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"I thought it might be fun to create a Riak cluster on a set of Pis I had lying around... Note that cluster isn’t fit for any purpose in its current form."

RTFA

Maybe we can ask him what its like to be coding at 50?

For a serious question, does acme lend itself to a chording keyboard? It seems like this is taking another step towards Engelbert's vision in the mother of all demos.

The start up community tends to operate in a bubble. Wearing something that makes you stand out as 'uncool' and a target for theft is enough to deter people from a product. Take the white ipod ear buds, they were 'cool' enough that most people would were them, however bluetooth handsfree headsets only took off with specific demographics.

I'm I the only person who is reluctant to add a service hosted by a startup to your email process? What kind of plans do you have for when they close/exit/pivot/whatever were calling it these days? How is this not going to be another Sparrow or Fluent?

I believe they use Xen. (and so thinks wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services)

I'll be excited if it also serves Earl Grey, hot.

This reminds me of a problem we used to debate in college; on a perfectly efficient machine, would `cat /dev/random > /dev/null` violate the second law of thermodynamics?

I do something very similar for my calendar, but it's kept in markdown and instead of deleting the done items I move them under a heading for the date completed(along with any notes about the item). While I'm not required to submit a timesheet for my employment, I find it nice to have a log of my actions.

The contacts file sounds interesting, I'll give that a try.

TXJS was at the Drafthouse last year. Best conference venue ever.

Exactly, that is the 4th item on the list.

It would be nice to filter out the reprints, we all know about The Art of Computer Programing. Having that second on your list of "Books Released in 2011" kind of kills the article's credibility.

I've had success with http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/ before. I just have been using emacs for almost everything so have not tried this with Lion.

And yet again a 10 year old article[1] from Spolsky captures most of the rants in both the post and the comments. What works for a game developer does not necessarily work for an internal cooperate developer.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FiveWorlds.html

Another far under-appreciated feature of Textmate(and emacs, probably vi as well) is incremental search. Ctrl-s and start typing what you are looking for, if you want to find the next item hit Ctrl-s again. I use this whenever I'm traveling more than 5-6 lines in either direction.

Didn't Activision(the publisher of Modern Warfare 3) get its start developing only for the Atari 2600?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision#History_of_Activisio...

I wonder if the use of running as a stressor effected that study? The original article caused heat in the core and upper body(squats and pullups) while short sprints is more of a leg issue.

Detection dogs are not trained for obedience, the goal is to have them focus on exploring & finding and not setting quietly. The idea is to have them only give the desired response(in that case sit and point), when they detect a substance they have been trained to detect.

Dose the stock market reflect real investors(by 'real' I mean people looking at where the company will be in a few years and planning to hold an investment for that length of time)? I wonder how much of this is an institution selling enough shares to change a metric and trigger a bunch of algorithms.

And we need Ruby developers in Austin and San Antonio. I'll be at LSRC if anyone wants to talk more about what our team does. ( http://rackertalent.com/)

It all depends on the problem. Dynamic languages like Ruby and Python are good for rapid development, but not for high volume, soft realtime problems like Twitter has. Just make sure to match your tools to you problems and try and oddly hack a solution with a tool that is not best for the job.

I find it funny that all of the end-of-technology-as-we-know-it criers never talk about bicycling and local farming.

The problem for most of us in the US is that we can't control how much they refrigerate moste public places. We keep our home ~80F(it makes going outside in south Texas much more comfortable), but that makes my office very uncomfortable at 74F.

I think part of this problem comes from the number of blog posts that don't reference versions when explaining something. This adds to confusion if the topic has changed and the post is not updated/marked out of date.

Have you tried with the upcoming robotics companies? iRobot, Foster-Miller, and Boston Dynamics tend to be outside of the startup bubble but might be more receptive to someone with a background in control theory. My biggest problem when I tried to move in robotics was my lack of a math background.

Nice of them to even mark the issue fixed!

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=23...

It's not just the quantity of queries, it's what the application does. Twitter needs to do specific things very quickly(in this case answer search queries). You could look at a more general high-traffic site(like Facebook) to find a different approach(highly optimized php compiler). I don't think looking to such a large team on such a large project for a role model is beneficial to small teams, they have different considerations and abilities.

It seems like thats what the catalog is for. The purpose of showrooms is usually to show things.

I wonder how much of the new-user experience is to avoid an eternal september? Allowing people to easily sounds off on a few things and leave(like I'm doing right now) is not conducive to building a community.

Try an IDE designed specifically for whatever language you're working in. Most will have key commands to do just about anything you can do with Textmate. Spend a little time trying to customize and learn the environment. This will give you a good experience to weigh a lightweight editor against a heavyweight IDE. Most people seem to just fire up Eclipse or Rubymine or whatever else, see it take 30 seconds to start, not bother to learn what sets it apart from a text editor, then swear them off because of bloat.