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Yeah, as others have noted, the default for Rails is definitely not Mongo. SQLite is the default and thus ends up getting used a lot in development. Production is a relatively even split between Postgres and MySQL, although I think it tilts slightly towards Postgres in part because that's the default on Heroku. (I have no data to back this up, just my sense of things.)

Also a dev at Aha! and second Peter's comment.

Yep, I went for 16GB and maxed out the processor, very glad as well. The specs are still well above average for the industry, I don't think I'll replace it til 2019 barring an accident or whatever.

It's actually really easy to install Ubuntu on a Mac these days, and even dual-boot. I did it a couple years ago on a small partition for fun. I still vastly prefer OSX though, and the trackpad drivers are much smoother in OSX.

15" rMBP. Got it in March 2015 and it's been rock-solid for over 2 years now (my previous Macbook lasted 4+ years before having a sporadic boot problem that probably could've been fixed if I wasn't ready to replace it anyway). Fast, stable, excellent build quality, no complaints. I was a little disappointed in the touchbar MBP but it would still be an easy choice for me if I had to get a new machine.

Yeah I just now saw that. Probably regional cache clearing or something.

Did it? Still fields of green for me.

I'd be surprised if they could detect battery swelling on a scanner. The battery's horizontal area doesn't really change, it just kind of bulges. The scanners are two dimensional and they make you lay your computer flat in a separate bin so it's not like they could detect vertical swelling.

I also had a similar reaction to my 2014 rMBP once (and only once, over a few dozen flights). I figured MBPs just look scary from the wrong angle, or maybe new scanner employees who haven't figured out what all the common laptops look like yet.

This is a great explanation, thanks. I'd never quite understood this either.

They're referring to the UK/Brexit. There's a lot of opinions and some decently complex economics involved, but for a short summary, Brexit created economic uncertainty which acts as a general damper on business investment/growth, and if/when it's actually completed it will complicate foreign investment from elsewhere in Europe.

Sure, but that doesn't take particularly long and is probably automated to minimize employee exposure. They certainly don't keep copies of child porn on their servers indefinitely (this would obviously be illegal, among other things).

Huh, the US is 169 out of 208. I would've guessed it at a good bit higher but I forgot Hawaii and (especially) Alaska are kinda hanging out there screwing up the ideal rectangle.

I tried to get into it a couple of times and I could never understand it. I don't think I'm particularly slow at picking up new stuff in general, for me the learning curve was just massive and I wasn't ever quite sure why it was worth the investment. Maybe if I was trying to do browser game dev or something but I've never needed a magic periodic table[1] in my everyday development life.

[1]: http://disrupt.famo.us/periodic402/

> Microsoft said that Acid3 did not agree with the goal of Internet Explorer 8 and that IE8 would improve only some of the standards being tested by Acid3. IE8 scored 20/100, which is much worse than all relevant competitors at the time of Acid3's release, and had some problems with rendering the Acid3 test page. On 18 November 2009, the Internet Explorer team posted a blog entry about the early development of Internet Explorer 9 from the PDC presentation, showing that an internal build of the browser could score 32/100.

Ah, memories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3

Sometimes I like to look at sites like these in IE6 (through BrowserStack) -- not because I expect them to support it, of course; just because it's fascinating to see how far CSS has come. This one is particularly amusing given how rich it looks in any modern browser. http://i.imgur.com/zGycgtH.jpg

> they have committed to a pretty crazy pricing model ($7 per month)

I actually sort of prefer email apps with this sort of pricing model; it makes me think they're trying to be financially sustainable rather than just getting acquihired in a year or two. I would definitely pay $7/mo for the right email app. (But I don't know if N1 is it; I added N1 and some other Mac-only email apps to the original article.)

Huh. Thanks for posting this, I actually hadn't heard of it. It avoids some of my complaints about Boxy[1]; I'll have to give it a try.

[1]: http://www.boxyapp.co/

This doesn't really surprise me. I should really download the ttf's and such and font-face it myself. My blog is built on a Jekyll theme that I lightly modified and as I recall didn't mess with the fonts at all.

I mean, if you like Mail.app, use Mail.app. I'm not here to tell you that you should change how you read your email if you're satisfied with it. I was pithy in the Mail.app section because the article was already shaping up to be quite long and I just sort of assume everyone in the Apple ecosystem has used Mail.app at least a bit and knows its strengths and shortcomings already.

It's not a deficiency, I'm a firm believer in people using what they enjoy. Life is far too short to tell people they're wrong because of what they use to read their email.

