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TRS-80 Model 1. I still fondly remember soldering in a chip to enable lower case. Yep that's right -- lower case required a hardware mod via a soldering iron.

While I'm not a huge walker, I find that there are definite benefits to learning when to walk away from the keyboard and just plain think out problematic code. As a young developer, its hard to realize sometimes that the best thing you can do is just _stop coding_ and think hard.

Hi,

> the safest bet is a mid-high end model. For personal use, buy a used flagship laser printer 2-3 generations old.

Can you a specific recommendation? Thanks in advance.

I recently started mentoring a small group (3) of homeless people that have demonstrated computer proficiency under the auspices of a local Indianapolis homeless teen charity. We started with 3 and two have largely dropped out. One, however, is still going strong. We are using the Free Code Camp curriculum (goal is a front end engineering job) paired with side lessons from my own experience along with a class project so at the end the students have a public thing on the Internet that they can point to and say "I built that".

The jury is still out if this will succeed or not but I hope that it does and if so it will likely be expanded beyond its pilot stage.

On the encouraging front, I've seen the following progress:

* The student got paying work doing some wordpress stuff on the side so a side gig! * The student got an Ubuntu based development environment up and running all on his own

To me the best thinking around in the design of a writing tool is Scrivener. It is the first writing tool that seems to understand that writing, research, note taking a process and the page is the output from that process. My single objection to Scrivener is that its native data structure is RTF. I dearly wish it was a pure markdown tool.

I don't know how, in 2017, you write something this long about a new programming language and fail to have a single example or even hello world. Sheesh.

I think the best advice I can give is the nike approach: Just Do It. If you want to be good at telling stories then you have to drop your ego and just tell them. I'm a blogger and blogging is the best thing that ever happened to my story telling. Being able to write whenever you want, without a gatekeeper, editor or schedule meant that my story telling skills could develop at their own pace.

I still churn out 100% of my code and blog entries in TextMate 2. I've been using TextMate since 2006 and nothing else just "feels" as good.

I'm a parent of two boys (16 and 10) and I'd strongly, strongly advice tying it to chores and then using it to teach that performance matters. Do a good job? You get your allowance. Do a bad job? Sorry; no allowance. Saving is a hard skill to learn as is that performance matters. An allowance is a great way to teach both.

So no support for anything other than Chrome and no support for devices other than Android? Really?

I can't second this strongly enough. Honestly I didn't move to the iPhone 7 solely because of the shift from the traditional button style to the new non press-able button. I don't even want to think about an iPhone without a home button.

I do not think it is just novice users that like the home button.

If you're looking for additional sources of events, you could try adding the events from http://techmeme.com/. They have a sidebar which is always current. They also have: http://www.techmeme.com/events which would add a lot of flow.

I am all in favor of side projects but I found a number of disturbing errors:

* There are no conferences for either Ruby or Elixir * There are no conferences on bitcoin * There is only one conference for React * You can leave data in the form on where by not picking autocomplete and then it appears to have searched for it but gives incorrect results * The only way to clear the date settings is to reload the page

I love the concept and the lack of knowing what conferences are happening even nearby is a very real problem but I think there are issues with your database and your search interface.

Ignoring the Unicode issues, I installed all of these, switched to the retina version of each in my editor and I found none of them any better than what I had been using (Menlo). I'm certain that YMMV but at least for me, there was no improvement (languages tested with were Ruby, and ERB formatted HTML).

I can definitely endorse Enpass as a great product. I never used to believe in password managers but the past year has made a believer of me. I had the passcode to our garage door stored as an encrypted note and ended up getting home for ElixirCon via a late night Uber and rather than wake up the family, I looked it up in Enpass, keyed it and and it was perfect.

I have it on all my Macs, my iPad and iPhone and sync via Dropbox has been flawless so far.

Software Engineer: iTerm, TextMate, Enpass, Ruby, Git

Hey Nick, here's my list: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/06/13/the-tools-i-use.html

tldr: Macbook Pro and TextMate 2 for most everything.

