prove them?

While I agree with the chicken and egg statements, I think the sensationalism is a Good Thing in this instance. The language of the article and the way the information is presented gives way to some good discussion points and thought projects. If you simply wanted more "facts" and "knowledge" of human reproduction, go read Wikipedia.

These kind of articles don't cause misunderstandings, people interpreting the language as fact, do. So long as the reader understands the language in the article, I see no problems with it. Nothing in the article states that the presented information is beyond theory. It's a discussion of those theories with supporting science thrown in where necessary to drive further questions and discussion.

You can also do in the terminal:

  hipchat --detach &

> Asking people to write tests before they write code is like asking them to test-drive a new car before it even exists. This isn’t possible.

This is an incredibly bad analogy that really doesn't stand up. You can write tests before you write the implementation of them, to define how you want the end result of your program's interfaces to look. The rest of the article arguing the semantics behind calling them tests or specifications doesn't add anything but confusion to the testing discussion.

This:

> Calling tests specifications makes the concept more intuitively available in several ways.

Is entirely subjective.

I came here to post something like this, though I'm not a NASA engineer. I feel like there's been a few articles that have had the same strange claims of "lost" technologies. They lead the reader into thinking that since 1960 we haven't discovered or done anything significant to be able to recreate the space vehicles of that era.

The laws of physics haven't changed significantly since 1960, we understand a lot more about the same challenges of getting things to orbit now than we did even then. Technology, however, has changed a huge amount since then and if our priorities were still to land things on the moon then we would still have great success at it. Priorities and end goals have shifted around the scientific space community since 1960 and the average person seems to think that there's more value in lunar operations than anything else, which is simply not true.

Ignorance of the fact that we don't know enough about what long-term habitation of humans in space means for the body and mind seems to blind people into saying things like "we should have moon bases!", and call for "permanent settlements on the moon!". The research happening on the ISS, very close to home in case things go wrong, is essential to the steps needed to achieve things that people think should just happen because hey, they went there 40 years ago!

> There has to be something about space that makes people toss money at videogames.

Which is a damn travesty when people won't throw money at space in real-life. Other than a few huge backers (Musk, Branson) that have loads of money to hinge on this stuff, no one seems to care or pay attention.

Isn't the lack of money a major part of these problems in the first place? Imposing monetary fines on people who are riding the poverty line doesn't seem like a good solution.

I had to go in an remove the custom font CSS in chrome to get through that article. That font is absolutely terrible!

Awesome, this is a really good breakdown of the Go web ecosystem. Thanks for that.

This doesn't look like it expands much on what the Go web server does and it also looks like it's been abandoned. Last commit was ~5 months ago from today, with most of the rest being 7-8 months ago and 40-something issues piled up. For some better web experiences in Go I'd check out revel[1] or gorilla[2]

1. http://robfig.github.io/revel/

2. http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

Might I suggest something like redis* for storing this data? Or is that what you mean by database?

* http://redis.io/

For scrolling small distances there's the mouse wheel; for everything else there's spacebar.

I had almost this exact same scenario happen to me. As a developer, I was excited to see what new fun things at the time (2009) were coming out of RIM. To my dismay, like yours, I couldn't even get a hello world to run after much tinkering and configuring. After I learned that they didn't even use the SDK they released into the wild in their own development, I knew it was a lost company. Dogfood and all that.

>I think he'd do better to stay silent and let me come to this conclusion on my own instead of feeling dirty for having him agree with me.

I'd prefer if he didn't, silence is a cancer. If anything has been blatantly apparent in the last 20 or 30 years it's that the American people as a whole simply cannot form any correct conclusion about anything that actually matters.

Sure, they'll all ring in to vote on American Idol, but it's a tough sell to vote yes on gay marriage.

They'll make sure they hit 'like' on hundreds of Facebook posts in a day, but can't bring themselves to make an educated vote in an election (or even vote at all).

Nationalize healthcare and reform social security to help millions of your own countrymen from dying broke? Busy watching Gangnam Style.

Vote out corrupt congressman and other government officials who take massive payouts from lobbyists? Football's on, get out of the way.

The information age has quickly turned into the distraction age, and it's showing.

Same problem here. I couldn't get it to move properly at all unless I picked the mouse up and moved it.

For me, it made a larger difference in my awareness of how much energy I actually use. Before nest I simply programmed my thermostat once and never touched it again because of the pain. Now I consciously adjust the temperature throughout the day from my desktop or phone. Just being able to walk out the door and turn the temp down from my phone if I'm suddenly not going to be home for a while is savings enough for me. I'm sure there are other thermostats that do the same thing but nest has done their advertising right and their interface/product design is top notch.

>I am at home, on the couch, with an ipad. That is my favorite computing device at home, I hardly touch my desktop these days... Times are changing... Why would I want to use a truck at home?

That is the most pretentious load of bullshit I've heard in a long time. The creators took the liberty to warn you that they might eat into your data plan that you may be capped on and you call them out? Not to mention the rendering on this site would bring your little ipad to it's knees. This attitude has got to go.

Can anyone get the install process to actually work? I got to 'python manage.py installdb' and it failed because that command doesn't exist in manage.py. I tried a bunch of the other commands from manage.py help as well and still nothing.

To be a bit more specific, I was moving some sites over from linode as a test to see if they would perform the same on DO. So effectively they only lost some test stuff. Still data loss though, like you said.

I noticed the same thing when I initially switched. I actually had them lose the box I was on, and the backups associated with it. They apologized and indicated it was an issue at the datacenter that they didn't have much control over. They gave me a really nice bit of credit on my account and I've since had no problems. I'm a fan of the pricing as well as their support.

Quite blatant indeed. They obviously didn't do any research on things like http://tagsfordroid.com/ which is a brilliant use of NFC that could not be duplicated on an iPhone.

Great work by Taylor and everyone else involved. PHP hasn't seen a framework quite like this before and it's refreshing using it.

I think using the word "obvious" is very misplaced here. Obvious would suggest that fully understanding the statement is something the casual person would arrive at given no help or extraneous thought into the statement. This is simply not true given what we know about the average intelligence of humans.

Nothing against the author at all, this seems like a cool little project, but I would never want to inline that much anything on a large project. Inlining things like that takes the maintainability and throws it out the window.

I think that's the entire point behind this article. What you're talking about and what "big data" actually exists as, are two different things. What you're talking about is data refinement. As you said, linking things together and trying to look at your data in different contexts and dimensions than what you do normally. This can be done on a nearly any data set small or large. Big data gets into the realm of literally having so much data to process that data refinement becomes nearly impossible without a significant combination of thinkers, doers, machinery and money.

He's actually enunciating that way because his wife was deaf. She could read lips, so he would enunciate very carefully.