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ioon GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

Quotee here. I agree! I use tmux and vim via ssh for github.com development in Codespaces.

This is demonstrably false. Atom's official distributions are built on public CI platforms (Circle, Travis, and AppVeyor) from 100% public repos.

ioon Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

The fix will be in a patch release next week. :)

https://github.com/atom/github/pull/847

ioon Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

There's nothing stopping you from disabling this and installing one of the many quality community git packages. We even list them at the bottom of the launch site! https://github.atom.io

ioon Git and GitHub Integration Comes to Atom

Hey we certainly want to look into this. File an issue at https://github.com/atom/github or send an email to atom@github.com describing it and we will!

ioon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)

GitHub: Atom | Full-Time | San Francisco, Boulder, Amsterdam, REMOTE, VISA

Come help us make Atom faster! Get paid to work on an open source editor used by over a million people every month.

https://atom.io | https://github.com/atom/atom

Some things we're focused on for the next six months:

  * Core Experience/Performance 
  * Git/GitHub integration 
  * Language integration: better auto-complete, syntax highlighting, and debugging 
  * Windows-specific features and fixes

Apply at https://jobs.lever.co/github/baaa9a2c-c249-4d06-b73f-e9bee1a...

ioon Building Your First Atom Plugin

I manage Atom at GitHub and I wanted to chime in here saying I agree! We're not waiting for hardware to fix this. My first PC was 386 running at 20 MHz. Modern hardware is insanely fast! Improving Atom's performance is positively a team priority. The overhaul of the display layer that shipped in Atom 1.9 represents a significant step down that path.

ioon Building Your First Atom Plugin

I'm the engineering manager lee-dohm mentioned and I just want to echo his sentiment.

We recognize this problem and are working hard to improve it! We're of course thrilled by how popular Atom is, but as you've seen, it's been a real challenge to keep up with the size of the community. The team is small, but growing!

In fact, if you're interested in getting paid to help us fix this, apply to join the team! Openings for engineers on the Atom team will be posted here later this week: https://github.com/about/jobs#positions

ioon The CODE Keyboard

Southpaw copy/paste/delete shortcuts: ctrl-insert, shift-insert, shift-del

ioon Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup

Well, sure. There are formulas and techniques for creativity and rebellion in the same way there are formulas and techniques for winning a 100 meter sprint. But formulas and techniques don't turn an overweight, middle-aged guy into a world class sprinter.

ioon America's CEOs Want You to Work Until You're 70

So just make ineligible the people the social service is meant to serve? I don't think the solution is quite that shockingly obvious.

ioon Show HN: My Sort-of-DIY, Dual 30", Sit-Stand Treadmill Desk Setup

Agreed. I bought it primarily because it has a left-handed version, but it's a great mouse.

ioon New DVCS with integrated bug tracking and scrum metrics

Hey guys. I'm the dev manager for Veracity. I thought I could answer a couple of questions.

On the problem it solves: stonemetal has it about right. Veracity wants to be a way for companies to take advantage of DVCS without giving up many things they need. The Apache license and file locks are a couple examples that exist today. We have plans for more. We're not trying to out-git git.

On documentation: yeah, it's awfully sparse right now. We're working on it. We didn't think the Q&A site would solve the problem, but we do hope it ameliorates it somewhat in the mean time. :)

ioon Why Only One in Four Teens is Employed

I strongly disagree that "working a minimum wage job has no connection or relevant to adult life." The self-sufficiency I gained when working for minimum wage at 15 helped put me on the path toward "lucrative professional employment" years later.

The experience of being paid according to your actual value, particularly when you're young and virtually worthless, is an important lesson you don't find in academics or extracurriculars.

ioon Windows 8 for software developers: the Longhorn dream reborn?

This might be interesting in ten years, when virtually everybody's running Win8 or later and I can consider using the new API.

ioon Michael Abrash on Quake: "Finish the product and you’ll be a hero."

I couldn't disagree more. Doing the grungy work of getting a big project ship-ready doesn't automatically mean there's a death march underway. It means you're a team that's disciplined enough, grown-up enough, to focus on the good of the project, as opposed to what's fun.

There's no reason that kind of work can't also be rewarding. Running a marathon is hard work, not pure fun, yet people find the endeavor rewarding.

ioon Share and Collaborate On Your WorkFlowy Lists

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." T. Roosevelt

ioon Roger Ebert: The dying of the light

I'm sitting about 200 yards from the 90-year-old Virginia theater in Champaign. I need to get over there more often, I guess. :)

ioon Tech experts, including Google, to discuss future of the USPS

You want me to pay extra for the privilege of having junk mail delivered? I can't see this being a very popular option. Sorting through the junk to make sure I catch the rare piece of important mail is a chore. I would pay extra to opt out of all mass mailings, and have the occasional piece of actual mail delivered. They'd probably only have to open my mailbox 5-6 times a month. Win-win.

ioon Java: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns

If you're at least 25 and you weren't reading Yegge in 2006, it's time to seriously examine your priorities. ;)

ioon Secret Fears of the Super-Rich

"But just as the human body didn’t evolve to deal well with today’s easy access to abundant fat and sugars, and will crave an extra cheeseburger when it shouldn’t, the human mind, apparently, didn’t evolve to deal with excess money, and will desire more long after wealth has become a burden rather than a comfort."

ioon The Price 20-Somethings Pay to Live in the City

The non-audio link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/realestate/14cov.html

ioon Kevin Smith’s Secrets To A Successful Life

step 0: be really talented

ioon WakeMates are ready

I was kind of curious about this, too. If I wake up in the middle of the night to deal with a sick toddler, will WakeMate know I'm fully awake based on the fact that I'm walking around? I suppose it would be much like waking up to go to the bathroom, for those without young kids.

Obviously the alarm's only going to help if I set it for a window I know is before the kids wake up. Otherwise it's their voices that'll wake me. On work days, that would suit my usual routine. On the weekend, I'm not sure it would be worth it to forego a potential extra hour of sleep by setting the WakeMate alarm.

But it's still tempting, just to chart my sleep during the week and be able to measure the effects of caffeine, exercise, etc. I'll probably wait until there are reviews and testimonials from people who have used it for a few months.

I was tempted a couple years ago by a much more expensive product whose name I can't recall. I think it was $300-400. In contrast, it's pretty easy to take a chance on $60. Cool product, guys. I hope you're wildly successful.

ioon For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance

But would it be less of an invasion of our privacy?

ioon This is why people pirate software

I want to toast three slices of bread simultaneously, but this absurd toaster vendor sold me a 2-slice model! So I think it's perfectly within my right to steal as many toasters as I'd like.

ioon [dead]

Actual substance aside, articles with a single sentence (or fragment) per paragraph don't come off as highly credible, to me.

ioon Let’s Admit Why There Are So Many “Job Hoppers” In Startupland

Somebody needs to mention that really low turnover can also be a sign of problems. People don't often leave jobs where they're asked to do very little. It can be a sign of a lazy, unambitious culture.

ioon DRM from hell.

I guess I don't understand the comparison you're making.

The purveyor of fake tune-up utilities fools unsophisticated consumers into buying something useless, which is obviously unethical.

The PC game developer tries to make money on a product that's so desirable, more people steal it than buy it.

ioon Newbie Fashion Tips for Grown-up Men

Suits work best on someone who is around 5'9"

Nonsense. Tall guys look great in suits. I'm 5'7" and I always feel a bit like Tatoo from Fantasy Island (The Plane! The Plane!) when I put on a suit.