Hi. I'm a 49 year old software engineer who is still at the startup game -- I started in it when I was 19. If you want to talk this thru with someone who does have life experience and has been thru the startup grinder multiple, multiple times, my email is on my profile. I'd be happy to get on the phone or on skype with you and discuss. Just drop me an email. I've been there brother; it will work out.

I've done technical books for O'Reilly and John Wiley. As long as you are motivated and can finish on your own, I'd strongly advise self publishing. The money will be far, far better and you'll actually have control over the process. With a classical publisher, you will rarely get more than the initial advance. And, disturbingly, when I published with O'Reilly, I don't think I ever got statements showing sales. If the material you're writing is niche then I'd strongly advice LeanPub (I buy a lot of books there).

Hi Safek, the author here. Thank you for the input. I'm going to think very hard about what you're saying.

Hi Tim,

I dug into it and its an issue with the difference in engineering practices on larger gem projects versus smaller. Perfectly acceptable engineering approaches in the small don't work well on larger projects and right now there is a bias towards larger projects mostly because that's how I implemented it. Let me give it some thought. Thank you very much for the feedback.

Hi Tim,

What's the gem and I'll dig into it to make sure.

Hi there, Creator here. That's an excellent question and one that I am trying to address but, honestly, I don't have a full answer for yet. I tend to be biased in terms of freshness since things change so rapidly these days but there are certainly open source projects such as QMail or Bind which certainly aren't fresh but are absolutely stellar.

Food for thought. Thank you.

Here's the quick description that I would have added if there was both url and text in the initial submission:

Ever wondered if it's worth using a gem? ShouldIGem will generate a report card for a gem of your choice. Gems are graded on things like documentation, freshness, support and popularity. ShouldIGem's goal is to help you narrow down which gems you should use in your next project.

Note - The term "gem" is more branding at this point (I am a Rubyist) but it works for any project on Github - C, Node, Python, Rust, etc.

Another poster commented on network issues and he's definitely correct. In terms of our network, I'm running an access point from our fiber provider connected to an Eero wifi range extender coupled to a Circle network filter. All of our Roku boxes are connected to wifi except for 1 which is hard wired. The Eero boxes span 3 floors and performance is (finally) pretty good.

All my flat panel TVs have Roku 3 boxes (I don't see the need for 4K video since most of my content isn't 4K). I took a 2010 15" MacBook running 3 versions of OSX behind Seira and that runs Plex Media Server. This setup gives us easy access to Netflix, Amazon Prime as well as local content sourced from DVDs we own. Plex also lets us share videos created from our phones as well but that's probably its weakest feature.

I’d strongly recommend the book Dealers of Lightning. Now I should comment that Alan Kay was at Parc and its where he did amazing work that holds up to this day so pay the most attention to his answer of course. But I learned a ton about Parc’s history from Dealers of Lightning.

I’d also point out that Bob Taylor apparently had a hard limit of 50 researchers because he felt that was all he could manage. This meant that he, by this criteria, had to get the absolute best, smartest scientists / researchers he could find. If you look at the sheer number of absolutely brilliant people assembled at Parc during the same time period, it is astonishing: Alan Kay (smalltalk), Butler Lampson (alto, *), Bob Metcalf (ethernet), the founders of Adobe (postscript), Charles Simonyi (bravo which later became Microsoft Word), etc. Close to 100% of modern computing directly came from Parc.

Streisand is a very, very good idea -- unfortunately it simply doesn't work at present. I've tried using it on AWS and Google Cloud and neither option works whether I run it natively on Ansible under OSX or on Ansible under Vagrant.

It is very cleanly implemented implemented though -- nicely implemented playbooks (I write Ansible professionally so I can actually say that).

Going to try algo today.

Just a warning for anyone who purchased, I bought this last week on Feb 22nd. This morning, Feb 28, my wife noticed massive fraudulent charges on our credit card. I'm not saying that it was definitively HumbleBundle but they are on the official "affected by CloudBleed" bug. Check your card statement if you bought this.

Thank you so much for this. I actually couldn't find it the first time through so I documented the whole flow with screenshots here: http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/osx/2017/02/16/getting-rid-of-smart...