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Definitely give supertab a shot. It's recently become one of my favourite plugins and now I'm tabbing religiously

Good point except that I'm strictly speaking about Software. I didn't explicitly state it because I thought it was implied.

Completely agree, the implementation should be protected by copyright but not the idea itself.

TV ads are poorly targeted yet businesses are pouring billions into it.

I don't believe the hype. Ads do work, and web ads are even better.

Not only are some ads personalized, but they also have a call to action. There are many times where I can make the purchase right then and there.

The experience will get better over time and I'm sure in the near future online advertising will own the biggest piece of the $ pie.

I think it has less to do with this and more to do with them not focusing their efforts on that front. It isn't like their current dev stack is the pinacle of performance either. Give it a few years and I'm sure they'll have native Dart applications which will be just as performant.

Didn't know about the Samsung Series 9. Thanks for the tip!

When it comes to a developer laptop I can really care less about design, slimness, even weight.

The most important things for me are

    A matte screen
    Excellent keyboard
    Large resolution for large amount of screen real estate
    SSD
    Good CPU & RAM
    And built solid/well

That being said it's really difficult to find that sort of combination in anything other than a Mac

Was anyone else expecting a Macbook Air 15" with Retina display?

Agreed. Shame to see so many reputable companies not give a rat's ass about security when they seriously prompt for security questions like "Where was your honeymoon?" or "What was your first car?" -- I've even seen "Where did you graduate High School?"

Whomever thought this was a good idea needs to be kicked in the groin.

I have to agree with Linus on this and it's nice that he's taking time to write out his thoughts in public.

GitHub commit messages can be really ugly. I'm guilty of this and it's not something I'm proud of. I think the small improvement they did a while ago with the display of commit messages is a step in the right direction, I wish they would apply that same style to the web interface when composing commit messages.

edit: A good fix would be a way to turn off pull requests for projects or at least redirect users on how to send pull requests.

I will trade in most of that for just a matte screen. I read code all day and I like my terminal black. Most laptops nowadays function as mirrors instead of laptops.

I actually like the widescreen displays for coding. I keep my line counts to 80 columns and now I can have two files side by side. Or a file open and a browser open side by side.

Now you're just trolling me.

I used to use this simple trick to hide my source where I would tell Apache to treat JavaScript files as PHP applications and then I'd use sessions to show the file. If the session was missing I would display bogus text.

Not joking, but yes a horrible example that's already been pointed out.

Your password doesn't have to be "6tFcVbNh^TfCvBn" but it can be something like "The quick fox jumps over the lazy brown dog." and still be strong with the added benefit that it's more memorable.

Password-less authentication will be great once the machine can recognize my face and voice and know it's me.

Do you never watch TV past 3am?

The page just makes it sound too good to be true and that makes some people skeptical.

I can understand why it may 'look like a scam' to you.

The sales tactics on that page are also used by people trying to scam you into buying their product. It's almost like "it's too good to be true" -- but no, it's true and the book is quality. Buy it, you won't regret it.

Marc-André Cournoyer, the author of the book, also writes about his sales tactics if you're interested -- you should go buy that book too.

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It seems your problems are with JavaScript and not node.js.

With all of the transpilers surfacing such as CoffeeScript, Roy, ClojureScript, etc; you can program in an 'expressive' and 'natural' way and use node.js as well.

I don't see the problem with that.

+1. Having users micromanage their commits to their repository because of fear of losing "popularity" is not the solution. Automation is the path to the future, let the computer aggregate the content for us and display a cleaner news feed.

I for one am very excited to see B2G finally ship. I'm anxious to see how well this OS performs and how well thought out is user experience is. I trust Mozilla, they build quality products. The competition is fierce though and the carriers ultimately have too much power here in the US. I really hope B2G is committed to competing in the mobile arena.

webOS is far from perfect but damn it is still the best mobile OS out there. I would trade off some performance to have these features in my mobile phone.

It's sad the general public doesn't feel the same way and I really hope other mobile OSs can learn from webOS and innovate on those problems that webOS has solved really well.

haha, I see what you mean and it does sound like I have a bad attitude. But I feel like the overall gain I'd get from this isn't worth the time I'll spend retraining my muscle memory.

Or in other terms, I don't think I'm going from horse to car.

Perhaps I should experiment for a month and see if it does actually make a difference.

I'm guilty of some of these anti-patterns (like for example the arrow keys) but honestly I feel incredibly fast and productive when using ViM. I'm afraid to drastically tweak my workflow at this point because I don't think the optimization will be worth it.

Overall it feels like good advice but it's just not my cup of tea.

I believe open source software benefits many people and I like helping people. OSS has also helped me become a better developer, I've also made new friends, and gotten jobs because of it so it has definitely been very rewarding and I guess that's why I continue.

I believe new opportunities will open up. Change will come. There are plenty of needs that will surface somewhere and it's up to the "average" to adapt to fill those needs.

Those that don't adapt or resist the change will be the ones that suffer the most. This is a pattern with many things in life.

Post high school education is overrated. In fact the American school system won't really prepare you to face the reality.

Yes it seems like the need for these "average" jobs are decreasing but in the end it will all balance itself out and there will be new areas that would need to be filled.

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