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Nope, I'm always there on day 1 also :D. They always do such a great job, I'm always around poking installing/trying out new enhancements and sub projects for at least a week.

Take your business elsewhere is step 1. Your information/service is not guaranteed if they aren't willing to protect it.

Interesting, no Textpad?

There are ethical and economical reasons for low to zero-cost mp3s.

1. The artist actually gets even more of a shit deal with digital distribution than they did with physical media. You are supporting the machine, not the musician.

2. The cost of developing a quality recording has plummeted dramatically, the only substantive cost remaining is the advertising. The exception might be for faux artists like Rihanna that hire top notch songwriters to pen hits, but for lesser known musicians, mp3 distribution has been shown in studies to have a positive impact.

3. mp3s can function as the advertising medium itself. The money can be made elsewhere like endorsements, or touring. Live music can never be "stolen".

Get out of the company. Find yourself something laid back where you can see your family as much as you would like. Sounds like you have the resume to push telecommuting during hiring negotiations.

Maybe you've never heard the famous expression "Ideas are like *, everybody's got one".

That's not Murphy's Law, its lack of coverage.

After reading this thread, I've realized I have to make sure my next employer actually believes in testing.

I don't know how anyone can move forward in a long term application without having regressions done for you in the form of testing.

I chose tests all functionality, but thats completely unrealistic. We TRY to test everything beyond just critical items, but we'll never get there.

Honestly I had no interest in anything associated with Kevin Rose thanks to Digg.

This is a very real issue, that's why there are no Android apps.

Exactly, its not a bug, its a feature. Just like mass assignment.

I find this true, but its also true of other languages. Like first commenter noted, closed minded Rails devs are usually close minded.

Compiler safety for the design. Implement a base class, and force implementation for sub classes. I know that CS philosophically is about keeping JS's openness, but I feel it would be a time saving convenience if the compiler told me I was missing a method.

Standard Coffeescript (in my experience).

edit: hah, just saw who i replied to.

double edit: the renderer hierarchy he created is yet another good example of why I believe coffeescript needs interfaces...

Crunchpad anyone? I found him too infrequent to be a major reason to visit the site. I suspect that most of the traffic hit techcrunch thanks to the endless link baiting of MG or popularity contest blather like their Twitter "coverage". Twitter used to be every other feature.

Other big winners were Sarah Lacy saying that old media is dead and no one wants to be a journalist at WSJ (how did that turn out btw) or other random bouts of idiocy (RSS is dead!)

Frankly, Techcrunch has long been a source of tech trolling. For trolls, by trolls. Its no wonder it went under - the sugar high simply ran out.

If I remember correctly some guy posted lulzsec member identities online after simply following them in irc..

what a pointless change.

tl;dr don't take your tesla camping, or it will 'discharge' coughbrickcough

After everyone saw how it easy it was to write your own blog in Rails, everyone ... used Wordpress anyway.

The Rails use case was always truly limited. I still don't know any application that achieved maturity and stayed coded in Rails. For a while that was Twitter, but then they started moving stuff over the jvm.

Node will probably end up in a similar way, because at the end of the day no one wants to manage thousands of lines of Javascript (or any other language that doesn't enjoy the benefits of a statically typed ide).

A wild badass appears!

The people who learned with Rails always make me chuckle. The only reason Rails got anywhere was because of scaffolding and the hype that surrounded it - which of course already existed in some form in other platforms. It's completely revisionist to think that platforms like Java or .NET didn't already have application creators and ORM.

The genius of Rails and DHH was the marketing which isn't surprising seeing as how much he loves Apple for it. They can always try to say the other platforms were bloated, but this is coming from people who thought full Unicode support at launch wasn't necessary.

Beware, DHH might show up at your doorstep rabid and frothing at the mouth.

Continuations were all the rage a few years ago, after yet another doomed resurgence in web lisp. I agree, it is completely awful, and I'd rather have semi disoraganized link order.

Potentially losing the car after a week of NOT using it qualifies as devastating to me.

Hah, that's kind of what I thought. I think people must be secretly jumping on their gaming servers.

Are you familiar with the phrase "reinventing the wheel"?

This is the first logo I haven't liked honestly. It looks unbalanced and unfinished.

tl;dr: sheets are the greatest thing in the world, you just can't tell.

P.S. everyones favorite new word is skeuomorph

First of all, iOS is not "inside a computer", and the fact that they are laying the blame at iOS shows a keen understanding of the needs of mobile OSs - better said: Android does this already, why don't you guys.

The fact that Apple is jumping when told to jump shows they know where the fault lies as well.