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I'm wrapping up the degree in a few days, so that's one less item on my plate. Funny one of the things you suggested I can get rid of, is my child, surely you're joking Mr. krickman!

Sooner rather than later please. Thanks!

I wish there was a guide for dads (or moms) for balancing a one year old running around the house, running a software consultancy, an early stage startup and an MS degree on the side, all from home.

I think he may have been joking about the fact that Office is bloatware, and somewhere in that bloat, may hide a half assed diff tool.

You experienced segmented sleep [1]. Some argue that this is the natural way of sleeping, if you remove artificial lights and modern schedules.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep

Hardware cost has nothing to do with the price at this point. It's expensive because it's simply NOT mass produced for a massive audience. This is a prototype and they don't want anyone's grandma to get their hands on it just yet.

Can someone please explain to me the advantages of using MacVim over Vim through terminal?

Also probably because Google and Wikipedia's design wen't largely unchanged in the past 13 years.

It finds hotel reservations and flight itineraries in your email, and shows cards based off of those as well.

Have patience, the cards will appear when they're most useful. Also, the calendar cards don't appear when you make the appointment, it shows up to remind you and possibly give you an estimated time from where you are to the location of the appointment.

Reminds me of the recent move of Endeavour through the streets of LA. It was truly a magical sight to behold.

http://framework.latimes.com/2012/10/15/time-lapse-video-spa...

The stock camera app in Jelly Bean also has a particularly good implementation of a radial menu.

Out of curiosity, how do you develop on the Chromebook?

I pride myself on being very calm and patient, even while my 9 month old is screaming in my ear and smashing the keyboard while I try to type this.

I don't normally comment much, and when I do I try not to be negative. One thing I discovered in the last few days is that I have absolutely no patience for whining, especially when coming from grown man. This post, and a lot of comments around here sound like whining to me. These are my feelings regarding the recent Google Reader news and the comments surrounding it..

I want to be clear, I know why people are pissed off, some are angry because their beloved product was taken away, and for some, their trust was broken, perhaps more than once. It has certainly struck a nerve, and I want to have these conversations, but something about the tone of the people has really turned me off.

</end of whine>

Nothing in this world is forever. Get over it, you'll be happier. Take advantage of what's new and innovative, stop living in the past. It takes less than a minute to transfer your Google reader content over to the two dozen or so, very capable, replacements that are more than eager to take you on. If Google note decides to shut down in a decade, be assured that your content will be with you no matter where you decide to go next. There will certainly be many more, perhaps even more innovative and capable replacements at the time.

While it's nice to not have to migrate your content every decade or so (Google Reader was introduced 8 years ago), it's certainly not that painful. As apps and services evolve at blistering pace, I love the fact that we can get some fresh air, and a wave of new innovations. I hope more companies do what Google does, discontinue products, for whatever reason, and give others a chance to grow.

I honestly don't understand what all the fuss is about. Chrome browser will not support RSS natively, seems like they never had the intention to do so to begin with. Why are we up in arms about a product not supporting some specific feature? Why are we equating that with some evil plot?

  ...there have never been any plans to implement this natively in Chrome.  
  I don't know why this bug has been left open for years, making it look as 
  if we're considering this, when we're not.  It just gets people's hopes 
  up, and then makes them bitter when years go by with no action.

This about sums it up for me, and it's completely understandable.

Off Topic: Looks like he's using tmux in the terminal, but does anyone know how he made the bottom panels look so awesome?

What do you mean by Vic Gundotra and Andy Rubin are alienating users? This is the first I'm hearing about it, do you mind elaborating or at least providing a source?

I like where this series is headed, I will certainly be following it.

A few suggestions on how to improve the consumption of these videos.

1) Break down the video into smaller bite sized chunks to provide for natural breaks. Unlike movies where it's more a passive viewing experience, educational videos, especially ones where you're expected to follow along, require a lot more mental engagement. This makes it difficult to sit through a 50 minute video in one sitting.

3) Use a basic video editor (e.g ScreenFlow) to zoom into the sections you're working on. It's difficult to follow what you're doing when viewing the entire screen, text is tiny and difficult to read. Also forcing me to go into full screen mode to view the text, doesn't help when I want to follow along.

Overall, I love it. Keep up the good work.

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  # into your settings, but ImproperlyConfigured is an exception.
  from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured

The humor in this book makes it a joy to read, but the content is what makes it a must read!

Feynman explains it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN87y-iEx0&t=46

#99 Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in size.

Ah, sign of the times. This list was compiled in 1996.

Reminds me of "Why's Poignant Guid to Ruby" [1]. I can't say how efficient this medium is for transferring information/knowledge, but it's certainly captivating -- sometimes what's needed to get a point across is not efficiency, but captivation.

[1] http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/

"And curiosity was named after an essay written by a student in a competition organised by NASA for school students."

Nasa has been doing this for some time now, Sojourner[1], and MERs (Spirit & Opportunity) have also been named by student competitions.

[1] http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/rover/name.html

I've been watching for 3 hours, I accidentally closed my browser during the sky crane step, by the time I opened the ustream feed, they were already cheering... I missed out.

They had a similarly remarkable landing for the Mars Exploration Rovers. I happened to be interning at JPL with the MER EDL team when these rovers landed in 2004, and the level of precision and excitement was absolutely amazing. MER had 6 minutes of terror, and they do get some data during these 6 minutes, it's just they can't do anything about it because the round trip communication delay at the time was about 20 minutes.

I remember one of the engineers comparing the precision needed for launching and landing a Rover on Mars to hitting a golf ball in California and landing a hole in one in Florida.

Here's the MER EDL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij33yhdGn_g

Was I the only one avoiding this article because they thought it's about Kanye West?

This trend of third world countries taking a technology and running with it doesn't surprise me one bit. It's much more difficult to disrupt an established industry with new technology than to adapt a mature technology to create new industries.

Right, and they conveniently forgot to mention Rackspace. I highly doubt Apple is going to release a direct competitor to EC2 or the like; unless they can turn a service into a consumer product, Apple is not going to waste their time with it.

This is great! I came across your Let's Play TDD series couple days ago, from another HN post. I'm not a JavaScript beginner, but needless to say, I love your approach of teaching and this is the first project I've ever supported on Kickstarter. I hope to learn a thing or two. Good job.

What's immensely frustrating about this, is that they actively block internet content on the TV via Google TV, and yet they claim it's difficult to deliver content to the TV. I call this hypocritical.