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This was a really fun read - any longform posts on the history of this? Would love to read more.

Most of the other Data Scientists are making ~$135k, maybe just a typo or parsing error resulting in an extra zero?

Posts like this, and the #talkpay on Twitter, is the kind of stuff I would've loved to have a couple years ago, starting in the industry. Here's hoping this sparks a conversation across the industry between employees and managers on salary over the next couple months.

I was curious about the `insist { foo }` syntax – looks like it's coming from this:

https://github.com/jordansissel/ruby-insist

Any reason why you're using that over the standard `expect` syntax?

Nope. I'm not a SJW (and seriously, you're not helping the conversation by bringing that in here), and I've loved all of her games. Not that it's relevant here - turns out this article is about the Game Boy, not Christine Love, not her games. This is totally unnecessary.

I love these kind of articles because they literally could not exist a century ago. Outrage over a patch and its effects on a virtual community is a uniquely 21st century problem. For something similar, see this post[1] on a clan war in EVE Online, which reads almost identically to a real-life war report, except that it's, well, not real life.

[1]: http://themittani.com/news/b-r5rb-biggest-battle-all-eve

Seems like the library is a little limited. As of tonight (2014-06-11 23:19 PST), two of the top songs on Rdio and Spotify are "Problem' by Ariana Grande and "Fancy" by Iggy Azalea. Neither are available on Prime Music, only for purchase on the normal MP3 Store. I suppose the advantage is a lot of people already have Prime, but I don't see any reason to jump ship from either Rdio or Spotify for this.

Most Twitter apps (including the official one) support ⌘-U (command/apple-U), which is "Go to user..." - it autocompletes, though I imagine it's using the same suggestions that you mentioned. Definitely less steps, either way.

What is "the right way", if you're allowed to disclose that? I remember that Square Cash was doing their transfer feature using refunds[1], is that the same way that Stripe is doing it?

[1]: http://jonbwhite.tumblr.com/post/66853226398/how-square-move...

> As a general rule of thumb: if women have it bad, men have it worse.

Can you honestly write that and actually believe it? Even better, can you give some examples to justify it? That's a pretty big claim, and one that, at face value, seems pretty unlikely.

Hmm, this doesn't seem to be working for me in the same way that xip.io does.

One of my favorite features of Pow (also 37Signals, mentioned on xip.io) is the ability to forward .dev domains to certain ports. For instance:

`echo 3000 >> ~/.pow/myapplication` gives you `myapplication.dev` as an alias for `localhost:3000`.

xip.io seems to be able to figure that out -- myapplication.10.0.0.1.xip.io will work, whereas myapplication.10.0.0.1.nip.io does not (just shows the Pow page you would see for going to `localhost`).

Am I missing something here to get it to work with nip.io? I'm all for simpler tools, but since the port functionality is 100% of what I use Pow for, xip.io seems to be the way to go for now.

> http://localhost:4000/blog/2014/02/24/why-i-choose-github-pa...

Whoops

+1 here. I forget to log with Day One pretty often (even with their Mac notifications, which give you a text field to begin writing on), but I'm also not convinced that I was as much information as something like Slogger[1] gives me. Especially with things like the new M7 sensor in the 5S, there's huge potential for passive journaling where a great deal of information can be gathered locally without ever typing a word.

[1]: https://github.com/ttscoff/slogger

Someone else mentioned Keyremap4macbook (https://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/). There's a huge amount of customization there, enough that you should be good to go just by looking through the options there. My favorite is remapping Caps Lock to Left CTRL. Then you can remap Left CTRL to be escape by itself, and CTRL+<yourkey> when pressed with other keys. It's very handy in Vim, especially.

A couple other recommendations, however:

BetterTouchTool: The MBP trackpad has a surprising amount of complexity in terms of recognizing gestures. BTT adds to that . http://www.boastr.net

Keyboard Maestro: Scripting and advanced keyboard shortcuts. Includes support for per-app shortcuts, which is pretty phenomenal. http://www.keyboardmaestro.com

TextExpander: Less practical when you're programming, but TE can be great for automating things you write often (email address, email responses, URLs, etc.) http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/

The NY Times had an excellent excerpt of "The Circle", Dave Egger's book, called "We Like You So Much and Want To Know You Better":

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/magazine/dave-eggers-ficti...

