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The soft-touch carbon fiber finish can hang on to a smudge, but the aluminum outer shell is very smudge-resistant. It's much better than plastic.

I have one. Build quality is excellent! No complaints.

It is certainly slower than Sublime, and is so on well-speced machines. I have machines with i7s, 16gb of ram, and an SSD, and atom still chokes when dealing with large amounts of data. Try multiple selections on large text files and watch it grind to a halt.

Certainly people are falling in love with Atom. It is open source ("hackable editor", as they say at Github), and of course this leads to a much quicker development cycle. Sublime has been criticized because features and updates are few and far between, and there appears to be a reluctance to open-source it.

>> File types can be easily associated with Atom now it registers itself so it can be associated with file types. No more need to hunt for atom.exe

This is great! I've had to associate with atom.cmd for quite a while now, which has been a bit annoying.

Posting this from an XPS 13. You're right - they look quite nice, and the performance is really there for an ultrabook. Dell has a developer edition that comes with Ubuntu on it out of the box if that's more your style, but Windows 10 is actually not too bad either.

That's fine, but they didn't introduce this functionality until recently. One day, I logged into my DO console (I don't have a reason to do this very often), and saw a new backup tab. Older customers might not even be aware.

I don't host anything I couldn't live without though, so I'm not really worried.

This is very important. You have to make sure you have the upper hand. This has been successful for me even in the private sector. I left a department once with another offer in hand, and they were willing to rewrite the job spec (and salary range) to convince me to stay. The other offer was more lucrative with more upward mobility, so I ended up leaving anyway, but it's a much better experience when you don't have anything to lose.

I hope that higher-res screens become standard in the 13-15in line of PC laptops. I have an XPS13 that I love, but there are still many programs (even certain interfaces inside Windows itself!) that do not behave well with hi-DPI displays.

Each and every suggestion is a sane and much needed improvement.

I buy brands that make their pods biodegradable. This one specifically is cheap and doesn't harm the environment. I can throw these into my garden and they disappear pretty quickly: http://www.amazon.com/San-Francisco-Bay-OneCup-Coffees/dp/B0...

The problem with taking a few minutes is that some of us who drink coffee don't have a few minutes. Not a morning person - and that's why I drink it in the first place.

I'm with you on this one. When I first heard about this and signed up for the newsletter, I was genuinely excited. However, the more I hear about it, the more disinterested I am.

Really really well done. I am consistently surprised at the level of quality we can achieve from simple web games these days.

Played through to level 8 before taking a break. Very fun and the artwork is excellent.

Cool idea, but the UX is very unintuitive. For example, when trying to search for a hotel in LA, every time I zoom (the mousewheel doesn't work?) it begins searching. Slowly. When it finally updates (I have clicked zoom several times by now), it zooms out again to the first zoom level. This really needs to be fixed so that it behaves more like Google Maps' search, where I can continue to zoom in until I have reached my intended geographical area, and then the search could finalize. It's fine if it searches as I zoom, but it's not fine if it refreshes the map. It's almost unusable unless you uncheck the box to disable searching when the map is moved.

My thoughts about the landing page - It's pretty, but again, the UX is bad. While the screen is loading, I see the slogan drop in (pieces at a time), a second tagline drop in, and then a how it works button. By the time the search has dropped in (this is really your call to action, right? You want people to begin searching, and see it right away), I have already scrolled passed it down the page looking for the search. When I come back up and finally see "Oh, there it is", I've wasted a ton of time looking for it. I recommend that you make this static. The slogan can drop in if you'd like, but this needs to have a permanent place on the landing page.

Upon searching, it took as long as it did to write this paragraph to find any hotels. It returned 11 results, and I'm searching near USC in Los Angeles. Zoomed in a bit further to only encompass 2 hotels, and it took roughly 11 seconds to find them. Anything you can do to speed this up?

It's a neat concept, just hoping to give some constructive criticism.

