jlas

I appreciate the Carver reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Talk_About_When_We_Tal...

Found the Lisp programmer!

I knew Moments was doomed when I opened it for the first time and the top card was Astros beat Yankees. I don't think I've ever tweeted about sports, why on earth would you show me this?

I came here just to confirm that someone would complain about the name.

The skeuomorphic living room design immediately reminded me of the Packard Bell Navigator: http://toastytech.com/guis/pbnav35.html

I wonder what Carmack's managerial responsibilities are like. I imagine if he's developing/designing for most of the week, how much time does he really devote to being a CTO/manager?

What's the pricing look like?

Also, no Windows support on an "Enterprise" product?

Looks similar to MongoDB query syntax [1]. Is it inspired by that? What are similarities/differences?

[1] http://docs.mongodb.org/master/tutorial/query-documents/

I hope they're being compensated for promoting Twitter and boosting Twitter's SEO with that link on their page.

Just an FYI, there is a similar TUI built in to GDB: https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/TUI.html

Not sure what you're ranting about here. What closed protocols / technologies are vendors creating that pose a risk?

On the contrary over the last few years we've seen vendors start to converge on web standards (HTML, CSS, JS) [2].

We've seen the development of crucial technologies for rich multimedia / interactivity on web apps like websockets (RFC 6455 [3]) and WebRTC [4]. Things like an open browser automation protocol is helping devs build cross-browser apps [5].

Also, 1) we're up to RFC 7639 in the official list [1], so that's about 2000 RFCs since the one you mentioned in your article. 2) RSS is not a protocol 3) vendors are building completely open source tools (e.g. Facebook & Google with React & Angular.js) 4) "companies now deliver one half of their application and some custom protocol over HTTP and never mind inter-operability with other services or playing nice", really confused about this, do you have any examples? 5) Are you suggesting that HTTP is transport layer? Because it's not [6]

   [1] http://www.ietf.org/download/rfc-index.txt
   [2] http://caniuse.com/
   [3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455
   [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-webrtc-20150210/
   [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/
   [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

Gotta admit, one of the things the React team is handing better than Angular is UX, usability, and general newbie-adoption. This looks very polished and useful.

How about Coca Cola's Skype machine: http://youtu.be/zlA9tXYxD8g

It's good enough for the mostly tech-oriented users that interact with it though.

Most products depend on other products. e.g. Apple computers use components from other manufacturers.

Name one product that doesn't rely on another product.

Probably Bill Gates. He was the first person that struck me as wildly successful (this was in the mid 90s). For some reason his success really resonated with me and helped me realize, at an early age, the importance of delayed gratification.

Incorrect: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/jqLite...

For all intents and purposes, jqLite should be considered equivalent to jQuery for my argument.

You realize Angular depends on jQuery right? And that extending Angular with new functionality involves using jQuery...

jQuery is not dead, and until DOM apis converge across browser vendors and become 100x easier to use it will remain active.

Best one:

    DO YOU LOVE?
    You like to love. Lovely does too.

It was a while ago but I think it was PHPMD: http://phpmd.org/rules/codesize.html

Magento code in general is of very dubious quality. I once ran a quick static analysis on it and found some ridiculous results: https://twitter.com/jlas_/status/391615992473722880

How would someone even go about figuring this out? Maybe Tupper was incredibly bored?

Really cool, the web interface needs work, but the idea is great.

I think the interesting part here is that it seems Watson is making recipe suggestions based on Machine Learning (read: statistical) analysis of other recipes.

Great point! Although I think Soylent also wants you to have a shake for dinner... forever...

I wonder how many best practices and contemporary OS techniques have come and gone in the Hurd's source code over the years.

Scraping in Node.js is just not worth it. IMHO the asynchronicity really gets in the way of building a scraper.

Looks like you need a `gitlab-ctl upgrade` command

50 lines of code which calls a paid-for semantic-analysis toolkit API. To the API's credit there is a free pricing tier available.

Interesting tidbit: it looks like the über folks acquired the http://www.uber.nyc domain recently. The .nyc domain actually started registering this year and the auction for uber.nyc (which I was a part of) ended at $3,200. I was surprised that Uber (the taxi company) didn't try to get it.