The HN discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6461893

Worth mentioning that gwern writes some of my favorite things on the web, and the wealth of information on his site is worth spending time pouring through. Always nice to see new stuff from him.

Something like Loon?

http://www.google.com/loon/

Though arguably something like that isn't safe in a war zone? I have no expertise in this section, but it is an interesting dilemma to figure out how to restore basic connection to a area in turmoil.

According to the repo (https://github.com/mrcoles/javascript-piano):

> This is an HTML5 synth piano that generates all of its audio files on the fly using data URIs.

The audio.js shows this process in a bit more detail:

https://github.com/mrcoles/javascript-piano/blob/master/audi...

Never too young! Most editors look flashy next to Vim, but switching to a terminal-based editor towards the beginning of my development learning helped my learning gains immensely. Give it a try, you'd be surprised!

Wow, awesome information. As I haven't had to deal with citizenship, well, ever, it's interesting/enlightening to learn about the work that goes into obtaining it. I'm going to bookmark this one for future reference, thanks Patrick!

I've been in love with Japan since I was a anime-obsessed kid, and visiting Tokyo in high school was the best travel experience I've ever had.

Yet at the same time, I've heard it said that the software landscape in Japan is pretty rough -- bureaucratic, aged, and inefficient. I've found that really upsetting, because Japan has, of course, a reputation for being a technological wonderland.

People living in Japan -- natives or otherwise -- is this true? I've had a dream of living in Tokyo as a web developer since the day I came back from Tokyo, and it seems like the only way to make this happen as a non-Japanese speaking (though very interested), non-CS major American is to come already successful, or not come at all.

If you're on Mac, Thoughtbot has another post on solving this problem:

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/55885045171/tmux-copy-past...

Yikes. This is pretty inaccurate.

Rails.app (now Tokaido) is on Github [1] and is coming along quite nicely. Our designer used a build of it to get one of our Rails apps up and running quite smoothly last week. It was super slick and as far as I can tell, there's no indication of it being at alpha or beta stage. It already works great.

Not to mention that Tilde has been working on Ember.js and developing Skylight.io as well. They're keeping busy and producing A TON.

Usually I wouldn't respond to this kind of thing but I think it's a pretty tough sell to anyone that Yehuda isn't working his ass off with the rest of Tilde.

[1]: https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp

Bootstrap is LESS. There's a huge repo[1] for a SCSS version of Bootstrap: this repo seems to be trying to release it earlier than Thomas McDonald's version. That being said, there is a branch[2] on that repo that (at time of writing) was updated three hours ago.

[1]: https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass

[2]: https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass/tree/3

I created a Ruby gem/command line tool that pulls the ADC status page and returns a pretty output:

https://github.com/imkmf/adc

I wouldn't encourage this, even for testing. Github isn't built to be a CDN -- it's not super performant.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5502540/should-github-be-...

Delivered.

https://github.com/imkmf/got

Yep, Applescript. Quick Google search turns up this: http://smoove-operator.blogspot.com/2011/05/gtd-intake-autom...

Worth mentioning that OmniFocus has a built-in tool for this (humorously called the "Clip-o-Tron 3000")

I'm curious what you'd prefer the author to refer to it as instead? Even the article name uses it as a proper noun; I'd understand if it was "mailbox" instead of "Mailbox", but it seems pretty clear to me. Mailbox.app?

It's a pretty good app, but I had the advantage of getting in within the first couple days. Admittedly, if I had to wait more than a week or two, I would've deleted it by now. It has some snazzy UI tricks and adds some smart task-based stuff to your email, but nothing life-changing. I haven't experienced any slowdown yet – I'd love to see them double, even triple the acceptance rate. I would be fine with taking a speed hit if it meant the massive queue started to speed up.