Is there any single person that is so upset over the change that they would install a browser extension to reverse it?

This is mad. It will grow on you, just give it some time.

The design is incredibly on-point. The breakpoints for smaller screens work well for me, and everything is where I would expect it to be. The subtle animations and the crisp/clean interface are very refreshing.

Last time I looked at the forums/bb landscape it still seemed to be dominated by phpBB, WordPress' bbPress, and vBulletin. I hope these really fall out of style, as I just don't believe communication online happens in a way that lends itself to those architectures anymore.

Hopefully there isn't any DRM ;).

I think this could work. There could be a decent aftermarket sales opportunity, too. The ability to sell 'prettier' planters/etc.

I think this has been around for a little while. I remember seeing it pop up on my feed.

I think it's a great idea, but a lot of the animations are still a bit clunky (slow/choppy). Polymer still has the leg up, but this is neat for projects where you know your user base won't have access to the latest and greatest browser.

Fair enough! I think there is a lot of information out there, and it can certainly be overwhelming.

I believe John is writing for an audience that PG is not addressing. He is taking his lifestyle business approach and saying that it should apply to businesses that are seeking funding and trying to ultimately have an exit, or become a shiny unicorn. This just isn't the right advice for YC style companies.

I do not know much about big business financials, but this seems like a move that would allow Google to separate its experimental or research-based businesses that do not turn a profit from its giant bulging revenue beasts. It will likely allow Google to post better quarterlies, and push their stock up even higher.

Appointing Sundar as CEO also allows them to focus more on the cool stuff in Alphabet and let Sundar run the meat and potatoes Google operations. Interesting moves.

I personally have moved on to Google Messenger for MMS. It's simpler and faster. I like the feature of being able to color-code my contacts in conversations too. It just makes it a lot easier to read through a group text that way.

Hangouts is cool and all, but I wish Google would just decide which app they are going to push and get on with it.

Cue thousands of determined hackers descending on Project Euler! It would be great if the community could find the exploit and save the site.

I've changed the way that bookmarks are handled. It now waits until an element is clicked before updating the hash in the URL. Once that has been done, the page (and position on the page) can be bookmarked/shared/etc.

Thanks. I'll take a look. I think localstorage would solve the problem of keeping your place on a single computer, but it wouldn't allow you to bookmark it on your PC, and return on your phone to the same spot for example.

Thanks for pointing this out. I hadn't realized that it does this. I'm thinking of a way to fix it. I appreciate the feedback.

My Samsung Smart TV started doing this recently. A small banner ad scrolls across the top of it telling me about some new app that I should download (presumably on the TV's app store?).

It seems to me that once a product (TVs, smart phones, tablets, etc) becomes a commodity, the business model is to immediately stop focusing on creating well-built products that sell themselves, and start focusing on your new product -- the user.

It's actually very strategic. You'll start having "a-HA!" moments after you have wasted quite a bit of time there.

One of the first things I realized is that a very small cell can safely hide near the largest cells in the game. Since the larger a cell, the slower its movement, the small cells can use the larger ones to shield them without risk of being devoured. Kind of a host/parasite relationship. Just eat their scraps until you're large enough to go out on your own.

There are many other little nuances you'll pick up on, but I won't spoil it!

This article sounds inspiring when taken at face value, but it also strikes fear into my heart. This sounds eerily familiar to the dot-com bubble, and I can't help thinking that churning out zero-to-hero software engineers, web developers, and data scientists at this rate is a recipe for disaster.

Sure, there's a huge need right now, but we can't be too complacent -- thinking that it's impossible to saturate the market again, can we?

Hopefully this doesn't end poorly.

What are the advantages of the MS stack?

I'm familiar with Apache - Where can I learn more about IIS? What are some good C# learning resources? I have been using Safari Books' videos so far. Where can I learn more about Entity Framework?

It's uhh.. cool. Haha. I can't think of a good reason either, but we're all hobbyists here, right? It looks like a fun weekend project.