I've tried Spark too; I kind've slotted it under the "others" in the "needs Mac app" category. I didn't really feel it did anything better than EasilyDo Mail (which has more personal assistant type features) or Boxer (which is more customizable) if I was going to go for an app on iOS only.

Hmmm that's not great. It looks fine for me in Firefox/Chrome on Mac. The base font is a Google webfont though (Merriweather) and sometimes I see those have random rendering problems for whatever reason.

I haven't tried Nylan N1 yet, but I've heard some decent things about it. To be honest I don't usually bother trying apps unless they have an iOS version (whereas while not having a Mac version is still a dealbreaker, I'll still give it a try on iOS).

I've actually done this as well, but it's still not super satisfying. There's still no unified inbox so I have to have two tabs open in the Fluid app, and I don't get notifications or any nice native features like that. On that same grain, Boxy[1] is an unofficial Mac app wrapper for Inbox that adds notification support, but is even worse because it requires me to have a window open for each Gmail account (no tabbed interface).

[1]: http://www.boxyapp.co/

Yeah in hindsight it's obvious I should've mentioned this category, but as I mentioned in the article, I strongly prefer my email apps to be unified (i.e. both Mac + iOS available) and there are fewer and less interesting (IMO) Mac-only apps than iOS-only apps. Postbox is great if you're just looking for a stable, no-frills client that's desktop-only. I also use Mailplane sometimes (it's basically just a tabbed wrapper around the Gmail web interface).

FWIW, WaPo itself also changed it. My original title was the original WaPo title (check the URL) and then they changed it, and then y'all changed the HN side to something a little different :)

Ah got it, that all makes sense. Thanks for the response! :)

Hey -- this seems really cool, especially for one Jekyll site I manage but want a nontechnical person to be able to update. I found a bug(?) though -- I linked it to a site deployed on S3 and published a test post, and it pushed all the newly built files to s3, but didn't set them to the public-read ACL, so I got AccessDenied errors on refresh until I logged into s3 and manually set them public myself.

Edit: Another piece of feedback -- it's really awesome that it picks up on my custom frontmatter when editing posts, but when I create a new post, none of the custom frontmatter fields are there. Can I enter the frontmatter in the WYSIWYG or is there some other way to add it?

> The worst part is that just before the meeting ended, one of the managers told us that the worker who was allowed to disobey the dress code was a former soldier who lost her leg and was therefore given permission to wear whatever kind of shoes she could walk in. You can’t even tell, and if we had known about this we would have factored it into our argument.

(from the OP article)

It's sad to see that this is turning into millennial-bashing, both from the disclaimer the author had to insert at the top and the first few comments here on HN. The interns learned a valuable lesson about the way the world works: there are people who both possess authority and value customs like placing particular styles of cloth on your feet; and if you decide to work for such people and don't show them the proper deference, you might get fired. Sometimes, you are in a financial and/or life situation where you have to shut up and take it. But it's asinine to trumpet this as millennial entitlement. It's millennials asking perfectly reasonable questions about why certain things are the way they are. Some of these questions are about trivial things, like an innocuous dress code. Other questions are about incredibly meaningful things, like how forcing women to wear heels is a product of patriarchal culture and can drive women out of particular careers (disclaimer: I have no idea whether that was the case here). If your only response to an office custom being questioned is to tout your authority and sneer at the insolence of the youth these days, it's clearly not the youth that believe they're entitled.

Well, part of my job description involved helping to organize tech volunteers, so I guess at the end of the day that falls on me. Really it's a general problem with a widely distributed yet generally meagerly staffed campaign. There's a lot of autonomy with regional/field staffers and in turn they don't necessarily know about everything going on at the national core (where our digital/tech efforts happened). The way to help was primarily either through finding a project to help with at https://github.com/Bernie-2016 or getting involved with Coders for Sanders (https://coders.forsanders.com); I originally was a volunteer with CFS and then joined the campaign full-time after completing a few larger volunteer projects for them. But of course there's no way for a random person wanting to get involved to really know that. I'm rambling now; I don't have a good answer per se, other than that I'm sorry you had a bad experience and I wish we'd found a way to solve this problem.

Somewhat related, I've started helping out a bit with an OSS project called Code Corps that may help with this sort of thing in the future. The basic idea is that you input your interests (education, environment, economy, etc.) and your tech skills and then get matched with political/nonprofit orgs that need your skills. https://www.codecorps.org/, https://github.com/code-corps