Pyrrhuloxia

You might be able to make the case that short variable names are reasonable as long as they are common and used consistently.

I am not completely sold on this, but for example LLVM has a lot of 1 character variables where 'I' is always the instruction you're working on, 'F' is always the function you're compiling, 'B' is the current basic block you're processing, etc.

Having worked on several compilers over the year, it's certainly not much worse than other practices I have seen like using 't1' and 't2' to refer to the two instruction temporaries you just created, or 'insn' for the instruction you're currently examining.

Great to see, for certain, not just for VS and Git, but for distributed version control systems in general.

There's no conflict here. You can build it on Git/Mercurial/DARCS/whatever and make it easy for those who are capable to use the command-line or their favorite Git GUI, and at the same time have a visual interface that hides all of that under the cover (e.g. creates a branch when you begin editing). The hard part of this would be conflict resolution, but that's already a hard problem for an online editing system like this (and I didn't look at it long enough to see what the solution here is).

Totally understandable if it makes the most sense for the people you see as your primary customers for this.

Out of curiosity, did this come out of the aaronsw Hackathon at Noisebridge this weekend?

[wish i had been able to make it there, but was unable]

One thing to keep in mind is that when a person is depressed or manic they are not thinking in what you might consider a "logical" way, or in a way that treats events with proper proportion and perspective. Thoughts can be very disorganized, small defeats can seem like crushing blows, minor slights can seem like significant insults, and you may feel unworthy of help or assume that nobody is willing to provide it.

I don't have a lot of data on this, but I recall reading that one significant factor involved in increased incidence of suicide is when there is a great discrepancy between personal expectations and actual achievements. Along with this it was mentioned that there is a higher rate of suicide in wealthier societies than poor ones, and among graduates from prestigious universities than average ones.

As a result I suppose it would not be an unreasonable hypothesis that entrepreneurs (who might have very lofty goals) might be more likely to commit suicide if they are either unsuccessful at sustaining a business or are successful, but never achieve the level of success that they had expected of themselves.

Whole-heartedly agree with what they are trying to do, but I wish they were using a git repo rather than a text control that requires you to be online.

She seems to be a relatively inexperienced recruiter (a few short stints at big-name startups) who decided to start her own firm.

Check her site: main.is

It renders horribly on my non-retina desktop display in Chrome, and is unbelievably slow - I guess she really does believe in hiring the inexperienced and puts her money where her mouth is!

> I think that the way to beat the stigma is talk openly about it.

Easier to say than to do. If you're depressed / bipolar / schizophrenic and talk about it openly it can make people very uncomfortable, which can result in their not wanting to be around you, which can result in further isolation for you, which can make your situation worse.