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I've used JRuby on a Rails 4.2 project and everything turned out fine on it. Many projects may not use what's not yet supported.

I came across https://www.bountysource.com/ the other day.

I can say without a doubt I prefer buying a laptop from Apple to anyone else I've tried due solely to the lack of options.

Over the last couple of years I've tried a few times at different vendors to find a different laptop, and every time I've given up because of all the options.

My problem is that when I'm presented with so many options, I spend hours trying to optimize them, and being unable, I give up.

I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More... has something to say about this.

It would be incredible to see what his answers are to these questions after having learned them through his experience over the last few years.

> the risk of quitting your job

Premise 3 was:

> Most freelancers will not build and/or follow-through with their ideas, because they perceive their opportunity cost to be too high.

I wouldn't quit my job for this (if I had a job), but as a freelancer I'd consider taking a month of no client work and building it at what amounts to a reduced hourly rate.

Is this "feature" new?

All of the sudden recently I noticed a lot of single word quoted replies happening to me, and I figured it was a bug.

The parent post mentions "billboard" but it is a digital road sign (at least the ones I've seen). It's on a pole higher up so people can see it easily, similar to how many billboards are done.

The line

> To read them back in, you fed the tape into the terminal and it simulated typing your source back into the computer.

reminded me of this story (which came at a much later date):

> A senior NASDAQ official saw Peterffy's setup and said Peterffy was breaking the rules: All orders had to be entered through the keyboard. He gave Petterfy's group one week to fix the problem.

> Peterffy and his engineers came up with a solution. They built a robot with rubber fingers that typed entries into the keyboard.

(from http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/27/159992076/a-father...)

Edit: It's a side note to the posted story, but it's interesting to me that we replace technical limitations with policy limitations.

> And unfortunately I can't leave them because it is a loan and not just a checking account.

You may be able to refinance the loan through another bank, which would pay off this one and let you go with someone more reasonable.

To me it really blends in with the picture on the front page. It took me a long time to find it.

What kind of sales are you getting with $7.99 as the price point? Have you considered increasing it?

> First, a question: any random person on the internet, without being logged in, used to be able to Thumb Up a YouTube video?

I think you needed to be logged in (or it would ask you to log in), but the point was that it didn't require a Google Plus account.

Sweet. Something similar has been on my ideas list for a little while now. Glad someone is doing it, because it needs to be done, and the idea never excited me to action.

I'm not a Vim user, but like you, I prefer to use several programs, which I lovingly call my disintegrated development environment.

I agree, but I have no idea how to get that information out of github, aside from perhaps iterating over every project there.

I think it would be cool if they made some aggregate data like that available though. =)

I see cost is mentioned a lot- but if BizSpark still runs how it used to, you can get a lot of tooling for free to start with, until you grow to where the cost wouldn't have as much impact on you. (http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/)

I have a friend in the Bay Area who started in .NET, and had so much trouble hiring programmers they scrapped it and started in a more fashionable platform.

I don't know what others' experience is like, but you might consider the ramifications of that potential problem.

I'm still learning to identify my sources of procrastination, so I'm not sure I've found anything effective yet.

On the other hand, I have done a couple of test/soft-launches this year, and have lost my fear of failing on those. That's more than I had done in the prior 10 years of being a programmer with aspirations, so it's progress.

I still struggle with probably doing too much before testing an idea, but I also struggle with doing too little, so I'm trying to find a balance. Learning, still, really.

I'm not advocating whether or not the patent should be awarded. Instead, I was trying to indicate that I felt like in 1995, it may not have been straightforward simply because not many people would have thought to even ask the question.

I guess one way to ask it might be, "how does one find a straightforward path to an unknown destination?"

> 1. Exploration & Execution.

I found myself really liking this section. Unfortunately, I think it was because it helped validate my inner fears that manifest as procrastination.

Overall, I liked the article, but be wary of using those early stages as a excuse on which to continue doing nothing.

"You could have asked any semi-competent engineer how would you build a digital music streaming service, and you would have received a similar general explanation."

The question I had after reading that was "who thought to ask about building a digital music streaming service in 1995?"

I was a little disappointed the post didn't cover that.

Statements like that remind me of the often cited "I could have done that" when people talk about art.

I see a blank white page with 3 links in the bottom right corner that appear to do nothing, and a lone copyright symbol in the bottom left corner.

Using Google Chrome 12.0.742.122 on Mac OS 10.6

Thanks for pointing me to that page. I've got some reading and playing around to do now. =)

Along the same line, the "Good, Bad, or Murky" value judgements are dependent on the POV, so it would be nice to see them explain how / why certain attacks got labelled one way as opposed to the others.

I'd like to know more about the protocol feature for the passwords that you mention. I've often wondered how to authenticate safely from a phone without requiring the user to enter their details every time they use it.

Where on wikipedia did you learn about it? (I'm assuming that was what the "Wikipedia++" was for -- If not, care to elaborate?)

I don't know how most states are doing on education budgets, but the districts around me in Texas aren't doing so hot. From what I can tell, we're cutting budgets by 1/6. (I saw spending of 54 billion in 2008-09 with cuts of 9 billion this year in separate reports)

How does that play into this?

The pricing jump is probably only "ridiculous" to you. Schools (and government in general) make it so hard to sell to themselves that prices in the tens of thousands are normal to them, even for tiny districts.

I don't think the pricing is the hard part - it's getting them to buy. And I'm not convinced those two are completely related.

I didn't have the same experience. Maybe try these direct links:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727781.400-brainhack...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727781.500-brainhack...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727781.000-brainhack...

As much as I'd like to see open access to ACM and other journals, I wonder how much it would benefit anyone? Surely almost everyone doing that work has a subscription. If not an outright membership, at least the University library will get them the articles.

>but who wants a wall of text or a sales pitch when they hit a site?

It may be a fine line, but I've noticed myself hitting a lot of new sites thinking "why don't they just tell me what it is/does and show me some screen shots before I have to sign up?"

I think it's a big deal. I almost always pass without it.