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Interesting - yeah, I picked it to test simply because I figure whatever Gruber is doing is probably a good base line test case.

Hey Jamie - it'd be great if adding a subscription was a little more intelligent re: RSS url discovery. For example, I initially entered `daringfireball.net` and got a URL misformatted error. I subsequently tried prepending http:// - when really I needed to include a fully qualified path to the feed in the first place.

Otherwise, happy to import from Reader and check this out. I like that it feels light and easy to use.

I have been working on an open source version of this idea: http://www.quantify.io

Right now, things are fairly sparse. You can check the repo out here: https://github.com/jdjkelly/bodyimage

An open source Rails API to track "quantified self" data.

Right now, the hardware companies in this space are storing your data in closed systems. Let's change that.

Take the Withings WiFi scale or the FitBit, for example. Both are essential pieces of the quantified self hacker, yet both store your data in their respective, siloed databases. What happens when one of them goes bust? Or decides to pivot towards an ad-based business model?

This project includes a Rails + MySQL RESTful API to store your data.`

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Classic, silly, dismissive HN response. </meta>

What does Shopify use Go for? Are you running Go in production?

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Simply because it's never a case of spending "a few extra hours" when learning and evaluating a new tool. There are many "unseen" hours in troubleshooting, monkey patching, and re-evaluation. These are real costs that can be avoided by defaulting to known best practices (at the expense of ultimate performance).

This accurately describes the current situation, in broad terms. Amazon went through an extended litigation process to extend Canadian protection to their US 1-Click patent.

Here's the Federal Court ruling on the matter:

http://www.patentlyo.com/amazon-dot-com.pdf

Sounds like an exciting an opportunity. I'd love the chance to work with someone like this some day, so chipping in is a no brainer. It also emphasizes the most positive approach to engineer education.

Good luck!

How could anyone actually sustain such a rate of learning? Two hours every weekday, plus an additional sixteen hours every weekend for 48 weeks every year?

Life creeps up, and seeps into the cracks so tenuously occupied by free time. Mastering but a single skill is impressive.

That's good to hear. As a future suggestion to anyone else who finds themselves in this unfortunate situation - including some technical granularity in your press release can go miles in offering reassurance to your technical audience/users.

Every single time this happens, I immediately wonder: "what was the hashing scheme?"

Like many others before it, Scribd disappoints by not addressing this question. Instead we get this:

Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Scribd are encrypted (in technical terms, they are salted and hashed).

How long was the salt? AFIK, MD5 hashes with an insufficiently long salt can be bruteforced with open sourced CUDA setups.

Further, how did they determine the following?

Most of our users were therefore unaffected by this; however, our analysis shows that a small percentage may have had their passwords compromised.

Yes - the tax rate difference would essentially cover the cost of the premiums if I had to pay them myself. I suspect though that any company I were to join in SF would be covering that for me.

I am someone who has stayed behind, and works at a startup. As a full-stack web (Rails+JS) developer I certainly haven't seen any shortage of demand. Although I would say that about 25% of the recruiting messages I receive are from US companies - often acknowledging me being Canadian and in some cases even playing off of it with message subjects like "Hate the winter? Come south" or what have you.

There are some distinct advantages to staying up here though. First, at least in Toronto, the cost of living is substantially less than that in San Francisco. To maintain my standard of living, I estimate that I would need to earn 35 - 40% more in Cali, which would be at the upper end of most salaries I've seen. Second, "standing out" career-wise is much easier when there aren't 100,000 people with a duplicate skill set.

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Angular doesn't have this feature as part of their core library, AFIK.

As Steve identifies in his post, I think that the critically difficult part is applying versioning to multiple degrees of the content: the prima facie post itself, but also the inline comments, etc. In a sense, you'd have to have some kind of conflict resolution. Git could be an inspiration here.

Should anyone be interested in experimenting/prototyping a system like this - I'm up for a weekend hack or so. My contact information is in my profile.

Changing its name would be an appreciated gesture, I think. I'm sure others will agree. I confused it initially thinking it would be related to Fog Creek.

You might find the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius to be helpful in dealing with the grief and pain of dying, or at least confronting it. They Hays translation is worth reading: http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Translation-Modern-Library...

Good luck.

I particularly enjoyed this line:

"For a bit of perspective, that's how much Facebook spent on its acquisition of Instagram last April."

Some might argue that the comparison employed distinctly encourages a lack of perspective.

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I'm working on something in the 'quantified self' space, so I love seeing projects like this launch.

As someone who has lost > 100 lbs through completely obsessive data tracking, I'd be happy to give you some feedback over the next few weeks. Feel free to reach out via the contact in my profile.

Initial impressions: good job on launching! Next, I'd say that the initial page could be improved by drawing focus to the center in the headline area. Right now, it feels a bit out of balance with both the left and right sides competing for attention. Instead, try using the 5-6 word version of Thryv in big, bold, centered text. Maybe: "Plan your fitness lifestyle in one place. Use Thryv."

Concerning the product itself, I'll have to use it for a bit.

It doubles as a reference to the computing term I/O: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output

This is exactly how I feel, for what it's worth. I'm certainly not perfect - I've probably alienated people before - but I want to consciously avoid doing so, and to try to make a difference. What to do though? Just listen?

Valve has exactly this, clearly it's not only possible - but possible within the IT industry.

The Controller. Then you can do a quick check to see if `someControllerForState.hasData()`.

This is our strategy as well at Uniiverse. This is also an effective way of ensuring that data is in sync, should that be a requirement in a particular state. Just attach the call on State.enter() and you're good to go.

I submitted an app for a Toronto event - if anyone else has done so, let me know!

Same thoughts here. They use fairly aggressive email marketing, which is difficult to unsubscribe to.

I clicked the 'unsub' link in the footer of this particular marketing email and hit: 1) an SSL warning from Chrome, and 2) a 404 on accepting the SSL warning.

I can confirm this. Oh boy, can I ever confirm this.

Tom, do you know if anyone has written extensively about tests in Ember? Or is the source still the best go-to?

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