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I found Cmd+Shift+G in finder handy. It'll open a text box to type your desired path and supports tab completions.

I'm familiar with it as extensions, and not completely happy with any - lacking keyboard shortcuts, losing some of my tabs/groups, no synching across devices, multiple backgrounded tabs still running and killing performance and other issues.

Was it added to the core browser?

Ctrl-a + Ctrl-a, works like a charm :)

Nice.

I did something similar w/ tmux: map the prefix key to C-a and map CapsLock key to Ctrl (never found real use for it). So Ctrl-a (actually CapsLock-a) is very ergonomically pleasant.

Of course - think about schools with deep pockets compared to those without much; top talent will flock to these, leaving smaller/less wealthy schools. Today athletes weigh a lot of factors when choosing where to attend - academics, athletic program, campus life, etc. If this becomes the norm I suspect we'll see clusters of high talent in "rich" schools. I don't think that will be good for the long run.

An IT automation framework like Ansible (my favorite), Chef, Puppet, Salt. Highly recommended if your work includes doing repetitive remote server tasks or any sort of infrastructure / devops stuff.

https://oribi.io does that and more.

Disclaimer - it's neither self hosted nor free (nor very expensive), and I was previously a part of the team that built it. I can honestly say no data is being sold to 3rd parties, as should be expected from a paid service.

Thanks for that - following up on your lead and checking https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/xenial, there seem to have been several unattended security upgrades issued yesterday. We checked several machines' /var/log/dpkg.log and see multiple upgrades around midnight UTC.

Is the resolution full machine reboot?

SourceTree is a great VCS tool, but why this seemingly basic feature request is ignored for nearly 3 years is beyond me. I'm hoping posting it here will at least get someone from Atlassian to comment on the issue.

Somewhat related: http://seatylock.com

As a former swimmer, I can say that shaving is not only done for drag. Once shaved and in the water, even while casually swimming in warmup, I would feel as if I'm actually floating better. We'd call the "feel for the water" or something similar. It's hard to describe unless you've experienced it, but I suppose it has something to do with a newly exposed layer of skin in contact with the water.

And, of course, there are also the benefits of less drag and psychological placebo effect.

Agreed.

Following https://gobyexample.com and http://rustbyexample.com, a http://cppbyexample.com kind of site would be quite useful for people who are familiar with coding and just want to experience some practical use cases in idiomatic C++ (threading, json parsing, etc).

Very cool - solid library all the way.

As an aside, I keep hoping Google (or others) open sources a bunch of their internal Go libraries; I'm just gussing here, but surely they've built a bunch of tools outside the standard library to match scientific, numeric and utility libraries found in other languages (scipy, numpy, PIL, etc)? Based on its rumored wide adoption and extensive use inside the company, it sure makes sense they've extended the core to suit their irregular needs.

Can anyone who's worked/works with Go at Google shed some light on this? Just curious.

I sympathize because I went through almost exactly the same experience with YC - we applied to W14, flew to the interview and did not get in.

Myself and 3 co-founders are all in our early to mid 30's, and have put in about the same amount of time and effort into our startup as OP et al, working on it full time for almost the same period before applying. All of us live half-way around the world from SV (Israel), and got on the plane on mostly our dime to show that we're taking the program, application and interview seriously.

I remember walking into the waiting area and seeing all those fresh-out-of-college-with-a-great-idea founders (not being cynical here), and I immediately felt out of place; very similar to what the OP describes. Not intimidated or phased in any way, just that we were the odd man out. Most of my co-founders and myself are married, have kids, and are in a different place in life than what I'd speculate is the average YC applicant profile. Or perhaps I'm just stereotyping, I don't know - it sure seemed like it from gazing around that room. No offense intended to past/present/future applicants.

The interview was very ordinary and I didn't feel like it went great or terrible. At one point it was mentioned that we're doing something very similar to a recent YC graduate, and that they weren't doing that great [0]. I imagine both were factors in our dismissal. I couldn't say exactly what it was that didn't get us past the interview phase.

Overall I'm not sorry we went - it was an interesting experience, and we managed to arrange other meetings in the valley while there. I'm also not overly upset we didn't qualify - it probably would have helped us move forward, but it's not the only way to succeed and definitely not the end of the world. Take it with a grain of salt and move on.

[0] Don't know if that's true or if I misunderstood the speaker.

What did you use for your db backend with Go? Gorp, beedb, database/sql, other? Just curious, as I've been looking at building some api's with go and martini lately.

I did, they switched us to a new machine - no change. Their support was great, but the hardware needed to catch up. Perhaps this upgrade will help.

I have mixed feelings about this. We're in the process of moving from Linode to Rackspace but haven't flicked the switch just yet - was planning to this weekend.

Our Linode server (16 GB plan) has been performing terrible lately wrt I/O (compared to, say, a Macbook Pro running the same computations), and we decided we've had enough. I guess we'll have to compare the two after the upgrade and decide.

Good to know - thanks and best of luck to you guys!

I tried to find the restrictions/performance costs of storing and accessing medium to large blobs of text in rethinkdb store (say, for a simple web crawler), but couldn't find docs related to that. Is there a size restriction or some other insights from you rethinkdb users or developers out there?

Agreed - My first reaction was "Google == Cyberdyne Systems". I hope a lot of good comes out of this, but I cannot help but think of worst case scenarios. Then again, maybe I consume too much sci-fi movies and books.

Works - thanks for the tip. A simple [x] icon (perhaps with a "click ESC to close" tooltip) will also be nice, as there's currently no visual indication on how to close it.

I love firefox and use it daily for my work. The only time I switch to Chrome is when I use console.log(<some object or DOM node>) and get an [Object object] printed out. Sure I can click on it and get a breakdown (still haven't figured out how to close that view other than closing and re-opening the dev tools pane, BTW), but Chrome handles it much better by logging out a detailed, interactive object.

Still, great job to the FF team and keep up the good work!

Thank you for this.

I was going to say OP's (your) girlfriend went through this 8 months ago, which probably meant a completely different looking checkout page. We all know startups are constantly trying different things in their UI to increase conversion.

I do most of my coding at work (rails, python, ruby, js, html, css), where we have ubuntu machines - I LOVE gedit and simply can't do without it. It has a powerful plugins system, and there's a good repo at github.com/lexrupy/gmate that contains some of the best. There's a port for it on a mac, but I tend to stick to TextMate when on OSX (my home computer).

Some of my can't-do-without features are: delete line, duplicate line, shift-line (up/down), select word, multi-edit (on gedit), word complete (circle through options bash style) and snippets. If I had to pick between gedit and TextMate, I'd probably go with gedit, but only because I spend a lot more time on it on a daily basis. I'm sure if I had TM at work, I'd probably understand what all the hype is about.. :)