JackDanger

This is brilliant and I love that it relies almost entirely on Linux primitives already in place.

Having read the article I half-agree with the author. Yes, learning arcane and inconsistent APIs is not the work the students signed up for and studying command-line tools doesn't materially help them in the near-term. However, the things that make the command-line so difficult also make it easy to package tools together underneath simpler apis. I suspect the students are struggling with having to use tools that aren't supported by their department or industry community. Otherwise they'd have a shared script that they all maintain that turns a bare PC/Mac/*nix box into one that's capable of doing great work.

This happens with every single engineering team. Those who understand the tools wrap them up into something solid so new folks have a great experience on their first day.

I second the interest in a blog post. Jennifer, it's rare that someone develops an art background before programming so I'd love to hear your thoughts on the similarities and differences.

In practice the tool doesn't have any blame feel to it. When I commit code that causes problems Squash correctly identifies me and lets me know what to fix. And when I was mistakenly chosen I'm still a good candidate for triaging the bug and sending it off to the appropriate developer.

It currently has clients for Java, Objective-C, Ruby and Javascript. So it most likely supports any application you're working on as long as that application has a git repository. Feel free to contribute a Python client.

The lack of women in the industry isn't the problem, it's the symptom. The problem is a monoculture of chauvinism and sexism.

Also: much of that "traditional male superiority" is simply non-existent. Statistics is a field where half of all working professionals are women.

Since this doesn't relate to 'manliness' at all but merely maturity as a person, it seems appropriate to post this translation:

http://artofwomanliness.heroku.com/2012/09/01/heading-out-on...

That feature is also available in today's release. You can give any customer a discount of 10% (or any other value) when they're checking out.

His point is 100% right, but his argument is inappropriate for wide distribution. He's not sharing the results of a scientific study, he's not sharing a personal growthful experience, he's stating his perspective and inviting others to agree with him.

It's persuasive but that's because I already agree with him. I'd like to see it backed with real data so it could be persuasive to all. Then it would be more of an "idea worth spreading" rather than "a really good idea".

I loved every word of this.

And I appreciate Jessamyn's illustration of her initial objections being silenced on rational grounds and then an emotional response to her project.

They suspended the account, they didn't cancel it. On a Sunday morning when you're fixing a security hole and you know who penetrated it you suspend that person's account. On Monday morning you figure out what to do with them.

The fastest way to get going for free is Heroku: http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/9/28/python_and_django/

We're using both Ember and Backbone here at Square. Backbone has proven useful for small apps (https://squareup.com/retail) while Ember is an effective replacement for Rails when it's backed by a good JSON api.

I hear good things about Sublime Text 2, thanks for reminding me to try it.

I'm put off by the 'code like a man' bit though. That's needlessly off-putting to female readers.

The U.S. has nothing like that for salaried employees.

Just google the headline and click through from there, they let search-referred traffic see the full article.

KIF+Zapp is awesome, it lets our iOS engineers and Rails engineers keep up our testing culture. Recommended.

I agree that the poster may not have intended to exclude women, but when they imagined that work environment in their head I'll bet they weren't imagining it full of women writing code.

For those curious to read it, it's an open-letter from one Seattleite to another (Kenji to Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz).

The most hilarious job application I've read in a while. Worth a read.

For another perspective on why R is worth learning, check out Zed's essay on it: http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html

(note: just ignore the ranty parts and there's brilliance underneath)

It reminds me of Zed's excellent distinction between invention and implementation: http://zedshaw.com/essays/c2i2_hypothesis.html

This appears to be a chart of our recession. Obama is just one of many loosely-connected actors here.

There's some good stuff here but it's mixed in with some truly sick casual sexism. Unfuckingacceptable.

If you like, you can run your own: https://github.com/jackdanger/hacker_news

At first I thought 1Password would be slightly helpful, but it's proven itself incredibly useful. All my passwords are complex and different and I have reliable encrypted backups of them.

That domain name is running an open FTP server. I'll bet a dictionary attack against the 'root' or 'admin' user was all that was necessary.

Chernobyl proves that that's not a guarantee.

I'm 29 and my cofounder is in his 40's. We've been at this project for a few years and it's clear that the only thing that matters is whether we're willing to hussle.

I have no intention of slowing down my entrepreneurialism at any age.

Agreed. If you visit Seattle on a sunny day this is where you need to set up work for the day. I think I'll head over right now, actually.