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Granted I haven't played the steam version in awhile, I didn't have a ton of issues with it, and the non-steam version was just not for me. Additionally, I believe they hired another dev who was cleaning up a lot of things, so maybe better now?

I wonder if shows like The Office, Parks and Rec, Seinfeld, etc end up becoming the "classic rock" of streaming.

No, Snowflake runs it's own storage and compute (on either AWS, GCP, or Azure depending on what you pick).

I recently joined Mattermost, and am currently in the midst of getting us switched over from using Segment to RudderStack.

The RudderStack team has been super responsive and it's great to be able to support another open-source based business.

The biggest selling point for us is being able to maintain total control of our data with us having barely having to do more than change an endpoint. It also allows us to use one place to send all our analytics data across our various platforms and it just works.

I actually learned Norman a number of months ago to a pretty reasonable level (90WPM) with http://type-fu.com/.

However, I couldn't get over the hump to use it day to day. It's hard to unlearn vim commands and all.

Strangely, I'm able to switch pretty effectively between qwerty and norman. Also strange is if I think about typing in my mind, it's in the norman layout.

I've been keeping track of Google Fi since it was released.

I'm hoping the new Nexus 5 (both LG and Huawei versions) is compatible with Google Fi, although I did call the Fi support number (and talked to a real human) and she said they haven't heard anything about support for the Nexus 5.

Here's hoping.

I've recently been making the switch to Norman and use vim. I initially tried to remap a bunch of keys (especially hjkl) but you end up going down a path of remapping more than you want.

So I've just started getting used to using the same keybindings just in a different spot. So far it's not too bad. Like anything, you get used to it.

I use this quite a bit. Also displays named captures with values which is nice.

I think the key point that this article is missing, and maybe it's just assumed by the author, is that when you're sending out the life rafts in an uncharted direction you get enough user feedback to either work the feature into your product or not.

Hey guys,

For those interested in the technical specs: we're using Django, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap (we are not designers), nginx, uwsgi. We are going to use Stripe for billing (when I get it implemented).

We currently have two 512 MB nodes with Linode.

We're using this cool bootstrap-styled datepicker: https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker

If you were trading salary for equity and the startup fails you're out that. You're also out time which you could have been advancing at a different company.

However, because working at a startup is gambling, you have to treat it as such. If you can't live with losing out on salary you could've made at another job, you shouldn't work at a startup.

I used the 1.x versions of Selenium pretty heavily at my last job and the JavaScript selectors could get pretty hairy (even with jQuery).

Does anyone with experience with Selenium 2.0 know how much of a boost WebDriver gives for performance? Especially doing tests of a SPA with a lot of AJAX could get hairy and slow.

I think it's a point to consider but I think the main point is that these "business" people showed passion and had delivered on that passion by creating mockups, logos and so forth.

I think Apple generally goes for the first mover advantage. I think that's great.

I don't think there is any problem with Android using the way paved by Apple and taking it a different direction.

Competition begets better products at cheaper prices, what more could a consumer ask for?

A good point. With low weight and maximum torque from 0 to 6000 rpm, it will be interesting to see what performance cars will look like in 20 years.

The takeaway I have from this is that people are people, no matter their status: not sure if what they're doing is what they should be, insecure about other's love for them, never satisfied.

It reminds me that we're all people, all human.

Also reminds me of a bible verse (Ecclesiastes 9:10): "Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom."

Whether rich or poor, happy or not, we all die.

Initially I balked at the thought of maintenance programming but I think this author does a good job explaining the upside.

However, the giant downside to maintenance programming is the sheer amount of frustration possible when trying to fix it, even when the programmer you want to kill is your former self.

I think if you say to yourself "this system makes money", no matter how bad it is, maybe you can see the silver lining.

I'd like to say that Scott Gonzalez and I have been working to unify the API and make it more consistent.

When the 1.9 release is out, we're hoping to have less bugs and more consistent code. I believe the effects plugins are also going to be rewritten (draggable, droppable, etc) which should improve consistency and behavior of all the plugins.

I agree with you, although I wonder to what extent "cutting the fat" helps corporations during recessions, when layoffs can easily be blamed on a down economy.

I'm not sure what you've read but you can have regular "stock" functionality (minus Sense, MotoBlur, TouchWiz in most cases) in a custom ROM. It's really up to whoever puts the ROM together what theme or differences it has. Some are good, some are bad.

In CyanogenMod's case, you can have the stock feel with more options.

I've always found there are two types of employees.

Employees who do the tasks in their realm of their responsibility and that's it. I think that's fine. In a company, you need employees who reliably work in their realm.

There are also the "entreprenurial" employees who want to create value in the company and go above and beyond.

I think you need both.

I think what people are really searching for is satisfaction.

If they define satisfaction as being top 5% in wealth, then they'll probably have a long road to satisfaction.

As for me, and I suspect others here, I'm satisfied when creating value. Dollars made is just a fallible measure of how much value has been created.

I'm kind of interested if you could point us in the direction of specific techniques. I always thought neural nets and genetic algorithms were interesting and I'm curious what other techniques are out there.

Just as Call of Duty and other violent games are teaching a generation to act violently?

I think this is a good point.

However, if we maintain the standardized testing, I would say also reward teachers who improve students from say 95% to 99% or keep them scoring 99%.

When I was in school, I would consistently score 98-99% on standardized tests. One of my teachers was forced by the principal of the school to apologize to my parents for not improving my scores.

I think the word "successful" makes more sense to me in this context. He was successful at prioritizing activities to achieve goals he wanted to accomplish, but what was won?

I congratulate the author on having the discipline to accomplish these things.

Either way, I think it's a good example of using discipline to accomplish ones goals.

Could you make it more obvious where to click and hold to drag?

I think you want to allow the user to select the text with the mouse without moving the note, but maybe some kind of styling at the bottom and top of the note to designate a "drag" zone.

I've always thought it's a fools errand to try and go against what you feel. If you "go to work and _try_ to be successful" you'll end up burning out.

My advice would be to find problems that you can't instantly think of the solution to. Whether that be a startup or whatever, you need more challenge.

Perhaps it's an act of intimidation, more than likely it was placed on the product years in the past and it would cost the company a lot of money to take the patent number off.

Also, if I'm looking to make a competing product, and I see a patent number on a similar product, would it not make sense for me to check if the patent is still in effect? I'm not just going to see a patent number and say to myself, "oh shoot, they already got it, guess that's the end of that."

And from a consumer perspective, do I really care if there is a patent for this product or not?

My compromise would be to say the company would be required to have the patent numbers taken off and perhaps a fine to the USPTO, but why should this lawyer get money?

I completely agree. What really irks me is when Mr. Stauffer claims he's doing "a service to the United States". Seems more like a service to his wallet.